C'wealth opening tickets sold out

Wed, 19 Aug 1998 | 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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