The New Paper, 27 December 2008

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1 57 The New Paper
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    18 1 the new paper Sat 27 Dec 08 8 *****1 *****1 Singapore Press Holdings 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      29 1 EPLBOXING DAY MATCHES Tevez saves Devils' blushes page w Drogba ends Blues' home woes pagem *flf* m n S'PORE WOMAN Mr IES AFTER CHOKING ON MUSH ROOM THIS SIZE
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      Lock icon Why get seduced if you can’t afford it?
      412 2  -  STREET TALK COMMENT: REGGIE J com.sq WE all remember those heady days when we went to the shops and shopped till we dropped with not a care in the world. If Singapore's huge credit card debt is anything like what we read
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      Lock icon She was ‘eatinq too fast’
      982 2  -  REPORT: TEH JEN LEE jenleeOspticonug SHE went into a coma, became brain-dead and died all because she choked on a piece of mushroom about the size of a 10-cent coin. Madam Tang Gek Choo, 48, was eating supper alone at her workplace pantry when the
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      Lock icon What to do where someone chokes
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      64 2 SORRY Internet Not Bitot (TOP, 22 Dtc): The file picture used may have inadvertently given the impression that the workers from Jurong Shipyard have been abandoned by their employers. The workers shown in the picture are not associated wtth the recent cases of workers being abandoned. 2800-7 33 44 55
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      Lock icon CRASH
      37 3 CRASH: An old air-conditioning unit fell from the 10th storey of an HDB block along Tampmes Street 22 on Thursday around midnight. No one was hurt, reported Shm Mm Daily News. PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
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      Lock icon Should handphone, Net contracts be shorter?
      250 3 IDA SEEKS FEEDBACK ON TELCO PRACTICES LONG contracts for handphone and Internet broadband subscriptions may soon be history. And if the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) has its way, the penalties that home subscribers pay for breaking these contracts early will be pegged to the
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        Lock icon November tourist arrivals dip
        99 3 SINGAPORE'S visitor arrivals dropped 9.7 per cent in November compared with the same period la§t year, as a worsening economic climate crimped travel demand. The Singapore Tourism Board said visitor arrivals fell to 760,000 in November from 841,648 visitors last year. The total time spent in
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        Lock icon New ez-link cards on sale from next week
        115 3 EZ-LINK will start selling its new ez-link smart cards from Monday. Other than being able to pay for bus and train rides with it, cardholders can use it to pay for items bought from 7-Eleven and McDon- ald's, as well as SMRT
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        Lock icon Factory output declines
        99 3 SINGAPORE'S manufacturing sector recorded a better than expected 7.5 per cent fall in November, boosted by a rebound in the pharmaceutical sector. But factory output has still fallen for the second straight month following a 12.1 per cent dip in October, the Economic Development Board said, as
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      7 3 SINGAPORE WEATHER ■Thunderstorms ■High 32° Low 24°
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      Lock icon Some just stare, some give advice
      706 5  -  REPORTERS UNDERCOVER IN THE STREETS: 'HELP, WE'RE JOBLESS' MATCHING people with jobs here is usually done by the public and private agencies and welfare organisations. But would it be a good idea for lower-income workers who don't fit in the conventional categories to display
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      Lock icon It just isn't the S'porean way
      422 5  -  COMMENT: BENSON ANG bangOspti-conLsg I'M convinced that wearing a placard to seek a job will not work in Singapore. When I tried this yesterday, I found it hard to connect with people at Shenton Way during lunch time. Even a pressed shirt and tie
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      Lock icon WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IN JOB SEARCH
      136 5 1 Manage your expectations Jobseekers who manage their expectations well do better in their job searches than those who are unrealistic. 2 Manage emotions Ms Chew said many feel angry or upset about retrenchment. "Unless emotions are managed, the feelings would show up
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      Lock icon Ride, surf & print
      756 6 Ride, surf print This taxi offers use of laptop computer with Internet connection and printer-for free FOR seven months, this Comfort taxi has been on Singapore roads with a service that not many know about. It offers passengers the use of a laptop to surf the Internet and a printer
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      Lock icon Fake mourners crash funerals for free booze
      200 8 WORU>lNBKI£li i nti nao never met ow oeany osparan, dik that dMnt stop a group of "eerial mourners' from turning up at funerals and helping memseives id iooo ana aiconoi. But they found themselves outsmarted, .W. m mm. -mm > l reported the
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      Lock icon ‘Make ATM show account holder’s name’
      655 8  -  Readers respond to report on man who transferred $750t0 wrong account REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyiOsph.com.sg WHY, you ask, can't banks do more for customers who make mistakes during fund transfers? The New Paper's report on 13 Dec about a bank security officer who mistakenly
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      625 10  -  IT consultant's scam exposed after govt body audits her claims REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN aystaioOsph.oonusg SHE tried to get her hands on government grants and subsidies by deception. And to achieve her goal, lim Chin Yen, an IT consultant persuaded nine small and medium enterprises
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      Lock icon Soiled bullet fragments uncovered after downpour
      442 10  -  REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayongOsptuxxiisg THE rusty copper- coloured fragments looked like bullets. But the construction workers who found the bits of ammunition were not certain. That was why they did not report the matter to the police. And they left the metal pieces-which were
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      Lock icon At the centre of our stories were regular people with spectacular courage
      446 12 STORIES of courage like theirs have made headlines in The New Paper consistently throughout the year. Now here is your chance to help pick The New Paper's Hero of the Year. Starting today to Monday, 29 Dec, the
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      Lock icon Business as good as Xmas past
      751 14  -  LUXURY BRANDS IN SINGAPORE But retailers don't expect festive buying to continue into newyear as recession bites REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystaicOsphxonLSQ PICTURE: REUTERS LAST Friday, teacher Erica Ng, 26, bought a Monogram Galliera bag costing $2,230 from Louis Vuitton's Takashimaya boutique. "I still have
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      Lock icon Big names launch early sales, affordable lines SALES STRATEGY:
      460 14 LUXURY BRANDS IN MILAN A man looks inside a shop which has a sign reading '25% ofP at its window in downtown Milan. GONE are the long lines in Milan's high fashion streets as top labels revise their sales strategies to
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      Lock icon Less time to train for games
      525 16  -  Asian Youth Games, Asean Schools Games affect schools'sports calendar REPORT: SANTOKH SINGH santokh@sph.com .sg IF you are a school athlete or swimmer preparing for competitions next year, be warned. You may not have the same time as before to prepare for the events. Unlike
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      51 18 VOTING BODY: A supporter of the Bangladesh Awami League, with his body painted with the election symbol of a boat, posing along a street in Dhaka yesterday. The words on his chest read: "The vote for boat". General elections will be held in Bangladesh on 29 Dec. PICTURE:
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      Lock icon Thailand plans $650m stimulus package
      287 18 KICK-STARTING TOURISM INDUSTRY Wire services. THAILAND'S government hopes the package will help the tourism sector. It was badly hit by the week-long airport blockade last month. "If businesses fail, it will cause damage to the country," Tourism and Sports Minister Chumpol Silpa-Archa told reporters after
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        Lock icon China admits many of its schools structurally unsafe
        113 18 Reuters. CHINA said yesterday that many of its schools were structurally unsafe. It comes more than seven months after a devastating earthquake, centred on south-western Sichuan province, killed thousands of children under collapsed school buildings. In Yunnan, neighbouring Sichuan and on the
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        Lock icon Bangkok to hold Asean summit from 13 Feb
        113 18 AFP. THAILAND has set new dates for the delayed Asean summit in Bangkok. The 14th Asean summit will now be held from 13 to 15 Feb. The foreign ministry had earlier mentioned the dates of Feb 24-26, but the plan had to
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        Lock icon Pakistan cancels army leave, moves troops to Indian border
        110 18 AP. PAKISTAN began moving thousands of troops away from the Afghan border toward India amid tensions following the Mumbai attacks, intelligence officials said. Officials said the army's 14th Di- vision was being redeployed to Kasur and Sialkot, close to the Indian
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      Lock icon Revive crooked bridge project?
      543 19 THE "crooked bridge", which has meanderecfits way through Singapore-Malaysia relations has taken a new twist There have been recent calls by former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad's supporters for the defunct project to be re-instated now that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will be leaving office. But
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      Lock icon He kicks boy to death for not doing homework
      322 19 AN Egyptian court jailed a teacher on Thursday for sixyears for kicking a schoolboy to death after he failed to do his homework, a court official said. Maths teacher Haitham Nabil Abdel Hamid (left) was convicted of manslaughter for kkking 11-year-old
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      Lock icon Can we expect Santa Claus rally this year?
      693 20  -  Stock markets traditionally see upward swing during the 12 days of Christmas THE HENG dfkjdkfjdjfsdsljfh THE bottom line for investors in 2008: Recession, recession, recession. Methinks, maybe not there's still a good week left to prove the pundits wrong. That's my take
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      Lock icon Ah choo! Is that a cold or a sexy thought?
      398 21 THE next time you hear someone sneeze, it may be due to more than just a cold. Scientists in Britain have made a link between sneezing and thinking about sex or having an orgasm. It is caused by a fault
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      Lock icon Hiss is bliss at snake spa
      544 22 Unique treatment uses reptiles to give massages YOU may have heard of letting little fish nibble away your dead skin at the fish spas, but here comes another bizarre offering the snake spa. Ms Ada Barak, who runs The Snake Spa in Israel, claims
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      Lock icon Judge refuses to annul child marriage
      632 24 Saudi man, 47, weds 8-year-old. Case goes to court SHE'S eight and married to a man, 47. If that surprises you, this will shock you. When die child's divorced mother asked a Saudi judge to annul the marriage, he refused. The gill's father had
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      Lock icon Google gives staff phones instead of cash gifts
      357 24 LAST year, Google handed out US$1,000 ($1,450) cash gifts to most employees. This year, to reduce cost during the economic downturn, the company is giving employees mobile phones instead, reported Bloomberg. But they're no ordinary phones. They're the G1 Android phones, first
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      250 23 if. M vS /t Shen Zhen Music Pub 2* tic* 273, Tanjong Katong Rd Tel: 6344 4584 I n Level Seminar The January 200 9,10am Temasek Convention Centre Whether ifs getting to university, landing that job you've always wanted or simply pursuing a passion the Temasek Polytechnic/The New Paper Beyond
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      40 25 GET A LOAD OF THAT: The sign's meant for vehicles, but with trolleys discarded at the loading and unloading area near Block 203C Compassvale Road, it looks like people on foot are doing some unloading as well. nmihnmtmiun-y/oi <»,»/».•/'■ FROM
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      177 25 1 IRANIAN leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's alternative Christmas message on UK's TV Channel 4 has created an uproar. He suggested that if Jesus Christ was around today, he would oppose the US and would be on Iran's side. 2 A SINGAPORE National Employers Federation survey
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      Lock icon ‘Hospital took every medical precaution’
      487 25 Baby dies from common bacterial infection FROM DR KENNETH KWEK ACTIN& CHAIRMAN, MEDICAL BOARD KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL I REFER to the letter entitled, "Baby dies from common bacterial infection: Could he have been saved?" (The New Paper, 22 Dec) by Ms Hoe Cheng
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      Lock icon Help us keep track of how much we have donated
      254 25 FROM READER MERYYN SEK AT the opening of the new premises of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre in July, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong called for jnore Singaporeans to donate according to their means and from their heart During
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      56 26 Should the Causeway be demolished or retained for its historical significance? "It's been there for a long time and I think we ought to keep it for historical reasons. It '11 be nice to let the younger ones experience and know about this little bit of Singaporean and Malaysian
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      114 26 Reaction to local actor Chew Chor Meng's revelation that he has muscular atrophy: "ChorMeng, one door closes, another one opens. Your physical limitation can only be limiting if you allow it to be. The choice is yours to sit and wallow or use your God-given talents to
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      Lock icon Yay, it’s the new year in Vladivostok
      492 27  -  Follow the countdown here as2009arrives at different times in Sydney, Tokyo, Hanoi and Dubai REPORT: GERMAINE LIM getfm@sph.com.sg tok, 11pm for Tokyo, lam for Bangkok and Hanoi, and 4am at Dubai when these cities enter the new year. St James chief executive officer
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      173 28 during Happy Hour between 6pm and 9pm. Lychee mojitos go for $5 between 6pm and 10pm. Special party packs will also be handed out to welcome 2009 with a bang. DXd Esplanade, 8pm-5am Cost: $20 for NTUC members, $25 for non-members Enjoy free flow draft beers and house pours between
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        Lock icon Cool Brad goes bumbling in advert
        402 29 We round up the Internet sites or videos that people are talking about Whafs the noise? BRAD Pitt has filmed a Japanese commercial for handphone company Softßank Mobile. The 30-second dip, styled like a silent mini-movie, is a remake of several scenes from 1953
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        69 29 vy© Sdv rJIJ jpL J, count "Wow, that's what I like about Rain. Not only is he hot and talented, but he can also kick your ass. "-cd202smith "I'm amazed how fast and smooth this action choreography is. And how fast and how well Rain
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        62 30 Imagine an intelligent home where appliances can communicate with one another, utilising a network that also allows us to control them remotely via the Internet, a home server and mobile phones. Called HomNet, the world's first commercialised home appliance network developed by LG Electronics Inc. gives us convenience
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        Lock icon Saving the planet one household appliance at a time
        457 30 Setting the trend for digital home appliances, LG electronics has in recent years introduced a number of worid firsts. They include direct drive motors and steam technology for washing machines, bagless vacuum cleaners, light power to prepare food four times faster
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      736 31  -  nfflp90SU|ERDlJKE Biker Boy EA ksjfkdjfdk ASK record-breaking, KTM stunt rider Oliver Ronzheimer what it takes to excel in his trade? He will say: Good bike, good brakes and practice. On his recent trip here for the National Bikers Weekend, he awed spectators on a standard KTM
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      203 32 PICTURE: SHAW WATCH'EM Three Kingdoms: Resurrection Of The Dragon (above) Mei Ah MovIm mm mio TV Ch SO), 10pm With his country torn asunder by cW war, a commoner heeds the call of duty and rises through the ranks on wings of courage and cunning to command an army charged
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    322 34  -  FASTADS in and around Taniong Pagar Written by Adsle Ong THE atmospheric Tanjong Pagar area, with its blend of steel-and-glass office buildings and charming architecture from earlier eras, is an excellent place for getting that city shopping buzz, as well as feeling relaxed enough for
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        Lock icon Jolie’s Shinju snatches Ladies Purse
        424 41  -  DANNY KHOO dkhooOsph.com.sg THE highly-talented Jolie's Shinju romped to an impressive win in the inaugural $75,000 Ladies Purse on the final day of the 2008 season at Kranji last night. The three-year-old Japa-nese-bred filly capitalised on her superior rating and form to beat her 10
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        1294 41 |Rac^1 MS 1200m 8 CflFTAM OF HONOUR 54(34-12) 6 MY WAY 56(24-9) EUpta OkiANi (5) 5 m 7 4 6 1 2 (507] 0.75 4 MAZE OF SL0RrS6cS6 (15-5) 11 ¥*AUBH>535c54(1H-'P). AHoi JPhmI jj 9 3 i) 11 2 5 3 4 s 1.25 3.25 1 TBMMATQR ATTACK 57 (43-15)
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        1600 42 RACE 1 Ma LMt6nro HORSE m Ralng Jocksy Banter 1 *****1 WMngSmii 57 (35) LfluHo*c2 1 (8agJMcO»ffaKta«Q 2 *****8 3 0-072 4 506-33 5 —05 6 *****0 7 *****4 B -2740 9 *****0 *****0 Baby Star RcflniM* Mm HOWOb NwLJh StayThaCauaa fcuutou CNaf Of Honour T» Lion Oy Glory SB
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        137 43 RACE 1 RACE2 RACE3 RACE4 RACE5 RACE1 RACE7 RACE8 RACES RACE 10 RACE 11 **V fl JLAfOMm SMOOHB |h» fl CMH ANwr Der* f to* g «tenm A H0i P Pmcf AkMy, I Start 'Blue I Beginning General Chief fl Gun is*, is? 22, 1ST s, 8sr rM»
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        425 43 SHANTOU MAYOR wrapped up preparations for a comeback win in the RM1.35 million ($567,000) Yang Di Pertua Negeri Gold Cup for Malaysia Group 1 horses over 2,200 m in Race 7 tomorrow with a two-round workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by race-jockey apprentice Harmeet
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        175 43 (Race 2 No. 4) BEST BET GET off to an early win with this former Kranji-based galloper. The six-year-old grey gelding by lion Hunter is ready to salute the judge after five starts in his new base. His third to Unlimited Speed last Sunday was full of merit
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        507 43 Racel Maiden Juvenile Plate 1000M 5 SAXECOBURG 57 (57-15) SKhaM (5) 1 7 ASIAN FAD 54 (22-7) 2 6 TARA'S WORLD 57 (25-6) S'MKhumato (4) 3 Race 2 Maiden Plate 14iX)M 7 SP6CTRE BOY 57 (12-45) GOwjfm (4) 1 10 KWEW0IMN54(23-8) RFmman (9) 2 4 DICKYHOTSPUR57(225-25) 0Sm*i (11) 3 I
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        793 44 RACE 1 (1,000 m) 6 Aria Magic: Has race experience on her side and her debut run was encouraging. She will finish among the top two with the right run. 2 Master Tenby: Impressed in a recent barrier trial, recording a fast time in good
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        865 44 Going forecast: Good 1150 Race 1 WESTSPBED ZYO PLATE 100QM 1 2 2 FACEOFMBCY PKng (2) 55.0 2 5 1 MASTER TOBY Unfixed (4) 550 3 4 biitti RELATED AMWams (1) 550 4 5 2 1 THE CORPORATION P Harvey 55.0 5 1 4 TORONTO
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        470 45 LONG established as world No. 1, Tiger Woods runs the risk of being deposed at the top of the rankings in the first quarter of next year. L The American has been out of action since having reconstructive knee surgery after winning the US Open in June
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        52 45 1 Tiger Woods 12.27 av. pts 2 Sergio Garcia 8.21. 3 Phil Mickelson 7.19. 4 Padraig Harrington 7.07. 5 Vijay Singh 6.78. 6 Robert Kartsson 5.15. 7 Camilo Villegas 4.97. 8 Ernie Els 4.87. 9 Henrik Stenson 4.86. 10 Lee Westwood 4.80 11 Geoff Ogilvy 4.52. 12 Anthony
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        240 45 AP THE Asian Tour has condemned the rival One Asia Golf Tour of attempting to invade the continent, issuing a strongly worded statement in response to fresh speculation about the organisational future of the sport in the region. The Asian Tour's statement came after
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        302 45 PLAYING off grass is not the only attraction at the new Turf City Driving Range. The range at the old racecourse at Bukit Timah among the rare ones to have grass for tee-off has a high-tech feature for obtaining golf balls. Instead of paying
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      581 46 She's a Foreign Talent Wonder The New Paper profiles its two biggest sporting heroines who captivated Singapore this year HER NAME initials read F.T.W. It could very well stand for Foreign Talent Wonder. Together with table tennis glamour girl Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, Feng Tianwei
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      509 46 IT WAS a day before Yip Pin Xiu headed to September's Beijing Paralympics where she became Singapore's first Paratympic gold medal winner in swimming. Arriving in a taxi with team-mate Theresa Goh at the Farrer Park swimming pool, she asked The New Paper to help lift
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        Lock icon Lions need changes to aim higher
        406 47 The majority of our readers feel the Lions' weaknesses show that changes are needed to if they are to aspire to a higher level of football, as shown by our Letter of the Week LETTER OF THE WEEK THE LIONS' overconfidence and tactical naivety
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          Lock icon Non-existent strikers
          67 48 I READ die papers about Alam Shah boasting about defeating the Vietnamese and the team was ready. I believed those words until the match started The Lions realty have to adopt a new style of play that is effective and elegant That is, play the ball on the
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          Lock icon Awful Precious
          69 48 SINGAPORE were unfortunate to lose after creating so many clear-cut opportunities. Precious Emuejeraye (below) was woeful with possession and hardly looked solid in die heart of defence. Baihakki has matured tremendously as a player though, and could be the defensive key man together with another better centre-half than-Precious.
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          Lock icon Where’s the creativity?
          106 48 THE LACK of creativity was clearly justified by their toothless attacks against Vietnam last Sunday. Our strikers' offensive movements were so predictable that defence had few problems overcoming it Against Indonesia, the goals came via set-pieces, even though the Indonesians lay siege to the lions' half most
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          Lock icon Change in tactics needed
          67 48 RADDY Avramovic has to shoulder some of the blame. This is because of the 'one-dimensional' game that our Lions adopted during the entire tournament. Granted, long balls sure are a menace to defenders, especially with physically-inclined forwards like Alam Shah. But to adopt such a strategy
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          Lock icon Lions’ attack stagnant
          83 48 THE ATTACK is the worst area and has not improved. Shahril Ishak really troubled the Vietnamese when he did the left-wing runs. We do not have another Shahril on the right and thus there is no balance. Singapore are very predictable. No wall passes, no wing attacks,
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          Lock icon Drop tinder-performing naturalised talent
          82 48 AVRAMOVIC'S continued selection of Precious in the starting line-up and deploying Daniel Bennett who has been a central defender throughout the season with SAFFC, at left-back, bemuses me. We do have a natural left-footed winger in Shaiful Esah. Why not blood him and make him a
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          Lock icon Coach to blame too
          87 48 RADDY Avramovic failed in this tournament to change tactics accordingly when there were injury problems. When regular targetman Aleksander Duric was out, Avramovic (below) should have opted for a more 'on-the-ground' approach to suit the likes of Indra, Alam Shah, and possibly Agu Casmir. Avramovic has
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          Lock icon Improve to challenge Asia’s best
          74 48 DESPITE our cohesiveness and discipline, Singapore still failed to use possession wisely and kept giving the ball away with hopeful long punts. Singapore must improve their off-the-ball movements and patterns of play in the final third. They must learn to keep possession and show more
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        Lock icon QUESTION OF THE WEEKEND
        76 48 IF YOU were Mark Hughes, which two areas ofthe Manchester City team would you improve, and which two players wouldyou sign in January? ThiiWffdJjwitteaOwpriiydlfatdMdtoeit at tnppostmanxom or fr-nwH Iff tnpwtlimnO||nwHiCwn. under tho —fc Hii In. i iuive tivsr rosuiiwi For thoee who e-mail ptease include your
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        Lock icon LETTER OF THE WEEKEND PRIZE
        76 48 THE WINNER of The Postman s Letter of the Weekend will win a $200 games hamper from lAHGames. lAHGames is launching the world's first officially-licensed English online football game EA Sports Fifa Online 2- today. Join more than 600,000 people from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and
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        782 49 EXCLUSIVE MARLON King is running late. As he rushes out of the players' dining room at the KC Stadium, he's chomping on a half-eaten apple. He's finished training ahead of the Premier League game against Manchester City. A few hours after the match and Milifc
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          Lock icon Spurs yet to decide on new offer for Bellamy
          443 50 PA Sport. TOTTENHAM are yet to decide whether to make an improved offer for West Ham striker Craig Bellamy after an initial bid, believed to be about £6 million ($12.8 m), was turned down. Spurs manager Harry Redknapp revealed the club
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          Lock icon Fergie opts for current crop
          257 50 PA Sport. MANCHESTER United manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be happy to see out the season with the current crop of players at his disposal. Ferguson has confirmed he has no intention of recruiting top names when the window reopens next week. Instead his focus
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          Lock icon Senna ‘interested’ In move to Man City
          183 50 PA Sport. EUROPEAN Championship winner Marcos Senna has revealed he would be "interested" in a January move to Manchester City. The Spain midfielder, who is under contract at Villarreal until 2010, is believed to be one of the players on City manager Mark
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          Lock icon Reds considering Pennant bid: Report
          181 50 PA Sport LIVERPOOL are reportedly considering a bid from Real Madrid for Jermaine Pennant. New Real coach Juande Ramos has made a new right-sided winger one of his top priorities and die club has been linked with a host of players including Ashley Young, Aaron
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        Lock icon Unbeaten No.8 for Fulham
        713 51 TOTTENHAM O FULHAM O FULHAM extended their unbeaten run to eight games in the Premier League on Boxing Day with a 0-0 draw at Tottenham. Roy Hodgson has instilled a belief and organisation in his Fulham side this season after its narrow escape form relegation last
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        Lock icon Bellamy’s Boxing Day battering
        702 52 PORTSMOUTH 1 Belhadj (8) WEST HAM 4 Collison (20), Cole (67), Bellamy (70,83) WEST Ham defied every portent under the sun to record a most emphatic 4-1 win over Portsmouth which helps ease them clear of the bottom three. For a team that had never beaten
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        Lock icon Blues home in, finally
        580 53  -  CHELSEA 2 (Drogba 3, Lampard 45) WESTBROMO GARY LIM Almost two months. That was how long the Stamford Bridge faithful had to wait for a home win in the league. It finally ended yesterday, when Chelsea notched a comfortable 2-0 victory over relega-tion-threatened West Bromwich Albion.
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        Lock icon POINTS
        421 53 f COULD this win be the turning point for Chelsea? The Chelsea fans are hoping that this is the case. After all, the Blues had been struggling to pick up wins over the past month. On a psychological level, they needed yesterday's 2-0 win over West Brom to calm
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        Lock icon United overturn savage Stoke
        628 54  -  MAN MACINOOSH YUUR ENGLISH KANG WELCOME back to England, Fergie. You can't get much further away from a sultry evening at the Yokohama than The Britannia Stadium on Boxing Day and you can bet that the wily old Scotsman would have preferred to have been anywhere
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        Lock icon ‘We’re on course for title’
        311 54 Wire Services. SIR Alex Ferguson believes Manchester United are on course for another surge towards the Premier League title in the second half of the season after his side's 1-0 win against 10-man Stoke. The win kept Ferguson's reigning champions hot on the heels of
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        358 54 ynHPlii WHAT was Andy WHWnsorrthinking of when he clattered into CrisHano Ronakto? The Stoke City players seemed to be getting more enjoyment out of kicking the United winger than they were out of niitiMfM I a ijjfi mtnnnl nn nt 0% piaymg wiiKmson s Dismissal cost mem a
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