May 11, 2010
Today Online (Singapore)
SINGAPORE - The Singapore Government has rebutted a report by Global Witness' claiming that Singapore's demand for Cambodian sand has threatened the ecosystem and undermines good governance.
The report from the International Environmental non-government organisation (NGO) suggests the Singapore Government seeks to import sand without due regard to the laws or environmental impact of Cambodia.
A statement from the National Development Ministry (MND) said this is not true. The Ministry says it is committed to the protection of the global environment.
And it does not condone the illegal export or smuggling of sand, or any extraction of sand that is in breach of the source countries' laws and rules on environmental protection.
The Government also did not receive any official notice on the ban of sand exports from Cambodia.
The import of reclamation sand to Singapore is done on a commercial basis by Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
JTC requires all its sand suppliers to comply with local legal procedures to extract or transport sand from the sources without causing adverse impact to the environment. It has also put in place specific measures to ensure accountability from the sand suppliers.
Singapore Customs also has in place procedures to check and investigate the import of all goods, including sand, at the various checkpoints.
MND says the policing and enforcement of sand extraction licences is ultimately the responsibility of the source country.
However, Singapore will continue to play its part to ensure that sand is extracted in a legal and environmentally responsible manner.
The report from the International Environmental non-government organisation (NGO) suggests the Singapore Government seeks to import sand without due regard to the laws or environmental impact of Cambodia.
A statement from the National Development Ministry (MND) said this is not true. The Ministry says it is committed to the protection of the global environment.
And it does not condone the illegal export or smuggling of sand, or any extraction of sand that is in breach of the source countries' laws and rules on environmental protection.
The Government also did not receive any official notice on the ban of sand exports from Cambodia.
The import of reclamation sand to Singapore is done on a commercial basis by Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
JTC requires all its sand suppliers to comply with local legal procedures to extract or transport sand from the sources without causing adverse impact to the environment. It has also put in place specific measures to ensure accountability from the sand suppliers.
Singapore Customs also has in place procedures to check and investigate the import of all goods, including sand, at the various checkpoints.
MND says the policing and enforcement of sand extraction licences is ultimately the responsibility of the source country.
However, Singapore will continue to play its part to ensure that sand is extracted in a legal and environmentally responsible manner.
11 comments:
singapore, please stop exploiting my country cambodia, ok! sands is our national asset, you must stop buying it from some greedy individuals. cambodia do have law against it, so please do observe our khmer law, ok. thank you.
ps: please go buy sands from youn country and siem country only, not cambodia, ok!
that is lame excuse by singapore!
i concur!
Oh come on Singapore! How many islands in Indonesia have almost disappeared for the demand of sand in Singapore? And now it is time to extract from Cambodia.
Khmers come to my house and beg me to buy their sand, their men, and then they claim on me. What a dirty scum on Earth.
Go fuck your idiot salesmen and government, we did not put the gun on your head to sell, stop fucking around, okey??
Khmers come to my house and beg me to buy their sand, their men, and then they claim on me. What a dirty scum on Earth.
Go fuck your idiot salesmen and government, we did not put the gun on your head to sell, stop fucking around, okey??
It is in the Singaporean national interest to buy sand even if it is at the expense of another country.
After all, it is only a little tiny piece of land, and overcrowed. Despite its developed economy and high earnings, the quality of living isn't that great. It is like living in a pond with plenty of food, but can't swim very far. The size of that pond shrinking all the time, perhaps through natural erosion. Is it any wonder the Singaporean will do anything to get out of their delima?
The Cambodian gov't have no effective means to control these money hungry official from destroying national resources.
Thank you Global Witness for exposing it problem.
You can't get out of it that easy Singapore.
If you deal with crooks you are a crooks. And there are plenty of them in Cambodia.
You are guilty by association, no matter what type of controls you have in place in your port.
You can't get out of it that easy Singapore.
If you deal with crooks you are a crook, guilty by association. And there are plenty of crooks in Cambodia as everyone know.
We know you try hard to expand your tiny island, which, other than big malls, man-made amusement parks, and factories there's isn't much on that island.
You are known for your ingenuity and creativity. Perhaps you should put that talent into building a floating city, just in case there is a tsunami.
Democratic Kampuchea Pol Pot Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Pol Pot
Nuon Chea
Ieng Sary
Ta Mok
Khieu Samphan
Son Sen
Ieng Thearith
Kaing Kek Iev
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Tortures
Brutality
Executions
Massacres
Mass Murder
Genocide
Atrocities
Crimes Against Humanity
Starvations
Slavery
Force Labour
Overwork to Death
Human Abuses
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime
Members:
Hun Sen
Chea Sim
Heng Samrin
Hor Namhong
Keat Chhon
Ouk Bunchhoeun
Sim Ka...
Committed:
Attempted Murders
Attempted Murder on Chea Vichea
Attempted Assassinations
Attempted Assassination on Sam Rainsy
Assassinations
Assassinated Journalists
Assassinated Political Opponents
Assassinated Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Assassinated over 80 members of Sam Rainsy Party.
"But as of today, over eighty members of my party have been assassinated. Countless others have been injured, arrested, jailed, or forced to go into hiding or into exile."
Sam Rainsy LIC 31 October 2009 - Cairo, Egypt
Executions
Executed over 100 members of FUNCINPEC Party
Murders
Murdered 3 Leaders of the Free Trade Union
Murdered Chea Vichea
Murdered Ros Sovannareth
Murdered Hy Vuthy
Murdered Journalists
Murdered Khim Sambo
Murdered Khim Sambo's son
Murdered members of Sam Rainsy Party.
Murdered activists of Sam Rainsy Party
Murdered Innocent Men
Murdered Innocent Women
Murdered Innocent Children
Killed Innocent Khmer Peoples.
Extrajudicial Execution
Grenade Attack
Terrorism
Drive by Shooting
Brutalities
Police Brutality Against Monks
Police Brutality Against Evictees
Tortures
Intimidations
Death Threats
Threatening
Human Abductions
Human Abuses
Human Rights Abuses
Human Trafficking
Drugs Trafficking
Under Age Child Sex
Corruptions
Bribery
Embezzlement
Treason
Border Encroachment, allow Vietnam to encroaching into Cambodia.
Signed away our territories to Vietnam; Koh Tral, almost half of our ocean territory oil field and others.
Illegal Arrest
Illegal Mass Evictions
Illegal Land Grabbing
Illegal Firearms
Illegal Logging
Illegal Deforestation
Illegally use of remote detonation bomb on Sokha Helicopter, while Hok Lundy and other military officials were on board.
Lightning strike many airplanes, but did not fall from the sky. Lightning strike out side of airplane and discharge electricity to ground.
Source: Lightning, Discovery Channel
Illegally Sold State Properties
Illegally Removed Parliamentary Immunity of Parliament Members
Plunder National Resources
Acid Attacks
Turn Cambodia into a Lawless Country.
Oppression
Injustice
Steal Votes
Bring Foreigners from Veitnam to vote in Cambodia for Cambodian People's Party.
Use Dead people's names to vote for Cambodian People's Party.
Disqualified potential Sam Rainsy Party's voters.
Abuse the Court as a tools for CPP to send political opponents and journalists to jail.
Abuse of Power
Abuse the Laws
Abuse the National Election Committee
Abuse the National Assembly
Violate the Laws
Violate the Constitution
Violate the Paris Accords
Impunity
Persecution
Unlawful Detention
Death in custody.
Under the Cambodian People's Party Hun Sen Khmer Rouge Regime, no criminals that has been committed crimes against journalists, political opponents, leaders of the Free Trade Union, innocent men, women and children have ever been brought to justice.
Ah!1:08am,why don`t you shut the fuck off!,you asshole!.You know they are scum!and you want to be a scum too ahh!.You think you are a civilisation country!,why you want to exploit on the small country like CAMBODIA!.Why don`t you go to CHINA or AMERICA!.God will punish you soon by sending TSUNAMI to your fucken tiny island!.
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