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Wednesday, May 22 2013
Beijing Crackdown
WHY is it that when Ai Weiwei is detained, the west assumes that he is a victim of trumped-up charges, but when Bo Xilai is dismissed as the Chongqing party chief, London and Washington follow every step of Beijing? The political upheaval triggered by the ...
THE AMNESIA CANDIDATE
JUST how stupid does Mitt Romney think we are? If you've been following his campaign from the beginning, that's a question you have probably asked many times. But the question was raised with particular force last week, when Romney tried to make...
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Nation Business Sports Chill Out

Indian trio to the fore

INDIAN trio of Aditya Mehta, Pankaj Advani and Kamal Chawla maintained their winning run and led their respective groups at the Asian Snooker Championship. Qatar´s top player Ahmed Saif has kept up his good run, winning all his three matches in the group.

Murray records second career win in Barcelona
ANDY Murray continued to apply polish to his claycourt tennis as the second seed reached the third round of the Barcelona Open with a comfortable defeat of Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-3, 6-2 on Tuesday. Murray, playing the tournament for only the third time, secured his second career win at the Real Club de Tenis in 78 minutes. The world number four now stands 4-0 over Stakhovsky, a Ukrainian journeyman ranked 68th. Murray is working to reach the form which took him to a Roland Garros semi-final a year ago, with hopes of doing even better. He lost a Monte Carlo quarter-final last week to Tomas Berdych, who had to withdraw from this...
Sehwag fires Delhi to easy win
CAPTAIN Virender Sehwag produced an unbeaten knock of 87 as Delhi Daredevils scored a comfortable eightwicket victory over Pune Warriors to remain on top of the Indian Premier League on Tuesday. The hard-hitting opener stroked three sixes and 10 fours off 48 balls as Delhi scored 148-2 in only 16 overs after restricting Pune to 146- 2 at Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium. In Kolkata, the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to heavy rain showers. Both the teams shared points. The Chargers may still be winless after six games, but it is not pointless anymore. The Riders is second in the league...
Aspire teams impress against Tottenham in friendly
TWO of Aspire Academy´s football teams, Aspire 98 and Aspire 95 performed well against English Premier League club Tottenham Hotspurs in an age group friendly match at the Aspire zone recently. Aspire 98 team won its both games, winning 2-1 in the opening game and 1-0 in the second. Both games were evenly contested and could have gone either way. Tottenham had some very good individual players and tried to play out from the back whenever possible. In the first game Aspire took the lead against the run of play before Tottenham equalised towards the end of the game, before a late winner gave Aspire the victory. The second game was again very tight but a ...

Aspire teams impress against Tottenham in friendly

 

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