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Nigeria due in Brazil tomorrow after pay row Posted: 13 Jun 2013 09:58 PM PDT June 14, 2013 WINDHOEK, June 14 — Nigeria are due to arrive in Brazil tomorrow to take part in the Confederations Cup, 24 hours later than scheduled, after a row over bonus payments saw the squad holed up in a Namibia hotel yesterday. A telephone call between FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke and an unnamed Nigerian official broke the impasse after the 23-man squad refused to travel to the tournament in a strike action designed to force the hand of their federation. "I've spoken with the team manager and they will be in the plane on Saturday and they will arrive for the Confederations Cup. The problem is solved," Valcke told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro, when asked about the problem. Nigeria's squad were supposed to leave Windhoek, one day after drawing 1-1 with hosts Namibia in a World Cup qualifier, for Johannesburg to connect with a flight to Brazil, where they are representing Africa at the eight-team, two-week tournament. But the players refused to leave the hotel in a row over promised payments for points garnered in two World Cup qualifiers against Kenya and Namibia over the last week. Bonuses had been cut in half from US$10,000 (RM30,000) to US$5,000 by the Nigerian Football Federation, local football sources said, in what was presented as a cost-cutting measure but the players refused to accept new terms and decided to strike. "They are declining to leave," Namibia FA general secretary Barry Rukoro told Reuters earlier yesterday. "They were supposed to go at 11 am this morning but they say they are owed money by their association and want it sorted before they will leave the hotel. "Their officials all departed on an earlier flight this morning but the players and the technical staff are still here." Nigeria are due to play their first game in the tournament against Tahiti in Belo Horizonte on Monday but will have little time to acclimatise to the conditions. It is the second major controversy to rock Nigeria since they won the African Nations Cup in South Africa in February. Coach Stephen Keshi resigned the day after they won the title, telling South African radio station Metro FM there were continual efforts by unnamed officials to undermine his work. However, he was persuaded to quickly change his mind in a tawdry affair that took some of the gloss off Nigeria's triumph. Striker actions are nothing new in Africa and are used as a tactic by players desperate to secure promised payments. — Reuters

Malaysia fans offered cash reward to police FA Cup final Posted: 13 Jun 2013 09:47 PM PDT June 14, 2013 KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — Sick and tired of crowd violence marring matches, the Football Association of Malaysia will offer fans a financial reward if they catch hooligans causing trouble at the FA Cup final later this month. The FAM said supporters would be given RM1,000 for their 'policework' during the showpiece final between Kelantan and Johor Darul Takzim at the National Stadium on June 29. "We have decided to take a different, and positive, approach to preventing crowd trouble during the Cup final," FAM competitions committee chairman Hamidin Mohd Amin was quoted as saying by Malaysian media today. Johor's semi-final second leg against Pahang was abandoned due to crowd trouble, while Kelantan were fined RM40,000 last year after their fans caused a long delay to a Cup match when they threw bottles on to the field. Amin said each team would also appoint 100 marshals to help the police with crowd control at the match, which is expected to be an 87,000 sell out. "I need to laud the proactive steps being taken by FAM to control the crowd and I believe these two measures will improve the safety of fans in the stadium," FAM security committee chairman Seri Wira Salleh Mat Rasid said. — Reuters

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From YouTube to the big screen, Filipino prisoners dance to fame Posted: 13 Jun 2013 06:46 PM PDT June 14, 2013 The Cebu jail dancers who first came to fame on YouTube. – Reuters file picMANILA, June 14 – They first gained fame on YouTube, dancing to Michael Jackson's "Thriller". Now, the orange-uniformed men at a central Philippine jail make their big screen debut in a movie about prison reforms. The 98-minute movie, "Dance of the Steel Bars", was shot at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, with 750 prisoners forming the backdrop to a story about an American wrongly accused of murder and the bond he forms with a fellow inmate with a talent for dance. "This film talks about redemption, about brotherhood," Cesar Apolinario, a television journalist and the film's co-director, told Reuters. "I did not only see them as brilliant dancers, but they are actually brilliant actors." The plot revolves around the real-life reforms carried out in the Cebu jail, where a security adviser introduced daily dance routines in 2007 to instil discipline and camaraderie. The film was screened inside the Cebu jail on June 7. "I'm thrilled to see it. And my family will be happy to see the film," said one of the inmates, Macario Sambarihan. The fast-paced movie features fight scenes portraying gang wars, common in crowded Philippine prisons, juxtaposed with dance sequences in the jail courtyard familiar to millions who have viewed the inmates' Michael Jackson tributes. "We did not simplify the steps for them," said Los Angeles-based dancer Cindera Che, who choreographed four dance sequences. "We want them to rise up, to our level. And they did." The producers are betting on the inmates' Internet fame for the project's commercial success. The prisoners' dance on YouTube had been viewed by more than 40 million people, said Stu Higton, executive producer of Dubai-based Portfolio Films International. "Dance of the Steel Bars" opened in the Philippines on Wednesday and will be distributed in Asia, the Middle East and the United States. – Reuters

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Washington returns Russian documents penned by last tsars Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:18 PM PDT June 14, 2013 MOSCOW, June 13 — The United States has returned documents written by Russia's last tsars and composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky that had been smuggled into the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The documents were spirited out of Russia in the early 1990s — some of them in shipping containers from St Petersburg shipyards — and sent to the US where they were recovered in New York, Chicago and Atlanta at auction houses. "You need to remember what ... the 1990s was like. One state ceased to exist and the new state was barely functioning. If it weren't for the investigation, none of these documents would have been returned," said the head of Russia's State Archive agency, Andrei Artizov. Relations between the US and Russia have been strained since President Vladimir Putin's return to the presidency last year, and both countries are seeking to improve ties that range from intelligence sharing to cooperation over logistical help as NATO-led forces pull out of Afghanistan. The documents, returned yesterday, included handwritten orders by Tsarina Catherine the Great and by the empire's last Tsar Nicholas II (picture), who was deposed by Bolsheviks in 1917. A personal letter written by Tchaikovsky to 19th century writer Konstantin Zvantsev was also among the papers. Artizov said US and Russian authorities had worked over the last six years to recover more than 100 historical artefacts that had been smuggled out of Russia in the chaos that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. He said two criminal cases had been opened into how the documents were stolen from Russian artistic, historical and military archives and that one of the men behind the crime had been identified and was living in Israel. — Reuters

Jellyfish ‘ambush’ ends Australian woman’s record Cuba-US swim Posted: 13 Jun 2013 08:36 PM PDT June 14, 2013 Australian long-distance swimmer Chloe McCardel starts her attempt to swim to Florida from Havana June 12, 2013. — Reuters picKEY WEST, June 14 — Australian long-distance swimmer Chloe McCardel was making good headway in calm seas at dusk when she suddenly hit a stinging swarm of jellyfish, eventually forcing her to abandon her quest to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. "It felt like explosions hitting my body," she told reporters yesterday after returning to Key West. McCardel, 28, was pulled from the water on Wednesday night. She said the stings were so numerous she was paralysed from the waist down by the pain and forced to gave up the attempt 11 hours into the 103 mile (166 km) marathon swim. Despite being stung repeatedly on her arms, legs and back by venomous box jellyfish tentacles McCardel kept going for 20 to 30 minutes, said team spokesman, Matt Nelson. When crew members saw her trying to remove a tentacle from her face and mouth, one of her team jumped into the water to help, but the damage was done. Aboard one of the team's support vessels, McCardel's husband and crew chief, Paul McCardel, decided it was too risky to continue and ordered her out of the water. "We were worried about breathing issues. It just got too dangerous," Nelson said. Unlike bee stings, jellyfish tentacles keep stinging as long as they are in contact with the skin. "The tentacles wrap around you and they have to be peeled off," he said. McCardel said she did not remember being stung in the mouth but was unable to speak for three hours after being pulled out of the water on Wednesday. Jellyfish, not sharks, had been the team's biggest concern all along. "You can't see them, they are translucent and they can just ambush you in the middle of the night," said Nelson. McCardel had a team of scientists in the United States to help guide her through the powerful and unpredictable current that has stymied many previous attempts, and was aware of the hazards posed by jellyfish. McCardel shows jellyfish stings after giving up her quest. — Reuters picMcCardel said she was advised she would have a "jellyfish-free" crossing. "The information I got was wrong," she said. She said that before she left for Cuba, US Customs officials confiscated an experimental ointment to prevent jellyfish stings supplied to her team. McCardel plunged into a calm, crystal-clear sea at Havana's Hemingway Marina early in the morning, hoping to cross the Straits of Florida in about 60 hours and reach Key West today. Her swim was timed with the season and moon phase to minimise the presence of the box jellyfish, which had plagued previous swimmers, including American Diana Nyad who was stung repeatedly in August on her fourth failed attempt. Only one person, Australian Susie Maroney in 1997, has completed the Cuba-US swim, but she used a shark cage, which helps cut through the water. Last summer, British-born Australian Penny Palfrey got tantalisingly close to the Florida Keys but could not finish when she swam into a Gulf Stream eddy that pushed her in the wrong direction. McCardel said she has no plans to make another attempt and planned to spend the next 24 hours recuperating. — Reuters

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Tukar sistem pilihanraya, bukan jadi republik Posted: 13 Jun 2013 04:49 PM PDT [unable to retrieve full-text content]14 JUN — Jika Pakatan Rakyat selepas PRU13 banyak bercakap tentang polemik betapa wajarnya difikirkan mengubah sistem pilihanraya yang memberi kemenangan kepada undi popular, bukanlah ia menganjurkan supaya ditukar sistem pemerintahan beraja kepada pemerintah republik. Yang menyebabkan ada orang terkeliru konon Pakatan Rakyat mahukan republik ...

Happy birthday, Che! Posted: 13 Jun 2013 04:27 PM PDT June 14, 2013 Zan Azlee is a documentary filmmaker, journalist, writer, New Media practitioner and lecturer. He runs Fat Bidin Media www.fatbidin.com JUNE 14 — Ah yes! As we celebrate the birthday today of one of the world's great rebels and human rights fighter, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, it is hard to forget that it is also my birthday. If Che was alive today, he wouldn't be looking as vibrant and youthful as his iconic picture — the one on T-shirts and posters all around the world — as he would really be 85 years old today. I, on the other hand, am only 35 today, and still look very vibrant and youthful so it is a shame my face isn't on T-shirts and posters all around the world! I would like to take this opportunity to deny my on-coming mid-life crisis and share some life lessons. This article is really for my daughter Athena Azlee, but if you readers feel like I'm making sense, then please feel free to agree with me! So here goes. Dearest Athena. After 35 years of living a life that has been nothing short of blessed, your Pops has some words of advice so you can have a life that is just as blessed, if not more so. 1. Never ever care about what people think of you. The only important person whose perception has an impact on you is yourself. 2. Money is not important for happiness and should never be the objective for anything you do. Lots of people will tell you otherwise, but they're just dumb. 3. Always do things you love and enjoy. If you're doing something you hate, don't hesitate a second longer to stop doing it. 4. Life must never be without a passion. This will give your life meaning, and because if you don't, you will forever be mediocre. 5. Always stand firm for what you believe in and never ever compromise on it. You're too good for that. 6. No matter how strong or how weak you are, make sure that you will always stand up and fight for those who are weaker than you. 7. Always remember and practise the concept of Wasatiyah. It means moderation, balance and simplicity in every aspect of life. 8. Always be content with what you have. 9. Honesty really is the best policy. It really is and I'm not lying! 10. Love and respect your family as they will always be there for you. You can't even imagine how unconditional that is. 11. Your mummy must forever be the most important person in your life. Never forget that. 12. All human beings are equal to you, no matter what race, colour, size, smell, the number of limbs, how good looking or ugly, how smart or stupid, how big or small their noses are or whether their hair is curly or straight. 13. Always be brave. If you're not, then you're just a coward. 14. Knowledge is the key to almost everything. You can never get enough of it. But the good thing is you can find it everywhere! 15. Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Bahai-ism, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Zoroastrianism never got it so right. 16. You can do and be whatever you want. 17. You have a very handsome and cool Pops. 18. Always be happy. There's just no point in not being so. 19. Always be frank. There's no point beating around the bush or even worse, be what Malays say "berkias-kias." 20. Always be understanding and compassionate. I'm sure there's more to this, but I've only been alive for 35 years. Give it some time and we can add to the list. * This is the personal opinion of the columnist.

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Dua cawangan SUPP terima notis tunjuk sebab daripada RoS Posted: 13 Jun 2013 11:01 PM PDT June 14, 2013 KUCHING, 14 Jun – Dua cawangan Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak (SUPP) – Piasau dan Bekenu – menerima notis tunjuk sebab daripada Pendaftar Pertubuhan Malaysia (RoS) atas dakwaan melanggar perlembagan parti ketika pemilihan Persidangan Tritahunan Perwakilan (TDC) pada Disember 2011. Dua cawangan itu ialah daripada 14 cawangan yang aduan difailkan. Cawangan termasuk Kuching, Pending, Padungan, Sri Aman, Sarikei, Bintangor, Repok, Sibu, Kanowit, Bintulu, Julau dan Song. Ketua Pengarah RoS Datuk Abdul Rahman Othman dalam kenyataan kepada media di sini hari ini berkata RoS mengeluarkan Notis Tunjuk Sebab di bawah Seksyen 13(2), Akta Pertubuhan 1966 kepada SUPP lanjutan daripada aduan yang diterima daripada anggota parti yang tidak berpuashati dengan proses pemilihan parti yang telah dijalankan. "SUPP mempunyai 30 hari daripada tarikh notis iaitu 6 Jun 2013 untuk menjawab perkara-perkara yang dibangkitkan dan jawapan itu hendaklah memuaskan Pendaftar Pertubuhan," katanya. Menurut Abdul Rahman, notis itu bukanlah Perintah Pembatalan pendaftaran SUPP, tetapi merupakan Notis Tunjuk Sebab atas pelanggaran peruntukan undang-undang tubuh pertubuhan ini. "RoS akan membuat keputusan berpandukan jawapan yang dikemukan oleh SUPP dan keputusan yang akan dibuat ini berlandaskan kepada Akta Pertubuhan 1966," katanya. Sementara itu Pengarah RoS Sarawak Ken Leben pada sidang akhbar hari ini menjelaskan bahawa surat bertarikh 6 Jun telah dihantar ke cawangan Piasau dan Bekenu serta bendahari parti. "Saya diarahkan ibu pejabat RoS di Kuala Lumpur supaya mendapatkan penjelasan ini untuk orang ramai dan SUPP," katanya. "Sebelum ini ada aduan daripada 14 cawangan SUPP yang mendakwa berlaku perkara yang tidak menurut peraturan dalam penghantaran perwakilan ke TDC SUPP pada November 2011. "RoS mendapati ada perkara yang tidak mengikut peraturan semasa TDC itu," katanya sambil menegaskan juga bahawa notis tunjuk sebab itu tidak semestinya bermaksud SUPP akan dibatalkan pendaftarannya. – Bernama

Lelaki maut apabila kenderaannya terbabas Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:50 PM PDT June 14, 2013 KUALA LUMPUR, 14 Jun – Seorang lelaki maut apabila kereta yang dipandunya terbabas dan melanggar pembahagi jalan di lorong sebelah kanan di Km 450 Lebuhraya Utara Selatan dari Sungai Buloh menuju ke utara, dekat sini awal hari ini. Ketua Polis Daerah Sungai Buloh Supt Junaidi Bujang berkata kemalangan pada 1.45 pagi itu menyebabkan Lim Ket Wee, 41, mati di tempat kejadian. Mayat Lim dihantar ke Hospital Sungai Buloh untuk bedah siasat, katanya ketika dihubungi di sini, hari ini. Beliau berkata ekoran kemalangan itu dua kereta dari arah yang sama turut terbabas apabila cuba mengelak kenderaan mangsa yang melintang di tengah-tengah jalan itu. Junaidi berkata di kilometer yang sama dari arah bertentangan, sebuah kereta turut mengalami kemalangan akibat memperlahankan kenderaannya apabila dilanggar dari belakang oleh sebuah kereta lain yang turut merempuh sebuah lori. Junaidi bekata kesemua mangsa yang berada dalam lima kenderaan berkenaan hanya cedera ringan. – Bernama

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