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China's Xi opens Hangzhou Asian Games, ceremony dazzles
HANGZHOU, China: Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the COVID-delayed 19th Asian Games in the Eastern city of Hangzhou during a spectacular and at times raucous ceremony on Saturday (Sep 23), which organisers hope will lift the mood in a nation struggling with an economic slump.
Xi to open biggest ever Asian Games after a year's delay
HANGZHOU: Chinese President Xi Jinping will declare the Asian Games open at a glittering ceremony in Hangzhou on Saturday (Sep 23), kick-starting a sporting behemoth that boasts more athletes than the Olympics.
Oman hosts 10th West Asian Union Championship for Youth Football in December
MUSCAT: The Omani Football Federation will be hosting the 10th West Asian Union Championship for Youth in Muscat between December 10 and 20, 2023. Seven Arab countries including Jordan, UAE, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Yemen, in addition to the host, Oman, will participate in the championship that is being held for footballers born in 2008, said a media statement on Thursday. The tournament’s draw is scheduled to take place on November 23, 2023, at the West Asian Union Headquarters in Jordan’s capital, Amman, and will be broadcast on its official YouTube page. The Jordanian national team won the 9th championship which was held in Aqaba City, in Jordan, during the summer of 2022 after winning the final match 1-0 against Lebanon. Along with the two finalists, Yemen, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine, Syria and Iraq participated in the tournament’s ninth edition.
The Asian Games: Larger than the Olympics and with an array of regional and global sports
The Asian Games are an attention grabber. For starters, they involve more participants than the Summer Olympics. Organisers say more than 12,000 will be entered when the opening ceremony takes place Saturday in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. This is more than the 10,500 expected for next year’s Paris Olympics.
Biggest-ever Asian Games ready for liftoff in China after COVID delay
HANGZHOU: The biggest Asian Games in history, boasting about 12,000 competitors — more than the Olympics — will open on Saturday in the Chinese city of Hangzhou after a year’s delay because of COVID.
The team of firefighters from Greater Manchester helping in the Moroccan Earthquake crisis
A group of firefighters from Manchester have arrived in Morocco following the earthquake in the country as part of a rescue and research team.
A Wythenshawe man has mysteriously vanished in Ukraine. To his mum, none of it makes sense
The mother of a British man missing in Ukraine has described the last time she spoke to her son as she marks a month since his disappearance.