Joseph Schooling's mum live in SG for over 30 years but chose to remain a PR

Papsmearer said:

Once an FT, always an FT. Asking and getting privileges that no one else gets. So many other atheletes in singapore's past never got deferment, but this guy is a special case?

May, who is in her 50s, put her tough, no-nonsense approach to good effect when she and Colin famously negotiated for their son’s long-term deferment from National Service (NS) in October this year.

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khunking said:

I think Mr Ang Peng Siong is still the poster boy for Singapore swimming considering that he was not paid big bucks for medals and had to abide by the military rules back in his heydays.

Both ST editor and Joseph's mum should be given bravery medals for revealing information that military rules can be negotiated when all of us who dug in and served our time had been told otherwise.

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Papsmearer said:

Maybe Ang Peng Siong should have an angmo sounding name? Than he can defer NS like Schooling. I wonder if his mother used her Malaysian citizenship to threaten MINDEF by saying the son will change citizenship to Malaysian, so he can continue to swim and avoid NS.

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