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By Tan Yo-Hinn / Patwant Singh | Posted: 08 April 2011 2230 hrs
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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) celebrated its 80th anniversary with a fund-raising dinner on Friday evening at the Shangri-La.
Over S$700,000 was raised with proceeds going towards the Association's national youth development programmes.
The Guest of Honour at the dinner was Ms Ho Ching, Executive Director and CEO of Temasek Holdings.
To commemorate their 80th anniversary this year, a slew of activities and events are also being planned. This includes a Fun Table Tennis Event together with the People's Association on August 20 at Suntec City.
The Association will also host the Volkswagen Women's World Cup in October where the world's top 16 female players will be playing.
Lee Bee Wah, President of the STTA, said: "STTA has been looking for funding since two years ago because we put in place a series of programmes, from the pre-school programme, to the youth programme and as well as overseas tournaments for our national team and now that we have our young players like Isabelle and Clarence so we need actually quite a lot of funding.
"We also have a youth development fund, endowment fund. The funding that we need mainly comes from (the) SSC. SSC gives us about 50 per cent of the funding that we require so certainly we (need to) work very hard to get the other half."
-CNA/ac
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