Hot, humid Singapore is not normally a place one would associate with big-time sport. When I worked there in the eighties, as a deputy editor of the renowned English language newspaper The Straits Times, fun and games were simply not on the agenda of the authoritarian government headed by the redoubtable Lee Kuan Yew.Education, eating and making money occupied the top three places on Singapore’s podium of priorities. Sport (which could be defined as anything outside jogging), was an also ran, receiving little in the way of encouragement or inducements. Full Story
