Entries from October 2008

October 31, 2008

Winds of change starting to blow through the STTA halls

The report:
This report came out in The Straits Times a couple of weeks back. It was about new Singapore Table Tennis Association president Lee Bee Wah’s new plans for developing local talents for the national squads.
Citing her desire to see a good mix of local and foreign talent in future national teams as well as [...]

October 22, 2008

Newsflash: Singapore’s Olympic ice-skating dreams destroyed by looming economic crisis?

Singapore’s dreams of producing future Olympic ice-skating champions may have been shattered by the looming economic crunch.
According to the report “Upgrades on hold” in today’s edition of TODAY (22 October 2008), CapitaMall Trust (CMT) has announced that it is shelving expansion plans for three of its malls “due to high construction costs and the competitive environment [...]

October 17, 2008

Sailor Joel Pang’s Asian C’ships silver is as good as gold

The report:
As this was a short report, I thought I’d reproduce it in full here instead of making you guys click to my “subsidiary site”, namely singaporesportsfan2.wordpress.com:
Sailors in the medals (TODAY, 14 Oct 2008)
 
By Tan Yo-Hinn
 
THE Asian Sailing Championship 2008 came to an end yesterday in Bali and the Singapore team finished with four silver [...]