SINGAPORE - The man known to be the fastest wheelchair sprinter in Singapore was on Friday (May 20) found guilty of trafficking methamphetamine and jailed the minimum five years after a five-day trial.Muhammad Firdaus Nordin, 28, a former ASEAN...
PETALING JAYA: The 2016 UEFA European Championship is just around the corner and all eyes are on France. No, not all eyes.Police here are gearing up for the other "high-stakes" game - the RM120mil (S$40mil) illegal gambling industry.It is...
The country's original "Golden Girl", one-time swim queen Patricia Chan has been through it all.She carried the weight of the nation on her shoulders en route to 39 gold medals at the South-east Asian Peninsular Games (now the South-east...
With V. Sundramoorthy likely to be appointed national football coach in the coming days, his backroom team is also starting to take shape.The Straits Times understands that V. Selvaraj, currently assistant to Garena Young Lions coach Patrick Hesse, leads...
Sport Singapore (SportSG) has made the unusual call of requesting tenders to organise this year's Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS), casting doubt over whether incumbent organiser Spectrum Worldwide (SWW) is fit to continue taking charge of the Republic's marquee...
MOSCOW - Maria Sharapova may not play again after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium, the president of the Russian tennis federation was quoted as saying on Thursday.Shamil Tarpishchev told the R-Sport news agency that Sharapova's situation was...
Former Singapore Slingers coach Frank Arsego will take over the national men's basketball team next month.He will also assume the role of technical director on a two-year contract, in what is the latest chapter of a 30-year-long coaching career...
London - Aston Villa have been sold to a Chinese group owned by Dr Tony Jiantong Xia, the Championship club announced on Wednesday, in a deal worth a reported $86 million.Villa crashed out of the Premier League after a...
London - Aston Villa have been sold to a Chinese group owned by Dr Tony Jiantong Xia, the Championship club announced on Wednesday, in a deal worth a reported US$87 million (S$120 million).Villa crashed out of the Premier League...
It has been a season to forget for Spanish football club Valencia as they finished 12th in the Spanish Primera Liga, after a topsy-turvy campaign marred by fan unrest and two managerial changes.With the season ending last week, coach...
