The New Paper, 14 August 2012

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    • 134 1 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 Netizens slam expat for saying local taxi drivers are the worst in the world is HE S’PORE’S MOST HATED CAB PASSENGER? Page 2 DRUNK UNDERGRAD TELLS RACIST JOKES IN VIDEO Police, university investigating Page 4 Get cash of up to 4X your monthly income,
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  • News
    • 1902 2 / 3  -  He says S’pore taxi drivers are the worst in the world REPORT: ESTHER NG, KOH HUI THENG tnp@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE cabbies are the worst in the world. They don’t know the way to destinations, they disappear when it rains, and they are picky when it
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    • 648 4  -  Video of SIM undergrad telling racist jokes at NUS creates uproar online REPORTS: DAVID SUN davidsun@sph.com.sg THEY were drinking, spewing vulgarities and egging each other on. The group of undergrads had gathered at Kent Ridge Hall in the National University of Singapore (NUS) to
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    • 229 4 A MANAGING director at the private banking arm of HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA) has claimed that he was defamed by a Yahoo user who impersonated him and made offensive remarks about Singaporeans, reported Bloomberg yesterday. Mr Sandeep Sharma had asked Singapore’s High
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    • 614 5  -  Seven vehicles involved in two accidents at same place on Sunday REPORT: EUNICE TOH, RENNIE WHANG tnp@sph.com.sg TWO accidents at the same traffic intersection. Just 15 minutes apart. This happened on Sunday night at the junction in front of Northpoint Shopping Centre. And what chaos. A BMW
      PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS; TNP PICTURE: BENJAMIN SEETOR  -  614 words
    • 506 6  -  REPORT: NG EE CHING neeching@sph.com.sg WHEN Madam Kelly Zotos woke up yesterday morning to send her children to school, she was greeted by the sight of clouds of smoke coming from a neighbouring house. What shocked
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    • 442 6  -  REPORT: YUEN SIN yuensin@sph.com.sg PART-TIME waiter Mohamad Rozaimi thought his ordeal was over when he managed to put out a fire at his third-storey lift landing with a pail of water. But then he heard cries about yet another fire just one level
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    • 433 7  - All-out search rescue for missing NSF REPORT: JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg THEY operate in a buddy system staying within each other’s eye-line while travelling in a convoy. But five minutes after setting off at 7.55am, his buddy in the front assault boat turned around only to find that Lance-Corporal (Lance Cpl)
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    • 1166 7  -  Man accused of rape insists he was at home or talking to neighbour REPORT: FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg HE WAS adamant in making his point that he was either at home, or talking to his neighbour when the crime allegedly happened. Sometimes, he would point his
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    • Parliament
    • Local News watch
    • The Big Picture
      • 810 12 / 13  -  Strong collection of entries as Big Picture contest wraps up its first year REPORT: JUSTIN ZHUANG tnp@sph.com.sg FROM personal family portraits to photos of national events, the Big Picture contest received more than 4,500 entries that together showcase everyday life in Singapore. Starting from
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      • 291 12 / 13 FOR the first 30 weeks of The Big Picture, Mr Ong Yi Chao submitted photo after photo, but never won. Undeterred, the 26-year-old freelance graphic designer studied the winning submissions and finally captured the top spot during the 31 st week of the contest.
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    • 638 14  -  REPORT: RENNIE WHANG wrennie@sph.com.sg IN SEPTEMBER last year, he was convicted of murdering a man. His appeal against the conviction, which carries the mandatory death penalty, was dismissed yesterday. But can recent proposed changes to the death penalty see a change in Fabian Adiu
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    • 1004 16  -  Veteran of many past Walks happy with this year’s heritage route REPORT: HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg HE HAS attended almost every Big Walk since the first in 1991. But this year’s Big Walk will be extra-special for him. On Sept 2, technical officer Daniel
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    • 339 17 THIS will be one Hari Raya he won’t forget in a hurry. For 14-year-old Mohd Badri Safie, a day of festivities turned horribly wrong, when a firecracker he was trying to light exploded prematurely. Badri, who is from Dungun, Terengganu, Malaysia, lost two fingers on
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    • 261 17 THEY told her they were religious officers and claimed that they were taking her to a police station. Instead, they took her to an empty house and raped her. One student was allegedly raped by several men impersonating religious officers in Kota Baru,
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    • Global News watch
    • 469 20 US mum sues company after her breastfeeding video is linked to porn AP IT WAS supposed to an educational breast-feed-ing instructional video. And she agreed to appear in the video to help other nursing mothers. Unfortunately, the video was later linked to various
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    • 374 20 HIS method of stealing toys was simple and effective. He would take a retail item, empty its box, and put a more expensive item or items inside. He would then take it to the cash register and be
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    • 479 21 Most victims killed shortly after quake, disease looms: Officials AFP WHAT: Two large earthquakes in north-west Iran WHEN: Aug 11 WHY: Iran sits astride several major fault lines and is prone to frequent earthquakes. WHERE: Quakes with magnitudes of 6.4 and 6.3 flattened villages and injured
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    • 364 21 HE ALLEGEDLY strangled his wife, put her body in the front seat of his car and drove more than 100km to dump the body. And to be doubly-sure that she was dead, the businessman and his lover allegedly poured petrol
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  • Page 10 / 11 Miscellaneous


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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 210 22 PICTURES: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, MEDIACORP WATCH ’EM Don’t Stop Believin’ (right) Channel 8, 9pm In this new local series, an idealistic and passionate teacher in a school with a bad reputation devises ways to steer difficult students towards a better future. Starring Felicia Chin, Elvin Ng. Win Win (above) FOX
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    • 317 22 CHANNEL 5 12.30pm Police And Thief 1.00 India: A Love Story 2.00 Survivor 3.00 The Dr Oz Show 4.00 The Chew 4.45 The X Factor 6.30 The Ups And Downs Of Miss Chan Poh Geok 7.00 National Science Challenge 7.30 Mr Bean 8.00 Just For Laughs Gags 8.30 Le Bisellahause
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    • 167 26 MAT3 Fastads Jobs Class Guide Accounting/ Bookkeeping Administrative/ Clerical Agents/ Brokers/Traders Art/Creative Building/ Construction Call Centres/ Telemarketing Cleaners Counter/ Receptionists Customer Service Dispatch/ Delivery Drivers/ Chauffeurs Engineers Finance Fitness/Spa Food Stalls General Production/ Operators Hair/ Beauty Hotel/ Restaurant/ Lounge Human Resources IT/Infocomm Marketing/ Communications Nursing/Health Care Other Positions Part-Time/Temporary Positions
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    • 88 26 ADMIN CLERK at Kaki Bukit area 5½ day work week Min ’O’ level/ computer literate S’poreans/ PRs/ M’sians Call Stacey *****325 or email: staceytancc@gmail.com Trading Co requires Admin Clerk GCE ’N’ level PC literate S’porean or PR only Walk-in interview 3 Bukit Batok St 22 6568-5783 TELEMARKETERS NEEDED FOR Foreign
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    • 152 26 SUPERVISOR PART/ FULL TIME CLEANERS urgently needed for AMK Thye Hua Kwan Hospital Good salary Only S’porean/ PR welcome Call 9177-9788 DISH/ POT WASHERS required to work in hotel 12-hr shift Meals provided Weekly off S’poreans/ PR/ M’sians are welcome Able to work during Hari Raya (EXTRA PAY) Immediate vacancies
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    • 218 26 (A) COURIERS (B) POSTMEN (MAIL CONVEYANCE) Job Descriptions: For Position (A): Delivery and Collection of Speedpost items For Position (B): Collection and Delivery of mails/parcels Requirements: Minimum Secondary 3 education Able to read and speak simple English For position (A): Must possess Class 2B or 3 licences For position (B):
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    • 116 26 HIGH SALARY!! 1. Service Crew cum Bartender-Full time 2. Part time Service Crew for weekends Public Holidays 3. Perm experienced Cook for Persian Italian food Locals M’sian /PR Multi-Task Bilingual 8305-8686 (Call fr 5pm) Japanese Ramen Restaurant Part-Time SERVICE CREWS KITCHEN CREWS *1 hr weekday $6.50/ Weekend Ph $7.50 *Uniform
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  • Page 27 Advertisements
    • 70 27 Hotel/ Hotel/ Hotel/ 1 We are an established Bakery in the East side of Singapore. Due to our expansion, we have immediate vacancy for suitable candidates for the position:PASTRY COOKS Minimum 2 to 3 years relevant working experience. Career advancement opportunities and intensive training provided. Only Singaporeans and PRs. Foreign
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    • 148 27 Dozo Restaurant is looking for passionate personel to join us for the following positions:1) WAITERS/ WAITRESSES 2) MANAGEMENT TRAINEE 3) COOK 4) CHEF DE PARTIE Singaporean/ PR only Walk-in interview Daily between 12-2pm. 491 River Valley Road, #02-02 Valley Point Shopping Centre or call Miss Rachel 8151-3387 for an appointment
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  • Page 29 Advertisements
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  • Racing
    • 1057 30 / 31 FRIDAY OP 1800m Causeway Classic Stakes 5-6493 Keep Away 57 (90) (7jpng H Takaoka-Suzuka Racing) 435-08 Martial Art 55.5 (88) (6nzg L Laxon-Silver Fern Racing) 008-77 Sakima 54 (84) (7ag HK Tan-Lion Head) *****5 Maurice Utrillo 52.5 (79) (6ireg P Shaw-A L A Crabbia) 1-5049
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    • 1254 30 / 31 SUNDAY SG3 3YO+ 1200m Woodlands Handicap *****3 Captain Obvious 59 (118) (7ag S Burridge-Mdm PY Leong) 7926-- Better Be The One 57.5 (115) (6ag M Freedman-J Man) *****1 Yin Xin 53 (106) (5nzg T Kieser-Tarsus) Captain Obvious 3364-0 Jamal Malik 50* (95) (6argg P Shaw-Tmen)
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    • 866 30 / 31 SATURDAY C*****m *****5 Rocket Express 57.5 (60) (5nzg Peter Lee-Yeo's) -***** Crystal 55 (55) (6ag S Cook-Mdm Cm Cheong) *****5 No Uncertainty 54.5 (54) (5ag SH Tan-Partner) -7-60- Wiseman 53.5 (52) (6nzg R Lines-Jack Mock) *****8 Colourlandprestige 52.5 (50) (6nzg SH Tan-Colourland) *****0 Secret Party 52.5
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    • 1041 30 / 31 SUNDAY C*****m *****4 Joint Effort 57 (74) (7ag SH Tan-Joint Effort) *****8 Oneninetyfive 57 (74) (8ag R Lines-Key To Success No 2) -***** Guangdong Heroes 56.5 (73) (6nzh KP Hoy-GDH) 83 Harrys Pal 54.5 (69) (6nzg David Miller-David Miller) 0-0920 North To Alaska 54.5 (69) (6nzg
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    • Article, Illustration
      678 32 Soo wins challenge in South Korea, Moreira scores in Sweden STC SINGAPORE’S Soo Khoon Beng took top honours in the Korean Racing Association International Jockey Invitational in Seoul on Sunday after sharing top billing on the first day of competition. After riding a winner on Saturday aboard 25-1
      STC; TNP PICTURES: ARIFFIN JAMAR, MELISSA CHUE  -  678 words
    • 640 32 RACE 1 GOLDEN JAMBHALA: Slow to begin; apprentice P Deellorto dropped his whip approaching the 300m. EQUIENCE: Began awkwardly. MY FIELD: Slow to begin; bumped shortly after; inclined to lay inwards. RECIPROCATE: Raced wide without cover throughout. HAPPYMORE: Raced wide from
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  • Sports
    • Sports watch
      • 107 33 AP BAYERN Munich defeated Borussia Dortmund 2-1 in the German Supercup yesterday morning (Singapore time). The win in the curtain raiser to the German football season halts a wretched run of five consecutive defeats to the league and cup champions, Dortmund.
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      • 120 33 Wire Services BLACKBURN Rovers global adviser Shebby Singh issued a public apology yesterday to manager Steve Kean and winger Morten Gamst Pedersen. At an open meeting organised by the Blackburn Rovers Action Group a day earlier, the ex-Malaysian interna- tional called 30-year-old
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      • 116 33 Reuters CHELSEA captain John Terry will be free to play in their opening Champions League match this season after his three-match European ban was modified on appeal by Uefa. “Chelsea’s John Terry has had his three-match suspension reduced on appeal,” Uefa said,
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      • 425 33 TENNIS AP TOP-SEEDED Novak Djokovic won his second straight Rogers Cup title and third overall, beating Richard Gasquet 6-3,6-2 in Canada yesterday (Singapore time). The Serbian star, also the tournament winner in 2007, won an event for the first time since the ATP Masters stop in
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    • Mad About Golf
      • 919 34 / 35 He wins US PGA C’ship by massive eight shots AP RORY McIlroy dressed the part as golf’s next star and played like it, too. Saving his bright red shirt for Sunday in the US PGA Championship, McIlroy (below) never gave anyone much of a chance.
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      • 699 34 / 35 AP IT WAS another weekend wipeout for Tiger Woods at a Major. Woods shot an even-par 72 yesterday morning (Singapore time) after finishing a third-round 74 earlier in the day and ended up 11 strokes behind winner Rory McIlroy at the US PGA Championship. It was a
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      • 373 34 / 35  -  GODFREY ROBERT godfrey@sph.com.sg LAGUNA National Golf and Country Club will break ground with the building of a world-class hotel. And after securing a long-term lease extension until 2040, the east coast golf club announced yesterday that it will launch new memberships. In a
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      • 106 34 / 35 AP A BIRDIE binge drove Ryu So Yeon to victory in the Jamie Farr Toledo Classic at Highland Meadows in Ohio on Sunday. Ryu reeled off six straight birdies in the middle of her round on her way to a nine-under 62 and a seven-stroke victory.
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    • Football
      • 684 36 / 37  -  After a two-year nightmare, forward believes he can still be a potent attacking force DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg HE HAS been in the international wilderness for two years now, after a harrowing time with injuries. Now, he’s been given another chance to get back on track
        TNP PICTURE: BENJAMIN SEETOR  -  684 words
      • 458 36 / 37  -  Singaporean, 22, signs one-year deal with top-division Hungarian side ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg AHMAD Hakimputra has just become a member of very small club in Singapore football. The 22-year-old is the fourth Singapo- rean to sign a professional contract with a European club, after Fandi Ahmad, V
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      • 723 36 / 37  -  DILENJIT SINGH dilen@sph.com.sg THEIR goal is to take the traditional martial art of silat out of what they deem to be its current “dormant state”. And the way silat club Macan Association plans to rejuvenate their sport is by leveraging on one of the
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      • 998 38 / 39  -  With tongue in cheek, NEIL HUMPHREYS tries to find fault with the nearly spotless Games NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg MY EAST London hometown of Dagenham tried its best to scupper the Olympics in the final hours. Dagenham hosted a towering inferno that London’s finest firefighters struggled to
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      • 732 38 / 39 London 2012, which closed yesterday, is marred by a gold-winning shot-putter’s positive dope test. But it was still... Wire Services THE London Olympics lost its first medallist to a doping scandal yesterday as Belarus shot-putter Nadezhda Ostapchuk was stripped of her gold medal a day
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      • 142 38 / 39 AP AUSTRALIAN foreign minister John Carr says the Sydney Olympics in 2000 remain the best Games ever, rejecting claims that London has now usurped that mantle. International Olympic Committee head Jacques Rogge, in closing the London Games on Sunday, did not
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      • 805 40 / 41  -  OUR MAN IN LONDON The hosts turned out in droves and cheered for everyone, as sports nations do LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg COMMENT THE crowd at The Mall cheered appreciately when Lesotho’s Tsepo Ramonene crossed the finishing line in the men’s marathon
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      • 353 40 / 41 Gold, silver, bronze it’s all in the family HER husband had won Olympic bronze and silver medals. Yesterday morning (Singapore time), Lithuania’s Laura Asadauskaite completed the set when she took home the gold in women’s modern pentathlon the London Games’ last gold on offer. “This is the first Olympic gold
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      • 433 40 / 41 AP OLYMPIC sprint star Usain Bolt told Australian media on Sunday that he’s mulling over an offer from former Test leg-spinner Shane Warne to play Twenty20 cricket in Australia next season. Warne’s Melbourne Stars franchise confirmed they have opened negotiations with Bolt through his management company
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      • OLYMPIC BRIEFS
        • 118 40 / 41 AFP SPRINT king Usain Bolt dominated Twitter during the Olympics, the social networking site has revealed, with his gold in the 200 metres inspiring a staggering 80,000 tweets per minute. He followed it up with more than 74,000 messages posted every minute
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        • 131 40 / 41 AP THE Olympics brought less tourist money to recession-hit Britain than expected, a trade group said yesterday. A survey of more than 250 tour operators, hoteliers and visitor attractions found that tourist traffic fell all over Britain, not just London, said UKinbound, a
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        • 138 40 / 41 G S B T 1 US 46 29 29 104 2 China 38 27 23 88 3 Great Britain 29 17 19 65 4 Russia 24 26 32 82 4 South Korea 13 8 7 28 6 Germany 11 19 14 44 7 France 11 11 12
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      • 770 42 Wire Services MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini has backed Carlos Tevez to play a starring role for the Premier League champions after his stunning strike inspired a 3-2 win over Chelsea in the Community Shield. Tevez was in vibrant form at Villa Park on
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      • 341 42 Wire Services MANCHESTER City may have staged a come-from-behind victory in Sunday’s Community Shield, but defender Kolo Toure wasn’t a happy man at fulltime. The Daily Mirror reported that the Ivory Coast star reportedly threw his winners’ medal into the crowd at Villa Park
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      • 374 43 Wire Services THE WORLD’S fastest sprinter is a Manchester United fan. And not only does Usain Bolt want to play for United, he is also pre- pared to give their players some tips on sprinting, reported soccernet. com. Said Bolt (left),
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      • 232 43 PA Sport DESPITE easily crushing Cologne 4-0 even before his arrival onto the pitch, which was was greeted by a smattering of boos, Arsene Wenger has insisted he wants to keep his “best player” Robin van Persie. While Wenger
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      • 570 43 Wire Services OUT-OF-FAVOUR striker Andy Carroll capped a comfortable 3-1 victory for liverpool over Bayer Leverkusen in their final pre-season friendly before they kick off their English Premier League (EPL) campaign. It took just three minutes for the home side to break the deadlock at
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    • 4 days to EPL
      • 1323 44 / 45  -  GARY LIM speaks to the chairmen of four local EPL supporters’ clubs and gets their views on the new season GARY LIM Only the title will do for bridesmaids United I NAME Ken Lai, 38 years old (Chairman of Official Manchester United Supporters’ Club in
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      • 609 46 / 47  -  TNP’SPREDICTION: Tottenham for 5th BigFour? What big four? It’s the new Big Five. The New Paper kicks off the EPL countdown with a profile on Tottenham Hotspur, who now find themselves trading blows at the top IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg THE MANAGER
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      • 742 46 / 47  -  Over the years, early optimism has fizzled out spectacularly GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg BEING a Liverpool fan these days is no laughing matter. Only the fittest need apply. Over the last couple of years, Reds’ fans have regularly suffered from heart palpitations, and nausea. Occasionally, they
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          153 46 / 47 LIVE TELECASTS INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES Thursday: I ITALY v ENGLAND StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 2.55am I ECUADOR v CHILE StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 7.55am ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Saturday: I WEST BROM v LIVERPOOL SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium), 10pm Sunday: I NEWCASTLE v TOTTENHAM
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        • 29 46 / 47 ATP 1000 WESTERN SOUTHERN OPEN Today: I ROUND 1 (SESSION 2) ROUND 2 (SESSION 1) StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 7am 11 pm
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      • 360 11  -  Jeanmarie Tan WHEN a song like Call Me Maybe spends a gazillion weeks on the international charts and is “covered” by everyone from Justin Bieber to Barack Obama, it’s hard to ignore the cute young thing behind it. Canadian pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen,
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      • 133 11  -  Tan Kee Yun Critic’s Pick! IT’S BEEN seven years since Wisconsin-based alternative rockers Garbage’s last album, Bleed Like Me. But the quartet fronted by the enigmatic, orange-haired Shirley Manson proves that taking a hiatus does not equate to them losing their magic touch. If
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      • 143 11  -  Juliana June Rasul Critic’s Pick! HYPE can kill major label debuts, but US R&B singer Frank Ocean proves on Channel Orange why he’s the most buzzed-about artiste currently (his recent coming out notwithstanding). Continuing where he left off with the Nostalgia, Ultra mixtape, Ocean wraps up
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      • 144 11  -  Tan Kee Yun IS MC Hotdog’s radio-friendly sound a sign of mellowing with age, ora blatant sellout to commercialism? No matter how you view it, the Taiwanese rapper has long ditched his controversial, provocative hip-hop material. Instead, he has been routinely churning out catchy choruses and
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      • 154 11  -  Juliana June Rasul Critic’s pick! IT’S NICE that Nas is back to remind us that once upon a time, hip-hop wasn’t all dance music or autotune. The US rapper brings a nice chunk of the 90s back into rap with Life Is Good, his 10th solo
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    • 53 2 Siti Zahidah’s First Love Local singer-songwriter visited LOUD recently and played her song First Love for us! Check out the video online. The British invasion begins Check out two awesome covers one of Ed Sheeran’s Drunk and another of Lucy Rose’s Middle of the Bed by our LOUD Cover Contest
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