There is an urgent need for the countries involved in the issue of the Spratly islands to settle the disputed oil rich reefs.ASEAN countries including the PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA must negotiate for a peaceful resolution.SINGAPORE has economic interests in this islands to pursue this
before the ASEAN regional forum,aside from Beijing.
The South China Sea region is the world's second busiest international sea lane. More than half of the world's supertanker traffic passes through the region's waters. In addition, the South China Sea region contains oil and gas resources strategically located near large energy-consuming countries.
The South China Sea encompasses a portion of the Pacific Ocean stretching roughly from Singapore and the Strait of Malacca in the southwest, to the Strait of Taiwan (between Taiwan and China) in the northeast. The area includes more than 200 small islands, rocks, and reefs, with the majority located in the Paracel and Spratly Island chains. Many of these islands are partially submerged islets, rocks, and reefs that are little more than shipping hazards not suitable for habitation; the total land area of the Spratly Islands is less than 3 square miles. The islands are important, however, for strategic and political reasons, because ownership claims to them are used to bolster claims to the surrounding sea and its resources.
http://www.geocities.com/mspilker2000/spratly_islands.htm
Let them fight lah. All of them want the wealth of the Islands but not the responsibility that comes with it.
JAPAN IS ALREADY IN SPRATLEY BOHAI AREA WITH OIL RIG
hope singapore can get some of the island, i can go there set up pubs and beach party.
TO ANGEL:
A PUB???NO ONE CAN LAND THERE UNLESS IT IS DONE IN SECRECY.SO YER PUB HAS TO BE A SECRET IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.SO IF YER BUSINESS IS A SECRET AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE IT IS............THEN NO BUSINESS.UNLESS ITS AN OIL RIG IN MIDDLE OF NOWHERE N IS SUCKING OIL EVERYDAY.AN OIL RIG THATS IN MILLIONS OF SQUARE MILES.
Originally posted by TERMINATOR2000:TO ANGEL:
A PUB???NO ONE CAN LAND THERE UNLESS IT IS DONE IN SECRECY.SO YER PUB HAS TO BE A SECRET IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.SO IF YER BUSINESS IS A SECRET AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE IT IS............THEN NO BUSINESS.UNLESS ITS AN OIL RIG IN MIDDLE OF NOWHERE N IS SUCKING OIL EVERYDAY.AN OIL RIG THATS IN MILLIONS OF SQUARE MILES.
aiya, dun talk so much lah, singapore govt also got no power to challenge china, taiwan, philipines, japan or even malaysia, sure get nothing out of it one lah, our ministers go china negiotate only for show only, free travel, free holiday, free foods, free PRC gals, why not???