Punishment of deliberate creditdelinquencies will be enforced with policy and legalmeasures, and measures will be taken to prevent the use of bankloans forillegal speculation in the stock market.
The area is currently populated by over 20 million people and is challenged by deforestation, agriculture, mining, a governmental dam building spree, illegal land speculation including the occupation of forest reserves and indigenous land and other issues.
He also denied that Singapore had contributed to any illegal transfer of technology, in response to speculation that the institute had worked with Huawei on semiconductor technology that is tightly controlled under U.S. export regulations.