While cities all over the world are concrete jungles with little greenery to speak of and having slums all over, Singapore is a garden city full of greenery. Every tourist who touch down on Changi Airport and travels to the city centre will be amazed by how much greenery Singapore has and how beautiful our country is.
Singapore is without doubt the most green and beautiful city in the world. A world class city without beggars, slums and homeless people.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks) is spending S$40 million this year to complete 42 kilometres of park connector development.
This was revealed when NParks updated Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Friday on its plans to develop an islandwide network of green corridors by 2015.
Mr Lee, who started the Keep Singapore Clean and Green campaign in 1970s, said expanding the country’s park connectors is one way to develop Singapore as a green and clean city.
"The ABC waterways, the greenery, the park connectors are maximising our limited land space to give the most to everybody who wants to get out of the urban jungle.
"So you can come here and you can feel the ambience. We got to do this in many parts of Singapore in ingenious ways, and then we will be a unique city," he said.
The minister mentor, however, acknowledged that littering is a constant battle which the public and the schools have to be engaged in.
"You’ve got one million foreign workers with different habits. You need them to do the jobs that Singaporeans don’t want to do or can’t do... We have to put up with all these aberrations. The infrastructure is what we must do. Maintain it and keep it up to standards," Mr Lee said.
The eastern coastal park connector network is the longest of the seven park connectors which have been planned for Singapore. Nearly 300 kilometres of park connectors will be completed by 2015.
On a separate note, Mr Lee emphasised that Budget 2009, which was announced on Thursday by Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, is meant to save jobs as there is no better way to fight recession.
He added that lower income and jobless Singaporeans need to be helped to get through the rough patch.
"I think (the Budget is) not over—generous, but it is not ungenerous, and we don’t know how long (the recession) will last and that’s the big question. We are prepared for all eventualities. It can last one year, it can last two years, it may go on for three years — we don’t know. We got to be prepared for it," he said.
— CNA/so
Singapore is without doubt the most green and beautiful city in the world. A world class city without beggars, slums and homeless people.
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s National Parks Board (NParks) is spending S$40 million this year to complete 42 kilometres of park connector development.
This was revealed when NParks updated Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew on Friday on its plans to develop an islandwide network of green corridors by 2015.
Mr Lee, who started the Keep Singapore Clean and Green campaign in 1970s, said expanding the country’s park connectors is one way to develop Singapore as a green and clean city.
"The ABC waterways, the greenery, the park connectors are maximising our limited land space to give the most to everybody who wants to get out of the urban jungle.
"So you can come here and you can feel the ambience. We got to do this in many parts of Singapore in ingenious ways, and then we will be a unique city," he said.
The minister mentor, however, acknowledged that littering is a constant battle which the public and the schools have to be engaged in.
"You’ve got one million foreign workers with different habits. You need them to do the jobs that Singaporeans don’t want to do or can’t do... We have to put up with all these aberrations. The infrastructure is what we must do. Maintain it and keep it up to standards," Mr Lee said.
The eastern coastal park connector network is the longest of the seven park connectors which have been planned for Singapore. Nearly 300 kilometres of park connectors will be completed by 2015.
On a separate note, Mr Lee emphasised that Budget 2009, which was announced on Thursday by Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, is meant to save jobs as there is no better way to fight recession.
He added that lower income and jobless Singaporeans need to be helped to get through the rough patch.
"I think (the Budget is) not over—generous, but it is not ungenerous, and we don’t know how long (the recession) will last and that’s the big question. We are prepared for all eventualities. It can last one year, it can last two years, it may go on for three years — we don’t know. We got to be prepared for it," he said.
— CNA/so
