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Published on: Thursday, July 22, 2021 By: Bernama Zii Jia will lead the country’s badminton challenge in Tokyo. Kuala Lumpur: Since making its debut in Barcelona 1992, badminton has always been the main medal contributor for Malaysia in the Olympic Games, except for Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. At the previous edition in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro (Rio 2016), the national shuttlers brought back three silver medals, their best ever achievement in the Olympics. Apart from holding the honour of winn...

July 19, 2021 Joe Lo Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 years, no shuttler from the continent reached the semi-finals of the prestigious All England Open – the world’s oldest badminton tournament – with competitors from Asia instead filling up every final-four slot in all five ev...

OLYMPIC MD Preview – Indonesians vie for a 4th gold Indonesia sends two solid top seeds into the men’s doubles competition in Tokyo, but they will be challenged by more than a dozen dangerous pairs all with their own chances at either a medal or at a chance to perpetrate a decisive upset. By Don Hearn.  Photos: Badmintonphoto The Tokyo men’s doubles field is as wide open as it gets.  On paper, world #1 Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (pictured top) are the overwhelmi...

news Tokyo Olympics: will European shuttlers threaten Asia’s badminton dominance? Illustration: Joe Lo Our Tokyo Trail series looks at key issues and athletes in the run-up to the 2020 Olympics, which are scheduled for late July. In 2014, European badminton hit its nadir at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham, England. For the first time in 115 years, no shuttler from the continent reached the semi-finals of the prestigious All England Open - the worlds oldest badminton tournament - with...

The world’s billionaire factory shudders as China cracks down We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Blake Schmidt, Coco Liu and Venus Feng July 13, 2021 — 10.20am Normal text size It was the kind of brazen PR stunt that Jack Ma might have dreamed up. But this wasn’t the flamboyant Chinese billionaire who disappeared from public view eight months ago. It was Mark Zuckerberg, bobbing up and down on a hydrofoil surfboard, clutching an Americ...

Published on: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 By: Bernama Kuala Lumpur: National men’s singles badminton ace Lee Zii Jia  (pic) has the advantages in terms of strength and agility if he were to play against Chen Long at Tokyo Olympics slated later this month. National badminton legend Datuk Lee Chong Wei said that Zii Jia, being just 23, clearly had the age advantage over the Chinese player who has reached the age of 32. The current world number eight is expected to meet Chen Long in the second round...

Adding to Beijing’s resolve is the Chinese public’s growing concern over rising inequality. At a major speech on his economic plans in October, President Xi Jinping acknowledged that the country’s development was “unbalanced” and said “common prosperity” should be the ultimate goal. The upshot is a new era for the country’s billionaires and the investors who back them. Gone are the days when tycoons like Ma could confidently bend the rules to supercharge their companies’ growt...

It was the kind of brazen PR stunt Jack Ma might have dreamed up. But this wasn’t the flamboyant Chinese billionaire who disappeared from public view eight months ago. It was Mark Zuckerberg, bobbing up and down on a hydrofoil surfboard, clutching an American flag and exuding all the confidence of a man worth $130 billion. The contrast between the social media mogul’s July 4 Instagram video and the day’s big event in China could hardly have been starker. Regulators in Beijing had just hou...

China’s crackdown on Ant won praise last month from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, who said in an interview with CNBC that the "Communists did the right thing” by letting Ma know he couldn’t "wade into banking...and just do whatever he pleased.” BEIJING: It was the kind of brazen PR stunt that Jack Ma might have dreamed up. But this wasn’t the flamboyant Chinese billionaire who disappeared from public view eight months ago. It was Mark Zuckerberg, bobbing up and...

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