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  • Опубліковано 27 лис 2024

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  • @seananlinjunxi868
    @seananlinjunxi868 Рік тому +41

    To all those complaining about the cost of car ownership in Singapore. That’s the entire point, they don’t want you to own a car and you have literally no reason to own a car either. Singapore has one of the best public transport system in the world. It is completely accessible for people with disabilities and goes to basically everywhere on the island.

    • @byteme9718
      @byteme9718 9 місяців тому

      @@HeyWorld-o8j It has nothing to do with emissions. The system is there only to limit the number of cars to the available road space. EV's will push the cost of car ownership in Singapore even higher.

  • @EA00000
    @EA00000 Рік тому +52

    Love Singapore visited few times always loved ❤

  • @rommelflores2618
    @rommelflores2618 Рік тому +20

    I love SG, I missed it. will plan to go back there next year.

  • @rabbitrabbit9412
    @rabbitrabbit9412 11 місяців тому +4

    FYI. In Singapore, you are not allow to chop trees, pluck any plants, leaves, flowers or any fruits grown any where.. Or else you will go jail and fine heavy..even the trees grow near your house, you are not allow to chop down. You may see fruits on the trees eg. Mangoes but no one dare to pluck.. every where got camera ha ha..
    Only National Park can cut trees, plants, pluck the fruits etc.. So anyone come to Singapore, please take note.
    Our Singapore Government protect these trees especially the oldest trees, rare species etc.. you will get super heavy fine for chopping these kinds..
    Government spent a lot of money and manpower to take care these trees, plants, flowers.

  • @90taetaeya
    @90taetaeya Рік тому +23

    Singapore is truly amazing. It is really a green city with parks all around the island. Singapore actually has the highest ratio of land to green space in any city in the world! over 400 parks and 4 major nature reserves

    • @byteme9718
      @byteme9718 9 місяців тому

      Only if you include military bases and water catchment areas.

  • @alexmcwhirter6611
    @alexmcwhirter6611 Рік тому +47

    One issue that your reporter did not mention was how Singapore wants to restrict car ownership to reduce pollution etc. Cost is GBP 88,000 just for the right to own a car ... cost of the car is *not* included.

    • @marcusclements8277
      @marcusclements8277 Рік тому

      what is that in US dollars ?

    • @alexmcwhirter6602
      @alexmcwhirter6602 Рік тому

      ​@@marcusclements8277Hello. Today's exchange is GBP 1 = US$ 1.22. So it's expensive just to have the ability to own a car.

    • @uwet.8826
      @uwet.8826 Рік тому +5

      ​@@alexmcwhirter6602waiting for him to ask how to multiply.

    • @yip2454
      @yip2454 Рік тому

      @@marcusclements8277 $107,712 USD for the cert, Car price and tax not included

    • @NEAAFFAIRS
      @NEAAFFAIRS Рік тому +23

      They have am efficient, clean and cheap public transport compromising of subways and buses. You will not spend more than USD100 Monthly for it.
      Their income is high and if everyone buys a car, there's no space to drive.

  • @ronaldhee6608
    @ronaldhee6608 Рік тому +23

    Erm, garden city is the old name. It's been changed to city in a garden or a city in nature. Because the green footprint is now greater than 50%.

  • @uwet.8826
    @uwet.8826 Рік тому +23

    Our vision is to build a city in nature now.

  • @petersasi2186
    @petersasi2186 Рік тому +3

    The Singapore National Parks Board is also a flagship user of the greehill Smart Tree Inventories! (they are actually the initial customer thus they have their own internal customized and integrated system) 😊

  • @VanaeCavae
    @VanaeCavae Рік тому +3

    FYI, Singapore has only 5.5 million people living in it and only 3.5 million can be considered Singaporeans. The rest are foreign residents and foreign workers.

  • @barneyschubert8449
    @barneyschubert8449 3 місяці тому

    Trees and greenery is a must for oxygen it cleans the air too and prevent heat

  • @monalisaaltenburg4879
    @monalisaaltenburg4879 Рік тому +7

    The reporter said “..along with 6 millions singaporeans”😂..Singapore is not like any typical country where only citizens live in the country, haha..In fact out of 6 millions population, half are foreigners from all over the world including large community of French cos Singapore is super globalised. So that means only 3 millions are citizens which comprises 4 main races & others. ❤

    • @90taetaeya
      @90taetaeya Рік тому +1

      No wonder Singapore doesn't seem as efficient n safe anymore. I mean the French are okay.. but a lot of immigrants from neighbouring undeveloped Asian countries.

    • @lucyfiniarel2347
      @lucyfiniarel2347 Рік тому +2

      ⁠​⁠@@90taetaeya right y’all can take the discriminatory attitude towards southeast Asians and park it at France.

  • @eddyr1041
    @eddyr1041 Рік тому

    Yup it is our even case for syrvival

  • @sglatitude
    @sglatitude Рік тому

    And yet, despite many trees than human population in Singapore, the average weather temperature averaging between 33 to 39 degrees Celcius and sweltering humid air, make the actual temperature even higher. Even in the evening, the warm temperature can still be felt making air conditioner service business flourish like there’s no tomorrow. 10 minutes walking outdoor in the hot afternoon sun is enough to make one experience FREE “sauna”.
    Shout out to scientists to create innovative solution to “import” snow and cold weather from the Antarctic to Singapore 😂

  • @MarkerQK
    @MarkerQK Рік тому +4

    Seems like some of you are dead against what is reported, and some, maybe unsure of what is reported as truth. There are tonnes of this kind of things on SG.
    There is even a program on CNA regarding air-condition situation, temperature in the central urban area vs the rure area of SG even the cemetery last year.
    in the past, we cut down many more trees, but I am supportive of SG gov is doing.
    FYI, it is a rule now, how much you build, how much vegetation you removed, you must put some certain amount, can't recall how much, but you will find this happening in some of the newest building in the business district area.
    Even my company of 1600 people, we had started embarking on sustainability drive and 1st step is to measure the amount of CO2 we emits.... the rest of the detail I am not sure, but I was in the 1st meeting. we no longer takes about greeny, we are moving at higher level.

  • @ericcheong9189
    @ericcheong9189 Рік тому +3

    🌳 🌳 🌳 🌎

  • @MrEL28
    @MrEL28 Рік тому +10

    We're still a at the mercy of fires burning in forests in neighbouring countries which is beyond our control. Air quality has declined in the past few days, with particulate matter (PM2.5) rising past 50 into the unhealthy range and potentially climbing past 100.

    • @jly5828
      @jly5828 Рік тому +6

      Singapore & Malaysia haze producing neighbour Indonesia

    • @pringlessourcream9527
      @pringlessourcream9527 Рік тому +3

      We should be all thankful for the oxygen they produce for the rest of the year, remember 😂 In case we are accused of being ungrateful.

    • @pustakarileks7404
      @pustakarileks7404 Рік тому +2

      Your complain on this topic is very unethical, your country don't have forest, but all the year you enjoying the free fresh oxygen from it. And when the incident like this because drought from el nino, you complaining like you are saint? So ironic, if you want this incident fast to control, you must to send your fireman to help.

    • @MrJermson
      @MrJermson Рік тому +1

      ​@@pustakarileks7404As a Singaporean, I agreed. Asean should come up with plan to do something with it. Everyone has to contribute. Indonesia has vast land space. Impossible for Indonesia to fight this alone.

    • @pustakarileks7404
      @pustakarileks7404 Рік тому +2

      @@MrJermson but the other side, the environmental government of Indonesia is soo hard headed, the minister said the fog isn't from indo, so yeah, in indonesia we always fight with the problem like this, and we hate the hardheaded hypocrisy of stu stu minister 🤦

  • @agnesteo4549
    @agnesteo4549 Рік тому +2

    Town council around the estate of Jurong East area are neglecting the maintenance of cleaniness in housing block.

    • @Thekidisalright
      @Thekidisalright Рік тому +5

      No town council can clean up quick enough if the people don’t keep the place clean and think cleansers are the slave to clean up after them, knowing Singaporeans, that’s an impossible task to begin with.

    • @tribalangel72
      @tribalangel72 Рік тому +4

      Then look for ur town council and not UA-cam comments. They got time searching comments here? Then have a campaign for ur town to stop littering

    • @fant906
      @fant906 Рік тому

      You wonder who it is that is littering??! Animals?

    • @pringlessourcream9527
      @pringlessourcream9527 Рік тому

      👍

  • @SK-lt1so
    @SK-lt1so Рік тому +1

    What are you talking about?
    The area around where we live has progressively lost open space and trees, and has become increasingly surrounded by higher and higher buildings.
    Draping a few downtown buildings with vines doesn't make up for that.

  • @wzt4969
    @wzt4969 Рік тому +2

    I don't think drivers in Singapore honks like this. The reporter seems to be in India.

    • @maan1450
      @maan1450 Рік тому

      Precisely and not to mention she seemed to be at night which would be reported for constant honking.

  • @thuptendlama6091
    @thuptendlama6091 5 місяців тому

    Green upwards but no green underground is bad very bad

  • @Manusia_biasa88422
    @Manusia_biasa88422 Рік тому

    Indonesia the forest city

  • @sleepy_dobe
    @sleepy_dobe Рік тому +2

    Apologies, but the correct pronunciation of Singapore is Sing-a-pore, and not Sin-ga-pore as your correspondents are pronouncing it.
    Also, viewers may have seen in some of the footage that the skies over Singapore seem hazy and may conclude that Singapore is quite polluted. The reality is the hazy skies are a result of air pollutants blown over from the numerous hotspots, and vegetation and forest fires in the region, especially in Indonesia where some farmers still persist in the practise of burning the land to clear it for farming or crops planting. The haze usually lingers due to very light winds and the absence of rain over Singapore during the hot season, and it tends to be worse in an El Nino period.

    • @ericgeorge7874
      @ericgeorge7874 Рік тому +1

      SING-(g)ə-por 🙂

    • @philipchan79
      @philipchan79 Рік тому +1

      English : Singapore
      Malay: Singapura
      French: Singapour

    • @danielc2701
      @danielc2701 Рік тому

      ... Sin-ga-pore is the correct pronunciation. Sin-ga = Lion in Malay.

  • @jon8697
    @jon8697 Рік тому +6

    Thanks to indonesian for the burning crops and creating haze.

    • @adamfaidzal
      @adamfaidzal Рік тому +1

      What to do bro coz thts the most easiest and cheapest way to do it even though it may costs lives. Haist..it’s getting worst day by day..😢

    • @Thekidisalright
      @Thekidisalright Рік тому

      Eh why you never thank them for the months that aren’t hazy 😂

    • @nickgoh8947
      @nickgoh8947 Рік тому

      Thank you Indonesia ( Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla ) for giving Singapore 11 months of Oxygen, and 1 month of Haze ... Good job Indonesia -- Remember, too much Smoking is bad for your health ....

  • @rabbitrabbit9412
    @rabbitrabbit9412 11 місяців тому

    There are cases of foreign workers who get into jail for pluck leaves from the Park.. ha ha ha..

  • @tangt4860
    @tangt4860 Рік тому +2

    Singapore's greenery has been sharply declining in the last 20 over years as developers court politicians and ministers to remove even more forests once scattered all across the island in an already very concrete landscape. Yes the NParks will protest that they have planted more trees but these are mere fraction of those already destroyed. In the 80s many housing estates were landscaped with many variety of trees including flowering and fruit ones including giant concrete terraced planters that have been completely ripped out of beautiful rows of palm trees. But somehow after DS took over, the town councils and offices started removing them and replaced partly by ugly only leafy trees that never seem to change at all - they would have considered plastic or cloth trees except that even dumb Singaporeans would know they are fakes. Just recently they planted 20 new saplings just to meet some mysterious KPI right on the grounds once covered with many shrubs and bushes and where 2 trees had been badly scorched black and dying by the numerous times giant burning pits for all kinds of burning were approved by the town council managers to their beloved funeral contractors right next to those trees. Thank goodness the residents sleeping just metres from the legalised arson have not been burned to death yet.

    • @NewmaticKe
      @NewmaticKe Рік тому +11

      Nice. Now please give up your HDB in protest

    • @tangt4860
      @tangt4860 Рік тому +2

      @@NewmaticKe then you should stop staying in Ridout too.

    • @tribalangel72
      @tribalangel72 Рік тому +4

      U counted? So free huh. Get a job at Npark and play ur part

    • @space4495
      @space4495 Рік тому +3

      Because the population is growing from 2 to nearly 6 million as such more housing is needed. Otherwise people have no place to stay. Although there is more housing, there are also over 300 parks which add to the greenery. Since the country is multi-racial and multi-religious it is respectable to provide the needs of religious practice such as burning cages to offer their prayers during funerals etc.

    • @kf510
      @kf510 Рік тому +1

      true singaporean "complain-cency" in full display here. you should emigrate to America and join a HOA, i'm sure they will love you

  • @agnesteo4549
    @agnesteo4549 Рік тому +3

    SG not green n clean anymore.
    Only along the route s from Changi Airport looks great but at our Housing Board Estates all one's can look around like graveyard.
    Around d estates rubbish n unwanted furnitures are being put at void deck.

    • @NewmaticKe
      @NewmaticKe Рік тому +14

      Utter nonsense

    • @wjj7488
      @wjj7488 Рік тому +3

      A confused gal

    • @jen5138
      @jen5138 Рік тому +2

      Nah, prob just u n ur estate. Mine is clean n green.

    • @wttw128
      @wttw128 Рік тому

      Rubbish..

  • @aplacecalltambun
    @aplacecalltambun Рік тому

    No point watching video s