The New Paper, 11 February 2010

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      Lock icon Psst, I’ll do homework for you... for a fee
      983 2/3  -  Online teachers tout services to foreign private school students REPORTS:LIEW LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg IF YOU’RE a student struggling with your assignment, what do you do? Hire a tuition teacher? Attend remedial classes? Some students are taking the easy way out by
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      Lock icon Students caught with others’ work can be expelled
      342 2/3 WHEN contacted, spokesmen for various private institutions here said they are aware that some students have been paying others to do their work. They said they are tackling the problem. Mr Derrick Chang, vice-president of PSB Academy, said the institution has had
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  • Local News watch
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      Lock icon LO AND BEGOLD! An 18m God of Fortune lantern, the tallest in the River Hongbao Festival’s 24-year history,at the Marina Bay Floating Platform last Friday. During the nine-day festival which begins tomorrow, the lantern will shoot golden leaves from its right hand every 15 to 30 minutes. About 450kg of golden leaves, some of which will have digits printed on them, will be dispensed.
      68 4 LO AND BEGOLD! An 18m God of Fortune lantern, the tallest in the River Hongbao Festival’s 24-year history,at the Marina Bay Floating Platform last Friday. During the nine-day festival which begins tomorrow, the lantern will shoot golden leaves from its right hand every 15 to 30 minutes. About 450kg of
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      283 4 Health Ministry allows use of Medisave overseas SINGAPORE residents will be able to use their Medisave to help pay for their hospitalisation overseas under certain conditions from 1 Mar, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said yesterday. Currently, they can do so only for
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      Lock icon Temasek sets up global investment arm
      118 4 TEMASEK is setting up a wholly owned global investment company called Seatown Holdings that will be helmed by Mr Charles Ong, currentlyTemasek’schief strategist. The company is said to be invest- ing in assets like stocks and bonds, and the fund size is said to
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      87 4 FROM yesterday, a major bugbear of the islandwide Wireless@SG broadband network frequent droppedconnections–willnolonger bug users. Called the Seamless and Secure Access (SSA), it will automatically log in users when connections are dropped, so they need not enter their login information all over again. It will
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      Lock icon Relocation for 3 ERP gantries
      135 4 THREE Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) gantries on the Central Expressway (CTE) are being relocated to facilitate widening works of the expressway. There will also be no change in the ERP charges. The gantry located on the CTE (northbound) between the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) and Braddell
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    • News Rojak Food Poisoning Case
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        Lock icon Fall & fears of the G eylang Roj ak King
        609 5  - Fall fears of the G eylang Roj ak King REPORT:NURUL REPORT:NURUL ASYIKINMOHD NASIR and AMANDA YONG tnp@sph.com.sg THE rojak king used to smile and chat with his customers as he served them his famous rojak. His 15-year-old business was thriving. But now all the bustle at the Rojak Geylang Serai
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        Lock icon Coroner rules death as misadventure
        267 5 STATE Coroner Victor Yeo ruled the deaths as misadventure. He said the testimonies of Geylang Rojak Serai stall owner Sheik Allaudin Mohideen, 70, and the other four men who worked at the stall,were“substantially consistent”. Butheadded:“I formed the impression that the accounts given by these witnesses
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      Lock icon ‘What grand fair? What VIP?’
      850 6  -  We were promised large crowds and DPM as guest of honour, say stallholders REPORT:LEDIATI LEDIATI TAN tnp@sph.com.sg –EmilyWong,newsroomintern –EmilyWong,newsroomintern THEY were allegedly told that Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng would be gracing the fair’s opening ceremony. It was one of the reasons the stallholders
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      Lock icon Player leaves club to sort out marriage problems
      311 8  -  REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg MAX, the foreign football player who allegedly cheated on and assaulted his wife, is no longer playing for his club. He played his last game for the club on Friday, and has been replaced by another player. A
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      591 9  -  Helicopterelicotermakesanemergency landinganininWoodlands..Witnesssays: REPORT:ANDRE ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg JUSToveranhourintotheflight,thedreadedindica-tor light on the helicopter’s dash board signalling a malfunctionlitup. It meant there might be something wrong with the pilot’s tail gear box controlling the rear rotor blade of hishelicopter. Thismeansthatifyouarealreadyintheair,youhad bestmakeaquicklanding. That’s what the pilot did in
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    • News Countdown to Chinese New Year
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        523 10 / 11  - Weak US$ cheaper abalone Aretha Loh –ArethaLoh,newsroomintern PRICES of abalone a popular Chinese New Year delicacy have dropped this year. Mr Tng Ah Yiam, director of Integrated Purchasing at NTUC FairPrice, told The New Paper that the prices of canned abalone are about 15 per cent lower this year compared
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        366 10 / 11 Confusedby the differenttypesof Mandarinoranges onsale? TheNew Paper newsroomintern WooSian Boon helpsyou pickout thedifferent varieties Japanese Mikan $12.90 for a bag of 8 Half the size of the usual mandarin oranges, these come from the Wakayama prefecture in Japan. They are juicy, sweet and seedless. Honey Ponkan $9.88
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        430 10 / 11  -  NUS cafe stallholder dons creative headgear to match festive season Vinna Yip –VinnaYip,newsroomintern IT would be hard to miss Mr Seton Lin if you visit the canteen at the Faculty of Engineering of the National University of Singapore (NUS). After all, you don’t often see someone wearing
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      Lock icon S’pore casino READY TO ROLL TOMORROW?
      365 12 / 13  -  Danson Cheong –DansonCheong,newsroomintern THE bet seems to be that Singapore’s casino will be opened tomorrow, though there has been no official word. Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) received its casino licence last Saturday. Yesterday morning, Lianhe Wanbao reported that Genting Group CEO Tan Sri Lim
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      Lock icon Honda recalls 440,000 cars worldwide
      225 14 JAPAN’SAUTOSECTOR WOES JAPAN’S second biggest automaker Honda yesterday recalled 437,763 vehicles worldwide to fix airbags that are liable to explode and spray out potentially deadly metal shards. The move comes on top of a recall that was first announced in Nov 2008 involving about 4,000
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      103 14 CHINA has set up a national food safety commission headed by powerful vice-premier Li Keqiang. He has ordered inspectors to trace and destroy all milk products tainted with melamine, an industri- al compound that killed at least six children in 2008, thePeople’s Dailysaidyesterday.
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      114 14 MALAYSIA said yesterday it will replace its envoy to the UN nuclear watchdog, following his recall after voting against a resolution censuring Iran. Mr Mohammad Arshad Man- zoor Hussain, chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board, was recalled in December
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      96 14 SRI LANKAN presidential challenger and former army chief Sarath Fonseka, who was arrested on Monday, will be charged in both military and civilian courts. Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapakse told the Straits Times yesterday that the retired general will be charged for offences ranging
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      490 15 RISK CONSULTANCY PERC SAYS... SIGNS of increasing instability in the country is the reason Political and Economic Risk Consultancy (Perc) has markedupMalaysia’srisklevel. The score of 5.4 for the month of January was higher than its December rating of 5.24 due to some events which the
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      Lock icon Love supermarket draws singles
      451 16 CHINA: FOR Chinese singles looking for love this Valentine’s Day, a Beijing supermarket may have the answer. The “I’m Looking For You” market opened in November 2009, for the China's unofficial “Singles Day” which is marked on the 11th of that month. Since then, the supermarket
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      Lock icon Swiss skier snowed-in for 17 HOURS
      426 17 ‘Miracle’avalanche survivor says he took‘childish’risk THE “miracle” survivor of an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, who was buried in a concrete-like “sarcophagus” of snow for 17 hours, admitted that he should not have ventured off the beaten track. SaidMrCedricGenoud:“Aftertheevent,IrealisedI tookachildishandill-consideredrisk.” The 21 -year-old was
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      Lock icon Teen buried alive for making friends with boys
      312 17 A FATHER and a grandfather of a teenager in Turkey have been arrested for killing her because she befriended boys. According to an AFP report, prosecutors are seeking life-in-jail for the father and grandfather of a girl who was found buried alive,
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      Lock icon Mourinho a kidnap target by Italian mafia?
      312 18 MEN with links to the Italian mafia have targeted former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. Italian and Portuguese news reports claimed the mobsters wanted to kidnap him. But police have denied the kidnap plan, reported the Telegraph. They believe the gang had been spying
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      Lock icon Up, up & away
      406 18 Up, up away Nasahas unveiledthe latestconcept inair travel.Aquiet single-seater VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) electric aircraft that can hover like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. The space agency’sPuffin could changetheway we liveand getaround THE term “walking on air” will have a whole new meaning in the future if
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      317 15 OAREER TRAINING 2010 EDUCATION 2010 Navigating Y rFuture Visit CAREER TRAINING 2010: EDUCATION 2010! The largest and most established career and education exhibition in Singapore and the Region. 4 -7 March 2010 Level 6 Suntec Singapore 11am to 8pm Daily ERREER Eni ir dtihn uuirl i iui i SKILLS UPGRRDImG
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      31 19 FROM READER RINATAN DRIVING MISS DOLLY: This unusual passenger was spotted in a car on the Ayer Rajah Expressway. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      292 19 READER CHEWYUE MEI STROLLERS IN BUSES ON 4 FEB, my 60-year-old mother boarded a bus while pushing a baby stroller with her grandson sleeping in it. It was a wheelchair-accessible bus (SBS Transit number 51). The incident happened in Chinatown at about 2.40pm.
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      64 19 Comments on Aware bowing out of sex education in schools “Howmany oftheconcernedparents who had sent the Education Ministry the petition have taken it upon themselves to educate their children about sexuality, now that they have succeeded in getting Aware to drop their versionofthecourse?” grognard “Awareshould concentrateondoing more
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      209 19 READER JASON LEETHIAM CHUAN I WAS involved in an accident at the junction of Upper East Coast Road along Bedok South Avenue 1 towards the ECP at around 11.20am on 6 Feb. The car in front of me had stopped
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      28 19 What do you think about the recommendations by the Economic Strategies Committee? “Therecommendations area good idea because they will help raise our productivity standards.” Yvonne Tay,25, radiographer
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      59 19 YOUR VIEWS 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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      253 20 MaryQueenOf CharityShops(above) BBCLifestyle(StarHub Ch83), 10.05pm Inthis newvariety series, theUnited Kingdom’s favouriteretail guruMary Portas is back andthis time she’stransforming Britain’scharity shopsand the way they’reperceivedbythe public. WATCH’EM PICTURE:BBC LIFESTYLE TheEquationOf LoveAndDeath CelestialMovies(StarHubCh61),9pm Whenamysteriousdeathoccursandadrug traffickingcrimeisunveiled,thelivesoffive strangersaresuddenlyintertwinedas investigationsrevealtwistsandturns. StarringZhouXun,DengChao. ThreeCanPlayThatGame HBO(StarHubCh60),5.30pm Arelationshipexpertusesherknowledgeof themalepsychetohelpwomengetwhat theywant.StarringVivicaAFox,Jason WinstonGeorge. CHANNEL5 Noon TheRachael RayShow 1.00pm ThePriceIs Right 2.00 WhackedOutSports/
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      116 21 WIN MOVIE PREMIUMS FROM PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF, TRUE LEGEND, VALENTINE’S DAY AND MORE After 12 years, Yuen Woo Ping returns to the director’s chair and his third ‘Drunken Master’ film with TRUE LEGEND. We look at the fight maestro and his two stars Andy On and Vincent
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  • WE KNOW MOVIES FIRST
    • FIRST FEATURE
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        Lock icon LITTLE BIG MAN ABOUT TOWN
        522 22  -  You know him as the prolific singer-songwriter who has conquered Mandopop with his soulful, soaring vocals and KTV favourites such as Impossible To Miss You and The One And Only. Tan Kee Yun The handsome hottie is a four-time winner oftheBest Male Singer awardat Taiwan’s
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        Lock icon DRUNKEN DISORDERLY
        884 24/25  -  InYuenWoo Ping’slatest wuxia flick True Legend, which opens here today, Taiwanese superstar Jay Chou is the most recognisable name on the cast list. But the real stars are true-blue martial artists Vincent Zhao and Andy On. CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg He was once touted as Jet Li’ssuccessor,but VincentZhao’s pastworks
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        Lock icon MASTER RETURNS
        278 24/25  -  After 12 years of choreographing action films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Matrix sequels and Kill Bill, Yuen Woo Ping is backwherehebelongs– in thedirector’s chair. Charlene Chua The 65-year-old is a cinematic legend, having seamlessly infused action with comedy in movie-making. He has his rightful place in
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        Lock icon MARTIAL MOVES
        433 26  -  KELVIN CHAN True Legend marks the return of martial arts choreographer Yuen WooPing tothe director’s chair. The movie tells the origin of the legendary Drunken Fist fighting style. KELVIN CHAN illustrates the fivemostpopular gongfumoves infilm. Crane Kick Stance THE KARATE KID (1984) INTHEMOVIE Inthe finalscene wherehe faces off
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        701 28/29  -  JOANNE SOH Garry Marshall may not beat actor Kevin Bacon in his trademark“six degrees of separation”game,butthe filmmaker is practically connected to everyone in Hollywood– oratleast his latestmovie, Valentine’sDay, says so. It so happens the stars of this huge ensemble flick of intertwining love stories are also connected to
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    • FIRST READERS
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        Lock icon This week’s winners
        40 23 The touching film about two Irish kids found a fan in FiRST reader Shwe Yee, who gives it a full five-finger rating. NancyHidajatgives MelGibson’sEdge OfDarknessa three. Jimmy Lin awards the wuxia epic, 14 Blades, a three too.
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    • FIRST BITES
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        Lock icon BOUNTY HUNTER? ME TOO
        70 27 Is Katherine Heigl following her The Ugly Truth co-star Gerard Butler’sfootsteps? The 31-year-oldactress is looking to play Stephanie Plum, a jobless ex-lingerie buyer who becomes a bounty hunter to make ends meet. Butler plays one in his new flick, imaginatively titled, er, The Bounty Hunter. Heigl
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        Lock icon VALENTINE'S DAY SEQUEL ON THE WAY
        66 27 Valentine’sDay isstartingits runin theatres here today and already a sequel is in the works.The film’s writer, MsKatherine Fugate, has been commissioned to start on a new script. This time, it will be a series of love storiesset onNew Year’sEve. There’sno wordifthe A-list starsof Valentine’sDay
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        Lock icon DARK STEEL?
        103 27 The hot rumour from the Internet is that Warner Bros has asked Christopher Nolan to overseethe Supermanreboot. That’s overseeing as in mentoring, not directing. Yet. Nolan rebooted Batman into a money-making, Oscar-winning machine. His new film, Inception, has amazing effects. Frankly,it’s amazing ittookWarnersthis long to ask Nolan. Or
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        Lock icon CUTE THING
        69 27 Mary Elizabeth Winstead, previously seen in Death Proof, has signed on to a remake of The Thing. The 1982 version was itself a remake of The Thing From Another World, where an arcticresearch team uncovers an alienunder the ice. Then the team members start to get picked off
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    • FIRST INTERVIEW
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        Lock icon PLAYING TO THE GODS
        764 30 Harry Potter has a successor. Yes, another new kid has risen up the ranks for a piece of the Harry Potter pie. We have seen many would-be next-in-line teen boys remember Ed Speleers from Eragon and Alexander Ludwig from The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising? Of
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        Lock icon 10 TAKES TO KISS
        508 34  -  He can compose songs effortlessly and charm audiences as a witty host. Maureen Koh But ask fast-rising Hong Kong star Wong Cho Lam to pucker up for an on-screen kiss with a pretty co-star and he gets all stiff and nervous. In a phone interview from
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    • FIRST OSCAR
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        505 31 It happens almost every year. The movie thatshouldwin doesn’t. The actorthat shouldwin doesn’t. The actressthat shouldwindoesn’t. Instead, some lame movie or actor or actress does. We all have our personal disappointments and peeves, but there are a few universally-acknowledged snubs that have been universally regarded as just nutso.
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    • MOVIE DATE
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        Lock icon ENJOYABLE, ACTUALLY
        442 32  -  A Mars vs Venus look JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com.sg It’s probablyabit unfair tocompare Valentine’sDay toLove Actually. Yes,they’reboth love stories. Yes, they both feature large ensembles. Yes,they’reboth set duringthe holidays (Valentine’sDay and Christmasrespectively). Yes, they both share a similar structure, with loosely interconnected vignettes giving us brief-but-revealing
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    • REVIEWS
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        Lock icon STILL HOT
        60 32 Ifyou’re hot andyouknow it, clap your hands. Heck, why not? THE TOURNAMENT Kelly Hu plays an assassin who enters into a battle royale against fellow killers in this tough-yet-sensitive actioner. What’snot tolove? KISSES Touchingyet uncompromising, thisstoryabouttwosuburban Irishkids whorunaway to spend anightin Dublinisa must-seefor indie fans. 14 BLADES DirectorDaniel
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        Lock icon TRUE LEGEND
        99 32  -  Charlene Chua For a movie that is meant to celebrate Yuen Woo Ping’sreturnto directing,it’s asolid effort enough. However, why he chose to cast Jay Chou remains a mystery. The pop star looks out of his element portraying a wushu master.Perhaps it’s thecomiclong white hair that he sports initially.
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        Lock icon PERCY JACKSON AND THE LIGHTNING THIEF
        62 32  -  JJ You’reprobably thinkingthat PercyJackson AndThe Lightning Thieflooksa lotlike the HarryPotter movies.Well, you’reright. NewcomerLoganLerman starsas Percy,ahigh-school loserwho findsout he’sthe sonofthe Greekgod, Poseidon. He’staken toCamp Half-Bloodand trainedin theways ofthe demi-godsby centaurChiron (Pierce Brosnan).Percy findsout hismum hasbeen kidnappedby Hades(SteveCoogan) and tries to saveher. Whilethe Harry Potterfilms havetended
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        Lock icon LITTLE BIG SOLDIER
        65 32  -  Tan Kee Yun SomeonehastotellJackie Chan tostop tryingsohard.In hislast film, theheavy ShinjukuIncident, theveteran gongfustar decidedto turnseriousfor achange. Now,back in hisusualcomedic terrain inLittle BigSoldier, heseems bent on pushingthe funnybuttons atevery possible juncture.Done well, it’s amusing. Butthe jokesfallflat mostofthe time and Jackieas thebumbling foolbecomes irritating. Setagainstthe warring-statesperiod of ancientChina,Jackie and
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    • FLICK CHAP
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        424 33  -  Small talk about big flicks JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg Remember how The Wizard Of Oz started out black and white, but then when Dorothy went to Oz it exploded in a splendiferous Technicolour rainbow? Cool,wasn’tit? The micro-budget Irish film Kisses does something similar, if not to quite
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    • FIRST FASHION
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        Lock icon CAN YOU SPOT ‘AUNTY’ PENELOPE?
        327 35  -  Considering the fashion icons involved, the Nine promo tour has been tragically far from a perfect ten. Jeanmarie Tan We’vedissected Nicole Kidman,Kate Hudson and Marion Cotillard over the past twoweeks,saving the overallbest– and that’sasmall‘b’, mindyou– for last. Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, 36, has beenthe onewho’sleftthe
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    • FIRST BUYS
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        Lock icon CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Sticky enough to keep kids glued
        288 36  -  Jason Johnson MOVIE: EXTRAS: If your goal is to find a movie that will keep your children hypnotised in front of the television for an hour and a half, look no further. Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
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        151 36  -  Kane Cunico MOVIE: EXTRAS: 9 tells the story of a small humanoid ragdoll who wakes up alone in a dark, post-apocalyptic world.Createdso“life mustgoon”,9(ElijahWood)discovers along the way that there are others like him in a world where machines have destroyed all life on Earth. 9 is visually and aurally wonderful,
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        430 46 KRANJINEWBIES STREET SMART will have some admirers when he lines up in Race 4 tomorrow. The four-year-old Australian gelding is one of two raced newcomers making their Kranji debut tomorrow. Smashing Pins is the other Kranji first-timer and is also engaged in the same race a Class
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        112 46 WILLIAMLOW’SKRANJITRACKWORK ARCTIC SUNRISE, a winner two starts back, showed up in a workout at Kranji yesterday. The son of Iglesia scored in Penang in August last year before being sent here to continue his racing. He is engaged in Race 8, a $65,000 Graduation event
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        663 46  -  COMMENTSBY TAN THEAN LOON TRIAL1(test): 1Swift Racer (R Stewart) 2 Conquest(S Sam) 3 Barbarino (JL Li) 4 Excelebrate (D Beasley) 5 Zero Limit (M Kellady) 6 Lim’s Return (KB Soo 7 African Action (KK Ng) 8CrowningGlory (I Andy). Margins
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        362 47 GOING: GOOD RACE1 CLASS5 1200m 7 WINNINGAHEAD119(16-6) ZPurton (12) 1 5 MOUNTSURPLUS124(103-27) HWLai (2) 2 8 MUTUALGAIN118(51-14) BDoyle (4) 3 10 HAPPYSUNDAY114(19-6) JLloyd (5) 4 ?Trainer:ATMillard.Margins:0.75,0.5.Time:1min10.39sec.Forecast:$84.Place Forecast: $25 (Nos. 5-7), $47 (Nos. 5-8), $12 (Nos. 7-8). Tierce: $1048. Trio: $234. Quartet:$5746. RACE2 CLASS4 1200m 3 MASTERRIO132(26-10) GMosse
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        504 47 GOING: GOOD Race1 MaidenPlate 1200m 15 WOZAWOZA58(8-7) RDanielson (13) 1 2 HIGHCLASS58(35-8) LAfrica (8) 2 4 BOMAKING58(176-40) MYeni (7) 3 13 TOPCHOICE58(128-21) RCurling (6) 4 ?Trainer:HBrown.Margins:2,1,3.25.Time:1min10.40sec.Forecast:$13.Place Forecast: $103 (Nos. 2-4), $6 (Nos. 2-15), $30 (Nos. 4-15). Tierce: $162. Trio: $104. Quartet: No winner ($7590 jackpot carried forward to
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        672 48 TUESDAY’S SINGAPORE(SHORT COURSE LONG COURSE A)RACE CARD RACE1-1400m(LC) C5D2 1.15 1 PriorViscount ISaifudin (4) 57 2 StairwayToHeaven VDuric (12) 57 3 Karapiro AFiezan (11) 56.5 4 Riddler KBSoo (1) 56.5 5 KashaniStar RStewart (13) 56 6 PinkCheetah SRuzaini* (2) 56 7 SwiftStrike JLLi* (9) 56 8 Redpacketday DBeasley (6) 55.5
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      545 49 ENGLISHCHAMPIONSHIP WEST Bromwich leapfrogged over Newcastle to move top of the Coca-Cola Championship after a 2-0 win over Scunthorpe while the Magpies suffered a 3-0 defeat at Derby yesterday morning. The Baggies went ahead in the 13th minute through Roman Bednar when he converted
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      208 49 GOLF SINGAPORE and Malaysia shared the first-day honours in the annual two-day golf match against Singapore at Raffles Country Club’s Palm course yesterday. The Malaysian Golf Association raced to a 4-2 lead after the morning’s fourballssession, buoyed byboth victories in the women’s event– anewfeature in the competition.
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        780 50  -  DILENJIT SINGH npsports@sph.com.sg RONALDINHO’S toothy smile might be finding form in the San Siro and Milan’s nightlife scene (which is his hotel room apparently), but it hasn’t seemed to have found favour with Dunga. The Brazil coach couldn’t find a place for the on-form
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        452 53 FULHAM 3 (Murphy 23, Elm 31, Zamora 54) BURNLEY0 Wire Services IT HAD taken some weeks but Fulham have at last rediscovered their swagger. The side has been in stuttering form ever since it thrashed Manchester United 3-0 just before Christmas and with injuries mounting,
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        227 56/57  -  IAINMACINTOSH UNLUCKY JUSSIJaaskelainen camesoclose tostopping Carlos Tevez’sfirsthalf penalty. Heshowed almost theentire goaltothe Argentine, thenbegan scamperingup and downhis linein an efforttoput himoff. Itworked. Tevezwas reduced tojust smashingthe balldown themiddle. Jaaskelainen reactedand put himselfin thepath ofthe ball,but itjust clatteredinto hismidriff and deflectedin the side-netting. Sonear, and yet sofar. LION HEART
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        190 58 PA Sport AVRAM Grant accused referees of treating his team unfairly and too easily influenced. “Referees are honest but they go with the atmosphere and they also read the papers, so it is easy to do it,” said Grant. “I cannot fight against the whole world. For
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        87 58 PA Sport PORTSMOUTH was given a stay of execution today as bosses were granted extra time to fight a winding-up petition. The club faced High Court proceedings over a £7.5 million 16.6m) unpaid tax bill after talks with Revenue and Customs failed. It now has one
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        607 51 AndyPenders, host ofESPN’sTiger World of Football, takes you around the world for a round-up of the best football action over the weekend MANCHESTER City’s on-loan star Robinho made a scoring start on his debut for Santos in what was an emotional return to his homeland. And what a
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        113 59 LIVE TELECASTS COPA LIBERTADORES Today: SAO PAULO (BRA) v MONTERREY (MEX) StarHub TV Ch 27,7.45am CHAMPIONSHIP Saturday: SWANSEA v NEWCASTLE StarHub TV Ch 116, 8.40pm ANDYCarroll’s(right)goalwasdisallowedin yesterday’ssupriselosstoDerby.CanheregainhisscoringformforSaturday’smatchagainstSwansea? SCOTTISHLEAGUE Saturday: ABERDEEN v CELTIC StarHubTVCh115, 8.25pm Sunday: RANGERS vHIBERNIAN StarHubTVCh115, 9.25pm FA CUP Saturday: CHELSEA v CARDIFF CITY StarHub TV Ch
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        40 59 OPEN GDF SUEZ Tonight tomorrow: ROUND OF 16 StarHub TV Ch 113,9pm 2.20am Tomorrow: QUARTER-FINALS StarHub TV Ch 113,8pm ABN AMRO WORLD TENNIS TOURNAMENT Today tomorrow: 2ND ROUND StarHub TV Ch 22,6pm 2.30am Tomorrow: QUARTER-FINALS StarHub TV Ch 22,7.30pm
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        654 59 WHAT'S ON BLURBS FIXTURES RESUXTS LOCAL EVENTS HOCKEY What:SHFU21 Championships 2010 When: Weekends till 13 Mar Where: Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre JANSENITES are the first boys side to booktheir placeinthe boys’ semi-finals after beating Singapore Khalsa Association9-1.In thegirls’ competition, Singapore Recreation Club beat Hawks Hockey Club 15-0 to register
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