FOOTBALL By The Bay could soon become a reality with the Lions kicking off the world's first football match on a floating platform against Paraguay in February.
BANGKOK - BRITAIN'S ambassador to Thailand presented new Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva with a Newcastle United football shirt on Monday to mark the Thai leader's links with the city of his birth.
At a formal ceremony of congratulations, ambassador Quinton Quayle handed over the famous black-and-white striped shirt complete with the number 27 - because the Eton and Oxford-educated Mr Abhisit is Thailand's 27th premier.
FREMANTLE - A BADLY injured French round-the-world sailor rescued by the Australian navy arrived back on dry land on Monday after being plucked from his solo quest in the remote Southern Ocean.
Yann Elies was carried off the naval frigate HMAS Arunta on a stretcher shortly after it arrived at Fremantle Ports, close to the Western Australian capital Perth, at about 12.30pm (0330 GMT, 11.30am Singapore time).
TOKYO - JAPAN'S football chief has vowed to bid for the World Cup finals in 2018 or 2022, despite Tokyo's candidacy to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, press reports said on Monday.
'We want to challenge it,' Football Association president Motoaki Inukai was quoted as saying on Fifa's weekend decision to hold simultaneous bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
