NO TO SPORTS BETTING !

Former national footballer Radhi Mat Din was unveiled as the poster boy for the PAS nation-wide anti-sports betting campaign, at a ceramah at the 56th PAS muktamar in Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan late last night. Radhi Mat Din, The Kedah state football coach, spoke to the 3000-strong crowd after kicking off the Kelantan-level campaign at the Islamic Tarbiyah Centre where the muktamar is being held. He decried the federal government's legalization of sports betting after its failure to curb illegal gambling. He laments the reduction of the sport into one of profit and loss, saying the focus on money will cause the decline of...