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Singapore’s Youth Olympics and the impotence of being disearnest

• September 30, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Media, Politics, Society, Sport
Tags: broadcast rights, International Olympic Committee, Olympics, Singapore, Sport, SYOGOC, YOG, Youth Olympic Games, Youth Olympics


A penny for your scorn (Part deux)

• August 20, 2010 • Leave a Comment

Posted in Journalism, Media, Politics, Society
Tags: floods, foreign aid, Haiti, humanitarian disaster, MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan, Singapore, Straits Times, Sudesh Maniar, United Nations, YOG, Youth Olympic Games


Ivory tower irony

• July 27, 2010 • 1 Comment

Posted in Journalism, Media, Society, Sport
Tags: academia, Ang Swee Hoon, IOC, marketing, National University of Singapore, NUS, Olympics, Singapore, Straits Times, SYOGOC, Today, YOG, Youth Olympic Games, Youth Olympics


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