The New Paper, 30 December 2009

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1 56 The New Paper
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    18 1 the new paper 30 Dec 09 we A SINGAPORE PRESS hold|ngs I PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MICA (P) 099/11/2009
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      81 1 He steals, then he burns Two units in Bendemeer block broken into and set ablaze in two weeks PAGE 9 Winner of Reporting Breaking News Award ’09 Society of Publishers in Asia BUKIT PANJANG DOUBLE HIT-AND-RUN ACCIDENTS ROMANIAN AMBASSADOR TELLS THE NEW PAPER: TOO EARLY TO POINT FINGERS PICTURE: SHIN
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  • News Embassy Car Hit & Run
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      Lock icon I DON'T KNOW WHEN HE'LL RETURN
      1035 2/3  -  Romanian ambassador saysit’stooearlytopoint fingers. He says of diplomat Silviu Ionescu, wholeftS’pore: REPORT: AMANDA AMANDA YONG, CHONG SHIN YEN tnp@sph.com.sg A ROMANIAN embassy official who can further assist with a tragic hit-and-run accident here is no longer in Singapore and no one knows when he
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      Lock icon Diplomats can't be sued
      346 2/3  -  Amanda Yong Q: What is diplomatic immunity? A: It is a form of legal protection and a principle of international law under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. It ensures diplomats are given safe passage and cannot be sued or prosecuted in the hostcountry’scourts. Q:
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      63 2/3 Source: Internet Located in south-eastern part of Central Europe, its capital is Bucharest Official language: Romanian Popular attractions include Black Sea beach resorts and Unesco World Heritage sites such as mediaeval fortified churches in the central region ofTransylvannia Population: 22.2 million. Area size: 237,502 sq km Religions: 87
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      783 4  -  WITNESS: REPORT: CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg THEY are both avid readers of The New Paper. On 17 Dec, they did a double-take when they saw the picture which accompanied our report on the double hit-and-run accident at Bukit Panjang. David, 38, a part-time bartender,
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      Lock icon Will tragic death spur more to act?
      389 4  -  STREET TALK COMMENT: MELVIN SINGH melvin@sph.com.sg HIT-AND-RUN cowards can turn ordinary people into a lynch mob. Look at the way netizens (though never a good measure of offline behaviour) are gunning for the driver of the diplomatic car to be caught. They want
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      Lock icon Stop raining rubbish on us
      1042 6/7  -  Ground-floor residents ofRegentville condo up in arms over killer litter REPORT:LEDIATI LEDIATI TAN ledtan@sph.com.sg HIS girlfriend was spat on when she was moving flower pots to the balcony. And his mother was nearly hit by a 15cm-long toy crocodile made of rubber while she was
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      Lock icon Teaching of Chinese needs to be refined
      235 8 Education Minister Ng Eng Hen: EDUCATION Minister Ng Eng Hen yesterday said that the teaching of the Chinese language has to be refined to cope with an “inexorable change” in the language environment in homes. He said six in 10 Primary 1 Chinese
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      Lock icon Electricity price set to rise by 5.4 per cent next year
      123 8 ELECTRICITY prices are on the rise for the fourth consecutive quarter. The electricity tariff will go up by 5.4 per cent to 22.87 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in the first quarter of 2010, electricity service provider SP Services announced
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      Lock icon Two new teaching academies to be set up
      100 8 THE Ministry of Education will set up two new academies for Physical Education (PE) and Arts teachers. At the appointment ceremony for principals yesterday, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen announced the setting up of the Physical Education and Sports Teacher Academy (Pesta)
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      Lock icon Yeo Cheow Tong will not contest next general election
      112 8 MR YEO Cheow Tong said yesterday that he is retiring from politics. The former Cabinet minister who has been representing the Hong Kah area for 25 years, said he will not contest the next general election, reported The Straits Times. Mr
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      Lock icon MM Lee: S'pore-China relationship not static
      109 8 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said China may become an advanced world power in 50 years’ time, but it does not mean that Singapore will be squeezed out. At a dialogue yesterday, Mr Lee saidSingapore’srelationshipwith Chinawillcontinue changing over time, reported Channel NewsAsia. He said
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      Lock icon NO CRYING
      39 8 NOCRYING:One-year-oldLuo Xuan Li has never cried since she was born. Doctors said this is becausethelittlegirl’sbodyis unable to convert food nutrients into energy. They said her conditionis“veryrare”andthey are unable to specify the exact cause, reported Lianhe Zaobao yesterday.
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      Lock icon Thief breaks in, then BURNS
      793 9  -  2 FIRES, 3 STOREYS APART REPORT: BRYNA SIM brynasim@sph.com.sg FIRST he steals, then he burns. Two units, three storeys apart, at Block 23 Bendemeer Road, were hit within two weeks. The police said the latest break-in cum arson took place at a unit on the
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      Lock icon I knew something bad had happened
      572 10  -  Decomposed body found at Bukit Panjang Park REPORT and PICTURES: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg HE NOTICED the stench two days ago as his daily cycling routine would take him past the jogging track at Bukit Panjang Park near Petir Road. But yesterday morning as
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      Lock icon They’re hawking houses in a car park
      506 12  -  Some property agents are marketing a project out of a van at car park in Siglap REPORT and PICTURE: DESMOND NG desmondn@sph.com.sg YOU may be familiar with people hawking hi-fi speakers out of a van. Or even ice-cream. But how about million-dollar properties?
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      36 12 Buried treasure Movie premiums to be won from: PLUS The Treasure Hunter, Old Dogs, Hear Me, The Fourth Kind, It’s Complicated ‘Delicate’ Lin Chiling performs her own fight sequences in The Treasure Hunter MOVIE SECTION TOMORROW
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      Lock icon Al-Qaeda claims to be behind failed attack
      317 14 AL-QAEDA has claimed responsibility for the failed 25 Dec bombing of a US-bound plane. In a statement picked up by US monitors on Monday, its Arabian peninsula franchise acknowledged that a “technical fault” had caused the failure of the attack aboard a Northwest
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      Lock icon Thai health minister quits over negligence accusation
      99 14 THAILAND’S Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai quit yesterday after he was accused of negligence related to his ministry’s 86 billion baht ($3.6b) budget. A government committee set up to investigate the budget reported that prices for medical equipment to be bought by the
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      Lock icon Facebook woman wins hospital defamation case
      86 14 AN INDONESIAN court yesterday threwout ahospital’scriminaldefamation suit against Ms Prita Mulyasari,32, afteramonth’strial. Her e-mail complaints to her friends of a misdiagnosis at Omni International Hospital were posted on social-net-working site Facebook without her knowledge. Thejudgesruled:“Thee-mail sentbythedefendant doesn’t contain any defamation. It constitutes criticism so
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      Lock icon China executes British drug smuggler
      89 14 CHINA brushed aside international appeals yesterday and executed a British drug smuggler with reported mental-health problems. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was “appalled and disap- pointed” by the execution of Akmal Shaikh, 53, a father of three whom supporters say had bipolar disorder, reported
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      Lock icon Metal nut left in her spine during surgery
      382 15 Ayearlater,M’sian womantolditcan’tbe removed as it has moved too close to blood vessel A MALAYSIAN woman underwent spinal surgery only to find out later that her doctor had left a surgical metal nut behind. Now, interior designer Tan Khai Yien is considering legal
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      Lock icon 'Forbidden couple' in stand-off as woman' s kin surround house
      406 15 A HOUSE in Kelantan was the scene of a tense stand-off between two groups of 20 men who had surrounded it. Two police patrol cars were also despatched to the house in Telipot, near Kota Baru, Kelantan. Dr Rosli Allani
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      234 16/17 TheH1N1flubug,afinancialmeltdown, protests, an earthquake in Indonesia, riotsinIranandgeneralmayhemin many parts of the world were the red flags in the Year of the Ox. RHYTHM OF REVIVAL: (Left) People’s Liberation Army soldiers perform during a rehearsal of a musical drama entitled The Road of Revival at a gymnasium
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      Lock icon No 1 on the charts, but still living on $450 a week
      559 18 Burglars tried to break into singerSusanBoyle’shomebut... SUSAN Boyle’s album may be among the year’s top 10 biggest-selling albums, but her brother said she has “not seen a penny” of her earnings so far. Instead, Mr Gerry Boyle, 55,
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      Lock icon Son 'kidnaps' himself to get ransom from dad for Macau trip
      407 18 Son kidnaps' himself to get ransom from dad for Macau trip A 22-YEAR-OLD Indian with a taste for the high-life unsuccessfully staged his own kidnapping at the weekend, demanding US$40,000 ($56,000) from his father to fund a trip to Macau, reported AFP. His bungled attempt landed him in jail rather
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      Lock icon Man U goalkeeper's wife seriously ill
      433 19 Edwin van der Sar on compassionate leave to keep vigil MANCHESTERUnitedgoalkeeperEd-win van der Sar is keeping a vigil by his wife’s hospital bed after she sufferedasuspectedstroke. MsAnnemarievanKesterenisseriouslyill after she collapsed at home in Holland last Wednesday,reportedtheSun. She is said to be doing “very poorly”,
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      11 14 DILBERTSCOTTADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low25˚ Bangkok:PartlyCloudy High32˚,Low24˚ Manila:PartlyCloudy High30˚,Low25˚
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      36 20 FROM READER MOHD SAHREN A LOT WRONG WITH THIS: Our reader spotted this vehicle parked in a parking lot for motorcycles at Shaw Towers. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      Lock icon Appreciate Sezairi for his talent
      252 20 SINGAPORE IDOL 3: THE AFTERMATH FROM READER SITI MARIAM BINTE MOHD SALLEH IAM writing in response to the article “Did last song cost her?” (The New Paper, 28 Dec). The crowning of the third Singapore Idol seems to have caused a stir among Singaporeans. As
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      44 20 On public facilities being replaced soon after construction: “Thisseemsprettycommon inmany parts of Singapore. Ministries do not communicate with each other regarding public works within HDB estates. This results in a huge waste oftaxpayers’money.I seriously beseech... ministries to share informationand cooperate.” turdeye
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      59 20 E-mail tnptalk@sph.com.sg or write to The New Paper, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 Forverification,we needthe writer’sfull name andcontact number (preferably a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By your submission, it is deemed that you have granted us the right to
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      Lock icon Sylvia deserved to win
      144 20 FROM READER JASON CHAN XUAN ZHEN SEZAIRI Sezali was crowned the Singapore Idol 2009 on Sunday. Instead, I feel that Sylvia Ratonel should have won. It seems people want to keep up the trend of men taking home the title. So what if Sylvia is female?
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      17 20 Are you excited about the opening of the IRs, and why? “Yes,becauseit’sdirectly relatedtowhatI’m studyingcurrently.” ShinyaNeo, 26,singer
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      Lock icon Gone TOO SOON
      1033 21 If nothing else, 2009 will be remembered as the year in which Michael Jackson’sdeathbrought the Internet to a standstill.And he wasn’t the only celebrity who died without any warning. The New Paperpays tributeto the stars we loved BRITTANY MURPHY 1977-2009 It was the much anticipated film debut
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      Lock icon Godfrey gets in touch with his Asian roots
      541 24  -  Raised in Canada, Taiwan hunk more used to Western culture REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg HE MAY be Taiwan-born but dig deeper and you’ll realise that there’s nothing really Asian about actor Godfrey Gao. The 25-year-old celebrity, whose mother is Malaysian and father
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      Lock icon Can this damsel save the movie?
      300 24 FIRST SNEAK SAVE me, pleeease. That’show LinChiling’scharacter, LanTing, seemsto cry out throughout adventure flick The Treasure Hunter. And looking at the pretty face of this 35-year-old model-actress and the way she clings on to Jay Chou, who plays a butt-kicking archaeologist, which male audiencememberwouldn’twant
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      550 25  -  Former987FMDJ ChewSoo Wei to host Channel5’sNewYear’sEvecountdownshow REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg SHE may have been taken off the airwaves, butshe’sback on yourTV screens. Former 987FM DJ Chew Soo Wei will be keeping millions of Singaporeans company this New Year’s Eve as the host of
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        526 26  -  IVAN LIM PARTY ANIMAL pjlim@sph.com.sg NOWthattheyeariscomingtoanend,I’dliketoshareacoupleofthingsI’velearnt. 1.Donottoleratebadservice I’m usually nice to all the staff in any nightspot from the top management to the cleaners. So there’s absolutelynoreasonforthemnottobenicetome. Even if you are just having one drink for the entire stayatajoint,beingappropriatelyservedisyourinalien- able right. If you find the
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      37 27 Inthis newdrama, a group ofcollege buddies– one’s living ina hotelroom afterseparating fromhis wife, another usesan old dealership model ashis new carand the lastsetsout to findthe rude driverwho almostran himdown– keep theirfriendship going longafter they’ve graduated.StarringRayRomano, Scott Bakula.
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        1981 40/41  -  LARRY FOLEY LOOKS BACK ON THEJUST-ENDED 2009 SINGAPORE RACING SEASON LARRY FOLEY NOTHING’Scertain in racing. It’s an old adage but those in the game know that nothing is a given and each new season brings new challengers and everyone starts from scratch. Last year, five-time Kranji champion Laurie
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        444 42 TIPS AND COMMENTS BY GERMAINE MAHARAJ RACE 1 (1,200m) 14 RESPECTABLE LADY has run well in both starts and looks the one to beat. 9 KEYRA made a promising debut after a slow start and was striding short. She will improve. 2 RAMLA, who ran her
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        631 42 NST TOPWEIGHT Speedy Tiger, a four-time winner, geared up for another success in the Class 3 event over 1,200m on Saturday with an impressive workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the five-year-old Australianbred gelding by King’s Best trotted one
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        440 42 6:55Race1 MaidenPlate(F&M) 1200M 1 GOLDENGLAMOUR GBehr (16) 58 2 RAMLA GSchlechter (2) 58 3 ARCTICBLUE RKhathi (8) 58 4 CELEBRATESPRING FAnthony (7) 58 5 OLIVEROUTE JVyapooree(-4) (1) 58 6 AZMIKOFKATIE KTeetan (12) 58 7 GOVANI MLatorre (10) 58 8 IGOTTAFEELIN MWinnaar (13) 58 9
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        542 43 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK FORMER glamour sprinter Why Be looks set to greet the judge again, if his trackwork at Kranji yesterday morning is anything to go by. Taken out by jockey Francis Berry, the Laurie Laxon-trained 21-time winner easily disposed of stablemate Intercept in their 600m
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        288 43 KRANJI STAKES A 1,600m: Escamonda? 35.3.Mr Line 35.6.Stealth? ?canter/38.1. CLASS 2 1,400m: Banks’ Gift? (KK Ng) 36.4. Holtmail? 35.3. Smoking Joe ?(Chavez)35.5.SuperbGeneral 35.3. Monday: Smoking Joe? (Placais) canter/44.6. CLASS 3– 1,100m: Mr Profumo? 36.5. My Son? (Andy) 35.1. Nattier 36.1. Super Fighter (Soo) 42.1.
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        286 43 TRIAL 1 (test): 1 Sir Alex (M Airy) 2 Montego Bay (V Duric) 3 Gutsy Chief (M Ewe)4 Anish (D Beasley)5 Kelvin’s Luck (I Saifudin) 6 Kanegura (M Zaki) Marginsandtime: 23/4, ns,3/4, hd, 4 (1min 02.33sec) TRIAL 2 (test): 1 Fantastic Knight (KK Ng) 2 My Drumbeat
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        471 44  -  CHERYL TAY npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a freelancer. YOU CANNOT claim you know the pure joy of driving until you have driven a vintage car. I spent last weekend driving a true classic a 1968 Volkswagen Beetle, which I rented for a daily rate of
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        648 45  -  Disappointed athletics CEO asks SSC: ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg AFTER all the verbal exchanges via the media in the final days of the South-east Asia Games two weeks ago, Singapore Sports Council (SSC) called Singapore Athletic Association (SAA) up before Christmas. This,
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        356 46  -  PORTSMOUTH v ARSENAL Tomorrow, 3.45am, Ch 22 LIM SAY HENG npsports@sph.com.sg ARSENAL might struggle a bit if their injured captain Cesc Fabregas does not make it to Fratton Park, but Arsene Wenger’s men should have enough firepower and creativity to see off Portsmouth tomorrow morning.
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        249 46  -  LIM SAY HENG IT WOULD not be a perfect fit, but Abou Diaby would be a good replacement for the crocked Arsenal captain against Portsmouth. While not as creative and artistic as Fabregas, Diaby is technically sound and comfortable with taking on the
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        109 46  -  LIM SAY HENG ARSENAL’s banana skin would be their defenders’ dodgy tackling, especially in the box. They have conceded two penalties– againstHull and Burnley– this month, and would have given Liverpool another one if referee Howard Webb wasn’t feeling too forgiving of William Gallas’ tackle
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        239 47 PA Sport ARSENE Wenger has warned his Arsenal team not to expect any “easy points” in their battle for the Premier League crown. The Gunners head to bottom club Portsmouth tomorrow morning following a morale-boosting 3-0 victory over fourth-placed Aston Villa, which moved them to
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        334 48/49  -  MAN UNITED v WIGAN Tomorrow, 4am, Ch 27 DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg A MANCHESTER United win has to be as good as a foregone conclusion. Why? Consider these facts and factors: Antonio Valencia The former Wigan wideman only scored six goals in three seasons at the
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        177 48/49  -  DAVID LEE I BELIEVE it's going to come from the man we can call Hugo Boss. Hugo Rodallega (right), the Colombian striker may have been unheard of when former Wigan manager Steve Bruce plucked him from the obscurity of the Mexican league. But boy,
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        172 48/49  -  DAVID LEE UNITED fans would like to think so, but there is just something amiss. Patrice Evra, Nemanja Vidic (left), Wes Brown and Rafael da Silva protecting Tomasz Kuszczak just doesn't seem like the real deal, especially the last three names. But first-choice goalkeeper
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        350 48/49 PA Sport WIGAN manager Roberto Martinez insists he and Manchester United counterpart Sir Alex Ferguson have been able to “laugh off” the media storm which they were caught up in recently. In late October, a Spanish newspaper attributed comments to the Latics boss which claimed
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        193 48/49 PA Sport IT IS no secret that he is eyeing the manager’s job at Manchester United. After all, he is telling everybody who is willing to listenthathewants tobe SirAlex Ferguson’ssuccessor. Now, Mourinho has reiterated his desire to work in the Premier League again. The former Chelsea
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        435 51 AFP CHELSEA manager Carlo Ancelotti is adamant his team will cope with the loss of Didier Drogba while the striker competes in the African Nations Cup. The Ivory Coast international was given special permission to delay his flight to Angola, along with compatriot and Chelsea
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        376 51 JOSE Mourinho was back at the Bridge but it was a former Inter-Milan manager, not the present one, who gave Chelsea greater cause for concern in this victory over Fulham. In the end, it was only the cruellest of own goals by a 20-year-old who was making
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        471 52/53  -  CHELSEA2 (Drogba 73, Smalling 75-og) FULHAM 1 (Gera 4) DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg WHATcanonedotosalvagea jigsaw that is missing a fewcrucialpieces? This is the challenge Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is faced withasfourmembersofhissquad– Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou, John Obi Mikel and Michael Essien will be away next month
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        310 52/53 DIDIER DROGBA Will he be missed? Definitely a big miss. The Ivory Tower is on his best goals-per-game return percentage in Chelsea colours, netting 19 goals in 24 games in all competitions this season. Chelsea will also miss his battering ram presence, and opponents could receive
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        254 52/53  -  DAVID LEE NOW, THAT could turn to be titillating for some and just plain traumatic for others, wouldn't it? Anyway, according to British daily The Independent, Carlo Ancelotti has made a bizarre bet with journalists that he will run naked around Chelsea's training ground at
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        780 52/53  -  DAVID LEE BASED on their performance this month, I'm afraid it's erratic at best. That may be also why Carlo Ancelotti rang in the changes and surprisingly started with Yuri Zhirkov and Paulo Ferreira as his wingbacks against Fulham on Monday. It
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        340 50 Wire Services ADRIAN Mutu will have no other choice but to move in order to make enough money to pay off Chelsea in a compensation for breach of contract. The 30-year-old Fiorentina striker was sacked by Chelsea in 2004 after testing positive for cocaine. He
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        265 50 Reuters IT LOOKS like Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas would rather play for an English team than one from his homeland. He declares that he is happy at Arsenal and feels he still has much to achieve with his Premier League club. The 22-year-old, who scored
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        480 50 Wires Services LUCATONI BAYERN Munich’s Italian international Luca Toni said on Monday he is willing to consider a move only to AS Roma. The 2006 World Cup winner has been out of favor in Bayern under new coach Louis van Gaal in the season. “I’ll say it
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      288 54 Mancini eyeing 10 points separating City and Chelsea PA Sport FROM title pretenders to true title underdogs. That’showManchesterCitybossRobertoMancini sees his transformed side. And he believes winning the English Premier League is a realistic target now, after they completed a successful festive season with a 3-0 win at
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        443 55 LOCAL EVENTS FOOTBALL What: Singapore v Iran When: 6 Jan, 7.30pm Where: National Stadium SINGAPORE take on Iran in their penultimate Group E match in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification match. With two games remaining, Iran remain at the top of the table with seven points
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      112 47 Match: 0319 PORTSMOUTH v ARSENAL FACT:It’s a130km tripsouthto the seasidetownof Portsmouth.Wind-swept FrattonPark isn’thospitable inthe deadof winter. TEAMNEWS:Arsenalare still without Rosicky, Bendtnerand Clichy. Portsmouthwill parade afull, fitsquad. MATCHGUIDE: Two homewins intheir lastthree atFratton Park iscausefor someconcernin the Arsenal camp.But Wengerhassomething Grant wisheshe has talent. TIPSTERS Gunnersmustfire ODDS LAST3EPL RESULTS: Portsmouth(Home) L
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      122 48/49 Match: 0320 MANCHESTER UNITED v WIGAN Unitedtomarchon FACT:Ona clearday, Wiganfanscan seethe floodlighttowers ofOld Trafford whichisjust25km away.The last time Wiganwereat Merseyside, theyfell2-1to Pool. TEAMNEWS:Asidefrom theusual suspects,Unitedmustcope without Ferdinand,Brown and O’Shea. Wiganare fit and raringtogo. MATCHGUIDE: Back toOld Trafford,Unitedwill see thisasamust-win match.Wigan will defendlike crazy– butto ODDS noavail. LAST3EPL RESULTS: Man Utd(Home)
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