"No," says Malaysia and Indonesia.
Do you wonder why not? To buy sand as a construction material to build our HDB flats, IRs and condos. What is wrong with that?
Nothing much wrong with that until old buildings are being demolished and the debris would be carted away to reclaim land.
The reclaimed land could then be sold for millions after many years of maturing. Or in some instances, it was alleged that reclaimation has affected the water current and thus causing soil erosion and loss of fishing as a livelihood to many fishermen.
I guess the biggest concern would be the sovereignty issue. When a country takes sand harvested from one of its many islands and sells them to another country, it is an act of literally of selling away of a piece of your country!!
If you are going to East Coast Park this weekend, cherish the sand that you are standing on :)
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The government will release sand from its stockpile from Feb 1, 2007 to make up for any immediate shortfall in the supply of building sand.
Govt actually stockpile sand? What else does the govt stock pile?
The price of sand, which has climbed from about $20 a tonne last year to more than $40 a tonne yesterday.
With the release of stockpile, price will drop to $20-30 per tonne.
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