The New Paper, 3 September 2009

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1 16 The New Paper
  • 22 1 the new paper thu 9 ’09 3 Sep 09 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS 3|Jj I PUBLICATION CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008 70 CENTS
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    • 73 1 DON’T MISS YOUR FREE MOVIE PULLOUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAPER INSIDE 3 Sep 09 thu 9 thenewpaper NEW FACE FINALIST JUNE ‘Sometimes I’m camera-shy’ PAGE 27 Winner of Reporting Breaking News Award ’09 Society of Publishers in Asia GETAI EXCLUSIVE No striptease, At least 2 organisers get reminders
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  • News Getai In The Spotlight
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      1047 2/3  -  Getai veterans blame young organisers for police reminders to tone down raunchy acts REPORTS: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg SHE was billed as “the sexiest getai star” and went on to prove it by stripping down to her sequinned bra top and bikini bottom. Taiwanese singer Ya Ya
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    • 494 4  -  Singer not upset over controversy as‘shewasn’tsureofrules’ REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg THEperformeratthecentreofthe getai storm is unfazed by the controversy surrounding herraunchyact. In fact, Taiwanese performer Ya Yaisrevellinginhernew-foundno-torietyandpopularity. While some getai organisers have been reminded by the police to cut down on over-revealing
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  • Local News watch
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      85 6 BABYFOUND:POLICEare appealing for information on a newborn baby girl who was found outside a flat at Block 824 Woodlands, Street 83 on Sunday. The baby was found clad in pink overalls and wrapped in purple and white blankets. A Mothercare plastic bag, containing baby care items such as
      PICTURE: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE  -  85 words
    • 329 6 LAGUNA PARK EN BLOC SAGA EAST Coast condominium Laguna Park was put on en bloc sale for 1.2 billion yesterday. The condo, which made headlines in the past year for its spate of vandalism cases due to disputes in its en
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    • 106 6 ECONOMISTS forecast that Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to shrink a smaller 3.6 per cent this year, compared to the Government’s official forecast of a 4 to 6 per cent contraction. They also expect third quarter GDP to contract 3 per cent
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    • 101 6 THE Government is considering reinstating the confirmed list of new sites for sale at its year-end review, said National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday. The Government suspended the confirmed list of sale sites last October when the property market was in the doldrums and
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    • 92 6 SINGAPORE’S all important manufacturing industry continued to expand last month. The latest monthly Purchasing Managers’Index for Augustshot up to 54.4 its strongest reading since November 2006. It also registered its fourth straight month of growth after eight consecutive months of slump, and was an improvement over
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    • 101 6 THE Migrant Workers Centre (MWC), a bipartite effort of the National Trades Union Congress and the Singapore National Employers Federation, has a new office to call home. From today, the MWC, set up in April, will occupy a 1,200 sq ft unit at 62
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    • 521 7  -  REPORT: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg ANEW report has criticised news broadcaster Channel NewsAsia (CNA) for its approach in news reporting. The 12th biennial report by the Programme Advisory Committee for English Programmes (Pace) said CNA adopted a generally “conservative and careful”
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    • 667 8  -  Son locks family in flat after argument and jumps to his death REPORT: CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg THE anguish of losing his son was too much to bear. After seeing his body at the bottom of the HDB block, Mr N Suppiah, 55, slipped away
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    • 651 10  -  Relationship gurus say even they are surprised by some survey findings REPORT: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg Anunlikelypairofrelationshipexperts–aformer Wall Street analystand alawyer are in town to help Singapore youths prepare themselves for when Cupid comesa-calling. Since the beginning of the year, the Social DevelopmentUnit-SocialDevelopmentServ-ice
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    • 536 12  -  ACCIDENT IN JALAN BESAR Nurul Asyikin Mohd Nasir newsroom intern ALOUD sound jolted him from his thoughts as he was walking along Bencoolen Street yesterday. And when the 30-year-old construction worker, who wanted to be known only as Mr Zainal, turned around to look at
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    • 911 13  -  On being sacked from MCA for sex scandal, Dr Chua tells The New Paper: REPORTS: LEDIATI TAN ledtan@sph.com.sg HE IS down but not out. That is what former Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) deputy president Chua Soi Lek told The New Paper yesterday. Dr Chua was sacked
      PICTURES: CHINA PRESS, REUTERS  -  911 words
    • 258 13 IT’San opensecret thatMCA’s two top men do not get along. The relationship between party president Ong Tee Keat and deputy president Chua Soi Lek has been strained from the time they campaigned for the MCA elections in October last year. Rifts between the two have
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    • 352 14 He was showing off newHari Ray a clothes when attack happened JOYturnedintosorrowwhenaboy,whowasmodel-ling his brand new clothes for Hari Raya excitedly, wasallegedlystabbedbyhisuncle. MohdAdamAzraiRosman,3,wasinthelivingroom tan,witharelativewhenthestabbingoccurred,reportedHarianMetro. Theincidenthappenedatabout11amwhentheboy was showing off clothes that his father bought last Friday. Ms Norasma Che Daud, 29, the boy’s relative, was
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    • 295 14 ALL he wanted to do was to play peacemaker, but in the end, Mr Chen Yuanliang paid for it with his life. The Malaysian, 45, was stabbed to death on Monday at his tyre shop in Tanjong Karang, Selangor, after he had tried
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  • Global News watch
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      43 15 DISTRAUGHT:Aboywhowasinjuredintheearthquakecriesata hospital in Tasikmalaya, Indonesia. A powerful earthquake rattled southern Indonesia yesterday, killing at least 33 people who were crushed by falling rock or collapsed buildings and sending thousands fleeing outdoors for safety in the middle of the work day. PICTURE: AP
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    • 302 15 INDONESIA ROCKED BY QUAKE AFP AT LEAST 33 people were killed yesterday when a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Indonesia’s Java island, an official said. “In total, 33 people died, 305 injured and 40 people are missing,” health ministry crisis centre chief Rustam
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    • 115 15 AFP WORLD Bank president Robert Zoellick said it was too soon for China to roll back its massive stimulus measures. He said the world’s third largest economy could yet falter on the road to recovery. Mr Zoellick, in Beijing for talks
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    • 102 15 AFP A HELICOPTER carrying a powerful south Indian politician disappeared yesterday over an area held by Maoist rebels, triggering a huge land and air search, officials said. Indian Air Force aircraft joined the hunt for Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister of
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    • 101 15 AFP THE US private sector shed the smallest number of jobs in nearly a year, erasing 298,000 jobs last month, figures show. Last month’s figure for non-farm private employment on a seasonally adjusted basis was slightly higher than the 250,000 expected by most
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    • 681 16/17 Kidsofkidnapvictim‘starvedofinformation’byfather THEPresidentoftheUnitedStates?What’sthat?ThedaughtersofJayceeLeeDugard,thewomanwhowaskidnapped for18years, haveno clueof life outside the tents they called home, said California stateofficials. The girls, 15, and 11, were “starved of information” bytheirfather,accordingtopolice. They have never watched TV and have no concept ofmaths,geographyandhistory,reportedtheSun. Thegirls’father,PhillipGarrido,58,kidnappedtheir motherwhenshewas11in1991andstartedhavingsex withherwhenshewas14. Jaycee,now29,andherchildren,werekeptinsqualidconditions inthe backyard of Garrido’s
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    • 381 16/17 NEIGHBOURS and family members are trying to cash in on the case which has riveted the US. One neighbour, Mr Damon Robinson, at the street where Jaycee Lee Dugard lived after she was kidnapped, was in his backyard speaking with
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    • 380 18 ManUstrikerwarnedfor‘straypasses’tomodel FOOTBALLER Dimitar Berbatov has just discovered the consequences of a bad move he was threatened by the head of a mafia clan for allegedlymakingpassesatthemobster’sgirlfriend. The £30 million ($70 million) Manchester United striker had reportedly been sending flirty messages via SMS to model Nikoleta Lozanova, according
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  • Page 15 Miscellaneous
    • 13 15 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low24˚ Jakarta:Cloudy High34˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:Thunderstorms High34˚,Low26˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low27˚
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    • 276 19 LYNDAGOH VICE-PRESIDENT -NOAH’SARK CARES Busker who cares for strays IREFER to the story “Readers offer help, donationsandadvice”(TheNewPaper, 28 Aug). Based on the article, it would appear that Mr Don Martin cares for 67 stray animalsatUluTiram,JohorBaru(JB). Our animal welfare society, Noah’s Ark CARES, believes that
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    • 65 19 Comments on online video ofamanbeing“assaulted” by a woman in public: “It’sstrangethe manwas so obedient, stood still to be assaulted. That woman is a disgrace. Even if he cheated on her, she should not behaveso disgracefullyinpublic.” Misnomer “Ioncesawawomanbeatingherhusbandinpublic. She pinched his ear and arm, slapped his face and
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    • 44 20 INSIDE LIKE AUNTIES CHATTING AWAY... HK star Ekin Cheng on the male bonding in his movie The Storm Warriors ALL IN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAPER NEW FACE FINALIST JUNE DANG SHE’S BRANDCONSCIOUS... in a good way PRESENTS CO-SPONSORS Turn to page 27
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    • 80 21 Living their passion Instead of clock-watching at a desk-bound job, some people find true career fulfilment by going the extra mile to live their dreams Transforming dyslexic kidsReservedSpaceReservedSpac ReservedSpace Mr Albert Lee, a lecturer and senior educational therapist at the Dyslexia Association of Singapore, helps dyslexic students overcome their literacy
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    • 1102 23 From Page 21 Making learning easy By Janice Goh Senior educational therapist Albert Lee helped his dyslexic student transform from an unhappy girl to a confident and promising artist. At the Dyslexia Association of Singapore’s (DAS) graduation ceremony earlier this year, she presented her artwork to the guest of honour
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  • Sports
    • 643 54  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg NOTHINGirritatesmemorethandiving.Seriously, it’s right up there above noisy eating, people who play tinny R ‘n’ B through their cellphones on the bus and that invisible scratch on my West Wing DVD that smashes straight through the important bit 10 minutes
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    • SPORTS ON TV
      • 94 55 LIVE TELECASTS COPA SUDAMERICANA Today: ATLETICO PARANAENSE (BRA) v BOTAFOGO(BRA) Ch 27,8.45am INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES Saturday: HOLLAND v JAPAN Ch 27, 8pm Sunday: ENGLAND v SLOVENIA Ch 24,12.30am GERMANY v SOUTH AFRICA Ch 119,2.30am WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Saturday: SCOTLAND v MACEDONIA Ch 27,10pm Sunday: DENMARK v PORTUGAL Ch 27, 2am
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        30 55 US OPEN 2009 Today: DAY 3 (evening session) Ch 22,7am Tonight: DAY 4 (day) Ch 22,11pm Tomorrow: DAY 4 (evening) Ch 22,7am DAY 5 (day) Ch 22,11pm PICTURE: AP
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      • 14 55 OMEGA EUROPEAN MASTERS Tonight: DAY 1 Ch 26,9.45pm Tomorrow: DAY 2 Ch 26,9.45pm
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      • 493 55 LOCAL EVENTS POLO What:Shanghai Tang2009 Women’s International Polo Tournament When: Till Sun Where: Singapore Polo Club TOP FEMALE polo professionals from England, the US, New Zealand and Zimbabwe, as well as top local players from the Singapore Polo Club, are competing in this event. The Gold Cup match
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    • Sports Racing
      • 257 40 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK THE Patrick Shaw-trained pair of Uigur and Amadeus Mozart worked smartly in separate hit-outs at Kranji yesterday. Newcomer Uigur, with Brazilian hoop Joao Moreira up, reeled off 600m in 37.8sec while stablemate Amadeus Mozart did a relaxed 41.5 under jockey Barend Vorster. The going
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      • 600 40 TOMORROW’S KRANJI LONG COURSE C POLYTRACK RACE CARD RACE1-1100m(Polytrack)QTT MS 6.30 1 CloseOneEye DChee (11) 59 2 PowerfulLeader EAslam (10) 59 3 SolarExpress AFeiruz* (5) 59 4 IncredibleSon JMoreira (2) 58.5 5 CheyenneStar MAiry* (12) 57 6 DoubleFianchetto THKoh* (13) 55.5 7 Dollars&Cents VDuric (1) 55 8 FirstBlood SHLow* (3)
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      • 320 41 GOING: GOOD Race1 MaidenPlate(F&M) 1000M 1 POCKETAPOUND58(52-14) CMaujean (9) 1 11 JASMAMA56(129-46) LPagel (4) 2 7 GINDONDOR56(43-9) SCormack (2) 3 13 PAGEANTQUEEN56(43-11) BLerena (1) 4 ?Trainer:GPuller.Margins:5,shd,hd.Time:57.1sec.EOB:$27.Forecast:$432. PlaceForecast:$16(Nos.1-7),$104(Nos.1-11),$45(Nos.7-11). Tierce:$7107.Trio:$685. Quartet:Nowinner($2834jackpotcarriedforwardtonextrace). Race2 MaidenPlate(F&M) 1000M 2 SCATCAT58(119-27) LPagel (8) 1 8 ARMANICODE56(191-39) CMaujean (12) 2 13 RAPARA56(102-25) CTaylor
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      • 239 41  -  DANNY KHOO dkhoo@sph.com.sg THEODORE KIESER (right), assistant to leading trainer Laurie Laxon, will be hoping to strike out on his own soon. The South African’s application for a full training licence was recently endorsed by the Malayan Racing Association (MRA). The controlling body of local racing
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      • 472 41 NST JERAM FASHION stepped up preparations for a comeback win in the Da Ma Cai Stakes for Class 4 sprinters over 1,200m on Saturday with a smart workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the six-year-old Australian-bred gelding
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    • Sports Mad About Golf
      • 691 42  -  GODFREY ROBERT npsports@sph.com.sg IN HIS three-month summer-break from the University of Washington, Singapore amateur Choo Tze Huang had many opportunities to ponder about his first love golf. He played in about a dozen tournaments, some against professionals. He had hit the heights in a
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      • 202 42 THAI star Thongchai Jaidee will be targeting an unprecedented third victory of the season when he competes in the Omega European Masters starting today. Thongchai, the current Asian Tour Order of Merit leader, said yesterday that his confidence has skyrocketed and that he feels capable of winning
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      • 203 42 Reuters CHINA’S Zhang Lianwei is hoping this week’sEuropeanMasterswillbeagenuine learning experience after signing up the host club’s teaching professional to caddie for him. The US$2.8 million ($4m) event in the Swiss Alps will be the first in Europe co-sanctioned by the Asian and
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    • Sports US Open
      • 732 43 AFP JUST 15 months after winning the French Open and becoming world No. 1, 11th-seeded Ana Ivanovic made her first opening-round exit in 20 Grand Slam appearances yesterday at the US Open. The 21-year-old Serbian beauty squandered a match-point and was ousted by Ukranian Kateryna Bondarenko
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      • 282 43 Reuters MARIA Sharapova made a stylish return to the US Open when she walloped Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova 6-3, 6-0 to reach the second round yesterday. Wearing a black outfit criss-crossed with silver strapping, which she described as being “inspired by the architecture of New York”, the Russian
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    • Sports Sporty Bosses
      • 742 44 / 45  -  Michiel Verhoeven started riding bicycles when hewas4yearsoldandhasn’tstoppedsince JOYCE LIM npsports@sph.com.sg WHEN Michiel Verhoeven was young, he would cycle 10km to get to school in Holland every day. At 12, he went on his first road trip pedalling 100kmto visit hisgrandparents– for aweekend. Seven years later, he scaled
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    • Sports Formula One
      • 516 46 / 47  -  ERNEST LUIS finds out why ticket sales for the second Singapore Grand Prix on 27 Sep are actually credible despite certain factorsnotintheevent’sfavour Less novelty, recession... ERNEST LUIS PERSPECTIVE is important when looking at the current ticket sales figure so far, of 83,000 per day for thisyear’srace weekendof
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      • 756 46 / 47  -  ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg COMMENT IN PRICE-SENSITIVE Singapore, there’s always a feeling that national sporting events should be as cheap as possible. But should that apply when it comes to a commercial event like Formula One? When most of the revenue generated goesback to F1’s commercial rights holder
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      • 191 46 / 47 TICKET CATEGORIES: TURN 1 2 GRANDSTAND 2008 price: $1,388 2009 price: $1 ,388 Early-bird price (cheaper than last year): $1,188 TURN 3 GRANDSTAND 2008 price: $1,388 2009 price: $1,188 Early-bird price (cheaper than last year): $988 PIT GRANDSTAND 2008 price: $1,388 2009 price: $1
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    • 662 48  -  Last year, SingTel won the broadcast rights to the Champions League. Later this month, it is expected to go into a new bidding war with StarHub for the EPL rights. A committee is urging the two telco giants to work together to the bene fit
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    • Sports EPL
      • 488 49  -  Shea John Driscoll Driscoll, newsroomintern ARROGANT and a liability. Those are labels that some British newspapers have recently stuck on Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner. Ask Arsenal fans what they think of him, and the disapproval comes thick and fast from the majority. Worse still,
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      • 942 52  -  Tottenham have spent more on transfers since 2004 than any other Premier League club FRANK MALLEY Chief Writer, PA Sport YOU have to hand it to Harry Redknapp. He knows how to do business. No messing. Straight in there. Last day of the transfer window
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      • 413 53 CLUB PENDING DOWN PA Sport PREMIER League clubs’ spending on new players dropped by 10 per cent to £450 million ($1 billion) over the off-season, with a big drop in investment in foreign players. Even Manchester City’s £120m spree failed to see the top flight match the record sum of
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      • 372 53 AFP ASTON Villa finally completed the signing of Republic of Ireland defender Richard Dunne from Manchester City yesterday. Villa were unable to announce the Dunne deal before the transfer window closed on Tuesday as the Premier League asked for more time to ratify the
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      • 183 53 PA Sport BURNLEY manager Owen Coyle feels he has landed a player with “fantastic pedigree” after agreeing a deal for David Nugent. The Clarets sealed a transfer deadline day agreement with Portsmouth for Nugent (above) to join the club on a six-month loan. Nugent has
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    • Sports EPL Transfer Trail
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        1684 50/51 INs OUTs We show you who goes where and for what in the Premiership PA Sport ARSENAL Player in (1): Thomas Vermaelen (Ajax, undisclosed). Players out (11): Emmanuel Adebayor (Man City, undisclosed), Kolo Toure (Man City, undisclosed), James Dunne (released), Abu Ogogo (released), Paul Rodgers (released), Rene Steer (released), Vincent
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    • 112 56 Astounding growth despite uncertainty. GROWTH HIV TIME HIV has managed to continue its winning streak over the past 20 years. Potential and current market players are to take note of the following: 1) Retaining one partner is advisable to minimise risk. 2) Diversifying of relationships is to be avoided to
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    • 93 1 WE KNOW MOVIES WIN! Movie hampers from I Love You, Beth Cooper and The Time Traveler’s Wife, plus tickets to I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER SAVE THE Goodbye, nerds! We want more Zac Efrons and Robert Pattinsons p8 CRAZY CUTIE Local actor David Aw reveals his wacky side p4 Actress
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  • WE KNOW MOVIES FIRST
    • FIRST FEATURE
      • 444 2/3  -  HKactorEkinChengtalksabouthowhisfellow maleactorsbringoutthe‘auntie’inhim,and why marriage is not on the cards, for now Tan Kee Yun You would think that in a predominantly male workingenvironment, the natural, the instinctive urge would befora female presence. Butthat’snotso forHong Kong actorEkin Cheng. Hehad noproblems dealing withthe testosteronelevels while filming with his
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      • 321 2/3  -  CharleneChoi’supcomingleadingroleinTheStorm Warriors is her fourth outing with Ekin Cheng Tan Kee Yun With her scandal-ridden buddy, Gillian Chung, still in semi-hibernation, 26-year-old Charlene Choi, one half of Cantopop duo Twins, is seeing her star shining brighter than ever. Not only did she replace Gillian in theleading rolein
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      • 416 2/3  -  While Ekin waxes unabashedly about having a ball of a timewithhismaleco-actors,heisbestknownfora string of off-screen romances with his female co-stars Tan Kee Yun Before Justin Timberlake and John Mayer made dating older women hip (they were seeing Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston respectively), Ekin was in the
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      • 627 8 / 9 Weagree that all’sfair in loveand war. Nerdy guys can and shall take home the prom queen. They are not classically attractive, either too thin or too rotund, not muscular, and yet young women are falling head over heels in love with them. Traditionally made fun
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    • FIRST ASIAN
      • 400 4  -  Actor David Aw even has an ex-FHM Singapore cover girl cooing over his good looks Kwok Kar Peng Surely such a cute face like this belongs in showbiz, to be worshipped and drooled at by girls. Butforthepast11/2years,DavidAwdonnedcamouflage green and went under the radar to protect our country.
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      • Article, Illustration
        77 4 Anotheronebitesthedust–currentBollywood heartthrob Imran Khan is engaged to girlfriend Avantika Malik. The 26-year-old star of Luck and Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na reportedly popped the question at a surprise birthday party for Avantika on 18 Jul. Hesaid:“Yesit’strue.Butwe’replanningto haveaproperceremonylater,sorightnowit’s justforusandourfamilies.” Avantika,23,isthedaughterofIndia’sTV18 channel boss Vandana Malik. The couple had planned to
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        91 4 Hong Kong actress Stephy Tang, 25, who was the first artiste in Hong Kong to be infected by the H1N1 virus, told her fans over the weekend thatshehas“fullyrecovered”. The Love Is Not All Around star had lost some weight during her period of illness, but is now“graduallygainingtheweightback”. Earlier,
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      • 70 4 Korean sex siren Lee Hyori, star of If In Love Like Them, has been voted Worst Dressed at the recent MNet Choice Awards. Her Lady GaGa-esque outfit was deemed a fashion faux pas on Korean website nemopan. But some netizens have stood by her daringoutfit withcomments suchas“wearinguniqueclothesliketheseisimpressive”.
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        97 4 ThecastandcrewofGlenGoei’snewmovieBlue Mansion got a fright one night while filming at the blue-walled Cheong FattTze Mansion in Penang. One of its actors Adrian Pang said the scene required them to set fire to a paper effigy of the blue mansion, and paper effigies of maids and cars. Adriansaid:“Sosomeonesuggestedthatwesaya prayer
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    • FIRST BITES
      • 83 5 RETIREMENT is definitely not a consideration for Sylvester Stallone. At the ripe old age of 63, the actor is still working hard to earn his keep. With his upcoming action flick, The Expendables, now in post-production mode, Stallone is busy workingonhisnextproject–Rambo5! Thesuccessoflastyear’sRambofilmgave Stallone’sfinanciersenoughconfidenceto bankroll the new instalment.
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      • 82 5 Imagine yourself in a world with no humans and having to hide from fearsome machines that roam the earth. TimBurton’slatestmovie9, done in his usual quirky, artistic style, is a visually-stunning look at a post-apocalyptic world. The movie features the voices of Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly and
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        148 5 FIRST The Hulk, then The X-Men, and now The Fantastic Four. The mighty foursome will be undergoing an overhaul as plans for a reboot are being finalised. Now that the lives of 5,000 Marvel characters lie in the hands of the Mouse House, 20th Century Fox has
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        116 5 EVERYONE has jumped on the 3-D bandwagon–evenNicolasCagehassigned on to star in a 3-D bloody revenge movie. Thankfully there are film-makers like Guillermo del Toro who have chosen to stay awayfromthe3-Dmarket–atleastfor now. The Mexican director recently went on the forum boards of TheOneRing.net to dispel rumours that
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    • FIRST READERS
      • 157 6 WRITE IN WIN DVDS You’ve read our reviews and commentaries. Now we want yours. This week, we want your thoughts on hip nerds vs pretty boys: Who should win the battle? Do you prefer geeks like Michael Cera, Jonah Hill and Paul Rust? Or you’d rather see cuties like Robert
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      • 275 6  -  Joshua Lim This movie is rated M18 for gore. But fans of the Final Destination franchiseshould bewarned the goreis about all they can expect from the fourth instalment of the Final Destination movies. Considering that this is director David REllis’ secondforay into this death-till-us-part
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      • 92 6  -  JennyTan Your enjoyment of Year One depends onwhether you’retired ofJack Black and Medial Era yet. They seem to be playing the same characters on the big screen year in and year out. So far, I can still tolerate their antics. Year One is a long way
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      • 109 6  -  Denise Lee These crossovers look good on paper, but I don’tthink theyalwayswork. What Hollywood filmmakers always fail to realise is that even though a movie works inan Asian context,itdoesn’t necessarily translate into a Western context. Take the 1995 Japanese movie Shall We Dansu, which was remade into a
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    • FIRST INTERVIEW
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        729 7 I Love You, Beth Cooper is HaydenPanettiere’sfirst major movie after shooting into popular consciousness as the indestructible cheerleader Claire in television series Heroes. In this Chris Columbus-directed movie (he helmed HarryPotter AndThe Sorceror’s Stone), she plays Beth, a queen bee, the hottest and most sought-after girl in school.
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      • 852 10 / 11 THIS may well be the greatest love story told in 2009. How does one keep love alive if your partner often disappears from your life for long periods of time? BasedonAudreyNiffenegger’s award-winning novel of the same name, TheTimeTraveler’sWifeexploresthe notion that true love does transcend time.
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        206 10 / 11 TheTimeTraveler’sWife mayhave anoriginal storyline,butit’s title? Not so.A search on moviewebsite imdb.com threw up afewmovies with “wife/wives”in them. THEASTRONAUT’SWIFE(1999) How well do you know the one you love? To friends, former astronaut Spencer is the same, but to his wife Jillian, something is amiss. Jillian faces inexplicable terror
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      • 379 15  -  In the new movie Coco Before Chanel, he plays a French-speaking English lover. Juliana June Rasul In reality? Alessandro Nivola is neither French nor English. Over the phone from his summer home in Long Island, New York, Nivola, 37, has an all-American twang. Youmay rememberhim asNicolasCage’s crazy
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    • MOVIE DATE
      • 507 12  -  A Mars vs Venus look JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com.sg The TimeTraveler’sWife isn’treally a movie abouttime travelasmuch asit’s amovie about love. It would be unacceptably chauvinistic to say that this is what happens when you let women write sci-fi, but... this is what happens
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      • REVIEWS
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          63 12  -  JJ Asa fatheroftwo smallboys, Idread movieslike G-Force. WhileI don’t mindmultipleviewings of SpeedRacer or High SchoolMusicalor the Pixarfilms,there’s justsomething about wise-crackingCGI animalswith “attitude” thatmakesme wantset my hair onfire. The storyofagroup of guineapigs taskedwithstopping amadman from takingover the world,or whatever, G-Force isoneofthose vile filmsthat teacheskids tofetishisethe paraphernaliaofwar. Withtheir high-tech weapons,the guineapigs–
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        • 71 12  -  JJ Itused tobe thatteen actors had tobe gorgeoustoget workin Hollywood,but with thesuccess ofSuperbad, allbets areoff. Geeksare chic. PaulRust, thestar ofILove You, Beth Cooper, isinfact sohomely and awkward thatyoucan hardlybelieve your eyes.He makesMichael Ceralooklike ZacEfron. Still,hehas aloveablelittle dog face, and hisphysical shortcomingsjust make theobject ofhis puppy
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