The New Paper, 5 August 2007

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    • 53 1 > think Panel calls for more hard-hitting I interview programmes on S'poreTVbut... Are you ready for HARD TALK? Exposed: Fake passport chop x syndicate r Crushed: S'pore music teacher's fingers in car accident cc— Crushed: Her joy of playing the piano Crushed: Her love duets with hubby Singapore Holdings MICA(P)
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 1069 2  -  CAR CRASH I RUINSPIAN^ teacher?ljfe| She wants: for loss of 4 fingers for loss of future earnings for medical expenses, loss of earnings so far Karen Wong karen@sph.com.sg HER Yamaha piano sits silently in her home, its ivory keys never to be touched again.
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    • 913 4  -  Immigration officer's probe of forged passport endorsement leads to fake stamp operation Joyce Lim joycel@sph.com.sg THE Thai prostitute lied. And her taxi driver denied any knowledge of a syndicate. But Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers weren't fooled. Their persistent investigations uncovered a Malaysian syndicate that was
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    • 61 4 1. Zaw Min Oo contacts syndicate runner to help overstaying Thai prostitute girlfriend Sunantna O-Sot save 2. Malaysian Gan Chin Huat takes her passport to Malaysia to get fake social visit stamp from syndicate > 3. Sunantha and Gan go to Causeway. They give passports but
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    • 194 4 THAI prostitute, Sunantha O-Sot, 27, was sentenced to eight weeks' jail and fined $2,000 for overstaying and possession of irregular Social Visit Pass (SVP) endorsement. For abetting the Thai woman in possession of irregular SVP endorsement, 44-year-old Malaysian Gan Chin Huat, was sentenced to two months' jail. The
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    • 685 5  -  Changi Airport mishap delays flignts WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED Scenario 1 Air control tower wrong instructions to ono of (Im -H-.-fnc piiore. H Scenario 2 One of the pilots mishears Hie instructions from the air control tower* For example, he could have been
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    • 710 6  -  He buys $10,600 bike, pays $4,000 in instalments ■When he's jailed, family returns bike REPORTS AND PICTURES Hedy Khoo hedYkhoo@sph.com.sg JUST when he thought he had cleared his debt to society, he finds himself facing bankruptcy. During the four years he was in
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    • 363 6 SHOP SAYS: THE shop insists that it had written to Mr Mohamed about the charges involved when the bike was returned. But the shop would not say if the bike was sold after its long stay in storage. A spokesman for the shop, Yuh
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    • 773 7  -  Ng Tze Yong tzeyong@sph.comsg Dear you, Yes, you. You, the kopitiam pundit; you, the forever-complaining taxi driver and you, the angsty teenage rebel. You who always have something to say about the "Gar-men", but prefer to do it under the cloak of
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    • 200 7 TWO recent announcements raised the question: Is the Government ready for hard talk? Other than producing Singapore's own version of Larry King Live and Hardtalk, MediaCorp was encouraged to acquire CBS News' 60 Minutes and BBC's Panorama. Such "hard-hitting and well-researched" current affairs programmes would allow
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    • 479 8  -  For lads with hot girls cars We, the citizens of Singapore, are one big, proud tribe about to celebrate National Day with gusto. But within the Singaporean tribe are various sub-tribes. What defines each tribe? One way to define us, perhaps, is by what we
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    • 227 9 MEN'SHEAUH 1 THOUGHT the next big thing was the hunk on July's Men's Health, the mag dubbed '100% useful!'. For its dps on beefing-up, how to: have explosive sex, run the half-marathon, eat chicken curry without packing on pounds, and dress to impress. A colleague
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      304 9 HER WORLD HER World is as old as your mother. Men read it on the throne at home. You are in its thrall under the hairdryer at the salon. The No 1 fave mag, at $6, is today 10 times what it cost when I first read
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    • 620 10 BERITA HARIAN TAMIL MURASU Continued from previous page The daily newspaper Berita Harian is 50 while Tamil Murasu 72. BH used to be "bapa's paper" read by the head of the house; a |>MEB said. "Even my wife reads it (now), especially during pyeekends, for the shopping and
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    • 748 11  -  Woman: I delayed delivery because of personal problems S'pore woman accused of Net swop scam She agrees to swop makeup with foreign women but they allege... Tan Mae Lynn maelynn@sph.com.sg BEAUTY has reared its ugly head in an Internet forum. At least three women
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    • 338 12 She says he also took nude shots of her while she slept PENANG WOMAN CLAIMS: AN allegation of rape has been made by a woman in Penang against one of the upholders of the law. The woman, a mother of five in her thirties, claims that she
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    • 336 13 MUM OF STUDENT KILLED IN KAJANG SAYS: DON'T go to Kuala Lumpur. Go to Singapore, Madam Kong Su Har pleaded with her daughter Tang Lai Meng. The girl, 20, was found dead in Kajang, Selangor on Thursday. Ms Tang, a student is
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    • 207 13 She has 'gender disorder' A Hong Kong girl (right) wanted to be like her elder brother so much, she started dressing like him when she was 14. Three years ago, when she was 16, she stole his identity card and pretended to be
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      798 14  -  Poultry farms turn M'sian town from picturesque paradise to... Teh Jen Lee jenlee@sph.com.sg IMAGINE having to sweep your home floor at least three times a day because it is covered with thousands of dead flies. Or having to wash your clothes again after they were hung out to
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    • 83 15 Ttie housefly or musca domestica is the most common fly in homes They take in only liquid food by spitting saliva to pre-digest matter before sucking it in They breed in organic waste, rubbish and animal excrement Flies can transmit food-borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid and dysentery
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    • 80 15 Three most common flies here are the housefly (musca domestica), blue-bottle fly (chrysomya spp) and fleshfly (sarcophaga spp) There were 282 complaints about flies last year In the first seven months of this year, there have been 154 complaints, slightly more than the 147 lodged in the
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    • 1056 16 M'sia Today's Raja Petra questioned by cops for insulting King on website INSULT the King? How can he do that, he says, when the King has been his buddy for a long time? If he is guilty of the offence, Raja Petra Kamaruddin
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    • 395 18 Identity theft hits MySpace IN the real world, Cathy Wilson (not her real name) is a sensible 25-year-old working two jobs to save for a deposit on a flat. But check out the MySpace website, and there seems to be another side to the
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    • SNAPSHOT
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        37 19 THEY ARE NOT SO WELL-OFF AS TO BE ABLE TO SCOFF AT MURDOCH'S MONEY. James Ottaway, a retired Dow Jones executive, on the Bancroft clan selling The Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp
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      • 89 19 DISGRACED former National Kidney Foundation chairman Richard Yong was in court yesterday, facing 10 charges, hours after he was extradited from Hong Kong. He had fled Singapore after being declared a bankrupt for failing to pay about $1 million in legal costs and damages to the
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      • 72 19 A 12m lorry carrying 18 tonnes of potatoes overturned on its side at about 5.30pm on Friday as it was driving through a roundabout on Tuas Road, in the direction of Juroiig Road. Two workers had to carry the 30kg sacks to the side before reloading them on
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      • 89 19 THE government has decided to put off a plan to quarry granite in Pulau Übin because the "industry is able to diversify and import adequate granite from many sources". In a news release, the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) added that there was no drop in the
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      • 94 19 THE Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) has banned meat imports from the UK with immediate effect. The move came after 60 animals on a farm near London were tested positive with foot-and-mouth disease. The ban includes pork, mutton and beef, but canned pork and
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      • 160 19 Move to improve housing grants THE Housing and Development Board (HDB) is looking into improving the Additional CPF Housing Grant to offer more help to more households. National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan made the announcement yesterday at the Tampines East National Day dinner.
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      • 234 19 AN 83-year-old woman working to support herself and her 103-year-old mother. That was the subject of a report in The New Paper nearly two years ago. Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, remembers it, and in a speech yesterday, used
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      • 64 19 BRITISH businesses are losing more than £50 million (slssm) a year because employees are skipping work on Friday afternoons. A growing number of staff are treating the last afternoon of the working week as an unofficial holiday, a study claims. Top excuses for starting the weekend early are a
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    • 75 3 S a/i tnp@sph.com .sg Hotline: 1800-*****55 H fc if (< 0 M I OUR maligned star? Sun Ho takes on her online critics who diss her sexy new video (above) 22 OUR New Faces The New Paper New Face finalists step out of their comfort zone to take on... chilli
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    • 76 18 WatclfirUVEloii^ ASTROVISION Singapore's Largesjifl Outdoor en Manchester VS Chelse^H United u,ur«< I pi i«M| vuzi&B.Pß&S* »ni 1?' m Venue: Singapore Racecourse Date: 5 Aug 2007, Sunday Time: 9.30pm Free Admission* 'Admission and parking at the racecourse is tree after 7pm. Lower Grandstand Admission only for 18 years and above Snacks
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 987 20  -  S'porean pop star Sun Ho cqtcnesflqk fori 'slutty' music video. The pastor's wife asks; Chang Mey Choen changmc&sph. coirusg Homecoming is usually a sweet, blissful affair for most. Not lipr Sun Ho. The Singaporean singer said she gets anxiety attacks before flying home from the
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    • 339 20 IF Sun Ho had her way, she'd be crooning about Singapore in her first English single. "Don't laugh, but at first we wanted it to be something Singapura, since I'm from Singapore. "But we tried it and Clef (co-writer Wyclef Jean) said, 'I don't think
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    • 636 21  -  so why don't we drop them? Siva Choy Columnist tnpQsph.comjg A COURIER came to my door last week, handed me a parcel, then handed me a clipboard with an address list on it and asked me to sign it to acknowledge delivery. Since he didn't ask me
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    • 159 21  -  We search the heartlands and tell you about the gorgeous people we meet, Adeline Ong THIS spunky girl left her home in Selangor for Singapore to be a web designer. JuMta Gaudy, 21, likes Singapore for its cleanliness, accessibßity and security. JuMta, who did part-time modelling
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 523 23  -  Leong Ching chingl@sph.com.sg AGAINST a green canopy of mature trees, four lithe bodies bent gracefully like pink little flowers. A strict French woman the young ballet teacher rapped out a command and pointed her toes. The four little girls shadowed her obediendy. Their stick-thin legs
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    • 300 24  -  bitchaboutcorner Joyce Lim joyctl@sph.comjg HAVE you ever walked into a store and had a salesgirl tell you that: (a) you are too fat, (b) you are too ugly, or (c) you are too old, and then try to sell you some magic
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    • 406 25  -  BEYOND THE OMiWftliK It's a break from the catwalk and the New Faces who cook up a storm get... Chong Zheng Ying chongzy@sph.comsg IT'S more than photoshoots, catwalks and glamourous parties for the top 20 The New Paper New Face 2007 finalists. They get
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    • 265 26 BESIDES cooking, our finalists also got in touch with their artistic sides. With special permanent, non-toxic paints provided by Art Friend, Mariam Wright and Nicole Tan got their hands dirty creating their glass painting masterpieces. This workshop was organised under The New Paper Lifestyle
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    • 745 27  -  Joe Nathan Lourdes tnp@sph.com.sg YOU are your dreams, every single bit of it. It is as simple as that. As a hypnotist, I have often been asked about the significance of dreams and how to interpret them. I found that even the absence of dreams
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    • 773 28  -  Curry fish head Kaya toast K F Seetoh tnp@sph.com.sg I RECENTLY hosted 18 very sleepy and hungry weekend feasting foodies. Held in conjunction with the Singapore Food Festival, it was basically a mindless excuse to masticate for four hours all over our little red dot
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    • 494 29  -  YOGA FOR COSMETIC BEAUTY 6 Bharat Thakur Columnist tnp@sph.c0m.5g WHAT sort of chin and jaw line do you have? Is it toned and firm or do you need to do some work on toning this area? When we were younger, we don't pay much attention to
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 102 30 OUR SUflDflY IF YOU MUST STAY IN ALL DAY... 7th Heaven Treasure Hunter Guinness 9-Ball Tour 2007 Frozen Impact (Movie) Planet's Funniest Animals Extreme Makeover Windfall (Drama) JAGTGilmore Girls Gilmore Girls The Simpsons (Sitcom) Legally Blonde 2 (Movie) News 5 Tonight Ugly Betty Lost III Solitary (Variety) Nip/Tuck III iHi'.V
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    319 31 OUR SUIIDfW 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 to... tnpforum@sph.com.sg Mummy said it's good to do charity, so we bought this Shrek hairband to help unfortunate
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  • SUN RACING
    • 1515 33 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 Mi. Utftn M HOME VI IMta| jMtor ■ani m (A§aAw%t«/an, tui— 1 -***** 2 *****Malay iav* iM Catfda 57 (42) 555 (39) HUW| Mtaaart 8 4 (5wm D B*ertsch>flflr-Aunc) (4(120 S Gray Slephoo Gray) (6)prto L Tratoar-Triumphant)
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    • 58 33 (Race 2 No. 3) BEST BET THIS good-looking three-year-old by Testa Rossa was far from disgraced when beaten by King Fury at his Kranji debut last month. He loomed menacingly outside the winner at the 200 m but found a superior rival. He has benefited from the
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    • 82 33 RACE 3s Leading Witness, Alpha Leonis, Royal Warrant, Patchouli, Landau, Coffeentea, New Leader. RACE 5: Trigger Express, Echague, Worth The Wait, Zoid, Manuka, Titan Fun. RACE 7: Barcelona, Baby Emperor, Golden Hawk, Challenger, Coppola, How Can Stop, Veeandvee, Just Steel, Brandy Dry. RACE 8: Party Boy Taipei, Lim's Ocean.
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    • 105 34 4^ r<is^i Pj 1 3 BeA Man 2Golden Flame S Premier Night 1 OPEN SEASON 4 Dark General 2 Imperialardo 6 Rooky's Man Sum's Ocean 2 Music Muter 1 Ace 1 Royal Oaooer 4 Ace ate 5 King Of Honour IBeA M*I.. J 1V« 'If Sfcewier 1
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    • 1881 34 RACE 1 1 Rainy Days Last run was so-so. Has been supported lately, so pay to keep safe in what looks an ordinary race. 2 Sea Cookie** Blinkers on for this and should have admirers here alter going okay at his last run 3
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      405 35  -  Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg JOCKEY of the moment, Noel Callow, started the current month just as he ended the previous with a big bang. The 32-year-old Australian, who rode an unprecedented 20 winners in the past month at Kranji, piled on three more at yesterday's mixed meeting to take
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    • 1484 35 GOING: GOODi 2 NMM 57.5 (19-5) .R FraN (8) 1 1 1 (496) 7 MRVERSEST1R 50 c 50.5 (111-20) RStMMrt (3) 5 6 2 (497) 0.5 5 RMROKTMEROU 53.5 (62-13) 0 Cfcmz (5) 6 4 3 (495) 2.25 3 HHW 54.5 (14-7) J
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    • 482 35 GOING: GOOD Race 1 VB MID 1400m 6 UCOUREUK 54 (54-12) 8 SPY tUm 54 (81-16) 9 Hmt*| J Whttiflfl t J 4 MMCRLYM 54 (76-16) M Farter (2) 3 Trainer LP Luciani Margins: 0.5, nk, 1.25. Tine: 1min 26.68sec Forecast: $188. Place Forecast: $33 (Nos.
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    • 1312 36 YESTERDAY'S SINGAPORE STIPES' REPORT HIGHLIGHTS JOCKEY Danny Chee (right) copped a three-day suspension for his careless handling of RISE TO GLORY in Race 6 last Friday week. At die conclusion of an inquiry last Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to a charge of careless riding in
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  • SPORTS
    • 789 37 Mad about golf IT shouldn't be a big deal, not in this 21st century world of equality. But, historically, golf hasn't always walked in step with the rest of society, so it definitely is a big deal. The Women's British Open, currently being
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      898 38 Sabbatini keeps Woods and Co. at bay AP. RORY Sabbatini continued to make a difficult golf course look like a breeze on Friday, culminating his round with three straight birdies for another three-under 67 and a two-shot lead over Zach Johnson in the Bridgestone Invitational. What appeared to
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    • 68 38 Reuters. CANADIAN Mike Weir withdrew from the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational during Friday's second round because of a neck injury. The 37-year-old from Ontario was 12-over-par for the tournament after 10 holes when he depided to pull out. Left-hander Weir, a seven-time winner on the PGA Tour who clinched his
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    • 294 38 Reuters. BRITAIN'S Paul Casey remained upbeat, despite tumbling out of the lead in punishing conditions. One of three pacesetters after opening with a 67 at fiery Firestone Country Club, Casey dropped three shots in the last three holes to card a three-over-par 73, which
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    • 502 39  -  Godfrey Robert npsports@sph.com.sg WANT a good golfing challenge? Then drive to the eastern coast of Singapore and test your skills at the Changi Golf Club's nine-hole layout. And if you want to believe that golf is a humbling game, then stroll up and down the
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    • 256 39 AFP. WORLD No. 1 Tiger Woods will have US rivals Rich Beem and Bob Tway starting alongside him in the first two rounds of this week's 89th PGA Championship in pairings announced on Friday. Defending champion Woods, seeking his fourth PGA Championship and 13th
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    • 264 40 World No. I takes stroke lead WORLD No. 1 Lorena Ochoa flexed her muscles and showed her class when she grabbed a one-stroke lead in the Ricoh Women's British Open yesterday. Ochoa (left), chasing her first triumph in a Major, played her third round like a veteran,
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    • 284 40 AFP. MICHELLE Wie believes she can reverse her alarming slump which threatens to see her tumbling out of the world's top 50. The American teenager (left), one of the hottest properties in women's golf, as well as one of its top earners, carded a horrendous second-round
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    • 340 40 SENIOR professionals from more than 25 countries will compete in the AIA Singapore Asian Senior Masters 2007 Championship at the Jurong Country Club from 10-16 Sept. Among the big names are Taiwan's Hsieh Min Nan, who competed in the 1972 World Cup, Australia's Brian Jones, the 1978
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • 1015 42 THE New Paper's story on Singapore's squash scene began with the following phone conversation. This writer: Just double-checking, so this is the same Kallang Squash Centre...the one that's always been there next to the tennis courts right? Public relations officer for
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    • 291 43 IF you can't take them to a squash court in Kallang, why not take the court to them? That's the philosophy behind the Singapore Squash Rackets Association's (SSRA) Mini-Squash programme. Because of the lack of public courts now in the Singapore sports
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    • 1238 44  -  Timothy Collings Special Correspondent FEW men in world motor racing cross swords with Bernie Ecclestone. He is known for getting his own way. If not always, nearly always. In short, what Bernie says usually gets done and what Bernie wants to happen usually happens. So
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    • 288 45 AFP FERNANDO Alonso's charge for a third consecutive world tide picked up pace yesterday. The Spaniard pounced on team-mate Lewis Hamilton's misfortune to grab pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hamilton had looked set to claim pole but a hold up in die
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    • 404 46 Wire Services. SHIELD your eyes Chelsea have a new away kit. The luminous yellow number has been unveiled gradually by the club over the past two weeks perhaps for fear that sudden exposure could lead to temporary blindness but yesterday it was revealed in its full
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    • 331 46 Wire Services. ARSENAL have, literally, written their history into their away kit for the new season. Printed in grey, in a horizontal band across a white shirt, is the story of Herbert Chapman, the club's manager between 1925 and 1934. Defenders who get
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    • 17 47 Last season's standings P Promoted from Championship League REUTERS
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    • 514 48 PA Sport FERNANDO Torres did not have to wait as long as Peter Crouch did. Liverpool's £20 million (s6om) signing scored his first goal for the club yesterday as Liverpool beat Chinese side Shanghai Shenhau 2-0 in the Rotterdam tournament yesterday morning (Singapore time).
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    • 346 48 PA Sport SO what else is new? England striker Michael Owen is crocked again. This time, it is a tnigh injury which has ruled him out for the start of the English Premier League season. Owen, whose career on Tyneside has been
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    • 410 49 Reuters ALEXANDRO Pato has often been compared to Kaka. Now imagine both of them playing in the same team. AC Milan fans will be salivating at the thought of the Brazilian duo terrorising opposition defences after the European champions won the race to sign Pato from
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    • 182 49 PA Sport STEVE McClaren's worst fears have been confirmed. Los Angeles Galaxy coach Frajak Yallop admits David Beckham is a major doubt for England's friendly with Germany at Wembley later this month. The former England captain has missed the American side's last three games
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    • 146 49 Reuters REAL Madrid have offered Chelsea a combined bid of up to 42 million euros ($88 m) for Michael Ballack and Arjen Robben. Spanish media reported yesterday that the Spanish champions have been negotiating for Robben for a number of weeks, but now want Ballack
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    • COMMUNITY SHIELD 2007
      • 737 50 You must have wished for Carlos Tevez to be playing for the Red Devils at Wembley tonight. But the Argentinian striker will only be a special guest of Manchester United after the Premier League gave him the all-clear to complete his £30m move to Old
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      • 960 50 PA Sport. 31 Aug, 2006: West Ham pull off what is seen as a major transfer coup by signing Carlos Tevez and his Argentina team-mate Javier Mascherano. 1 Sep: Hammers admit having "exploratory discussions" over a possible takeover. Businessman Kia Joorabchian, who engineered die transfer of Tevez
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      • 977 51 UM HAN MING throws up candid questions to eight The New Paper readers on the big Wembley Stadium match Chester Low, 42, comics writer, Man U fan Chaw Ming Yew, 33, unemployed, Liverpool Ian. Nor Hadi, 27, teacher, Singapore tan Peter Dairies, 55, teacher, Swindon
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      • 316 51 Wire Services FORMER top referee Graham Poll believes die England captaincy should be taken away from John Terry. Until the defender shows more respect to officials. Poll, who retired from the game at the end of last season, had a run-in with
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      • 470 52  -  TEXT: BRIAN MILLER TEAM FACTS: LIM HAN MING INJURIES/ r* tchTN. SUSPENSIONS: VWcSJL 1 MANCHESTER VqrKTSJ UNITED: Scholes, Dong, Foster, Neville, Park, Saha (injured); Hargreaves (doubtful) CHELSEA: Ballack, Bridge (injured); Terry, Makelele, Essien, Diarra, Shevchenko, Robben (doubtful) HEAD-TO-HEAD: MAN U 64; CHELSEA 40; draws
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      • 494 52  -  Dave Tindall PA Sport STARVED of football over the off-season, punters are desperate for a fix and plenty of twitchy betting fingers will whirl into action for tonight's Community Shield clash between Manchester United and Chelsea. But is it just a case of satisfying
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      • BETTING
        • 569 53  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg AND so here it goes again. The curtain-raiser to the English Premier League will take place tonight. It's bye-bye, Millennium Stadium, and hello again, Wembley. For the first time in seven years, the FA Community Shield returns to it's old ground. I'm looking
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        • 505 53 PA Sport. IF you fancy Carlos Tevez winning the Golden Boot in the 2007/08 season, you can get a juicy 20/1 ($21) with almost all leading British bookmakers. Indeed, with the Tevez (above) transfer to Manchester United almost finalised subject to him passing a
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      • 561 54 SIR Alex Ferguson has said that there's no chance of the Community Shield clash being as boring as the FA Cup final in May and I really hope he's right. That shambles of a game at Wembley was so incredibly dull that it actually drained my
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      • 635 55 GHELSEA insisted that the injury crisis which had blighted their pre-season preparations had allayed sufficiently for Jose Mourinho to field a new, full-strength team against Manchester United at Wembley. The warning: The Portuguese's appetite for life at Stamford Bridge apparently rekindled after last term's traumas. In
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        979 56 DARREN STEWART KICKS IT OFF EXPECT A CAGEY AFFAIR IF fans are expecting an explosive encounter in the Community Shield tonight, then they could go away disappointed. This is the view of former S-League player and ex-Australian international Darren Stewart. He said: "I think we will see a
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        359 57 THIS is probably the last thing Jose Mourinho and Sir Alex Ferguson expected on the eve of the Community Shield showdown. The two managers were warned they cannot bully or intimidate referees this season. With Chelsea and Manchester United getting the campaign underway at Wembley tonight, referees' chiefs
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      • 176 57 AS we begin our build-up to the new English Premier League season, The New Paper has made a few star "signings" of our own. Two former internationals, Lim Tong Hai and Darren Stewart have joined our panel of soccer analysts for the new season. Lim,
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      274 58 Community Shield 2007 (Wembley, 9.55pm tonight) IT is going to be that kind of night and that kind of match. Who can say what will happen when Chelsea and Manchester United meet? Like two proud rams locking horns in combat, when the two top teams in the
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