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Registration opens for Community Games 2013 ? Published on Jan 08, 2013  The annual Community Games will be back this year. Registration for the games, to be held from March 16 to June 30, is now open. Ten sports - badminton, basketball, bowling, dragon boat, football, netball, road run, sepak takraw, swimming and table tennis - will feature in the upcoming games. Registration for all sports except the latter five is open. Players for the other five sports will be able to register for those games on March 4. Registration is free. The games, meant to foster a strong sporting culture, enhance social cohesion and bond the community, served as a qualifying round for the inaugural Singapore National Games last year. There will be no National Games this year as it is held biennially. To register or get more information on the games, visit the PA Community Sports website? HYPERLINK .sg/ \o .sg .sg. For enquires, email? HYPERLINK mailto:pa_community_games@.sg pa_community_games@.sgor call 6238 2058. HYPERLINK /breaking-news/singapore/story/registration-opens-community-games-2013/breaking-news/singapore/story/registration-opens-community-games-2013 ================================================================ Return your tray or forfeit a dollar ? Published on Jan 07, 2013  By Melissa Lin A team of final-year engineering students from Temasek Polytechnic has come up with a way to get people to clear and return their trays - do it, or forfeit a dollar. Mr Chen I Chieh, 25, Mr Sanasi Sadish Rao Hari, 24 and Mr Effendy Parman, 24, designed special aluminium frames that when fitted with modified food trays transform into tables. Without the trays, diners have no table to eat on. Using the same concept as supermarket trolleys, these trays can only be removed from a rack when a $1 coin is inserted into a coin slot at the bottom of each tray. The money can be retrieved when the tray is cleared and slotted back vertically into the rack. Their final-year p