LONDON: Chelsea’s new right-back Jose Bosingwa has been getting advice from Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo about how to handle life in the Premier League.
Bosingwa was officially unveiled at Chelsea’s training ground on Wednesday following his £16.2mil move from Porto and has already been well briefed on English football.
The Portugal defender got the lowdown from [...]

LONDON: Hull have completed the signings of winger Peter Halmosi, midfielder George Boateng and goalkeeper Tony Warner.
The club paid Division Three side Plymouth an undisclosed fee to sign Halmosi on a four-year contract.
Boateng signed a two-year deal after leaving Middlesbrough, while Warner joined from Fulham for two years as a free agent. – AP
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MADRID: Belarus midfielder Alexander Hleb has left Arsenal to become Barcelona’s fifth off-season acquisition.
Barcelona paid the Premier League club 15mil euros (US$23.7mil) for the playmaker, who passed a routine medical on Wednesday before signing a four-year contract with the Spanish club.
Barcelona could pay another 2mil euros (US$3.2mil) to the Gunners in performance fees.
The 27-year-old Hleb, [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games bring a gush of fond memories for national chief coach Yap Kim Hock.
With Cheah Soon Kit, he won a silver medal in the men’s doubles badminton and it still remains as the best Malaysian achievement in the Olympics.
“When I look back, one thing stands out. We were confident [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Shuttler Teo Kok Siang is determined to emulate his brother in his final year as a junior.
Ten years ago, Kok Seng partnered Chan Chong Ming to win the world junior boys’ doubles title.
For Kok Siang, he has failed to land a title in his last two campaigns in major junior tournaments at the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Bekas Perdana Menteri Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad mengulas debat kenaikan harga minyak Selasa lalu dan isu dakwaan meliwat terbaru dihadapi bekas timbalannya, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menerusi tulisan terbaru blognya.
Mengenai debat, Dr. Mahathir berkata, forum tersebut yang diambil bahagian oleh Anwar dan Menteri Penerangan, Datuk Ahmad  Shabery Cheek bukan satu pertandingan yang adil.
“Shabery sangat [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will not agree to the idea of a foreign forensic expert of his choice to draw a DNA sample from him, said lawyer R. Sivarasa.
“They (the police) fail to understand Anwar’s concern as explained this afternoon. It does not address the possible fabrication of DNA (test results) starting with [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim blamed Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for the sodomy allegation, saying that it was an attempt to derail Pakatan Rakyat’s move to take over the Government.
Anwar who claimed he would be Prime Minister by Sept 16 by way of a by-election and mass crossovers by Barisan [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin was charged with three counts of criminal defamation over his statutory declaration on the murder of Mongolian translator Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Raja Petra, 58, however, refused to make a plea to the charges, claiming that they were defective and smacked of mala fide.
No plea recorded: Raja Petra [...]

SEREMBAN: The country’s first man in space, Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al-Masrie will be bestowed the Darjah Setia Negeri Sembilan (DSNS) award which carries the title “Datuk” by the Yang Di-Pertuan Besar Negri Sembilan Tuanku Ja’afar in conjunction with the state ruler’s 86th birthday celebration on Saturday.
Dr Sheikh Muszaphar, who made history when he blasted [...]