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Chatri: From a homeless youth to Lord of Rings
Sports, Published on 22/04/2018
» Chatri Trisiripisal, a Thai businessman who spent three years as an investment analyst covering a variety of industries and also served as a Wall Street hedge fund manager, is now known around the world as the "Most Powerful Person in Asian Martial Arts".
International teams head to town for Tens event
Sports, Published on 05/02/2017
» The 12th edition of the Bangkok International Rugby Tens will be held at Bangkok Patana School on Feb 25 and 26.
Ayodhya Links to host top club meet in Dec
Sports, Kittipong Thongsombat, Published on 14/10/2016
» Thailand will host the 2016 World Club Golf Championship at Ayodhya Links in Ayutthaya from Dec 7-9, organisers said yesterday.
Kiatisak ready for hostile atmosphere
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 05/10/2016
» Thailand coach Kiatisak Senamuang said yesterday he was not worried about the large partisan crowd when his men take on the United Arab Emirates in a World Cup qualifier in Abu Dhabi tomorrow.
Qatar security guard in race of his life
AFP, Published on 28/08/2016
» DOHA - Kenyan security guard Michael Douglas Ongeri has a dream -- and won't be daunted by poverty, a 13-hour workday or training in Qatar's searing heat, far from his family.
US-born Page hopes to live Rio medal dream with Serbia
AFP, Published on 20/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Danielle Page, born in the city the US Olympic Committee calls home, is on the verge of living her Olympic women's basketball medal dream -- for Serbia.
From McDonald's to tilt at Olympic boxing gold
AFP, Published on 04/08/2016
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Lawrence Okolie remembers very clearly what he was doing four years ago when fellow British heavyweight Anthony Joshua won Olympic gold -- he was battling the bulge and working in McDonald's.
Olympics: Dunes, lagoons as Fiji's village boys eye rugby gold
AFP, Published on 01/08/2016
» HONG KONG - Fiji has never won Olympic gold but that could change in Rio with a rugby team drawn from the Pacific nation's humble villages which takes the simple approach of training in sand dunes and coral lagoons.
101-year-old Japanese aims for more swim records
AFP, Published on 15/07/2016
» NARASHINO (JAPAN) - As the world's top swimmers prepare for the Rio Olympics, a sprightly Japanese centenarian insists she will still be smashing records by the time the 2020 Tokyo Games roll around.
Ali: a childhood in the segregated US south
AFP, Published on 09/06/2016
» LOUISVILLE - To understand what made boxing legend Muhammad Ali tick, it helps to look at the history of his hometown Louisville and the roiling social turmoil of his childhood in the segregated US south.