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- 1 2 3 4 "Glory days of local shuttlers". The Straits Times. 16 August 2015.
- ↑ Pat Davis, The Guinness Book of Badminton (Enfield, Middlesex, England: Guinness Superlatives Ltd., 1983) 91.
- ↑ "Lee Kin Tat re-elected". The Straits Times. 10 July 1979.
- ↑ "HK to stage world shuttle exhibition". Singapore Monitor. 8 December 1982.
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