C'wealth opening tickets sold out

Wed, 19 Aug 1998, 00:00 WIB | Source: AP

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Tickets for the opening ceremony of the
Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games have sold out and closing
ceremony seats are almost fully booked, a news report said
yesterday.

Ticket sales for the games, which run from Sep. 11 to Sep. 21,
reached 299,065 over the weekend, Youth and Sports Minister
Muhyiddin Yasin was quoted as saying in the New Straits Times
newspaper.

The figure included some 57,000 tickets on sale for the Sept.
11 opening ceremony. Thirty thousand additional seats had been
reserved for athletes, guests and officials.

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