Singapore and the Risks and Threats to the Security, to the Stability, to Daily Life...
Singapore is a safe place to live, really. Never feel insecure while staying at Spore.
- Rats in Orchard: "Oh rats! This is Orchard Road". January 2009. http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20090127-117413.html
- Dengue Pandemic in Malaysia, just a few miles away. 2008-2009. http://www.thenutgraph.com/dengue-in-msia-worse-than-swine-flu
- Terrorism: from the MacDonald House bombing in 1965 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald_House_bombing) to the arrest of militants of Jemaah Islamiyah in 2001 and 2002, and the fight against islamic militants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-terrorism_in_Singapore)
- Pirates (piracy at sea): http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1479280,00.html
- cyber attacks, cybercrime: which is a challenge in Asia.
- H1N1 virus. Even if there is no victim in Singapore (may 2009), the spread of the virus in the world could catch the country
- Pandemics : http://www.annals.edu.sg/pdf/37VolNo6Jun2008/V37N6p470.pdf
- Economic Crisis : 2008, 2009... http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/01/05/riding-the-global-economic-crisis-in-singapore/
- Communism : from the late 1940s to the 1980s (according to the Internal Security Department). http://www.mha.gov.sg/isd/ct.htm
- Racial Riots : in the 1950s and in 1964. http://www.mha.gov.sg/isd/ct.htm
- Espionage : http://www.mha.gov.sg/isd/ct.htm (arrests in 1982, 1998)
- Dirty bombs (radiological threats): 2009. http://www.asiansecurity.org/articles/2009/mar/19/singapore-dirty-bomb-poses-major-threat/
- Tsunami? according to a recent study, Spore should be safe from such a threa (16 dec. 2008)http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20081216-108275.html even if "some of Singapore's beach areas are still potentially vulnerable to tsunami inundation in the scenario of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake at the Manila Trench"
- Tigers : the "killer white tiger" is in the Singapore Zoo. Do not try to touch the animal! Novembre 2008. http://www.blogtactic.com/2008/11/killer-white-tigers-at-singapore-zoo.html
- Marine fishes of Singapore : stinging fishes, biting fishes, poisonous and electric fishes. http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/guidebooks/marinefish/text/108.htm
- Crisis and conflicts with neigbouring countries. Because "for decades, Singapore has relied on importation from Malaysia to supply half of the water consumption in Singapore" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_resources_of_Singapore
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