The New Paper, 15 April 2012

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    13 1 the new paper on sunday April 15 2012 80 CENTS MICA (P) 089/01/2012
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      58 1 PKNS 1 LIONSXII 0 58 Sundram: We were just tired WAGE DEBATE 10 Low-income earners have their say paper April 15 2012 TNP PICTURE: JONATHAN CHOO 16 She’s a rich grad He sells chicken rice They’re in love GRADUATE WOMEN, WILL YOU MARRY DOWN? 6 facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon The wage debate: When is a good idea acceptable?
      507 2  -  MELVIN SINGH melvin@sph.com.sg You may have missed the ongoing debate following an economics professor’s proposal to bridge the income gap. Granted, since NTU Professor Lim Chong Yah mooted his radical idea (some argue economic suicide) on Monday, discussion has been contained
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      65 2 FEATURES 7 Why not? 50 women polled say they will not date men with blue-collar jobs 10 Wage debate What does the lowwage worker want? 12 Global sharing S’porean’s photos taken on iPhone and Instagram win global accolades REGULARS Snapshot 4 Eats 24-26 Secret Shopper 27 Aspire/Afford 28-29 Adrenaline 30-31
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      31 2 COLUMNS 9 Ground Zero lamenting the loss of dialects 18 Confessions of a personal assistant: Chauffeured around to get errands done 34 Humour Neil Humphreys on smelling like (older) teen spirit.
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      34 2 SPORTS 45 Chinese Grand Prix Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg gets first career pole 50 Paul Parker: Sir Alex Ferguson cannot afford to rest Paul Scholes 56 EPL United should be wary of Carlos Tevez
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      28 2 QUICK ON THE DRAW A nationwide ‘No Sharks Fins S’pore’ campaign has been launched to make S’pore shark fn-free by 2013 A Shark-friendly Singapore TNP ILLUSTRATION: SIMON ANG
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  • SNAPSHOT
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      Lock icon HAPPINESS INDEX
      138 3 INDEX(brought to you by Pizza Hut) INDEX(brought We rate the past week’s news good and bad Rediffusion, Singapore's only subscription-based radio station, still popular among older listeners, is closing down after 63 years. The cost of living is likely to go up, with the inflation forecast for the
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      Lock icon Our senior photojournalist picks his pics of the week
      74 3  -  JONATHAN CHOO jonathan@sph.com.sg Opposing images caught my eye this week. The fun of Songkran the Thai water festival is stark contrast to the deadly fire leaping said to purify the soul at the Chiakokonoba folk festival in the republic of Georgia.
      PICTURES: AP, AFP  -  74 words
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      Lock icon $200,000 for beef noodles recipe & stall
      195 4 / 5 $200,000 for beef noodles recipe stall Hot on the heels of the proprietors of Kay Lee Roast Meat Joint’s $3.5 million asking price comes another renowned food joint with an extravagant price tag. The owners of Tai Fatt Hau Cuisine in Bukit Merah have put their stewed beef noodles recipe
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      Lock icon Government to invest $3.8 million in medical social work over five years
      127 4 / 5 HEALTH Minister Gan Kim Yong announced yesterday at the inaugural symposium on medical social work that the Government will invest $3.8 million over the next five years in the field. Out of the $3.8 million, $1.8 million will
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      Lock icon Children’s beach club opens on Sentosa
      107 4 / 5 SINGAPORE now has its very own kids’ club by the beach. The Port of Lost Wonder is Sentosa’s newest attraction this year and cost some $13 million. Mr S. Iswaran, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, graced the opening of the club yesterday. The
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      37 4 / 5 ROPE TRICK: Men using ropes on Friday to try to right a supply truck overloaded with wheat straw, used as animal feed, along a road inDargai, about 165km north-west of Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. PICTURE: REUTERS
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    • Article
      Lock icon MOH seeks to minimise impact
      491 4 / 5 Rising costs blamed for fee increases at public hospitals Tan Tock Seng Hospital adjusted its out-patient consultation fees earlier this month. In the past six months, other public hospitals and several specialist medical centres also increased their out-patient consultation fees, Lianhe Zaobao reported. Khoo Teck
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      Lock icon Thieves compromise Indonesian tsunami alert system
      106 4 / 5 AFP INDONESIA’S tsunami early warning system, widely praised during this week’s Indian Ocean-wide alert, has been compromised by thieves and vandals, officials said. The US$130 million (S$162m) system of tidal gauges, buoys and seismic monitors sent warnings to authorities on Wednesday after an 8.6
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      Lock icon South Korea steps up efforts to retrieve rocket debris
      113 4 / 5 AFP SOUTH Korea stepped up operation to retrieve debris from North Korea’s failed rocket launch on Friday, apparently in competition with Russia and China. South Korean officials have said some large chunks may have fallen into the country’s exclusive economic zone
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      Lock icon Thaksin hails‘signs of reconciliation’ at mass rally
      122 4 / 5 AFP OUSTED Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said yesterday that Thailand could begin to heal its deep political rifts. He was addressing thousands of “Red Shirt” supporters in Cambodia. Thaksin, who lives abroad to avoid a jail term for corruption, was greeted with cheers
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      200 4 / 5 2 tonnes The amount of coffee thieves in Austria made off with last week. Police say the culprits broke into a wholesaler and coffee-roaster’s warehouse east of Vienna, loaded a stolen van with the goods and drove off.The thieves also took two coffee machines with them. 45 minutes
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      Lock icon RELIVING TITANIC
      225 4 / 5  -  ARTIST’S IMPRESSION TEOH YI CHIE teohyc@sph.com.sg Today is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. At Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition currently on at the ArtScience Museum you can experience what it was like on the ship before it hit the infamous iceberg. While the exhibition
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      60 3 The wait is over. We’ll make sure that it was worth it. The new Cheesy 7 Bliss is smothered with generous amounts of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, Mozzarella, Parmesan, Provolone, Romano and creamy chunks of Camembert. Even the crust has been baked with fresh Parmesan. So when you take a bite,
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  • PEOPLE
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      Lock icon Honours grad? I’ll rather be... hawker’s wife
      1050 6 / 7  -  REPORT BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg While her peers are starting their careers in air-conditioned offices, 22-year-old Eliza Lee is mincing garlic and taking orders. For the past two years, she has been helping out at a food court stall that sells a quintessentially
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      Lock icon Would you date a blue-collar worker? 100% SAID NO
      144 6 / 7  -  We asked 50 female undergraduates and graduates, aged 21 to 28 Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh, Valerie Koh TOP REASONS We won’t be able to click “I like French and literature. I don’t know how many of them would like those.” Miss
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      Lock icon Job title turns some women off
      347 6 / 7 He says he is proud of his job, but Mr Ridzwan Salim does not reveal his occupation to people he has just met, unless they ask. When pressed, he says: “I’m shy, lah.” Although he is a restaurant supervisor, the 25-year-old still waits on
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      Lock icon Mum: She’s going in with eyes open
      628 8 Miss Eliza Lee’s mother has no qualms about accepting her daughter’s hawker boyfriend. Indeed, she admires his determination to make a living on his own. “Setting up a chicken rice stall is a proper, legitimate way to make a living,” she says. “Every
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      Lock icon I’ll date a blue-collar worker if...
      562 8  -  BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg My mother, a secretary, married my father when he was a technician in a chemical plant. Me? I’m not so sure I would do the same. I’m a graduate in my early 20s who shares the concerns reflected by the
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      Lock icon Up low-income pay by 50%
      271 10 / 11 Veteran economist, Professor Lim Chong Yah, who is also the founding chairman of the National Wages Council, proposed a three-year wage restructuring to shake-up the economy. His proposal: I Those earning below $1,500 a month to get pay rises of 15 per cent in the
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      Lock icon Why argue?
      1219 10 / 11  -  Everything’s so pricey now, of course we want a pay rise! An economics professor’s suggestion to raise the pay of low-income earners drastically has drawn comments from all sides. But this struggling cancer survivor says, please listen to me REPORTS CHAI HUNG YIN chaihyn@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Maureen
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      Lock icon ‘Very risky to shock the system’
      220 10 / 11 I Labour chief Lim Swee Say (below) says Prof Lim’s proposal is a “very risky” move. I Giving the labour movement’s position, Mr Lim says the economics professor’s suggestion could result in job losses and structural unemployment if productivity does not go up enough
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      643 12 / 13  -  Three photography enthusiasts have found international fame through pictures taken with their mobile phones REPORTS JONATHAN ROBERTS jonrob@sph.com.sg He has been called the “godfather” and a pioneer of iPhone photography in Singapore. Mr Chia Aik Beng, 44, a graphic artist, blushes and humbly waves off the high praise, but
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      Lock icon Big money behind fun pictures
      479 12 / 13 At first glance, Instagram is just about sharing cute photos with other users. But on Monday, the app was bought by Facebook for a cool US$1 billion (S$1.2b). As ofAugust last year, the company behind the app said that 150 million pictures had been uploaded.
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      Lock icon Insta-ntly helping others
      189 12 / 13 Instagram isn’t just about showing off your pretty pictures. Well, not for some, anyway. Beyond celebrity users like Taylor Swift (who has over a million followers), Jessica Alba or Jamie Oliver, who use the application as a way of interacting with fans (this week, singer Rihanna shared
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      Lock icon Money? There’s money for us?
      838 14 / 15  -  Many local musicians una ware they can get government funding if they qualify REPORTS ZUL OTHMAN zothman@sph.com.sg Playing music overseas on a government grant. Impossible? Not so, says Martin Kong, 25, the drummer in Singapore rock quintet Caracal. In 2010, the then seven-year-old band found
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      Lock icon Grants help S’pore artistes who are going overseas to perform
      450 14 / 15 It was a report that shook the Singapore music scene. Last Monday, Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts (Mica) Yaacob Ibrahim (right) said that over the past three years, more than $4 million was spent to help local musicians
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      Lock icon Three killed in shoot-out with police
      474 19 Robbery suspects meet violent end after car chase, crash and gunfire in Kuala Lumpur The police patrol car chanced upon the car driven by robbery suspects. Seeing the patrol car just behind them, the suspects panicked. They tried to speed away and a chase
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      Lock icon From China princeling to US asylum seeker?
      746 20 Son (right, with friends) of fallen top Chinese politician Bo Xilai escorted out of luxury flat by US officials like the good old spy thriller, with twists and turns in every corner, the intriguing tale of fallen Chinese leader Bo Xilai and his
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      Lock icon A tale of two “Mr and Mrs Smith”s
      477 21 One A-grade Hollywood couple are living together, but are fending off questions about going their separate ways. The other A-grade superstar couple are living together and have decided to cement their relationship by getting engaged. The stories of Will and Jada Pinkett
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  • GROUND ZERO A BOTTOM-UP PERSPECTIVE ON ISSUES
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      Lock icon Dialects’ disappearing act
      824 9  -  MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg When Madam Leong Ah Mui first heard the news of Rediffusion’s impending closure, her heart skipped a beat. Literally. You see, that little box sitting on a shelf in her two-room HDB flat in Jalan Bukit Merah holds so many memories that it breaks
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    • Article
      Lock icon Q: Do dialects still have a place in Singapore?
      197 9 We asked 50 people “Actually, dialect is very useful, it’s a tradition that should be passed on. Mr Lim Choon Num, 70, retiree “There’sstill the older generation that speaks dialect. There are also shows and songs in dialects from places like
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  • THEN&NOW
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      Lock icon My 10 minutes with Her Majesty
      904 16 / 17  -  Naval architect recalls the visit of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to his HDB flat in Toa Payoh 40 years ago REPORT NUR ASYIQIN MOHAMAD SALLEH asyiqins@sph.com.sg The scrapbook has been with his family for close to 40 years. The cover is royal red and
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  • CONFESSIONS OF A PERSONAL ASSISTANT
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      812 18  -  BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg When this personal assistant tells his friends what he does for a living, he typically gets asked two questions. “Are you gay?” and “Are you sleeping with the mistress of the home?” The answers to both questions are a straight “no”,
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      796 22 IT’S hard to be apart from your family. Sometimes, it’s worse, if you have to be far away from your boyfriend. Filipina Melanie Medrano, 24, an administrative executive, sometimes even cries herself to sleep as she misses her boyfriend David Rumbaua, 25, so much. Miss Medrano who has been in
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  • EATS
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      Lock icon Cold salted duck
      698 24  -  HED CHEF HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg He was so enamoured with the dish, he decided he would learn to make it. Mr Weng De Wang, 65, a company director, went on a holiday to the US last year and had the pleasure of tasting Taiwanese salted duck prepared
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      Lock icon Who cooks it best?
      654 25  -  We show, you choose THIS WEEK: CHICKEN PORRIDGE Compiled by EUNICE TOH, FABIAN KOH, MARK LEONG, MARK SOH, VALERIE KOH PORRIDGE POT Redhill Food Centre Block 85, Redhill Lane, #01 -71 Open: 7am to 1.30pm, 6pm to 10.30pm. Closed on Mondays This hot porridge comes with
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      Lock icon Mind your salt
      954 26  -  FOOD FOR THOUGHT VANESSA FRIDA tnp@sph.com.sg I am often asked about the different kinds of salts. Salt can range from 99 cents to more than fifty dollars. Are the more expensive ones really worth their salt? Pun fully intended. I like to think of salt in three
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  • SECRET SHOPPER
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      Lock icon A shop for your inner child
      737 27 The iPad seems to be every child’s best friend these days. I like to think that back in my own childhood, other kids were my best mates. Our friendship revolved largely around kuti-kuti (an-imal-shaped plastic tokens), hopscotch and the occasional game of chapteh (a
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  • ASPIRE/AFFORD
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      639 28  -  pls check individual items for nica id in notes REPORT YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg I might get flamed for this, but shopping and fashion in Singapore is actually more exciting than many other big cities. Men’s Fashion Week featuring design houses such as Richard Chai, Spencer Hart and
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      Lock icon Make a splash
      407 29  -  REPORT DARYL YAM darylyam@sph.com.sg Hopefully this rain we’ve been having eases up. To whet appetites for swimming days ahead, we look at swimwear. Keep this page ...fora specialdeal. Details on the left AFFORD #1 Swimwear Monokini by Forever 21 Price: $33 (prints) and $39 (in black) For
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  • ADRENALINE
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      Lock icon Look, Ma... No wings!
      954 30 / 31 Who says Singapore is boring? In the third of our 8-part series, we show you the places here that can get the blood pumping If skydiving is on your bucket list, here’s your chance to cross it off the list without having to jump out of
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      Lock icon Our reporter tries it:
      343 30 / 31 SEATED in the waiting area (pictured below), I could hear the loud hum of the fans despite having my earplugs on. I could also feel the low rumble underneath me. I was with eight others, who were chatting excitedly. But the chatting stopped when the first
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      87 30 / 31 ON MARCH 30, two iFly participants met with accidents just 30 minutes apart. Their shoulders were dislocated. The first person felt a pain on one side of his body after his second flight. He was then take out to rest. Later, another flier complained
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  • LIVE RIGHT
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      Lock icon Boost your metabolism
      490 32 Hoping to get your body fit for a swimsuit but finding yourself wider around the waist than you’d like? For the younger set, it would probably be a bit easier to shed the extra pounds. But not so for those who are a little older because the
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      Lock icon 3 vital fluids
      295 32 variety, peritoneal fluid, lubricates everything inside the abdomen while pleural fluid coats the lungs and allows essential process of oxygen exchange. While we know we need blood to survive and tears to keep our eyes moist, there are some equally essential but less well-known fluids in the
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  • WHEELS
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      Lock icon BATTLE of the COBBLES
      704 33  -  TWO WHEELS GOOD DANSON CHEONG tnp@sph.com.sg The cobblestone roads of Europe are some of the most storied in human history. Over their jagged surfaces, men have fought wars, spilt blood and given up their lives. And at the heart of some of the most heated battles
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      Lock icon When in Holland, be prepared
      523 33 The first blooms of spring are out, and after months of silence, birdsong once again fills the air. And I have been taking advantage of warmer weatl1— er to get some big miles in the tank. But there’s a bit of a problem. You see,
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  • HUMOUR
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      809 34  -  NOTES NEIL HUMPHREYS tnp@sph.com.sg Within moments of hearing the news this week, I became a teenager again. The reunited Stone Roses will play at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on July 22. As soon as I heard this piece of news, I grabbed the
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      Lock icon I didn’t feel the earth move under my feet
      652 35  -  ACT BLUR S M ONG smong@sph.com.sg Life is but a tapestry. Hands up those of you who sang to yourself I Feel The Earth Move Under My Feet by Carole King when you read the news about people in Singapore experienc-
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    • REALLY?Odd Odd news that's for real
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        Lock icon Wanted US man goes on 9-hour crime spree
        237 35 IN A bizarre crime spree, one man allegedly committed 11 felonies in a space of nine hours. Police say that William Todd was on a layover from his bus trip when he started wreaking havoc in Tennessee. He broke into a store,
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        Lock icon He gets 3 days’ jail for visible butt crack in court
        141 35 Wire agencies A US judge, offended by a 20-year-old defendant’s low-slung blue jeans, sent him to jail for three days for contempt of court. LaMarcus D. Ramsey was in an Alabama court on Tuesday to enter a plea for
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        Lock icon Fugitive cow won’t have to go back to slaughterhouse
        117 35 Wires services A COW that escaped from a New Jersey slaughterhouse will be spared. The black-and-white bovine was running through the streets in the town of Paterson sometime after 8pm last Tuesday. Animal control officer John De Cando told reporters it
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
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      63 34 f I DID A STUDY OF OUR PAST BUSINESS PLANS AND FOUND I SOMETHING. E THERE'S NO CORRELATION BETUEEN OUR PREDICTED AND ACTUAL OUTCOMES. L THAT MIGHT BE A PROBLEM FOR YOU. YOUR ENORMOUS CEO COMPENSATION IS BASED ON THE MYTH THAT YOU HAVE SOME CONTROL OVER OUR PROFITABILITY. IS
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  • TV
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      Lock icon Get your Game on
      531 36  -  Game Of Thrones, the greatest show in the universe, is back fora second season! JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg My puny words are unworthy of the mighty, mighty Game Of Thrones. No matter what I say, I will fall far short of conveying its epic magnificence. As you
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      Lock icon HARDCORE GAMERS
      230 36 MELISANDRE (CARICE VAN HOUTEN) If you love flame-haired sorceresses the way I love flame-haired sorceresses, boy are you in luck. Dressed in red from top to bottom and with a fiery personality to match, Melisandre has placed King Stannis Baratheon at the centre of her weird cult and
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      Lock icon THE MUST-SEE THREE
      123 36 Country Strong HBO (StarHub Ch 601), 10pm A rising country music songwriter and a fallen star team up to work their way towards fame, causing romantic complications along the way. Starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw. Mike Judge’s Beavis Butt-head MTV SEA (StarHub Ch 533), 10pm In this
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  • RACING
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      Lock icon TODAY’S SINGAPORE (SHORT COURSE D/POLYTRACK) RACE CARD
      2129 37 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING (TURF), GOOD (POL YTRACK) RACE 1 MS 12.50 -1200m(Polytrack) Stakes: $35,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 05-29- Alpha Infinity 57.5 (47) O Bosson 9 (3ag RB Marsh-Kt Cheah Yong) 2 466-- Good Partner
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY’S NEW ZEALAND (ELLERSLIE) & AUSTRALIA (RANDWICK/ASCOT/TOOWOOMBA) RESULTS
      849 38 / 39 YESTERDAY’S NEW ZEALAND (ELLERSLIE) AUSTRALIA (RANDWICK/ASCOT/TOOWOOMBA) RESULTS RACE 1 (Randwick) 1st 1 Pierro ($14-$5.10) 2nd 2 All Too Hard ($5.10) 3rd 7 Limes ($19) 4th 3 Raceway. Forecast $3. Tierce $60. Trio $17. Quartet $257. Quadro$12. RACE 2 (Ellerslie) 1st 4 Bellino ($33-$10) 2nd 7 Quickasucan ($53) 3rd 17 Clareen
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      Lock icon Tangible Assets can go one better
      2259 38 / 39 ANDREW FROST’S COMMENTS ON TODA Y’SKRANJI TURF/POLYTRACK MEETING RACE 1 (1,200m) 1 Alpha Infinity))Failed to run on last start. Previous effort good and may appreciate stronger jockey. 2 Good Partner)))Improving type and, from rails draw, should get a nice run and prove hard to
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      588 38 / 39 Andrew Frost 1 RACE Mr X Brian Miller Tan Thean Loon 1 Alpha Infinity 2 1 8 10 7 Good Partner Beautiful World Alpha Infinity 11 Jack The Bull 2 Zero Limit Good Partner Tikam Tikam 3 3 3 10 Grigora Grigora Zero Limit Grigora 3 10 Zero
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      1653 40 / 41  -  I TIPS AND COMMENTS BY I TIPS AND COMMENTS BY PHILLIP WOO, COURTESY OF THE HONG WOO, COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB RACE 1 (1,000m) SOLAR UP (1) is a multiple winner in the past at Happy Valley and has given a decent
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      1405 40 / 41 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 CLASS 4TURF 1000m TIME 1:00 Stakes: HK$675,000 NO. HORSE NAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 SOLAR UP C W CHANG T H SO 133 8 2 LONGWAH RISING T W LEUNG A SUBORICS 132 4 3 LUCKY RED
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      537 40 / 41 RACE 1 (Morphettville) 1st 2 Petman ($34-$8) 2nd 1 Hidden Value ($7) 3rd 7 Kinselmac Manner ($8) 4th 8 Mega Queen. Forecast $11 Place forecast $6 (1 -2), $8 (1 -7), $9 (2-7). Tierce $117. Trio $20. Quartet $136. Quadro $64. Scratchings: 3 Secret Status, 6
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      1021 40 / 41 Race 1 C4 (LC) 1400m C4 (LC) 1400m 5 MR MERCIFUL 53 c 51 (31-12) 12 GOLDEN PARTNER 50 c 51.5 (67-18) A Kumar (13) 8 9 4 (472) 0.5 XWinning owner: TL Yeo. Trainer: Peter Lee. Time: 1min 26.60sec (Going: soft). Forecast: $46. Tierce: $353. Quartet:
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      2086 42 GOING FORECAST: SOFT TAN THEAN LOON’S IPOH TIPS RACE 1 1 Affirmative Action 7 Better Year 2 Shadow Wind 10 Natural Island RACE 2 13 Inner Sanctum 5 Space Invader 11 Century Fortune 9 City Of Hope RACE 3 14 Gold Ship 18 Grandezza 9 World
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      420 60 Maradona slams moneybags Man City and Chelsea, praises ‘well-run’ Bayern Wire Services Diego Maradona has criticised big-spending Premier League clubs Manchester City and Chelsea, describing their business models as “antiquated”. The outspoken Argentine legend (below) has slammed the way the two Premier League sides and
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        554 43 MAYBANKMALAYSIAN OPEN AFP US Masters runner-up Louis Oosthuizen dodged thunderous rainstorms to hold a one-shot lead at the Maybank Malaysian Open before play was washed out for a second day running yesterday. Oosthuizen (right), who has shrugged off last week’s play-off loss and fatigue
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        Lock icon Seminar by top PGA Tour instructor
        178 43 David Rasmussen, a US PGA Tour instructor who has trained under acclaimed swing coach Hank Haney, will conduct a seminar and clinics at the Orchid Country Club from Wednesday to Sunday. The co-creator (right) of the gyrotonic application for golf programmes will also talk
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        389 43 THE HERITAGE CLASSIC AFP Colt Knost, an American who began his US PGA career in 2007 but managed his first top-10 finish just seven weeks ago, is the unlikely leader of the Heritage Classic at Hilton Head Island. The 26-year-old Texan fired a bogey-free five-under
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        170 44 NBA AP LA LAKERS 103 DENVER NUGGETS 97 The Los Angeles Lakers clinched an NBA Play-off spot by beating the Denver Nuggets 103-97 yesterday morning (Singapore time) despite the absence of Kobe Bryant and coach Mike Brown. Andrew Bynum had 30 points and eight rebounds
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        Lock icon Wozniacki storms into last four
        127 44 TENNIS AP Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark breezed into the semi-finals of the e-boks Open yesterday morning (Singapore time) by beating France’s Alize Cornet 6-0,6-3. Though Wozniacki lost focus slightly in the second set, the two-time defending champion needed just over an hour to finish
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        Lock icon Isner and Lopez through to semi-finals
        149 44 AFP World No. 10 John Isner beat defending champion Ryan Sweeting7-6 (7/1), 7-6 (7/4) yesterday morning (Singapore time) to reach the semi-finals of the ATP US Men’s Clay Court Championship. Isner, the second seed, fired 11 aces and saved all six break-points that he
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        Lock icon 4,600 runners enjoy women’s day at Sentosa
        518 44  -  JETHRO WANG jetwang@sph.com.sg The Nike Goddess 5K run is a unique event. For it encompasses fun, competition and camaraderie. Fun because yesterday’s girls-on-ly race brings about an exclusivity for the fairer sex. The competition aspect is seen in the seriousness of participants such
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        837 45 Mercedes driver gets first career pole as Vettel lags behind again He finished second but conceded a grid penalty for changing gearboxyesterday. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, however, was still all smiles as he paid tribute to his old friend, Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg, who stormed to a
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          144 46 Wire Services HOSPITAL officials say Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini has died after suffering cardiac arrest during his team’s Serie B match at Pescara yesterday. Edoardo De Blasio, a cardiologist at Pescara’s Santo Spirito hospital, confirmed the death, saying that “unfortunately he was already
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          136 46 AFP CELTIC manager Neil Lennon believes he can bring the Scottish champions a Champions League title nearly 50 years after the “Lisbon” Lions won the European Cup in 1967. The 40-year-old Northern Irishman, who played for Celtic under Martin O’Neill in the 2003 Uefa
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          150 46 AFP VILLARREAL’S Italian international striker Giuseppe Rossi will miss Euro 2012 after suffering a setback in his recovery from a knee injury on Friday that is likely to keep him out for a further six months. “Giuseppe Rossi suffered a relapse of
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        551 46 PA Sport Wigan boss Roberto Martinez believes Arsenal will be a tougher ask than league leaders Manchester United. The Latics caused a significant upset last Wednesday with their 1-0 victory against United, who went into the contest off the back of an eight-match top-flight winning
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        Lock icon Dorrans puts heat on Rs’ bid to survive
        721 47 WEST BROM 1 (Dorrans 22) QPR 0 WEST BROM midfielder Graham Dorrans added to QPR’s relegation fears with a superb winner in the Premier League clash at the Hawthorns. The Scotland international settled the contest midway through the first half with a
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        Lock icon Sig puts Rovers on the brink
        813 48 SWANSEA 3 (Sigurdsson 37, Dyer 43, Dann og 63) BLACKBURN 0 BLACKBURN were plunged further into relegation trouble as they were soundly beaten by Swansea at the Liberty Stadium. Gylfi Sigurdsson produced a brilliant curler to give Swansea a 37th-minute lead, with Nathan Dyer
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        776 49 SUNDERLAND 0 WOLVES 0 SUNDERLAND keeper Simon Mignolet denied relegation-haunted Wolves an invaluable win with a fine late save. The Belgium international, who had earlier seen Sylvan Ebanks-Blake fire wastefully wide from close range, clawed away Steven Fletcher’s 81stminute header to ensure a poor game ended in
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        752 50 / 51  -  Our columnist tells DILENJIT SINGH that the midfielder is the most important United player as Rooney struggles for form PAUL PARKER npsports@sph.com.sg I Paul Parker is a former England and Manchester United defender who won two EPL titles and earned 19 caps for his
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        921 50 / 51 AFP Sir Alex Ferguson expects Manchester United to produce an immediate response to their shock defeat at Wigan when the Premier League leaders face Aston Villa tonight. United’s march towards a 20th English league title was knocked off course by the Latics’ 1-0 win at
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        811 56 / 57  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg NORWICH 1 (Andrew Surman 51) MAN CITY 6 (Carlos Tevez 18,73,80, Sergio Aguero 27,75, Adam Johnson 90+3) Tubby or not, Carlos Tevez Is back. And if the Red Devils are notyet concerned, then they damn well should be. The Argentine’s stunning
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        612 56 / 57 PA Sport Roberto Mancini is sounding like a broken record. Last night, he repeated his verdict that the Premier League title race is all over despite his Manchester City team closing the gap at the top to two points. City’s 6-1 win at Norwich,
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        312 56 / 57 AFP FORMER England striker Trevor Francis is recovering in hospital following a suspected heart attack. A spokesman for Championship club Birmingham, who gave Francis his professional debut in 1971, said they had been informed by a person close to the former player’s family
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        684 52 / 53 Redknapp wants players to emulate the class of 1991 PA Sport Go all the way in the FA Cup and enter your names Into Spurs’history. That is the challenge Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp has thrown down at his depleted side ahead of their
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        385 52 / 53 PA Sport HARRY Redknapp insists the possibility of taking to the Wembley dugout as England manager will not enter his mind when he takes Tottenham to the home of English football tomorrow morning (Singapore time) to face Chelsea in their FA Cup semi-final.
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        531 52 / 53 Di Matteo insists they will not hold back against Spurs despite tough games ahead We’ll do “whatever it takes” to reach the FA Cup final. Even if it means compromising our Champions League dreams, said Chelsea caretaker manager Roberto Di Matteo as they prepare for a
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        430 52 / 53 PA Sport FERNANDO Torres admitted yesterday that he was like a tourist on his maiden visit to Wembley last year but there was only one souvenir on his mind ahead of Chelsea’s FA Cup semi-final against Tottenham. Despite being in England since 2007, Torres
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        783 54 / 55  -  After several misses, Carroll scores winner to send Reds into second cup final of the season YOUR ENGLISH KAKI IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM WEMBLEY SEMI-FINAL LIVERPOOL 2 (Luis Suarez 62, Andy Carroll 87) EVERTON1 (Nikica Jelavic 24) It will take a lot more than
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        665 54 / 55 PA Sport Andy Carroll headed Liverpool through to the FA Cup final and then said: “It’s the best feeling ever.” The £35 million ($69m) striker was the Wembley hero for Kenny Dalglish’s side, scoring in the 87th minute to earn a 2-1 win over Everton at
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        1057 58 / 59  -  LionsXII lose first away match after tepid display ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg PKNS1 (Michael Nicoise 80) LIONSXII 0 REPORTING FROM PETALING JAYA It was amatter of time. Sooner or later, the hectic schedule of nine games in a month was going to take its toll. At the Petaling Jaya
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        208 58 / 59  -  DAVID LEE 8th minute After a slow start, PKNS’ Azrif Nasrulhaq Badrul fires a shot straight at goalkeeper Hyrulnizam Juma’at. 26th minute LionsXII not creating many chances.Their only shot on target is this scuffed volley from Shahril Ishak after Safuwan Baharudin knocks down Shahdan Sulaiman’s free-kick. 36th minute
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          137 58 / 59 *All telecasts live unless otherwise stated. For the latest, please check www.mio.singtel.com/miotv www.starhub.com/tv *Programme times, provided by SingTel StarHub, subject to change LIVE TELECASTS EPL Tonight: I MAN UNITED v ASTON VILLA SingTel mioTVCh 102 (mio Stadium), 11pm Tuesday: I ARSENAL v WIGAN SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio
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          27 58 / 59 NBA Today: I MINNESOTA v OKLAHOMA CITY StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 8am Tomorrow: I LA LAKERS v DALLAS MAVERICKS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 3.30am
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          34 58 / 59 US PGA: RBC HERITAGE Tomorrow: I DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 3am MAYBANK MALAYSIAN OPEN Today: I DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena) Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 11.30am
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          40 58 / 59 CHINESE GRAND PRIX Today: I PREVIEW SingTel mioTVCh 115 (STAR Sports), 2pm I MAIN RACE SingTel mio TV Ch 115 (STAR Sports) Ch 117 (ESPN HD), 2.45pm I CHEQUERED FLAG SingTel mio TV Ch 115 (STAR Sports), 4.45pm
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