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Aguero aims to erase Bolton blot Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:17 PM PDT Aguero celebrates after scoring against Swansea City at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, August 15, 2011. — Reuters pic LONDON, Aug 19 — Sergio Aguero, whose two-goal debut for Manchester City this week earned widespread acclaim, will aim to banish the memories of his last trip to Bolton Wanderers when he returns to the Reebok Stadium for a Premier League clash Sunday. Aguero was 19 when he played for Atletico Madrid against Bolton in a Uefa Cup tie in February 2008, coming off the bench in the second half but lasting just 12 minutes before he was sent off for spitting at Bolton's Matt Taylor. He could not have imagined then that his next appearance there would be for City, currently sitting joint top of the Premier League alongside Bolton — albeit after one match — after both produced 4-0 wins in their season-opening games. Bolton scored their emphatic victory at promoted Queens Park Rangers while City beat another promoted team, Swansea City, by the same score at home Monday when Aguero came off the bench to score twice. Along with champions Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers, they are the only four teams with maximum points after the opening games, although Tottenham Hotspur and Everton are yet to play. Their match at White Hart Lane was postponed last week because of the London riots with Spurs not starting their League campaign until Monday when they visit United. Everton kick off their season at home to QPR tomorrow. In other key games this weekend, Arsenal, facing up to life without the departed Cesc Fabregas and probably Samir Nasri who seems set for a move to City, face Liverpool. The Gunners, who also have Gervinho and Alex Song suspended following last weekend's bad-tempered draw at Newcastle United, are at home, with both sides on one point after the Merseysiders' draw with Sunderland last Saturday. Chelsea will be without goalkeeper Petr Cech for three or four weeks after the keeper suffered a knee ligament injury but will be looking for their first win after last week's 0-0 draw at Stoke City. They play West Brom at Stamford Bridge. While all the title challengers will be concentrating on their own games, they will also be keeping a close eye on City, who demolished Swansea with a fine performance Monday night at the start of a campaign they hope will end with their first league title since 1968. Aguero, who since that night at the Reebok 3-1/2 years ago has matured into a world-class player, said he remembered the incident well. The 23-year-old Argentine striker recalled: "I spat in the direction of the player but not at the player himself. "However, the officials thought I had, and they suspended me. I don't know what it will be like when I go back, but hopefully I can make City's supporters happy," he told the Manchester Evening News. He certainly made them happy Monday when he came off the bench at around the same time as he had against Bolton, but this time scored two goals on his first appearance since becoming City's record £38 million (RM182 million) signing. The first was an opportunistic close-range effort, the second a thunderous 30m drive. His performance drew lavish praise from the media and his manager Roberto Mancini, who said he was already a fantastic footballer and would be an even better player for City in the future. Aguero has also this week urged his Argentine team mate Carlos Tevez to abandon his intention to leave the club and work alongside him in attack, and Mancini has hinted that Tevez could play for the first time this season Sunday. Bolton, who top the table for alphabetic reasons as they have an identical goal tally as City, have never won the league and are 1,000-1 outsiders to do so this season, according to the bookmakers. But Owen Coyle's side, embarking on their 11th successive season in the top flight after two relegations in three seasons in the late 1990s, are now an established hard-to-beat side, capable of effective football. It is unlikely they will still be top after City's visit on Sunday, especially if Aguero continues his stunning introduction to the English game — and if Tevez is alongside him in a City shirt for the first time. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Man United applies for Singapore IPO Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:12 PM PDT Manchester United supporters hold anti-Glazer banners at Old Trafford in Manchester, March 10, 2010. — Reuters pic SINGAPORE, Aug 19 — English Premier League football champions Manchester United have filed a preliminary application with the Singapore Exchange for a planned listing, a source with direct knowledge of the deal said yesterday. The club, which sources have said hopes to raise as much as US$1 billion (RM3 billion) from an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of the year, has appointed Credit Suisse as the global co-ordinator of the deal, the source said. A second source said the owning Glazer family plan to use some of the funds raised from the offering to reduce the club's huge debt pile, a burden which has made the Americans deeply unpopular with many fans. United's 2010 full-year results showed gross debt attached to the club of £522 million (RM2.5 billion), with a net loss of £84 million. The Glazers have been criticised by supporters who are uncomfortable with the club's debt, despite continued on-field success, inspiring slogans such as "Love United, Hate Glazer" brandished by some supporters. "The proceeds will be used to pay down debt in the business and further grow its Asia business," a source familiar with the deal told Reuters. As with many other English soccer teams, Asia has become an important growth area for United and is home to more than 190 million of its estimated 333 million fans. Listing in Singapore could provide a further boost to the development of the club's Asian fan base and marketing potential in the region, said Chris Searle, Corporate Finance Partner at accountants BDO. This would be a second stock market incarnation for the club, which was listed in London before being taken over by the Glazers in 2005. More bookrunners are expected to be appointed shortly, with Morgan Stanley and UBS also in the running, sources have said. The Singapore Exchange and Manchester United were not available to comment. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Asia’s wealthy park cash in cars, homes, art and wine Posted: 17 Aug 2011 07:37 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]SINGAPORE, Aug 18 — Adrian Tan owns two Mercedes sedans and is looking to buy a third car. The 36-year-old financial trader was shopping with his wife on a Singapore street lined with luxury car dealerships and said he may stick with Mercedes or go for an Audi or a BMW. In Singapore, those cars don’t come cheap, selling for upwards of US$150,000 ...

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McConaughey joins male strippers in ‘Magic Mike’ Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:52 AM PDT LOS ANGELES, Aug 18 – Matthew McConaughey (The Lincoln Lawyer) has been cast in director Steven Soderbergh's film Magic Mike, also starring Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe), reports Variety. The semi-autobiographical story, based on Tatum's experience as an exotic dancer in Tampa, Florida, at age 18, follows a male stripper who mentors a young dancer. McConaughey (picture) portrays a former stripper who owns the Xquisite Club and Alex Pettyfer (I Am Number Four) also costars. Magic Mike starts production in September for a 2012 release. Soderbergh's upcoming films include Contagion, out September 9, with Matt Damon and Kate Winslet, and the action-adventure Haywire in January 2012. After he completes Magic Mike, he plans to shoot the spy story The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and a Liberace biopic with Michael Douglas. Tatum stars in four other films in 2012 including Haywire with Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender and mixed martial arts player Gina Carano, as well as the G.I. Joe sequel. In 2012, he stars in the romantic drama The Vow with Rachel McAdams (Midnight in Paris), followed in March by 21 Jump Street, with co-writer Jonah Hill and Ice Cube in the big screen version of Johnny Depp's television series about undercover cops in high schools. – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Daniel Radcliffe stars in ‘Women in Black’ Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:31 AM PDT Daniel Radcliffe in 'The Woman in Black'. – Photo by Nick Wall / Hammer Film Productions LOS ANGELES, Aug 18 – In his first foray on film post-Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe stars in The Woman in Black, a supernatural thriller. The first trailer, released August 17, offers a glimpse at the period horror tale set at the Eel Marsh mansion, with footage that reveals a haunting with animated toys and objects. Based on a 1983 novel by Susan Hill, it is the story of a young lawyer who travels to a small English village and encounters the ghost of a scorned woman. The stage play version has played London since 1987. Radcliffe's character uncovers tragic secrets when he discovers that local children have died mysteriously. Ciaran Hinds (Harry Potter) co-stars with a screenplay by Jane Goldman, who co-wrote X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass. The film opens in North America on February 3, 2012, the UK on February 10 and other countries to follow. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arixaTWmIA0 – AFP Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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James Patterson easily tops highest-paid authors Posted: 17 Aug 2011 06:35 PM PDT Patterson earned US$84 million in the past year. — Reuters pic NEW YORK, Aug 18 — American author and entertainment mogul James Patterson has topped a Forbes magazine list of the world's highest-paid authors, earning more than twice that of No. 2 Danielle Steel. Patterson, 64, the dominant mass market fiction author who has published more than 80 books at a prolific rate with the help of collaborators, earned US$84 million (RM252 million) for the past year, according to the survey based on sales from May 2010 to April 2011. Figures were supplied by Nielsen SoundScan and Forbes considered input from numerous agents, managers and editors. Steel, also 64, earned US$35 million, according to the Forbes survey at www.forbes.com. The magazine said the top earning authors were successfully tapping into e-books, which is the fastest growing section of book publishing, while hardcover sales are in long-term decline. Landing at No. 3 was horror and suspense writer Stephen King, earning US$28 million, while coming in fourth was romance adventure author Janet Evanovich with US$22 million and fifth was "Twilight" novelist Stephenie Meyer with US$21 million in sales. Even though hardcover books are in decline, Patterson increased his sales from last year's US$70 million by releasing 10 books in the past year and branching into the young adult and teen market in the past few years — as well as e-books. Patterson, who this year also has several books being turned into films, told Reuters in a recent interview that it was inevitable there will soon be a time "when most everything is on some form of e-book." But he said larger retailers needed to act responsibly and consider the future of the declining number of independent book stores as well as books' role in educating young people. "The responsible thing is, what are we doing, and what are the consequences of it and what's the best way to do it?" he said, suggesting that publishers and others consider both "the best way both for your company and the people of this country, who need to read and learn and be able to talk to people about what's going on in the world." The entire list can be found here. — Reuters Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Religion unlimited in Malaysia Posted: 17 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT AUG 18 — We were both sitting in the backseat while her driver patiently worked through the madness of Manila traffic. Somehow we got into a discussion about God, well mostly about her Catholicism. Right before we had to get out, she ended the discussion with a curt: "Why don't you ask the Pope directly all your questions?" What was a discussion for me apparently was a rant-cum-attack on her faith. We never spent another conversation on theology again. It was unnecessary. I, misguided probably, felt then as campus members of a Catholic university we needed to revisit key theological questions. I forgot one of the key relationship rules: date the girl, not her religion.     That memory flashed as I worked up the gumption to speak about the developments in Malaysia in regards to religious activism. It is thankless, always bordering on the profane and rarely pleasing to any particular person. It can be said there are rarely winners in the public discourse of religion. If you ask me, most people are indifferent about the championing of faith. I'm not an insidious secularist with an agenda here. So to avoid misconceptions let me repeat that more clearly. Though most Malaysian are in fact religious — somewhat, somehow — they do not take up the active championing of their faith. They are quite happy being Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhist and perhaps the odd Zoroastrian in Penang. However, there are segments within each faith, social class and state very compelled to defend their faith. They inevitably draw everyone else into their episodes, which is why leaders, or more so real leaders, are wary of prompting religious contests. Today in Malaysia, those with less scruple are deploying an age-old tactic to break up prevailing partnerships which are threatening their interests elsewhere. The strategy: to raise the general temperature borne out of religious insecurities until reason is abandoned. It is the temperature I fear. Central to the situation is the broad generalisation by those out to make quick wins that Islam is under attack in Malaysia. Is it? Attack presumes an active, planned and destructive effort to dismantle the religion of the federation. I'll negate that general proposition. I stand by this statement, Islam is not under attack in the Federation of Malaysia. Islam, just like all beliefs, faces a rapidly changing landscape demanding reaction to the changing dynamics, not the changes themselves. It's the pace which makes reacting hard work. However, the presence of different, emerging and challenging ideas is not proof of attack. I won't mount a theological discourse on the matter, because theologians would say there are none to be engaged in the present situation. The events crowding our attention are more about attitudes to Islam. They circle acts, suggestions, interactions, intentions and affectations. These lay in the realm of politics, the ugly business of politics. Mind you, all adverse outcomes are just incidentals to the consummate Machiavellian. The larger issue of Islam in Malaysia does not involve Malaysians alone, it operates more and more on the canvas of a rapidly shrinking world looking to create one borderless, seamless and integrated civilisation — the human civilisation. Our ministers echo those sentiments and even use pantun (poems) at Umno assemblies to underscore that reality, yet they expect the deliberation of Islam in Malaysia to stay insular and without challenges. That is fairly disingenuous. To embrace openness selectively and then to bemoan the natural encroachments which come with the openness. Let's look at these alleged attack points. I went to a missionary school during my primary education. Though missionary schools nationwide — probably far less in Borneo — had already stripped down their religious rigour since the 1970s, some remnants remained. Catechism classes were still on but voluntary. School songs were there, but religious icons were nowhere to be seen. Teachers' allegiance was to the state education department, not to the order owning the school. But it cannot be denied that in a time before that there were noticeable conversions by students from families not professing Abrahamic faiths. Not most of the students, not even a substantial number, but it was noticeable. Noticeable then because of the difference in the number of students who convert to Christianity between missionary and government schools. Remember, this was in the past. This is where perception's misaligned. Some of the older politicians present a concern which already expired, but was valid once.   The present assessment will show that Malaysian missionary schools abiding Malaysian laws without exception take great pains to establish that Muslim students are not approached and their religious instruction occurs without hitches. In lieu of these developments, some goodwill is necessary for it is unconscionable to ignore the contributions these schools have given to the development of Malaysia. They've given the tools to many to advance in the world. And then there is the increased engagement of the Christian community, as seen in the hosting of the dinner for the disadvantaged in Petaling Jaya on August 3, and the ensuing religious department raid. Most supporters of the raid argue that Muslims in Malaysia should not be confronted with ideas which may affect their faith. It raises a basic question: can Malaysian Muslims be in the presence of another religion's rituals, discourse and debate? If the fear is faith then where are Muslims safe from interaction when we live in an increasingly globalised world on top of the multicultural society Malaysia is? Every year Malaysia actively sends young impressionable Muslim students to America's backwaters to get an education. These are also parts where the Christian faith is central to life and government. Every day is an experience in adjusting to Judeo-Christian innuendos. Nothing malicious, but when the store clerk tells you that god is kind and watching over young students like you, he has a specific kind of god in mind. Is your faith being challenged? But you don't have to leave Malaysia to see the world daily anymore. A click to the Internet lets a wave of dogma onto your screen. What type of Net-nanny can you get to block out ideas? The more urbane the Malaysian population gets, then more and more he/she is exposed to dominant and not-so-dominant ideas not expressly challenging his/her faith, but do challenge his/her thoughts. But it is a slippery slope, thinking and what it can do to your faith. More so the entry points of these ideas are seamless, multiple and incessant so expecting an external agent to deliberate for each Malaysian Muslim is impossible. You can either let Muslims decide on what they read and think about, or you can just shut down the Internet. We are a porous nation, who can't even stop the avalanche of foreigners into every nook, therefore hoping to delete every dubious byte in random computers in rooms nationwide is just fanciful. Even watching foreign award shows can be dangerous when you set the bar of infiltration so low. The Oscar winners always thank God, and some are more intense in their thanks. But they cannot compare with musicians at the Grammys. Those guys are relentless about their relationship with their Christian god. Ban them then? Western programming is rife with references to Christian traditions. If your children identify with the characters, are they also going to identify with the characters' beliefs? Now someone will say I am stretching things way out of proportion. Maybe I am, but if I am then you might need to talk to another bunch of people about proportion. It seems that some want non-Muslims to not only keep to the letter of the law, but to incorporate Islamic ascendancy into their belief structure. That's not possible. The practising Christian cannot assume that he is adopting an inferior faith. That's just whack. He would have to then believe he has the second-best chance to salvation because his dogma is second-best. That goes for the Hindu, Buddhist and did I say the odd Zoroastrian. As long as there is religious freedom, there will always be the need for mediation in a working democracy. No one can have everything their way in public policy, though they can live as they wish in their private space. Some people just need to ease up on their worldview and work with their neighbours to reasonable and equitable outcomes.  * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Choose your jihad Posted: 17 Aug 2011 04:35 PM PDT AUG 18 — First and foremost, allow me to state the obvious for those enlightened Muslims out there, particularly those in Jais. Just because 12 Muslims attended an event where Christian prayers were said and songs were sung does not make them "syirik" or "murtad". And neither does it make Muslims question their faith. If that were the case, all of us listening to Carrie Underwood's "Jesus Take The Wheel" on the radio would have started hanging rosaries from our rearview mirror by now. And for someone — an Umno politician who is planning to run in Shah Alam — to use this issue to further stoke the racial fires just goes to show that even the month of Ramadan is no longer a time for Muslims to actually think first before they act. Though now thinking back, I think the first sign of feeble brain power was obvious when watching 8TV's blunder of a Ramadan public service announcement. A jihad is a holy war, but it is a war that we ourselves as individuals, or a community, or a nation or even a regional movement, first must choose to fight for and decide whether or not the cause is to bring us closer to Allah. That is perhaps the true spirit of a jihad. For me as an individual, my jihad is for equal rights regardless of race, religion, gender and sexual orientation; that include equal treatment for the mak nyah community, recognition of the existence of gays, lesbians, transgenders and bisexuals of Malaysia and truly equal stature and treatment of people of different races and religions. In terms of community, for an area like Shah Alam, jihads can be seen everywhere, especially at night. You may have noticed this new trend of cycling around at night, jogging in parks and perhaps even an increase of people going out to public spaces simply to toss around a frisbee or for a game of footie right opposite the state mosque. Does that not just scream of a jihad for fitness and health? In fact, if you have two parents working just to get by, that in itself is a jihad to survive and give your family a comfortable and worry-free life. What makes such struggles a jihad is the simple fact of what your intentions are. Why am I fighting for equality without bounds? Why are people in Shah Alam learning to be healthy? Why are parents hauling their asses out of bed at 5am in the morning and coming back at 6pm or 7pm, but still happy to see their children at home? If all these are done with an intent for charity, providence, goodwill and good intent, then congratulations. You have your jihad. Moving on, trust me on this. Saying that Umno fights for Islam? That's as far from Allah as you can get since Allah does not preach for privileges based on ethnicity and race, but more so on the separation based on religious views. So, a call to jihad by a party so hellbent on being Malay is just pure hypocrisy in the Islamic religious context. Furthermore, a call for jihad on the basis of saving Islamic souls held in a mosque by a politician who may run in Shah Alam reeks too much of voter and popular intent. A true Muslim would ask first and shoot off his mouth later, particularly since Jais has yet to reveal any report whatsoever on the occurrences that night. So the call for a jihad from Umno? That is not Islamic. It's merely opportunistic and feeding on an immature ummah. Instead, this is what PAS stands for. The need for Jais to come up with a report, a need to visit the church and get their point of view, and then a need to debate what to do next. Besides, let us admit a simple fact; there are some instances where Muslims and non-Muslims can unite, and there are those where you can't. Most of all our beliefs unite us here in Malaysia, yet many choose to focus on that which separates us. Sadly for us, their Youth wing and Hasan Ali are also emotional people similar to Umno. PAS Youth's ideology on the unity part seems to be misguided in terms of entertainment and commercial sales, as we can truly see through the support of beer raids in Shah Alam, premature support of Jais "inspections" (as they label it) in assembly halls and even the protests against multiple concerts. There are many things that we can jihad about that we should in this multicultural country which our religious authorities are just too dumb to figure out. For example, let's talk about food. Let's take halal bak kut teh in this instance. Why was it banned? Because its name connotes something that is already haram? Did any member of the halal board ever talk to a member of the Chinese community to know what "bak kut teh" even means? It literally translates to meat ribs soup, if I am not mistaken. Does it say haram meat? No. Does it say pig meat? No. Any Chinese-Muslim convert would be willing to tell us this with open heart and mind, but our religious authorities are just, again, … Similarly, let's take another example. Recently, Aleesha Farhana died. She's a transgender woman. We had religious authorities saying that accepting transgenders and burying them in the rites of their current gender would be "confusing". And yet, when a similar "confusion" came about during our space tourist's trip and how he was going to determine the "qiblah" or facing the direction of prayer, our religious authorities said that Iran had a solution. Do they know that Iran accepts transgenders and perhaps even have the solution to the burial rites of transgenders? No. Did they bother to find out? No. See, transgender Muslims out there? There's your jihad. So for my Muslim readers out there, I just wish to say this. It's the journey, not the destination, that matters. Read, talk to people, gather information and learn before coming up with statements that will make you look like an ass. * The views expressed here are the personal opinion of the columnist. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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Pesawah maut ditetak abang ipar Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:02 AM PDT KUANTAN, 18 Ogos – Seorang pesawah  maut selepas ditetak dengan sebilah parang oleh abang iparnya di sebuah petak sawah di Kampung Permatang Chekeroh, Nenasi dekat Pekan petang semalam. Mohamad Romli Hashim, 62, yang cedera parah di bahagian bawah lutut kanan meninggal dunia di tempat. Ketua Polis Daerah Pekan Supt Yahaya Othman berkata kejadian berlaku kira-kira pukul 6.30 petang ketika Mohamad Romli sedang membersihkan kawasan sawah padinya. "Dipercayai sebelum kejadian berlaku pertengkaran di antara mereka di mana suspek mendakwa mangsa telah menceroboh tanah sawahnya dengan meracun rumput di kawasannya," katanya dipetik laporan Bernama Online. Yahaya berkata abang ipar mangsa, 64, yang berasal dari Kampung Serun, Nenasi telah menyerah diri di Ibu Pejabat Polis daerah Pekan sejurus selepas kejadian dan kini ditahan reman bagi membantu siasatan mengikut Seksyen 302 Kanun Keseksaan. Beliau berkata punca sebenar kejadian juga masih disiasat. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

Jambatan Kedua: PKMM gesa kerajaan telus agih projek Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:55 AM PDT GEORGE TOWN, 18 Ogos – Persatuan Kontraktor Melayu Malaysia Pulau Pinang (PKMMPP) menggesa kerajaan pusat supaya segera mengkaji semula pengagihan projek Jambatan Kedua Pulau Pinang yang didakwa telah meminggirkan kontraktor Bumiputera tempatan. Yang Dipertua PKMMPP Datuk Muhamad Fadzill Hassan berkata, setakat ini, persatuan itu masih belum mendapat sebarang maklum balas mengenai agihan projek jambatan bernilai lebih RM4 bilion itu sedangkan kerja-kerja pembinaannya telah ditahap hampir 50 peratus. "Menurut janji kerajaan, sebanyak 30 peratus daripada projek pembinaan atau pembekalan akan diberikan kepada kontraktor Bumiputera tempatan tetapi sehingga kini, tiada sebuah syarikat dari PKMMPP dipelawa untuk menyertai projek itu," katanya dipetik Bernama Online. Katanya, PKMMPP kecewa apabila kontraktor tempatan hanya menjadi pemerhati dalam sebuah projek raksasa di negeri sendiri. "Kami desak supaya kerajaan bersikap telus dan dedahkan jika telah terdapat kontraktor tempatan yang diberikan projek," kata beliau. Muhamad Fadzill yang juga Timbalan Presiden PKMM berkata, pihaknya telah menghantar beberapa pucuk surat mengenainya kepada Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Razak, Menteri Kerja Raya Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor dan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, namun tiada sebarang jawapan yang diberikan sehingga sekarang. Fadzill berkata, projek itu tidak seharusnya diagihkan kepada kroni-kroni tertentu atas kepentingan parti politik kerana ramai kontraktor Bumiputera di negeri ini tidak terlibat dengan parti-parti politik. Katanya, terdapat 1,800 kontraktor dari kelas A hingga kelas F yang berdaftar di negeri ini dan kebanyakan mereka, terutamanya kontraktor Kelas F, kini telah gulung tikar atau menjalankan perniagaan lain kerana tidak mempunyai sebarang projek. Full Feed Generated by Get Full RSS, sponsored by Used Car Search.

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