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This exhibition takes visitors on a fascinating journey to the crossroads of civilisations, in the heart of central Asia, in Uzbekistan, where Samarka
KOTA KINABALU: The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) ended 2022 with the seizure of smuggled items including cosmetic products and body slimming pills worth some RM200,000 in the Tawau district.
The young Uzbek team winning this year’s Olympiad came as a pleasant surprise, but it is not an isolated example in the recent shift of world chess power. Other Central Asian countries are also looking to become more relevant in the elite chess scene, including Kyrgyzstan, a land that was once part of the Timurid Empire — its leader, Timur The Great, was an avid chess player.
The young Uzbek team winning this year’s Olympiad came as a pleasant surprise, but it is not an isolated example in the recent shift of world chess power. Uzbek boys, Kazakh girls, Azeri youth, Chinese, Indian and Iranian young phenoms ever more frequently lit the chess sky. What do their countries have in common? They all once lined the Silk Road.
JUDO / WRESTLING: Athletes from Dojo at Blue Tree Phuket continue to make their mark after shining in a series of regional competitions of late.