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Nov 27, 2011

ASIA Sports, Athletics News, Nov 27, 2011


Reds poised to step into Asia's arena
Adelaide Now
Picture: Matt Turner Source: The Advertiser ADELAIDE United is just one small step away from entering Asian sports' biggest stage for the fourth time. Only a rubber stamp formality stands in the way after a spokesperson from the Asian Football ...
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Well done boys, now on to the Asian stage
New Straits Times
It took 20 years before the feat was repeated in Laos 2009 but there is no denying that Malaysia may well still be languishing if not for the Asian Football Confederation's insistence in 2001 that the sportbe an Under-23 affair in the Sea Games. ...
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Asia united after Bin Hammam axing: Blatter
Times of India
Asian football is in limbo after the banning of Bin Hammam, who cannot be replaced until next year under AFC rules and who is appealing his case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Blatter, who refused to comment directly on Bin Hammam's case, ...
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Server Djeparov tastes double as Japan clean up
Times of India
Top-rated attacking midfielder Djeparov, 29, sporting a crushed velvet tuxedo with a mullet-style haircut, was crowned Asia's best for the second time in three years at the swish bash in downtown Kuala Lumpur. FIFA chief Sepp Blatter was guest of ...
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Soccer: Nadeshiko's Miyama named Asian women's player of the year
Mainichi Daily News
"It's a team sport. I think it's great for the team if one of us wins an individual award because it's a reflection of the team, but me personally, I'm not one to bask in it. "It was a hectic year. We went from winning the World Cup straight into ...
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Mainichi Daily News
CHOI: PyeongChang starts in earnest to become the winter sports hub of Asia
Sports Features Communications
Today he is gearing up his tourism efforts to start in earnest to make the alpine area in the Taebaek mountains truly the winter sports hub of Asia. Now that the OCOG has been formed and the first Executive Board has met, you hold the position of ...
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Senate panel to probe athletes' poor showing
Philippine Star
From being a dominant force in the field of sports in Southeast Asia, the Philippines has now fallen behind smaller nations such as Vietnam and Singapore. Lawmakers said the Philippine team fared badly despite projections made by Philippine Sports ...
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ESS bags two gold, one silver at PromaxBDA Awards Asia
OnScreenAsia
Honouring the industry's best communications campaigns done in the region by leading networks across the region, Asia's biggest sports content provider also clinched the Gold and Silver for the 'Best Sports Promo' for the Wimbledon and the Barclays ...
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Lessons to be learned from SE Asia floods
The Guardian
Agapot squats-down next to his green dome tent, pitched inside a sports hall in Chonburi, an hour south of Bangkok. He's a 24-year-old factory worker left with no home and no job after the worst floods to hit Thailand for more than 50 years. ...
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The Guardian
Supercar Makers Chase China's Superrich Motorheads
ABC News
By KELVIN CHAN AP Business Writer That's what the makers of world's most exotic and expensivesports cars are hoping as they gather in Macau this week for the first Asian edition of Monaco's annual Top Marques show that began eight years ago. ...
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Predicting Team Phl's 6th place SEAG finish
Philippine Star
With the help of other knowledgeable sports leaders, I looked at the results of the Guangzhou (China)Asian Games held in Nov. 2010 where 11 Southeast Asian nations competed against 34 other countries that included Asian giants like China, ...
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Glittering end to troubled Games
TODAYonline
A total of 25 Indonesian athletes have qualified for the 2012 London Games, and Subowo said: "It will strengthen unity and prepare our athletes for the Asian and Olympic Games. It's also the reason why we organised the SEA Games. ...
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Blatter Hails Asian Football Leaders, Takes a Dig at Bin Hammam
World Football Insider
"The case will be handled in accordance with the procedural rules set out in the Code of Sports-related Arbitration. The parties will first exchange written submissions and will then be heard at a hearing, the date of which will be fixed at a later ...
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World Football Insider
Fitness innovations
The Sun Daily
THE recent third Asian Fitness Convention (AFC) in Bangkok ended on a positive note for the fitness industry in the Asian region. At the convention, fitness, sports, and fitness education professionals and enthusiasts from the Asia Pacific region ...
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The Sun Daily
Pacquiao World Poker Event schedule is all set
Examiner.com
The "Manny Pacquiao World Poker Event" will be held at the the Asia Poker Sports Club, a poker room located inside the Pan Pacific Manila Hotel (which the boxing champion purchased last year). [ PHOTO: Manny plays poker at Commerce Casino in LA ] ...
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Bacolod officials bats for Sports Tourism
Visayan Daily Star
Mayor Evelio Leonardia and Vice Mayor Jude Thaddeus Sayson, and other city officials, have been in the forefront of sports events like the Azkals' games against Mongolia, PSC-POC National Games, the Asia-Pacific Softball Championship, the world boxing ...
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Viet Nam takes third place in medal tally
Viet Nam News
A colossal dance performance featuring 600 dancers was inspired by traditional dances from Southeast Asia. A Myanmar cultural performance was held to give support to the country as the next host of the SEA Games in 2013, and a Farewell Act gave the ...
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Kabaddi World Cup: Dozens caught in the dope net
Daily News & Analysis
But for the sport to prosper and realise its dream of being a part of the Olympics (as their website says, Today in Asia, tomorrow in Olympics) there has to be a major clean-up. Not just among the officials, but the players as well.
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Vietnam remains 134th in FIFA rankings
VietNamNet Bridge
The national e-Sports team left Hanoi on November 22 for Malaysia for the final round of One AsiaCup 2011, which will take place from December 2- 4. The three members of the team have won the online and regional final round carried out from October 25 ...
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Candy brothers target Shanghai in Asia push
Reuters UK
"You can learn a lot from the Asian market," he said. A second retail property, occupied by a store selling McLaren's new sports car, recently sold to a Hong Kong businessman for a price brokers set at 11.5 million pounds. The third and last store at ...
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Asia's top climbers in Imphal
E-Pao.net
Imphal, November 24 2011: Asia's top five speed climbers will be arriving here to attend the 4 day X game International men and women open speed climbing competition be held as part of the ongoing Manipur Sangai festival 2011 . ...
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PH cagebelles face tough task; 'Big Boy' gone
Inquirer.net
By Beth Celis The good news for the Philippine girls' Under-16 team is that a number of good Samaritans have chipped in for their Fiba-Asia campaign in Shandong, China, this December. Businessman Alex Wang kicked things off by providing the team's ...
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Vietnamese stars at SEA Games 2011
VietNamNet Bridge
VietNamNet Bridge – Some athletes shine at 12-day Southeast Asia Games 26 in Indonesia. They are Vietnam's hopes at the Olympic 2012. Vietnam aimed to have 30 athletes attending Olympics 2012 in London but it seems to fail to achieve this target....
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VietNamNet Bridge
Return or tumble, few butterflies for Klim
Sydney Morning Herald
Like Thorpe at the recent World Cup in Asia, for Klim this is just the latest step towards the Olympic selection trials in Adelaide in March. Like fellow comebackers Thorpe, Geoff Huegill and Libby Trickett, Klim wants to attend another Olympics - his...
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Sydney Morning Herald
David Beckham at the centre of transfer tug-of-war between LA Galaxy and Paris ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Galaxy want him to stay for at least another year, Paris Saint-Germain want him to join them in Ligue One and a collection of Arab, Asian and Brazilian clubs have also been making their pitch. The battle for his services, however, will almost certainly ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
SEA Games: Papuan Athletes Fly Flag for Troubled Region
Jakarta Globe
In this photograph taken on Saturday Indonesia's Titus Bonai, right, fights for the ball with Vietnam's Pham Thanh Luong during a semi-final at the 26th Southeast AsianGames (SEAGAMES) in Jakarta. (AFP Photo/Hoang Dinh Nam) Football indeed unites a ...
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Jakarta Globe
Rupee at 51.6 against dollar: Exporters under pressure to offer discounts
Firstpost
The rupee, which has been Asia's worst-performing currency against greenback, has fallen by a whopping 15 percent since July this year and is presently hovering above Rs 51 a dollar.Heavy dollar demand from some banks and importers, mainly oil refiners ...
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Wellington boxers win world titles
Wellington Times
The sports of MuayThai and kickboxing are not big in the central west or even in Australia, but inAsia these fighters are household names and have now made Wellington their home. Their latest efforts are becoming big news following more world belts in ...
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Roger Federer overcomes Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at ATP World Tour Finals
The Guardian
Federer's unsolicited observation that the player who recently took his No3 ranking had brought back three soft titles from Asia riled Murray; he nonetheless has kept his cool and wants to settle the argument where he feels strongest, on court. ...
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The Guardian
Frontier Post :: Sports News :: Pak women 3rd in Asian Throwball
By shimran
KARACHI (PPI): Pakistan women throwball team overpowered UAE in the third place play-off match to secure third place in the 4th Asian Throwball Championship, which was played in Dubai from 24th 26th November. Pakistan recorded a 2-1 ...
Frontier Post
The World Bank says weak demand has hit Asian economies ...
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Off-Track, Off-Target Sanitation in South Asia – Women Economists ...
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League Table · International Sports · Tennis · Golf · Hockey · Science · Environmental news · Technology · Classified · Home · About Us · Partners · Advertising · Contact Us. Published On: Mon, Nov 21st, 2011. Health News | By citizen-news.org ... “To get the sanitation and water MDGs back on track, South Asian countries, which are off track, need to spend at least 1% of their gross domestic product (GDP) on improving sanitation services,” suggests the report. It also calls on countries, ...
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Two Indonesians die in stampede at SE Asian Games soccer
Two Indonesians die in stampede at SE Asian Games soccer ... Two Indonesian fans died in a stampede at the Southeast Asian Games football final in Jakarta. The two men, wearing Indonesian... Bollywood Photo News - Event Photos ...
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East Asia cushioned from global crisis: World Bank | Pakistan Today ...
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Central Asian States boost UN-backed efforts to help endangered ...
By UN
International Sports · Tennis · Golf · Hockey · Science · Environmental ... The meeting in Bergen, Norway, focused on the conservation of the Bukhara deer – a species endemic to Central Asia – which had previously disappeared from forests due to uncontrolled hunting, logging and unsustainable agricultural practices, but which has since been reintroduced as a result of governments' conservation measures. While efforts in the ... Article source: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp? ...
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Hong Kong, China advance at Asian Sevens ... - Indian Sports News
Mumbai: Top seeds Hong Kong and China finished at the top of their respective pools after day one of the Goa Sevens today. Hong Kong finished with 89 points ...
www.indiansportsnews.com/.../7766-hong-kong-china-advanc...
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Bayern Munich's director of sport Christian Nerlinger on Saturday criticized ... dragon boat team finally won gold on Sunday in the Southeast Asian Games, ...
www.gmanetwork.com/news/sports
Asia a priority for Canada after U.S. delays Keystone (Reuters ...
Sports, News, Entertainment, US Legislation ... energy to Asia after Washington delayed a decision on whether to approve a new oil pipeline from Canada to the ...
www.blog495.com/asia-a-priority-for-canada-after-u-s-delays-...
FIFA president Blatter steals show in Asia - World Soccer ... - Sports
FIFA president Sepp Blatter took a barely concealed swipe at banned Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam in a fiery performance at the region's glitzy ...
sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=afp-fbl_asia_afc...
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OCA asks for expanded sports ... - Olympic Council of Asia : News
OCA asks for expanded sports programme. 18 Nov 2011. Nanjing, China: The Director General and Technical Director of the Olympic Council of Asia, Husain ...
www.ocasia.org/News/IndexNewsRM.aspx?redirect=2350
Uefa distribute media rights in Korea - Sports Broadcast news ...
... rights in Korea, Soccer Broadcast news from SportsPro Media Europe Asia. ... Fox Sportsrenews commitment to Uefa Champions League - 15 December ...
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ESPN STAR Sports scores top awards at the PromaxBDA Awards Asia
Asia's biggest sports content provider celebrates a year of creative leadership with wins from International Promax Awards, Promax Asia and Promax India. ... US Sports · News · Other Sports ·News · Kia XGames Asia · Editorial · Games ...
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UN chief urges Asia to take up leadership on global issues. Secretary-General Ban ... By citizen-news.org On Saturday, November 19th, 2011. 0 Comments ...
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