Why our national policy toward sport doesn’t work Singapore netball has received a new boost in the form of 1.96m tall Chen Lili, who should strike fear into opposing shooters. Along with Li Ling, who stands at 1.88m, they are expected to bring the netball national team to (the pun will be painful, but necessary) [...]

The world has definitely grown smaller. The number of fans that now make their way from around the world to support their teams in Africa would not have been imaginable two or three decades ago, and neither would the immense numbers that have watched this World Cup live on television. These changes merely point to the undeniable fact that the World Cup is a different ball game today.