Section: Bangkok Post (Thailand)
Doubts over planned polls in restive east Ukraine
PARIS – Crucial elections should be held in eastern Ukraine by the end of July, the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France agreed, but questions remain over Kiev and Moscow’s ability to seal the deal. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Superb City have quarter-finals in sight
KIEV – Manchester City may be toiling domestically at the moment but they produced a superb European away performance to beat Dynamo Kiev 3-1 in Ukraine in their Champions League last 16, first leg on Wednesday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Manchester City revert to type in Kiev
KIEV – Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has named his strongest possible team for the Champions League last 16, first leg against Dynamo Kiev in Ukraine on Wednesday after controversially making a raft of changes at the weekend. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Pellegrini confident City will end recent slump in Kiev
KIEV – Manuel Pellegrini insisted his Manchester City players are fully focused as they look to end a run of three successive defeats in their Champions League last 16, first leg tie at Dynamo Kiev on Wednesday. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine PM Yatsenyuk survives no confidence vote
KIEV – Ukraine’s embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk survived a no confidence vote in his government Tuesday that came just hours after the president asked him to stand down. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko asks PM Yatsenyuk to resign
KIEV (UKRAINE) – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday asked embattled Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the country’s controversial prosecutor general to resign because both had lost the public’s trust. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Pellegrini could snub FA Cup in Euro scheduling row
LONDON – Manuel Pellegrini is on a collision course with the Football Association after Manchester City’s FA Cup tie against Chelsea was moved to just three days before the club’s Champions League clash with Dynamo Kiev. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Shakhtar’s midfielder Teixeira in record 50 mln euro move to China
BEIJING – Chinese side Jiangsu Suning bought Brazilian midfielder Alex Teixeira from Ukraine’s Shakhtar Donetsk for 50 million euros ($56 million) on Friday, the Chinese club said on its verified microblog, the latest Europe-based player to head east. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Ukraine sticks Russia with massive gas bill
KIEV – Ukraine on Friday stepped up its economic warfare with Russia by demanding a mult-billion-dollar payment from the Gazprom gas giant for allegedly underpaying Kiev for its fuel transits to European states. …read more Source: Bangkok...
Martin stops Glagov for IBF heavyweight crown
NEW YORK – Unbeaten US southpaw Charles Martin won the vacant International Boxing Federation heavyweight title Saturday when Ukraine’s Vyacheslav Glazkov stopped after suffering a right knee injury. …read more Source: Bangkok...
