04 March 2017

News Story: Singapore to build soldier's training ground domestically at over 600 million USD

SINGAPORE, March 3 (Xinhua) -- A total of 88 hectares' land costing about 900 million Singapore dollars (635.86 million U.S. dollars) in western Singapore will be built into soldiers' training ground, said Defense Minister Ng Eng Hen in Parliament on Friday.

The project, dubbed the Safti City, is expected to complete in 10 years. Once it is completed, Ng said it will allow soldiers to train in a dense urban environment that closely resembles Singapore's landscape.

He stressed that Singapore must have world-class training facilities in the country itself and must guard against over-dependence on overseas training grounds.

Read the full story at Xinhua