Insight – What happens when S’pore runs out of sand?

[ad_1] Sand-filled barges crisscross the shipping lanes around Singapore, almost as ubiquitous as the trucks cruising America’s interstate highways. One recent afternoon, aboard a small motor boat, I see a towering green wall rising from the shoreline and protecting a huge reservoir of sand. As one of the most densely …

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I was protecting my wife, says a man who fought three others

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[ad_1] A man seen fighting with three other men in a viral video claimed he was acting in self-defense to protect his wife. Although outnumbered, the burly man, who has grayish-white hair, was more than a match for his three opponents and at one point knocked out one of them …

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