KUALA LUMPUR: Presiden Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) Datuk Yong Teck Lee yang juga bekas Ketua Menteri telah mengarahkan pembayaran lebih RM5 juta hasil keuntungan jualan saham syarikat milik kerajaan negeri kepada ejen pilihannya pada 1996, Mahkamah Tinggi diberitahu hari ini.
Bekas Pengarah Briskmark Enterprise Sdn Bhd, Datuk Wasli Mohd Said berkata semasa beliau menjadi Pengurus Besar [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Ahli Parlimen Jerlun, Datuk Mukhriz Tun Dr. Mahathir juga sehingga kini belum menerima sebarang surat tunjuk sebab daripada Lembaga Disiplin Umno berhubung isu membuat kenyataan media yang didakwa telah mencemarkan imej parti.
Mukhriz berkata: “Saya belum menerima apa-apa surat daripada lembaga (disiplin) parti dan saya tertunggu-tunggu juga”.
Kata Mukhriz, beliau masih menunggu surat sedemikian selepas diumumkan [...]

JOHOR BAHARU: Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) kawasan Bentayan, Gwee Tong Hiang dari DAP, telah dilarang menyertai istiadat perasmian persidangan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) Johor hari ini kerana tidak mematuhi etika pakaian termasuk mengenakan songkok.
Beliau yang hanya memakai kot telah diarah meninggalkan DUN oleh Speaker Datuk Mohd Ali Hassan kerana dianggap tidak menghormati majlis perasmian.
Ia [...]

Andrei Arshavin returned from suspension to earn Russia a place in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008 with victory over Sweden in Innsbruck.

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Russia celebrate Pavlyuchenko’s second goal.
Sweden only needed a point themselves but had no answer to the Zenit St Petersburg playmaker, with Dutchman Guus Hiddink now set to face Holland on Saturday after guiding Russia [...]

Dani Guiza headed home a late winner as a second-string Spain side battled back from a goal down in Salzburg to leave deposed European champions Greece without a point in Euro 2008.

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Alonso drives a shot on goal from range
Angelos Charisteas had given Greece a half-time lead, but second-half goals from Ruben De la Red and [...]

TENERO: Germany’s ex-Arsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann says he knows a secret recipe to contain Portugal’s chief play-maker Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of today’s Euro 2008 quarter-final.
“Ronaldo is a player who can make all the difference,” said Lehmann, who has signed a one-year contract to play for Stuttgart next season.
“He is very pleasant to watch playing, but [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian badminton fans are continuing to lose confidence in Mohd Hafiz Hashim.
He was an early round casualty yet again, this time going down to former Asian junior champion Kenichi Tago of Japan in the Indonesian Open at the Istora Senayan in Jakarta yesterday. He was beaten 17-21, 14-21 in the fifth leg tournament [...]

MONTEVIDEO: Diego Forlan scored a hat-trick to help Uruguay rout a shambolic Peru 6-0 in their World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.
Forlan’s striking partner Carlos Bueno scored two goals and substitute Sebastian Abreu added another in the final minute.
Peru striker Paolo Guerrero was sent off after 39 minutes for furiously protesting the penalty which led to [...]

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party is waiting to see if its push for a no-confidence motion against Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as Prime Minister will get the political ball rolling.
The unprecedented move by the Barisan Nasional partner to back such a motion was announced yesterday by SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee, who admits [...]

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Progressive Party’s move for a no-confidence motion on the Prime Minister was a deal that was hatched in Hong Kong and wrapped up in Kuala Lumpur with PKR de facto leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Lee admitted he had met with Anwar on two occasions in the [...]