Posted on March 22, 2016
By Emma Reynolds, news.com.au
WELCOME to Forest City, the residential island more than 10 square kilometres in size, with no cars and lush vegetation.
It’s one of four sand banks built by Malaysia in the narrow sea separating it from Singapore as part of a $60 billion project.
The neighbouring nation is none too happy about the new piece of territory moving towards it, but it too has made plans to artificially expand its territory by 62sq-km.
Building land where once there was only water is becoming surprisingly common, despite its expense, and there are many reasons for doing so.
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