pulau tekong

style="background:#ccf; border-bottom:1px solid" colspan=2\|Names
lign=right\|English:	Tekong Island
lign=right\|Chinese:	德光岛
lign=right\|(Pinyin:	dguāngdǎo)
lign=right\|Malay:	Pulau Tekong
lign=right\|Tamil:	fill in

Pulau Tekong is the largest of Singapore's outlying islands. It is found off Singapore's northeastern coast, but is actually nearer to Johor, Malaysia than the mainland itself. Land reclamation work is currently undergoing off the southern part of the island. Malaysia has referred the reclamation issue to international arbitration under the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. The island is used exclusively as a training base for Singaporean males conscripted into National Service, and is home to the Basic Military Training Centre (BMTC), Headquarters Infantry and the Singapore Army's School of Infantry Specialists (SISPEC), with some 5,000 men residing there at any one time for up to several months each. BMTC and SISPEC both feature multi-storeyed barracks at company level with their own lecture rooms, airconditioned recruits' messes and shared basketball courts. There are also several reasonably well-equipped sports grounds and stadia with swimming pools, a medical centre with heli-evacuation capabilities, shared canteens and an E-Mart, a shop selling both army kit (paid for with servicemen's credits) and cash items ranging from toiletries to snacks. Electricity, however, is currently supplied by diesel-fed generators; an undersea cable will begin operating later in 2004. Access to the island is by a free state-subsidised ferry service (penguin ferry), and the public is not permitted entry except on official business. Pulau Tekong was recently the hiding place in March 2004 for a group of armed robbers which consists of two Indonesians and a Malaysian. They fled from Malaysia, sparking off a massive, coordinated manhunt involving Air Force helicopters, commandos, ground surveillance radar, and troops from the 2nd Infantry Brigade. They were later charged with illegal entry and possession of firearms.

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