International Legal and Ethical Issues in Business

Singapore is one of the developed countries in the world and together with this development is the deterioration of the countrys environmental condition. The countrys transition to industrial society had been a challenge to Singapore lawmakers, considering that their environment would be the first to suffer serious impacts brought by industrialization such as pollution and increase in energy demand (Perry Singh, 2001). In respond, they had raised their environmental standards to the highest level and tightened their control on the impact of businesses to their environment. They become more rigorous in the implementation of their environmental regulation for they believe that this gives them substantial benefits long before the occurrence of economic surge. Every now and then, the