The New Paper, 27 May 2007

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      Lock icon I NEVER TOOK A CENT
      1257 2  -  FUNERALS FOR .FREEy Accused of taking cuts from funeral donations/ undertaker lashes out Dawn Chia and Joyce Lim tnp@sph.com.sg THEY were all deaths that hit the headlines. At the wakes that followed, droves of people turned up to donate money. And at all of them,
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      243 2 THE funeral business can be lucrative. There are two types of undertakers: those with shops and "freelancers". Those with shops have resources, like workers and transportation, whole those without use external contractors. Mr Tay is one of the bigger players. He said: "We have our own in-house embalmer,
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      Lock icon TO HER, HE IS FOR REAL
      874 3  -  /funeralsV FOR Vfree/ the pi MRT man's widow says you have to receive undertaker's kindness to believe it Joyce Lim joycd@sph.com.sg WHY give him so much money even after he said he would do it for free? Madam Lim Sian Hua (above, at her
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      Lock icon IT'S ALL TRUE
      890 4  -  We track down CV writer (above) who says those who spread mail are childish M'SIAN CV-TURNED-JOKE WHY SHOULD I BE HURT? Tan May Ping may ping @sph. com.sg HER curriculum vitae has been making the rounds on the Internet. People have been forwarding it, thinking it's an
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      Lock icon BYE BYE SLEEP, BUY BUY
      1064 5  -  NOW THAT WE CAN EAT ALL NIGHT AND PARTY TILL DAWN, WHY DO THE SHOPS STILL SHUT AT IOPM?* Cara van Miriah caravm @sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM HONG KONG IT IS 10pm on a Wednesday night. The action has just begun. The murmuring din of busy
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      Lock icon HOT? WE JUST WANT TO PLAY BALL
      712 6  -  BEACH VOLLEYBALL WORLD TOUR They turned up the heat at Siloso Beacn this weekend, but these players don't think of themselves as stars Ho Lian-Yi lianyi@sph.com.sg SURE, not every guy can tell what's a good spike or a superb serve. But even if
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      Lock icon GROUP OF FRIENDS GIVES $80/000 FROM OWN POCKETS TO HELP OLD FOLKS
      1019 8  -  They sponsor 10-course dinner for 1,000 people, food packs for 3,000 Maureen Koh maurecnk@sph.com.sg ONE made a sizeable donation of $40,000. Others chipped in with amounts ranging from $50 to $4,000 each. They are from different walks of
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      Lock icon What $80,000 is buying
      107 8 OF the $80,000 raised, $25,000 will go towards the 10-course dinner for 100 tables. The rest of the money was for: 3,000 packages distributed to needy residents in various housing estates and in homes for the aged. Each package included skg of rice, 500g of sugar,
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      Lock icon MORE THAN JUST THE ZOO MAN'S DAUGHTER
      893 9  -  NO I don't live in Bernard Harrison's shadow YES I'm activist 1 like dad, raising funds tor hospice Ho Lian-Yi lianyi@sph.com.sg LIKE father, like daughter. Both are activists. The only difference: Dad does it for the animals while Sharda Harrison, 20, prefers to
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      53 10 WHAT: Skinned WHEN: 3 Jun, 7pm to 10pm WHERE: Fort Gate, Fort Canning Park TICKETS: $11 for students and $15 for adults, from Ticket Charge. All proceeds go to Assisi Hospice. HIGHLIGHTS: Massages, tarot-card readings, body-art painting, moving sculptures, music and comedy performances, poetry reading by
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      Lock icon SHE'S BEST FRIEND TO RAPISTS, KILLERS
      1072 11  -  Meet Bangkok prison's Aussie single mum lives on donations to care for men on death row in notorious 'Bangkok Hilton' Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com.sg 1 REPORTING FROM BANGKOK THERE is a place near Bangkok where an angel and a devil go to work together.
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      Lock icon SAD, NOT GUILTY, TO SHOOT 55 INMATES
      1057 12 GATE OF HELL Bass guitarist turns executioner SENDING CONVICTS' BODIES THROUGH THIS ALL he had to do was to squeeze the trigger of a machine gun. He didn't even have to aim at the person standing in front. But this simple action has
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      Lock icon PLEASE DON'T SEPARATE US
      725 14 PAKISTAN'S FIRST SAME-SEX COUPLE JAILED FOR MARRYING When Shumail Raj married Shahzina Tariq, the groom said that it was to protect her from being sold into another marriage by her family to settled a gambling debt. Later, the couple changed their tune and said they did
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      Lock icon IN M'SIA
      45 14 IN November 2005, Malaysian Jessie Chung (above), previously a man known as Jeffrey, married accountant Joshua Beh in a highly-publicised same-sex marriage, believed to the the first in the country. But the Malaysian government does not recognise it. file picture/ the straits times
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      95 2 Website: tnp.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800-*****55 OUR kids' own way Columnist Leong Ching finds herself caught up in trying to make her son do things her way 29 OUR demanding workouts Getting a good workout isn't about punishing your body and pushing it to its limit. Be gentle with yourself
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      106 15 \t** fUN jj the sranj^ V APORE «ACECOU« s^^ Tuesday, 29 May 2007 F- 1 Launch of \HV 1 President's Challenge 2007 with President S R Nathan REACH e^OUT r;;H!;"=Ml SINGAPORE A Getting to and from the Racecourse Vou are encouraged to use the MRT or Public Bus Services as
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  • SUN NEWS
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      Lock icon TURN IDEA OF BEAUTY ON ITS HEAD
      550 16 TWO WOMEN WHO ARE NOT YOUR TYPICAL MISS UNIVERSE CONTESTANTS... SONE has a shaven head. The other sports dreadlocks. Not the type of women you would expect to be vying for the tide of Miss Universe. But they are two bold young women
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      Lock icon HOW CAN HE RUN SO FAST ON BLADES?
      1175 17 HOW HIS ARTIFICIAL LEGS WORK No legs but South African student wants to run in Beijing Olympics SUPREME athlete or bionic man? South African paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius thinks he is good enough to take part in the Beijing Olympics. The world
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      Lock icon FANTASTIC!
      359 19 Star Wars' 30th anniversary event sees elaborate costumes, games and even a marriage proposal Wire services. MANY took photographs, others bought merchandise. But one couple made the Star Wars convention in Los Angeles even more special with a wedding proposal. Mr Shawn Grace, who flew in from New Jersey,
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      Lock icon Yoda beats Vader in stamp vote
      106 19 YODA defeated Darth Vader when it came to which Star Wars character would get his or her own stamp re-issued independently in the US. About half a million votes were cast by members of the public and Vader lost by about 10,000 votes, reported
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  • SUN NEWS
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        54 21 I think being pari of the first world is having the big F, Freedom. A place that censors or cuts can't become first world* Art is supposed to disturb people. It has to divide people. Ekachai Uekrongtfiam, director of Pleasure Factory, a film on Geylang, quoted in
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        Lock icon WOOLLY MAMMOTH
        60 21 IT'S 15m high, 18m long, weighs 96 tonnes and needed a 96-wheel trailer to move to its home near Goulbum, New South Wales. It's The Big Merrino, one of 146 huge cement and mesh sculptures around Australia. Others include The Big Prawn at Ballina in the same state
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        Lock icon KIDNEY GANG BUSTED
        85 21 PAKISTANI police said they have busted a gang trading in kidneys and arrested eight people, including five doctors. Police raided a clandestine clinic in the industrial suburbs of the eastern city of Lahore late on Friday where they caught three men and found 10 people whose kidneys
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        Lock icon 233 BECOME LAWYERS
        85 21 PARENTS, relatives and senior members of the legal fratenity were present as 233 new lawyers were called to the Singapore Bar yesterday. Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong told the new lawyers that the challenges today were bigger and more formidable than in his time, though his own
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        Lock icon NEW CO-LOCATION
        82 21 OLD folks' homes may be built next to children's orphanages in future. The Community Development, Youth and Sports Ministry believes such co-location is synergistic and will promote greater interaction between generations. Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, the Community Development, Youth Sports Minister, made this announcement at the official opening of
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        Lock icon KHAW: ELDERSHIELD DETAILS TO BE KNOWN NEXT MONTH
        147 21 HEALTH Minister Khaw Boon Wan said he will reveal details of the revamped Elder Shield next month, and hinted that a total of three insurers may offer the scheme. Currently, only two companies provide Elder Shield, a severe disability insurance scheme to
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        Lock icon CONTACT LENS SOLUTIONS WITHDRAWN
        185 21 FOR the second time in seven months, Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) is voluntarily withdrawing batches of its contact lens solutions from shelves worldwide. This time, AMO's multipurpose solution, called Complete Moistureplus, is being recalled as a precautionary measure following concerns over eye infections, caused by a
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        74 21 A GERMAN estate agent who had surgery repeatedly to boost her breast size to a 42H cup has been fired. Annina Ulrich, 29, who also models, said her boss felt pictures from her latest photo shoot were great, but her breast implants were damaging the company's image. She believes
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  • OUR Sunday
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      Lock icon See, but no touch
      1085 22  -  S'pore pay $5,000 to go on insight tours on US porn industry that allow them to Syahirah Anwar sanwar@sph.com.sg P TA TE know Singaporeans \l\l don't have much sex, V V going by our perpetually dismal performance in sex surveys conducted by condom maker Durex. But
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      365 23 HE wanted to make "business out of a hobby". And that was how Mr Ronne Pang got into the sex tour business. Mr Pang, who was previously working in a freight-forwarding company, admitted to having started watching porn since his teenage years. He started researching
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      Lock icon Man going on tour lies to wife: I'M GOING ON A 'BUSINESS TRIP'
      613 23 HE says there's nothing wrong with the sex tours. Yet, when David (not his real name) went on the tour conducted by Fantasy Gallery in 2005, he chose to keep it a secret from his wife. "I
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      Lock icon Leave kids alone, they'll find their own way
      650 24  -  Too stubborn? Too lazy? Too little like you? Leong Ching chingt@sph.com.sg I HADN'T realised what a little comedian my son was until I heard roars of laughter from his room one day. I peeped in to find the little Soon Yung holding
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      Lock icon I have no gift for buying gifts
      748 25  -  Siva Choy Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg I WAS shopping for a present in a gift shop the other day and I asked the lady why there were price tags on all the items. "Gifts are supposed to be free, right?" I said. "So why are
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      Lock icon He's white. I'm not. So what?
      628 26  -  Adapting to personality differences was bigger challenge Ivy Ong-Wood Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg I AM Chinese, Tubby Hubby (TH) is English. "So how come you don't write funny stuff about mixed marriages?" readers sometimes ask me. Because I honestly don't see our marriage as different from
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      Lock icon Slim in size, big on features
      520 27  -  Motorola fights back with new models Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com.sg ONE is called a media monster and boasts the world's first "kick-slider" form factor. Another is described as the slimmer, more stunning version of an existing model. These were the sexy descriptions of two
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      Lock icon Here's what you get
      237 27 TAKE a closer look at Motorola's new handphones. Prices were unavailable L at press time: What: MOTO Z8 When: Available in Europe in June and in Asia later this year Why: Kick-slide phone with a wide array of multimedia features and huge memory storage. Features: Fast
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      Lock icon Just breathe
      697 28  -  Nithya Yoga teaches us that wellness isn't about torturing our bodies with exericise and odd contortions Or Joseph Guan Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg HOW do you know if the struggle for fitness leads to wellness or if it results in body trauma? If you are one of those who thinks
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      Lock icon How to be a MILLIONAIRE HAWKER
      933 29  -  Clue: You don't need to know cooking. Just hire others who can cook K.F. Scetoh Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg THERE has been so much buzz in my ears lately over recent media articles on millionaire hawkers and the taxman. A friend, Ms Annie How (not her
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      Lock icon Got a pain in the neck?
      454 30  -  These exercises for office can help ease stiffness DESK YOGA PART 1 Bharat Thakur tnp@sph.com.sg DO you work in an office at a desk? Or do you spend hours at the computer surfing the Intnernet? Many of us spend our entire working lives in
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  • OUR SUNDAY
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      Lock icon BIG WALK DOWN MENORY LANE
      217 32 Mr Suhaimi Abdullah, 36, was at the Big Walk in 2005 when a boy on his father's shoulder caught his eye and he snapped a picture (below). It has been picked as the best Big Walk photograph this week. Mr Suhaimi wins a Motorola SLVR
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      Lock icon SUNDAY SOCIAL
      300 34 Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages t0... tnpforum@sph.com.sg Dearest Rosabel, Thanks for loving me. Wishing you Happy Birthday and may all your wishes come true. Your
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  • SUN RACING
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      Lock icon TODAY'S HONG KONG (SHA TIN) RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD
      1336 36 1 illM K ffMi YttAMA ■0. HORSE SAME TRANER JOCKEY WT(») IM 1 COP INU. LAO TWl H K Yim(-2) 132 8 2 CELESTIAL WONDER SA K T Yeung(-7) 131 5 3 STRAIGHT VICTORY TKN W M Lai(-2) 131 2
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      Lock icon THE ONE CAN SEE OUT MILE
      1037 36 RACE 1: Cop Hill Lad (1) had strung together two solid runs, including a win three starts back over this trip, before an excusable recent failure from an outside gate on rain-affected going. He can make amends in a terribly shallow race. As You
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      Lock icon SUNDAY TOPTIPS
      243 37 SUNDAY TOPTIPS S3 m <p r;-± M Danny A f Ji*Vin (Tfjff 5 Ready For Battle cih.V;. r.'.t i.r\ t ence m VM kp?fi 7 Jeram New Power r f.'1 )•«>',u 1 r»vvri 3 Smart Decision fill! IIV. I'Hli < 8 Sky "Element 10 Power Of Nine <
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      Lock icon LAST FRIDAY'S SINGAPORE TURF CLUB STIPENDIARY STEWARDS' REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
      1006 37 RACE 1: HK Cheng was allowed to ride o.skg overweight on BATMAN CITY. He was fined $200 for not being able to make the correct weight. SUPER BEST began awkwardly, got his head up and lost ground. On jumping, ROYAL MARINE
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      Lock icon TODAY'S IPOH RACE CARD GOING FORECAST: GOOD
      1622 38 No. Last 6 rum HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 67-522 Sileet Proxy 57 (48) M Razaii c2* 1 (4nzg Peter Lee-Sakthi) 2 *****0 Vegas Spirit 57 (48) CSegeon 5 (5ag S Cook-United Spirit) 3 *****0 Brasil 56 (46) S Salomon
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      Lock icon BEST BET
      66 38 LIM'S GALAXY (Race 3 No. 6): This Kranji exile has been enjoying a new lease of life having notched a win and two seconds from his last three starts under South African stalwart Martin Wepner. His form stands out like a sore thumb here. Again enjoying a light
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      Lock icon MUDLARKS
      89 38 RACE 1: Brasil, Winning Smile, Sunshine Beauty, July In Gold, Popular. RACE 2: Boleh Boleh, The Swordsman, Perugino Power, Tashi Delek, Baluna Park, Hogansville, Tiger Heart. RACE 3: Eagle Phoenix, Lim's Galaxy, Chevochelle, Eaton Square. RACE 4: Magic Sapphire, Sure Cut, Consequential, Sunshine Sunbright. RACE 7: Tycoon Forever, Koromiko,
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S IPOH RESULTS GOING: GOOD
      679 39 1 MAS m 52 5 (99-24) ISofkM (11) 5 4 1 (460) 1 9 8 GREATEST 57 (12-5} MAM JOGGE* 51 (14-5) MM PMMBT 51 (256-55) _J AzUar (5) 9 SHIm ]l 3 J MM (10 2 8 3 2 2 3 4 It 1.25
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      Lock icon OLDIES SERVE UP GOODIES
      304 39  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg IT was very much a "senior citizens' show" in Race 5 at Ipoh yesterday. Two seasoned campaigners, with 172 starts between them, dominated the Class 5 Div 4 event over 1,400 m. Kranji exile Flashman, a nine-year-old galloper relocated from Don Baertschiger's yard
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S PERTH RESULTS GOING: GOOD
      551 39 Race 1 "WESTSPEED 3Y0 H'CAP 2 LBMl 58 (9-5) SBreMv (3) 1 3 PMLEZ TWE 56 (28-7) J tram (5) 2 1 LEXKXM «U 56 (30-7) A llMlfr (8) 3 Traiaar FR Kersley. Margies: 2.25,1.25, Hd. Tiara: 1min 40.2sec. PUceTerecast: $6 (Nos. 1-2), $9 (Nos.
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  • Sunday SPORTS Mad about golf
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      Lock icon Wentworth in all its glory
      842 40 Mad about golf I'VE been attending the PGA Championship at Wentworth for 16 years and I have to say that having spent a few days there at the start of this week, the tournament has surely never been in finer fettle. This is the time
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      Lock icon Fisher flounders after fine start
      427 41 PA Sport. ROSS Fisher, on the course where he learned to play golf, jumped into the lead in the European Tour's flagship event yesterday and then crashed out of it. While Justin Rose had an early double-bogey in his third round at the BMW PGA
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      Lock icon Maestro mum is Bae's ace
      617 42 AFP. AT 20, he is still very much tied to his mother's apron strings. But that is meant as a compliment not an insult. For he does it only when it comes to caddying for him in big tournaments like this SK Telecom Open on
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      Lock icon Overtime boost for Clark
      595 43 AP. TIM Clark had the perfect remedy to overcome a stiff neck and an extended day of golf: antiinflammatory medicine and a steady dose of fairways and greens. Clark had to play the back nine of his opening round on Friday, then got only a brief
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      Lock icon Sporting Hairy
      127 43 HAIRY Abdul Rahman took a mighty swipe with the new Callaway FT-i, the square-faced driver sending his ball to 232 metres on the par-four fifth hole at Laguna National's Masters course. And he became the clear winner in the Nokia Golf Day longest drive contest, receiving a $300
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      300 43 Wire Services. BETH Bader carded a six-under-par 66 to climb into a one-shot lead following Friday's second round of the USLPGA Corning Classic. With a two-day total of 13-under 131, Bader sits just in front of South Korea's Young Kim, who continued her
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        595 44 AP. TWO-time Formula One champion Fernando Alonso won the pole position for today's Monaco Grand Prix ahead of McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Alonso completed the 3.34 km twisting street circuit in 1 minute, 15.726 seconds yesterday to win his first pole this season
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        257 45 Wire Services. SPECTATORS at the British Grand Prix this year will witness a new "classy chassis" in the shape of former Hollyoaks hottie Gemma Atkinson. "I always loved cars," declared the model. "I was quite a tomboy when I was little and spent
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      877 46 So Chelsea are not coming to Singapore and Formula One's arriving only next year. But PRISCILLA CHEW presents a quick glance at key sports events for the next six months to keep you occupied MAY What: Swatch FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour When: Today Where: Siloso
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      831 48 Formula One heads to Singapore next year. Suddenly, the new buzzwords are lifestyle and sports. ERNEST LUIS asks if anything can be done to bring in another similar sports event to add more diversity to the local sports calendar Formula one is what they
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        978 49 Five local personalities who are Chelsea fans tell us why they like Jose Mourinho, and why they want him to stay I LOVE Jose Mourinho. He has built a team which is united and would never say die. I feel he should stay and continue what
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        869 50 England generally doesn't like Jose Mourinho. That's the feeling IVAN LIM got when he was in London recently YOU get the feeling that the football fan in England couldn't care less if Jose Mourinho left this season. There is, at best, a grudging
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        743 50  -  Priscilla Chew npsports@sph.comsg "I think he's a special manager who dares to voice his opinion. I think he exudes a certain charisma unlike Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsene Wenger." Yvette Oh, 18, Student, Chelsea fan "He's very controversial but funny. Basically, he
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      290 51 PA Sport. SVEN-Goran Eriksson has offered Manchester City an open invitation to make contact over their vacant manager's position. Eriksson (right) is on the lookout for a new challenge after taking a year out following his departure from the England hotseat last August. The Swede has been
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      374 51 Dear readers, With the majority of football fans in Singapore being Liverpool fans, it's no wonder there are still disgruntled murmurs, after Milan beat their favourite team in the Champions League final last week. Milan were lucky. Liverpool were unlucky. The Italians are always lucky.
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      701 53 Gary Nevilie'B"new^p5lS Wire Services. WHEN it comes to designing their dream homes, footballers are not generally known to have an eye for pretty details and nice touches. But Manchester United captain Gary Neville has excelled with this 12-bedroom monster big enough to accommodate the entire team plus
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      473 55  -  Wang Meng Meng npsports®sph.comsg MY name is Back-ham. David Back-ham. Bow in front of my elite uncaring face, you peasants. The man who makes Britain great moi, has finally come home to roost, and this is no cock and bull stoiy. You may have thought
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      484 56  -  Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg IT'S David Back-ham. But how long will it last? Some 288 days and nine England games later, the country's saviour-problem child, depending on who you believe, has been summoned for national duty. Steve McClaren, who wielded the axe in the first place, finally relented
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