Shohei Ohtani hits first all-star game homer in 4th appearance
Ohtani was playing for the National League for the first time after joining the Dodgers from the Los Angeles Angels as free agent. After undergoing surgery to repair his right…
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High hopes and noble aims: From Southeast Asia to the Paris Olympics
A boxer from Thailand. A gymnast from the Philippines. An archer from Indonesia. A cyclist from Malaysia. In a series of profiles, The Straits Times details the Olympic dreams and…
Lbokator vs Kun Khmer? PM Manet announces first all-Khmer-style MMA competition
PM Manet acknowledged that it remains important to showcase fighting styles that are uniquely Cambodian, to demonstrate the broad diversity of Khmer martial arts to the next…
Filipino Olympic silver-medalist boxer Nesthy Petecio chases elusive boxing gold
The 32-year-old boxer settled for a silver medal in the pandemic-delayed Summer Games, the same Olympic edition where Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo ended the country’s wait for a gold…
Chinese Olympic Committee will send 405 athletes to Paris Games
The delegation is made up of 136 men and 269 women athletes, with 37-year-old women's race walker Liu Hong the oldest competitor and 11-year-old women's skateboarder Zheng Haohao…
Fans get behind Indonesia’s new Olympic uniforms
The athletes, coaches, and other members of the Indonesian contingent will don their new uniforms featuring the national colors designed by Didit Hediprasetyo, which many…
Vietnam Olympics team announced, ready to head to Paris
The team is 39 strong and will focus on 11 sporting competitions.
Cash incentives for Hong Kong Paris Olympics athletes raised to up to US$7k
Athletes who achieve a top-three placement in individual events at the Paris Games will be eligible for cash prize ranging from HK$1.5 million to HK$6 million. Teams that secure a…
Filipino racer Bianca Bustamante to make F4 British Championship debut
Nineteen-year-old racing driver Bianca Bustamante will make her ROKiT F4 British Championship debut this weekend at Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands on July 13 and 14, 2024.
She’s a hit: Singapore’s only female pro wrestler vows to fight on
Lion City Hit Girl, as Alexis Lee is known in the ring, is Singapore’s only professional female wrestler. Since her first pro outing here in 2013 when she was just 18, she has…