Jasmine Yeong-Nathan on her first magazine photoshoot

The New Paper‘s Aishah Hamza caught up with bowling world champion Jasmine Yeong-Nathan recently on her life after her victory in Mexico last November.

In this clip, she spoke about her first experience as a model for a magazine photoshoot.

Catch Aishah’s full story on Jasmine in The New Paper on Sunday tomorrow.

How adequate are our security forces at sports events?

A TUNNEL fracas and security clampdown dampened the Lions’ 2-1 victory over Jordan at the National Stadium last night.

While the Jordanian players were alleged to have started the fight on the way to the dressing room after the game, security staff allegedly manhandled a press photographer, as reported in The New Paper today.

And last month, fights broke out between Singapore and Vietnam fans in the aftermath of Singapore’s 1-0 loss to Vietnam in the AFF Suzuki Cup semi-finals at Kallang as well, after security staff allowed the visiting fans to exit the stadium together with the home fans after the match.

THE POSTMAN LIM SAY HENG says: Two security incidents in two consecutive games at the National Stadium, is something wrong with the system here, or is it just a coincidence?

Singapore is aiming to become a sporting hub, with the Asian Youth Games and Youth Olympic Games coming to town in these two years.

Sure, the athletes will naturally be the highlight of the events, but the spotlight will also fall on the security of these events.

Interview with Charlene Chai, national pool champion

The New Paper‘s Aishah Hamza catches up with national pool champion Charlene Chai, who talks about the difficulties she faced in excelling in a sport dominated by men.

Read the full story in The New Paper on Sunday tomorrow.

Dear Mr Teo: Give him your say

DECEMBER is a time where we take stock of what happened in the year that had passed – the good, the bad and the ugly. In the past year, we have covered numerous grassroots and sporting issues in our Singapore at Large series, such as highlighting the conditions and accessibility of our sporting facilities. And now, it is time to hear from you.

In our end-of-the-year round-up of the Dear Mr Teo series, we are inviting you to write in to Senior Parliamentary Secretary Teo Ser Luck of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and Ministry of Transport, about sporting issues that affect you directly.

These are issues that have a personal impact on you as you indulge in sports, whether as a weekend football warrior, or as an avid runner aiming to better his personal best marathon timing. And looking ahead to the year ahead, the planning for the Youth Olympic Games will step up a gear.

Feel free to write in to Mr Teo if you have any ideas how we can engage Singaporeans for the Games, or suggestions to make our hosting of this inaugural event a better one too. To start the ball rolling, The New Paper sports desk has come up with a few suggestions of our own:

Citizenship issues

Earlier this month, Mirko Grabovac left Singapore and gave up his Singapore citizenship to return to Croatia, making him the second naturalised footballer under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme to give up his citizenship. Egmar Goncalves returned to Brazil last year.

Football isn’t the only sport that faces this problem. Naturalised Singaporeans from table tennis and athletics have been given up their red passports to return to the country of their birth.

Here are some comments from TNP readers on this issue.

You can see that their hearts are not in Singapore, no doubt we recruited them and we used them to further our sporting goals, but they also benefited from it, and at the end when they stop benefitting from the sport, they just chuck the citizenship away. It makes our citizenship look cheap, and people try so hard to get it.

Paralympics & Awards Cut Posers (See today’s New Paper 18 Sep) (Ernest co-hosts Paralympians on Razor.TV next day)

Hi all,

Pick up a copy of The New Paper today, to see the context behind the questions we’re asking you here.

1. Should Paralympians who win medals for Singapore get more in terms of monetary recognition, and why? (Eg. There’s $1 million for an Olympic individual gold medal, but just $100,000 for Yip Pin Xiu, who won a Paralympic gold medal on Monday in swimming)

2. What do you think of the 20 per cent cut for the Asian Games & Commonwealth Games monetary awards (for able-bodied athletes)? (Eg. Individual gold (before cut)=$250,000 but after cut=$200,000)

3. Also the new incentives for athletes who only break the Games records in the Asian and SEA Games ($50,000 and $5,000 respectively), and not at other events like the Olympics?

Cheers

Ernest Luis

The Postman, The New Paper

 

S’pore at Large poser: Olympics inspiration

Hi all,

CALLING all budding Singapore athletes and Singapore sports fans, we want your views over the weekend. To find out a fuller context of what we need to answer this question, please check out The New Paper on 16 Aug.

Will the example of the national women’s table tennis team and Tao Li inspire Singaporean athletes to do as well, or even do better than them in future? How best can we exploit this achievement and use it to inspire Singapore sports?

 

 

E-mail us – in not more than 200 words – under the heading “Olympics inspiration” at npsports@sph.com.sg, or post your views here below. Look out for our readers’ sentiment in The New Paper on Wednesday, as part of our Singapore at Large series.

Cheers,

Ernest Luis,

The Postman, The New Paper