The New Paper, 10 February 2008

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  • SUN NEWS
    • 1197 2  -  CRUEL OR CREATIVE? S'pore youths spoof of tissue aunty's 1 song upset netizens Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg SHE is 48, wheelchair-bound, and sings a cheerful jingle to make a living. Madam Neo Geok Tho's signature "$1 tissue song" usually inspires sympathy and admiration. But
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    • 626 3  -  He saves two girls from drowning in condominium pool O Cousin shouts for help as girls, both 13, struggle in deep water OMan dives into pool to save one girl who's floundering ONext, he uses 3m-long rescue pole to pull the other girl, unconscious, out
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  • Page 2 Advertisements
    • 47 2 PROPERTY STARS What are stars Ilka Lynn Poll and Rayson Tan doing In property ads? 26 mi 1800- 733 4455 Website tnp.sg E-mail tnp9sph.com.sg Fax 6319 8266 Operations Desk 6319 5544 Circulation Hotline 6368 3636 Punters STRIKE IT RICH ■m with '4-D' molly &sh IN thesundaytimes TODAY
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 1173 5  -  S'PORE TRAINERS CHARGE $800 FOR CONTROVERSIAL COURSE Maureen Koh maurecnk@sph.com.sg PICTURE this: Your boss signs you up for a course to learn more about team-building and to develop your leadership quality. But instead of picking up tips on managing staff, you are
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    • 75 6 "•Si'*' gi•' ■mBBJn MMH§| 0|H|| •f tW MSN0O te I» Mrt lili taw wtm arv Ms CfcMh adi: M lt Is last Mw any other activity, we'd «t on Km sMe of SflBtloai like bhmimat or who havii Iwart problems to avoid participating." The
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    • 773 7  -  EXPOSED: COUGH SYRUP PUSHERS AT MALL Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph.eom.sg ON THE surface, it looks like business as usual. But on the ground floor and basement of Peninsula Shopping Centre, a cough syrup gang has set up an elaborate system to sell their
      pictures | zoihan mohamed yusof, kua chee siong  -  773 words
    • Article, Illustration
      326 8  -  Ah Meng's iconic sculpture installed near her grave site REPORT AND PICTURES Gavin Foo gavinfoo@sph.com.sg SHE used to swing with seeming weightlessness from tree to tree. Now, the Ah Meng that remains at the zoo is a sculpture. And it took a team of nine men almost an
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  • Page 9 Advertisements
    • 233 9 \iza The new Prosperity Pizza with double-stuffed crust. Double the taste, double the prosperity Usher in the prosperous New Year with the new Prosperity Pizza with double-stuffed crust. Bile into the BBQ Oik ken chunks, pineapple chunks, button mushrooms, golden crackers and trie perfectly baked double-stuffed crust that's packed with
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 485 11  -  Want to scale S'pore's tallest sports climbing wall? SIGN UP TO CLIMB UP The New Paper Lifestyle Fitness Series is presented by the Singapore Sports Council. Look for the registration form on page 15. Registration for i the Sport-Climbing A L Workshop closes on
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    • 677 12 Mum alerted to cervical cancer thanks to babies UK'S TWIN WONDERS Worldwide Features. AS her unborn babies were kicking away in her womb, UK mum Michelle Stepney never imagined that their in utero activity would help to save her life. Mrs Stepney had no
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    • 113 12 CANCER of the cervix is the most common cancer of the woman's reproductive system. Cancer that forms in tissues of the cervix, the organ connecting the womb and vagina, is usually a slow-growing cancer that may not have symptoms but can be detected with regular
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    • Article, Illustration
      254 13 M'SIA'S TWIN WONDERS AFTER spending four months fused at the waist and buttocks, Nur Bahiyah and Nur Badrisya are finally sleeping in separate beds. The conjoined twins, born in Alor Star last September, were parted after a 12-hour operation at Kuala Lumpur Hospital last Saturday. Nur Bahiyah needed immediate
      pictures | the new straits times  -  254 words
    • 455 14 Studies find that brain craves for risky deals HIGH-STAKES trading, recently personified by rogue trader Jerome Kerviel, has been likened to a drug habit. And the danger is anyone might just do what he did in his position. The New York Times reported studies
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  • Page 11 Advertisements
    • 82 11 Celebrate Love On Valentine's Day, be seduced by an exciting menu specially prepared by Executive Chef Robin Sing at Cafe Georges. All couples will receive a rose and a chocolate heart! Valentine's Day Set Dinner 14 Feb (630pm 10.30pm) Price: $52++ per person For more information or reservation, please call
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 313 16 ONCE it was too short, too dangerous. When storms and strong winds hit the island of Madeira in Portugal, the Funchal Airport often had to close its runway at short notice. The I.6km-long runway could only take small and medium aircraft, which hampered the island's development as
      Not planes, just cars; pictures | antonio segadaes tavares  -  313 words
    • Article, Illustration
      546 18 HE USED YOUNG PATIENTS FOR SLEAZY VIDEOS HIS job was to heal broken bones. Instead, this doctor in the Indian city of Chennai found the business of peddling flesh more lucrative. Orthopaedic surgeon L Prakash was sentenced to life on Thursday for secretly filming patients in the nude
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    • SnapShot
      • 142 19 CHINESE ink painter and Cultural Medallion winner Chua Ek Kay has died at the age of 61. Mr Chua trained under master ink painter Fang Chang Tien of the Shanghai School but later developed an interest in Western art and was hailed as a bridge between the
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      • 59 19 THIS leatherback turtle, an endangered species, swam all the way from Indonesian waters to the US Pacific Northwest The 20,000km journey, which was tracked by scientists, was die longest recorded migration by any sea vertebrate. M The turtle began its 647-day swim in mid-2003 as it wanted
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      • 87 19 THE US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned that using botulinum toxins, such as the cosmetic treatment Botox, can have serious side-effects. But the FDA has stopped short of banning them, reported the Chicago Tribune. "We've become aware of a number of reports of serious adverse reactions
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      • 98 19 RIDERS have to sit awkwardly and there is hardly any place here to ride them legally. But 50cc bikes that are only the height of a car tyre are getting popular. Some enthusiasts ride them at night in deserted places and they can hit 50 km
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      • 148 19 m —H £jJLA V# can vo neip oovvs loping courvmos ngrvr cmnaro cnange FINANCE chiefs of the Group of Seven industrialised nations have called for investment in developing countries to help them fight climate change. The finance ministers and central bank chiefs, in a joint
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      • 174 19 THERE has been a dramatic fall in the number of Roman Catholic monks and nuns worldwide. The number of men and women belonging to the church's religious orders fell by about 10 per cent to just under a million. During the pontificate of the late Pope
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      • 70 19 AUSTRALIAN police declared a state of emergency after a drunken man threatened to blow up half of Brisbane with his remote control. The 57-year-old, who lived in a luxury golf resort, was arrested after terrifying neighbours by threatening to detonate a store of chemicals with the remote. His lawyer
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  • Page 18 Advertisements
    • 144 18 Romance at the "River View 14 February 2008 VALENTINE'S BUFFET DINNER C Treat your loved one to a spread of local delicacies and western treats. Or gather your favourite pals for a Friendship Day and renew old ties. Our resident-singer Freddie Kang delivers his signature tunes on this special evening.
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 1135 20  -  More celebrities turning property agents Wendy Teo teowyw@sph.com.sg HOUSEHUNTERS may have received a pleasant surprise when they flipped through the property section of The Straits Times' classified ads recently. Three separate ads fronted by Rayson Tan, Benjamin Heng and Lynn Poh appeared in
      design | pradip; pictures | lianhe zaobao  -  1,135 words
    • 813 21  -  KF Seetoh Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg IF the old doesn't go, the new won't come, so says a Chinese New Year adage. But it does not apply to food. If you are planning an escape to Jakarta, Indonesia, here are two starkly contrasting
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    • 584 22  -  Sytvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg KONG Hee Fatt Choyi And Thank You Minister Mentor. MM Lee Kuan Yew, in a dialogue last week on Singapore's perspectives and future, uttered a sentence that made many, if not all, shift into comfort mode in our
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    • 502 23  -  MERCEDES-BENZ GENTLEMEN'S CLUB Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo @sph. comsg YOU heard right. Not just any old Mercedes-Benz, but the S-Class (no, not for "society", you Duh-class). There was only vroom for the top last week at Mercedes-Benz's a one-night-only Gendemen's Club at the Divine Society
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    • 611 24  -  Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg AMONG the ways to rejuvenate one's face, there is what is known as the Spectra Peel. At Dr Christopher Ng's clinic at Camden Medical Centre, there sits the latest edition of a machine that administers the treatment. It is
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    • 499 25  -  Chua Wei Yng Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg AROMATHERAPY is no longer strange and new age. Essential oils are now being used in everything from massage oils to hand soap. However, how much do you really know about essential oils? Here are some common myths. 1. Essential oils
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    • 320 26  -  Photojournalist reviews phone: Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com sg WHENEVER he has to test a new camera or a camera-phone, the first thing that The New Paper photojournalist Kua Chee Siong (above) does is to take nightshot pictures. That, to him, is the litmus test of
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  • Page 20 Advertisements
    • 147 20 Valentines' Day Dinner Special Available from 6.00pm to 10.00pm on 14 Feb 2008 (Reservations available) r Celebrate Love over a tantalizing Set Dinner consisting of Starter, Main Course, Dessert Jfr and Coffee or Tea. Take your pick from pan fried fish fillet with seared scallops, oven roasted chicken breast or
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 56 22 LYNN JOHNSON I B i THERES NOTING TO DO IN HERE -1 WRNNfl GO 0E^c@OaDDQQl®99? 2 M OF COURSE I'M GOING Tb~IHR\H Lizzie, mom- I JoST oohT Think she's rerdY for it Vet! r&\ 1 LB9 OFF THE ERRS J I MOO KHOU) HOtU I HBTE WRTER IN Sfilsoo ,1
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    • 52 22 M\CHREL,RREVOO GOING TO STOP "IfcRSlNG U2ZjE,OR RM I GOING TO HRVETfc PUNISH yoo T •i# Wt§^M XXJVE GOT ft ZJLUOM "TOVSk MtCHHCLl-CRHS, mftlNS.BOfnS.BUlLDtria 5ET& WHRT ho«E.Doyou UJRKT? YES, I DOHRVERPtsrry..She oust wont sit on itSURE ITS R RECHJLRR ONE. NO, IT15 MOTlOO BIG1 i EtiOO&H, KWChREL you NEED O SCRUBBING-,!-RRE
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  • 215 27 Brought to you by Nokia Nseries Show Tel Captured the mood yet at the River Hongbao? As many as 80,000 people from different cultures and countries have been gathering daily to soak up the Chinese New Year atmosphere at the annual event. Giant illuminated rats greeted the visitors
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  • Page 28 Miscellaneous
    • 73 28 TView The 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Channel 5,10pm The annual fashion show features top models Heidi Klum and Marisa Miller parading in the latest range of Victoria's Secret lingerie as well as the Spice Girls' first TV appearance since their reunion. Fortune Festival At Giant 2008 Channel 8, 9pm
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    • 48 28 Memoirs Of A Geisha HBO (StarHub Ch 60), 9pm A beautiful impoverished girl who is sold to a geisha house as a child reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geishas. Starring Zhang Ziyi (right), Gong Li. A ..v< ft a
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    • 359 28 Night At The Museum Star Movies (StarHub Ch 58), 9pm A newly-recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc. Starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams. CHANNEL 5 MH| FA Cup
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    • 44 28 Kidnap Celestial Movies (StarHub Ch 61), 9pm A woman desperate to raise funds to treat her cancer-stricken husband plans to kidnap a tycoon's son for the ransom. But she ends up wrongly abducting the child of a female inspector. Starring Karena Lam, Rene Liu.
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  • 204 29 Vote for these dream couples and win EVER since registration opened on 13 Jan, an overwhelming number of couples have sent in their pictures for a chance to win attractive prizes. Congratulations to the 10 finalist couples of the Ning Aesthetics Valentine's Day Photo Competition.
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  • Article, Illustration
    292 30 OUR SUNDAY 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 To commemorate our One Year Anniversary! To my darling wife, Stephanie. Pictures paint a thousand words...
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  • SUN RACING
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    • 68 33 (Race 5 No. 1) BEST BET THIS four-year-old gelding by Mellifont can make amends for his last-start defeat in September. Though beaten on that occasion he was far from disgraced. He resumes fresh today and should capitalise on his nice alley to make all the running over the 1,200
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    • 110 33 RACE 2: Kelven's Express, Flip Master. RACE 3: Royal General, Historian, Real Warrior, Wingship Warrior, Fort Apache, Kiko Classic. RACE 4: Boomer Capital, Keep Rising. RACE 5: Northern Express, Gold Zest, Rousing Snow, Show Off, Jun Tu. RACE 6: Royal Beauty, Han Venture, Olympic Sun, Best Humour. RACE 7:
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    • 442 33 WILLIAM LOW'S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK FIBRESAND specialist Handsome lazz did a sizzling trial at Kranji yesterday morning and looks set to score his fourth success on Wednesday. Ridden by apprentice Low Shi Hua, the Don Baertschiger-trained consistent three-year-old chestnut Australian-bred worked keenly over 600 m in
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    • 235 34  -  Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg FOUR starts, four wins. It takes a good horse to achieve that feat and Ishbiliya is one such horse. For a moment, it looked like the Mohd Sukri-trained filly was going to miss out but her big heart carried her
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    • 703 34 GOING: GOOD 12 WAVY PIM 122 (13-5) 8 F&aO 125 (44-14) 10 PAST VimiMEll 123 (269-56) (3) HWLai (12) 1 2 3 Tratear PF Ytu. Marglaa: 1.5, Nk. Thar. imin 36.65ec. "nrnTf $30. Mm* Fwmt: $103 (Nos. 8-10), $10 (Nos. 8-12), $34 (Nos.
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 34 34 RA' u/ Saturday, 9 Feb 2008 First Second Third 9966 2636 9880 Starters 8285 5667 8099 3820 1404 1432 5187 8687 6448 8898 Consolation 2677 8413 4284 2295 3933 3743 1184 1791 7837 6471
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  • Sunday SPORTS
    • 919 35 Mad about golf IT MUST be all of five months since 1 last wrote a story about money. Too long, in my book! So here we go again. They say it can't buy you happiness, don't they? Money, that is. But I'd love to try
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    • Article, Illustration
      568 36 Even-par gives Jacqueiin lead but Els lurks 4 behind AFP. Frenchman Raphael Jacqueiin grabbed a one-shot lead at a blustery Indian Masters yesterday, with Ernie Els lurking dangerously four behind after posting the best score of the day. Jacqueiin, who last tasted a European Tour victory at last
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    • 235 36 AP. TIM Herron used a new putter for the first time in seven years and shot a three-under 69 on greens reputed to be the most unpredictable on the PGA Tour to take a one-shot lead in the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am
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    • 282 36 AP. SIX-TIME champion Karrie Webb made a 16-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole to join a three-way share of the lead with one round to play at the ANZ Australian Ladies Masters. Webb's 67 yesterday gave her a two-round total
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    • epl 2007/08
      • 616 37 JOE MORRISON answers readers' Questions... What did you make of England's midweek performance against Switzerland? WELL, it is a start, isn't it? I am inclined not to read too much into this match as already some people have forgotten that Steve McLaren's
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        53 37 READERS, is there anything you want to know from Joe Morrison, the new face of English Premier League coverage in Singapore? Email your questions to npsports@sph.com.sg by noon on Tuesday and he will try and answer as many as possible. Look out for Morrison's answers every weekend in
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    • 275 38 In this week's Dear Mr Teo column for The New Paper's Singapore at large series, TEO SER LUCK Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports answers readers' questions about Singapore sports rrom a national and grassroots perspective. c Ztegr
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      • 271 39 Dear Mr Teo, COMING from a sporty background and being in a tough sport like triathlon (right), I wonder if you have anything to say about the present system of testing fitness levels. For me, I feel that the present fitness test comprising a
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      • 256 39 Dear Mr Teo, SINGAPORE has moved a step forward with the opening of the Singapore Sports School. But at national inter-school level (right), I find there is a lack of publicity and information about these students at the top of their game and sports.
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      • 172 39 Dear Mr Teo, CAN we popularise futsal since football's normal 11-a-side game requires too much space? I think in Singapore, futsal (right) is the way to go. This will also make us technically better in soccer from an earlier age, like how the Brazilians start out.
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      • 106 39 MINISTRY of Community Development, Youth and Sports Parliamentary Secretary Teo Ser Luck wants to hear more from you on any grassroots sports issues or questions you might have, that affect yourself, people you know or others like you at a national level.
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    • AFRICAN NATIONS CUP
      • 884 40 FINAL: EGYPT v CAMEROON AFP. THE stage is set for the final of the African Nations Cup between the continent's most successful teams in the tournament's history. Two bruising semi-final battles on Thursday confirmed the final between Cameroon and Egypt and it could be
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      • 526 40 PA Sport. EGYPT: "V Qoittwpr Essam Al Hadari (Al Ahll): He Kas fought a niggling injury but produced several vital saves, notably in Thursday's semi-final against Ivory Coast A worid-class No. 1, he has won all of Africa's top honours at club and national levels. Defenders: Hani Said
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    • epl 2007/08
      • 665 41  -  by Harry Morgan Special Correspondent PA Sport PORTSMOUTH snatched the unlikeliest of victories with a disputed Lassana Diarra goal after Bolton wasted a string of chances at the Reebok Stadium. Diarra fired past Jussi Jaaskelainen in the 80th minute despite being in an offside position
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      • 218 41  -  §1 Tom Troughton Special Corresponden t SUNDERLAND gave their English Premier League survival campaign a major boost as they left Wigan in the mire. Goals from Dickson Etuhu his first for the club and Daryl Murphy, who blasted a 75th-minute piledriver past Chris Kirkland as
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      • 701 42  -  By Roby Dollard bpeciol Correspondent EVERTON boosted their chances of qualifying for the Champions League with a 1-0 win over Reading who slip into the relegation places in the EPL. David Moyes' side are now three points clear of fifthplaced Aston Villa thanks to
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      • 277 42 Round-up PA Sport DERBY suffered their ninth home defeat of the season after Tottenham ran out comfortable 3-0 winners at Pride Park. After a dismal first-half performance from both teams, it must have been juande Ramos' halftime team talk which got through to his players.
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      • 677 43  -  ASTON VILLA 4 NEWCASTLE 1 TV VIEW LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg HE cut a forlorn figure in the dugout. Deep inside, Kevin Keegan must be wondering what he must do to get his first victory in his second spell in charge of Newcasde. Everything
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      • 624 43 Wire Services. Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan said he could not understand his side's second-half performance which savt a 1-0 lead turn into a 4-1 trouncing. "We couldn't have asked for a better start," Keegan (above) told the BBC. "We played very well for a team
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      • WEEKEN WAG
        • 700 44 dfkdkd IVAN LIM presents two lively WAGs who will be on opposites sides when Chelsea take on Liverpool tonight. Meet Blues fan Vivien Tong ana Reds fan Wahidah Ibrahim THEY are fairly new to the game of football but both display an impressive grasp
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        • 193 44 ARE you the wife or a girlfriend (WAG) of a football fan? Or are you a football fan with a WAG you'd like us to feature? The new Paper's Ivan Lim would like to have a chat with your WAG and feature her like we have
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        • 399 44 IVAN: Steven Gerrard and John Terry. Who should captain England? IDAH: Gerrard. Terry is too aggressive, he gets into arguments with referees, which makes him a poor role model. Maybe he's too big-headed for his own good. Gerrard on the other hand leads by example.
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      • 659 45 BATTLE OF MANCHESTER In a recent report, the British newspaper The Guardian highlighted how Manchester United trained* R RAJKUMAR gives a coaching perspective on the various elements that go into a typical training session by the Red Devils... SIR ALEX Ferguson arrives as early as 7
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