The New Paper, 30 May 2012

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    18 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY MAY 30 2012 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION 090/01/2012 (P) MICA CENTS 70
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      78 1 Horror on PIE Motorcyclist’s leg severed in crash with bus Page 4 Bt Merah murder Victim ‘had a lot of anger, but had mellowed’ Page 6 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 WOMAN KILLED IN SENGKANG FLAT FIRE Unlucky in life and in love... All she wanted was a family
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      Lock icon UNLUCKY IN LOVE
      883 2 / 3  -  Woman burned to death was twice divorced REPORTS JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg HER father died when she was barely a year old. When she was four years old, her mother left her in the care of her grand-aunt and relocated to Taiwan. Even though Ms Mary Yoong Mei
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      Lock icon Man charged with her murder
      217 2 / 3 LIM GHIM Peow, 44, who allegedly set fire to a flat on the 14th storey of Block 206B, Compassvale Lane, has been charged with murder. Ms Mary Yoong Mei Ling, 43, was staying in the flat belonging to her aunt. Ms Yoong had been in
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      53 2 / 3 “Please, not in Bishan East” (The New Paper, May 28): Our picture caption read: Resident Cheong Weng Kit rallies residents to object to proposed home. This is incorrect. It should read: Residents responding to Mr Cheong Weng Kit, who asked them if they believed that the Government takes care
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      Lock icon Motorists brave rush-hour traffic to help biker
      659 4  -  Doctors could notre-attach leg severed in motorcycle’s collision with bus REPORT LEDIATI TAN ledtan@sph.com.sg THE collision with a bus sliced off his right leg just above the knee. Technician Muhammad Farhan Yusof, 24, was heading home after work when his motorcycle collided with
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      Lock icon She screamed on bus ride home
      992 6  -  Receptionist stunned to learn stepbrother was murdered on Monday REPORT AMANDA PHUA aphua@sph.com.sg SHE couldn’t believe what she had heard. A couple of frantic calls later, Miss Nur Asyira Abd Rahman broke down on the bus. The 27-year-old had just received news that her
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      512 7  -  S’porean charged with fixing LionsXII game REPORT SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB, DILENJIT SINGH tnp@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Joyce Lim JUST last week, a policeman and a businessman, both Malaysians, were charged in a Singapore district court with agreeing to receive bribes in exchange for fixing a
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      630 10 / 11  -  Monthly waste collection prices up Waste collection costs are going up, landfills are filling up, it's time to remember that old adage: REPORT ESTHER NG estherng@sph.com.sg FUEL and labour costs are going up. Land is becoming scarcer and more expensive. All this adds to the cost
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      367 10 / 11 THE Government is considering using just one company to collect recycled items. It is also studying if there should be just one central place where the items should go a material recovery facility (MRF). The reason: To reap economies of scale and optimise land
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        207 12  -  REPORT JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg HIS job required him to collect cash from customers for the sale of goods, but he took the money and gambled it away at the Marina Bay Sands casino. Lee Yee Mun, 31, a sales executive with Kian Ho Bearings, took
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        Lock icon Jailed for adding blood to coffee
        525 12  -  REPORT SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg THE crime she committed was nauseating. Jumiah, a 24-year-old Indonesian maid who goes by just the one name, tainted her then-employer’s coffee with her menstrual discharge because she believed that he would be nice to her after consuming the drink.
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        Lock icon Man charged with mother’s murder at Bukit Batok
        112 12  -  REPORT SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg A 31 -YEAR-OLD man was charged yesterday with murdering his mother on Sunday evening. Sujay Solomon Sutherson allegedly killed Madam Mallika Jesudasan, 56, sometime between 6.30pm and 10.40pm in a flat in Block 248, Bukit Batok East Avenue
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      417 13  -  Winner at TNP Cash Converters Treasure Hunt does it in 15 hours REPORT MARK LEONG marklyw@sph.com.sg HE lives in Choa Chu Kang, but made the one-hour trip to Tampines three times last week to take part in The New Paper Cash Converters Treasure Hunt. Mr
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      373 14  -  Enemy soldiers on the prowl would need to rest and plan their next move. But this scout in the sky can stalk them without a break for 24 hours. The Heron 1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is the latest addition to the Republic of Singapore Air
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      Lock icon Kidnapped boy’s father loses job
      695 15 Employer wants family to leave M’sia, but dad refuses STILL grappling with the trauma of 12-year-old Nayati Moodliar’s kidnapping last month, the boy’s family has been dealt a fresh blow. The father, Mr Shamelin Moodliar, 41, alleges that he has been fired from his job
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      Lock icon HK supermarkets’ food discards can feed 48,000 families
      361 15 A STUDY by a Hong Kong environment group has revealed staggering levels of food wastage. The Friends of the Earth said that the Chinese territory’s four supermarket chains throw away 29 tonnes of still-edible food every day, South China Morning Post reported.
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      441 18 Pahang man nabbed for running online exotic pet business THE 30-year-old mechanic had a thriving online business selling exotic pets, a business that raked in thousands of ringgit. He allegedly sourced the animals from a supplier in Kampung Simpai Orang Asli settlement in
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      467 18 A ROAD marshal has said that spectators at a drag race in Putrajaya, Malaysia, last Saturday were not supposed to have been standing on the side of the road where a racer crashed his car. The car slammed into and injured 17 people at the
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      548 19 EPL player Titus Bramble on trial for sexual assault. Lawyer says: HE COULD have got away scot-free. But English Premier League footballer Titus Bramble ended up in a police station because a taxi driver realised that the woman with him in the cab
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      429 20 US teen started her collection four years ago and celebrities know her by name AT 16, she is living the Hollywood dream. She is a constant fixture at red carpet events and often runs into celebrities such as Miley Cyrus in her neighbourhood.
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      Lock icon Woman slips from harness during skydive
      336 20 THE video clip made shocking viewing. An 81 -year-old woman was left precariously dangling from her skydiving instructor as she hurtled towards the ground at about 200kmh. Furthermore, Ms Laverne Everett could not see what was happening as her shirt flew up, covering her
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      199 12 Providing Lifelong Learning Opportunities CPE Reg. No. *****4002N 19 Aug 2011 to 18 Aug 2015 Date 08 June 2012 (Fri) Time 7:30pm Venue Suntec City #03-084 Speaker Mr. Edgar Tham (Registered Psychologist Business/Executive Coach) Register online at www.uptrendcollege.com 9 Master the N T i HERIOT Master of Science in Business
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      102 13 Transfer Funds Happy Bills Stand to be one of 3 lucky winners to win up to lOx your funds transfer or bill payment amount* done through UOB Personal Internet Banking or UOB Mobile. Congratulations to our April winners! K.X ANG Sxxxx825J K.H NG Sxxxx068Z H.H LAU Sxxxx982Z Transferring funds paying
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      154 16 / 17 Visit us PC Show 2012 for exciting promotions and unbelievable deals! Venue: Suntec Convention, Level 3 Concourse Newstead Booth No: 315 Date: 7 -10 June 2012 Time: 12pm 9pm Audio-Technica Ambassador BoA PURE WHITE LOOK. PURE SOUND CLARITY. When you get Grammy® Award-winning audio engineers and producers like George Massenburg,
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      21 19 OUT NOW! GOLIONS! Malaysia Cup in ON iPHONE ANDROID Get all the excitement and action with our free smartphone app thenewpaper
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      36 19 i/v/V JACKPOT Estimated Draw on Thu, 31 May 2012 at 6.30pm at PoMo For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg Always play with care, Do not bet illegally. RGB Reg No: *****0202G Towards Community Purpose and Benefit SINGAPORE POOLS
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      973 21  -  She’s keeping everyone guessing on her whereabouts REPORT GERALD GOH, DAVID SUN ggerald@sph.com.sg and davidsun@sph.com.sg SO WHERE is Lady Gaga and what has she been up to? Ever since the US pop star descended on our shores on Saturday afternoon, Twitter and Facebook have been abuzz as
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      Lock icon Madonna expresses herself with dig at Gaga’s Born This Way
      250 22  -  Gerald Goh LADY Gaga had already tweeted that she was feeling “devastated” over the cancellation of her Jakarta concert. But US pop star Madonna, 53, has added salt to the wound. Leaked footage of her concert rehearsal in Israel for
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      717 23  -  Eric Moo irks some fans by speaking about religion, singing gospel songs during concert REPORT TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg THROUGHOUT his 30-year showbiz career, Eric Moo has done countless live performances and concerts in Singapore. But This Is My World, held last Sunday at Suntec Convention Centre,
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        708 24  -  YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg I AM a big fan of soup. When there is soup, all is good. My mother handles the cooking at home and almost always, there is soup at home. Simple or fancy, there will be a soup for every occasion, ailment
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        121 25 THE skies have not been so friendly to Kim Kardashian. The 31-year-old US reality TV star alleged on Twitter that personal items were stolen from her luggage on a flight from Cannes to Los Angeles. “Very disappointed in British Airways for opening my luggage and taking
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        100 25 JENNY McCarthy will not be admiring her upcoming Playboy spread alone. The actress, 39, has admitted that she has been dating Brian Urlacher, 34, a professional American footballer with the Chicago Bears, for a month. A source told Chicago Sun Times that McCarthy feels the romance is
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        189 25 THE NEW Paper New Face 2012 search is going online. Ten girls have been shortlisted and you have the chance to pick three to advance to Round 2. Visit www.facebook.com/TheNew PaperNewFace2012 and “like” the girl you think most deserving of moving on in the contest.
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        110 25 THEY may not be together anymore, but it doesn’t mean they can’t be friends. Divorced couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony showed there was no bad blood between them when they held hands and embraced at the Q'Viva The Chosen concert in Las Vegas. Lopez, 42, and
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        98 25 HOLLYWOOD actress Ashley Judd played the supporting and loving wife on Sunday when her husband, Dario Franchitti, won the Indianapolis 500 for the third time. The visibly emotional 44-year-old was by his side during the celebration and also crowned him with a wreath. She said
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      40 22 SPOTTED LADY GAGA? Call our hotline to tell us where she is, or take a picture of her. If your story is published, you get a $200 NoQ store voucher. Call: 1800 733 44 55 SMS/MMS: 9477 8899 E-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg
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      197 26 WATCH ’EM Step Puteri Suria, 9pm In this new local drama, the lives of two girls from opposing cliques in school fall apart when their parents get married. They become stepsisters, who are forced to live together as a family under the same roof. Starring Ateeqah Mazlan, Alysaeudora RossanneAli. Combat
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      335 26 CHANNEL 5 12.30pm Sayang Sayang 1.00 India: A Love Story 2.00 The Contenders 2.30 The Dr Oz Show 3.30 The Chew 4.15 The Revolution 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 6.00 America’s Got Talent 7.00 Minute To Win It 8.00 We Are Singaporeans II 9.00 Ninja Warrior 9.30 News 5 Tonight
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      218 31 RETAIL SUPPORT ASSISTANT HOUSEKEEPING (FULL-TIME PART-TIME) Maintain cleanliness of store 5 daysʼ work week (Sunday off) Singapore citizens, Permanent Residents Malaysia Citizens may apply. An attractive salary, commission and benefits package await the right candidates. WALK-IN INTERVIEW Please bring along a recent passport-sized photograph, identity card and original educational certificates.
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      1371 36 RACE1 (1,000m) FORTUNE TOGETHER (8) isn’t reliable, but still has managed to finish in the thick of things for a cheque in seven of 11 starts. He quickened nicely for a 1,200m win in October over this course and is coming off a grinding
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      1128 36 RACE 1 CLASS 4TURF 1000m TIME 7:15 Stakes: HK$675,000 NO. HORSE NAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 RIDE ON THE FIRE C FOWNES B PREBBLE 133 1 2 KING OF THE DAY A T MILLARD A SUBORICS 131 8 3 D DAY SUPER
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      894 37 KRANJI IPOH TRACKWORK THE consistent TERMINATOR continued to burn up the training track at Kranji yesterday morning. Ridden by jockey Oscar Chavez, the Shane Baertschiger-trained three-year-old easily disposed of the last 600m on the Polytrack in 36.4sec and pulled up fresh as a daisy. The going
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      354 37 NST. GOLDEN JAGUAR can shine again in Saturday’s Class 4 event over 1,600m, going by his impressive workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the five-year-old New Zealand-bred went straight to the galloping track and covered the final 600m in 39sec. The
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      1243 38 / 39  -  KRANJI BARRIER TRIALS TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg THE speedy CALOMBARIS won well at Kranji yesterday morning. Lining up in the fourth of seven trials over 1,000m on the Polytrack, which was rated as good, the Cliff Brown-trained four-year-old showed his seven rivals a clean pair of
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      550 38 / 39 I SCOTTSVILLE PREVIEW RACE1 (1,000m) (13) HONORINE is by top stallion Redoute’s Choice and doesn’t need to be top class to win his debut. (14) ICEONIC is well related too. (12) DAY FLIGHT finished runner-up first-up and is bound to improve. (3) STUCK
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      703 56  -  Swimmer is youngest Sportsman of the Year LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg HE HAD finished his Math paper way ahead of the allocated two hours, but was not allowed to leave the exam hall early. And when the time was up, Joseph Schooling rushed out and made a
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        117 40  -  LIM SAY HENG THEY struggled on their first day in the Masters Qualifying at bowling’s Singapore International Open on Monday. But Asian powerhouses South Korea were back with a vengeance yesterday at the Orchid Bowl yesterday, claiming top spots in the overseas men and
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        111 40 AFP FORMER Formula One world champion Alan Jones yesterday urged Australian compatriot Mark Webber to leave Red Bull and join Ferrari, saying it would inject a “breath of fresh air” into his career. Speculation has linked Webber to a Ferrari seat alongside two-time world
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        95 40 AFP GOLFER Phil Mickelson confirmed on Monday that he has joined a group of investors seeking to buy the San Diego Padres, his hometown baseball team. Mickelson told the San Diego Union-Tribune that he had turned down previous opportunities to become
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        Lock icon Pennefather, Chng not keen to stay on
        488 40  -  SSC’S CHANGE OF POLICY LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg THE BIG change may be coming soon, but it won’t come fast enough for the likes of Chng Seng Mok and Annabel Pennefather. Yesterday, media reports said that the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) is likely
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      315 41  -  GOLF GODFREY ROBERT godfrey@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Golf Association (SGA) is in search of new national coach. Australian Brad McManus (right), who came on board almost a year ago, is resigning from the job. Currently in Kuala Lumpur with the national team for the Saujana Open,
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      479 41 Boston head coach unhappy that team were out-rebounded NBA Reuters MIAMI HEAT 93 BOSTON CELTICS 79 I Miami lead best-of-seven series 1-0 BOSTON Celtics head coach Doc Rivers demanded improvements across the floor from his team after they fell to a 93-79 defeat by the
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        Lock icon Nadal scampers into next round
        694 42 Wire Services SPANISH world No. 2 Rafael Nadal, bidding for a record seventh Roland Garros crown, sped into the second round at the French Open yesterday with a straight-set win over Italian Simone Bolelli. Nadal, out to surpass Swedish legend Bjorn Borg with whom he
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        380 42 Reuters MARIA Sharapova once likened her movement on clay to that of a “cow on ice”. But the Russian has now taken steps to shed that tag, as she bids to complete her Grand Slam collection by winning a maiden French Open title. The
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        448 43  -  Striker suffers recurrence ofgroin injury in practice SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg IT WAS supposed to be a simple, no-frills practice match for the national team last night. But the Lions were given a scare when forward Khairul Amri aggravated a groin injury just five minutes after coming on
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        Lock icon Tardy Aravinthan banned for two months by FAS
        314 43  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ THE REFEREE who allegedly turned up for a National Football League (NFL) match drunk on May 19 was suspended for two months yesterday. But, former national player T Aravinthan was not intoxicated, said the Football Association of Singapore (FAS).
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        Lock icon Just like a mafia movie
        694 44  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS WACKY WEDNESDAY npsports@sph.com.sg HOLLYWOOD continues to haunt Italy’s preparations for a major tournament. Not every footballer should be tainted with the same corrupt brush, but I must be honest. When I think of Italy manager Cesare Prandelli, I do not think “respected Italian
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        239 44 Wire Services JUVENTUS defender Leonardo Bonucci has been included in Italy’s final Euro 2012 squad, despite being mentioned in the latest match-fixing investigation to engulf the country. Bonucci is expected to face questioning as part of a probe carried out by Cremona prosecutors with regard
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        Lock icon The Roman general
        589 45  -  DANIELEDEROSSI is the vital cogin the Italian midfield JETHRO WANG jetwang@sph.com.sg ROME born and bred, AS Roma’s midfield general Daniele De Rossi has been a vital piece in his country’s engine room for the past decade. Usually sitting in front of the defence to mop up the
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        517 46 / 47 Uncapped Wolski is Poland’s ace in the pack These young guns from GroupAwillbe out to make a name for themselves AFP AFTER saving his club Legia Warsaw’s honour following a season-end slide from the top of the table, 19-year-old Poland newcomer Rafal Wolski is bracing himself to enter
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        419 46 / 47 AFP VACLAV Pilar may only be 1.7m tall, but he is fast building a reputation for being one of the most promising attacking midfielders in European football. The 23-year-old (right) has already earned high praise from former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, which should be warning
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        439 46 / 47  -  ANDREW SEAH ALAN Yelizbarovich Dzagoev may be a foreign and difficult to pronounce name for many. But, come Euro 2012, the 21-year-old Russian playmaker will be looking to establish himself as a household mainstay. The Beslan-born midfielder, of Ossetian descent, currently plies his trade
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        416 46 / 47 AFP YOUNG midfielder Kostas Fortounis could be the man to raise the low morale of crisis-hit Greece and propel the 2004 champions into the knock-out stages at Euro 2012. Despite being just 19 and having experienced the disappointment of relegation in his first season with
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        690 48 / 49 AFP ONCE a valued midfielder and respected club coach, Michal Bilek still has some way to go to cement his reputation on the world stage, despite steering the Czech Republic to the Euro 2012 Finals. The 47-year-old angered fans as soon as he took the
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        Lock icon Czech Republic
        805 48 / 49 GOALKEEPERS Petr Cech (Club: Chelsea, Age: 30) MOVED to Chelsea in 2003 and established himself as one of the top goalkeepers in the English Premier League. Named as best goalkeeper at the 2004 Euro tournament. Jan Lastuvka (Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, 29) VOTED Czech’s Young Player of the Year in
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        Lock icon Santos banks on EXPERIENCE
        715 50 / 51 AFP GREECE coach Fernando Santos must have done something right. Despite the country’s crippling financial crisis, he recently received a 45 per cent pay rise and a two-year extension on his contract. The Greek football federation justified his wage hike by paying tribute to the Portuguese
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        560 50 / 51 Reuters GOALKEEPERS Michalis Sifakis (Club: Aris Salonica, Age: 27) REVERED for his agility and reflex saves, Sifakis established himself as the No. 1 under Fernando Santos during the qualifying campaign. Alexandros Tzorvas (Palermo, 29) GREECE’S first choice at the 2010 World Cup, but has since fallen out of favour
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        Lock icon England must be BOLD,not BORING
        752 52 / 53  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg IT’S STARTED already in England. They just cannot help themselves. The unbearable optimism of the Three Lions supporters is rising once more. Even though the Norwegian defenders had one foot in the penalty box and the other on a beach in Barbados,
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        331 52 / 53 Reuters POLAND and Ukraine yesterday reacted sharply to British press charges of racism and mob violence on their terraces and gave assurances that foreign footballers and fans alike would be safe during the Euro 2012 tournament they will co-host next month. The neighbours, who will
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        Lock icon Welbeck, Johnson get Hodgson nod
        230 52 / 53 Reuters INJURED doubts Danny Welbeck and Glen Johnson were both passed fit to play at Euro 2012 after being included in England’s final 23-man squad last night. Manchester United striker Welbeck and Liverpool defender Johnson missed last Saturday’s 1-0 friendly victory over Norway in Oslo
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        162 52 / 53 Reuters INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY UKRAINE 4 (Andriy Yarmolenko 9, Oleg Gusev 34-pen, Andriy Voronin 41, Artem Milevsky 50) ESTONIA 0 UKRAINE recorded a comfortable 4-0 win over Estonia in a friendly in Kufstein, Austria, yesterday morning (Singapore time) in a Euro 2012 warm-up. Andriy Yarmolenko smashed
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        Lock icon Hazard made the right choice
        684 54 / 55  -  The precocious Belgian talent will be given time to settle in a Chelsea team in transition GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg WITH the acquisition of young Eden Hazard, the prototype of Chelsea version 2.0 is taking shape. This is a coup of sorts, even by Roman Abramovich’s
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        Lock icon United closing in on Kagawa
        157 54 / 55 Wire Services MANCHESTER United may have missed out on Eden Hazard, but Shinji Kagawa looks set to sign for the Red Devils. Borussia Dortmund midfielder Kagawa (right), 23, has been linked with United for some time and it appears the deal is moving closer to
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        Lock icon Champions League win clinches deal for Blues
        430 54 / 55 Wire Services EDEN Hazard demonstrated the increasing power of Twitter by finally announcing he has decided to join Chelsea this summer. The Lille playmaker continued to keep his followers on the social networking site in suspense on Monday by posting he had “made
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      • ON TV
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          184 54 / 55 TV*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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES Tomorrow: I SPAIN v SOUTH KOREA StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 2am I HOLLAND v SLOVAKIA StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 2.30am
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          17 54 / 55 WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Today: I SAN ANTONIO v OKLAHOMA CITY StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 9am
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          18 54 / 55 FRENCH OPEN Today: I DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 5pm
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          15 54 / 55 THE MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT Friday: I DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 255 (Sports HD), 3am
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