Think Singapore is immune to disasters? Researchers from the Nanyang Technological University have found that the Republic had endured, in total, more than two dozen natural disasters and civil emergencies since World War II, and faced several near misses as well.
Singapore, they said, needs to learn from what almost happened in the past to prepare itself for the future.
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