We tasted defeat for the first time in this Premier League season with a 1-0 loss at Liverpool, and you can see the best of the action now in our highlights.
We had enjoyed the better chances in the first hour of the contest and came close through Noni Madueke’s effort, but the sides remained level until the 82nd minute.
That’s when Dominik Szoboszlai stepped up to fire the ball over our wall and find the net via the post to win the game for his side, and ended our winning start to the campaign.
You can watch a bitesize version of our highlights by pressing play on the video above, with a full match replay to come from midnight UK time.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 1 — In a collaboration with KALSIS, Beacon Hospital is offering low-dose CT scans (LDCT) to screen for lung cancer at just RM309 from today (September 1) until November 30.
The public can contact the medical enquiries team at Beacon Hospital, a private hospital in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, at +6012-328 6913 for booking. Alternatively, they may purchase it online through Beacon Hospital’s e-shop. A free teleconsultation will be provided if there are abnormal results.
KALSIS founder and CEO Jonathan Teoh said the average cost of LDCT in private hospitals is RM600, which may be unaffordable to some.
“So what we’ve done is – for this podcast and for a campaign that runs from today through till end November – collaborating with Beacon Hospital to bring in a special package for low-dose CT scans that’s a lot more affordable,” Teoh told a Cancer Matters podcast by the National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM) aired last Thursday.
The podcast episode examined the dual challenges of lung health and financial burdens often accompanying treatment, particularly for late-stage diagnoses.
“So the idea is that we make it a lot more accessible to people to get diagnosed, but also understand what are the costs involved if you don’t do it because you’d rather spend a few hundred ringgit screening regularly than to have to pay thousands of ringgit if you are unlucky to get lung cancer and have it treated,” Teoh said.
KALSIS is an innovative health and retirement financing scheme that converts senior citizens’ home equity into liquidity for medical treatment and lifetime living expenses – without needing to move.
Teoh said KALSIS’ mission is to expand health care access and strengthen secondary prevention.
“Beyond helping seniors battling cancer unlock the value of their homes to fund treatment and retirement needs, we recognise the urgent need to bolster secondary prevention to raise our cancer survival rates, which still lag behind many of our regional peers,” Teoh told CodeBlue.
“While low-dose CT scans remain the gold standard for lung health diagnosis, cost has long been a barrier. Through our partnership with Beacon Hospital, we have now made LDCT screening more affordable and accessible to the public, helping to reduce both the cost and burden of treatment, especially when cancer is detected early.”
Late-Stage Lung Cancer Costs RM150,000-RM300,000 Annually In Direct, Indirect Costs
From left: National Cancer Society Malaysia (NCSM) managing director Assoc Prof Dr M. Murallitharan, consultant chest physician Dr Vijayan Munusamy, and KALSIS founder and CEO Jonathan Teoh speak at the Cancer Matters podcast. Photo courtesy of Cancer Matters.
At NCSM’s Cancer Matters podcast, Dr Vijayan Munusamy, a consultant chest physician at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), revealed that lung cancer actually has a 90 per cent curative possibility if it is detected in the first stage, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) study.
But five-year survival rates drop to five to 20 per cent for stage four lung cancer.
“If lung cancer is diagnosed in the early stage, this reduces the cost; it’s five to 15 times lower than later stages,” said Dr Vijayan at the podcast hosted by NCSM managing director Assoc Prof Dr M. Murallitharan.
The cost of a lung lobectomy to remove a section of your lung, a common surgery for treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in its early stages, is around RM5,000 to RM8,000 in public health care and RM25,000 to RM30,000 in the private sector.
However, for a lung cancer patient presenting at the late stages of three and four, direct and indirect costs skyrocket up to RM150,000 to RM300,000 per annum. Direct costs are medical costs, whereas indirect costs include transport, psychosocial, and caregivers taking off work.
Dr Vijayan said targeted therapy provides late-stage lung cancer patients an additional 23 to 60 months of survival without disease progression.
Although the cheapest targeted therapies can be obtained for RM400 a month, patients need to upgrade their treatment from first-generation TKIs, a type of targeted therapy, to second-generation TKIs and so on as their disease progresses.
Higher-end TKIs, according to Dr Vijayan, cost approximately RM6,000 a month. Immunotherapy is even more expensive, with pembrolizumab costing RM17,000 a month.
“If a patient requires just chemotherapy alone…most probably, the patient will spend around RM1,000 to RM2,000. But most studies show that patients will not survive much longer,” he said.
“With the immunotherapy arm, you need to change to first line, second line, third line, fourth line, fifth line, sixth line, and even seventh line.”
KALSIS: Fourth Pillar Of Health Care Financing From Capital Markets
In response to Dr Murallitharan’s question about how KALSIS can help finance expensive illnesses like lung cancer, Teoh described KALSIS as the “fourth pillar” in health care financing, after government, insurance, and out-of-pocket sources of funding.
“We’re coming as the fourth pillar from the capital markets side to put more options on the table for seniors, especially those aged 60 and above, where we see a lot more incidences of lung cancer, but who unfortunately may not have insurance coverage because they either lapsed or left their employers,” said Teoh.
Retirees don’t have Social Security Organisation (Socso) coverage either. They also may not be able to afford retaining personal health insurance coverage due to escalating premiums.
KALSIS offers retirees a solution of unlocking home equity to fund cancer treatment and retirement expenses throughout their life, without needing to move.
Teoh explained that KALSIS was designed to help fund cutting-edge medicines by getting an understanding of the costs from patient assistance programmes offered by pharmaceutical companies to self-paying patients.
KALSIS participants are first paid 10 per cent of the market value of their property after it’s sold to the scheme. “So an RM1.5 million home can immediately fund RM150,000, which matches what Dr Vijayan said for many cancer indications in combination with patient assistance programmes.”
Subsequently, KALSIS pays participants between 3.27 per cent and 4 per cent of the transacted property value for as long as they are alive. Upon the participant’s death, KALSIS will continue paying the surviving spouse; the scheme will only end upon the spouse’s death.
“This could easily be for 10, 20, or 30 years,” said Teoh.
He pointed out that the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), the world’s oldest and largest global membership organisation for cancer, sees KALSIS as a global first in harnessing home equity release and capital markets to control cancer.
“What I want to share with people is that capital markets are a very powerful tool if wielded for good. Imagine, in 2024, capital markets were worth RM4.2 trillion; 0.1 per cent is RM4.2 billion that can be wielded to create good outcomes,” said Teoh, whose family started social enterprises in Malaysia in 2006, long before CSR became a trend.
“What we’re doing is channelling that from institutional investors behind KALSIS to effect such outcomes for systemic good.
“What we want to do is look at how we can harness today’s capital markets to better close the cancer care gap at scale because we realise that the government can only do so much.”
Most Early Lung Cancer Cases Asymptomatic
Dr Vijayan said lung cancer is surging, both in Malaysia and around the world. According to the Department of Statistics Malaysia’s (DOSM) 2024 report on causes of death in Malaysia, trachea, bronchus, and lung cancer is the fifth cause of death.
He revealed that 60 per cent to 70 per cent of early lung cancer cases actually show no symptoms, unlike breast cancer that appears as lumps in the breast.
When Teoh announced the KALSIS-Beacon Hospital campaign providing LDCT at just RM309, just over half of the average RM600 cost, Dr Muralli described early investment in prevention as a “no-brainer.”
Dr Vijayan noted that Japan and the United Kingdom (UK) reduced 32 per cent and 20 per cent of late-stage lung cancer cases with low-risk CT scans, respectively.
“So I think in the Malaysian perspective, even for early lung cancer, awareness programmes should be increased significantly so that the number of cases we diagnose with late cancer will eventually reduce,” he said.
About 70 per cent of lung cancer cases in Malaysia are diagnosed in the late stages. Dr Vijayan added that in the MOH’s cancer budget, about 65 per cent to 70 per cent is spent on oncology drugs but only 10 per cent for early lung cancer.
“Of course, the government will eventually save costs if many cases are detected at an early stage. Eventually, it will benefit the patients as well.”
Beacon Hospital: Giving Everyone A Fair Chance For More Healthy Years
Beacon Hospital CEO Hoe Cheah How said his hospital believes that early detection saves lives.
“By making advanced screening such as LDCT more accessible and affordable, we’re removing barriers so more people can take action before it’s too late,” Hoe told CodeBlue.
“This isn’t just about tests — it’s about giving every person a fair chance for more healthy years ahead with their loved ones.
“This initiative reflects our ongoing commitment to community well-being and to setting new standards in accessible, high-quality private health care — that’s the heart of what we do at Beacon Hospital.”
No, your eyes are not deceiving you. For a limited time, Amazon has the iPhone 16 Pro, unlocked and all, listing at a $255 discount. That brings the flagship iPhone down to around $745, from its retail price of $1,000.
Is there a catch? When you’re buying outside of the Apple store, there almost always is. Fortunately, this one’s a little easier to shoulder: the discounted model is in “renewed” condition, a refurbish standard placed by Amazon that indicates that while the phone isn’t new and sealed, it has been “professionally inspected, tested, and cleaned by qualified suppliers.”
According to Amazon’s listing page, renewed phones have no visible cosmetic imperfections when held at arm’s length, meaning you likely won’t be able to tell if the device is new or refurbished. Renewed phones are also tested to have at least 80% battery capacity, though most of the devices I’ve tried and used typically hover between 95 to 100%.
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This offer, in particular, is for the base model of the iPhone 16 Pro. You’re getting 128GB of internal storage, an unlocked carrier state, meaning the device will work with most, if not all, US carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, and either Desert Titanium or Black Titanium. (Other colors are available at a discount, but for a lesser amount.)
Now you may be asking: Why should I buy the iPhone 16 Pro when Apple is preparing to launch the iPhone 17 series in a week’s time? I generally advise consumers to wait it out, if they can. Unless you desperately need a new phone right now, it’s always better to see what Apple is offering with its latest devices and how much the older models will be discounted by then.
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However, if your current phone is damaged, cracked, or unable to function properly at the moment, this is one of the better deals on one of the best iPhones right now, and you can purchase it knowing that it’s backed by Amazon’s 90-day return or replacement policy.
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No one knows what happened to the MS München. Yet clues suggest the 850-foot vessel was struck by a titanic force that left it without power or propulsion in the North Atlantic. A faint distress call was received by on-shore radio stations, but that was it. The widely held theory is the München likely sank on or around Dec 12, 1978, after a 30-hour struggle to recover from a list, taking with it its entire crew of 28 sailors. She was never found.Two years later, the MV Derbyshire, a 964-foot cargo carrier with 44 crew, was ploughing through a storm in the South China Sea when it sank in less than two minutes, becoming the largest Britishflagged ship to be lost at sea during peacetime, and joining a list of tragic vessels that sank without a distress call. Her wreck was found 14 years later, four kilometres below off Okinawa, Japan.It’s long suspected both vessels were hit by rogue waves, which by definition are at least two times bigger than neighbouring waves. They emerge spontaneously, with a tall crest and a deep trough, and vanish in minutes. It’s still unclear when they form, but there are two theories: one says waves of different speeds, from different directions, pile up to form a wall of water; the second postulates smaller waves may transfer all their energy into a single, big one.These waves continue to be major threats. Ship design has improved vastly since the ’80s and ’90s, but modern-day tolerances can still be tested. In 2022, shards from a shattered window killed a passenger on a cruise ship bound for Antarctica after the liner was stuck by a 50-foot wave.
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A key trigger seems to be wind. Waves form when atmospheric energy is transferred to the surface as wind. So, stronger the wind, choppier the sea; choppier the sea, higher are the chances of extreme waves. Studies are still on to determine if a changing climate will trigger more rogue waves, but experts said a link is possible.“What we know for sure is global warming will boost wind speeds,” said Amin Chabchoub, head of the Marine Physics and Engineering Unit of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and visiting professor at University of Tokyo and The University of Melbourne.“Winds are wave generators, so there may be a natural link between climate change and rogue waves. We need more proof to be fully sure,” Chabchoub said. In 2019, a British study found heights of rogue waves, off US, increasing by 1% year on year.“Stronger winds will generate bigger waves. But it’s complicated because waves interact with currents, which are changing too with global warming. There’s no single factor,” the researchers said.Scientists also found rogue waves were more common than previously thought. Alessandro Toffoli, an ocean engineering professor with the University of Melbourne, found waves two times taller than their neighbours occurring every six hours during a 2017 expedition to the southern ocean, where powerful winds blast the sea surface.“It’s an undisturbed body of water with no continents nearby to block waves. There, waves grow till they’re fully developed,” he said.Toffoli too said wind likely has a key role in rogue wave formation. “We found ‘young waves’ (those beginning to crest) were most responsive to wind. It’s wind that causes ‘young waves’ to grow higher. At one point, they become strong enough to steal energy from other waves,” he said.In the Indian Ocean, Swarnali Majumder, formerly with Indian National Centre of Ocean Information Services, along with the institute’s director Balakrishnan Nair, logged 55 “freak wave events” between 2009 and 2017, all detected by buoys.“This was comprehensive proof that such waves happen in the Indian Ocean too,” Majumder said. Nair said a better understanding of rogue wave physics could lead to enhanced warning systems.“There have been accidents, because these waves appear suddenly,” he said.In Jan 2010, the 100-foot ship, Early Dawn, was hit off Alaska by a wave its captain said was at least 35 feet tall, first seen 100 metres from his vessel. A probe later showed the wave had likely moved towards the boat at 12 metres per second, giving crew just about 10 seconds to react.But that was in 2010. Scientists said advancements such as AI could make rogue waves predictable.At the University of Maryland, researchers Thomas Breunung and Balakumar Balachandran published a paper last year about an AI tool that could provide up to 5 minutes of advance warning time for a rogue wave, developed using billions of 30-minute-long recordings of sea surface elevations, collected from more than 170 buoys off the US coastline.“We used machine learning to develop a rogue waveclassification tool and trained a neural network to pick out waves that would be followed by a rogue wave,” Balachandran said.The tool was able to predict 70% of rogue waves five minutes before they occurred.“It could give ships and offshore rigs time to prepare for impact,” Balachandran said. “Rogue waves are extreme events. A warning would be invaluable,” he added.Francesco Fedele, professor of environmental engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, said AI can transform rogue wave forecasting.“Especially if we combine advanced models with realtime buoy or satellite data,” he said.“Predictability requires that AI learns how to quantify probability of rogue waves. Deep-learning models can capture hidden probability laws governing rogue waves and generate near-real examples of such waves. Large data from satellites and buoys highlight challenges as well: as with other AI systems, forecasts will only be as good as the data used to train them. So the data must be cleaned up to prevent AI from ‘hallucinating’ and producing misleading predictions,” Fedele said.
Aryna Sabalenka looked every bit the World No. 1 Sunday night, defeating Spain’s Cristina Bucsa 6-1, 6-4 in 1 hour and 13 minutes in the fourth round of the US Open.
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Originally scheduled for early evening, the match began just over three hours later than anticipated, setting up an impromptu night session at Louis Armstrong Stadium. Fans who stayed were rewarded with a dominant performance from Sabalenka, who controlled the match from start to finish.
With the win, Sabalenka advanced to her fifth consecutive quarterfinal in New York, continuing her streak of deep runs in Flushing Meadows.
It was evident right away that Sabalenka had her best stuff, flashing a sharp slice forehand in the opening game en route to an early lead. After Bucsa held to level the first set at 1-1, Sabalenka reeled off five straight games to claim the set in just 27 minutes.
The second set was more competitive; with both players trading holds through the first four games. But Sabalenka found another gear, winning four of the final six games to seal the victory.
Bucsa fought to the end, saving four break points in an 11-minute service game to narrow the gap to 4-3. She pushed Sabalenka to deuce in the following game, but the Belarusian held firm to close out the match.
Sabalenka did not face a single break point on the night.
Chris Kyme (pictured above) continues his ‘Postcard from Hong Kong’ series. Always being one for attending events with free-flow beer and sna…sorry, I mean..which offer interesting networking and creative discussion opportunities, I accepted a very generous invitation to attend a Marketing Society panel discussion on the state of creativity in Hong Kong today which was held at the offices of JLL (a very nice creative space, big chill out area etc).
The last time they held something on this topic I was actually one of the panelists and it was pretty healthy debate. This time I was invited as an audience member and also required to have masking tape placed over my mouth during the discussion.
The panelists were: Andreas Kasser – CEO, DDB Hong Kong (moderator), John Koay – Regional Creative Director Edelman, Jocelyn Tse – Independent Strategist, Ivy Cheung- CMO, Chubb Life Hong Kong.
Now first off I have to say I’m very appreciative of The Marketing Society for hosting and encouraging this creative discussion because someone needs to be doing it. More than that, it’s not just an audience of creative awards luvvies all navel gazing either. You’ve got clients mingling with creatives and media folks and it’s all good networking integration.
Secondly, the topic or rather the focus this time was ‘Do awards matter’? Now that’s not a bad question to be asking and the opinions as you can rightly imagine balanced between “No let’s just get on with business” to “Yes they’re great for morale and help promote loyalty (yeah right) and enthusiasm” kind of thing.
I know that if you put that question to the average gong-chasing trainer-wearing Asian creative such as yourself dear reader, the answer would be “Hell yeah”. But on the evening I was considering this, and unable to restrain myself any longer, I removed the masking tape that Andreas made me put over my mouth and reframed the question.
I don’t think the most pertinent question is about “Do awards matter”?
Who gives a monkeys, of course they do but they only really matter on the night when you go up on stage shining in glory or the next day when you can do all your “I am humbled” social media chest-thumping. After that, it’s back to the grindstone.
The real question is “Does creativity matter?”.
The obvious answer to which being yes, as proven year in year out by great campaigns which raise the bar, raise awareness and raise everyone’s salaries and delivers ROI. As Sir John Hegarty put it “ It (creative advertising) inspires and resonates with audiences, fostering long-term relationships rather than just “stalking” them with data-driven messages.”
So then I put it to the panel (and in particular to John who is no stranger to the awards circuit himself) “What does it take to improve it?”
I’m not talking about how to improve it in terms of entering awards, we all know that there are many who are quite good at doing that every year with their various social causes etc, and we have a few of those in Hong Kong funnily enough, but how to improve creativity in what gets exposed in the public arena. What we see around us every day, online or off.
Because let’s face it the biggest grumble around the world today in any given market is that it’s all rubbish.
There are exceptions of course because if you keep your eyes and ears open, good work gets out into the public domain here and there from very good agencies and then gets shared and lauded in social media (the irony) and we all wonder – “How did they sell it into the client?”
John Koay’s thoughts on that suggested that good client relationships were key, and I absolutely do not disagree with him speaking from personal experience.
But the truth is, this is not a question that can be answered in a short discussion panel and actually deserves a bigger and more in depth forum of exploration if the industry was serious about wanting to improve things.
Brain whirring etc
Not that I’m volunteering to lead that particular expedition (unless asked of course, and depending on the free flow beer and snacks) but it did get me pondering the issue further. Just hear me out.
One of the problems, I observe, with mainstream advertising (yes it does still exist) today is that mostly it doesn’t respect the intelligence of the target audience.
I saw an old interview clip from Adfest with Jeremy Craigen (he of much lauded DDB Volkswagen fame), when he spoke about “creative intelligence” and respecting the consumer.
Ads today are blatant creative hammers which bonk the general public on their collective heads and say ‘Yoo hoo…buy me buy me”.
This is partly reflective of the general levels of intelligence among the marketing people responsible for briefing and approving the ads. “If I don’t get it, how will the target audience?” That plus inexperience, fear, playing it safe, etc etc.
I also think there’s a big difference between what (good) creative people deem to be creative – the benchmarks etc, and what clients do.
And that needs addressing. Many people working in marketing just don’t know how good advertising can be.
On the other hand, ‘agency initiated’ campaigns, don’t have to worry about that.
All they have to consider is whether the awards judges will get it. Well practiced ndividuals who are going to look at it, ponder it, study it, consider it with a cup of tea or coffee in hand before marking it down as a winner (or not) with all the time in the world before lunch.
So, there is a huge divide between work that has to be approved by clients, and work which doesn’t have to bother because it’s designed for awards judges and nobody else will see it anyway.
And somewhere in between, is the sweet spot.
The sweet spot, to me, is work that is good enough to be considered for awards (ie a by-product of doing great work for your clients), but was actually created to meet a proper brief and all that this entails, and therefore, deemed acceptable by the client.
So if you think of anything you’ve seen and admired of late that actually ran (think of anything from Uncommon in London these days, or recently I saw that brilliant film for DiDi “Yes I DiDi” in Australia recently and thought how the f@% did they sell that in?), it all hits the sweet spot.
Uncommon – hitting the sweet spot again and again.
It meets the brief. It wins awards. Everyone’s happy.
Hitting the sweet spot means doing things for real. It means actually going to all the effort to think about how to convince your play-it-safe client that this will work for them.
That they should go for it. Invest their budget in it. And respect that the target audience is intelligent enough to get it.
Only then can creativity across all channels improve. Only then will clients become more aware of just how good advertising can be and how it can help deliver ROI.
Only then will the image of the industry improve in the eyes of the general public and more importantly bright young people looking to build a career. Who want to look up and aspire to something.
So that’s the question we should really have been attempting to answer. Now, how do we get there?
And what’s the answer is…
F%@k knows, I was heading straight for the nibbles.
Read Chris Kyme’s 2025 Postcard’s from Hong Kong below:
Welcome to Newviola And the award goes to… some braver clients A look inside the Beehive A rocket that landed in Hong Kong In search of Hong Kong (yet again)
Macquarie is shifting its global finance and commodities trading units out of its banking entity in a restructure of its business, as the asset-management and advisory giant navigates regulatory pressure and attempts to position itself for future growth in those divisions.
The separate boards of Macquarie and its bank approved the changes that facilitate the transfer of the international finance operations, along with the commodities division’s North American power, gas and emissions activity, to the group’s non-banking entity.
Daniil Medvedev has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons, with his on-court antics during the US Open 2025 first-round loss still dominating conversations. The former champion had a meltdown during his defeat to France’s Benjamin Bonzi. His behaviour became the talking point, and he was also fined $30,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct and given a further $12,500 penalty for racquet abuse.
Russia’s Daniil Medvedev breaks his racquet after his first round match against France’s Benjamin Bonzi.(REUTERS)
However, Rafael Nadal’s uncle Toni feels that the fine he received for such behaviour isn’t enough and urged tennis authorities to introduce stricter penalties for players who smash their rackets.
The Russian tennis star had a meltdown when a photographer mistakenly wandered onto the court, prompting chair umpire Greg Allensworth to award Bonzi a first serve. Medvedev spoke with Allensworth, expressed his displeasure quite clearly about the official’s decision, and accused him of wanting to end the match early.
Following his exchange with the umpire, the Russian turned towards the crowd, encouraging them to vent their displeasure at the umpire. This led to a six-minute delay before Bonzi could finally serve. The Frenchman was subsequently broken but recovered to clinch a 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 0-6, 6-4 victory.
Medvedev’s final act was to violently smash his racquet in anger following the loss.
Toni Nadal was clearly unimpressed with Medvedev’s behaviour, and in his column for El Pais he said that if a player of Medvedev’s stature can not calm in nerves on the court then the authorities should look for high financial sanctions.
“In another unfortunate spectacle, [Medvedev] attacked his racket to leave it in pieces.
“I am surprised that a player of Medvedev’s stature is incapable of calming his nerves and that he is willing to give this image of himself, as well as that high financial sanctions such as the one subsequently imposed on him do not manage to eradicate his behaviour,” he wrote.
“Never seen a ping-pong player break a paddle”
Nadal has raised concerns over the growing trend of racket-smashing in tennis, calling it a poor reflection on the sport. Urging governing bodies to take stricter action, Nadal questioned why such outbursts are frequent in tennis compared to other disciplines, highlighting the need for accountability and stronger deterrents.
“I believe that the time has come when tennis leaders should consider the possibility of applying sporting punishments to the increasingly common occurrence of tennis players breaking their rackets on the court,” he added.
“As well as for us to consider why this type of reprehensible attitudes occur more frequently in our sport than in other disciplines. I have never seen a ping-pong player break a paddle and, very rarely, a golfer punish his club after making a mistake,” he further added.
Police set up checkpoints across Jakarta in anticipation of further demonstrations.
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Indonesian authorities have ramped up security after six people were killed in unrest over economic hardship that escalated into violent anger against the nation’s police force.
The deadly protests, which began last week over financial perks for lawmakers, have forced President Prabowo Subianto to make a U-turn over the measures.
Demonstrations had begun peacefully, but turned violent against the nation’s elite paramilitary police unit after footage showed one of its teams running over 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan late on Thursday.
Protests have since spread from the capital, Jakarta, to other major cities, including Yogyakarta, Bandung, Semarang and Surabaya in Java, and Medan in North Sumatra province, in the worst unrest since Prabowo took power.
More gatherings of students and protesters were planned in several locations around Indonesia’s vast archipelago on Monday.
Police set up checkpoints across the capital, Jakarta, on Monday, and a police spokesman told broadcaster Kompas TV that officers were also patrolling the city to “protect” citizens and give a sense of security.
Police had deployed a convoy of armoured cars and motorbikes to parliament late on Sunday, in a show of force as they attempted to warn off protesters.
The crisis has forced Prabowo to cancel a planned trip to China this week for a military parade commemorating the end of World War II.
His close ally, Minister of Defence Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, warned Sunday that military and police would take “firm action” against “rioters and looters”, after the Minister of Finance’s house was pillaged.
At least three people were killed after a fire on Friday started by protesters at a council building in the eastern city of Makassar.
Another victim died in Makassar on Friday after he was beaten by a mob on suspicion that he was an intelligence officer, local disaster agency official Muhammad Fadli Tahar told AFP on Sunday.
In Yogyakarta, the Amikom Yogyakarta University confirmed the death of its student, Rheza Sendy Pratama, in protests, but the circumstances around his death remain unclear.
In anticipation of further unrest, TikTok on Saturday temporarily suspended its live feature for “a few days” in Indonesia, where it has more than 100 million users.
