Extra Bags In Munich
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S.Balasingam: We went to the 1972 Munich Olympic Games with too many forwards. Why the Malaysian Hockey Federation selectors made such a poor selection baffled...
The Trails Blazers
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Wilfred ‘Freddy’ Vias: It was our first time playing in the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956. In fact it was a first time that a...
Discard to Mastercard
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Yang Siow Meng: The headlines screeched ‘Yang Siow Ming axed from Olympic squad’ that fateful day after the selection was announced. My disappointment was acute.
Yes,...
A Talented Bunch
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Dennis Shepherdson: My father Anselm Nicholas Shepherdson was born in Taiping on 14 May 1900. He worked with the Malayan Railways. He was a very...
Unable to Express Truth
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Rahim Abdullah: We have always lived in a society that had practised diplomacy, and exercised plenty of discretion. The brutal truth, was generally buried under...
My Divine Journey
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Windsor John: In our journey of life, many will come into our paths, through family ties, friendship, colleagues, and people we know on social media.
Some...
In the beginning
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Christina Kwok: I was only 13 years old when we first “met”. Seems a bit young, now when I think back… but it was all...
We Were One As a Team
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M.Karathu: Tunku Abdul Rahman’s contribution to football in Malaya and Asia, remains legendary. He was the father of football.
He built the Merdeka Stadium in 1956...
Harun’s Tragic Fate
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Terence Netto: In 1973, when I began as a cadet reporter in New Straits Times, I was made quickly aware that Dato’ Harun Idris’s magnetism...
The Legend I Knew
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Gerald Kwok: When you live with a legend called Chow Chee Keong for so many decades, you lose much of the awe and it has...
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