The New Paper, 13 October 2012

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  • 19 1 the new paper SATURDAY OCT 13 2012 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS S|Jj I PUBLICATION 090/01/2012 (P) MICA CENTS 70
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    • THE AMY CHEONG SAGA AND RACISM
      • 207 24 FROM READER CHIANG GING SENG DURING the May 13 race riots in Malaysia in 1969, I was working in Pahang. My family was very worried but I assured them it was safe because not all people are bad. I was a
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      • 249 24 FROM READER G G GOMES I TOTALLY do not condone the actions ofMsAmyCheong, butneitherdo I condemn her. She has been very harshly dealt with and the authorities were quick with their reaction. It appears that they hate the sinner as much as the sin and
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      • 271 24 FROM READER DAVID MCELWAIN I WAS intrigued by the reports on Ms Amy Cheong, who lost her job and left Singapore after making racist comments online. I was absolutely amazed by the hypocrisy of the response. Now I am leaving Singapore after
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      • 201 24 FROM READER ALLAN ZHENG MUCH has been said and written about some Singaporeans being racists, but really, that’s not the full story. I remember recommending my dentist to an expatriate with a severe toothache. She declined and said she was not comfortable
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    • 266 36 Customer Care Assistant To attend to walk-in customers with their advertisements and payments Candidate must possess the following: ÊOnly Singaporeans PRs need apply ÊMust be ’A’ level or Diploma holder ÊMust have good spoken written Chinese English as you are required to handle advertisements bookings in English, Chinese Malay newspapers
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  • Racing
    • 1024 40 / 41 Race 1 MS 1000m 12 ONEPLUSZERO ONE 50 c 47 (47-13) I Andy (6) 2 6 3 (473) Shd MS 1000m 6 SCARLET STAR 57 (44-11) KBSoo (4) 1 1 1 (475) XWinning stable: Super Diamond. Trainer: M Yusof. Time: 59.83sec (Going: good). Forecast: $1162. Tierce:
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    • 553 40 / 41  -  TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg FOR the second time, good things came in pairs for new trainer Sonny Yeoh. Only a fortnight ago, the Penang-born 50-year-old saddled his first career winner, newcomer Stepitup, and then followed up with Tentenwin for a memorable outing. Last night, he was
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    • 257 40 / 41 NST YESTERDAY’S workouts by horses running in Penang this weekend (going good): Workouts by tomorrow’s runners: Race 1: Slow work: Colourland Kid, looking fit, and Khatanga. Race 2: Slow work: Lee's Fighter, Good Code (Khairil), looking fit, No Comment (Nawawi), keeping form, Summer Promise, retaining form, Such A
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    • 1521 40 / 41 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 C5 1.45 -1700m Stakes: RM35,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 308-96 Only One Will Win 57 (43) K Eirwan c1 1 (6ag K Hughes-Ezaro) 2 *****3 Mr Roar 56 (41) J Shankar c1 3
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    • 111 40 / 41 RACE 1: 10 Tiger Captain 5 Brave Commander 6 Golden Partner 2 Mr Roar RACE 2: 6 Better Year 10 Jeram Lioncity 8 Happy Surpriser 2 Guan Yi RACE 3:11 Fantastic Gift 5 Crystal 8 Boy 1 Thebetson RACE 4: 7 Eastern King 4 Cape D’Or
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    • 2459 42 / 43 I TIPS AND COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS ROSEHILL/CAULFIELD RACE 1 Rosehill (1,500m) 11 KEITH’S LEGACY (David Vandyke) 6g (19:4-4-2): Ran second to Strawberry Boy in his Australian debut. Then had things go against during 51/2len 5th (58.0) Strawberry Boy 1,600m W Farm
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    • 222 42 / 43 12:10 Race 1 ROSEHILL 1500M ROSEHILL 1500M 1 LEBRECHAUN A B COLLETT (8) 60.5 2 WORLDWIDE B SPRIGGS (12) 59 3 HARDBREAKHOTEL RM QUINN 12:30 Race 2 CAULFIELD 1600M 58 4 1 THINK I DO NATHAN BERRY (7) 58 5 MERLIN MUSTANG MS R FREEMAN-KEY
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    • 653 42 / 43 TODAY’S NZ (MATAMATA/HAWERA) AUSTRALIA (BELMONT/TOOWOOMBA) RACE CARD 12:06 Race 1 MATAMATA 2000M MATAMATA 2000M 1 CHARTTHESTARS PJTURNER (14) 59 2 D’LLARO L H SATHERLEY (12) 59 3 SENNA JL WADDELL (11) 58.5 4 KING PICCOLO AC FORBES (2) 58 5 AFFAIRE D’HONNEUR AIMEE TAYLOR (1) 12:26 Race 2 HAWERA 1600M
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    • 1821 44 I TIPS AND COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS MATAMATA/HAWERA/BELMONT/ TOOWOOMBA RACE 1 Matamata (2,000m) 1 CHART THE STARS: Model of consistency. Due for another win. Has won here and any rain ideal. 4 KING PICCOLO: Built to a tidy win 1,600m Sept 23.
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    • 284 44 RACE1 1st 8 Correggio ($14-$6) 2nd 11 Malabar Man ($11) 3rd 4 Nassarius ($38) 4th 10 Kim Command. Forecast $21. Place forecast $8 (8-11), $28 (4-8), $54 (4-11). Tierce $1078. Trio $243. Quartet No winner ($1040 jackpot carried forward to next race). Quadro: $192. Scratchings: 7
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  • Sports
    • 479 60 MOURINHO: Reuters IT WOULD be a crime if Cristiano Ronaldo lost out to Lionel Messi for the 2012 Ballon d’Or, his Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho said yesterday. Mourinho hit back at Mourinho hit back at remarks by Barcelona
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      • 110 45 Reuters AMERICAN Rickie Fowler, 23, will not defend his Korean Open title next week or play in the US PGA Tour’s CIMB Classic in Malaysia the following week because of a back problem. The world No. 28 won his first professional title
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      • 717 45 TENNIS AFP SWISS legend Roger Federer has consistently ripped up the record books during his glittering career but his latest landmark 300 weeks at No.1 is one of his proudest achievements. The 31-year-old was forced to dig deep to reach his triple century,
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      • 116 45 AP HELMUT Haller, who scored the first goal of the 1966 World Cup final and was one of the first Germans to play in Italy, died on Thursday at his home in Augsburg after a long illness. He was 73. Haller, who won
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      • 119 45 AFP SILVIO Berlusconi is ready to sell 30 per cent of AC Milan to Qatar’s ruling Al-Thani family, the Gazzetta dello sport newspaper reported yesterday. “Milan of Arabia” read the head- line of the sports daily with a photo of
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    • Mad About Golf
      • 510 46 AP JUSTIN Rose picked up a US$1.5 million ($1.8m) paycheque the biggest of his career after beating Lee Westwood yesterday to win the eight-player World Golf Final. The fifth-ranked Rose shot a five-un-der 66 to defeat his Ryder Cup teammate and fellow Englishman by one stroke
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      • 234 46 VENETIAN MACAU OPEN INDIA’S Gaganjeet Bhullar is two shots clear of Thai duo Prom Meesawat and Thitiphun Chuayprakong at the US$750,000 ($916,000) Venetian Macau Open. The 24-year-old Indian, chasing his second Asian Tour title in a month, battled to a three-un-der-par 68 at the
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      • 220 46 SIME DARBY LPGA MALAYSIA AP DEFENDING champion Choi Na Yeon of South Korea shot a four-under 67 yesterday to take a two-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia. The 25-year-old moved to a total of 10-under 132 at the
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    • Formula One
      • 765 47 Reuters SEBASTIAN Vettel led a Red Bull one-two at the South Korean Grand Prix practice session yesterday that could send the Formula One world champion back into the overall lead for the first time since May. The 25-year-old German, four points behind Ferrari’s Fernando
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    • Cycling
      • 1017 48 / 49 Wire Services WORLD Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) director-gener-al David Howman says Lance Armstrong pursued what appears to be a systematic doping program for a decade “probably with the knowledge” of people who were charged with detecting drug cheats. Howman told New Zealand’s LiveSport Radio yesterday
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      • 690 48 / 49 AFP A DAMNING report placing Lance Armstrong at the heart of the biggest doping programme in sporting history has raised questions about what happens next, with the seven-time Tour de France winner’s career and reputation in tatters. How Armstrong, who is accused of but has consistently
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      • 459 48 / 49 NBA Reuters LEBRON James shot down questions about his hunger to repeat as a National Basketball Association champion by dazzling fans in the Miami Heat’s 94-80 pre-season win over the Los Angeles Clippers in the Chinese capital on Thursday. Playing in the NBA’s largest market outside
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    • Table tennis
      • 501 50  -  LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg OVERSEAS exposure for young champions, who will be surrounded by the best of their age-group from around the world and guided by highly qualified coaches. That is what a Memorandum of Understanding between the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and the
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      • 373 50  -  LIM SAY HENG THE LIKES of Japan’s Jun Mizutani and China’s Ding Ning may well grace the multi-purpose halls of the Singapore Sports Hub or the Toa Payoh Sports Hall come 2016. The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and the Singapore Table Tennis Association
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    • EPL
      • 172 52 / 53 Reuters AFTER a glittering career spent at European giants Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan, former Dutch international Edgar Davids has dropped to the basement of English football to join fourth-tier side Barnet. The tough-tackling midfielder, known for wearing protective glasses throughout most of his
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      • 178 52 / 53 PA Spors SWINDON boss Paolo Di Canio is proud to be linked with the vacant post at Bolton as it shows he is proving the naysayers wrong. Many questioned the Italian’s appointment at the County Ground last year in what was his first managerial
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      • 163 52 / 53 PA Sport BLACKBURN’S global adviser Shebby Singh has warned the incoming boss at Ewood Park that he must deliver immediate results. Steve Kean’s ill-fated reign as Blackburn manager came to an end last month, with relegation from the Premier League, a dip in Championship results
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      • 627 52 / 53  -  FRANK MALLEY Chief Writer, PA Sport MICHAEL Owen undoubtedly is one of the greatest scorers England have produced. He has scored 40 goals for his country and 221 in 475 matches in a career which has taken in Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United
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      • 609 52 / 53 Pool director hopes they won’t be denied penalties because of the forward’s reputation Wire Services LIVERPOOL managing director Ian Ayre admits striker Luis Suarez has become a target in the debate about diving, but believes everyone has to be treated equally. The Uruguay international found
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      • 245 52 / 53 Wire Services LIVERPOOL could be left with just one recognised senior forward up front, after it was revealed that Fabio Borini has fractured his right foot. The Italian (right) suffered the injury while preparing for this morning’s Euro- pean U-21 Championship qualifier with Sweden. He
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      • 609 55  -  GREGORY LOO gregloo@sph.com.sg IT IS a rivalry so strong that no noisy neighbour can ever overpower. Despite being overshadowed in the English Premier League by local rivals Manchester City last season, Manchester United’s fixtures against Liverpool are
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      • 310 55 AFP BRITAIN’S police watchdog said yesterday it would launch the biggest independent inquiry into potential police wrongdoing after a damning report about the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said a “large number” of both former and current officers
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    • World Cup Qualifier
      • 364 54 Wire Services INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY BRAZIL 6 (Oscar 21,26, Kaka 47, Hulk 59, Neymar 75, Lucas Moura 79) IRAQ 0 BRAZIL’S recalled star Kaka lauded the young Selecao after they thrashed Iraq 6-0 in an international friendly in Malmo, Sweden, yesterday morning (Singapore time). The Real
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      • 626 54  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg GROUP F RUSSIA 1 (Alexander Kerzhakov 6) PORTUGAL 0 ANY TALK of Portugal’s golden generation is an exercise in futility until they unearth a golden striker of similar quality. Russia earned a priceless 1-0 home victory last night thanks to the
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    • Malaysia Cup
      • 671 56 / 57  -  LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg HE WAVED excitedly to his daughter from within the restricted area at the Changi Airport Terminal 2 arrival hall last evening as he walked to collect his luggage. But that was about as animated as LionsXII captain Shahril Ishak could
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      • 479 56 / 57  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg I WILL still take another sudden-death penalty. Despite missing the spot-kick against ATM FA last Thursday that would have sent the lionsXII through to the Malaysia Cup final in their debut season, defender Baihakki Khaizan was typically defiant in the face of
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      • 564 56 / 57  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg COMMENT SO WHERE do the LionsXII go from here? Apparently nobody knows. Definitely not the players, most of whom are internationals, who have to quickly switch their focus to prevent another disappointment in the Suzuki Cup. Not even the Football Association of Singapore,
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      • 422 56 / 57  -  LIM SAY HENG THE TEAM’S name is a tribute to the fans, the 12th man on the pitch. Last evening, about 100 lionsXII fans turned up at the Changi Airport Terminal 2 arrival hall to welcome their broken and battered heroes. V Sundramoorthy’s men exited
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      • 746 58 / 59  -  V SUNDRAMOORTHY npsports@sph.com.sg SOMEONE asked me yesterday what was more disappointing losing the 1993 Malaysia Cup final as a player or being knocked out of the semi-finals on Thursday as a coach. 1993 was tough to take. Half
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      • 631 58 / 59  -  SPORTS EDITOR S MURALI muralis@sph.com.sg SINCE that fateful Thursday night, I must have received no fewer than 10 calls and another 20 messages about the LionsXII’s semi-final loss to ATM. Everyone had a view on what went wrong. Most had an opinion on what
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      • ON TV
        • 170 58 / 59 LIVE TELECASTS WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Wednesday: I FAROE ISLANDS v IRELAND StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports Plus), 1.55am IROMANIA v HOLLAND StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 1.55am ISPAIN v FRANCE StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena), 3am I POLAND v ENGLAND StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 3am I
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        • 18 58 / 59 NBA PRE-SEASON Today: I HOUSTON ROCKETS v NEW ORLEANS HORNETS StarHub TV Ch 216 (SNBA TV), 8am
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        • 47 58 / 59 KOREAN GRAND PRIX Today: I QUALIFYING SingTel mio TV Ch 114 (ESPN), Ch 117 (ESPN HD), 12.50pm Tomorrow: I MAIN RACE SingTel mio TV Ch 114 (ESPN), Ch 117 (ESPN HD), 1.45pm I CHEQUERED FLAG SingTel mioTVCh 114 (STAR Sports), Ch 117 (ESPN HD), 3.45pm
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        • 20 58 / 59 SHANGHAI ROLEX MASTERS Today: I SINGLES S-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 4.30pm
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        • 30 58 / 59 SIME DARBY LPGA MALAYSIA Today: I DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 11 am MACAU OPEN Today: I DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena), 12.30pm
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