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FREE COPY September 1 - 15, 2018 PP 14252/10/2012(031136) 30 SEN FOR DELIVERY TO YOUR DOORSTEP – ASK YOUR NEWSVENDOR ISSUE 288 100,000 print readers Bimonthly 1,033,733 online hits (Jul) – verifiable SUKMA GAMES XIX 2018 By Ili Aqilah Yus Amirul he Sukma Games (Sukan Malaysia, literally Malaysian Games) is a biannual national multi-sport event involving young athletes from the country’s 13-member states and Federal Territory. T It was initiated by the then Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Anwar Ibrahim in 1983. The rationale was that a national games will help improve quality, produces and encourages athletes to participate in sports at state level, improve officials’ expertise, encourages the building of new and the upgrading of existing sporting facilities at state level and inculcate a national-integration spirit among Malaysians. The inaugural games, supposed to have begun in the months of August and September 1985 and consisting of six events namely, tennis, table tennis, cycling, athletics, sepak takraw and volleyball did not go as planned. A counter proposal by the public to include additional events was submitted and accepted by the National Sports Council of Malaysia. A decision was also made to hold the games every two years beginning 1986 and one that alternates with the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. Continued on page 2 Howard Lee with Taekwondo athletes Kinta Valley Geopark – Global Geo-tourism Destination erak is about to have another new tourism attraction that will feature prominently, nationally and globally. P Tan Kar Hing, Executive Councillor for Tourism, Arts and Culture, said Kinta Valley is not only located within a mountainous region but is brimming with historical, cultural and natural artifacts.
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