The New Paper, 27 September 2009

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      Lock icon HE WON’T SPEND
      628 1/56  -  EXCLUSIVE BEN LYTTLETON Special Correspondent The writer is based in Britain and writes for The Sunday Telegraph and guardian.co.uk. ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger has money to spend on transfers but chooses not to because of his background in economics, according to Ivan Gazidis,the club’snewchief executive. Gazidis also
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    • Sports Racing
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        Lock icon TODAY’S IPOH RACE CARD
        1284 35 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE1 RM 1.15 -1100m(STRAIGHT) Stakes:RM65,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 *****2 SmoothOperator 55.5 (40) JacksonLow*c1 13 (3amgMThwaites-MThwaites) 2 -90 FireToPost 55.5 CalvinGoonc2 12 (3amgMThwaites-FireStorm) 3 -632 HardToSay 51 (47) SSanic1 15 (3nzgKCTiang-HardToSay) 4 95 VillageBoy 51 (36) AKumarc1 9
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        Lock icon TIPS AND COMMENTS COURTESY OF AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
        1075 36/37 RACE 1 (CAULFIELD) 1 ALKHAFIF (DA Hayes) 3g (4:1-0-1): Respect on exposed form. Led last start and can improve over this shorter trip. 4 SET TO POUNCE (DT O’Brien) 3c (3:2-0-0): Looking to complete a hat-trick. Respect on exposed form. Looks promising.
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        Lock icon TODAY’S AUSTRALIA (CAULFIELD/SUNSHINE COAST/GERALDTON) RACE CARD
        1144 36/37 11:55Race1 CAULFIELD 1440M 1 ALKHAFIF WEGAN (10) 57 2 NICASTRO DDUNN (13) 57 3 CHIEFOFSTAFF DEANHOLLAND (3) 56.5 4 SETTOPOUNCE BRENTEVANS (8) 56.5 5 BELIEVEINMORE DNIKOLIC (4) 55 6 RUSSIANHEART CNEWITT (7) 54.5 7 NOBLEROMEO NICHOLASHALL (9) 54.5 8 EAUDEDALI CHRISSYMONS (2) 54.5 9
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        Lock icon LAST FRIDAY’S SINGAPORE STIPENDIARY STEWARDS’ REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
        1023 36/37 RACE 1 Prior to this race, jockey Din Azis was selected for random testing. After being notified that he had been selected, Azis advised that he had taken some cold and flu medication. He was unable to give details of the actual medication
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        Lock icon Just A Man looks superb
        392 38 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK THE promising Just A Man impressed at Kranji yesterday morning in preparation for Wednesday’s Class 4 (1) race over 1,200m. The Don Baertschiger-trained Testa Rossa three-year-old stretched out smartly over 600m in 37.7sec, accompanied by stablemate El Patron (apprentice SH Low). The going was
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S HK (SHA TIN )RESULTS
        416 38 Going: Good (Turf); Fast (All Weather Track) RACE1 CLASS5 1200m 4 PLOTRATIO131(140-39) THSO (2) 1 9 KING'SCHOICE126(45-13) HWLAI (12) 2 1 ALMIGHTY133(15-6) KCLEUNG (6) 3 12 ALLPROFIT116(211-50) YTCHENG (7) 4 ?Trainer: TW Leung. Margins: 1.25, 2.25. Time: 1min 9.3sec. EOB: $18. Forecast: $300. Place Forecast:
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S IPOH RESULTS
        669 38 Going:Good Race1 C5(LC)1400m 9 MIGHTYACE54(88-25) SSalee (12) 6 6 1 (463) 8 CENTURYFORTUNE54c51(54-16) GMatthias* (13) 4 3 2 (476) 0.5 1 CHAMPIONSHIP57(10-5) DinAzis (10) 3 2 3 (518) 0.75 2 BESTRECRUIT56c55(42-12) KTCheng (7) 9 9 4 (492) Hd ?Winningowner:YFLye.Trainer:CecilRobert.Time:1min25.8sec.Forecast:$97.Tierce:$606.MalaysianW/P: RM51, RM14, RM18, RM5. P Forecast: $28 (9-8),
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      Lock icon Wasteful Woods
      172 39 GOLF Reuters TIGER Woods wasted a chance to take a commanding lead in the Tour Championship with an untidyfinish to Friday’ssecond round. The world No. 1 golfer ended a sun-splashed day just one stroke ahead of the chasing pack when he could have run away with the title.
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      Lock icon Maruyama surges on
      137 39 AFP JAPAN’S Daisuke Maruyama opened up a four-shot lead at the Panasonic Open yesterday. Maruyama, 38, fired a four-under-par 67 at the Joyo Country Club in Kyoto, Japan, where his three-day total of 11-under-par 202 is well clear of South Korea’s Kim Kyung Tae, who finished the
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      Lock icon Steely Suriya keeps it clean
      552 39  -  FORMULA BMW ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg SURIYA Bala Kerisnan may have started second last on the grid yesterday. Despite lacking in physique and experience, the 16-year-old student from St. Francis Methodist School moved up from 18th at the start, to finish 15th for Asia Racing Team
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      Lock icon How other Singaporeans fared
      245 39  -  CHERYL TAY ASTON MARTIN ASIA CUP SINGAPORE’S Ringo Chong was second fastest in practice on Friday after SriLanka’s Dilantha Malagamuwa. Yesterday, Chong came back faster and beat Dilantha by 0.786 second to qualify for pole position in 2 minute 33.378 seconds. Two other Singaporeans Greg Teo
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    • Sports Formula One
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        Lock icon EYE OF THE STORM
        868 40/41 Superstardomhasitsprice. THE RED BULLETIN tracks SebastianVettelwhoisachoice morsel for an entertainment-hungryworld HE’SINtheresomewhere.Behind a phalanx of journalists, photographers and TV crew, SebastianVettelisholdingcourt,fieldingquestions about tyres, fuel levels, track temperatures, the drivers’ world championship, this, that, theother. It’s the kind of media moment so familiar in the 21st-century, but still,
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        Lock icon HE LOVES HIS TECH STUFF
        719 40/41 AT THE HUNGARORING circuit 40km from town, the neighbouring waterslide aquapark sits in cool, blue view of the track, taunting all those who toil under the furious sun. For most of the past three hours, Vettel has been getting maximum “brain time” with his engineers
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        Lock icon A day in the life of Seb
        584 40/41 THERE just isn’t enough time for Sebastien Vettel. Here’s what the Thursday of his race weekend at the Hungarian Grand Prix looks like. 5am: Wake up. 7.09am: Meet Red Bulletin for 45-min filming at Zurich airport before departure for Hungary for Hungarian Grand
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        Lock icon 10 things to look out for
        1032 42  -  ERNEST LUIS and TheNewPaper’s Formula One analyst LUKENETTO analyse lastnight’squalifying andpreviewtonight’s SingTel Singapore Grand Prix ERNESTLUISand HAMILTON’SSTRATEGY SPOT-ON YESTERDAY afternoon, The New Paper had an exclusive interview with McLaren engineering director Paddy Lowe who told us that the Kers power boost system popularly associated
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        Lock icon ROUND 14 TODAY SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX @ Marina Bay
        600 43 ROUND 14 TODAY SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX Marina Bay TURN 7 This is probably the best corner of the circuit to overtake. Last year, huge bumps in the braking zone of Turn 7 hindered overtaking opportunities. The road surface looks better this year but is still slightly bumpy. McLaren and Ferrari
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        Lock icon He gets the Lowe-down from his laptop
        923 44/45  -  McLaren’sengineeringdirectorPADDYLOWE revealshisteam’sracestrategiesfortonight’s SingTel Singapore Grand Prix EXCLUSIVE ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg PADDY Lowe’s Lenovo ThinkPad X301 laptop cannot write this story for me in five minutes. Unfortunately. But it can tell him every little mistake a perfectionist of a Formula One world champion like
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        Lock icon Button and the Great British Curse
        563 44/45  -  ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg COMMENT THE YEAR was 1986. In the final race of the season at Australia, Nigel Mansell was the odds-on favourite to become a British Formula One champion for the first time in his career. But when his tyres blew spectacularly towards
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        Lock icon A little hot, but Heidfeld likes it here
        535 46  -  JOYCE LIM npsports@sph.com.sg AN HOUR of tennis, 30 minutes of shopping and dinner at Samy’s Curry were some of the things that Nick Heidfeld did before the big race day. “I would like to see and live (in Singapore) in a normal
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        Lock icon IT WAS NOT MY FAULT
        526 47  -  Remember the serious Ferrari fuel hose incident from last year’sSingTelSingaporeGrandPrixthatcostFelipeMassa his title chase? The fuel hose man, ALEX MAGISANO, tells The New Paper what actually happened FUEL-HOSE MAN IN MASSA MISHAP LAST YEAR SA YS... JOYCE LIM npsports@sph.com.sg HE IS PROBABLY the media’s most sought
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        Lock icon WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR
        158 47 WHEN the pitlane reopened during the safety-car period, Ferrari sent bothits drivers Felipe Massa andKimiRaikkonen– into the pit-lane. The Italian team was alone on the grid in using an automated traffic light system suspended from a gantry and linked to the operation of the fuel hose,
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      Lock icon Treat them like footballers, not kids
      568 48  -  ALISON RATCLIFFE FOOTBALL FEMME npsports@sph.com.sg SHOULD we treat footballers as grown-ups rather than giant diamond-encrusted five-year-olds, I wonder? I realise that’s how many of them behave, but could this be because their clubs have raised them since the age of 14 in giant, fluffy,
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      Lock icon The Race craze
      545 48  -  HERBLOG SARA ANN K npsports@sph.com.sg GOING to the races? Well, while many of the lower end tickets are sold out, I know I would be a little uncomfortable at spending upwards of a thousand singasmackeroos on a ticket that would get me premium seats this weekend for
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    • Sports Football
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        Lock icon KELONG in Europe?
        506 49 AP UEFA is investigating 40 cases of suspected match-fixing in the Champions League and Uefa Cup, a senior official at European football’s governing body revealed. The number of matches being scrutinised for suspicious betting patterns has soared from 25 in a year, and mostly involved eastern European
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        Lock icon Van Persie: Yes, I exaggerate my falls
        347 49 PA Sport HE IS the Flying Dutchman, alright. Arsenal striker Robin van Persie stumbled into the diving controversy by admitting he has exaggerated a penalty area fall if he felt the challenge warranted a spot-kick. The Arsenal striker insists he is against diving
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        Lock icon IF I HAVE ONE WISH
        409 50 SUNDERLAND v WOLVES Tonight, 11pm, Ch 27 PA Sport WOLVES manager Mick McCarthy insists he will have no feelings of regret when he returns to his former club Sunderland tonight. McCarthy won promotion to the Premier League as Sunderland manager in 2005 but did not
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        Lock icon McCarthy hopes for warm reception
        113 50 PA Sport DESPITE the fact he lost his job at the Stadium of Light, Mick McCarthy still has fond memories of his time at the club and hopes for a good reception but not from the fans if Wolves are winning. The former Republic of
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        Lock icon Bruce keeps faith with Jordan
        222 50 STARTOWATCH PA Sport SUNDERLAND boss Steve Bruce is hoping teenage starlet Jordan Henderson can blaze a trail which will save owner Ellis Short millions. The 19-year-old midfielder (right) scored his first sen- ior goal for the club in last Wednesday’s League Cup third-round victory over
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        Lock icon Bent the dangerman
        111 50 PA Sport WITHOUT a doubt, Wolves must be wary of Sunderland’s in-formstriker DarrenBent. Bent (right) has made a sparkling start to his career in the North East following his £15m move from Tottenham. Wolves manager Mick McCarthy is aware of the danger the former England striker poses.
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        Lock icon Seven-up Saha flattens Pompey
        460 51  -  BY DUNCAN BECH Special Correspondent AVIDMOYESbacked Paul Hart to steer Portsmouth out of trouble after Everton condemned theEPL’sbottomclubtoa seventh successive defeat. French striker Louis Saha struck in the 42nd minute to stretchEverton’swinningrunto four matches, but the visitors rode their luck, especially in the second-half. Pompey missed
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        Lock icon Keane batters Burnley with four-star show
        224 51  -  BY SIMON STONE Special Correspondent PA Sport ROBBIE KEANE scored four times as Tottenham thrashed Burnley at White Hart Lane to offer another reminder why Harry Redknapp refuses to drop him for Peter Crouch. Keane has started every EPL game this season and, despite
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        Lock icon Bramble’s Cech choker
        389 52  -  BY PAUL BURBRIDGE Special Correspondent ARLOANCELOTTIsuffered his first defeat as Chelsea manager with Wigan chalking up a shock Premier League victory. After eight straight wins in all competitions the Italian boss saw his 10-man team come unstuck and have goalkeeper Petr Cech sent off. Titus Bramble put
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        Lock icon Win Dunn and dusted for Rovers
        245 52 ROUND-UP PA Sport DAVID DUNN kept his nerve to fire home an 89th-minute penalty and wrap up a 2-1 victory for 10-man Blackburn. Aston Villa took the lead withGabrielAgbonlahor’s third-minute strike and after Chris Samba equalised Rovers had midfielder Vince Grella sent off in
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        Lock icon No fire Nani?
        279 53  -  DAVID LEE THERE certainly is a good case that despite playing for Manchester United, Nani does not actually possess a footballing brain. The Football Channel pundits highlighted an incident in the 17th minute whereby Nani could have put Dimitar Berbatov in the clear or cut the ball
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        Lock icon What price, Giggs?
        615 53  -  STOKE0 MAN UNITED 2 (Berbatov62, O’Shea 77) DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg COMMENT THE WELSH Wizard has never commanded a transfer fee because he has neverbeeninvolved inasenior transferdeal. But if you were to ask Sir Alex Ferguson how much Ryan Giggs is worth, the Manchester United manager will rightly
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        Lock icon How good are Liverpool?
        230 54  -  LIVERPOOL 6 (Torres 12, 28,47, Gerrard 61, Babel 88, 90) HULL1 (Geovanni 15) GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg COMMENT AFTER a jittery start to their Premiership campaign, Liverpool are now back to their best. In fact, they are looking as good as they did last season. Last night’s
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        Lock icon Is Torres EPL’s best striker?
        189 54  -  GARY LIM ON CURRENT form, there isn’t any striker in the Premiership who can match Fernando Torres. When he came off the field in the 68th minute to make way for Ryan Babel, the standing ovation he received from the home crowd was just what
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        Lock icon Can Hull beat the drop?
        116 54  -  GARY LIM BOOKMAKERS have installed Hull City as one of the favourites to be relegated at the end of the season. It’snot hardto see why. Not only are they poor in attack, they can’t seem to get things right in defence, too. With 19 goals
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        62 55 LIVE TELECASTS EPL Tonight: SUNDERLAND v WOLVES Ch 27,11pm Tomorrow: MAN CITY v WEST HAM Ch 27,3am CHAMPIONSHIP Tonight: PLYMOUTH v NOTTM FOREST Ch 115 (TV 1), 8.10pm DUTCH LEAGUE Tonight: NAC BREDA vFEYENOORD Ch 116 (TV 2), 8.30pm SPANISH LA LIGA Tomorrow: DEPORTIVO v VILLARREAL Ch 27,2.55am *Alltelecastliveunlessstatedotherwise.
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        23 55 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX Tonight: PREVIEW Ch5 &Ch 24, 7.30pm RACE STARTS Ch 5 Ch 24,7.45pm CHEQUERED FLAG Ch 24,9.45pm PICTURE: AFP
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        Lock icon GOLF
        9 55 THE TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP Tomorrow: DAY 4 Ch 26,12.30am
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        Lock icon WHAT'S ON/BLURBS/FIXTURES
        464 55 WHAT'S ON /BLURBS/FIXTURES LOCAL EVENTS MOTOR RACING What: SingTel Singapore Grand Prix (Formula One) When: Raceday (Today) Where: Marina Bay street circuit WORLD champion Lewis Hamilton (right) ofMcLarenwill starttoday’s Singapore Grand Prix in pole position after title contender Rubens Barrichello crashed out lateinyesterday’s qualifyingsession. The Briton clocked 1 minute 47.891
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      Lock icon PUSHED OUT TO DIE
      1162 2/3  -  Despitepaying$5,000for ‘premiumpackage’,illegal immigrantsgetpushed overboard by panicky boatmenandlefttodrown REPORT: ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg BOBBING in his sampan, the boatman keeps his eyes peeled for the familiar shape of Police Coast Guard (PCG) vessels. His passengers huddle in the dark, nervous, shivering. They have paid good money to him
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      Lock icon Decoy boats, petrol bombs
      215 2/3 WITH about 140,000 ships plying Singapore waters annually, the PCG is kept on its toes every day. From its four bases at Loyang, Gul, Brani and Lim Chu Kang, its officers have to respond to any suspicious-looking craft in local waters. Butthat’snot easy.A policespokesman said the
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      Lock icon Man keels over & dies at Turf Club
      544 4  - Man keels over dies at Turf Club Other punters thought he had dozed off REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg AMAN’Ssuddendeathhaslefthisfamilybaffled.What was he doing at the Singapore Turf Club where he was found slumped in a seatonFridaynight? AsfarasMrAbdulRahmanSumadi’sfamilyknew,hedoesn’tgamble. Whenreporters visited MrAbdul’s Woodlands flat yesterday, his widow, who declined to be named, said:
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      Lock icon Women get jealous when she talks to their husbands
      1019 6 / 7  -  As the Ris Low saga shows, beauty queens can get the wrong kind of attention, says one pageant veteran REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg AS MISS Singapore World 2009 has learnt, it’s not easy being a beauty queen in Singapore. First, people
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      Lock icon What other pageant winners say
      425 6 / 7  -  Liew Hanqing Faraliza Tan, 23, Miss Singapore World 2008 I feel that if you are going to represent Singapore at an international pageant, it is important to maintain a professional image. It seems unfair to Ris Low (to have her conviction made public) but she
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      Lock icon Between THE DIVER & THE DEEP BLUE SEA
      1385 8 / 9  - Between THE DIVER THE DEEP BLUE SEA Some say enforcement of safety rules is an issue REPORT: TAY SHI’AN ,TEH JEN LEE tnp@sph.com.sg THEY work in murky, polluted waters with minimal visibility, and endure the nauseating taste and smell of exhaust in the water. They face dangers like electrocution, explosions
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      Lock icon Ship's propeller started to turn when they were cleaning it
      309 8 / 9 THERE were five incidents with injuries last year, and one fatality related to commercial diving, said theWSHC. In 2007, there was one incident with injuries. The fatality happened in September last year, when commercial diver Mohammed Borhan Jamal, 26, went
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      Lock icon ‘I’d rather die as an ugly man than a handsome woman’
      711 10 / 11  -  Female-borntranssexuals speakupatfirst-everforum that addresses their plight REPORT:BENSON BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg THEY live on the fringes, shunning attention, like this Singaporean transsexual. Jack (not his real name) was born more of a Jill. Only last month did he and three
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      Lock icon Woman-to-man sex change surgery more complicated, costlier
      249 10 / 11 WOMEN who have a persistent wish to be male are less common here than men wanting to be women. Mr Daniel Kaw, 37, the founder of SgButterfly, saidwhen peopletalk about transsexuals, “they immediately think about Changi Village and about Thailand’stranssexual cabaretshows”. Mr Kaw
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        Lock icon ‘You can’t bean airhead’
        460 12 / 13  -  SingTelGridGirl:Myrole’smorethanjustlookingpretty REPORT: SHREE ANN MATHAVAN shreeann@sph.com.sg FOR most F1 fans, meeting their favourite drivers is a dream come true. So prepare to hate Miss Low Shu Min. Meeting F1 drivers like Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull), Mark Webber (Red Bull) and former driver David Coulthard is part
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        Lock icon Men buying and re-selling F1 tickets
        290 12 / 13  -  Outside Raffles City yesterday REPORT:CRYSTAL REPORT:CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg OUTSIDEtheMcDonald’soutletatRafflesCity yesterday,threeCaucasianmenscreamed:“FItickets! Buyandsell!” They were buying the tickets from passers-by and trying to resell them at a higher price to people without tickets. TheNewPaperon Sunday went there after receiving a tip off from a reader who
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        Lock icon The race begins once they touch down
        409 12 / 13  -  REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg. IF it goes down to the wire, it’s gonna be Getai Singers 0 Racing Drivers 1. Just when you thought it safe to venture into the city after a heartland of getai shows, you run smack into
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        Lock icon Beyonce secretly sings for cancer victims
        461 14  -  REPORT: GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg THE name Beyonce may not have rung a bell for little Mohamed Saleh. But a kiss and a hug from the American R&B singer were all it tooktomakethe4-year-old’sday. Yesterday afternoon, he met Beyonce, 28, at the Viva-University Children’sCancerCentreoftheNational University Hospital
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        Lock icon Nicole & Lewis – are they or aren’t they together?
        132 14 Nicole Lewis are they or aren’t they together? SHE’Shere andtheyare together. If anyone still had any doubts about whether champion F1 driver Lewis Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls remain an item, here’sproof theyare. The couple gave singer Beyonce a tour of the McLaren Mercedes garage at the
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      Lock icon M’sian adrift at sea for 32 HOURS
      513 15 But tired companion lets go of floating ropewhiledriftingandisstillmissing FOR32hours,hefloatedonthesea,with nothing other than a plank andarope. Mr Zheng Tianyi’s boat had capsized while out on a fishing trip with other fishermen off Malacca at about 2am on Wednesday. Exhausted and severely dehydrated after drifting
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      Lock icon Mum’s ex-lover says he’s the real dad
      321 15 Kidnapvictim’s newdrama ASIFher life couldn’t getmore complicated enough, it has. Ms Jaycee Dugard (above, as a young girl), the woman who had been allegedly held hostage for 18 years by her captor and bore him two kids, now has another shock to deal
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      Lock icon CHEEKY or DEMEANING?
      517 16 MissWorldM’sia’s2009 campaign riles public and rights groups BEAUTY pageants and controversy appear to go hand in hand. While Singaporeans are up in arms over Miss Singapore World Ris Low’s poor command of English and her criminal record, Miss World Malaysia organisers are getting flak for their promotional
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      Lock icon Don’t sing badly in this karaoke bar
      422 17 6women(below)beatupsingerforbeing‘annoying’ WARNING TALK about a hit song. These women did what many karaoke patrons wish they coulddo– beatup abadsinger. Six Connecticut women are facing assault charges for attacking a New York woman for her amateurish karaoke performance at a bar, police said. The
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      Lock icon When I grow up, I want to be...
      352 18 / 19 Tokyoamusement parkletskidstryout 50 different jobs CHILD labour is legal here. KidZania, an amusement park which allows children aged 2 to 14 try out 50 professions, has been packing in the crowds in Tokyo, Japan, since it opened there in Oct 2006. The
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      656 20 / 21  -  THE BUZZ COMMENT: IVAN LIM pjlim@sph.com.sg SO THE “Crashgate” scandal has threatened to take the shine off Singapore’s gloriously-floodlit Grand Prix. There are those who argue that last year’s SingTel Singapore Grand Prix result should be cancelled. Which would make Brazilian Felipe Massa the
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      86 20 / 21 1 2 3 4 5 Itis based on the orderof theJedi, a group of knight-likecharacters fromthe Star Wars movies. AnInternet campaign in 2001urged fansof the movieto declaretheir religionas “Jedi” intheir country’scensus.An estimated500,000 peoplearound the world didso. OneUK-basedJedi “church”offers services whichincludesermons on“the Force”,light sabretraining and meditationtechniques.
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      23 20 / 21 “I’mgoingslapthenext personwhosays‘Boomz’.” –Awomanonhowtiredsheisofhearingtheword made famous by Miss Singapore World 2009 Ris Low “Sheshouldbethe new ambassador for the YellowRibbonProject.” –AmanonRisLow’scriminalrecord
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      112 20 / 21 Werate the past week’snews goodandbad. +10 Piracy in the South China Sea has hit a five-year high, with 10 attacks so far this year. -10 The number of children seeking treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at the Institute of Mental Health has almost quadrupled since 2000.
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      313 22 GLOBAL FORECAST FOR NEXT YEAR AFP THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) foresees a stronger than anticipated recovery from the economic crisis, with global growth approaching 3 per cent next year, world leaders said. The IMF had estimated in July a global contraction of 1.4
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      59 22 TIME FOR A CHANGE: Mr Arumugum, 80, smiles as employees of CATS Classifieds help paint his one-room flat in Toa Payoh. He has been living in the house for over 30 years.Over 200 employees of CATS Classifieds equipped with paints, brushes, rags, and other cleaning gear spruced up
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      95 22 SINGAPORE’S economy is in a stable position as it has passed the most difficult part of the economic downturn, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said. He was speaking at a lantern festival celebration in Ang Mo Kio yesterday. He
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      99 22 AFP DETAINED Myanmar pro-democ-racy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has written to the ruling junta with suggestions about how to get sanctions lifted, her lawyer said. The move represents a change of heart for the Nobel Peace Laureate, who
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      109 22 SENIOR Minister Goh Chok Tong said that the Singapore Grand Prix helps in the branding of the country and also brings in more tourists. He hosted about 200 guests at the Temasek Suite at the Pit Build- ing yesterday. SM
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      94 22 AFP A GIANT dust storm swept eastern Australia yesterday, turning Sydney’sairyellow andcausingbreathing problems. It happened just days after the worst such incident in decades caused apocalyptic scenes in the city. Howling winds pushed the 200kmh wide cloud of desert dust through Sydney
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      995 23  -  Enoughalready,sayviewerswho aretiredoftheconstantbuild-upto REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg THE wedding of the year is approaching, and thanks to blatant marketing, it is almost impossible not to know it. Celebrity couple Christopher Lee and Fann Wong will hold their traditional Chinese wedding rites and dinner on Tuesday. They registered their
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      297 24  -  COMMENT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg THE way I see it, Christopher and Fann have become juicy cash cows draped in Ermenegildo Zegna and Vera Wang in this whole wedding shenanigans. Call me naive but, after spending years interviewing them, I prefer to remember
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      597 25  -  David Ho newsroom intern ON stage, they appear cool and confident. But when The New Paper New Face 2009 finalists went behind a microphone, their nerves showed. They were recording radio trailers to promote The New Paper New Face’s Miss Popularity contest.
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      333 26 / 27  -  FLY ON THE WALL REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg INSIDEtheropes,itwasShowDown!Shangri-La’s Island ballroom was the site ofthefight,theveryfirstwhite-collarbox-ingandmuaythaieventinAsia. More than 700 guests in suits and gowns sat down to fine dining only to jump up and down in their seats to cheer (or jeer) the boxers. Ringsidetableswere$3,600,forwhichyou could
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      238 26 / 27  -  REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg OUTSIDE the red velvet ropes, some lust, more caution. Singaporeans are so-o mindful. That if they misbehave and push and shove againstthe barriers roundDior’s first duplex boutique, then bang go their chances of getting a glimpse of
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      452 26 / 27  -  S’pore’sso buzzing it can tireoutsocial butterflies HUMOUR SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO JUST PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg TOMORROW Singapore returns to me, moi, myself. For a city state of about 700 sq km and a less-than-five-million population, we have the busiest calendar in the world,
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      450 26 / 27  -  S M ONG ACT BLUR smong@sph.com.sg SINCE Mas Selamat was captured, Singapore has been in need of a new villain. Hello, Ris Low! Thanks to her quotable misspoken English and her recently revealed rap sheet, she couldn’t be any more infamous now
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        604 30  -  You risk literally stepping on toes by going to a gig in killer heels aspire ANGELINE NEO tnp@sph.com.sg YOU gotta give it to our controversial Miss SingaporeWorld2009,RisLow. She’sgotafansiteonFacebook,andyou can even Wikipedia this young miss (in every sense of the word). At the tender age of
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      477 32  -  HED CHEF HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg SO you wait for Prince Charming to come and sweep you off your feet. In truth, you are more likely to meet trolls you may eventually wish to zap out of your life. When a date or relationship does
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      455 32  -  S MURALI FATHER FIGURES muralis@sph.com.sg ISAWLewisHamilton’sdadtheotherday.Heisaproudman,isn’the?Andwhyshouldn’thebe? His son is the defending Formula One world champion and races for one of the biggest teams in Vodafone McLaren-Mer-cedes. In many ways, Hamilton Sr aka Anthony HamiltonremindsmeofthelateEarlWoods, thefatherofWorldNo1golferTigerWoods. Both dads played
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      242 28 / 29 s NEW FACE 2009 HI You decide with your vote, the winner of Miss Popularity at The New Paper New Face 2009 Grand Final. You could win $1,000 worth of Takashimaya vouchers while Ms Popularity wins the $2,000 cash prize! To find out more about each finalist's profile, log on
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