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Sifu of journalism, Tony Francis dies PETALING JAYA: Friend, colleague, soulmate and teacher – that was Tony Francis ( pix) to many of today’s senior reporters and editors in the local media industry. Yesterday, the media fraternity mourned the loss of this accomplished sports writer and newsman, who passed away peacefully after a battle with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, which is a chronic lung disease. Francis, 73, had a decorated career spanning close to five decades. More importantly...

Datuk Kenny Goh PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Open and Malaysian Masters are set to be staged back-to-back next April as the Badminton World Federation (BWF) unveiled their revised tournament calendar which adopts a cluster system where possible. The Malaysian Open will take place from March 31-April 4, followed by the Malaysian Masters from April 6-11. The “Malaysia bubble” is one of three clusters confirmed together with the ones in Indonesia and Denmark. The “Indonesia bubble” will be...

New dates for the BWF Thomas & Uber Cup in Denmark 12/21/20 The TOTAL BWF Thomas & Uber Cup is coming to Denmark in 2021, and the BWF has just announced the new dates for the major event. October 9-17, 2021, the world team championships for men’s teams and women’s teams will for the first time ever be held simultaneously in Europe. Though it was planned and replanned several times, 2020 wasn’t the year, that the TOTAL BWF Thomas & Uber Cup would come to Denmark. The good news, however, ...

BWF announces badminton tournament calendar for first half of 2021 Monday, 21 December 2020 The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has announced its tournament calendar for the first half of 2021, as well as the procedure for reopening the world rankings and rearranging qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. It includes new dates for the postponed Thomas and Uber Cup tournaments. The world governing body will also provide COVID-19 support packages for tournament hosts, it has announced, whic...

Impose sanctions on u.s. companies and ball arms sales to taiwan the u.s. approved the sale worth $2200000000.00 earlier this week washingtons approval has infuriated beijing which considers taiwan a breakaway province. british travel group is an advanced talks with chinese investors about an 800000000 euro rescue deal it would see thomas cup the biggest stakeholder china supposed to take control of its tour business and supply enough money for it to trade through to the end of 2020. era china h...