Holders of Civil Awards and Decorations of Singapore - People Awarded the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat, People Awarded the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People Awarded the Bintang Bakti Masyarakat, People Awarded the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat, People Awarded the Pingat Jasa Gemilang, People Awarded the Sijil Kemuliaan, Singapore Literature Prize Winners, Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu, Edwin Thumboo, Feng Tianwei, Laurentia Tan, Zubir Said, Rex Shelley, Yip Pin Xiu. Excerpt: Li at the ITTP Pro Tour Liebherr Austrian Open in Wels, Austria, on 28 October 2007 This is a Chinese name; the family name is Li (Chinese: pinyin: L).Li Jiawei (Chinese: pinyin: L Jiwi; born 9 August 1981) is a China born Singaporean table tennis player who is ranked among the top ten athletes in her sport. Spotted by Singapore talent scouts in Beijing in 1995, she moved to Singapore and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis in 1996. She became a Singapore citizen at the age of 18 years under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. As a singles player, Li was ranked sixth in the world as of August 2008. Her highest ranking was in December 2005, when she was third. Li is also a key player for women's team and doubles, and mixed doubles events. She finished in fourth place in singles at both the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On 15 August, the Singapore women's team composed of Li and her teammates Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu defeated South Korea 32 in the semifinals. However in the finals on 17 August, the team lost to China and obtained a silver medal, marking the first time that Singapore had won an Olympic medal since the nation's independence in 1965. The medal came 48 years after Tan Howe Liang won the country's first medal, a silver in weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Li ended 2008 on a high, winning gold in the women's team event with Feng and... More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1754380