The New Paper, 7 March 2009

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    12 1 the new paper 7 Mar 09 sat 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      81 1 ASHLEY COLE ARRESTED Why he went berserk (It has to do with a blonde) PAGE 19 MAN U BOSS OPENS UP Why I won’t retire (It has to do with his fear) PAGE 57 7 Mar 09 sat thenewpaper A-LEVEL RESULTS He scored seven As and made history in his
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  • News A-Level Results
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      Lock icon I want to make late dad proud
      722 2/3  -  TeenbreaksJJCrecordwith7Asdespitedad’ssuddendeath6weeksbeforeexams: REPORT:VEENA VEENA BHARWANI veenab@sph.com.sg HE made history in his junior college by becoming the first student to score seven straight As in the A-level examinations. Yet, while the vice-principal was lauding his achievement when the results were released yesterday, Tok Ming Da,
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      Lock icon Gaming addict' s time limit is secret to scoring 4 As
      223 2/3 HE’Saself-confessed gaming addict who spends at least three hours a day on the computer.Buthe’s no slackerin school. Yesterday, Tan Ying Quan (left), 19, was all smiles when his name was announced as one of the top students in Jurong
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      Lock icon A-level results slightly better
      123 2/3 THE A-level results released yesterday showed that the 2008 cohort did slightly better than the previous cohort. Of the 14,463 candidates last year, 87.7 per cent obtained at least three H2 passes and a pass in General Paper GP or Knowledge and Inquiry K1, compared with
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      Lock icon Free GO Guide a big hit with students
      149 2/3 THE must-have for many students waiting for their results yesterday was the GO Guide. The 40-page guide, which came free with The New Paper yesterday, aims to give A-level holders a real idea of what they can do to further their studies.
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      Lock icon I almost gave up my studies to work
      499 4  -  Top3studentatInnovaJC strives on after dad dies and mum is hosptitalised hospital Joanna Hor Peixin newsroom intern FOR her, good grades were a matter of financial survival. She used them to secure scholarships and bursaries, all the way from primary school. But Foo
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      Lock icon ‘Air-con’ generation tougher than we think
      328 4  -  STREET TALK COMMENT: GENEVIEVE JIANG COMMENT: GENEVIEVEJIANG geneviev@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’Syouth hasbeen disparaged as the air-con generation tooprivilegedand spoilt. They have had their beds made for them all their lives, their meals cooked for them by maids and even their bags carried to school by someone
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      Lock icon Puffer fish almost kills sushi chef
      1187 6/7  -  He samples fish imported from Japan which was supposed to be toxin-free REPORT: HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg HE is a sushi chef who tasted death well, almost. Mr Anson Lim, 28, came within a sliver of being the first person here to die of puffer
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      40 8 COMMUNITYPROJECT:RepublicPolytechnicand Singapore Totalisator Board have launched Project Aramsay, which is targeted at youths in trouble aged between 13 and 21. It is a five-day assimilation programme that aims to help youths develop strength and resilience. PICTURE: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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      Lock icon More lift upgrading projects likely this year
      259 8 HDB TO FOLLOW MARKET IN PRICING IF YOUR HDB block is up for lift upgrading, it may happen sooner than you were expecting. “We are actually going to hasten the pace of LUP (Lift Upgrading Programme) because we think this is a very
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      Lock icon Electricity charges drop to lowest since 2005
      114 8 ELECTRICITY prices will fall 21 per cent for the next quarter. From April to June, households will pay 18.03 cents per kWh of electricity. This is the lowest rate since April 2005. “The reduction is largely due to lower fuel oil prices,” SP
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      Lock icon Singapore is best in e-government initiatives
      94 8 SINGAPORE has come out on top in a global study of e-government initiatives. The study of 34 nations saw the Government ranked highest on optimising productivity of ministries and departments through the use of infocomm technology. It was also singled out for “big progress”on
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      Lock icon Formula One hotel levy will be cut by a night: STB
      109 8 TO HELP hotels cope with the dwindling tourist arrivals this year, the Singapore Tourism Board is cutting the Formula One hotel levy by one night. For this year, the levy that hotels pay to the Government during the hosting
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      750 10  -  SAF captain was popular with high society S’POREDOCFOUNDDEADINMELBOURNE REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg HE WAS featured in society magazine Singapore Tatler and was said to have dated celebrity blogger Dawn Yang. Then, Singapore Armed Forces doctor Allan Ooi SengTeik, 28, went Awol (absent without official leave) and
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      416 12  -  DBS’responsetobeingratedAsia’ssafestbank REPORT:SHREEANN SHREEANN MATHAVAN shreeann@sph.com.sg FORESIGHT in anticipating crisis has catapulted DBS to be the safest bank in Asia. Alistoftheworld’s50safestbanksreleasedearlier this week by Global Finance, a New York-based financial magazine, placed DBS above all other Asian banks. Indeed, of the four banks in Asia that
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      Lock icon ‘I thought it was a dead cat’
      641 13  -  Dead baby found in bag outside Jurong West flat REPORT: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg THE green cloth bag on the floor looked ordinary enough, but what it contained was chilling. The bag, found in a 12th-floor riser in Block 678D, Jurong West Street 64
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      Lock icon Honoured for sporting firsts
      616 14/15  -  Paralympians honoured at Her World gala dinner; first time awards are shared REPORT: SHREE ANN MATHAVAN shreeann@sph.com.sg THEY overcame physical disabilities to achieve their sporting dreams breaking records and achieving firsts for Singapore along the way. Now paralympians Laurentia Tan and Yip Pin Xiu have been
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      36 16 STEPPINGSTONETOSUCCESS:Indianstudentspreparefortheir board exams on the steps of a library in Mumbai. They are forced to study in the open due to lack of a proper study environment in their homes.ThereisfiercecompetitiontogetintoIndia’stopcolleges. PICTURE: AFP
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      Lock icon US shed 651,000 jobs last month: Report
      293 16 JOBLESS RATE AT 8.1% Wire services THE US unemployment rate bolted to 8.1 per cent last month, the highest since late 1983, as cost-cutting employers slashed 651,000 jobs. Both figures were worse than analysts expected and the Labour Department’s report shows America’s workers
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      Lock icon Senior aide to Umno minister arrested for alleged graft
      99 16 THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has detained a senior aide to an Umno minister for suspected graft. The amount involved is more than RM70,000 ($29,000), The Star reported. The aide is believed to be the political secretary of a Umno supreme
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      Lock icon Thailand agrees to consider reforming monarchy laws
      106 16 AFP THAI Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday agreed to consider reforming tough laws protecting the kingdom’s monarchy. Critics of the lese majeste law, which criminalises any insult or defamation of Thai- land’s royal family, say it is being used for political ends amid a
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      Lock icon US Treasury picks withdraw over‘long vetting process’
      100 16 AP TWO top US Treasury candidates have withdrawn from consideration, as Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s struggles to build up his staff amid the financial crisis, US media reported. Ms Annette Nazareth, who was expected to be chosen as deputy secretary, and Mr Geithner’s
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      Lock icon Selangor Sultan slams ‘rude’ Malays
      344 18 RUDE, ill-mannered and unabashed. That’s how the Sultan of Selangor described some in Malaysia’s Malay community. community. Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (right) was referring to Malays whowerewilling todestroy unity and the stateto gain power. Speaking at the opening of the Sultan Abdul Aziz mosque in
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      800 19 Chelsea football star flies into rage after being snapped with a woman at London bar ASHLEY COLE ARRESTED BOOZEandbabesturnedouttobeapotentcock-tail for Chelsea and England defender Ashley Cole(below). Details of what led to the bust with police on Wednesday morning were published in the Sun newspaperyesterday. Cole was
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      462 20 After more than a year, Gillian Chung breaks her silence on Edison Chen nude photos NO PRIVACY, no dignity and no future for herself. That’s how Cantopop star Gillian Chung felt after intimate pictures of her and actor Edison Chen were leaked online. “I showed everything to
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      546 22/23 They move outdoors after losing homes TENTS have mushroomed in the concrete jungle of Sacramento, the state capital of California. The city, where former movie star turned governor Arnold Schwarzenegger works, has one of the highest home foreclosure rates in the United States. As many as
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      537 24 Court papers detail attack on Rihanna; boyfriend Brown faces two charges ROLLING away from a recording industry party in Beverly Hills in a sleek Lamborghini, Chris Brown and Rihanna seemed the image of red carpet glamour. But several minutes into that midnight ride,
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      13 16 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:Cloudy High33˚,Low26˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low26˚
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      18 25 FROM MOLLIE TAN LEFTOVER DURIAN HUSK? Amodel ofthe Esplanade’s exteriorpricked ourreader’s interest. E-mail your pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      121 25 1 GLENN Ong and Jamie Yeo, who have separated, have started seeing other people about three weeks ago. Jamie, 31, is seeing a 34-year-old Englishman Thorsten Nolte. Glenn is dating another DJ, Jean Danker. 2 INTEREST in the IR jobs was so high
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      343 25 FROM READER KOH WEN HUI MELISSA LOIS Trees being cut near Burgundy park OVER the years, I have seen many green spots resembling the jungle which once covered Singapore being replaced by new buildings. The area where Nan Hua High School now stands used
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      172 25 FROM READER VICTOR YAP BOONHENG I READ with interest the article “KellyPoon’s‘comment’on Taiwaneseshowdrawscriticism” (The New Paper, 26 Feb) as I am also in the entertainment line. I experimented by asking people around me the same question that Kelly was asked on TaiwaneseTV–tocomeupwitha Chinese
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      97 25 FROM READER DAVID SOH POH HUAT NOW that more cycling tracks are being built and we have started to embrace and accept cycling as a mode of transport, I hope the authorities will seriously look into regulating cyclists before more accidents occur. Recently, at my
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      75 25 FROM READER NURMALIS MEUTIA BTE MAIZAN IREFERtotheletterfromElsonWong,“Taxi driverrunsovercat,butdriveson”(TNP,24 Feb). The cat (above) was a stray that often played at my home and enjoyed being by my side. I had been searching for him for a week, and my whole family misses him
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      22 26 Have Singaporeans gotten complacentabout MasSelamat beingontherun? “Admittedly,most people have let their guard down because it hasbeen sucha long time.” –AnnaNg, 43,salesexecutive
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      60 26 Comments on young Singaporeans not being multilingual: “Notonlyare theyoung not multilingual, they are proficient in neither English norMandarin.” Pushkin62 “Ithink it’snotso much thefocuson English which the elite speak anduse– that is causing as much harm as the branding of Chinese regional languages such as Hokkien and Cantonese
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      14 27 NOW WATCH THIS CultcomicbookWatchmenhasfinally hitthebigscreen.Tomirrorthecomic’s world,themoviecreatesfake publicationsandartifacts.Infographics journalistsKELVIN CHANand JONATHAN ROBERTSadaptthisidea toshowwhatmakesthisstorydifferent BIKERBOY:Ifyourjersey’stight,itain’tright PAGE30
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      599 28/29  -  TNP TEXT GRAPHICS: KELVIN CHAN, JONATHAN ROBERTS alternate version the of the 1980s, where the inko world is on the brink of hme nuclear war, Watchmen, in ationof cinemas now, is the culmination of decades of work. The comic book on which it is whatwas based
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        471 30  -  It’snotjustabout looking good for motocross; the gear offers protection too ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg IFit’stight,itain’tright.That’s if you’re planning to buy your first set of motocrossattire. Wearing a tight-fitting jersey or pants can restrict movement when you’re in the saddle. “Breathing” spaceiscrucialasitgivesyoutheoptiontoaddprotectivegearoverorunderyourmotocrossclothes. InthisissueofBikerBoy,wetellyouwhatcountsfor thatperfectfitinMX(motocross)clothes. Helmet Go
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        850 41 GOING: GOOD Race1 MS1700m 5 TOBEORNOT57(28-8) BVorster (7) 5 3 1 (441) 7 NEFERTITI54(91-24) MGallagher (6) 6 6 2 (461) Hd 2 HIGHKEY59(10-5) RFradd (3) 3 4 3 (493) 1.25 8 MISSIONPERFECTUS52(213-41) ISaifudin (10) 10 8 4 (467) 0.5 3 JOYLUCK58.5(15-5) JSaimee (2) 8 7 5
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        461 41  -  DANNY KHOO dkhoo@sph.com.sg TRAINER Laurie Laxon may be away on holiday in his native home but it was business as usual for the stable at Kranji last night. The 63-year-old Kiwi, whose two winners last Wednesday night enabled him to grab the lead in the
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        262 42 Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon 5; k m Marc Tan RACE1 RACE 2 RACE 3 RACE 4 RACE 5 RACE 6 RACE 7 RACE 8 RACE 9 12 Dragon Sword 4 Tomahawk 2 Shantou Mayor 4 Speed Wang 7 Ultimate Decider Constable 4 Light Of Liberty 9 Barcelona
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        90 42 NEVER mind how his form looks on paper. We are certain it is better than how it reads. This six-year-old gelding from the yard of champion trainer Johnny Lim should have come on from his last-start sixth to Happy Victory in the
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        697 42 GUIDE TO IPOH TRACKWORK AMARO UNO wound up preparations for a comeback win in the Da Ma Cai Stakes for Class 4 horses over 1,800m in Race 10 tomorrow with a one-round workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the five-year-old Australian-bred gelding
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        1245 43 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING TO SOFT RACE1 MS 1.15 -1100m(STRAIGHT) Stakes:RM30,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 BestOfTime 57 (55) RBurnettc2 9 (5nzgMSukri-BestTime) 2 MyFavourite 56 (53) TMWan 5 (4nzgKFWong-KFWong) 3 7 KimCross 55 (51) SThaiYang*c3 8 (4amMSukri-Kimmui's) 4 65--0- Neveraninch 53.5 (48) MWTehc2
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        974 44 RACE 1 (1,000m) Royal Flush (1) was just overhauled in the late stages in his debut last month over today’s 1,000m straight and can graduate. Malayan Bright (7) stayed on gamely to pip Super Pepper (2) for third in that same Royal Flush race and
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        874 44 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE1 CLASSGRIFFIN 1000m TIME:1:00 Stakes:HK$750,000(Qtt) NO. HORSENAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 ROYALFLUSH ATMILLARD ODOLEUZE 127 1 2 SUPERPEPPER CHYIP BPREBBLE 127 2 3 WINWIN ASCRUZ GMOSSE 127 4 4 BRIGHTTOUCH CSSHUM YTCHENG 118 3 5 HEALTHYBLUEBERRY LHO HWLAI 118 8
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        670 45  -  Only four shots separate top 19 players LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg ONEWOULDhaveexpectedLore-na Ochoa to storm away feeling disgusted with herself after shootingaone-over 73yesterday. But the world No. 1 and defending champion was in an unusually good mood during her television interview. Andwhynot? Despite not being at her best,
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        144 45 AFP INDIA’S S.S.P. Chowrasia hit top form to storm to an eight-under 62 for the second-round lead in the US$500,000 ($750,000) Thailand Open in Phuket yesterday. Chowrasia needed only 25 putts at the par-70 Laguna Phuket Golf Club to top the leaderboard on 12-under 128,
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        499 46  -  GODFREY ROBERT npsports@sph.com.sg SPORT today is often about winners. The victors are tossed in the limelight, swarmed by fans and have their faces splashed across newspapers. Read Tiger Woods, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Usain Bolt, Manchester United...the list goes on. But, lost in such
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        210 46  -  DAVID LEE SOME“messy shots”did her in. That was local qualifier Joey Poh’s honest assessment of her second-round performance at the HSBC Women’s Champions Tournament yesterday. With not a single birdie in sight, the 15-year-old shot an 11-over-par 83 at Tanah Merah’s Garden course to follow up
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        405 46  -  LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg IT IS anyone’s guess if the HSBC Women’s Champions will be returning to Singapore next year. Tournament sponsor HSBC said yesterday that it will review the future of the LPGA-sanc-tioned event when the two-year deal comes to an end
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        619 47  -  DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg AH,THEpoweroflove.In her 10 seasons on the LPGA Tour, Kim Mi Hyun has never finished outside the top-25 of theofficialmoneylist. Theimpressiverecordbitthedust lastyear when the 32-year-old South Korean, struggling to recover from a knee surgery the previous year, finished 40th with earnings of
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      443 48  -  HER BLOG DEBORAH DAYANI NANAYAKARA Public relations consultant WHEN I had the privilege of meeting Olympic track champion Carl Lewis a couple of years ago, I was awestruck by the sheer influence he had on people from all walks of life and age groups. Adults and
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      493 48  -  JOE MORRISON npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a presenter of the Football Channel. DID YOU see him? Who? Michel Platini, sitting there at the San Siro last week. It was a bit difficult because there was so much smoke most of which was coming out of
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        240 49 Wire Services IT ISthe end of Manchester City’sambitious dream ofbecoming“Asia’sPremierLeagueteam”. City have closed down their Thailand operations following former owner and ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’ssaleoftheclub. Jimmy Heosontaty, City’s former representative in Thailand, said plans for an academy had been scrapped and the club’s merchandise shop,
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        1010 52  -  BEN LINFOOT PA Sport SUNDERLAND v TOTTENHAM (Sunderland 1 Tottenham 0) TOTTENHAM go up to Sunderland in good heart after their 4-0 thumping of Middlesbrough in midweek, but a repeat thrashing of a north-east club is unlikelygiventhe BlackCats’ stubborness athome. It’s over three games since
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        432 53 CRISTIANO Ronaldo admits crying when he first arrived at Manchester United. He said he has had to toughen up since arriving as a little-known 18-year-old who was so homesick he would cry every time he spoke with his family back in his
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        351 53 DESPITE winning every individual and team award going, Cristiano Ronaldo’s thirst for success has not been quenched. The Portuguese winger also gave the clearest indication yet that he plans to stay at United for the best years of his career, despite RealMadrid’scontinuedinterest. “I don’t like
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        560 54  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg AS CRISTIANO Ronaldo lay on the frozen turf at St James’ Park watching a chorus line of tiny birds circling his head, I wonder if he had time to ponder the irony of his situation. After years spent
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        210 54 Wire Services SIR ALEX Ferguson claimed Cristiano Ronaldo is an “easy target’’forPremierLeaguereferees. The Manchester United star was booked for diving during the League Cup final but some claim TV replays showed he was knocked over by Ledley King. And at Newcastle on Wednesday night, Steven Taylor
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        667 55  -  ERNESTLUIS dreams up a tongue-in-cheek virtual online chat between Cristiano Ronaldo and English Premiership defenders who still think his arrogance doesn’tdohim any favours ERNEST LUIS Portuguese Peacock: Hi Steven, are you there? Steven Taylor: Er, yeah, is that you Cristiano? Your online name is Portuguese Peacock? Now why
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        116 56 MANCHESTER United star Cristiano Ronaldo claimed opponents are not out to get him. Ronaldo, the most fouled player in the Premier League, gave his tormentors the benefit of doubt, saying: “On the pitch I’m a target for defenders, so it’s difficult to avoid
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        249 56 PROUDpeacock.That’s what The New Paper’s Ernest Luis once called Cristiano Ronaldo after watchinghiminactionatEuro08. Now Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says his arrogance is what makes him a target for opposingdefenders, Hitting out at the rise of rash challenges in the Premier League of late, Wenger used the example of the
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        916 57  -  BEN LYTTLETON Special Correspondent The writer is based in Britain and writes for The Sunday Telegraph and guardian.co. uk. SIR ALEX Ferguson has still not set a date for his retirement but has revealed that he is afraid that his whole system will collapse when he
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        595 50  -  BEN LINFOOT PA Sport COVENTRY v CHELSEA (Coventry 0 Chelsea 2) CHELSEA continued their winning start under Guus Hiddink with a 1-0 victory over Portsmouth in midweek and they should have few problems in seeing off Coventry City in their FA Cup quarter-fi-nal tonight. The Blues have
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        549 51  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg CUPS are not won by individuals, but by men in a team who put their club before personal fame. So far, Sir Alex Ferguson has been one helluva lucky guy. He has players who believe in doing just that. Tonight, Manchester United must travel
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        210 51  -  GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg MONEYCOME Sunderlandto draw with Spurson the 1x2 SUNDERLAND did not play all that badly when theylost2-0 to Liverpoolin theirlast game. Tottenham Hotspur, on the other hand, were on fire as they beat Middlesbrough 4-0 to record theirbiggestleaguevictorythisseason. That is why they are the bookmakers’ favouritesto
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      557 58 Wire Services AND SO it was decided: The biggest star in world football will not return to the Galaxy. Instead, David Beckham will remain at AC Milan on loan till the end of the Italian Serie A season, in June, before returning to his Major League
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        147 59 EPL Tonight: SUNDERLAND v TOTTENHAM Ch 27,11pm Thursday: FULHAM v BLACKBURN Ch 27,4am FA CUP Tonight: COVENTRY v CHELSEA Ch 24, 8.30pm FULHAM v MAN UNITED Ch 24,1.15am Tomorrow ARSENAL v BURNLEY Ch 24,9.30pm Can Andrei Arshavin (right) get his first goal for Arsenal against Burnley tomorrow? EVERTON v
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        11 59 DAVIS CUP Tonight: DAY 2 Ch21,8pm Tomorrow: FINAL DAY Ch21,6pm
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        40 59 HSBCWOMEN’S CHAMPIONS 2009 Today: DAY 3 Ch 26, noon Tomorrow: DAY 4 Ch 26, noon HONDA CLASSIC Tomorrow: DAY 3 Ch 26,4am Monday: DAY 4 Ch 26,3am SINGHATHAILANDOPEN Today: DAY 3 Ch 24,1pm Tomorrow: DAY 4 Ch 24,1 pm
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        330 59 LOCAL EVENTS GOLF What:HSBC Women’sChampions When: Ends tomorrow Where: Tanah Merah Country Club, Garden Course LOOK out if world No. 1 and defending champion Lorena Ochoa can catch up on joint-leaders Paula Creamer and Jane Park? Ochoa is currently four shots behind. TRIATHLON What: MILO MOE Youth TRYathlon When:
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