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Location of Singapore Singapore is a sovereign island country in maritime Southeast Asia. A global city, it has a highly developed market economy, based historically on extended entrepôt trade and more recently as a financial hub as well. Its economy is known as the most freest, most innovative, most competitive, most dynamic and most business-friendly in the world by various multinational ...
Introduced in 1993 [1] by the Singapore Table Tennis Association, [2] it also aimed to boost local sporting standards by importing sporting expertise. In March 2008, it was announced in the Parliament of Singapore that 54 athletes had benefited from the programme and received Singapore citizenship , of which 37 were still in active training.
Henry Kwee Hian Liong (郭贤良 in Chinese), father of the Kwee brothers, was a Chinese-Indonesian textile trader and real estate developer who migrated from Yuxi Town Fuqing City, Fujian Province, China, to Singapore in 1958. [1] [2] He founded Kwee Inc. Pte Ltd in 1959 and the Pontiac Land Group (PLG) in 1961. [3] Henry Kwee died in 1988. [4]
World Sport Group was founded in Hong Kong in 1992 as AFC Marketing Limited as a media broker for the Asian Football Confederation. (AFC Marketing itself was dissolved by striking-off in 2006) At that time the director of the company was Seamus Hamilton O'Brien and Jack Kazunori Sakazaki; the shareholders were British Virgin Islands incorporated Park House Holdings Limited (40%), Nina Finance ...
The Sports Hub project was proposed on the recommendation of then Community Development and Sports Minister Abdullah Tarmugi in Parliament in 2001. [1] His proposal was based on a report by the Committee of Sporting Singapore calling for the city-state to promote a culture of sports, and replace the aging National Stadium. [2]
This is a list of Singapore world champions in sports, excluding those from youth categories and youth tournaments. Note: Only world championships organized and/or sanctioned by the respective world's top governing sports bodies are cited.
Far East Organization is the largest private real estate developer in Singapore. [1] [2] Founded in 1960 by Ng Teng Fong, [3] [4] the company has businesses in property development, retail, hospitality, [5] and food and beverage [6] brands in Asia and Australia. [7] [8]
The Singapore Football League, commonly known as the SFL, is an FAS sanctioned football competition for clubs that are affiliated to the Football Association of Singapore. [1] It makes up the second and third tier of football in Singapore after the SPL and before the Singapore Island Wide League.