The New Paper, 30 December 2007

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  • 27 1 the new paper Sunday 30 DEC 2007 30 DEC 2007 Singapore Press Holdings MICA (P) 113/12/2007 80 CENTS 8 *****1 *****9 30 Dec 2007 30 Dec 2007
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    • 43 1 SOARING PRICE OF LOVE IN S PORE As wedding banquets cost more, $100 hongbao not enough >;• SYDNEY MAN CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING OWN CHILD W }!f I*# VJ,' -**> > V Ji- 5^# '-'1 •£«>•. >>I;■ > V .v.» •4*fi»M IIS j*. I f 1 f I 20
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  • sun news
    • 1333 2  -  SOARING PRICE OF LOVE t feeling I gifts remain Co °l «s prices of the same Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg WHEN you attend a wedding dinner next year, think twice before you seal that hongbao. The money you put in may not be enough
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    • 735 3  -  Couple pays $3,000 to be among Ist to celebrate wedding on S'pore Flyer When cost is no object Tay Shi’an shian@sph.com.sg HE proposed to his fiancee "in the sky" in a cable car overlooking Mount Faber and Sentosa last Christmas Eve. So the couple figured they
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    • 63 2 ALL WORK, LITTLE U~: v\ wjr The medals are nice, but SEA Games gym champs make huge sacrifices for them. Snapshot 25 Our Sun 26 Golf 41 HOTUME 1800- 733 4455 Website tnp.sg E-mail tnp@sph.com.sg Fax 6319 8266 Operations Desk 6319 5544 Circulation Hotline 6388 3838 Who's afraid of snatch
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  • 741 5  -  WE ASK 100 S'POREANS: sun news Chong Zi Liang Newsroom intern ziliang@sph.com.sg TEENAGE lovebirds strolling down Orchard Road in their school uniforms are a common sight. Sometimes, they even indulge in a hug or quick peck on the cheek. But in South Africa,
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    • 208 6 TRIBUTE TO OUR PIONEERS Q: Which S'pore founding father nearly lost his life when sago pearls in pan caught fire exploded? ■fi Learn more about the 10 political pioneers w who made a difference to all our lives. (A Ultimate pocket guides for young busy readers. Chockful of anecdotes, pictures,
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  • sun news
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      965 9  -  Like Ao Ling, Alice also started living alone at 13 when she convinced STRANGERS NOT STUDYING BUT PARTYING DEPRESSED Left to fend for themselves at a young age, some foreign students here wrestle with loneliness, go wild with freedom... and sometimes get > into trouble with the
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    • 454 9  -  Genevieve Jiang gencviev@sph.com.sg LIKE a kid in a candy store, some foreign students here are grabbing everything they can with their new-found freedom. Some, as young as 14, have taken to smoking, drinking, and experimenting with drugs and sex, say youth counsellors here.
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    • 1083 11  -  Fun? Sleazy? Wild? Mild? S'poreans think beach parties like ZoukOut go overboard By Genevieve Jiang and Zabaidah Nazeer tnp@sph.com.sg A WILD party that sparked a raging debate. The party at ZoukOut, that is. The question: Where to draw the line between wild and mild? This year,
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    • 428 12  -  Everyone should let their hair down on occasion Comment by Susan Tam susantam@sph.com.sg HOW anyone takes time off to have a little bit of fun is a personal choice, I believe. Some like to wind down at a jazz bar over a few drinks, some like a
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    • 846 13  -  Delivery drivers to Northpoint mall face parking problems caused by construction Elysa Chen dysac@sph.com.sg SINCE November last year, whenever delivery man Tan Hong Kee parks outside Northpoint Shopping Centre in Yishun, he has to dash in and out of the mall with his trolley of vinegar.
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    • 719 14  -  How will the Indian vote sway the coming M'sian elections? Susan Tam susantam@sph.com.sg THEY are a minority in Malaysia, but Indians might be large enough a bloc in some parliamentary seats to make the difference between winning and losing. Indians represent only 7 per cent of the Malaysian
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    • 484 15 WHITHER 2008 ELECTION? INDIAN voters are not the only ones upset with the Malaysian government. Other races have also expressed their disappointment with the ruling government, as pointed out by independent think-tank Merdeka Centre's latest poll. Centre director Ibrahim Suffian said the poll
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    • 644 16  -  Mad dash with no time for rest, food or privacy in race for hearts of Thai voters ON THE THAI CAMPAIGN TRAIL REPORTING FROM BANGKOK Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com.sg JUST like torn yam, Thai politics can be spicy, exciting and unpredictable. It has been one
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    • 460 16 FOR many, the Christmas and New Year weeks are a mad rush of parties, shopping, catching up with friends and getting wet in the rain. I often yearn for simple food during this period, and here are two healthy dishes you can prepare. The best part is
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    • 223 16 HjUfljiii is isf r IS ove AS we usher in a brand new I'd just like to pay tribute t simple old food which may its days here numbered and heat for a dull sunset. It is heartening to see many fc shows and
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    • 909 17 KIDNAP Man allegedly spirits child to S’pore after wealthy wife leaves him RANSOM He allegedly demands 1.6 m from her for child’s return DEATH THREATS He allegedly makes threatening phone calls to wife, says she will’die young High-profile Sydney man and family charged in court DEATH threats, phone taps, an
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    • 479 19 Political panic in Pakistan AT her grave. With her husband at her family home in southern Pakistan. With her supporters at the Rawalpindi hospital where she died. Vowing to "fight (her) war from now on". Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif seems to be here, there
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    • 229 19 ANOTHER former politician has also attacked President Musharraf after Ms Bhutto's death, reported the Sydney Morning Herald. Cricketing great and high-profile political leader Imran Khan has put himself in the firing line after also calling for President Musharraf to quit. Mr Khan, who is chairman
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    • Article, Illustration
      594 20 MEXICO'SBOTCHEDOPE RATIONS Many were promised AP. AT the age of 40, Gabriela Sanchez of Mexico felt self-conscious about her small breasts. Two days after her mother Consuelo returned home from surgery to her nose to help her breathe better, Ms Sanchez decided to get her breasts enlarged.
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    • 754 21 Rocker seen as New Jersey's own Bono I'LL Be There For You. These five words are what US rock star Jon Bon Jovi will often tell US politicians who go to him. The 45-year-old rocker can be seen posing for
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    • SnapShot
      • 54 22 Today, the environmental movement increasingly mimics religion in its identification of humans as sinners against nature, its calls for personal redemption via lifestyle changes, its claims that environmental issues are now moral issues. And, with its predicted global warming apocalypse, environmentalists even have their biblically-propor-tioned Armageddon. Paul Taylor,
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      • 85 22 FIVE Malaysian train services in the East Coast sector were disrupted due to a derailment of the Ekspres Timuran Singapore-Tumpat at Triang-Mentakab yesterday morning. No one was injured in the Keretapi Tanah Melayu (KTM) train which had about 700 passengers. The passengers were able to continue their
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      • 100 22 A FIRE gutted a cafe's kitchen at the Mountbatten Community Club yesterday. Bystanders said they saw smoke coming out from Passion Cafe at 5.15pm. Two men were seen trying to put out the .fire with extinguishers. Firefighters arrived at 5.29pm and had the fire under control
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      • 78 22 AUSTRALIAN authorities evacuated campers and closed beaches along Brisbane's Gold Coast yesterday in anticipation of wild weather and waves of up to 6m, reported AP. Storms that have hit the coasdine for several days are expected to worsen over the weekend. Although there have been no injuries
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      • 97 22 PRIMA Food has been given the green light to resume full production operations. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) says it has found Prima Food's factory operations to be satisfactory, reported Channel News Asia. This comes after a food poisoning outbreak caused by salmonella bacteria that resulted
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      • 169 22 4 At least 60 motorists issued summons each day for beating red lights IN the first nine months of this year, an average of 62 people were issued with summons each day for beating the red light. That's an 80 per cent jump compared to the same
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      • 208 22 HONG KONG's chief executive Donald Tsang has said Beijing will allow the special region's people to directly elect their leader by 2017, and their legislators by 2020. The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliament, issued this ruling yesterday. The
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      • 74 22 A 72-year-old woman had the wrong leg cut open during surgery on Christmas Day at a hospital in Brampton, Canada, reported The Toronto Sun. Amar Kaur Brar fractured her left thigh bone slipping on the stairs at home, but in the operating room, doctors cut her right leg open
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    • 48 14 v-,il INDIANS FORM SMALL MINORITY. OTHERS MALAY 50% J. .BUT INDIANS MAY SWING VOTES IN THESE SEATS More than 10% Indian voters More than 20% Indian voters PAHANG SELANGOR KUALA LUMPUR NB: Excluding East Malaysia Source: 2004 General election results, Election Commission, various media reports, CIA World Factbook
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 937 23  -  Behind the glory of winning goM medals are hours of training studies, leaving the S'pore women's gymnastics team little free time Wendy Teo tcowyw@sph.coinjg THE performance: A haul of four gold, three silver medals and the champion tide. The reward: a day's break
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    • 407 24 THEY are small, but raring to go. Four years ago when Mr Sng Puay Liang set up Bazgym Gymnastics School at Balestier, he had less than 30 students but hoped to grow the pool to 100. The 37-year-old, who represented Singapore in the 1993 SEA
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    • 548 25  -  Stuck with same old new resolutions? Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo @sph. com.sg TIS the season for year-enders and year-starters, the last weekend of 2007 segue-ing into the first week of 2008. When normal people, with mouths where unsaturated non-transfat butter would
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    • 636 26  -  BALDING BUT WANT A FULL HEAD OF HAIR LIKE THESE MEN? Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg BALDING can be a traumatic experience for anyone, but especially so for the young. Take Mr Bernard Chua, who started experiencing thinning and dropping hair from the age of 14.
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    • 418 27  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg VICTORIA or Carol? Both, actually. A Victorian Christmas Carol dinner that would have brought Marley back from the dead with its jollity chimed in the yuletide season for friends of Miss Clarinda Tjia-Dharmadi and Mr Frank Cintamani. Miss
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    • 473 28  -  Chua Wei Yng Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg FOR many, the Christmas and New Year weeks are a mad rush of parties, shopping, catching up with friends and getting wet in the rain. I often yearn for simple food during this period, and here are
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    • 782 29  -  K F Seetah Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg AS we usher in a brand new year, I'd just like to pay tribute to a simple old food which may see its days here numbered and heading for a dull sunset. It is heartening
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    • 552 30  -  Yoga For A Good Sex Life 4 Bharat Thakur Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg WHAT is the state of your pelvic girdle? 1 For the last three Sundays, we've focused on strengthening this part of 1 your body as it plays a key i role in sexual activity. i
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 117 31 Mr Mrs Smith Channel 5, 7.15pm A bored married couple are surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other. Starring Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie. CHANNEL 5 HiMHB Lexus Cup 2007(Sports) iMjgj 2007 Swatch-Fivb Beach I Volley World Tour 1 jNttTC Sunday Afternoon
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    • 163 31 The Singapore Short Story Project III Arts Central, 9pm The third season of the local anthology series. features eight new dramas helmed by some of Singapore's best producers, including storylines about an older man seeking a younger woman for sex so he can die, a man who keeps a ghost
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    • 71 31 if V 4- CHANNEL U 10.00am My Secret Garden II 12.00m Lecture Room: 3 Kingdoms 1.00pm Rediscovering The Yangtze River (Education) I.30 > Night Walk (Variety) 2.00 Stairway To Heaven (Drama) 4.00 f Body Code (Variety) &00 The Little Fairy (Drama) 7.00 News Club (News) 7.30 Making Of "Seven i
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    • 130 31 X-Men: The Last Stand Star Movies (StarHub Ch 58), 9pm When a cure is found to treat mutations and Jean Grey returns as the malignant Dark Phoenix, lines are drawn among the X-Men led by Professor X and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Magneto. Starring Hugh
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    • 126 31 Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby HBO (StarHub Ch 60), 9pm A N as car driver who stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best Mend and teammate finds that his talent and devotion are put to the test when a French Formula One driver makes
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    • 38 31 Sweet Revenge Celestial Movies (StarHub Ch 61), 9pm A rebellious teen burns down his house while his stepsister escapes the flames, but he mysteriously reappears 20 years later as her best friend's boyfriend. Starring Nick Cheung, Fan Bingbing.
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  • Article, Illustration
    260 32 OURjbflDflV Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to tnank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpf0rum@sph.c0m.sg My pretty wife Mandy Li. Thank you for being my wife and I will do all I
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  • Sun RACING
    • 96 34 (Race 4 AJo. 1) BEST BET THIS promising Stephen Cook-trained sprinter can wrap up a memorable debut season by notching his sixth success although his rivals are no pushovers. He gets the nod on his sheer consistency. In seven starts to date, he has been beaten only twice.
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      204 34 Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon a Marc Tan Denotes tipster's best bet of the day 4R2^ H3 rfl5jZS Q£S R8 5 Red Cedar 6 Zabai Zabai 1 2 Hari Kaya 1JUG FULL 5 Fast Flying 3 Key Commander 6 Dynasty Vader 11 Tiger In The Hunt 2 Amaro
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    • 1226 34 GOING FORECAST: GOOD No Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 -***** Raaas Itesic 57 (42) J Nizam c3 10 (5nzg V Nathan-Blossom) 2 0-2422 Amaro Dm 56 (40) J Saimee 2 (4ag P Roslan-Perfectum) 3 0907-8 Condesir'e 55.5 (39) P Vellaikannu
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    • 104 34 RACE 1: Rainbow Sapphire, Break The Bank, Astonish. RACE 2: Business King, Iron Eyes Cody, Banker Way, Joker Jack. RACE 3: Bintang Melang, Hari Kaya, Out Of Quandary, Light Easy. RACE 4: Jug Full, Penang Wonder, Cheyenne Dancer, Speed Tiger, Where Also Ken. RACE 5: Golden Ace, Royal Admiral,
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    • Down to the wire
      • 260 35  -  Mare Tan npracing @sph. com.sg FIGHT to the finish. That is what Panamanian jockey Oscar Chavez will be aiming to do as he bids to overhaul leader Azhar Ismail at Penang today on the final day of the racing calendar. The Malaysian
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      • 742 35 GOING: GOOD 7 MMJHTY RULER 56 (25-10) I Azhar (11) 5 3 1 (448) 4 STAY THE CAUSE 56.5 c 55.5 (23-7) SSalee (1) 3 4 2 (482) 0.5 12 WORLD CRUISES 51 c 50.5 (178-44) *KT Cheng (4) 12 11 3 (446) Shd 5 BABY HAN
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      • 556 35 GOING: GOOD 5 NETREBKO 53.5 (13-6) P King (3) 1 4 TWO STRONG HEARTS 55.0 (16-5) S Parnham 1 2 6 OFFER ME JEWELS 53.5 (43-10) L Camilleri (5) 3 Trainer GE Daly. Margins: 0.5,1,1. Time: Imin 11.48 sec Forecast: $10 Tierce: $64 Trio: $18. 1
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    • 676 36 RACE 1 KING OF LIONS began awkwardly and lost ground. Shortly after the start, MULTIPLE SUCCESS checked when crowded between NOTHING TO FEAR and MUSIC FIGHTER, who shifted in after being bumped by LUCKY BANKER who, in turn, was bumped by HANAUMA
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    • 113 36 FRIDAY'S TRACKWORK WILLIAM LOWS guide to workouts by horses engaged on Tuesday: Race 1: Carry On Victory* canter/42, It's My Magic canter/38.9, Transcend canter/40.5. Race 2: Kiwi Maestro canter/39.9, Our Brightia 33.5. Race 3: None. Race 4: Triple A 36.6, Sunny Bravia
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    • 232 36 RACE 1: Arkadian Boy* (E Aslam) 38.8, Red Auspice (A Ng) 35.9, Steel Cut canter/33.2. Slow work: Welcome Back. RACE 2: Carry On Glory 39, Protege* (S Cheam) canter/38.9, Thanks For Memory 43.5, Dragon Gate* 36.6. Slow work: Gold Help, Dan Noble, Blue Flag. RACE 3: No Time
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 33 35 m Saturday, 29 Dec 2007 First Second Third 0694 3200 9661 Starters 6409 5194 8917 5403 5341 6657 7334 7496 8925 1535 Consolation 9760 9485 9298 2868 8020 5017 8936 5289 4417 2288
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  • Sunday SPORTS
    • 813 37 Mad about golf CHRISTMAS is over and you've perhaps got a bit of a hangover. Rest assured, you're not alone. Who, then, has the golfing equivalent of the "morning after the night before" after an iffy 2007? Here are a few candidates. Happy New Year. GARY PLAYER
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    • 521 38 Based on a reader's question to The New Paper's Singapore at Large series about improving the nation's sporting culture, we asked local athletes who won medals at the recent South-east Asia Games to give their opinions. ARUN RAJ met them at
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    • 520 39  -  Arun Raj npsports@sph.com.sg THE response from them ahead of the new year was immediate and rather generic. "To qualify for the Beijing Olympics." "To do well in my exams." "Set a personal best time." Like actors, they delivered their lines on cue.
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    • 682 39  -  Comment by Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg LETTING your hands or feet do the talking in today's media-driven sporting world is not enough. Especially if you're an athlete who feels that there isn't enough public attention for other sports in Singapore besides football. Reader Kervin
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    • 811 40 With Christmas shrinking in our rear-view mirror and 2008 looming on the horizon, it's time for us to don our tuxedos for my favourite time of the year, The lain Macintosh Awards. So, let's open our show. Best Newcomer Award FOR the person who has
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    • epl 2007/08
      • 355 41 The transfer window reopens on Tuesday and that only guarantees one thing: More speculation about Nicolas Anelka's future. With tongue firmly in cheek, ARUN RAJ takes a peek into the diary of the Incredible Sulk. v DEAR Diary, V j Today I am in a very
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      • 90 41 31 Jan Alvaro Arbeloa (Deportivo La Coruna to Liverpool) Michael Ball (PS V Eindhoven to Man City) Shaun Moloney (Celtic to Aston Villa) Matthew Upson (Birmingham to West Ham) 30 Jan Edgar Davids (Tottenham Hotspur to Ajax) 23 Jan Ashley Young (Watford to Aston Villa) 22
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      • 241 41 January is almost nere and football fans will be wonderincj: Who's going where? We look at the probables (most likely to happen), maybes (could happen)and unlikely (enough said) PROBABLES NICOLAS ANELKA from Bolton Wanderers to Chelsea/Man United JENS LEHMANN from Arsenal to Borussia Dortmund LUKA MODRIC from Dinamo
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      • 811 42 The January transfer window is almost upon us, so brace yourselves for a flurry or cliches, fevered speculation and a massive anti-climax all round. PA Sport takes a look at what COULD happen. ARSENAL Arsene Wenger maintains his policy of planning for the future
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      • 436 43 PA Sport. NEW Fulham boss Roy Hodgson has embraced the relegation battle that lies ahead and is convinced he can lead the Cottagers to safety. Morale at the London club has hit rock-bottom following the 5-1 Boxing Day rout at Tottenham, and last night's
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      • 182 43 PA Sport. NEWCASTLE midfielder Joey Barton will spend the New Year in jail after being remanded on charges of common assault and affray. The 25-year-old (left) was arrested in Liverpool early on Thursday following an alleged incident in the city centre. Barton appeared
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      • 157 43 PA Sport. CHELSEA defender Ashley Cole (left) has lost an appeal against the red card he received during the 4-4 draw against Aston Villa on Boxing Day. Cole (above) was sent off for committing a handball in the final minute of the match at Stamford
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  • SPORTS
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      • 664 45 NEDUM ONUOHA Manchester City LIFE is pretty busy for us at the moment. We're well into the hectic schedule of the Christmas period and we play our third game in eight days against Liverpool tonight at the City of Manchester Stadium. But I'm enjoying the constant
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      • 451 46 PA Sport. RAFAEL Benitez insists the "best is yet to come" from Liverpool and their goalscoring sensation Fernando Torres. Benitez knows the Reds must continue their winning ways at Manchester City today and then against Wigan next Wednesday to retain the momentum they
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      • 204 46 Wire Services. LIVERPOOL co-owner Tom Hicks has accused Anfield manager Rafael Benitez of behaving petulantly in the recent dispute over transfer policy. In a phone interview with Associated Press, Hicks, 61, revisited the row l over transfers, v which saw bA Benitez
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    • BETTING
      • 533 47  -  Jonathan Turner PA Sport DERBY v BLACKBURN (Derby 2 Blackburn 1) RECENT form doesn't make pretty reading for either of this pair. Derby have managed just a point from their last nine games, while it's a draw and three defeats for Blackburn. However, there have
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      • 383 48 TEAM FACTS: LIM HAN MING; BEST PICK: BRIAN MILLER; WHO'S HOT, WHO'S NOT: IAIN MACINTOSH (Reporting from London) INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: DERBY COUNTY: Pearson, Todd (injured); Oakley, Jones, Edworthy, Griffin (doubtful) BLACKBURN ROVERS: Ooijer (injured) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Derby 38; Blackburn 49; draws 31 LAST MEETING: 29 Dec, 2001
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      • 365 48 INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: MANCHESTER CITY: Pearson, Todd (injured); Oakley, Jones, Edworthy, Griffin (doubtful) LIVERPOOL: Pennant (injured); Agger, Hyypia, Arbeloa (doubtful); Crouch (suspended) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Man City 40; Pool 77; draws 36 LAST MEETING: 14 April, 2007 Man City 0 Pool 0 (EPL) LAST FIVE LEAGUE RESULTS: MAN
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    • 598 49 Tennis superstars Maria Sharapova and Anna Chakvetadze met fans who bought tickets priced at 1,800 each at the Fullerton Hotel yesterday. ARUN RAJ talks to some of the star-struck fans MEETING a bonafide sports celebrity on your own shores could be once-in-a-lifetime experience
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    • 1245 51 Maria answers your queries The TNPPostman received 50 letters last week with the heading "Dear Maria". When ERNEST LUIS told tennis hottest star, Maria Sharapova, they were from our very own readers, her eyes lit up... WEEK in, week out, Maria Sharapova
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    • 1020 52 ARUNRAJ observes Maria Sharapova and Anna Chakvetadze in training and finds their methods poles apart WHEN you have been to the summit, a hallowed ground that few have ventured onto, you obviously have been doing something right. The former world No. 1 women's tennis
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    • epl 2007/08
      • 804 53  -  F Ted Thorley Special Correspondent KENWYNE JONES headed home his first goal in nine games as Sunderland eased their relegation fears. The TYinidad and Tobago international converted a 32nd-minute Kieran Richardson corner after the former Manchester United midfielder had given the home side a 12th-minute
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      • 248 53  -  SL Rob Wright Special Correspondent PA Sport NEW Fulham manager Roy Hodgson saw his side pick up a rare away point after surviving a second-half battering from Birmingham and the sending off of Hameur Bouazza for two bookable offences. Hodgson, who officially takes charge on
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      • 629 54  -  Bl. Ted Boyne Special Correspondent ASTON VILLA staged a second-half revival to end Wigan's resurgence under new boss Steve Bruce and send the Latics crashing back into the Premier League relegation zone. Titus Bramble headed Wigan into the lead in the first half,
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      • 309 54 PA Sport Round-up DIMITAR BERBATOV scored four times in a crazy clash at White Hart Lane, where Tottenham edged Reading 6-4 to the points in a thriller. Berbatov opened the scoring when he tapped in frdm Robbie Keane's cross in the seventh minute.
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