25th SEA Games, Laos

CANBERRA: Laos recovered from their thrashing at the hands of Australia to register a convincing victory of their own, over nine-man Malaysia in the AFC U-16 Championship 2010 Group H qualifying competition.


Laos, beaten 7-0 by the Aussies in their first match, were 4-0 up at half-time through Sitthideth Khanthavong, Lembo Saysana (two) and Nidnilanh Chanchaleune.

Lembo completed his hat-trick in the 73rd minute before substitute Southinh Sayalath put the finishing touches four minutes from the end.

Malaysia were not helped by two sendings-off. First, Nur Areff Bin Kamaruddin was given his marching orders after only 11 minutes and Akmal Bin Ishak was red-carded in the 72nd minute.

Australia are still favourites to win the sole qualifying berth from the three-team group, which is employing a double round-robin system. The Aussies next play Malaysia on Saturday.

While only the top team qualify from Group H, groups A-G will see the top two teams and the best third-placed side reach the finals.

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KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 (Bernama) -- The Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) is willing to help Laos prepare its badminton squad for the Vientiane SEA Games from Dec 9-18.

BAM honorary secretary Ganga Rao said it was willing to train Laos shuttlers to prevent them from losing badly at the regional games.

Host Laos, a country of 6.5mil people has several badminton players, the best known being men's single player Phonepasith Phengsengcham.

Laos has never won medals in badminton since its participation in the SEA Games.

The Lao National Badminton Federation (LNBF) has engaged a Chinese coach to train its players for the Korat SEA Games, Thailand 2007 and the Vientiane SEA Games 2009.

BAM administration manager Ahmad Idris who just returned from a visit to Vientiane said LNBF has asked BAM to help in coaching.

He said BAM was also prepared to help Laos in technical areas like training umpires and linesmen.

The visit to Laos together with the National Sports Council (NSC) and the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM) was to check on facilities for the games.

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(KPL) Bernama News Agency of Malaysia last week agreed to help Laos on Press Centre Administration Centre (Broadcasting centre) and to train media technique for Lao journalists for the 25th South East Asian Games 2009.

The agreement was signed on 6 May, at the National Sport Committee Office in Vientiane between SEA Games?s Organising Committees and Malaysian Sport Assembly Committees.

The meeting was chaired by the Head of International Sport Relation Department of the Lao PDR Dr Soulasith Ouparavanh, on behalf of Laos and Malaysian side was led by Head of Competition Organising Sector, Mr Abdul Jahrit Abdullah and the representatives from Bernama National News Agency and Lao Association.

The Bernama News Agency experienced in organising many events and been installed in the broadcasting centre in Malaysia and has cooperated with Vietnam on press during the 22nd SEA Games in Vietnam.

Bernama, the national news agency of Malaysia, is one of the country?s leading content providers of up-to-the-minute news reports, updates and analysis for newspapers, TV and radio stations, global wire services and the Internet.

It also provides, for subscription, real-time stock quotes and a business database accessed through personal computers. Its latest offering is real-time news disseminated through Blackberry devices.