Lee Hup Wei, Asian champion, Beijing Olympics hopeful and co-holder of the national high jump record of 2.24m, must be wondering what is the purpose of him competing in the Malaysia Games.
NATIONAL athletes are threatening to overshadow any new talent that emerges from the Malaysia Games when the biennial event begins on May [...]

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YINGXIU, China (Reuters) - More than 80,000 people are dead or missing from China’s worst earthquake in decades, the government said on Thursday, as concerns rose that disease, the rainy season and aftershocks could bring yet more pain.

Parents holding portraits of their dead children attend a memorial service at a primary school in earthquake-hit Wufu [...]

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BN lawmakers reject former prime minister’s call to quit the coalition.

TUN Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s obsession with toppling Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s administration is opening the door of opportunity to the opposition led by his arch-rival Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Dr Mahathir’s naked call for defiance and rebellion against Abdullah has [...]

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KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian group condemned the uniform worn by girls at government schools, saying it encouraged rape and pre-marital sex.
“The white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction,” National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia vice-president Munirah Bahari said in a statement.
“It becomes a distraction to men, who are [...]

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Iraq’s Mohammed Abdul Zahra Obaid (left) and goalkeeper Ali Muttashar Naser close down on Nigeria’s Owoeri John in their Inter-Continental Cup match at MBPJ Stadium yesterday. Nigeria won 1-0. — Pic: HASAN ISMAIL
AS expected, the favourites booked their spots in the semi-finals of the Inter Continental Cup when Nigeria beat Iraq 1-0 in [...]

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KUALA LUMPUR, THURS:
An Umno veteran feels that the spat between former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and party president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has reached a stage where it can only be resolved by the intervention of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin as the mediator.

Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Tapa, [...]

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21/05/2008 20:47, Report by Jon Crampin
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United: Kings of Europe!
Edwin van der Sar was the hero as United were crowned champions of Europe for the third time after a dramatic penalty shoot-out victory over Chelsea at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow.
Forty years after first winning the European Cup at Wembley in 1968, and 50 [...]

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MADRID: Daily Spanish sports newspaper Marca on Monday awarded Real Madrid captain Raul, the club’s top scorer this season with 18 goals, its Di Stefano prize for best player of the 2007-09 season.
The prize is named after Real Madrid’s iconic former striker Alfredo di Stefano who announced the winner of the trophy at a ceremony [...]

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MANCHESTER: Cristiano Ronaldo will not be allowed to leave Manchester United at any price according to the club’s chief executive David Gill.
Ronaldo has been repeatedly linked with a £100mil move to Real Madrid over the last year and the Portugal winger recently refused to rule out the possibility of a switch to Spain in the [...]

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A jobless man with six previous convictions was sentenced to two years in jail by the Magistrate’s Court here today after he pleaded guilty to stealing a handphone.

R. Ganeson, 40, from Kuala Selangor admitted to snatching the handphone belonging to Vietnamese tourist Dinh Thi Tuyet Lan along Jalan Hang Tuah here at about 1.15pm [...]

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