The New Paper, 28 April 2009

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1 52 The New Paper
  • 18 1 the new paper 28 Apr 09 tues A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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  • News
    • 844 2/3  -  Teen punches teacher and counsellor REPORT:VEENA VEENA BHARWANI veenab@sph.com.sg THE 14-year-old schoolboy punched his female form teacher. As if that was not enough, he punched the school’sfull-timeadultmalecounselloraswell. Theincidenthappenedon16Aprinaboys’school in the north. Confirming the incident, the school’s principal said the student has since been suspended. A police
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    • News The New Paper Auction
      • 557 4  -  Simply cut and collect TNP dollars to bid for fabulous prizes worthupto$56,000 Kay Tan –KayTan,newsroomintern HE HAS yet to obtain his Class 2B Motorcycle Licence, but Alex Chong, 17, is looking forward to own his first motorbike. And he hopes to get it
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    • News Swine Flu: The 3Cs
      • CLEANLINESS
        • 559 6 / 7  -  One in four of220people we observe does not use soap after toilet visit REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg SO HOW good are Singaporeans in the first of the swineflu3Cs–cleanliness? We decided to put it to the test by seeing if Singaporeanswashtheirhandsafterusingthetoilet.
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      • CONCERN
        • 517 6 / 7 THEsecondswinefluC–concern:Singaporeans don’t show enough of it to their fellow citizens, said Mr William Er. Singaporeans cough and sneeze in public indiscriminately when they are ill, he said. He has lost two friends to the common flu. Said Mr Er, 54: “Last year, two
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        • 226 6 / 7 THE Health Ministry has a colour-coded response system for the risk management of disease outbreak. Depending on the mutation pattern of the virus, the intermediate colour codes may be skipped. Singapore is now on green alert. ALERTGREEN Isolated external or local cases of animal-to-human transmission.
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      • CAUTION
        • 618 8 / 9 THE New York Daily News described this sad scene in a hospital on Saturday where eight children were suspected of having swine flu: “Thetiny,tensewaitingroomfellsilentwhen New York Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden appeared on the mounted television above. “Mothers and fathers clutched their ailing sons and daughters,
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  • Local News watch
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      37 10 STEADYPOSE:SeventyfourTemasekPolytechnicstudentsflexed theirmusclesastheyformeda“wheelbarrow”chainintheLongest Human Wheelbarrow Challenge for a place in the Singapore Book of Records last Friday. The students set a record after they held on to this position for 5 seconds TNP PICTURE: GAVIN FOO
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    • 243 10 Stay united focus on long-term vision MANPOWERMINISTER’SMAYDAYMESSAGE EVEN as the Government tackles the ongoing economic crisis, Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong has urged Singaporeans to stay united and focus on the “longer term vision” of building a globally competitive workforce. This is “so that we can seize new opportunities when
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    • 124 10 THE 35-year-old cable car system will undergo a seven-month, $36 million revamp later this year. When it reopens next year, the system will feature bigger cars, and for added comfort and ease of movement, there will be flip-up seats instead of the current
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    • 108 10 A MONTH after joining the fledgling Reform Party founded by his father, hedge fund manager Kenneth Jeyaretnam has taken over as its secretary-general. At the same time, a long-time ally of the late Mr J B Jeyaretnam and a co-founder of the party,
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    • 90 10 TWO cases of suspected swine flu in Singapore were referred to the Communicable Disease Centre (CDC) for assessment and both tested negative. One of them is an American from California who was picked up for higher-than-normal temperature by thermal screening at Changi
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    • 510 12  -  He had attacked her in front of their two kids REPORT: CELINE LIM cellsf@sph.com.sg UPSETandagitated.ThatwashowMsJannGohHweefeltwhenherhusband, Russell Tan, 40, successfully appealed yesterday against his sentence for stabbing and slashingherrepeatedly. He had attacked her in front of their two sons, then aged5and2,intheirPasirRisDriveflaton30Sep2007. His original sentence
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    • 512 13  -  Remember this badminton game dispute (right)? Now,it’sprimary school basketball –ByHanYongming,newsroomintern Han Yongming –ByHanYongming,newsroomintern THEdustfromtheschools’badmintoncontrover-sy had hardly settled when a new one, this time involvingbasketball,erupted. Two weeks ago, The New Paper reported on a protest lodged by Maris Stella High School, which played AnglicanHighSchoolinthe‘C’divisionofthePilotPen NationalInter-schoolBadmintonChampionships.
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    • 729 14 / 15  -  He finds out his work permit is cancelled only one day earlier REPORT: TAN MAY PING,AUDREY TAN tnp@sph.com.sg HE THOUGHT his job was secure when he first received his renewed work permit earlier this month. But four days later
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    • 555 14 / 15  -  Tan May Ping,Audrey Tan IT TOOK threats of arrests to get the workers to finally disperse from the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) building on Havelock Road. Using a loudhailer, a plainclothes policeman announced he was giving them a second warning, after an MOM officer had issued
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    • 715 16 / 17  -  Blueprint details goals tomakeS’poremore efficient in resource use REPORT: TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg WANT to know how Singapore will look like in 2030, that is, 21 years from now? The Inter-Ministerial Committee for Sustainable Development (IMCSD) plans to make Singapore cleaner, greener and more
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    • 615 18  -  About 100 people audition to be theme park’sperformers REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg SOMETIMESwhenyouputadreamonice,ittakesonlyasparktothawitout.That spark for Mr Desmond Charles (right) was Universal Studios Singapore’s audition for performers foritsthemeparkatResortsWorldatSentosa(RWS). Mr Charles, 31, hoping to revive his dream of being an entertainer, was among more
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  • Global News watch
    • 327 19 ADB REPORT SOUTH-EAST Asia is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to climate change and could face conflict over failing rice yields, lack of water and high economic costs, a major Asian Development Bank (ADB) report said. The region’s economies
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    • 95 19 AFP MALAYSIA’S ruling coalition, caught in by-elections losses over the past year, faces a further bruising contest on 31 May. The Election Commission said a by-election would be held in north- ern Penang state on that date after the resignation of former Penang deputy chief minister
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    • 103 19 Reuters BRITISH companies will be forced to reveal pay gaps between men and women under new legislation published yesterday. The Equality Bill, which has been attacked by employer groups as unnecessary bureaucracy during a downturn, also bans age and social discrimination. The
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    • 104 19 AFP LAS Vegas Sands is considering selling one of its Macau casinos, a report said yesterday, as revenues plummet in the world’s biggest gaming market. It plans to put the Sands Macao up for about US$1.3 billion ($1.95 billion) after failing to sell
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    • 105 19 AFP SRI Lankan government troops yesterday launched a fierce pre-dawn attack against Tamil Tiger rebels holed up on the island’s north-east coast, the pro-rebel Tamilnet website said. The website said the army was directing heavy fire from all sides of the small
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    • 52 19 JUPITER’SKISS:TeacherAnaJulia Torres kisses Jupiter, a lion that was rescued from a circus ten years ago, in Cali, Colombia. Ms Torres founded the Villa Lorena shelter for injured and mistreated animals, which cares for at least 680 animals. She has been adopting and helping injured animals for 16 years.
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    • 534 20 M’sianopposition leaderdrops members who criticise him, party IN A MOVE to revamp his troubled party, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim made sweeping changes to Pakatan Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) over the weekend. Some familiar faces were dropped while others are moved into prominent positions. The changes, he said,
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    • 293 20 ONE doctor was reading a newspaper. The other was doing his own thing in the same room. Allthiswhilemorethan20patientswaitedoutside at an emergency unit in a hospital. This was the scene that a Malaysian deputy minister stumbleduponinonedoctor’sroominKualaLumpur Hospital (HKL) as patients waited outside. Datuk M Saravanan,
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    • 423 21 One day before completing its voyage, replica junk sliced in half by cargo ship off Taiwancoast A REPLICA Ming Dynasty junk sank yesterday off the coast of Taiwan one day shy of completing an epic voyage around the Pacific Ocean. The Princess Taiping “peace” in
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    • 405 21 A WEEKhas passed sinceMsCalifornia’s Carrie Prejean was berated for her answer during a beauty pageant. But the controversy refuses to die down. On Friday, a British politician reignited it and is now facing a police probe for his death threats against
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 13 19 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low24˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High34˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:Cloudy High33˚,Low27˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High29˚,Low27˚
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      37 22 FROM READER CELINA HIGH-RISE HAZARD: Flower pots placed precariously on bamboo sticks from a sixth-storey unit of an HDB block at Bedok North Ave 3. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 45 22 Comments on Singaporeans being too “loan-happy”: “Everyonewould liketo takea mortgage payable within 10 years. But is it feasible in high-cost Singapore? “Afour-room HDB averages $250,000 in Woodlands and Punggol, and even more in central areas. The average income of Singaporeansis$2,000a month.“ hubhubhub
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    • 448 22 Meridian JC students scoring As for project work FROM READER MAK WAIKEONG THIS has reference to “Teachers guide us alot”(TheNewPaper,22Apr). I am a former student of Meridian Junior College and I am grateful that the school provided me an opportunity to achieve what I
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    • 306 22 FROM READER TAN LEE HWANG I REFER to “Teachers guide us a lot” (The New Paper, 22 Apr). Each year, many students get upset due to the grade disparity in their project work. The main contention is that it is unfair as
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    • 821 23  -  HKsinger-actorDanielChansayshe’snowmore concerned about quality than churning out album after album in quick succession REPORT:TAN TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg ATTHEpeakofDanielChan’smusiccareerinthelate 1990s, he was so prolific that he was releasingthreeorfouralbumsayear. And he was every teenage girl’s Prince Charming, thedoe-eyedgoldenboywithfloppyhairandchiselled good looks they harboured fantastical thoughts of
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    • 521 25  -  STAR AWARDS 2009 REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg FORMER actress Huang Biren was blubbering backstage to the media after winning the All-Time Favourite Artiste award in the Star Awards on Sunday night. Nothing out of the ordinary, perhaps. But unlike the many other
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        406 26/27  -  From sweet to sour, get a taste of the Philippines REPORT: YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg FILIPINOfoodis,tome,likesoulfood.Along time ago, I had a colleaguefrom the Philippines and she loved to eat. She would often go searching for food from homeandwewouldendupatLuckyPlazaon aneatingspree. Halo halo, adobo and variousother Filipinodisheswerenotforeigntome. Even now, the
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      • 193 26/27 THE Little Nyonya may be off our screens, but I still have an interest in Nonya cuisine. Well-priced is the Sakura Peranakan spread at all nine Sakura outlets. It’s $20 for lunch and $24 for dinner on weekdays. On weekends and public holidays (and its
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      • 325 26/27  -  Yeoh Wee Teck WHILE Singaporeans seem to believe in the power of a queue (if people queue for it, it must be good), I have at times felt cheated. How many times have you gone to the head of the queue and felt like you’ve
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      • 625 28  -  12,000participants throng Singapore London Day K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg I HAD thought the crowds at the Singapore London Day would, after the recent food poisoning, give Indian rojak a miss. But, as it turned out, no fear could stand in the way
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      • 525 41 AFP LORENA Ochoa gave her suffering countrymen something to cheer when she won her second straight Corona Championship LPGA title on home soil on Sunday. The top-ranked Mexican’s victory came in a week where her country has been rocked by the outbreak of the swine flu.
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      • 149 41 AFP THONGCHAI Jaidee’s victory at the Ballantine’s Championship saw him break into the world’s top 50 and qualify for next week’s lucrative Players’Championship in theUnited States. The 39-year-old Thai displayed nerves of steel to beat South Korea’s Kang Sung Hoon and Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano
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      • 138 41 AFP AMERICAN veteran Jerry Kelly won his first title in seven years on Sunday, fighting back after squandering the lead to win the Zurich Classic of New Orleans by one stroke. Kelly, who led by three strokes at the start of the day, won in
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      • 296 42  -  A slight majority of our readers felt Robbie Keane was more of a flop at Liverpool than Dimitar Berbatov at Manchester United. Our Letter of the Weekend winner tells us what is lacking in top-flight football now LETTER OF THE WEEKEND Muhammad Redha –MuhammadRedha,18,national
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        • 78 42 ALTHOUGH Robbie Keane is regarded as a flop by many in Liverpool, we must consider the duration of his stay at Anfield and the limited playing time he was given. When Fernando Torres first arrived, even he had a dry spell. When Keane plays, you see
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        • 72 42 BOTH players did not rise to expectations and the bigger flop among them has to be Robbie Keane. The £20 million ($43.4m) 28-year-old was supposed to lighten Steven Gerrard’s and Fernando Torres’ workload but he proved to be a burden instead. Rafa Benitez decided to push him
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        • 113 42 SIR ALEX Ferguson placed his trust in Dimitar Berbatov week in and week out even when he was having difficulties troubling the opposing team’s goalkeeper. Berbatov definitely has the vision to spot gaps in the opponent’s defence and a great ability to hold onto the ball, but he
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      • 892 43 OLE! AFP CAPTAIN marvel Raul scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 4-2 yesterday morning to cut Barcelona’s advantage at the top to four points ahead of this Saturday’s “El Clasico”atthe Santiago Bernabeu. Barcelona had dropped two points in a 2-2 draw
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      • 499 43 FORZA! AFP ITALIAN league leaders Inter-Milan slumped to a first defeat since mid-January on Sunday when Napoli edged a 1-0 win which left Jose Mourinho’s men seven points ahead of AC Milan with five games left. It was only Inter’s third loss of the campaign
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      • 714 44 Wire Services JURGEN Klinsmann was sacked as head coach of Bayern Munich yesterday. This was announced by the defending Bundesliga champions following a series of poor results which saw Bayern crash out of the Champions League after a 4-0 hammering at Barcelona while Saturday’s 1-0 defeat by Schalke
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      • 240 44 Wire Services THE FIRST signs of trouble came last September when Werder Bremen embarrassed Bayern 5-2 at Munich’s Allianz Arena in the Bundesliga. After a rocky start though the team started getting results with Franck Ribery and Luca Toni in good form and were on track to
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      • 162 44 Wire Services JURGENKlinsmann’sreplacement, Juup Heynckes (right), has already experienced success with Bayern Munich. He led the club to two successive Bundesliga crowns in 1989 and 1990 in his first coaching stint in Munich between 1987 and 1991, proving his winning pedigree from the off. He then coached at
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    • Sports EPL Betting
      • 633 45  -  Down 0-2 at the break, punters almost give up on United BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg MY friend and betting buddy, Ron, almost threw away his betting slip when Tottenham raced to that 2-0 lead at Old Trafford on Sunday morning. He had bought one
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    • Sports Champions League Betting
      • 490 46  -  GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg IT’S SOMEWHAT surprising to see so many people writing off Chelsea ahead of their meeting with Barcelona. Bookmakers all over the world have installed the Catalan giants as the favourites, and with the match to be played at Nou Camp, you can see
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      • 363 46 PA Sport ONE MORE clean sheet. That’s what Barcelona midfielder Seydou Keita claims is important against Chelsea tomorrow morning (Singapore time) in their Champions League first-leg semi-final against Chelsea at home. In their last 11 games, Barca have kept eight clean sheets. It highlights how Barca
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    • Sports Champions League
      • 633 47 AFP TREBLE chasing Barcelona face their biggest challenge yet when they face Guus Hiddink’s rejuvenated Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final first leg tomorrow morning (Singapore time). PepGuardiola’splayerssent outawarning with the way they tore apart Bayern Munich in their first leg match in the last round
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      • 478 47 PA Sport GUUS Hiddink has already played Chelsea’s clash with Barcelona through in his mind as the Blues prepare for the trip to the Nou Camp tomorrow morning. The Dutchman insists that is normal practice before every game his teams play as he goes
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      • 560 48  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg WHENEVER there’s a hurricane warning in Florida, the news stations show the same footage. Plucky Americans frantically nailing two-by-fours across their windows, occasionally turning around to look in trepidation at the gathering storm behind them. From the safety of your
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      • Article, Illustration
        346 48 Reuters HE MAY not have his first-choice player to counter the threat of Lionel Messi tomorrow morning, but Chelsea manager Guus Hiddink is not letting that little detail derail his plans. Instead, devising a strategy to thwart the mercurial Barcelona forward is the Chelsea manager’s main concern ahead
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      • 660 49  -  GARYO’REILLY,guestpunditonStarHub’s Football Channel, reckons that football fans could beinforasurpriseinthisseason’sChampions League. He tells why Chelsea and Arsenal might make it an all-London affair in the final on 27 May GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg ONE IS a striker who lives for the big occasions. Another is a midfielder who
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    • Sports EPL
      • 563 50 Wire Services MANCHESTER United midfielder Ryan Giggs has been named Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Player of the Year for the first time in his glittering career. The 35-year-old had picked up the Young Player award twice this year’s junior gong went to Aston Villa’s
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      • 241 50 PA Sport MANCHESTER United have six players in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year (right) but there is no place for England striker Wayne Rooney. Welshman Ryan Giggs, named the Player of the Year by his fellow professional, is among the United stars
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      • 237 50 PA Sport FRESHLY-CROWNED PFA Young Player of the Year Ashley Young paid tribute to his Aston Villa team-mates after succeeding Cesc Fabregas as the biggest emerging talent in the Premier League. The 23-year-old speed-demon has gone from strength to strength since his £9.65 million ($21 m)
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        96 51 LIVE TELECASTS CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (Semi-finals 1st leg) Tomorrow: BARCELONA v CHELSEA Ch 23,2.45am Chelsea will need Didier Drogba (right) to be at his best if they hope to breach Barcelona’stightdefence. Thursday: MAN UNITED v ARSENAL Ch 23,2.45am J-LEAGUE Tomorrow: KASHIMA ANTLERS v VISSEL KOBE Ch 27, 6pm COPA LIBERTADORES
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      • 15 51 OPEN DEESPANA Thursday: DAY 1 Ch 26,9.45pm QUAIL HOLLOW CHAMPIONSHIP Friday: DAY1 Ch 26,3.15am
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      • 23 51 ROME MASTERS Tonight: 1STRD Ch 22,7pm Wednesday: 2ND RD Ch 22,7pm Thursday: LAST 16 Ch 22, 7pm Friday: Q-FINALS Ch 22, 7pm
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      • 410 51 WHAT'S ON BLURB FIXTURES LOCAL EVENTS FOOTBALL What: RHB Singapore Cup Preliminary Round Woodlands Wellington v Bangkok Glass When: Today Where: Woodlands Stadium Brunei DPMM v Pelita Jaya When: Tomorrow Where: Jalan Besar Stadium Balestier Khalsa v Home United When: Thursday Where: Toa Payoh Stadium RUGBY What: Asian 5 Nations
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    • 536 52  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg I DESPAIR at the PFA Awards, I really do. If it’s not bad enough that they demand that all the votes are counted months before the end of the season (at the end of January), they go and let the footballers decide
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