The New Paper, 10 February 2011, Afternoon Edition

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    • 43 1 I POSED AS MONK TO WORK IN S’PORE Chinese national uses fake certs to get job in Geylang Buddhist centre PAGE 2 INTERNATIONALFRIENDLY:DENMARK1(DanielAgger8)ENGLAND2(DarrenBent10,AshleyYoung68) FRANCE1BRAZIL0 Benzemanetswinner PAGE68 VILLANS AstonVillapair AshleyYoung (farleft)and DarrenBent(left) sparkEngland comeback PAGES70-72 PICTURE:GETTYIMAGES GERMANY1ITALY1 Rossigrabsequaliser PAGE66 SPAIN1COLOMBIA0 Silva’sgoaldecides PAGE67 PORTUGAL1ARGENTINA2:Messisetsupgoal,scoreswinner PAGE69
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  • News
    • 655 2/3  -  Man uses bogus documents toworkinS’pore.Hesays... REPORT:BENSON BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg FORninemonths,thisChinesenationalworkedasamonkataBuddhistcentreinSingapore.Exceptheisn’tamonk.Heisn’tevenBuddhist. MrLiuBing,38,usedfakedocumentsfromChinato provethathehadqualifiedasamonk. ThemanfromShandongprovinceclaimedhewent through an agent in China who provided him with the fakedocumentstogetworkhereasaworkerinreligion. He is among a growing number of foreign workers who have made false declarations to the Ministry of Manpower(MOM).(Seereportonfacingpage.) TheNewPaperunderstandsthatMOMisinvestigating Budi
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    • 579 2/3 IN THE first nine months of last year alone, 141 workers were convicted of submitting false documents to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). For the whole of2009, there were 137 such workers. The New Paper understands that MOM does not track the number
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    • 102 2/3 BUDI Centre, a member of the Singapore Buddhist Federation, operates out of a four-storey, freehold building at Geylang Lorong4. Checks on the Charity Portal show that it was registered as a charity in 2000. Its activities include chanting classes, religious dance lessons for members
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    • 481 4  -  Father oflorry driver killed in crash upset by talk that he was on the phone while driving REPORT:NOOR NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg HIS grief has been compounded by speculation online about the way his son died. Mr Kamsani Osman, 53, a customer service officer, is
      PICTURES: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS, NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN  -  481 words
    • 660 6  -  NTUC Income wins 25 cases involving motor insurance claims in 15 months REPORT: DESMOND NG desmondn@sph.com.sg YOU can call them fraud detectives. Their job? To sniff out motor insurance fraudsters. A team of officers at NTUC Income sieves through thousands of motor claims every
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  • Local News watch
    • 70 8 DANGER DRUGS: Some people have been openly selling illegal drugs which claim to improve the libido outside a shop in Geylang. A netizen told bilingual web portal omy.sg that the sellers, mostly men in their 20s or 30s with foreign accents, sold a variety of drugs. Shin Min Daily News
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    • 142 8 COE premiums fall further PREMIUMS for certificates of entitlement (COE) fell in all categories, except for motorcycles. In the first bidding exercise for this month, which ended yesterday, the biggest drop in premiums was for the open category, which decreased by $8,119 to $58,890. The
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    • 103 8 Benson Ang RESORTS World Sentosa (RWS) has put up a notice informing punters to their casino that their $500 cash chips will be “withdrawn from... casinooperations”. Punters have been asked to cash out their existing $500 chips before June 30
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    • 112 8 ABOUT 90 per cent of 1,000 working parents polled by the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) felt that paternity leave should be made compulsory. InthewakeofSingapore’sfertilirecord is for five ty rate being at a record low, Aware is calling for five policy changes
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    • 114 8 THE chief of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB), Mr Ng Seng Liang, 59, handed over the baton to the bureau’snewleader yesterday. From Feb 18, Mr Ng Boon Gay, director CNB (designate), 44, will lead the anti-narcotics agency. Mr Ng, who has had 35 years of service
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    • News
      • 866 10  -  Restaurant charges $7 per person ifyou take birthday cake to eat there REPORTS: AMANDA PHUA aphua@sph.com.sg TAKING a birthday cake with you to an upmarket restaurant to cut it and eat it there? You may want to do your checks
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      • 511 11 secondaryschoolandledthemtoNafa THIRD-YEAR music performance major Eugene Toh holds a business degree. But he chose to follow his passion for music and enrolled in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa) shortly after graduating. “Mydecisiontostudymusicwasactuallymadevery early.. .when I was in the Chinese orchestra back in secondaryschool,”hesaid.
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      • 645 12  -  Even overseas fans fly in to support her REPORT:GERMAINE GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE could not have been a better place for Taylor Swift to kick off her Speak Now world tour. Adoring fans, who screamed and sang every lyric, were relentless in their support for the
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      • 518 13  -  Man, 52, gets smashed on head with beer bottle in dispute over jade rings REPORT:KWAN KWAN HUIXIAN, VIVIEN CHAN tnp@sph.com.sg THEYhadbeenfriendsforyears.But on Tuesday, the two men’s friendship turned ugly and bloody when one allegedly smashed a beer bottle on his friend’shead. Now,onepartyiswoundedwhiletheotherhasbeenarrested. The dispute happened at
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      • 465 14/15  -  Duo set up tuition centre, offer bursary to thosewhocan’taffordit REPORT: SHEREEN CHARLES scharles@sph.com.sg PRIVATE tuition does not come cheap these days. So to help students who might not be able to afford them, two Singapore Management University graduates set up a tuition centre last December.
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  • Global News watch
    • 56 16 CRASH LANDING: A light plane that crashed into a street in a suburb of Sydney, Australia, yesterday brought down power lines and cut off electricity to some 7,000 homes and businesses. The two people and a dog who were in the plane suffered minor injuries. It is not known yet
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    • 234 16 PM Abhisit tells investors: AFP. THAILANDwillholdagener-al election in the first half of this year if there is no fresh political violence, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (right) saidyesterday. “Mygovernment willnot complete its term at the end of 2011 but will organise elections in
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    • 103 16 Reuters TALKS between North and South Korea collapsed after two days, dashing any hopes of the rivals rebuilding relations that have been shattered over the past two years by attacks and failed nuclear talks. The South’s Defence Ministry said in astatement that
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    • 99 16 AFP THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned yesterday that Japan’s outstanding debt and fiscal deficit “are not sustainable” and that Tokyo must tackle the issues if it wants to avoid future trouble. The comments by IMF deputy managing director Naoyuki Shinohara came after
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    • 114 16 AFP THE London and Toronto stock exchanges yesterday announced a merger that would create the world’s largest exchange in terms of number of companies traded. It would also be one of the world’s biggest trading platforms that will dominate raw materials and energy.
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    • News
      • 361 17 Ethnic rift may stall reforms, says former US ambassador FORMERUSambassadortoMalaysiaJohnMalotthas written a scathing article on the country for theWallStreetJournalnewspaper. In the Feb 8 article, he said the One Malaysia concept is in danger. The concept, promoted by Prime Minister Najib Razak, emphasises racial harmony as oneofMalaysia’sstrengths.
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      • 768 18/19 Villagers on disputed Thai-Cambodian border live on the edge after fighting starts SCHOOLSareclosedindefinitely.Boothshave been setup for children to drawandplay. Toysarebeingdistributedtothesebooths.Somechildrenplay,some drawpicturesofwar. Villagers evacuated from Thailand’s Si Sa Ket province at the Thai-Cambodian border areinafix. They are desperate to get back to their homes, but don’t know
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      • 337 20 US teen confesses to gruesome murder HECUTuphismotherwithasaw and put her body parts inafamilyfreezer. After that, Moise Meraz-Espino-za, 18, walked to a nearby police stationinLosAngelestoconfessthe crime. When police searched the freezer, they found the grisly remains. Blood stains were found in the shower,leading
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      • 545 22 He’sreunited with father after 3 years THE seven-year-old boy said: “Thecryingmanismydad.” His father, Mr Peng Gaofeng, 32, had burst into tears at a police station in Pizhou, Jiangsu, when he finally saw his son who was abducted three years ago. This touching scene was
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  • Page 16 Miscellaneous
    • 13 16 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:PartlyCloudy High34˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Cloudy High31˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:Sunny High32˚,Low22˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low26˚
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    • 92 23 WE KNOW MOVIES 2011 10 FEB SANDLER SCORES How is it that JUST GO WITH IT star Adam Sandler’s leading ladies keep getting younger and hotter? p30 RITE OF PASSAGE Hollywood’s latest Irish import Colin O’Donoghue nabs his first lead role in THE RITE p31 Take a bow, Natalie Portman.
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  • WE KNOW MOVIES FIRST
    • FIRST FEATURE
      • 1029 24/25  -  Natalie Portman is about to change her game. Much like her ballerina character in Black Swan, where she takes on the dual role of naughty and nice, the actress is trading her intense and prim on-screen persona for some frisky fun JOANNE SOH joannes@sph .com
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      • 663 30  -  DorkyAdamSandleralwayspairshimselfupwithasmokin’ leadingladyinhismovies.ButinJustGoWithIt,he’sgottwo. It’sgoodtobethe‘Sandman’ By any stretch of the imagination, Adam Sandler is not a handsome man. JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg With his oddly-shaped head, horrible hair, odd nose, weak jaw, stooped shoulders and potbelly,the 44-year-oldisnot whatyou’d call a hunk. He’snot even almost ahunk. He’sa schlub. To look at
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      • Article, Illustration
        473 32 Thegeneralassumptionis that all Colin Firth needs to do to win the Best Actor Oscar is to turn up for the event. With a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award for BestActor alreadyfillinghis mantelpiece,The King’s Speech whichopenshere today– isracking up the big prizesand has the most Oscar nominations
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    • FIRST INTERVIEW
      • 594 26  -  He’sbest known forgiving us the 80s hit Ghostbusters. Joanne Soh Now, more than 25 years later, Ivan Reitman is making headlines as the man who matchmade Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in his latest film No Strings Attached. But the 64-year-old Canadian filmmaker callsit“comedy aboutromance”instead ofa romantic
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    • FIRST FILM FEST
      • 560 28  -  If you want to be a film-maker in Singapore, you have to pay the price. Sinema Old School offers invaluable resources for young film-makershere,butyou’vegottobewillingtomaketheclimb. JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg Which includes climbing the endless stairway that connects Handy Road to Mount Sophia, where Sinema Old School, perhaps the
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    • FIRST BITES
      • 90 29 BlakeLively’s alreadythemuse tomany fashion designerslikeChanel’s KarlLagerfeldand Lanvin’sAlber Elbaz,and isafavourite of Vogue’seditor-in-chief Anna Wintour. If rumours prove to be true, the blonde bombshell will have the chance to walk in the Manolos of Carrie Bradshaw in the Sex And The City prequel The Carrie Diaries. Basedon the adaptationof
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        70 29 JuliaRobertscankissher America’s Sweetheart title goodbye. She will be exchanging her mega-watt smile for something sinisterasshe’sbeen castasthe evil queen in The Brothers Grimm: Snow White. Butwedoubtshe’llbe entirely evil, as this retelling of the beloved fairy tale is said to be a modern adventure-comedy. Roberts is first on board, but
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    • FIRST FACE
      • 282 31  -  Joanne Soh WHO’S THAT GUY? Moveover, Colin Farrell.ColinO’Donoghue is the latest Irish import to Hollywood. WHERE YOU’VE SEEN HIM Fans of the period television series The Tudors will recognise this 30-year-old, who played Philip the Duke of Bavaria. WHY HIM Charming smile and bewitching eyes aside, he has
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    • MOVIE DATE
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        476 33  -  A Mars v Venus look JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com.sg Equalparts silly and sublime,Aronofsky’s Black Swan makes for fascinating viewing. A sort of companion piece to The Wrestler, in which the director explored the pitfalls of hyper-masculinity, Black Swan is a fantasia of girliness in which the
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    • REVIEWS
      • 52 33  -  JJ AdamSandler strikesagain! Or,more accurately,hedoesn’t. The storyisabouta sleezyplastic surgeon(Sandler) whopretendstobe marriedsoasto pickuphot, youngchicks. Troubleis,he falls in lovewith oneof them(BrooklynDecker). Sonowhe has topretendtobe divorcing hispretendwife, hisoffice manager (Jennifer Aniston).Mayhemensues. There’sa certainloathsomequality to JustGoWith It,with Sandlernow coming acrossasasmug rich dudewhose greatest problemin lifeistryingtodecide which bosomyblondehe’s goingto bed. Canhis
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      • 70 33  -  JJ With12 nominations for the Academy Awards,The King’s Speech isobviouslythe sortoffilm Oscar absolutely adores. A perioddrama aboutKing George VI’s struggleswith hisspeech impediment,the filmis notasstodgyas itmighthave been, withstarsColin Firth(asthe titular monarch)and Geoffrey Rush (ashisspeech therapist) bringingloads ofenergy and wit totheproceedings. Rushinparticular isa joyto watch, playinga humble Aussiewho hascheek
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      • 58 33 Ifyoucan’tstand the cinematic heat, that’syour problem. THE GREEN HORNET Like Kermit the frog before him, SethRogenlearns it’s not easy being green in this jazzy superhero flick from the endlessly quirky Michel Gondry. THEREBOUND (M18) CatherineZeta-Jones becomes CougarZeta-Jones and allisright withthe world.Quite afun little May-Decemberromance. TRIANGLE(NC16) A weirdand somewhatconfusing
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      • 62 33  -  JJ Ratedasone ofthebest filmsof theyear, Winter’sBone isindeeda fine piece ofwork. Whentheestranged fatherofcountry girlRee (playedby little-known actress JenniferLawrence) from theremote Ozark Mountainsjumps bail,she’sforcedto track himdown to preventthe localbail bondsmanfrom claiming thefamily home. Sheputsherself in oneprecarious positionafter anotherasshenavigates her father’swhite-trash world.Along theway wemeet someincredibly colourfuland dangerouscharacters. JohnHawkes stealsthe showasRee’s quietlyferocious
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    • FIRST FASHION
      • 270 34  -  Pop star Christina Aguilera and legendary icon Cher may have chewed most of the scenery in Burlesque. Stars glam up the moviepremieres...ornot Jeanmarie Tan Butit’s supportingplayer KristenBellwho stole the limelight during the promotional tour of the movie musical. Onscreen, it’s ironic that the30-year-old USactress playsa
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    • 127 24/25 CAN SEX FRIENDS STAY BEST FRIENDS? natalie PORTMAN ashton KUTCHER Emma and Adam are life-long friends who almost ruin everything by having sex one morning. In order to protect their friendship, they make a pact to keep their relationship strictly "no strings attached". It means they can do whatever they
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    • 127 29 GIVEAWAY WIN WHAT WOMEN WANT HAMPERS We are giving away 15 sets of What Women Want hampers comprising a pair of preview tickets and a note book, courtesy of Cathay-Keris Films. ThisHong Kong remakeof MelGibson’s2000 rom-com of the same name sees Andy Lau playing the guy blessed with the gift
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    • 27 29 Sometimes you need a girl to get the girl. ADAMSANDLER JENNIFERANISTON It '_r m m' w H s.'> N>V SlSW www.SonyPictures.com.sg SONY CDLUMBIApfl ll pictures. AJ r-
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    • 38 30 GIVEAWAY WINJUSTGOWITHITMOVIETICKETS Weare givingaway10 pairsof JustGoWith Itmovie tickets, courtesyof SonyPictures. Forachance towin, call Infolineat 1900-914 0801 and answerthisquestion: Namethe leadactor in the movieJustGo With It. 1. BenStiller 2. AdamSandler 3. RobSchneider The contestcloseson Sunday atmidnight.Each callcosts 20 cents.
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    • 45 31 GIVEAWAY WINTHERITEMOVIETICKETS Namethe actorwho plays Michael Kovakin the movieTheRite. 1. AnthonyHopkins 2. TobyJones 3. ColinO’Donoghue The contestcloseson Sunday at midnight.Each call costs20 cents. Weare givingaway15 pairsof The Ritemovie tickets,courtesy of WarnerBros. Eachwinner will also receiveamovie poster. Forachance towin, call Infoline at1900-914 0801 and answerthis question:
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    • 193 34 ofthemovie musical. Onscreen, it’s ironic that the30-year-old USactress playsa jealous divawho’sthe star attractionof aburlesque club– until Aguilera’srivalupstart endsup outperforming her. Cute, petite and sassy, Bell has always gravitated towards simple, sweet looks that 1Whatbetter way toset yourselfapart than with a short red dress amid a sea of black? That’swhat Bell(above,withChristina
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 51 35 TV Show WATCH’EM HEADMATCHMAKER:PattiStanger,host and producerofThe MillionaireMatchmaker. TheMillionaireMatchmaker3(left) SET(SingTelmioTVCh20),9pm Inthethirdseasonopeneroftherealityseries,PattiStangerhasto figureoutifherupcomingnuptialstoherlongtimeboyfriendAndy willaffectherthrivingbusiness,whilewhippinganewparanoid clientintoshape. TheOffice7 UniversalChannel(StarHubCh512),9pm Intheseventhseasonopenerofthecomedyseries,anewassistant’s incompetencehastheDunderMifflinstaffupinarms,butMichael Scottrefusestofirehimasheishisnephew. WelcomeToLagos BBCKnowledge(StarHubCh407),8.10pm Inthisnewdocumentaryseries,producerWillAndersonspendsfour monthsintheslumsofLagos,Nigeria,andpresentsanalternative andpositiveviewoflifeintheslums. Outsourced UniversalChannel(StarHubCh512),9.30pm AmanagerissenttoIndiatooverseeastaffofcustomerservice representativesinthisnewcomedyseries.StarringBenRappaport, ParveshCheena. PICTURES: SINGTELMIOTV, MEDIACORP Travellers’Beat(left) Channel8, 8.30pm Thisnew local travelogue serieshostedbyQuan Yifeng,KymNg andBryanWong featuresa compilation ofspeciallyedited travel segmentsfrom their popular varietyshow NewCity Beat
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  • LOOKINGOOD
    • 414 37  -  Written by Sheila Lim How do families celebrate a happy occasion? What do friends usually do when catching up with each other? What do people normally do during corporate functions and seminars? The answers to all these questions are one and the same eat. No
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    • 438 54/55 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOYESTERDAY’SKRANJITRACKWORK SOUTH EASTER, a horse being targetedatbiggerthings–including a shot at fame in Dubai stepped out smartly at Kranji yesterday morning. Ridden by Barend Vorster, the five-year-old by Galileo turned on the speed to clock 35.4sec for the 600m. South Easter, who arrived in
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    • 619 54/55 RACE1-1600m(SC) C5D1 6.20 1 BeWithYou SAnandan (9) 57 2 HappyWin JMoreira (2) 57 3 MongolianStar DBeasley (10) 57 4 WinningSuccess RStewart (5) 56.5 5 Icandoitto JPowell (6) 55.5 6 RieussecMagic RFradd (11) 55.5 7 Benji'sPride TRBarnabas* (3) 55 8 Brzee EAslam (7) 55
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    • 281 54/55  -  BRIAN MILLER npracing@sph.com.sg KALLISAN, a runner in tomorrow’s Novice race, will find the 1,200m trip much to her liking. Afterall, itwasn’t too long ago that the newcomer from StephenGray’s yard won over that distance. It was in a race at Waverley in New Zealand.
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    • 669 54/55 RACE1-1800m(Turf) C5 12.50 1 Crucible DBeasley (10) 59 2 DarringDo RShafiq* (2) 59 3 Demhillsofgold OPlacais (11) 59 4 Oblivion MFirdaus* (7) 59 5 AceAvida JMoreira (1) 58 6 Bisa JSaimee (13) 57 7 Kipadi VDuric (5) 57 8 StreetSmart SAnandan (9) 57
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    • 417 55 KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK NST KIM BAY stepped up preparations for another success in the Class 3 event over 1,400m on Sunday with a two-round workout on a rather quiet morning in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by jockey Rio Burnett, the four-year-old
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    • 376 55 RACE1 CLASS5TURF 1000m 9 METRORIDER120(16-9) BPREBBLE (3) 1 7 BLESSUSALL121(58-20) THSO (9) 2 5 NICEKING127(110-35) ODOLEUZE (1) 3 1 SEIZETHEDAY132(36-13) ZPURTON (6) 4 XTrainer: PF Yiu. Margins: 1.75, 0.5. Time: 57.96sec (good). Forecast: $52. Place Forecast: $62 (Nos. 5-7), $30 (Nos. 5-9), $13 (Nos.
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    • 331 55 Race1 JuvenilePlate 1000M 1 DARKJOURNEY58(11-6) MWinnaar (9) 1 8 SPLENDIDSUN58(53-11) ADomeyer (2) 2 6 LOLABUD58(186-42) GVanNiekerk (8) 3 5 LADYVAR58(86-16) GSchlechter (6) 4 XTrainer:CBurger.Margins:2.5,0.25,2.25.Time:59.77sec(Going:good).Forecast:$29. Place Forecast: $36 (Nos. 1-6), $12 (Nos. 1-8), $82 (Nos. 6-8).Tierce: $1071. Trio: $663. Quartet:$6881.Quadro:$620. Race2 MaidenPlate 1400M 1 MISTERGONE60(25-8) AFortune
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  • Page 57 Miscellaneous
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  • Sports
    • 617 72 MORNING LATEST ENGLAND BOSSFABIO CAPELLO: PA Sport FABIO Capello declared himself satisfied with Jack Wilshere’s first England start but refused to confirm whether the 19-year-old would keep his place for next month’s Euro 2012 qualifier with Wales. Although Wilshere did not look entirely comfortable in the midfield
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      • 352 57 Reuters ROBERT Kubica faces more surgery today after suffering multiple fractures in a rally crash in Italy last week and is likely to stay in hospital for two to three weeks. Renault have said he will be out for at least two months
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      • 406 57 DETROIT PISTONS 89 SAN ANTONIO SPURS 100 BASKETBALL Reuters THE SAN Antonio Spurs are riding high on their gruelling “Rodeo Road Trip,” after a 100-89 triumph over the Detroit Pistons yesterday morning (Singapore time) gave the NBA’s top team their third consecutive win.
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      • 660 58/59 DUBAI DESERT CLASSIC Theworld’stopthreeplayers–Westwood,Kaymer andWoods–willplaytogetherforfirsttworounds AFP. THE BATTLE for world golf supremacy will be contested at the Dubai Desert Classic this week with the top three players in the rankings Lee Westwood, Martin Kaymer and Tiger Woods playing in the same group
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      • 321 58/59 Reuters TEN YEARS ago Tiger Woods teed up in the Dubai Desert Classic only to be handed a golf lesson at the hands of Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn. In March 2001, Woods was the undis- puted world No. 1, holding three Major titles, which
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      • 541 58/59 RYDER CUP Reuters SEVE Ballesteros has called for the Ryder Cup to be extended from three to four days and for every team member to be allowed to play on the opening day of the competition. The 53-year-old Spaniard (below), still battling to recover after having
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      • 282 58/59 Reuters EUROPE’S controversial qualification process for the Ryder Cup has been overturned on the advice of new skipper Jose Maria Olazabal, the European Tour said on Tuesday. The top five from the European Tour’s Order of Merit will now qualify automatically, with the next five highest
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    • Schools sporf-s
      • 731 60/61  -  TanjongKatongSecondary’sfootballers have extra incentives to find the net LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg FOReverygoalthattheschoolscoresinafootballmatch,needyfamiliesinMount-battenwillreceive$100worthofrice. This is the gift from the football team of TanjongKatongSecondarySchooltothecommunityaroundit. Theideabehindthe“GoodGoalInitiative” came from the team’s teacher-in-charge, Roy Oon. It is in collaboration with Mountbatten Community Club, which the school has been workingcloselywithfortheircommunityserviceprogrammes. ThericewillbesponsoredbyNewMoon. In
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      • 502 60/61  -  SANTOKH SINGH santokh@sph.com.sg LAST week, my daughter came home rather disappointed. Not only had her school’s netball team been knocked out of the zone competition, but she also had another pressing issue her Co-Curricular Activity (CCA) did not lend to scoring points for the community
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      • 355 60/61  -  KWAN HUI XIAN kwanhx@sph.com.sg GOOD sportsmanship cost them the match but that didn’t stop two school softball players from carrying an injured opponent around the diamond, to secure herfirsthomerun. It happened three years ago at an inter-school match in Ellensburg, a small American
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    • Sports Tennis
      • 386 62 Tsonga says: Wire Services. JO-WILFRIED Tsonga has declared that the era of domination from Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is over. The Frenchman sauntered into the second round of World Indoor Tournament in Rotterdam yesterday morning (Singapore time), defeating Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 6-4,6-4. The
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      • 302 62 MORNING LATEST Wire Services. ANDY Murray crashed out of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam this morning after a straight-set loss to Marcos Baghdatis in the first round. Beaten by Novak Djokovic last month in the Australian Open final, Murray (right) had
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    • Sports Football
      • 580 63 N.IRELAND0 SCOTLAND 3 (Kenny Miller 19, James McArthur 32, Kris Commons 51) MORNING LATEST PA Sport SCOTLAND began their Carling Nations Cup campaign in impressive style by trouncing Northern Ireland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin this morning. Striker Kenny Miller (left) celebrated wearing the armband
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      • 273 63 PA Sport REPUBLIC of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni has reiterated his belief that Darron Gibson should leave Manchester United. Gibson opened the scoring with a stunning long-range strike in Ireland’s stunning 3-0 Carling Nations Cup victory over Wales in Dublin yesterday morning. Trapattoni rates the
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      • 565 65 Europe’stopclubsdemandmoresayinwaygameisrun Reuters. EUROPE’S top clubs want football’s world governing body Fifa to start listening to their demands for the sake of the health of the game, they said at their annual general assembly on Tuesday. They also expressed dismay over the debate sparked by Fifa president
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      • 391 65 AP SOMEofEurope’sbestyoungfootball players could be kept out of the 2012 London Olympics, under a proposal outlined by their clubs on Tuesday. The European Club Association (ECA) wants an agreement that players who go to Euro 2012 co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine
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    • Sports S-League
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        638 64/65  -  ETOILE FC1 (MaximeBelouet12-pen) TAMPINES ROVERS 2 (Aleksandar Duric 85, Park Yo Seb 89) 1 -0 down with five minutes to go, Tampines score twice to beatEtoile and win Charity Shield DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg FINALLY, local pride has been restored. Well, kind of. It might have been a Charity Shield
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      • 366 64/65  -  DAVID LEE THESuperSubhasdoneitagain.In the closing minutes of the match, with one stroke of genius, a losing scenario was salvaged in a remarkable turnaround. Except this time, Steven Tan, or Super Sub as he was fondly known during the Malaysia Cup days, was not on the pitch to
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      • 469 64/65  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg THE S-LEAGUE has big plans to bring back the fans this season. But if the turnout and atmosphere at last night’s S-League Charity Shield between Etoile FC and Tampines Rovers were any indication, there is still much work ahead before the fans
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    • Sports International Friendlies
      • 491 66 Klose scores again but Germany unable to end 15-year curse GERMANY 1 (Miroslav Klose 16) ITALY 1 (Giuseppe Rossi 81) MORNING LATEST AFP GERMANY failed to break their 15-year run without a win over Italy this morning as striker Giuseppe Rossi came off the bench
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        459 67 SubstituteendsSpain’s losing streak in Friendlies SPAIN 1 (David Silva 86) COLOMBIA0 MORNING LATEST Reuters DAVIDSilvacameoffthebenchtorescueSpain’snightand give the world champions a 1-0 win in a friendly athometoColombiathismorning(Singaporetime). Thehomesidelookedtobeheadingforafrustratingdraw until the Manchester City midfielder (above), who had replaced Xabi Alonso 10 minutes earlier, poked the ball past DavidOspinainthe86thminute. David Villa,
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      • 626 68 Blanc’srebuilding gathers pace as France down 10-man Brazil FRANCE1 (Karim Benzema54) BRAZIL0 MORNING LATEST AFP LAURENT Blanc’s regeneration of the French national team continued apace this morning as his side defeated 10-man Brazil 1-0 in a friendly match at the Stade de France. Karim Benzema
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      • 455 69 Sneijder impresses in easy Dutch win HOLLAND 3 (Wesley Sneijder 29, Ibrahim Afellay 49, Dirk Kuyt 71-pen) AUSTRIA 1 (Marko Arnautovic 84) MORNING LATEST PA Sport WESLEY Sneijder continued his return to fitness with the opening goal for Holland as they claimed their sixth successive victory
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      • 161 69 PORTUGAL 1 (Cristiano Ronaldo 21) ARGENTINA 2 (Angel Di Maria 14, Lionel Messi 89-pen) Reuters. LIONEL Messi set up one goal and scored another from the spot to give Argentina a 2-1 win over Portugal in an entertaining friendly this morning withReal Madrid’sCristiano Ronaldoreplying. Messi
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      • 182 69 PA Sport NIKOLA Kalinic bagged an assured brace as Croatia powered to a 4-2 win over the Czech Republic in the friendly encounter in Pula this morning. Former Arsenal forward Eduardo fired Croatia in front on 10 minutes before Kalinic opened his account to double
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      • 745 70/71 Bent and Young score in comeback win over Danes DENMARK 1 (Daniel Agger 8) ENGLAND 2 (Darren Bent 10, Ashley Young 68) MORNING LATEST AFP ASHLEY Young scored his first goal for England as Fabio Capello’s side came from behind to beat Den-mark2-1inamorale-boosting winaheadof theEuro 2012 Qualifier
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      • ON TV
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