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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Singapore Silent Amid Sand Smuggling Claims

Singapore Silent Amid Sand Smuggling Claims

The Cambodia Daily| 10 Dec. 2016

Singapore is regularly lauded as a squeaky-clean island in a region awash with corruption.

The city-state ranked eighth in the world in Transparency International’s 2015 Corruption Perception index, in comparison to 150th-ranked Cambodia.


Merlion Park in Singapore (Creative Commons)

But their reputations have not stopped the Cambodian government from suggesting that Singapore turned a blind eye to sand smugglers—charges that the Singaporean government has yet to answer since they were leveled last month.


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