Peace education

Nobel laureates and international personalities will be in the country to hold talks, workshops and dialogues over the next six months to help promote peace.

Nicol shows touch of glass to get into semis

PETALING JAYA: Malaysia’s world number one squash player Nicol David loves to strut her stuff in a glass court.

And she did it again in fending off a strong challenge from Alison Waters of England to reach the semi-finals of the Qatar Classic in Doha with a 11-4, 14-12, 11-9 win yesterday.

All the matches from the quarter-finals are played in glass courts.

After a slow start, Waters gave Nicol a hard time but the Malaysian showed that she was more than determined to get her hands on her third Qatar Classic title and wrapped up the match in 34 minutes.

The three-time world champion will take on fourth seed and former world number one Natalie Grainger of the United States today for a place in the final.

Nicol told the squashsite.co.uk that her game was improving by the day and looked forward to continue playing in the glass court.

“Playing in the glass courts suits my style of game and it gives me a feeling that I am in a competition,” she said.

A real competition is indeed in store for Nicol when she takes on Grainger, who is bent on making up for her disappointment of crashing out early in the recent world championships in Manchester.

The other semi-final is between Holland’s Natalie Grinham and Australian Rachael Grinham.

Fall in oil prices, gov't should revise budget

The government will have to revise its 2009 budget, since the projected oil revenue is likely to be adversely affected by the fall in global prices, say economists.