Singapore’s economy rests upon maintaining a huge and continuous supply of sand, and smuggling sand has become a multibillion-dollar trade, in a country renowned for honest business practices and corporal punishment.
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Every day, hundreds of women scrape, shovel, dig, sift and hoard beach sand by the tons.
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Prime Minister Hun Sen banned sand exports in May 2009, yet sand mining continues in Koh Kong Province, the epicentre of the country’s corrupt dredging industry. Dredgers remove 25,000 tons of sand each day from the Cambodian seas to export.
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Wetlands in danger due to sand mining.
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Turning this key flood prevention battlefield into a money spinner for sandstone raiders.
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After 50 years of mining, Premier of Queensland, Anna Bligh, announced that the Government will progressively halt sand mining.
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There are ten oil shale deposits in Morocco, and the three most-explored, and therefore the most likely to begin commercial production in the near future, are near the city of Tangier, near the Mediterranean sea.
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A centuries old farming village on the Kerala coastline is on the verge of being washed away by the sea.
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Tiree’s stretches of pristine white sand have been targeted by thieves stealing tonne upon tonne of sand.
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