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Teen helps detain robber twice his age

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Mathew Leong happened to hear the cries for help from a woman at a void deck at Blk 173, Woodlands St 13 at 9pm.

She was being assaulted by a thief, who also snatched her handphone and then ran away.

Mr Leong gave chase and managed to detain the 30-year-old man till police arrived shortly and arrested him.

Police have commended Mr Leong for his public spiritedness and bravery.

The suspect will be charged in court on Monday. For robbery with hurt, he faces up to 20 years in jail and caning.

- CNA/ir


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Help for Olympian Tan Howe Liang


<CITE>By Channel NewsAsia, </CITE>Updated: 05/02/2011
Help for Olympian Tan Howe Liang

Help for Olympian Tan Howe Liang

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Tan Howe Liang



SINGAPORE: An anonymous donor has donated an undisclosed sum of money to Singapore’s first Olympic medallist Tan Howe Liang.
In a MediaCorp exclusive last December, it was reported that Mr Tan’s wife had undergone surgery for breast cancer and the subsequent treatment had set the family back by almost S$100,000.
Now an anonymous donor has come forward to present the former weightlifter with an undisclosed sum of money.
The contribution was facilitated by the Singapore National Olympic Council, which said the amount given was sufficient to meet Mr Tan’s needs.
Other parties had earlier expressed interest in wanting to help the Olympic hero.
NTUC FairPrice is looking into an ambassador role for the 77—year—old to promote healthy living and active ageing. An announcement on this could be made soon, said the company’s chairman Ng Ser Miang.
Mr Tan became Singapore’s first Olympic medallist when he won a silver in weightlifting at the 1960 Rome Games. He currently works for the Singapore Sports Council as a gym supervisor.
The Olympians Singapore, an exclusive group of former and current athletes, also recently said they are planning to raise funds for the former athlete.
— CNA/ir

 

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She is first Asian to win US group's scholarship

She is first Asian to win US group's scholarship
Geraldine Yeo | The New Paper | Fri Jan 21 2011
She gets $1,900 from facility management foundation.

SHE was up against many other students from big-name universities such as Harvard and Cornell.
Yet, the final-year Temasek Polytechnic (TP) student ended up among the 33 recipients of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Foundation scholarship.
Chew Jia Ying, 19, is also the youngest recipient and the first Asian to receive the award from the Texas-based organisation.
The IFMA scholarship recognises the achievements of students studying facility management or related fields.
Facility management includes the management of buildings such as shopping complexes, hospitals, hotels and integrated resorts.
Jia Ying, an integrated facility design and management student, said she was shocked to learn that she had clinched the award.
"I was doing my internship at the World Expo in Shanghai in May last year when I received the news through e-mail," she recalled.
"But I didn't have anyone to share the good news with since I was so far away." As part of the scholarship application, she had to state how she intended to further her studies in facility management.
Jia Ying received US$1,500 (S$1,900) and an all-expenses paid trip to attend the World Workplace Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, in October last year.

 

[Received_by_Kings]

Re: A Trip Down Memory Lane - Tan Howe Liang

TAN HOWE LIANG
WEIGHTLIFTING

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</TD></TR><TR><TD class=popup_bg><TABLE border=0 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=210 align=center height=145><TBODY><TR><TD class=popup_text vAlign=top>Did you know that Tan Howe Liang not only won Singapore's first Olympic medal, he is also the only Singaporean to set an Olympic record -- in the clean and jerk (weightlifting) at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games?

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</TD><TD vAlign=top width=378>On 9 Sep 1960, at the Palazetto Dello Sport Hall in Rome , Tan Howe Liang (27) put Singapore on the world map when he lifted a total of 380kg in the lightweight (67.5kg) category to beat 33 rivals (except Russia 's Viktor Busheuv) for the lightweight Silver medal. As of the last century, it had remained Singapore's only Olympic medal. He was bestowed the Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Service Medal) for his outstanding sport achievement.

Prior to his Olympic performance, Howe Liang had already established a world record in the Jerk (lightweight division) with a lift of 347 pounds at the 6th British Empire & Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958. The same year, he also took home a gold at the 3rd Asian Games in Tokyo . He easily lifted a gold performance at the inaugural SEAP Games in Bangkok in 1959. Tan won his second Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1962 in the middleweight division.

Tan Howe Liang is the only Singaporean who had won a medal at all the major international games - Olympics, Commonwealth, Asian and SEAP (all gold except for the Olympics). He also became the first weightlifter in the world to be awarded the International Weightlifting Federation (national honour) Gold Award in 1984 (Sunday Times 26 Jul 92). He was also awarded the IOC Pin for his medal winning performance at the Rome Olympics, 1960 (1989).

After retiring from competition, Tan proved himself to be an excellent coach. His trainee, Chua Koon Siong won a gold medal at 1st Asean Weightlifting Championship with a lift of 245 kg. which broke the Commonwealth record, then. Another trainee, Tung Chye Hong, won a silver medal at the same game. Teo Yong Joo, another of his proteges, won a SEA Games gold in 1983 & a Commonwealth Games bronze in 1986.

Tan Howe Liang was voted the 2 nd greatest athlete of the last century by the media in 1999.

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Yeah and it's sad that at that time he had to fork out his own money for a plane ticket to Rome to compete.

If it were now, he'd probably be sponsored all the way, but too bad these days local talent has become less sensational.

 

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Re: A Trip Down Memory Lane - Junie Sng

JUNIE SNG
SWIMMING

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</TD><TD width="5%"></TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD><TD> </TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD vAlign=top width=378>Junie Sng would probably be remembered as one of Singapore 's most successful swimmers in the international arena. She was the first Singaporean lady swimmer to win a gold medal at the Asian Games (1978) and at 14, she was also the youngest ever to win not one but two gold medals in the Asian Games series. Her first success came in the 400m freestyle when she smashed the record by more than four seconds. She was to turn in another Asian Games record in the 800m freestyle, 24 hours later. For her outstanding performances, she was hailed as the Star of the 8 th Asian Games by the Bangkok Post.

That same year, she made it to the finals in her pet event, the 800m freestyle, in the Commonwealth Games held in Canada.

Junie's first taste of competitive swimming for Singapore started when she was 11 years old. She made her first international debut at the 8th SEAP Games in 1975, winning 1 gold and 1 silver medal. In the 9 th SEA Games in 1977, Junie won 5 gold medals and broke 6 meet and 2 Asian Games women records. In addition, she smashed the Singapore Open men's 800m and the women's 400m freestyle records, the same year. This was the start of her dominance in the pool in both the SEA and Asian Games. Throughout her swimming career, she not only amassed an incredible medal haul but also smashed several Asian Games, SEA Games and national records.

Junie was awarded the Best Sportswoman accolade consecutively for three years in 1977, 1978 & 1979. This recognition is a testimony to her supremacy in the pool and her achievements in the international arena. She retired from swimming in a blaze of glory winning 10 gold medals at the 1983 SEA Games, held in Singapore.

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Why is it that your female athletes all look fat and manly? None are really pretty.

 

[alvin36]

joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

how about the joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

how about the joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

Also have TKD SEA champion cum Uzbek OKT.

 

[streetsmart73]

Re: joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

how about the joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

hi there


1. aiyoh!
2. cannot expect too much from the butch.
3. she could go as far as sheepishland shoreline.
4. despite of the million-dollar training overseas.

 

[alvin36]

Re: joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

hi there


1. aiyoh!
2. cannot expect too much from the butch.
3. she could go as far as sheepishland shoreline.
4. despite of the million-dollar training overseas.

her mouth looks like shark remind me of the old time movie "Jaws 3"

is she a butch ?
Sin Min reported that she is married and did not stay with the Ah Long father. I remembered seeing the news on Sin Min, reporters try to contact her for her father's case, but they cannot reach her. And subsequently, there is no more reports on this anymore. total media blackout

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: A Trip Down Memory Lane - Junie Sng

Why is it that your female athletes all look fat and manly? None are really pretty.

In the early 70s, we had 2 beauties in track and field - hurdler Heather Merican and 400m runner Chee Swee Lee.

Any bros can retrieve their pics. Video clips also can.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

is she a butch ?

She was. There was a police case lodged against her about 10 years ago. It was covered up.

 

[Narong Wongwan]

This thread only for sports talent?
Annabelle Chong considered? She also once was world record holder in her field of sports.

 

[heartlander]

Re: joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

She was. There was a police case lodged against her about 10 years ago. It was covered up.

How come police case?

 

[middaydog]

Re: A Trip Down Memory Lane - Junie Sng

In the early 70s, we had 2 beauties in track and field - hurdler Heather Merican and 400m runner Chee Swee Lee.

Any bros can retrieve their pics. Video clips also can.

Chee Swee Lee

Sorry no Heather Merican, only Heather Locklear

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: joycelyn yeo and the 68 yr old AH LONG

How come police case?

Mother of female 'victim' lodged report of undesirable activities between the two.

 

[GoldenDragon]

Re: A Trip Down Memory Lane - Junie Sng

Chee Swee Lee

Sorry no Heather Merican, only Heather Locklear

CSL beh swee in this pic leh.

 

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"I'm a theatremaker, I'm not a political theatremaker," the 47-year-old says.
"If I was anywhere else in the world I'd be seen as a theatremaker. But in Singapore I'm seen as a political theatremaker."
Heng arrived in Australia yesterday to present his company's much-admired production of George Orwell's Animal Farm at Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island festival. The lawyer who became a dancer who became an actor has played the part of Napoleon in previous shows, but this time around, for the Australian premiere of the play, he will remain behind the scenes as the director only.
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<!-- // .story-sidebar -->It's because he's "exhausted", having recently appeared in a production of Emily of Emerald Hill, a Singaporean classic for which he, a decade ago, had the honour of being the first male to play the title role. He reprised the role this time around - and promoted it online with a cross-dressing video tribute to Madonna's Material Girl - though he admits that Singaporean audiences are no longer shocked by his performance. "I think the novelty of it has worn off," he says.
Heng is a prominent cultural figure in his homeland. His work is not always welcomed by the authorities, who last year moved to limit his company's reach. But despite the challenges of working in such a conservative environment, he says the nation still has moved a long way in a short time.
He left Singapore almost two decades ago to study at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 1993 he moved to London to continue his work as an actor, which included a role in Luc Besson's 1997 film The Fifth Element. But Singapore was always on his mind, and by the time he returned in 1998 he found a large community of artists, many of whom were trained abroad.
Since then he has focused on theatre for reasons both idealistic and practical. "I haven't done TV here because the scripts are really bad, and I think film takes too long. But I do love the theatre, the immediacy of it and the connection I get with it."
In 2000, Heng founded Wild Rice, keen to tell Singaporean stories with a distinctly Singaporean voice. Among its output is Happy Endings: Asian Boys Vol. 3, a play that confronts the nation's prohibitive stance on homosexuality. Heng, who is gay, believes it is inevitable that these prohibitions will be overturned.
"That show had many men weeping in the corridors after the show," he says. "It really questioned the terrible, repugnant section in our penal code we inherited from the British - section 377a - which criminalises the gay minority here in Singapore."
But it's with Animal Farm, first shown in Singapore in 2002, that Heng has found a story with both a local and global resonance. The novel was adapted for the stage by British playwright Ian Wooldridge, who directed Heng in Scotland in a performance of Richard III in 1993. At the time, Wooldridge told him: "You play tyrants well. You should play Napoleon."
When Heng, back in Singapore, brought Wooldridge's Animal Farm to life, he was feeling increasingly despondent about local politics. "I felt there was a disconnect between people and the government," he says.
It wasn't hard to find parallels between the play and local circumstances, such as Singaporean politics or colonial rule. "I was seeing parallels obviously," he says. "I wanted to ask these questions: how can we live together? What is the proper relationship between an individual and the state? How should we be ruled, and how can people take responsibility?"
When he first showed the work in Singapore in 2002, Heng says the audience was unsure how to respond. "At the beginning, there would be a few claps and then, very slowly, people would get the courage." He even invited the Singaporean cabinet, many of whom attended (the Prime Minister did not).
Heng says the cabinet invitation was about openness, not provocation. "Everyone was saying are you sure you should be doing this Ivan? Are you sure you should be staging Animal Farm? I thought, I'm not hiding anything. This is a classic, and it's obviously relevant to our society."
When he toured the play to other cities, such as Hong Kong last year, Heng says audiences have been quick to compare the work to their own political situation. He hopes, then, to find a similar appreciation from audiences in Tasmania, where the play opens, along with the state's arts festival, on Friday night.
Ten Days on the Island, guided by Elizabeth Walsh, now in her third and final outing as artistic director, is a biennial event that stretches across the state to 62 locations: Hobart to Bruny Island, Port Arthur to Penguin, Burnie to Launceston. It also reaches out to other islands, with work imported from Tahiti, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, Trinidad and Tobago, Faroe Islands, Scotland, The Philippines, Iceland and Singapore.
The program contains a similarly diverse range of works. In Hobart, Chronicles of Long Kesh is a play by Martin Lynch about life inside Northern Ireland's notorious Maze Prison. On Bruny Island, Melbourne's Chamber Made Opera will unveil Minotaur: The Island, one section of its reconstruction of Monteverdi's 1608 opera L'Arianna. And in seven locations around the island, Ashley MacIsaac, a fiddler from Cape Breton, will share the stage with young Canadian guitarist Quinn Bachand.
For the Wild Rice production of Animal Farm, Heng can hardly be accused of lacking attention to detail. As the director, set designer and choreographer, he says he wanted to find an "efficient, economical" way to express animal movements in the show.
"In the original production we spent some time in abbatoirs and zoos to observe pigs," Heng says. "We observed animals in petting zoos. We also went to the polo club to observe horses. I wanted the cast to spend time within the presence of animals."
On the surface, Heng would appear to be something of an establishment arts figure in Singapore. In addition to his work at Wild Rice, last year he worked as creative director of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Singapore Youth Olympic Games. The previous year, he worked as creative director of the National Day Parade.
And yet last May, Singapore's National Arts Council cut funding to Wild Rice by $20,000, or 10 per cent, explaining the move with an astonishing statement.
"They said we were doing work that was not in keeping with the core values of society," Heng says. "Apparently we had crossed the line in lampooning several government figures. But that's our job you know."
Heng vows not to let the decision affect his company's work, or its approach to sensitive subject matter. "We just go ahead and do what we need to do," he says. "We have to do what we feel is right and I refuse to self-censor. I will tell our audience what has been censored and what they don't want them to know." Heng is fearful of an "alarming conservatism" that he believes is on the rise around the world, not just in Singapore. But in his own country, he says that Singapore's focus on economic prosperity has come at the expense of its creative potential.
"Let's put it this way," he says, allowing Orwell to help express his thoughts. "In Singapore, we're like Mollie. As long as there's a steady supply of sugar lumps and ribbon, we don't mind being stroked by the fat, red-faced man." He laughs, and sighs. "I'm eminently quotable aren't I?"
Animal Farm is at Hobart's Theatre Royal, March 25-29.

 

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Singapore central bank to hire managers with China experience



Singapore central bank to hire managers with China experience



15:22, April 10, 2011

Singapore's central bank - the Monetary Authority of Singapore plans to hire Singaporeans with experience of staying in China for close to 40 senior and mid- level management positions, a local newspaper reported Saturday.

The central bank will be one of the Singapore organizations and agencies that plan to offer career opportunities at the Singapore Day 2011, a get-together event organized by the Singaporean government for Singaporeans staying overseas and scheduled to be held in Shanghai on April 16 this year, Lianhe Zaobao reported.

Other employers from the private sector expected to show up at the "Careers at Home" part of the event in Shanghai include well- known Singapore firms and foreign enterprises that have operations in Singapore, like Panasonic, banks such as Development Bank of Singapore, United Overseas Bank and Bank of Overseas Chinese, as well as Far East Organization.

The one-day event will be held at Century Park in downtown Shanghai. This is the first time the event will be held in a Chinese city. It has been held over the past several years in New York, Melbourne and London. The Overseas Singaporean Unit, a government agency, said there are now about 10,000 Singaporeans living in Shanghai.

Source: Xinhua

 

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Gillard to honour businessman CK Ow

http://www.businessspectator.com.au...-businessman-CK-Ow-TL8RX?OpenDocument&src=hp7

Gillard to honour businessman CK Ow

Published 3:45 PM, 22 Apr 2012
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Singaporean business leader CK Ow has left an indelible mark on the Australian tourism industry.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is to attend a function in Singapore, during a brief official visit on Monday, to present Mr Ow with an honorary Order of Australia.

As executive chairman of the Stamford Land Corporation Ltd, he has taken the company from its humble roots as cargo-handling group Hai Sun Hup to the largest owner-operator of luxury hotels in Australia.

The company employs about 4000 people in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Auckland.

Mr Ow became a permanent resident of Australia in 1995, since then dividing his time between Singapore and his new country.

He has been active in building links between business in Singapore and Australia, and in 2010 created a scholarship for one Australian each year to attend the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.

Mr Ow, a qualified chartered shipbroker, also established two other listed companies - Singapore Shipping Corporation in 2001 and Cougar Logistics Corporation in 2006 - both of which he chairs.

The Stamford name comes from Sir Stamford Raffles, the former lieutenant-governor of Java who founded Singapore in 1819.

 

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Singapore crowned champions at Asian Schools Bowling meet

Singapore crowned champions at Asian Schools Bowling meet
Updated 01:52 AM Jul 15, 2012

SINGAPORE -- A 1-2 finish in the girls' Masters stepladder finals saw Singapore crowned overall champions of the 14th Asian Schools Tenpin Bowling Championship on Saturday.

At the Jaya Ancol Bowling Centre in Jakarta, Joey Yeo took the event's gold after a 459-405 win over top seed and team-mate Kristin Quah in the final. South Korea's Shin Hye-Ji took the bronze after losing 205-178 to Kristin in the first round of the stepladder.

It means Singapore topped the XX-strong standings with seven gold, three silver and two bronze medals.

Indonesia (2-1-2) and Kuwait (1-1-1) were second and third respectively.

Singapore also won the challenge trophies for the overall girls and boys titles.

"I feel really happy, and happy for my team-mates too, but I feel lucky because I was not making good shots as compared to Kristin," said Joey.

"But mine ended up carrying the pins while her's did not."

However, Singapore did not enjoy the same success in the boys' Masters stepladder final, with Muhammad Jaris Goh and Javier Tan finished seventh and eighth respectively.

The event was won by Indonesia's Adhiguna Widiantoro, who beat top seed Muhammad Aizudeen Mustaqim of Malaysia 237-222, 255-236 in the final.

URL http://www.todayonline.com/Sports/E...owned-champions-at-Asian-Schools-Bowling-meet

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