STTA to start raising funds from Singaporeans for FTs in table-tennis team
June 27th, 2010 | 
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The Singapore Table-Tennis Association (STTA) has set up a Sports Fund for its prized “foreign talents” in the table-tennis team which will include financial and medical assistance and even retirement plans.
According to a Channel News Asia report, sponsors have contributed a whooping $189,000 to the fund so far.
The women’s team made history by beating China in the World Championships lately, but its victory was soured by cynicism among Singaporeans that the trophy was won by “China rejects” and not true blue Singaporeans.
The three players on the team – Sun BeiBei, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei are all born in China, with Feng receiving her Singapore citizenship only in 2008.
Despite the prevailing public sentiment, PAP leaders continue to lend support to its controversial “Foreign talent” sports policy at the expense of Singaporeans, with Minister of Community, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan slamming its critics as “small-minded”.
PAP MP Lee Bee Wah, who is incidentally the president of the Singapore Table Tennis Association, said:
“I will definitely assure Singaporeans that we will continue to work hard and we hope to bring more glory to Singapore.”
STTA will be selling some 20,000 limited edition ‘Champions’ NETS FlashPay cards featuring the five team members, none of whom are born in Singapore.
Each card costs S$18, and S$8 from that goes towards the fund.
It is not known if the funds collected will go towards the retirement plans of players who have since returned to China such as Zhang Xueling and Li Jiawei.
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HELLO as a fellow residence from your ward, I am disgusted by your actions over the years, those banners ugly pictures hanging on every lamp posts and railings in the estate, and those ego photos of you on calendar every year! If you dream to be Oprah Winfrey, please don’t! At least Oprah won’t think of raising funds for already rich imports but help groom the locals!!!!!!
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No way!! I would rather donate my hard-earned money to my
poor fellow Singaporeans.
They need money to buy food, not at the “hawker centre, food court
or restaurant. But, at home!
Get the picture, VB?
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There is a saying in Malay, when roughly translated, it goes like this: Your own child at home is dying of starvation, and yet you continue to feed the monkey’s baby in the forest out there with milk.
How apt!
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muwahhahaha…. my prediction: Less than 10 years down the road, these table ladies will find some rich China chinese tycoons and married off. Dump the crap citizenship and move back to China.
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I agree to donate to those poor origin Singaporean affect by our current situation , not them the FT
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These people are out of touch with reality if they believe Singaporeans will donate money to these foreign millionaires.
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People without brain will buy her words. At this stage, LBH can continue to dream but Singaporeans do not wish to see her again after the next election. Let her have her last laugh and “glory” which she thought was her credit.
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No way, dream on.
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Here, I will contribute 1,000,000.00 dollars of hell notes to the STTA. Please make full use of it and do not disappoint us!!
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I will boycott and will not buy the card. I rather throw my money to china mei mei for the service.
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There is nothing STTA to be proud about. The glories are bought not nurtured. If STTA has shown more sincerity to nurture local players I am sure SIngaporeans would go all out to support the good cause.
Come on we all know Singapore is not top notch in sports especially table tennis, and why spent money to woo foreign players (ok they are SIngaporean now) to bring us few medals. How many of us actually play table tennis in school?
I rather see money spent in nurtuting the little ones in schools than to spurge on foreingn players. Thus, any medals brought in do not represent Singapore and there is nothing to cheer about, except padding between few people up there.
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Ms Lee Bee Wah
You are a bloody disgrace!!
Canvassing for more $$$ to feed these imports!
Bloody shame on you!
Can’t wait to fire crackers when you get booted out in the next election!!
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I don’t know what sort of glory this is by buying foreigners in just like that.
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“How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?”
LIKEWISE :
How much funds do you want?
Do you want them to live like government ministers, ordinary singaporeans or homeless singaporeans in this country ?
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Already these FTs sportspeople are paid much much more than our own people such as the uncles and aunties cleaning food courts and praying not to be replaced by PRC – young, sweet and cheap!!!
Lee Bee Wah should tell the public HOW MUCH money from taxes are being paid to these PRC sportspeople! I bet they are NOT eating in hawker centres!
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If a make a contribution to this fund, when I retire or need money for medical or whatver, will they cut up their gold/silver medals, melt it, and share it with me ??
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Donate my money to the fund? Over my dead body. If every high earning Ministers and MPs contribute just 1% of their salary, they will have sufficient money!
Why not donate to true SINGAPOREANS who are in need of money to survive??
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Lee bee wah you still want to collect money from singaporeans after spending the taxpayers money for this victory can you gurantee they will stay in singapore or ran away to their home country
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No way. Not a single cent from me.
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STTA should not beg for donations for these FTs after all as the then PM GCT said they are actually quitters from their home country! Instead we should help those current stayers or Sporeans who are suffering from the high costs of living although we were promised a Swiss standard of living many years back! Instead we have a recent FT giving Spore a Swiss standard of living via vandalism!
Actually these merceneries millionaires should have contributed themselves without bothering Sporeans! Like the so-called President’s Challenge Charity; the President need not contribute to ‘challenge’ by way of say $ for $; instead the President keeps his $5m annual salary and just become a yes-man! Easy job at the expense of taxpayers!
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What exactly is the role of Ms Lee Bee Wah? Beside chairing the table tennis team and getting into tussle with ex-China coach, what exactly has she contributed to the sports environment in Singapore?
To bring in foreign players and few medals are simple solutions to put Singapore on lists amongst nations that are strong in sports.
In reality, its money exchange behind the scene to “buy” the players into Singapore. We should ask ourselves do we really care if the foreign players scrore medals and how relevance it is for us to connect with them. The arrangemnt is I give you S’pore passport and you score medal for me. Essentially it is a business exchange but the deal is dressed up to mellow the effect, and make it look patriotic that foreingn players are loyal to Singapore.
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I would rather donate my money to the FT @ Geylang than to these FT from STTA.
At least @ Geylang I can get my shuttlecock serviced while donating the cash.
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THese people are in their ivory towers and out of touch with realities of how the common folks are feeling.They are not in parliament with the people’s mandate but from the despicable tricks and ways either through the GRC umbrella or political manipulation by their master that put them in.We are such a small country with so many MPs and it shows us the true colours of the PAP that do things solely for their benefits regardless of the effects on its citizenry.They are milking us in every way and mean and if we don’t wake up and boot them out,we will be sorry forever!
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Why don’t she just tap the $10million dollar set aside to integrate the immigrants?
Or how many meals they want? In hawker centre, food court or restaurant?
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very disappointed , LBH ! why don’t you do something much more meaningful like set-up fund to help poor senior citizens ? why you put in so much effort to please those already rich quitters ? you don’t deserve your post , your salary and the respect .
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Boo! Boo! Instead of using the money to help Singaporeans, money is raised for the benefit and retirement plans of mainland Chinese.
Has the world gone mad!!! What a selfish pool of people!
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shit shit shit this country has become shit.
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Hey Lee Bitch Wah, since you and your Pro-Alien Party love merceneries so much, go whore yourself to raise funds for your Ftrash pets!
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Donate to them ? might as well take the money to buy 4D or TOTO. Lose also happy.
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OMG, this jamban woman is asking Singaporeans to donate money to the already rich FT table-tennis players?? and to look after their livlihood
after they have scooped enough money when they retire eventually???
It simply defies human logic!!
Are the FT players so hard-up??
Are they starving or are they picking empty cans to keep ends meet??
Come on get real!! they are better off than most working Singaporeans!!
Does this jamban woman know how difficult it was to increase the monthly allowance of the destitutes by just $30?? The $30 issue was debated in Parliament and was finally passed with the infamous remark by our Minister of MCYS!
The jamban woman is focusing the wrong target to show her graciousness or
whatever you want to call it.
There are many poor Singaporeans out there who are unable to have two proper meals on their tables everyday!!
What happens to your boss’s “Singaporeans always come first”
Or you have totally forgotten about it whilst soaking in this artificial
glory??
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LOL…. A turncoat will always be a turncoat. Worst, turncoats who do their flips and flops in favor of fame and money. Is there loyalty you can expect from this group of turncoats???? LOL… dream on PAP million dollar men….LOL
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I would rather throw my money into a drain.
No disrespect meant to the singapore table tennis team,you have worked hard to become world champions but we have low income people and old folks here who need aid funds more than you.
I dont know what is Lee Bee Wah thinking about.She seems disconnected from reality.
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“financial and medical assistance and even retirement plans.”
Did I see it wrong? Plans for the foregn players? Hey WE pay them to play and now WE have to look after even their retirement well-being! What about the swimmers and shooters from Singapre? Any plan for the locals too or just the imported sportsmen from PRC?
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Artificial glory that has no meaning at all. Worst still, we’ll become a laughing stock of the whole world.
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With a stupid Er (Engineer) to your salutation, I am utterly disgusted by your actions. You are a real disgrace to us, Engineers! You and your followers who never fail to drink and have merry at a nearby coffeeshop are a real disturbance to my sleep! I do not like the sight of you shaking hands and making empty promises. Stop hiding yourself with the rest of the MPs in GRC. We want you out! So what if you are in Hsien Yang’s GRC? We will still out the whole group. Don’t think if you guys mess around with the precints we can’t you Er Lee! Get Out of OUR Lives!
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Lets not forget. this jamban woman is NOT a singaporean.
She is collecting money for the non-singaporean China B.
Whatever for I wonder.How much political capital is she trying to milk.
There are a million more worthwhile causes.
Focus on issues like who is responsible for the FLOOD.
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I’d like to contribute a one-finger salute.
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Lee Bee Wah should not indulge in self delusion that the table tennis team is from Singapore.
Singapore has bought the players with hard cash. Let’s stop pretending.
Stop wasting more cash. Stop the con job
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Thank you for bring the Cup to SINGAPORE & putting SINGAPORE on the world map.
SINGAPORE has won. Not the imports!
If I sent my maid to buy a lottery for me. I have won if the lottery wins not my maid.
If we had watched the World Cup we would not have missed the black faces (imports) standing tall fighting for the European countries.
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Fxxx u lah lee bee wah!Ask for donation?Y don’t u kneel down infront of me and do it?Me and my friends will spit in yr face!And yr jamban face is appearing in posters at yishun now…..as far junction of Yeo Chu Kang!!Don’t u have shame??Ptui!!!!!Ptui!!!!Ptui!!!!!
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Why should we donate to STTA and the Bitch Wah? Local Born Singaporean interests should be taken care off first. THE HDB, Monthly Wages, Baby Expense, Monthly Allowance for Elder Parents, alredy, we were told by the govt to take care by ourself. Shouldn’t STTA and Lee Bitch Wah take care by themselves alone. Lee, you have to listen to Mr Gan Man Power Minister slogan. save by yourselves.
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Our China ‘B’ team players are probably millionaires in their own right. Why should Singaporeans, many of whom are struggling to make a living, donate money to them?
Isn’t one mansion and a fleet of cars enough for each of them.
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The shooting and table tennis teams also walked away with handsome rewards.
The table tennis team received S$80,000……….
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1038041/1/.html
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………..Yes, Li Jiawei has become the first Singapore woman to become a millionaire – by playing games. Specifically, a game called table tennis……………If the trio of Li, Wang Yuegu and Feng Tianwei beat the mighty Chinese in the final, scheduled to start at 7.30pm at the Peking University Gymnasium in Beijing, they will receive a cool $1.5 million under the Singapore National Olympic Council’s Multi-Million Dollar Award Programme.
http://tnp.sg/printfriendly/0%2C4139%2C173525%2C00.html
Millionaires and still they want poor Singaporeans to donate to them.
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You unhappy your business. You don’t donate there are many people would. PAP loves these ping pong gals and hope to raise some money for them to go back to visit their family in China. They will be happy to encourage more ping pong players and educate them of our 10 million dollars integration program so as to achieve more foreigners for Singapore.
When on earth does the PAP cares what you think? To them you are selfish, small minded and opportunist who does not want them to earn heavenly salaries. PAP need not care about how you vote, the most important is that the opposition does not have enough candidates and deposit to contest in the forth coming election resulting in PAP walk over. With infighting and disharmony, the opposition cannot win anything.
Once voted in PAP can restart their foreign workers tsunami and they will make it cheaper, better and faster for these people to come into Singapore to replace the locals. MIW will ensure their salary will be doubled before the next next election to showcase their abilities. Just how marvelous is the PAP. Come next election there should be more new citizens than old citizens and these new citizens would surely vote PAP.
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Are they afriad they might become poor?
Are they afriad they might send a message inspiring young that sport had no career?
Maybe, just maybe they fear these China player, China coach might return home to China one day, and train Mainland Chinese to compete with Singapore in the near future
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By the way, has anyone ever wondered how come there is no MEN’s Table tennis team? Surely there are alot of good male players from China also?
Hmmmm…..I wonder why
have a nice day!
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you all dont be like that lah. Since STTA needs money, we should do our part. I am donating $1,000,000,000,000. But I have only hell notes.
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Why need to donate to FT when SSTA has already much fundings from SSC? What are the rationales behind it?
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Dear editor,
It’s “whopping”, not “whooping”. One-letter difference, significantly different meaning.
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It would be interesting to know how much of her own money she has donated to this fund before she asks others to donate. C’mon, show by example. They keep all their money close to their chest and expect less well off Singaporeans to open their wallets. Where is the justice of it all? We are asked to set up a retirement fund for them and at the same time we are asked not to expect any assistance from the state when we are old. We must be daft to fall into this trap again.
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As a MP Ms Lee earn a lot, why dun she contirbutes part of her earnings to SSTA. And Ms Lee always encorage FT more than the locals.She dun know how play Ping Pong but she is rather thick skin or skin thick and always let people “bomb” or “pong” lor!
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Lee, why dont you start a fund for past local heroes? People like Tan Howe Liang or Dollah Kassim; I think we would donate wholehearted for these real Singapore heroes. I would rather give my S$10 to the guy playing guitar at Orchard MRT than to these FTs! Get a life & come down from your ivory tower & see how the peasants are really living!
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It’s so pathetic! Out of 4.99 millions Singaporeans, STTA only managed to garner 189K! Here’s 3 scenario:-
1. Let’s assume every Singaporeans donated. therefore each Singaporean is only willing to donate $0.40 (this show our true level of appreciation for Team B effort! I do give more to the street beggars!)
2. Let’s assume STTA collection represent $1 per donor. Therefore only 189K donated out of 4.99 millions population equating to only 3.8% of Singaporeans SUPPORT the effort!
3. A more realistic assumption would be that PAPies and related interests form the bulk of the donation in order to “High Gong” the public into believing the level of public supports!
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