Singapore is an overachiever state, attaining industrialised status in just one generation and constantly aiming to be Asia's best or the world's best in all sorts of fields from education to technology. But with a population of just five million -- a million of them foreigners -- and temperatures hovering around 30 degrees all year, it does not have a huge pool of winter sporting talent.What it does have is is plenty of money, thousands of young Singaporeans working and studying overseas and a government determined to use sport as an instrument of national pride. Full story
