The New Paper, 15 June 2012

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  • 20 1 the new paper FRIDAY JUNE 15 2012 II A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS SldJ I PUBLICATION 090/01/2012 (P) MICA CENTS 70
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    • 81 1 FRIDAY JUNE 15 2012 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 thenewpaper 090/01/2012 (P) MICA CENTS 70 PICTUR SHINMINDAILYNEWS Euro 2012 Italy 1 Croatia 1 He’s Croatia’s Super Mario Spain v Ireland reports in Sports Noon Edition DIVORCE RAMPAGE Man in ugly break-up hurls chair and rams his car into three
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  • News
    • 980 2 / 3  -  Marriage broken Chair thrown Cars rammed Husband goes on rampage at estranged wife’s workplace REPORT: VALERIE KOH valkoh@sph.com.sg AFTER eight years of marriage, she handed her husband the divorce papers last October. The break-up was anything but amicable, and on May 7, it took a nasty, violent
      PICTURES: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS  -  980 words
    • 375 2 / 3  -  REPORT: DAVID SUN davidsun@sph.com.sg HE WAS having a drink with his colleagues at a table nearby when he heard aloud thud behind him. When he turned, the man, who wanted to be known only as Mr Joe, 31, a commercial relocator, saw
      TNP PICTURE: ARIFFIN JAMAR  -  375 words
    • 639 4  -  Nine suspects arrested for illegal betting and bookmaking in Geylang during Euro 2012 match REPORT: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg CUSTOMERS in a crowded Geylang coffee shop were glued to the television screens showing the Euro 2012 match between Denmark and Portugal early yesterday morning. Unknown to
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    • 548 6 / 7  -  Low-wage earners welcome pay hike that will kick in soon REPORT PICTURE: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg THIS retail assistant is delighted. She can expect to get a pay rise of 140 from next month. Madam Boon Lye Chan, 54, who works at the FairPrice Finest
      TNP GRAPHICS: SIMON ANG; Source: Department of Statistics.  -  548 words
    • 227 6 / 7 LOW-WAGE workers usually see only small pay rises, if any. This is because the jobs they perform are only worth that much based on current market conditions, said Associate Professor Lim Ghee Soon of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School’s Department of Management
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    • Local News watch
      • 109 8 / 9 SINGAPORE needs to double the number of blood donors to meet the target recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO). The Singapore Red Cross Society made the call yesterday on World Blood Donor Day. Currently, about one per cent of Singapore’s population
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      • 103 8 / 9 STUDENTS prefer scholarships issued by local universities to those awarded by government agencies or companies, says a survey. The National University of Singapore retained the top spot, while the Nanyang Technological University moved up one spot to take second place this
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      • 87 8 / 9 SINGAPORE investment firm Temasek Holdings yesterday said it had applied for an increase in its quota for publicly traded securities in China. Under China’s Qualified For- eign Institutional Investors (QFII) program, only approved institutional investors can buy or sell yuan-denominated securities. Temasek
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      • 55 8 / 9 Mr Yam Ah Mee, chief executive director of People’s Association, joins 40 first- and second-year students from Nanyang Polytechnic’s food beverage business course in making some 400 dumplings at UOB Plaza. The dumplings will go to almost 100 elderly residents living in nine rental flats at Beach Road.
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      • 258 8 / 9 MEDICAL equipment like oxygen masks, feeding tubes and crutches, used to conjure up memories of pain and suffering for her. Miss Alvina Neo, 23, has a chronic spinal condition that limits her ability to move around. However, under the guidance of a team of medical
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      • 261 8 / 9 Launch of book on climate change strategy DEPUTY Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean has urged everyone to play their part to combat climate change. Mr Teo made the call at the launch of Singapore’s National Climate Change Strategy 2012 publication
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      • 94 8 / 9 FIFTY young people from eight nationalities are taking a journey on the inaugural Friendship Express. It is a pilot project by the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) aimed at promoting cross-bor-youth in the der friendship among youth in the region. One of their destinations
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      • 92 8 / 9 FORMULA One hopes to push ahead with its US$2.5 billion (S$3.2 billion) listing in Singapore later this year, according to a source, as global financial markets are buffetted by uncertainty. Dow Jones Newswires reported last month that the group
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    • Crime File
      • 353 10  -  REPORT: JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg UNEMPLOYED and in debt, Yee Kwee Lan (right), 43, agreed last year to work for a syndicate involved in credit card fraud, by using other people’s credit cards to buy goods. Yesterday, Yee pleaded guilty to eight counts of conspiring
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      • 168 10 AN IMMIGRATION and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officer claimed that a lorry driver had tried to bribe him at the Woodlands Checkpoint. The officer then gave his superior and the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) a statement about the supposed incident. But the
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      • 205 10 When Khusin stopped the vehicle, the driver said he wanted to go to Woodlands Central and had made a wrong turn. The officer then directed the lorry to a nearby carpark for a security check. The court heard that three of the six women on the lorry then
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    • 1099 12  -  Budget airlines may have disclaimers, but Case says they should compensate consumers REPORT: ESTHER NG estherng@sph.com.sg COMPLAINTS about delays and flight cancellations by budget airlines have been around since they started. But what can you do if you are caught in the situation? Can you
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    • 558 15  -  Girl, 16, borrows IC to go clubbing REPORT: JOYCE LIM, DAVID SUN tnp@sph.com.sg SHE wanted to go clubbing. But she needs to be at least 18 years old to enter a club here. So Liu Yifan, a 16-year-old Nanyang Junior College student,
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    • 446 16  -  It’s the second such incident in just 12 days REPORT: EUNICE TOH etoh@sph.com.sg HE WAS stepping out of the MRT train when he lost his footing and his leg ended up trapped in the platform gap. Just 12 days after a woman had her
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    • Article, Illustration
      607 20 US surgeon on the run after allegedly killing ex-girlfriend HE IS a decorated soldier whose military career spanned 18 years and included numerous medals and achievements. On Wednesday, though, he was a suspect in a case where he allegedly shot his former girlfriend several times at point-blank range. The
      PICTURES: INTERNET, AP  -  607 words
    • Global News watch
      • 120 22 / 23 Reuters THE Malaysian government has asked parliament to approve an extra RM13.8 billion (S$5.5 billion) in spending for 2012, lawmakers said yesterday, taking total expenditure this year about 6 per cent above the initial RM230 billion national Budget. The
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      • 108 22 / 23 AFP POLICE shot dead an armed pro-in-dependence activist in Indonesia’s restive Papua province yesterday, angering residents, who set homes and cars ablaze. National police spokesman Mu- hammad Taufik said the victim, identified only by the initials MT, was from the pro-independence West
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      • 105 22 / 23 Myanmar’s Suu Kyi warns investors off state oil gas firm Reuters MYANMAR’S Aung San Suu Kyi has urged foreign governments not to allow their companies to do joint ventures with the state-owned oil and gas company until it improved transparency and accountability. Ms Suu Kyi, speaking to the Inter- national
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      • Article, Illustration
        40 22 / 23 Nick Franklin of New Zealand performing a demo jump in front of the Hagia Sofia museum to announce the third stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour, a freestyle-motocross competition, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Wednesday. PICTURE: AFP
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      • 240 22 / 23 3.1 million sq km of ocean to be protected AP AUSTRALIA has created the world’s largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing as well as oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food. With the
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      • 257 22 / 23 Reuters NOKIA plans to cut 10,000 more jobs, bringing the total to one in three staff, as it loses market share to mobile phone rivals Apple and Samsung and burns through cash, raising new fears over its future. In a second profit warning in nine
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      • 112 22 / 23 AFP THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund (IMF) reiterated that is has no plans to provide financial aid to Spain, as the country’s debt costs soar after unveiling a European Union (EU) rescue plan for its banks. But it urged Spain to stick
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      • 103 22 / 23 AP SCIENTISTS have mapped just which germs normally live in or on us and where. They have calculated that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes. Many of these organisms work to keep humans healthy,
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      • 31 22 / 23 Popular Indian guru Swami Nityananda, who’s facing assault and sexual abuse charges, appearing for his bail plea outside a court at Ramanagar District near Bangalore yesterday. PICTURE: AFP
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    • 488 24 Rohingya Muslims despised in Myanmar, rejected by Bangladesh AP They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse when their existence is acknowledged. Asia’s one million-plus ethnic Rohingya Muslims are considered by rights groups to be among the most persecuted people on earth. Most
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    • 486 26 A SPURNED lover allegedly forced his ex-girlfriend to tie her daughter to a chair and watch as he fatally shot the young woman in the head. Prosecutors have filed murder charges against the man in the US state of Indiana for the incident which
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    • 543 27 Acrobat to attempt to cross famous waterfall on tightrope today AS HE does every time he walks on a tightrope, Mr Nik Wallenda will say a little prayer today as he mounts the thin steel wire for what could be his greatest aerial triumph. Perched
      PICTURES: AP  -  543 words
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  • Show
    • 952 40 / 41  -  White guys with guitars appear to be an epidemic on American Idol, says Kris Allen REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg ARE “white guys with guitars” (WGWG) killing American Idol? Of late, the reality singing show has crowned, in succession, five nice-guy types with a
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    • 262 40 / 41 Between them, they have eight Grammy Awards, an Oscar, a hit TV series, and millions in album sales. These American Idol girls show you don’t have to be a white guy with a guitar to make it big. Kelly Clarkson, 30 Idol’s first-ever winner may
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    • 868 42  -  So she joins personal grooming, professional modelling course LOCAL TRANSSEXUAL ENTERTAINER ABIGAIL CHAY SAYS: REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg AFTER a sex change operation at 22 and living your life as a woman for the last 31 years, imagine being told you are not
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    • Show watch
      • 107 43 GONE are Anne Hathaway’s signature long auburn locks. In their place, a short impish crop. Her shocking transformation was for her role in the upcoming big-screen adaptation of the hit musical, Les Miserables. The 29-year-old US actress plays Fantine, a factory worker forced
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      • 101 43 SHE is still Jenny From The Block despite all the rocks she has. US pop star Jennifer Lopez recently visited a children’s hospital in Panama City ahead of her Dance Again World Tour, which kicked off yesterday at the Figali Convention Center in Panama
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      • 110 43 Michael Chiang’s iconic Army Daze is back with a special 25th anniversary musical edition, featuring local artistes such as Dennis Chew, Chua Enlai and Norleena Salim. Directed by Fly Entertainment artiste Beatrice Chia-Richmond, the 2012 musical about the escapades of army recruits Edward, Johari, Krishna, Kenny and
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      • 115 43 SHE’S got the X Factor after all. Former judge of reality singing show The X Factor US and Pussycat Doll, Nicole Scherzinger (left), has been offered US$1 million (S$1.28 million) to take on the role of singing critic for the upcoming ninth season
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      • 111 43 IT IS back to school for Mark Wahlberg (right). The American actor, known for his chequered past, told TV host David Letterman about his intentions on getting his high school diploma. A school drop-out at age 13, Wahlberg said: “I am going back now.
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    • Travel
      • 679 46 / 47  -  Must-see places in centralJapan REPORT: TAN MAE LYNN maelynn@sph.com.sg THIS is a holiday destination that’s “satisfaction guaranteed”. You can’t go wrong with Japan any part of it. It’s one country I would visit every year if I could afford it and I’m normally not one to
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      • 521 48  -  Central Embassy, shopping mall housing luxury brands, to open end-2013 REPORT: JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg BANGKOK is a favourite destination for many Singaporeans, thanks to the cheap and good food and endless shopping. But even though the capital has long been a magnet for travellers from
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  • Page 49 Miscellaneous
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  • Racing
    • 1611 60 / 61 ANDREW FROST’S COMMENTS ON TODAY’S KRANJI POLYTRACKMEETING RACE1 (1,000m) 1 Carnival Star)))First run on Poly in Class 5 a tad disappointing but has better life-time form than most of these. 2 His My Idol))Blinkers go back on and he reverts to
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    • 1409 60 / 61 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 C5 6.20 -1000m Stakes: $35,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 9-686- Carnival Star 59 (42) O Bosson 9 (4nzg RB Marsh-Drummond Red) 2 4784-4 His My Idol 59 (42) YF Leong 11 (5nzg
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    • 135 62 STC FROM today until the end of October, racegoers can visit the Upper Grandstand at a promotional admission fee of $5 (Ez-link Cards/Cash Cards) and $6 (Cash Ticket) on Singapore racedays. The normal fees are $7 and $8 respectively. In addition, registered customers of the
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    • 352 62  -  BESTBETS TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg TWO-TIME Singapore champion jockey Joao Moreira is back from a four-day suspension today and looks set to continue where he left off. He has been booked for six good rides and, with luck, can
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      430 62 Tan Thean Loon Andrew Frost Brian Miller MrX 1 RACE 10 10 10 Maha Veeran 8 Maha Veeran Maha Veeran 8 4 3 Perfect Kid 3 10 4 Pegasus Victory Zac Imperial Pegasus Victory Winning Dan 9 1 Perfect Kid 2 RACE Carnival Star 11 11 11 Easy
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    • 1634 63  -  KrisFlyer winner Ato also shows up with guns blazing KRANJI BARRIER TRIALS TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg INDICIO is set to return to the winning list, judging by his trial win at Kranji yesterday morning. Lining up for the sixth of eight heats, the Stephen Gray-trained three-year-old gelding
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    • 695 64 / 65 KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK NST SOVIET SNIPER wound up preparations for a comeback win in The Hong Kong Jockey Club Trophy for Class 5 horses over 1,800m in Race 4 tomorrow with a stylish workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the
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    • 1225 64 / 65 Friday EUROPE 7:30 PM Toulouse 1 CLASS €16,000 DAURADE STAKES 1200m No Form Name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Etalondes Seyfeddine American Deal Capearth Complimentor Morandi Flauta Magica Has Age Wgt Draw Jockey Win% Trainer Win% 2 fr-c 58 1] 2 ire-c 58
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    • 271 64 / 65 6:15 Race 1 JUVENILE Plate 1400M JUVENILE Plate 1400M 1 LEVAR F Hertioldt (11) 58 2 PLACIDO WKennedy (3) 58 3 BISHOP'S CHOICE KTeetan 6:55 Race 2 Maiden Plate (F M) 1200M 4 JETSCREEN ADomeyer (8) 56 5 POLESTAR RFourie (2) 56 6 CONUNDRUM
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    • 594 64 / 65 I FAIRVIEW PREVIEW RACE1 (1,400m) (1) LE VAR showed pace and won a good feature last time out. He should enjoy the step-up in trip and is the horse to beat. (2) PLACIDO has tried the trip before and ran on nicely
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    • 108 86 / 87 Congratulations to the winners of the late night Euro screenings at The New Paper Sports Bar Some of the screening dates reflected in winners’ tickets were wrong. Kindly note the correct dates of the match screenings: 16th Jun (Sat morning) Sweden v England Timing: 2:45am 23rd Jun (Sat morning) Quarter
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  • Sports
    • 344 88 WHO ’S THIS MAN? GROUP C ITALY 1 (Andrea Pirlo 39) CROATIA 1 (Mario Mandzukic 72) DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg THIS is turning out to be the European Championship for Super Marios. Okay, maybe not Balotelli. But just one day after Mario Gomez took his tally to three after a brace
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    • Sports watch
      • 98 66 AP REIGNING Olympic gold medalist Rafael Nadal will lead Spain’s tennis team at the London games. The record seven-time French Open winner will be joined by the sixth-ranked David Ferrer, Nicolas Almagro and Fernando Verdasco in singles, while Feliciano Lopez and Marcel
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      • 116 66 Reuters A CONSORTIUM led by businessman Charles Green said yesterday it had taken over stricken Scottish club Rangers and urged Ally McCoist to stay following media reports he was on the verge of walk- ing out as manager. Rangers, champions a
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      • 115 66 DESPITE a final round score of 80 his first round over par in the tournament Thomas Tan was victorious at the Royal Selangor Seletar Junior Open at Seletar Country Club yesterday. He won by a decisive five strokes over runner-up Lucius Toh.
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      • 511 66  -  Ongleads the way as S’pore swimmers continue to plunder in the pool ANDREW SEAH aseah@sph.com.sg THE Singapore men flexed their muscles yesterday at the South-east Asian (SEA) Swimming Championships as the host nation continued to rule in the pool at the inaugural regional
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    • NBA Finals
      • 586 67 He maybe a superstar, but Durant prefers to avoid the spotlight AP GAME 2 OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER v MIAMI HEAT (Today, 9.30am, StarHub TV Ch 202) KEVIN Durant walks around without the burden of pressure that LeBron James carries on his shoulders playing for the Miami
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    • Football
      • 603 68 / 69  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg PORTUGAL the undisputed kings of Europe? No way, Jose. Even after watching his country beat Denmark in the European Championship yesterday morning, Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho doesn’t think Portugal are one of the best teams in the tournament. The 49-year-old, who
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      • 1110 68 / 69 The Special One voiced his unique viewpoints DAVID LEE compiles some of his gems from his latest visit to Singapore What do you think is the most important part of coaching young people? I THINK of my son and what I want his coaches to
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      • 467 68 / 69  -  TANJONG PAGAR UNITED 0 HOUGANG UNITED 1 (Jordan Webb 65) S-LEAGUE DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Tanjong Pagar coach Terry Pathmanathan was hoping for a fourth straight win when the S-League restarted after a one-month break last night. Imagine the shock when he found out he couldn’t field
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    • Malaysian Super League
      • 510 70  -  ALI KASIM THE LIONSXII may be the highest scoring team in the Malaysian Super League, but don’t expect a goalfest tomorrow. That is because V Sundramoorthy has only one fit striker in Agu Casmir available for the game against Sabah at the Jalan Besar Stadium.
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      • 577 70  -  LIONSXIIv SABAH (Tomorrow, 7.30pm, StarHubTV Ch 201) V SUNDRAMOORTHY npsports@sph.com.sg A winning coach must compromise between getting results and entertaining fans I’VE been hearing a lot of talk lately about the ongoing European Championships being a bit of a bore. Big teams
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    • EPL
      • 757 71 PA Sport HARRY Redknapp feels he would have been sacked even if Tottenham had qualified for the Champions League but is not ready to retire just yet. Spurs confirmed the 65-year-old’s departure in the early hours of this morning. Redknapp feels this outcome was inevitable, regardless
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      • 314 71 AFP RAY Wilkins has welcomed Roberto di Matteo’s appointment as Chelsea’s new full-time manager. The Italian’s spell as caretaker boss saw him bring the Champions League trophy to Stamford Bridge for the first time. “I’m delighted for him,” said Wilkins, a television pundit.
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    • EURO 2012
      • 463 72 Denmark players promise to overcome Germany in their last Group B match AFP DENMARK will go for the win in their final game against table-toppers Germany on Monday. Their players have vowed to overcome the disappointment of losing 3-2 to Portugal in their Euro 2012 Group
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      • 402 72 DaniisshFAttoBeendttneerr::D a n h F A o B n d n Wire Services TALK about getting your knickers in a twist. The Danish Football Association was in damage control mode yesterday after Nicklas Bendtner dropped his pants in a goal-scoring stunt they say breached an exclusive
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      • 728 73  -  The Peacock’s misfiring, and he’s also not pulling his weight for his team IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg GROUP B DENMARK 2 (Nicklas Bendtner41,80) PORTUGAL 3 (Pepe 24, Helder Postiga 36, Silvestre Varela 87) FOR HIS club, he is a god. For his country, he is
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      • Article, Illustration
        490 74 Sneijder apologises to Dutch fans after defeat to Germany HE KNOWS his team only have themselves to blame. And without making excuses for their defeat to Germany yesterday, Holland’s Wesley Sneijder apologised for the poor performance of the Dutch national team in an interview with Dutch broadcaster NOS.
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      • 606 75  -  Our analyst tells RONALD LOH that the Dutch don’t deserve to advance with their poor attitude and their defeat by Germany RAY HOUGHTON EYE ON THE BALL npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM KHARKIV GROUP B HOLLAND 1 (Robin van Persie 73) GERMANY 2 (Mario Gomez 24,38) ON
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      • 317 75 7th min: First chance of the game and it falls to Robin van Persie. A ball over the top catches the German defence flat-footed. Van Persie runs through, meets the ball with an outstretched left foot, but his weak effort is saved easily. 24th min: GOAL! Holland 0
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      • 674 76 / 77  -  OUR EURO 2012 MAN GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg GROUP B HOLLAND 1 (Robin van Persie 73) GERMANY 2 (Mario Gomez 24, 38) THE FLUIDITY, the cunning and the panache. This could have been Holland all right, but the Oranje were instead on the receiving end. It
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      • 325 76 / 77 Wire Services IF YOU think the Germans feel like hitting the cruise button for their last match in Group B, think again. The Germans, who now have six points with two wins from two matches, only have to manage a
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      • 255 76 / 77 He may have scored a brace against Holland, but German striker Mario Gomez insists it’s still early days. The German team, his coach Joachim Loew and a former critic give their assessment after his performance “Mario Gomez has always been a fighter type.
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      • 936 78 AFP FRANCK Ribery and Karim Benzema will be expected to raise their game when France meet Ukraine tonight in a match crucial to their Euro 2012 prospects. Their respective performances in Monday’s 1-1 draw with England were far from catastrophic, but neither the Bayern
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      • 457 79 Wire services THE pairing of veteran duo Andriy Shevchenko and Andriy Voronin is expected to cause plenty of headaches for the French. Shevchenko bagged a double to lead Ukraine to a 2-1 win over a more fancied Sweden outfit, his first brace since November 2004
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      • 840 80  -  REPORTING FROM KIEV Fans and residents of the two host nations say reports of racism are exaggerated, but it doesn ’t mean it doesn ’t exist REPORT and PICTURE: GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg WHAT started off as whispers gained full momentum when a British television
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      • 218 81 SOME musically inclined England fans were surprised after they drove 4,500km for their team’s group opener against France on Monday (Tuesday morning Singapore time), only to have their instruments confiscated before entering the Donbass Arena. And while they were handed back their instruments after
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      • 127 81 Wire Services HE WAS about to take a free-kick, but instead, Poland midfielder Ludovic Obraniak kicked a water bottle in anger when he was substituted before his shot. The petulant kick and subsequent cussing came as he was taken off by his
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      • 125 81 AP NEARLY two dozen hooligans have been convicted in fast-track trials for their role in violent clashes when Poland and Russia faced off in an emotionally charged European Championship match earlier this week, court officials said on Thursday. Poland is hoping that the fast-tracked
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      • 689 82 / 83  -  ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg IT STARTED 20 years ago at the 1992 European Championships in Sweden. In front of the TV, my dad cheered for England, the team in white, the team with recognisable faces like Gary Lineker, David Platt and Stuart Pearce. Earlier that same
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      • 572 82 / 83 SWEDEN’S midfielder Anders Svensson has suggested that English arrogance is the explanation for their poor record against them and is adamant that the two countries will go into tomorrow morning’s (Singapore time) crunch match as footballing equals. A 2-1 defeat against Ukraine on
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      • 410 84 / 85  -  Both Big and Little Huat are harmonious once again, picking Sweden as winners ANDREW SEAH aseah@sph.com.sg THEY are at it again. For the second successive time, Big Huat and Little Huat have mirrored each other’s predictions. Yesterday, at the Qian Hu Fish Farm, both Huats
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      • Article, Illustration
        407 84 / 85 PA Sport GROUP D SWEDEN v ENGLAND (Tomorrow, 2.15am, StarHub TV Ch 225 227 and SingTel mioTVCh 118) DANNY Welbeck insists he newly-acquired status as England’s number one striker does not bother him. The 21-year-old Manchester United forward is as laid-back a character as you could wish to
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      • 742 84 / 85 PA Sport ENGLAND boss Roy Hodgson accepts his side will still need to claim a positive result from their final game against Ukraine no matter what happens against Sweden in Kiev tomorrow morning (Singapore time). Ukraine’s victory against Sweden, following England’s draw with France last
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      • 696 86 / 87  -  ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg GROUPC ITALY 1 (Andrea Pirlo 39) CROATIA 1 (Mario Mandzukic 72) THE DUTCH are on the brink of elimination. The English have failed to impress. Leave it to the Croatians to steal all the hype from the big boys. Leave it to
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      • Article, Illustration
        327 86 / 87  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg TINKERBELL was what an Italian commentator once dubbed Juventus’ Andrea Pirlo and this morning the 33-year-old proved he still has fairydust in his boots. Just when Croatia seemed so hard to break down, up stepped the midfielder with a peach of a free-kick into the
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      • ON TV
        • 153 86 / 87 LIVETELECASTS EURO 2012 All matches on StarHub TV Ch 225 227 (Euro 2012) and SingTel mioTV Ch 118 (Uefa Euro) Tonight: I UKRAINE v FRANCE 11.30pm Tomorrow: I SWEDEN v ENGLAND 2.15am Sunday: I CZECH REP v POLAND StarHub TV Ch 226 228 (Euro 2012), 2.45am; SingTel mio TV
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        • 19 86 / 87 NBA FINALS GAME 2 Today: I OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER v MIAMI HEAT StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 9.30am
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        • 14 86 / 87 US OPEN Today: I DAY 2 SingTel mio TV Ch 114 (ESPN), 11.55pm
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