The New Paper, 2 January 2009

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1 60 The New Paper
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    12 1 the new paper 02 Jan 09 frithenewpaperPAGE 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      49 1 Secretive Kym reveals marriage plans I do, but must have condo with city frithenewpaperPAGE 21 Indoor fireworks folly sparks stampede in Bangkok nightclub PICTURE: KHAOSOD NEWSPAPER Family of dead S’porean clings to belief he is not among 61 dead HOPE FROM HELL PAGE 2 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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  • News Bangkok Club Inferno
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      Lock icon ‘We want to see his body first’
      507 2 / 3  -  Family of dead S'poreanhopesheisn’t among charred bodies CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg HEdiedinthefirethatturnedapopularBangkoknightspot,SantikaClub,intoahellholeonNewYear’s Day. The Foreign Affairs Ministry has confirmed his death, though no details were released abouthowhisbodywasidentified. With many of the 61 dead charred beyond recognition, the family of Mr Teo Sze Siong,
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      Lock icon Fiasco from fireworks folly?
      556 2 / 3 THENewYear’sEvepartywasnotjusttobidfarewell to2008,butalsotosaygoodbyetothenightclub’sold premises. The famous Santika Club in Bangkok was moving to a new location and was supposed to close on New Year’sDay. The party organisers probably thought it was a good idea to celebrate with fireworks. Itturnedouttobeaverybadidea–andadeadly one. While the cause has yet to be
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      Lock icon ‘You couldn’t tell if people on stretchers were alive or dead’
      547 2 / 3 THE revellers had come prepared to party well into the wee hours of the morning. But less than an hour into the new year, the booming music was replaced by sounds of explosions, and the dancing turned into a
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      170 4 / 5 isberg xm\ u\ tit brings loads of luck in the Yegp ?0 08 and welcome 2009, Carlsberg continues tn r„n d f are^ ei to /e Hea lth and Friendship, Michelle Ch/a, Fiona Xio Ut th Sur C^ ad rS °ador INAichelle Chong and the CarIsberg Wealth Amba r «k
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  • News Year Of Riding Dangerously
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      Lock icon WASTED LIVES
      596 6 / 7 YOU do not want to be on this list. These names and faces are a stark reminder of young lives lost prematurely. Allthe riders and pillionswereyoung below 30 years old. And this is not the complete list of those who died on our roads last year. Behind every
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      Lock icon It’s experience that matters
      775 6 / 7  -  Despite better and safer bikes,deathtollstill high for younger riders ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg BARELY 30 years old, and they’re dead most of them in the blink of an eye. It could be a lapse in concentration or an error in judgment on the road, but the
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      Lock icon AS THE WHEEL TURNS:
      34 8 ASTHEWHEELTURNS:TheSingaporeFlyerhasstartedtomove– for testing purposes. It will continue turning for the next few days forcleaningandmaintenance.Sincethewheel’sstoppageon23 Dec from an electrical fire, eight international experts have been flownintolookintotheFlyer’soperations. TNP PICTURE: CHOO CHWEE HUA
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      Lock icon Auto insurance cover for all Mindef staff
      222 8 NS allowance to go up by $20 SINGAPORE Armed Forces servicemen have begun to be covered automatically under an insurance scheme from yesterday. Unless they opt out, all Mindef employees, regular servicemen under the age of 45 and full-time National Servicemen will be
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      Lock icon More stalls for Chinatown despite New Year budget cut
      110 8 THE budget for Chinatown’s Lunar New Year celebrations has been cut by 20 per cent. However, the number of street stalls in the area will be the largest ever. Shoppers will be able to visit as many as 600 stalls. Despite
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      Lock icon Rise in number of HDB home buyers defaulting on loans
      99 8 MORE buyers of HDB flats are defaulting on the repayments of their loans. The number of home buyers defaulting on their home loans for three months or more has risen significantly over the last five years, reported The Straits Times.
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      Lock icon Budget-conscious parents cut back-to-school shopping
      95 8 TIMES are tough and parents are cutting back on what children need for the new school year. Retailers are seeing a drop of 20 per cent in the sales of back-to-school products this year, Channel NewsAsia reported. Some budget-conscious parents are buying only what is
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      Lock icon Full Steam Ahead...
      1023 9  -  Teen on scholarship is pursuing marine engineering diploma at Singapore Maritime Academy Text: Eoin Ee newsroom intern, A DESIRE to be different from his peers got him sailing into unchartered waters literally. Noor Hafiz Ramli's long-nurtured interest in the sea has been given a boost, thanks to
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      Lock icon Law kicks in, but they are not stubbing out
      434 10 / 11 ANEWYearandnewrulesonsmokingkickedin.During a two-hour enforcement operation by the National Environment Agency (NEA), a few peoplewerecaughtbreakingtherules. The NEA officers did the rounds to see whether smokersareadheringtothenewrules. Andasofyesterdayevening,over240smokerswere given verbal warnings by NEA officials for not complyingwiththenewrules. Still, NEA said compliance to the new
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      Lock icon I want my NTV, my Nyonya TV
      399 10 / 11  -  STREET TALK YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg HAVE a bad case of Nyonya-mania, resulting in being oblivious to anything else when the Channel 8 series The Little Nyonya is on, and an uncontrollable urge to pound spices for my imaginary rempah. This is how
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      Lock icon 2009 DRUNK & HUNG OVER
      337 12 / 13  - 2009 DRUNK HUNG OVER AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg AFTER the havoc, comes the inevitable hangover.Andwe’re nottaking about the economic fallout from last year. On Wednesday night, 16,000 revellers were soaking in the fun and downing the boozeat the NewYear’sEve countdown partyon Sentosa’s SilosoBeach. Hours later, some ended up like beached whales
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      638 14  -  Woodlandsresidentcan’t use handphone unless she sticks head out of window Sing Keng Loon –SingKengLoon,newsroomintern IF YOU are living near Blk 520 at Woodlands Drive 14, don’t be surprised if you see a woman sticking her head out of the window, talking
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      261 10 / 11 STREETOpinionTALKOpinionated commentary on trends Exclusively for students "10 I* awaiting O level results! A J l/V U'AZ 0* """•t'SlSS Saturday, 10 Janu y Temasek Convention Centre Whether it's getting to university, landing that job you've always wanted or simply pursuing a passion the Temasek Polytechnic/The New Paper Beyond O Level
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      21 10 / 11 SINGAPOREAN RECOUNTS HORROR OF BANGKOK BLAZE ‘‘I couldn’t see anything. All I could feel was a burning sensation on my skin.’’
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      45 15 BELTUPACROSSTHECAUSEWAY:Malaysianpolice began issuing summonses to all rear seat passengers who do not wear their seat belts from yesterday. They conducted an operation from 10pm to 2am at 28 locations throughout the country and gave out 242 summonses. PICTURE: CHINA PRESS
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      285 15 AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR MALAYS AP THE Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) president Ong Tee Keat yesterday indirectly called for the scrapping of an affirmative action programme for the majority Malays, in a rare challenge to the fount of government power. The MCA is a member
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      Lock icon Survey: Hong Kong most pessimistic about 2009
      109 15 AFP HONG Kong is more gloomy about the prospects for this year than anyone else in the world, while mainland Chinese are among the most optimistic, a survey said. Sixty-seven percent of the 1,013 people polled in Hong Kong by research firms TNS
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      Lock icon US hands Baghdad’s Green Zone back to Iraq
      109 15 AFP THE US handed over security control of the Green Zone, symbol of the American-led occupation, to Iraq as a UN mandate for foreign troops ran out and bilateral military accords took effect. Iraqi government and military officials hailed the return of
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      Lock icon China approves 3G mobile phone licenses
      103 15 AP CHINA said it has approved licenses for next-generation mobile phone services in a long-delayed step that is expected to trigger billions of dollars in equipment sales. China is one of the last major major marketsto rollout third-generation,or 3G, services. The government will issue
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      Lock icon Woman TV host arrested in KL hotel sex party
      326 16 Other New Year parties also see string of crimes, fights THE room of a hotel in Kuala Lumpur’s Jalan P Ramlee became a hotbed of illegal activities on the morning of the new year. In there, police saw vice of almost
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      Lock icon Bank account wiped out, so wedding’s off
      300 16 Factory worker K Hemanathan received a shock when he found his bank account almost cleaned out. But the jolt he received was nothing compared to the pain and humiliation his elder sister and family had to endure. The family had to postpone her
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    • DEADLY WATERS
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        213 17 INDIA HE WANTED to pay homage to the victims of the Mumbai terror attacks by swimming between Dharamtar and Gateway of India. But marathon swimmer Vinod Ghadge started bleeding from the nose after being trapped in a fishing net. He drowned near Karanjata jetty
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        Lock icon He fails to save drowning teen ... then learns victim is his only son
        549 17 He fails to save drowning teen then learns victim is his only son CHINA A GOOD Samaritan gave up in his attempts to save a drowning teenager, only to find out later that it was his only son. According to ChinaNews.com, 19-year-old Haohao had leapt into the river in Jiangning
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      Lock icon Broke mum wins $2m on Christmas Eve
      288 18  -  By Richard Sawl Last Updated: 10:31AM GMT 01 Jan 2009 MISSMariaMurraywasononthevergeofcancellingChristmas.The broke mother warned her four children that she could not afford to buythempresents. They would probably not have been impressed to learn, therefore, that she had spent her last £5 ($10) on
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      Lock icon Americans invest in piggy banks
      244 18 RECESSION-WARY Americans would rather put their money in the humble piggy bank than in once-mighty financial institutions. Stores reported a clear rise in the popularity of piggy banks, reported Reuters. “Wehave beenselling coin banksreallywell,” said Ms Laura Kellner at Kikkerland Design Inc. in New York.
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      170 18 Healthy Japanese and Chinese Participants Needed! Pfizer Clinical Research Unit (PCRU) needs healthy participants for a scientific study involving an experimental medicine used to treat patients with overactive bladder. Purpose: To compare two formulations of the same drug and to assess the safety when given orally Pre-requisites: Healthy Japanese and/or
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      11 18 Head to CATS FASTADS in The New Paper for education options!
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      30 19 FROM READER SUZAN TANG TRUCK TOP: Our reader spotted this shelter, made up of a pick-up truck roof, at Ubi Avenue 4 on Wednesday.It’scertainlya creative way of recycling. E-mailyourpicturestotnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      142 19 1 ALTHOUGH Singapore slipped into recession last year, its economic growth was still positive at 1.5 per cent, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said. In his New Year message, PM Lee said that outlook continues to be“highly uncertain” with the threat of a rise
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      Lock icon It’s the simple things that link generations
      528 19 FROM READER ERLINDATAN PRICELESS FAMILY HEIRLOOMS I HAVE a story to share with your readers, about a simple scrapbook and what it has come to mean for me. I grew up in the Philippines. My father died in a car accident 30 years
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      36 20 Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall to be renovated at cost of $180 million: Too much? “Theyarebothhistorical buildings that are worth preserving. Renovating it would renewits look. Eventhough it’sa largesum, I think it’sagood move.” WilliamWong,39, businessman
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      95 20 Comments on fresh graduates having problems getting jobs during the current economic downturn: We should not be encouraging our young graduates to chill and relax in times of recession. They should lower their expectations and look for other kinds of jobs to gain experience and lessen the
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      58 19 YOUR VIEWS E-mail tnptalk@sph.com.sg or write to The New Paper, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 Forverification,we needthe writer’sfull name andcontact number(preferably a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By your submission, it is deemed that you have granted us the right to archive,
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      256 20 Presented By HSBC <Z> SER\£ s s",'< k*" V -A df'i X Ho Tien Tsai Learn to prepare lip-smacking Lunar New Year dishes with Master Chef Ho Tien Tsai of Tien Court at Copthorne King's Hotel. The demonstration features Sauteed King Prawns with Chilli Bean Sauce, Braised Assorted Vegetables Wrapped
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      34 20 Got a seasonal greeting or special message for someone close? Want to reach out to former colleagues, classmates? Send us your picture message: tnpforum@sph.com.sg thenewpaper 2nd-most read English paper daily (Nielsen Media Index ’08)
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      932 21  -  KymNgbringsforwardherwedding,‘thanksto CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg KYM Ng is finally ready to get hitched with her long-time boyfriend in the second half of this year. The actress told The New Paper that she had originallyplannedtogetmarried“muchlater”. But“thanks tothe media”,she hasdecided tobring forward her wedding. She said on Wednesday:
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      727 23  -  Gym Class Heroes frontman Travis McCoy talks about godson Bronx, his Nike shoes and girlfriend Katy Perry GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg TRAVIS McCoy has a new mission to spoil his godson Bronx Mowgli Wentz rotten. The frontman of US alternative hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes is godfather to
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        Lock icon Hilton toasts the New Year Down Under
        195 24 / 25 Who was where, and doingwhat? Here’s a round-up of the latest celebrity sightings in the region and Hollywood WHO: Paris Hilton (above), 27 WHERE: Sydney, Australia WHAT: Hilton welcomed 2009 about half a day earlier than her Hollywood party peers when she celebrated
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        Lock icon Grenier takes a dip with dolphins
        95 24 / 25 WHO: Adrian Grenier (right), 32 WHERE: Gold Coast, Australia WHAT: The Entourage star had a splashing good timeat Australia’s SeaWorld on New Year’sEve. Grenier, who was Down Under with his band, The Honey Brothers, spent a few hours swimming with the themepark’sdolphins. He and
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        101 24 / 25 WHO: John Legend, 30, and Christine Teigen (left, with Legend), 23 WHERE: Madison Square Garden, New York WHAT: Christine Teigen added a touch of glamour to the VIP stands at the New York Knicks vs Denver Nuggets NBA match last Sunday. The leggy model, who is
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        Lock icon Philippines’ city in the clouds
        568 26 / 27  -  Baguio’scool climate and breath-taking landscapes are big attractions GAVIN FOO gavinfoo@sph.com.sg LOOKING over the city of Baguio from an observation deck, I could catch a glimpse of towering pine trees peeking out from a fog-covered landscape of mountains and valleys. It’snowonderthatthis summercapital of the Philippines
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        487 44/45  -  Outsider Winniedun leads all the way in Race 1, Powell treble for Baertschiger DANNY KHOO dkhoo@sph.com.sg THE first day of the new Kranji season yesterday started with a bang but not the kind that racegoers were hoping for. Winniedun, who raced previously as May
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        516 44/45 GOING: GOOD Race1 Class4 1600m 1 BEAUTIFULCHOICE129(29-8) KCLeung (4) 1 9 LIVERBIRD120(72-18) HWLai (8) 2 10 GREENGLORY118(16-9) WCMarwing (2) 3 4 BRILLIANTFLASH127(32-10) ODoleuze (9) 4 ?Trainer: YS Tsui. Margins: Hd, 1.5. Time: 1min 35.7sec. Forecast: $100. Place Forecast: $33 (Nos. 1-9), $10 (Nos. 1-10),
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        172 44/45 YESTERDAY’S Kranji workouts by horses engaged tomorrow: RACE 1: Slow work: Enjoy The Ride? ?(E Aslam), Forward, Maha Veeran. RACE 2: Common’s Gem ?38.5. Slow work: Military Express (Aslam), Daring Shani (M Razali), Royal Palm. RACE 3: Shinkansen canter/39.6. Slow work: Daring Knight, Winning
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        1094 44/45 GOING: GOOD Race1 MS1700m 10 WINNIEDUN52(223-65) MarcusAu (3) 1 1 1 (440) 2 REGALKNIGHT59c57(21-9) EAslam (9) 9 5 2 (457) 0.5 3 JOYLUCK58.5(42-19) NCallow (10) 11 10 3 (477) 0.75 1 MAJESTICKNIGHT59c55(19-7) TAffandi* (1) 4 3 4 (521) 0.5 7 ELEVENTHAVENUE54.5(17-5) RFradd (8) 8 8 5
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        348 46 NST JERAM NATURAL wrapped up preparations for a comeback win in the Class 4 event over 1,200m in Race 6 tomorrow with a two-round workout yesterday. Taken out by apprentice Nawawi Ahmad, the five-year-old Aus-tralian-bred gelding by Love A Dane trotted two
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        1276 46 RACE 1 JOYLUCK and KNOTWITHME were slow to begin. BUTLER ON DUTY, WINNIEDUN and SONIC KOUN bumped on jumping. Near the 1,600m, SONIC KOUN steadied away from the heels of WINNIEDUN. REGAL KNIGHT was obliged to race wide throughout. For a short distance approaching
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        430 47  -  GODFREY ROBERT npsports@sph.com.sg FORMER national amateur golfer Feldman Tan is leaning more towards the academic route. But golf still remains his passion. So the University of California (Berkeley) student, back in Singapore for the winter break, is doing a balancing act. Academically, he has done
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        146 47 IN THESE economic gloom, it is difficult to raise funds for charitable and other noteworthy causes. But the NUS Business School raised close to $360,000 (with a government matching grant) through a recent golf tournament. The money will be used to support the school’s Building Excellence
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        139 47 Reuters THE US Tour has released its entire schedule for 2009, a fully-sponsored programme with a slight increase in purses despite the global financial crisis. The line-up for the regular season was announced in November before the Fall Series, which will finalise the top
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          152 48 / 49 Ourreadershada field day emulating footballersand managerswith 2009 resolutions, like our Letter of theWeekwinner Move to Manchester City in the January transfer window with Kaka in a “Buy One, Get One Free” deal. 1 2 DesignanewphonecalledtheR-Phone 3 Scorean overhead kickgoal like the onescored for Barcelona-inthevideogame. 4 5
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          49 48 / 49 BUY a player aged 22 or older. Give Emmanuel Adebayor less training so he will not have the energy to sprint offside. Present each of my players with a soft toy before every match to motivate them as they are still "kids". They will love it. –GeraldLam,25,eventsofficer,Arsenalfan
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          54 48 / 49 FIELD at least one English player once every 30 games...on the bench. Convince myself that Arsenal can still challenge for the title, even when we are 20 points off the pace. Ban drinking and smoking on club premises. Then again, most of my players are too young
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          37 48 / 49 SIGN another contract extension next year and the following year. GiveRioFerdinandaDutchsupermodel’snumbereverytime he helps me earn a clean sheet. Constantly tell Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes that they are not that old. –Qyaerus-Syahrein,27,student,Chelseafan
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          31 48 / 49 Mind Your Language: Roman Pavlyuchenko gains language: English. Alone Sticky Body: Darren Bent re-learns ball-control. FlyMeToTheMoon:Anti-gravityspell,allowingTottenhamto float above area known as “relegation zone” for the rest of the season. –WongKengMeng,28,manager,TottenhamHotspurfan
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          65 48 / 49 I WILL blame the club for not showing me the dough, and then I will complain that too much money is being spent in the competition. Next,Iwillblamethefansforexpectingtoomuch,andof course, I need to blame the players for not having high expectations. If all fails, I will blame the press,
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          27 48 / 49 MUST captain England “John Terry good meh? I think I candoawaybetterjoblah.” Must stop the media criticising Liverpool “Play bad, tio shoot!Playgood,alsotioshoot!Howliddat?” Mustgetanewhaircut!-“LetmecounttheyearsI’vebeen goingthroughwiththishaircut...10,20?” –HaleyHarrison,15,student,Liverpoolfan
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          25 48 / 49 ALLIwanttodofor2009is..... Give Wayne Rooney some hair implant vouchers or anything that can help his balding head so as to prevent dress-ing-roomscufflesbecauseofhisteam-mates’teasing. GiveordersthatnoonecallsRooney“Looney”. –TanYongWei,14,student,ManchesterUnitedFan
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          27 48 / 49 GETRobbieKeane’sscoringbootsonsohewillnotendup a $20 million flop. To get another striker this month so I will not look like a fool for selling Peter Crouch. Avoid“tinkering”withstartingelevenconsistently. –SohChiewYean,48,ITmanager,Arsenalfan
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          28 48 / 49 I HAVE to offload Jermaine Pennant, somehow. I need to buy a real right-winger to replace “strik-er-turned-winger”DirkKuyt.Heiswaytooinconsistenttobe relied upon. –BalaSubaramaniam,24,student, Liverpool and Barcelona fan
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        775 50 / 51  -  EXCLUSIVE LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg IT WAS a dream move too good to refuse. Aleksandr Hleb became the first Belarussian footballer to play for Barcelona when he left Arsenal for the Nou Camp at the end of last season. But so far, the
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        212 50 / 51  -  LIM HAN MING CRISTIANO Ronaldo may have won the Ballon d’Or, but Aleksandr Hleb has no doubts who the best player in the world is. “If you ask me who is better Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi I will have to say Messi,” Hleb told
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        284 50 / 51  -  LIM HAN MING ALEKSANDR Hleb paid tribute to the man who gave him his big break in English football. The 27-year-old Belarussian was a virtual unknown when he was playing for German side Stuttgart, but Arsene Wenger saw the potential in him. “Alex convinced me in pre-season
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        424 52 PeteJensononwhat’shappeninginLaLiga,oneofEurope’smost exciting leagues, as it resumes in 2009 following the winter break TOP OF THE WORLD SAMUELEto’oistheleadingscorerinSpain. He’s top of the league with Barcelona, he faces his old club Real Mallorca this weekend andhe’soncoursenotjusttobeLaLiga’stop marksmanbutEurope’sGoldenBoot. It’snowonderhewantedtocomebackto work early. The Cameroon striker was due back yesterday but
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        116 52 41 SPAIN played 16 games in 2008 and won 15 of them, suffering only one draw and no defeats. 2 41 AFTER the Euro08 win they had four players in the BallonD’or top 10 Fernando Torres, Iker Casillas, Xavi and David Villa. 41 3
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        392 53 Reuters OUTSPOKEN, controversial and flamboyant, just the way the Spanish like their chairmen. So while it may surprise some, it really should not that former Newcastle United chairman Freddy Shepherd has come forward as the only candidate willing to take on the shambles that is
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        92 53 SHEPHERD, 66, together with his brother Bruce, run the family-owned Shepherd Offshore firm. The family started off dealing in scrap metal, but have branched out to marine logistics, refurbishment, warehousing, offshore services and other marine related business. BESTknownasNewcastleUnited’schairman for 10 years until 2007, when he sold his 28
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        513 53 FOR THOSE longing for their Spanish football fix after a long two weeks, the season continues this weekend. Kicking off the weekend is Barcelona, who take on struggling Real Mallorca in the early game tomorrow (Sunday morning, 3am Singapore time). Barcelona set a blistering pace in
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        656 54  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg FOR THE first time this season, Manchester United have pipped both Chelsea and Liverpool for favouritism in the Premier League. And, like it was at this time during the 2007/2008 campaign, the Red Devils enter the New Year as
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        369 55 Hull City chairman wants investigation into referee SteveBennett’sdecisiontoreversepenalty PA Sport HULLCityaredemandinganinves-tigation into claims a third party was behind referee Steve Bennett'sdecisiontooverturnalatepenaltyin Tuesdaynight’s1-0defeattoAstonVilla. Bennett initially awarded Hull an inju-ry-timespot-kickwhenhethoughtAshley Young had handled the ball on the line, butthenchangedhismindaftertalkingto his assistant Andy Halliday, who correctly toldhimtheballhadstruckthebar. But
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        377 56 WEST Ham chief executive Scott Duxbury has admitted that no player is off-limits for sale during thismonth’stransfer window. And the Hammers are bracing themselves for several bids on their players in the coming weeks. A number of players have been linked with a move away
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        407 56 Wire Services THE JANUARY transfer window has now opened, giving clubs their first opportunity to buy or sell players since the end of August. Several deals have already been agreed, including Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra’s (left) £20 million ($42m) move to Real Madrid, and can be
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        496 57 Wire Services CHELSEA’S Didier Drogba could be on his way out of Stamford Bridge. Following disparaging remarks he had made about the club coupled with a claim that he had lost his passion for the game, the club has slapped him with
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      243 58 Wire Services ARSENALdefenderKoloTourewilldemandamovein the January transfer window after a furious bust-up with team-mate William Gallas, accordingtoreportsintheEnglishmedia. The Ivorian has not played as much for the Gunners thisterm. The Ivory Coast international has reportedly handed inatransferrequestafterfalling outoffavourat theclub inrecentgames. The defender got into a row with former
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        67 59 FA CUP Saturday: TOTTENHAM vWIGAN Ch 24, 3.55am HULL CITY v NEWCASTLE Ch 24,11pm WillNewcastle’s David Edgar (right) find his scoring touch against Hull City? LALIGA Sunday: VALENCIA v ATLETICO MADRID Ch 27, 4.55am Sunday: PRESTON v LIVERPOOL Ch 24,1.25am GILLINGHAM v ASTON VILLA Ch 24,9.30pm SOUTHAMPTON v MAN
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        95 59 GOLF From 13 Jan THE 2009 Mission Hills Asia-Pacific Open Amateur Golf Championship tees off at the Nicklaus course, Mission Hills Golf Club, China, which is the largest golf club in the world with its 12 courses spread over two cities in China. TENNIS From 19 Jan THEYEAR’SfirsttennisGrandSlamevent begins
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