[Photo: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong carrying the Asian Youth Games torch after receiving it at the Ang Mo Kio-Yio Chu Kang Community Sports Festival.]

By Terrence Voon & Jeanette Wang

IT WAS a journey that began at dawn with the simple push of a button.

And by the time night fell yesterday, the three torches carrying the symbolic flame for the Asian Youth Games (AYG) had travelled the length of Singapore, in an elaborate relay not seen on these shores since the Republic last hosted the South-east Asia Games 16 years ago.

Back in 1993, the flame was lit at Sentosa using solar power. The power of the sun was harnessed yet again yesterday morning, this time at Kallang Waterfront.

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