SINGAPORE - Former Arsenal and Liverpool winger Jermaine Pennant will leave Tampines Rovers at the end of the season, bringing an end to his nine-month sojourn in Singapore football. The Stags' last match is the Singapore Cup final against Albirex...
SINGAPORE - Dominika Cibulkova kept her hopes of reaching the last four of the WTA Finals alive with a gritty 6-3 7-6(5) Red Group victory over Simona Halep at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on Thursday. After losing her opening round robin...
Jose Mourinho has been charged with misconduct in the wake of his comments about referee Anthony Taylor before Manchester United's goalless draw with Liverpool last week, the Football Association said on Thursday. United manager Mourinho said it would be "difficult"...
LOS ANGELES - Manny Pacquiao says that despite a punishing schedule which includes juggling two high-profile jobs in the build up to his return to the boxing ring, he has still managed to maintain his fire for the sport. Now...
Following the shock announcement that the Singapore Table Tennis Association (STTA) has dropped the nation's most bemedalled Olympian Feng Tianwei, The New Paper has learnt that there are more reasons to those expressed by the association behind the stunning...
Shinya Aoki, the ONE Lightweight World Champion, is highly regarded as the best mixed martial artist in Asia. However, while fighters traditionally claim to have conquered fear, Aoki embraces it. He confesses he is deathly afraid of fighting, failing...
BEIJING - Six league titles in a row and two Asian trophies along the way could be just the start for China's Guangzhou Evergrande, who have drawn comparisons with Real Madrid and Manchester United and are eyeing global recognition. The...
BEIJING - Key moments in the history of Guangzhou Evergrande, who won their sixth consecutive Chinese Super League title last week and are touted as Asia's first superclub: . If ever there was a cloud that had a silver lining....
The Singapore Table Tennis Association's (STTA) announcement last night that Feng Tianwei "does not fit" in its current plans for rejuvenation was as baffling as it was sudden. Essentially, the STTA is dropping the world's No. 6 women's player -...
Feng Tianwei is Singapore's most bemedalled Olympian and had finished a creditable third in the International Table Tennis Federation Women's World Cup just two weeks ago. Little wonder that news of her being dropped from the national team was greeted...
