Piala FA LEA: Kickalob ikrar cipta kejutan

Piala FA LEA: Kickalob ikrar cipta kejutan
US: Russia directly involved in conflict
The Borneo Post Run 2014 bakal gegar Dataran Sibu Fasa 1 esok
Philippine Muslim rebels oppose Islamic State ‘virus’
Girl, 9, accidentally shoots dead US instructor with Uzi submachine gun
Pertandingan Poomsae ukur kemahiran, galak lebih ramai penyertaan pelajar dalam sukan tempur

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:21 AM PDT

KUCHING: Pengendali Team Kickalob K2015 Daud Aba optimis anak-anak buahnya mampu menjinakkan Yayasan Sarawak – Sanjung Etika pada perlawanan akhir Piala FA LEA yang akan berlangsung pada Sabtu ini (30 Ogos) di Stadium Mini Samarahan.

Menurut Daud, sekali pun sedar pasukan lawan tidak akan memberi laluan mudah, barisan pemain mudanya berikrar untuk mencipta kejutan pada perlawanan tersebut.

"Pemain muda kita cukup bersedia dari segi mental dan fizikal untuk memburu kemenangan.

"Saya yakin kejuaraan mampu menjadi milik kita jika pemain menunjukkan persefahaman baik dan fokus dalam padang," katanya.

Bagi Yayasan Sarawak – Sanjung Etika yang baharu dinobatkan juara Piala Residen Samarahan 2014 minggu lalu, kemenangan pada Sabtu ini sangat penting bagi membolehkan mereka mengekalkan mahkota kejuaraan yang dimenangi pada musim lalu.

ADUN Sadong Jaya Aidel Lariwoo dijangka merasmikan perlawanan akhir tersebut.

Piala FA LEA merupakan salah satu daripada kalendar aktiviti Persatuan Bola Sepak Samarahan (PBBS) yang bertujuan mencungkil pemain berbakat untuk dibawa ke peringkat yang lebih tinggi.

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US: Russia directly involved in conflict

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:18 AM PDT

Washington accuses Moscow of sending troops to fight on Ukrainian territory as well as air defence system

DONETSK, Ukraine: The United States accused Russia yesterday of being directly involved in the Ukraine conflict after pro-Kremlin rebels seized swathes of territory from government forces in a new southeastern front.

"An increasing number of Russian troops are intervening directly in fighting on Ukrainian territory," the US ambassador to Kiev Geoffrey Pyatt wrote on Twitter.

"Russia has also sent its newest air defence systems including the SA-22 into eastern Ukraine and is now directly involved in the fighting," he said.

After weeks of government offensives that have seen troops push deep into the last rebel bastions in the industrial east of Ukraine, the tide has turned dramatically in the four-month conflict.

Kiev called on Nato for help after a rebel counter-offensive from the southeast border with Russia appeared to smash through an army blockade around the separatist stronghold of Donetsk and threaten the government-held port city of Mariupol.

Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk blasted Russian President Vladimir Putin for having 'deliberately unleashed a war in Europe' and called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting, a called echoed by Lithuania.

A top rebel leader, Alexander Zakharchenko, on Wednesday admitted Russian troops were fighting alongside his insurgents, but said they were on 'holiday' after volunteering to join the battle.

There has been increasing concern in Kiev and the West of Russia's direct involvement in the conflict – a charge Moscow has repeatedly denied.

The spiralling tensions come after Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko and Putin on Tuesday held their first meeting in three months but failed to achieve any concrete breakthrough despite talk of a peace roadmap.

French President Francois Hollande warned it would be 'intolerable and unacceptable' if Russian troops were on the ground after German Chancellor Angela Merkel demanded an explanation from Putin over the reports.

European security body OSCE called a special meeting to discuss 'Russia violations in Ukraine' at 0900 GMT.

A volunteer pro-Kiev commander on Wednesday said government troops were surrounded in the key transport hub of Ilovaysk southeast of Donetsk towards the Russian border.

Ukraine's military also claimed a Russian battalion had set up its headquarters near a village in the same area.

Russian has repeatedly denied it is involved in the insurrection in the former Soviet state, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday the Kremlin was 'not interested in breaking up' Ukraine.

AFP journalists reported heavy shelling in Donetsk yesterday, with local authorities saying 11 civilians had lost their lives in 24 hours.

The United Nations estimates the conflict has killed over 2,200 people and forced more than 400,000 to flee since April.

AFP journalists on Wednesday saw signs of a hasty retreat by Ukrainian troops after they seemed to abandon a key road southeast of Donetsk to the Russian border.

Locals told AFP the troops left on Monday after shelling from the direction of the Russian border about 30 kilometres away.

Ukraine's military conceded that "militants together with Russian occupants" had taken control of Starobesheve, some 30 kilometres from Donetsk, as well as a string of villages near Novoazovsk, a town close the Russian border on the Azov Sea where clashes had raged for days.

Commander Semen Semenchenko, head of the pro-Kiev volunteer 'Donbass battalion,' posted on Facebook that troops were trapped by rebels in Ilovaysk and were running out of ammunition.

On Wednesday, Yatsenyuk said it was time for Nato to act, calling for 'practical help and … crucial decisions' when it holds a summit in Wales next week.

Russia vehemently opposes closer ties between Ukraine and Nato. Concerns that Kiev could be drawn closer into the Western security alliance are seen as the main motivation behind Russia's actions in recent months.

Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview Wednesday that the alliance was preparing a rapid response unit to deploy forces swiftly in eastern Europe in the face of what he has warned was a major Russian troop buildup.

After Tuesday's meeting with Putin, Poroshenko said all sides had 'without exception' agreed to his peace plan, and that he and the Russian leader had discussed the "necessity of closing Ukraine's borders" to prevent the movement of 'equipment, mercenaries, and ammunition.'

But Putin insisting discussing any ceasefire was not Moscow's 'business' but an internal Ukrainian affair.

He played down reports that 10 Russian paratroopers had been captured on Ukrainian soil, backing his military's claims that they had strayed across the border by accident. But opposition media in Russia reported on hushed-up funerals for two elite paratroopers, suggesting they had been killed in action in Ukraine.

A group of wives and mothers of Russian paratroopers plan to hold a rally yesterday demanding authorities pull their loved ones from Ukraine. — AFP

The Borneo Post Run 2014 bakal gegar Dataran Sibu Fasa 1 esok

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:18 AM PDT

SIBU: Esok, The Borneo Post Run 2014 akan berlangsung dan peserta yang telah mendaftar untuk mengambil bahagian diminta melaporkan diri di Dataran Sibu Fasa 1 dengan membawa MyKad.

Waktu melaporkan diri ialah pada jam 6.30 pagi hingga 7.15 pagi Sabtu, 30 Ogos dengan larian dijangka akan bermula sekitar jam 7.30 pagi.

Antara kategori larian yang dipertandingkan ialah Kategori A melibatkan Terbuka Lelaki sejauh lapan kilometer, Kategori B Terbuka Wanita (8KM), manakala Kategori E Kanak-Kanak Lelaki (8KM) dan Kategori F Kanak-Kanak Perempuan (8KM).

Syarat bagi penyertaan untuk kategori kanak-kanak lelaki dan perempuan haruslah berumur bawah 18 tahun yang lahir sebelum atau selepas tahun 1996.

Selain itu, terdapat juga acara larian 'Fun Run' (4KM) untuk Kategori V.

Masa kelayakan untuk larian Borneo Post Run 2014 adalah satu jam 15 minit bagi kategori Terbuka Lelaki dan Wanita (8KM) dan kategori Lelaki dan Perempuan Junior (8KM).

Manakala masa kelayakan untuk kategori Fun Run (4KM) adalah 45 minit.

Bagi acara Terbuka Lelaki dan Terbuka Wanita, pemenangi tempat pertama akan meraih wang tunai RM300 berserta trofi, tempat kedua RM200 serta trofi dan tempat ketiga RM150 berserta trofi diikuti tempat keempat RM100, kelima RM80 dan tempat keenam hingga ke-30 sebanyak RM30.

Manakala kategori Kanak- Kanak Lelaki dan Kanak- Kanak Perempuan, juara akan memperoleh wang tunai RM200 serta trofi, tempat kedua RM150 berserta trofi, tempat ketiga RM100 berserta btrofi, tempat keempat RM80, kelima RM50 dan tempat keenam hingga ke-60 sebanyak RM30.

Untuk acara 'Fun Run' pula, tempat pertama meraih wang tunai RM180 berserta trofi, kedua RM130 serta trofi, tempat ketiga RM100 berserta trofi.

Bagi tempat keempat akan menerima wang tunai RM80, kelima RM50 dan tempat keenam hingga ke-30 membawa pulang RM20.

Antara tetamu yang akan hadir untuk merasmikan acara larian ialah Timbalan Pengerusi Majlis Perbandaran Sibu (MPS) Datuk Andrew Wong Kee Yew, Ketua Pegawai Operasi See Hua Group Temenggung Vincent Lau Lee Ming, Pengurus Jualan (Semenanjung Malaysia) Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia) Berhad, Billy Chin dan Presiden Kelab Sukan Marathon, Ling Chee Chin.

Philippine Muslim rebels oppose Islamic State ‘virus’

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:17 AM PDT

MANILA: The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group has condemned extremist jihadists in Iraq and Syria, and vowed to stop the spread of their 'virus' into the Southeast Asian nation.

After decades of armed rebellion that claimed tens of thousands of lives, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed a peace agreement in March that commits it and the national government to share power in the area.

The MILF portrayed its moderate leadership as vital to stopping the savage ideology of Islamic State (IS) infecting the southern Muslim regions of the mainly Catholic Philippines.

"The MILF condemns barbarism and savagery whether done by other groups including the ISIS or even by its (MILF's) own members," the MILF said in an editorial posted on its www.luwaran.com website this week.

"Frankly, it is the power, moderating line, and influence of the MILF that hinders the birth of a truly strong radical group." The MILF also said a planned Muslim autonomous region that is the centrepiece of the peace deal would be a bulwark against the ideology of the Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS.

The MILF urged President Benigno Aquino to approve a draft bill to create the autonomous region, which was submitted to him last week by a joint committee of rebel and government negotiators.

The peace agreement had called for Aquino to submit the bill to Congress earlier this year, so the autonomous region would be in place by the time he leaves office in mid-2016.

But he rejected an earlier draft and had the joint committee prepare a revised version.

"It is this … fear (of) not being able to realise it (passage of the Muslim autonomous law) for whatever reason that the ISIS' virus is much to be feared," the MILF warned.

Two other Filipino Muslim armed groups, the Abu Sayyaf and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), have recently vowed allegiance to the IS in video clips uploaded on the Internet.

Some politicians have expressed concern both groups may be sending recruits abroad to fight alongside the IS, though the Philippine military said there was no evidence of this. — AFP

Girl, 9, accidentally shoots dead US instructor with Uzi submachine gun

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:17 AM PDT

LOS ANGELES: A nine-year-old girl learning to fire an Uzi submachine gun accidentally killed her instructor at a shooting range in the United States, triggering more debate over gun control in the country.

The tragedy occurred Monday at the Last Stop roadside resort in the western state of Arizona, where the girl had been taken by her parents for a firearms lesson, the local sheriff's office said.

The little girl had successfully managed to control the military-grade weapon in the 'single shot' mode at the Bullets and Burgers gun range, part of the 30-acre Last Stop facility.

But when shooting instructor Charles Vacca, 39, switched the Uzi into the fully automatic setting, the force of the gunfire caused the weapon to rebound upward, and an errant bullet fired by the child struck him in the head.

"Vacca was standing next to the girl while he was instructing her how to use the weapon when the accident happened," said the Mohave County Sheriff's Office in a statement.

"Further investigations determined the girl pulled the trigger on the automatic Uzi, the recoil sent the gun over her head, and the victim was shot." Vacca died in hospital a short time later.

Authorities later released a video, editing out the fatal shot, of the tragic shooting lesson, which had been filmed by the girl's parents.

It showed the instructor, standing on the girl's left-hand side, telling her how to place her hands and feet to shoot the weapon. She can be seen shooting one round, with only a slight recoil.

"Give me one shot … right," says the instructor, leaning in with an arm around her back.

The final frames of the video include the rapid-fire machine gun sound and the recoiling gun swinging upwards towards the instructor. — AFP

Pertandingan Poomsae ukur kemahiran, galak lebih ramai penyertaan pelajar dalam sukan tempur

Posted: 28 Aug 2014 09:17 AM PDT

Seramai 100 ahli Kelab Taekwondo Bandar Kuching telah menyertai Pertandingan Poomsae yang diadakan pada 17 Ogos lalu di Dewan Sekolah Lodge.

Kelab tersebut merupakan ahli gabungan Persatuan Taekwondo Negeri Sarawak (PTNS) yang merupakan badan induk taekwondo negeri.

Selain menjadi kayu pengukur tahap kemahiran para peserta, pertandingan selama sehari itu juga bertujuan menggalakkan lebih ramai penyertaan peserta khususnya pelajar dalam sukan tempur itu.

Pertandingan tersebut diadakan mengikut peraturan yang telah ditetapkan oleh PTNS.

Ia dikendalikan oleh Master Steven Chai Soon Choi (Dan ke-3) sebagai ketua pengadil sambil dibantu Ketua Pengajar Master George Yu Kok Lee (Dan ke-6).

Menurut George Yu, ahli kelab tidak harus memberi penekanan terhadap aspek menang atau kalah.

Sebaliknya semangat kesukanan yang harus dititikberatkan selain sentiasa berusaha meningkatkan kemahiran dari semasa ke semasa.

Bagi yang berminat untuk menyertai latihan taekwondo boleh menghubungi Miss Eileen Lee (012-8935656) atau datang ke pusat gimnasium kelab tersebut yang terletak di atas Restoran Fast Cai, Stutong.