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Open the books of National Sports Council
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LET us be honest. There is no love lost between the Sports Ministry and this newspaper’s investigative reporting desk. Over the past six years, we have been carrying out our job as responsible journalists by seeking the truth and reporting with evidence and documents – not on hearsay. During the tenure of Datuk Seri Azalina Othman as minister, a 14-page complaint letter penned by the then National Sports Council’s (NSC) head honcho Datuk Dr Ramlan Aziz found its way to our bosses with copies to the then deputy prime minister, in his capacity as chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Sports. Among others, this writer was accused of "sitting in Petaling Jaya and writing about Brickendonbury" as he "has not set foot there". This was promptly refuted with pictures and a 20-minute video recording, complete with audio which showed my presence in East Hertforsdshire.
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Updated: 11:42PM Sun, 07 Feb 2010
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Enter a new billboard player
R. Nadeswaran
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FOR more than two decades, it was a free run. Anyone could put up billboards anywhere, for any period, and any size that they fancied – at least in Petaling Jaya. No one asked questions as long as “donations” were made to certain individuals in a certain sports club. This writer has on several occasions chronicled their activities.
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Updated: 11:56PM Tue, 02 Feb 2010
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Get to the brains and nerve centres
R. Nadeswaran
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A LETTER has been on the table for more than three months. It is a constant reminder of what ought to be done. Excerpt of it: Good people have poor memories. You, as a journalist, possesses a record of wrongdoings committed. It is your duty to keep on harping so that we people don’t forget them. You must keep on reminding the people of the wrongs committed against them by those in power.
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Updated: 12:16AM Wed, 27 Jan 2010
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Sports is a world for deal makers
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AMONG international sports organisations, football’s governing body, FIFA, is said to be the richest with assets running into billions. Once every four years it adds a billion or two greenbacks to its coffers through the World Cup.
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Updated: 10:00AM Mon, 25 Jan 2010
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Whither sports excellence?
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AT the Petaling Jaya police station last Monday, the conversation went something like this:
“You don’t write anything and the headmaster will not make any report.”
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Updated: 10:10AM Wed, 20 Jan 2010
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