During a half-century of independence, Singapore has fought to expand its territory, inch by hard-won inch. On the tip of the Malaysian peninsula, the island city-state piled up sand to expand its coastline and reclaim land from the sea.
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Roughly one-third of the city state is less than five metres above sea level, making it more susceptible to sea-level rise ‘than virtually any country in the world’, observers say.