By Lin Xinyi
REPRESENTING Singapore at the Olympics at the age of 17 is something sprinter Calvin Kang never saw coming.
These days, he can almost taste it, as the Republic’s fastest junior has emerged as the favourite to earn the wild card that would allow him to compete in the 100 metres at the Beijing Games.
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YOUNG Lions’ rising star Jasper Chan has played a big part in his team’s encouraging performance in the NTUC Income-Yeo’s S-League 2008.
In his nine games — including an RHB Singapore Cup tie — the 19-year-old goalkeeper has kept four clean sheets, conceding nine goals.
When Chan injured his hand last month, he was clearly missed as [...]
By Leonard Lim
HE WAS not even born in 1982, when Ng Yee Ming wrote his name into the record books as Singapore’s best long jumper.
But Kenneth Wang Kan can now lay claim to that title, after breaking the country’s longest-standing jumps record yesterday afternoon.
Wang soared 7.41 metres on his third attempt at the [...]
As a top civil servant, Ngiam Tong Dow was known among his peers for being forthright in expressing his views. Today he continues, with spirit and insight, to critique the Establishment he once served. Lee Siew Hua meets the builder of organisations and a salesman of the Singapore story
MR NGIAM Tong Dow, 70, says [...]
By Jeanette Wang
I SWAM against former Singapore swimming star Ang Peng Siong. That is what you could be boasting, come May 17, at the inaugural Manulife Charity Swim at Toa Payoh Swimming Complex.
The event is in aid of Manulife?s adopted charity, The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund, which helps support some 8,000 children [...]
