GEORGE TOWN: Loan sharks are on the prowl for desperate Malaysian professional footballers – no thanks to the state FAs who are unable to pay their salaries on time.
Perak coach Steve Darby revealed yesterday that his players told him that people unknown to them had approached them with loan offers.
“This is an unhealthy situation. Desperate [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak dismissed Raja Petra Kamarudin’s statutory declaration linking his wife and two others to the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaaribuu as “total lies, fabrication and total garbage.”
The Deputy Prime Minister said the allegations in the statutory declaration were a “desperate and pathetic attempt to discredit and taint my political [...]

TANJUNG SEPAT: He said he had given up betting on football but the lure of Euro 2008 proved too much for Chuang Toh Huat. In the end, he paid for his love of betting with his life. Some 12 hours after the Spain versus Italy quarterfinal match, he was found in a semi-conscious state after [...]

SUBANG JAYA: It was an ingenious operation where thieves coated eight CCTV screens with black paint to prevent the devices from recording them robbing three automated teller machines of more than RM600,000 at a bank here.
Police have not ruled out an inside job because none of the ATMs at the bank, located near the Equine [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities could set Tehran’s program back years but would raise the risk of retaliation against American troops in the region and of driving Iran to work even harder to make atomic weapons, U.S. experts and officials say.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2nd L) visits the Natanz [...]

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe’s neighbours on Wednesday urged the postponement of Friday’s presidential election, saying the re-election of President Robert Mugabe could lack legitimacy in the current violent climate.

Tomaz Salamao, the executive secretary of SADC, Swaziland’s King Mswati III and Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete (L-R) look on during the South African Development Community (SADC) Troika [...]

PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Super League (MSL) will go under the microscope next month.
The chairman of the local competitions committee, Datuk Che Mat Jusoh, said that the FA of Malaysia (FAM) would hold a two-day brainstorming session with state FA officials on July 20 and 21.
“A lot need to be done to the MSL, judging [...]

PETALING JAYA: Junior shuttlers Chong Wei Feng and Mohd Arif Abdul Latif, who won gold and silver respectively in the recent Sukma (Malaysia Games) in Terengganu, failed to advance to the third round of the Thailand Open badminton championships in Bangkok last night.
Wei Feng lost to fifth seed Ng Wei of Hong Kong 17-21, 15-21 [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: “A total lie and fabrication.” That was how Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak dismissed blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s statutory declaration alleging that Najib’s wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, played a part in Altantuya Shaariibuu’s murder.

“Why are you interested in this garbage?” he asked reporters eager for him to respond to [...]

KOTA KINABALU: Last week, Sabah Progressive Party president Datuk Yong Teck Lee attacked the government for failing to tackle the illegal immigrant problem in the state.

Yesterday, in response to Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s announcement of plans to launch massive operations to flush out the transient population, Yong was full of gratitude.
In [...]