Tan Howe Liang Receives $10,000

[myo539]

A simple answer to that : Money is never enough.

If he is given $500,000, someone is going to asking for $500 million.

 

[tonychat]

It is not about the amount of money people will crave for.

It is about being recognised for contributing to the glory of a country.

Anyway.. the sinkie govt will not understand such things, to them, even immortality can be bought by money.

 

[jhontan62]

KNN, govt sure know how to insult local people. $10000 for local but $500000 for imported China FT. Just like when they double their own salaries but pay locals $100 rebate. Just like they raise GST to 7% and pay locals $50 rebate.
We are not stupid anymore.

 

[hughgrant]

the money not even from garmen , ntuc give one . all those with ntuc insurance can expect lesss dividend next year

 

[johnny333]

When LKY is long gone, the misdeeds of LKY & his family will eventually surface & be remembered with shame.

While Tan Howe Liang will be remembered & honored as an Olympian who won Spores first medal.

 

[Maverick01]

i thought that they're going to pay him $500,000 (current olympic silver medal going rate in singapore) plus interests from 1960 to 2008. Sigh... Is that an award or an insult?


olympic medallist tan howe liang receives s$10,000 cash award
by margaret perry & wong siew ying, channel newsasia | posted: 31 august 2008 2030 hrs
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singapore: Singapore's silver medal win at the beijing olympics prompted celebrations across the island. At the same time, the nation's first olympic medallist has not been forgotten.

Tan howe liang shared the stage and the spoils with singapore's latest olympic medallists at a celebration on saturday. Like the three table tennis players – feng tianwei, li jiawei and wang yuegu – mr tan received a warm reception from the crowd, as well as a s$10,000 cheque from ntuc fairprice.

Seah kian peng, managing director of ntuc fairprice, said: "he continues to be a great inspiration to the entire sporting fraternity and to all singaporeans. People like him are able to inspire people like us to try to do what we believe we can.

"he continues to be highlighted at each olympics because he is a big inspiration, and he remains an active, humble person that everyone wants to help."

mr tan took silver for weightlifting in the 1960 olympic games – a first for singapore. Back then, there were no cash reward schemes for sports excellence.

Since the women's table tennis team took the silver in beijing and with it, a s$750,000 cash reward, there have been calls for mr tan to be rewarded as well for his trail-blazing feat 48 years ago.

Prime minister lee hsien loong said: "i am glad they did that, it's a good gesture and we remember him fondly because for 48 years, he was the one man who broke through and it has taken us a long time to equal his record."

as for singapore's first olympic hero, he declined to give a tv interview, but said he was grateful for the recognition and the cash gift.


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he is not employed as a gym supervisor...

 

[Maverick01]

Then he dun need to work as a cleaner for National Stadium Gym liao.

Actually, I pity him also. Nobody knows him until recent years when PAPaya start to import FT for olympic medals.

They say he work as "gym supervisor"

 

[Ramseth]

It'd be even better if he declined the "cash gift" or redirect it to a charity of his choice.

However, he may be really too in need of the "cash gift" to decline or donate it. That, I can understand.

 

[SIFU]

quite pathetic the way we treat of 1st olympic medalist..

only give him a less than 1k job..

 

[gbomega]

They say he work as "gym supervisor"

I think that is after it is reported that he got a raise as supervisor... maybe they'll send him for a doctorate and put him as weight lifting coach...

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Exactly... That is what inspiration is all about,

This is an example of using money to insult people. There is a Hong Kong show i remember that a cleaner guy who open the door for the mafia to enter his own car. It happens that the car stop near him. The mafia bodyguard took out a stack of notes and piece by piece slipped out from his hand to the floor for the cleaner to pick up. The cleaner still thank him profusely. ( while picking up the money from the floor). The next scene shows that the cleaner eating a packet of fried rice.

That is how mafia behave... but the Sinkie govt..????

I think that movie is a better tomorrow and the cleaner guy is chow yuen fatt and the mafia guy was his former underling now his boss. Was that the movie???

 

[Ramseth]

I think that is after it is reported that he got a raise as supervisor... maybe they'll send him for a doctorate and put him as weight lifting coach...

A gym supervisor is not in the same league as a fitness instructor. A gym supervisor cleans and oils the apparatus and the facilities. In other words, the maintenance man.

 

[Singapaporean]

gym supervisor ?....maybe NTUC can throw in training upgrade :(

Phew! luckily our 1st Olympics medalist did not become toilet specialist

 

[DonJuanDemarco]

Just take this case as a perfect example of how, men, in singapore who've served the country are belittled even with an achievement worth it's weight in gold.

 

[PissNPiss]

Howe Liang must thanks to LBW, if not becos of her, he won't even got a single cent till now.

 

[tonychat]

I think that movie is a better tomorrow and the cleaner guy is chow yuen fatt and the mafia guy was his former underling now his boss. Was that the movie???

Yup.. Wahhhh... u damn accurate.

 

[hungary fighter]

$10,000 better than nothing.....can still go chiong 4 half a year at least.....

 

[pia]

$10,000 better than nothing.....can still go chiong 4 half a year at least.....

I suppose his weightliftng background may leave enough "oomph" for him to contemplate that

 

[hungary fighter]

mayb can contact him & bring him 2 the ktvs i went.....i may get free drinks on him......

 

[SIFU]

jokes aside, it is appalling the way they treat of 1 our own, as compared to those bought (not brought) in to win medals..