Thursday, July 31, 2008

Azizah resigned to make way to Anwar

**** Murshidism has to retract this article to comply with pay-per-post program.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Stuttgart 1-3 Arsenal: Wilshere stakes his claim

Arsenal's young Gunners Nicklas Bendtner, Carlos Vela and 16-year-old Jack Wilshere were all on target in tonight's pre-season friendly win over Stuttgart at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. The trio continued their form from the 10-2 thrashing of a Burgenland XI on Monday night as Arsene Wenger's men fought back to beat the Germans and former team-mate Jens Lehmann.


Wenger - who today further strengthened his squad with the signing of Portugal Under-21 midfielder Amaury Bischoff - had named a strong starting XI, but it was his young substitutes who would prove the match winners.

There was a debut for summer signing Samir Nasri, the first pre-season appearance by Togo striker Emmanuel Adebayor - a target for AC Milan - and the side was led by captain William Gallas.

Lehmann easily collected an attempted chip from Robin van Persie in the 11th minute, before current Arsenal number one Manuel Almunia made a smart save at the near post from Romania striker Ciprian Marica and Nasri fired a 25-yard effort over following a quick counter-attack.

Veteran Lehmann, 38, showed brilliant reactions to deny Theo Walcott from point-blank range after he was set up by van Persie.

Young Danish striker Bendtner - who bagged four goals on Monday night - was introduced for the second half, as was promising Mexican Vela, back from his loan spell in Spain, while Pole Lukasz Fabianski replaced Almunia in the Arsenal goal.

However, the Gunners were behind six minutes after the restart when Stuttgart substitute Yildiray Basturk drilled in a low strike from the edge of the box.

Arsenal were, though, soon level.

Bendtner, 20, slipped Vela in on the right side of the penalty area. The 19-year-old Central American held off both his marker and Lehmann before smashing the ball in off the underside of the crossbar to take his tally to four goals in two games.

Nasri's debut lasted an hour before he was replaced by Wilshere and £5million summer signing Aaron Ramsey, the Wales Under-21 midfielder, was also introduced.

Vela then turned provider for Bendtner, who nodded on a chipped pass to power into the area and stab the ball past Lehmann as Arsenal went ahead in the 65th minute.

Wilshere - who netted his first senior goals for the Gunners earlier this week - made it a night to remember when he drilled in a left-foot shot following persistent work by full-back Gael Clichy.

Arsenal will now return home ahead of this weekend's Emirates Cup, which also includes Hamburg, Real Madrid and Juventus.

Wenger praised the performance of his youngsters.

He told Arsenal's website: 'It is good for the confidence to win here and you could see that the young players did well again tonight. I believe the strikers have shown it can work.

'Vela is a little bit like Eduardo da Silva, and Nicklas we already know from the end of last season is a very powerful striker. They both did very well.'

Wenger, though, continues to maintain Wilshere will be allowed to develop at his own pace.

'He has talent and gets experience in these kinds of games, he learns a lot, but he is here for that,' said the Arsenal boss.

Nasri was used in a more central midfield role, and Wenger said: 'It was a very positive performance for his first game.

'He has all it takes to be a good player in this team.'

Chelsea end tour with win over Malaysia XI

KUALA LUMPUR, July 29 (Reuters) - Chelsea rounded off their pre-season tour of Asia with a 2-0 win over a Malaysia select XI thanks to goals by Nicolas Anelka and Ashley Cole on Tuesday.
The Champions League finalists secured the third win of
their three-leg tour in hot and humid conditions in front of a
crowd of 80,000 at the Shah Alam stadium.


The Malaysians battled hard to fend off a Chelsea side
orchestrated by new signing Deco and the industrious Anelka, who
put the visitors ahead after 26 minutes.


The France striker latched on to a neat through ball from
Joe Cole, skipped past the defence and slotted home into the
bottom right hand corner from inside the penalty area.


The hosts created a handful of chances and forward Amiral
Hadi Zainal almost opened the scoring inside three minutes when
he broke free in the area and fired inches wide of the far post.


He also blew a perfect opportunity to equalise before
halftime when he popped up unmarked in the box but fired a weak
effort past the post with Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech beaten.


Portugal midfielder Deco then came close to a memorable
first goal in a Chelsea shirt when his spectacular volley from
22 metres was tipped over the bar by the Malaysian keeper.


Chelsea grabbed their second goal eight minutes after the
break when Ashley Cole received a Frank Lampard pass and blasted
the ball into the top right hand corner from five metres.


The match was a stark contrast to the previous two games,
when Chelsea romped to 7-0 and 4-0 victories over Chinese sides.


Premier League Chelsea's Brazilian manager Luiz Felipe
Scolari said the rugged pitch hampered his team's performance
and he was relieved that his players came out unscathed.


'I crossed my fingers to finish without injuries,' he told
reporters. 'It was impossible to play on this pitch, my players
tried to play but it was difficult, but I saw some players play
better than in the other games.'


Malaysia coach B Sathianathan said: 'I'm surprised. Everyone
thought Chelsea would steamroll past us but they didn't.'

Mystery of the Telco Tower



The residents complain about the weird tower


PILING work carried out for the construction of a telecommunications tower in Taman Bukit Semenyih has caused a sense of uneasiness among the residents.

Homemaker Eng Yann Yann said the five-storey block of Mutiara Flats where she had lived for the past two years shook when the piling work began on Tuesday morning.

“The noise was deafening but the contractors continued their work till 6pm.

“The work area is only a few metres away from the flats; shouldn’t there be a buffer zone?” she asked.

A resident in neighbouring Taman Semenyih Mewah, Chen Yee Thong, said a monopole telecommunications tower was built in the area a year ago.

”But the workers who erected the structure maintained that it was a test tower and would eventually be dismantled.

”Now, following the piling work, concrete pillars have been embedded into the ground. They are obviously aiming for a permanent structure,” he said.

Flat resident Mokhtar Hussin, who approached the workers for clarification, was told that they were simply carrying out orders.

“I asked them where they were from and which company had authorised the building of the telco tower but they remained mum,” he said.

Kajang municipal councillor S. Arutchelvan said there was no signboard informing the authorities or the residents about the tower and no information was available on the company that had authorised the work. "I have spoken to council president Datuk Hasan Nawawi Abd Rahman, who has informed the engineering department.

“They will look for those responsible,” he said.

He also urged residents to lodge a police report on the matter stating the piling was causing noise pollution and no information was forthcoming about the company responsible for it.

Meanwhile, flat residents Loke Kah Weng and Yap Lee Ling said they hoped the authorities would take crime prevention measures to curb the problem of drug addicts and frequent thefts and break-ins in the area.


Source

Murshidism: The temporary tower built at the resident area is called T5 solution where it come together with caged BTS. Operator "M" is using T5 solution nationwide

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Coloccini set for Newcastle move, insists agent





Updated: July 29, 2008, 9:48 AM UK: Newcastle United are close to completing the signing of Deportivo La Coruna defender Fabricio Coloccini, according to the player's agent Marcelo Lombilla.

Reports in Spain suggest Coloccini has already agreed personal terms with the Premier League side, who are said to have made a £7.8million bid for the Argentina international.
Lombilla met with club president Augusto Cesar Lendoiro again last night to negotiate a move after Depor slapped an £11million price tag on Coloccini's head.
Tottenham are also said to have thrown their hat into the ring, but Lombilla claims he knows nothing about any rival bid.
'The only offer I am dealing with is that of Newcastle,' Lombilla told Spanish sports daily AS. 'Which is the one that I brought about.'
Depor were set to leave for a pre-season tour of Venezuela yesterday but Coloccini was not included in the travelling party and a line on the club website revealed: 'The footballer Fabricio Coloccini remains in La Coruna as his future will be decided in the upcoming days.'
Coloccini, naturally a centre-half but capable of playing at full-back, has made nearly 100 appearances in his three and a half years at the Riazor, and Depor coach Miguel Angel Lotina knows it will be a blow to lose the 26-year-old.
'If Coloccini goes it will be the great disappointment of the summer,' he told Marca.
'The team that takes Coloccini will be getting a quality footballer, a footballer to take your hat off to and they will be playing a dirty trick on me.
'He is a tremendous footballer for what he gives on the pitch and in the dressing room.'

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Loss-making Alcatel-Lucent dumps CEO and chairman



PARIS, July 29 (Reuters) - Telecoms equipment group Alcatel-Lucent on Tuesday ditched both its chairman and chief executive as it tries to galvanise a still-fragile merger following a series of profit warnings and falling market share.
Chief Executive Pat Russo, long rumoured to be on an ejector seat, will leave before the end of the year while Serge Tchuruk, the architect of the 2006 merger, will leave on Oct. 1.
The move comes weeks after shareholders heaped criticism on top directors following a string of profit warnings and a collapsing share price, and approved measures that would make it easier to oust them. The firm also reported a deep second quarter loss, stemming from the Lucent inheritance.
"I always thought they would both go, this way there is no loser or winner," said the chief executive of another French technology company who spoke on condition he was not be named.
The world's largest provider of fixed-line telecoms equipment, was created when Paris-based Alcatel bought Lucent of the United States. But it had trouble keeping up with technological change as the telecoms market turns more to voice over internet and mobile communications.
Its shares rose as much as 6 percent, after a 23 percent decline this year and a 55 percent fall in 2007. By 0740 GMT the stock was up 4.4 percent at 4 euros.
"These departures are not a total surprise," said Exane analyst Alexander Peterc. "It is a good thing that the company can now move forward and put behind it the differences between the Lucent parts and Alcatel side," he added. Henry Schacht, a former Lucent chief executive until Russo took his job in 2002, will immediately resign from the board.
Alcatel-Lucent said both Tchuruk and Russo had decided themselves to quit. It said the board would commence a search for a new non-executive Chairman and CEO immediately.
"The Board is also initiating a process to change the composition of the Board to a smaller group that will include new members," it added.

AU REVOIR


Russo jetted into her job in Paris filled with American corporate convictions that flew in the face of French culture.
She promised shareholders she would learn to speak French but did not have time to master the language.
Tchuruk, born in November 1937, is a former arms engineer born to Armenian parents in Marseilles who climbed the corporate ladder to become head of oil group Total before joining Alcatel in 1996.
A tireless strategist, he engineered a restructuring of the sprawling Alcatel empire into the core telecoms activities, a defence branch that became part of Thales and the Alstom industrial engineering group.
His departure is likely to reopen speculation over the future of Alcatel's large stake in Thales, which Tchuruk had, according to sources close to the matter, wanted to keep. Thales shares dipped 1.3 percent.
The merger with Lucent was meant to crown his career as it pulled the equipment firm back to the front line of global competition with Nortel, Nokia Siemens Networks and Ericsson .
"The merger phase is now behind us. I am proud that Alcatel-Lucent has become a world leader in a technology which is transforming our society," Tchuruk said in a statement.
"It is now time that the company acquires a personality of its own, independent from its two predecessors," he added.
Alcatel-Lucent also reported underlying April-June sales and profits which came in slightly ahead of expectations, but reported a big net loss for the quarter due to writedowns. [nL9173956]
Nokia Siemens, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent are the leading players in the telecoms network market, but have been increasingly challenged by Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE.
With aggressive pricing Huawei took the No. 4 spot in the global telecom network gear market at start of the year, bypassing Nortel Networks and Motorola.



Murshidism: Alcatel-Lucent is a big player in Malaysian telecommunication industry with a big 3G contract with Celcom 3G and also WiMax contract with Green Packet

My First Post

As this is my first posting, I would like to comment on this Saiful which storm Malaysian by making a police report claiming that we was sodomized by former DPM. Saiful is handsome young man succesfully un-graduated (expelled) from Uniten. He's a student leader in Uniten previously but extra-curicullar activities in university made him forgot about his grade and eventually he was kicked out because of poor grade. Anyway, we will see what will happen next...as Anwar already been charged with sodomy at court and upcoming by-election in Permatang Pauh...who know what will happen after this. Maybe Saiful will know.....