Swimmer Joseph Schooling’s mother, May, tells us how she and her husband Colin famously negotiated for their son’s deferment from National Service, to aid his pursuit of Singapore’s first-ever Olympic medal come 2016 in Brazil.“I told MINDEF very clearly, I’m trying to teach my son to be loyal to this country,” she says. The full story here.

Swimmer Joseph Schooling’s mother, May, tells us how she and her husband Colin famously negotiated for their son’s deferment from National Service, to aid his pursuit of Singapore’s first-ever Olympic medal come 2016 in Brazil.

“I told MINDEF very clearly, I’m trying to teach my son to be loyal to this country,” she says. The full story here.