The New Paper, 3 January 2013

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1 56 The New Paper
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    18 1 the new paper A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MICA (P) 090/01/2012 THURSDAY JAN 3 2013
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      122 1 TNP PICTURE: AUDREY TAN Maid in close shave as garbage truck crashes at Bukit Timah house Page 7 ‘WOMAN’ IN ZOUK CARDIAC ARREST TURNS OUT TO BE A MAN Describedbywitnesses as a ‘very attractive woman’, he’s fighting for his life in hospital Page 2 SURE-WIN CASK dd Up a WJM
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      42 1 70 CENTS MICA (P) 090/01/2012 thenewpaper THURSDAY JAN 3 2013 facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 Is van Persie Man U’s best ever buy? Gary Urn says... Gary Lim says... Page 54 says... FiRST on... The must-see movies of 2013 Page 22
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      Lock icon ‘One of the customers fell & was injured’
      756 2 / 3  - ‘One of the customers fell was injured’ ‘Woman’ who had cardiac arrest in Zouk on New Year’s Day and received CPR is a man. Club says: REPORT: JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg THE Thai “woman” who collapsed at nightspot Zouk after suffering a cardiac arrest on New Year’s Day is actually a
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      Lock icon HOW TO PERFORM CPR
      81 2 / 3 Check if the casualty is unconscious. If he does not respond, call 995 and perform CPR. 1 2 Interlace your hands on the person’s chest, straighten your elbows and perform chest compressions. Each compression should be at least 5cm deep and should be done at a
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      Lock icon Tourists from region come for ‘major events’
      355 2 / 3  -  REPORT: ZUL OTHMAN zothman@sph.com.sg CLUBS at Marina Bay Sands like Ku De Ta and home-grown clubbing institution Zouk draw tourists from the region. But club operators here told The New Paper that such visitors are here mainly when there are major events on
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      Lock icon Severely abused by his family
      704 4  -  Boy, now 12, could be permanently disfigured REPORTS: SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg THE very people who were supposed to care for him ended up abusing him so severely that he may become permanently disfigured. Zack (not his real name), now 12 years old, had hot oil
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      Lock icon The horror and the suffering
      244 4 THE boy’s 46-year-old grandaunt and her three daughters were dealt with in court earlier. On Dec 28,2011, the grandaunt, a cleaner, was jailed for five years after pleading guilty to six of 17 charges. She admitted that she had: I splashed hot oil on the
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      Lock icon ‘How can people be SO CRUEL?’
      772 6  -  Minister, Yishun residents express outrage over gruesome cat-abuse case REPORT: BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg THE news about two mutilated cats found at a Yishun estate has upset many Singaporeans, including Law and Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam. In a Facebook post yesterday, he wrote:
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      Lock icon Maid escapes crash by seconds
      616 7  -  Garbage truck rams into drain at private estate in Bukit Timah REPORT AND PICTURES: audtan@sph.com.sg AUDREY TAN audtan@sph.com.sg SHE had gone out to throw a garbage bag into a bin when a loud bang behind her stopped her in her tracks. When she turned around,
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    • Local News watch
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      Lock icon Man jailed for oral sex on underage boy
      258 10  -  REPORTS: SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg HE WENT in for pancakes and got oral sex instead. The 15-year-old boy got more than he bargained for when he walked into a convenience store at JalanLeban, off Upper Thomson Road. The boy, who cannot be identified
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      Lock icon Hit-and-run driver’s escape short-lived
      300 10 INSTEAD of helping the elderly pedestrian he knocked down, truck driver Shann Menon fled the scene. Menon, 28, who is also known as Sanjay Menon Sudhamodaren, did not inform the authorities of the crash, which happened on Jan 24,2010, inAngMoKio. The pedestrian, Mr Ng Chiew Wan,
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      Lock icon Robotic arm for stroke patients
      760 11  -  Engineering students from S’pore Poly score with final-year project REPORT: ESTHER NG estherng@sph.com.sg ANEW robotic arm can help stroke patients do these things: Lift their elbows and wrists up and down, and turn their forearms movements necessaryto pickup acup, use a fork or spoon, or
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      Lock icon First-day jitters
      593 12 / 13  -  There were many anxious parents yesterday as 40,000 children went to school for their first day in Primary 1. JOANNE SOH shares her own experience as one of those parents JOANNE SOH IT IS a day I’ll remember fondly. Yesterday was when my baby officially became a big
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      Lock icon ‘I felt as if half of me had collapsed’
      693 15 Man shocked to find out dad not his biological father and he’s the product of anonymous sperm donation AFP WHEN performing blood tests on family members as practice for his medical studies a decade ago, Dr Hideaki Kato got a big
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    • Global News watch
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      Lock icon ‘Help! My wife is into kinky sex’
      444 18 Group formed to help sexually and physically abused hubbies in M’sia NORMALLY, it’s the women who cry foul over being sexually abused. But in Malaysia, some men have come forward saying that their wives have been sexually abusing them. They have also complained
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      Lock icon Mining site turns tourist attraction
      416 18 THEY had gathered at the ticket counter as early as 8am on New Year’s Day, two hours before the counter opened. The visitors, both Malaysian and foreigners, were eager to visit the former Sungai Lembing mine in Kuantan, the capital of Malaysian state Pahang. It
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      Lock icon Cars, cash & his daughter’s hand
      519 19 Cars, cash his daughter’s hand Chinese businessman gets flak for lavish dowry IT IS a marriage to beat all marriages. A Chinese businessman has given away his daughter’s hand along with a dowry of more than 1 billion yuan (S$195 million). Among the things Mr Wu Duanbiao, 54, a kitchen
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      Lock icon Finding humour in US politicians’ bickering
      373 19 AFTER a bitter round of talks, the US Congress finally backed a deal to avert a “fiscal cliff” of tax hikes and massive spending cuts that had threatened to unleash economic calamity. More hard haggling is due in two months’ time over further specific
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      Lock icon Banking on rubbish
      687 20 A former Thai scavenger has come up with a cooperative to help the poor exchange recyclables for essentials THAI grandmother Nom Prom-on rummages through rubbish bins looking for bottles, cans and paper to trade for food and other goods at a recycling cooperative, providing a lifeline for
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      281 6 THE NEW PAPER Project Helping Hands tnp.sg/helpinghands Help us reach out to them The New Paper has partnered the Lions Befrienders Service Association and Ngee Ann Polytechnic to install wireless motion sensors in the apartments of senior citizens living alone. The system tracks the resident’s movements and sends an SMS
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      44 21 WIN!220 pairs of preview tickets to THE IMPOSSIBLE starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts WE WE KNOW MOVIES OW 2013 LUCKY FOR SOME From low-key dramas to box-office rockers, FiRST looks at the first six months of this year’s must-see films 03 JAN p22
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  • FIRST
    • FIRST FEATURE
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        Lock icon CLASS OF 2013
        1175 22 / 23  -  Leave it to big Hollywood stars and comic-book superheroes to usher in the new year with a big bang JOANNE SOH joannes@sph.com.sg It was a stellar 2012 here for Hollywood movies. With a host of great movies The Dark Knight Rises, Argo, Skyfall the year’s line-up was
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        Lock icon CHILD ACTORS IN THE NEWS
        706 28  -  Mervin Tay They are attractive, adorable and often have acting skills that belie their tender age. Such are the charms of child actors, who have been making their mark in movies around the world. The latest addition to this list is Singapore’s own Dr Jia
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    • FIRST BITES
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        Lock icon JAY-Z TO COLLABORATE GATSBY SOUNDTRACK
        122 24 Now, perhaps, we can say it’ll be worth the wait. It was reported late last year that director Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby, expected to be released at the end of 2012, was delayed due to soundtrack issues. US producer-singer-songwriter Jeymes Samuel, who also goes
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        Lock icon OBAMA’S FAVOURITE MOVIES OF THE YEAR ARE...
        163 24 Ben Affleck may have denied reports that he will be running for political office, but we’re pretty sure he would get US President Barack Obama’s vote if he changes his mind. Affleck’s Argo, which he directed and starred in, was one of three
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        Lock icon MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL’S NEW MOVIE
        103 24 Maggie Gyllenhaal has been confirmed for her next flick Frank, a rock ’n’ roll comedy also starring Michael Fassbender (right). Frank is about a young musician (Domhnall Gleeson, perhaps best known as Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter movies, and currently in Anna Karenina) who joins
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    • FIRST INTERVIEW
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        714 26 Reuters Silver Linings Playbook is a frequently hilarious, often poignant, romantic comedy about two deeply damaged people. At the centre of it is Bradley Cooper, who strikes notes of despair not previously explored in his more mainstream films like The Hangover and Wedding Crashers. The 37-year-old actor from
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        468 29  -  Small talk about big flicks JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was so destructive that it defies comprehension. More than 200,000 people died. How does one even begin to process such devastation? At the time, I chose not to process it. I ignored it as much
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    • MOVIE DATE
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        Lock icon KILLING THEM SOFTLY
        574 30  -  A Mars versus Venus look at the week’s hottest movie MERVIN TAY mervtay@sph.com.sg JULIANA RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg THERE is nothing soft or subtle about this movie. The poker room heist that kicks the movie into high gear goes on for quite some time, links between the mob and
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    • REVIEWS
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        Lock icon THE LAST TYCOON (NC16)
        116 30  -  MT FOR someone who built his career on slapstick comedies, Hong Kong director Wong Jing delivers a pretty decent period piece. It charts the rise of Cheng (played first by Huang Xiaoming and later by Chow Yun Fat) from boy-next-door to mafia boss. Multiple conflicts ensue,
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        Lock icon TAXI! TAXI! (PG)
        124 30  -  MT LIKE a normal taxi ride without a talkative driver or getting stuck in a traffic jam, this social comedy does its job just fine. The story centres on Chua (Gurmit Singh), a retrenched professor who becomes a taxi driver to make ends meet. He meets Lee
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        103 30 Your first New Year resolution? Catch these movies before they end their run. LES MISERABLES (NC16) Terrific performances from Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman, who will blow you away with their ability to sing live while crying (Jackman) or dying or both (Hathaway). WON’T BACK DOWN (PG) Maggie
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    • FIRST FASHION
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        461 31  -  Stars glam up the premieres... or not Jeanmarie Tan I dreamed a dream that the Les Miserables premieres would be as show-stopping as its tunes. Unfortunately, the movie musical’s female stars literally lived up to its title. Things were pretty miserable on the fashion
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    • FIRST BUYS
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        258 32  -  Shackled and jailed in dullness Kane Cunico MOVIE: EXTRAS: NONE TWO Oscar winners (Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker), one small, windowless prison compound and a psychological thriller with very little brain, point and fear. Welcome to The Experiment, director Paul Scheuring’s tepid remake of a powerful little 2001
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        151 32  -  Kristie Michelle Chiew MOVIE: EXTRAS: NONE DID I like the movie? Yes. Were Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones worth watching? Definitely. Streep teams up with her The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel again for Hope Springs and brings just the right amount of class to the
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        149 32  -  KC MOVIE: EXTRAS: PEOPLE Like Us is a rare delight. Chris Pine plays Sam, a fast-talking salesman who’s trying not to head home for his father’s funeral. Never close to his father, a music producer and A&R man who was never there for his family, Sam, with
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      18 24 a V r' -r. u I T. CHOW'YUfa fat NG IS N THE LIST TYCOON^ OPENS TODAY VIOLENCE
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      344 25 4 220 PAIRS* OF PREVIEW TICKETS' IRLUS popcoriTsets RtSmSinWlR MUSI BE I WON! NOMINATED FOR GOLDEN GLOBES® 2013 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) Naomi Watts IN 2004, A DEVASTATING TSUNAMI HIT SOUTHEAST ASIA. SEPARATED BY DISASTER DRIVEN BY HOPE r* f T k NAOMI WATTS
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      94 26 The movie has a lot to do with fathers and –Reuters. GIVEAWAY 2. Ryan Gosling 3. Bradley Cooper Send your answer by SMS to *****7877 in the following format: TNPFIRSTSILVER<space> Answer<space>NRIC<space>Name The contest ends at 11.59pm on Sunday. Each SMS costs 20 cents. WIN SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK MOVIE TICKETS WE
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      83 28 2. Gan Mei Yan 3. Little Bin Send your answer by SMS to *****7877 in the following format: TNPFIRSTTAXI<space> Answer<space>NRIC<space>Name The contest ends at 11.59pm on Sunday. Each SMS costs 20 cents. WIN TAXI! TAXI! MOVIE TICKETS GIVEAWAY WE HAVE 10 pairs of Taxi! Taxi! movie tickets to give away,
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      64 29 YOUR MUST-HAVE PRESCHOOL GUIDE! GET YOUR COPY NOW! Print edition $6 at major bookstores Digital edition $2.44* online Both editions available at youngparents.com.sg*Price may vary due to exchange rate differences How to choose the best preschool for your child Expert answers to all your preschool problems, from separation anxiety to
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      84 30 WIN KILLING THEM SOFTLY MOVIE TICKETS WE ARE giving away five pairs of movie tickets to Killing Them Softly, courtesy of Cathay-Keris Films. Killing Them Softly is rated M18. For a chance to win, SMS your answer to this question: Name the lead actor in the movie Killing Them Softly.
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      139 31 GIVEAWAY WIN THE LAST TYCOON MOVIE TICKETS For a chance to win, SMS your answer to this question: Name the director of The Last Tycoon. 1. Wong Jing 2. Chow Yun Fat 3. Huang Xiaoming Send your answer by SMS to *****7877 in the following format: TNPFIRSTTYCOON<space> Answer<space>NRIC<space>Name The contest
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      427 42 / 43 KRANJITRACKWORK LAST-START winner IRISH LIGHTNING caught the eye with a swift gallop at Kranji yesterday morning. Trained by the bang-in-form Patrick Shaw, who saddled four winners on Tuesday including Lizarre in the $200,000 Group 3 New Year Cup, Irish Lightning reeled off 600m beautifully in
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      122 42 / 43  -  TAN THEAN LOON GOBI RANGER, owned by Singapore-based liver surgeon Tan Kai Chah, won the Group 3 Eclipse Stakes over 1,200m at Ellerslie in New Zealand on Tuesday. Trained by Danica Guy and ridden by Jason Waddell, the two-year-old colt by Tale Of The
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      210 42 / 43 RACE 1 -1000m OB 53 D1 6.20 0B53D1 6.20 1 Anavila LQKek* (8) 59 2 RACE 2-1700m MS 6.50 SSam (6) 57 3 Double Cash TAffandi* (5) 56.5 4 Prime Mover KA'isisuhairi* (4) E.A 5 G Strategist RACE 3-1200m OB 83 7.20 (3) 54.5 6
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      Lock icon Apprentice Kek finally gets his first winner with Travertine
      352 42 / 43 APPRENTICE Jimmy Kek Lai Quan will remember New Year’s Day 2013 for the rest ofhis life. It was the day he landed his first winner. Riding the David Hill-trained TRAVERTINE, Kek made a decisive mid-race move in the $55,000 Prosperity 2013
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      198 42 / 43 RACE 1 -1200m C5 D2 12.50 C5D2 12.50 i Always A Winner Richard Lim (3) 57 2 Fumiko S King (5) RACE 2-1000m C4 1.20 3 (2) 56.5 4 Full Of Dragons D Bonilla RACE 3-1200m C4 D3 1.50 56 5 (9) 54 6 MrVantastic
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      454 42 / 43 IPOH TRACKWORK NST DAZZLING PERIDOT stepped up preparations for a comeback win in Sunday’s Class 3 event over 1,400m with a smart workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by regular jockey Shahrul Nizam, the five-year-old New Zealand-bred gelding by Strategic Image trotted one round and then
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      85 48 / 49 Sat, 05/01/13 Spanish League Real Zaragoza Real Betis 4.30am No telecast For the latest ‘Live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg SB |kiJi];lfctl:lT773| SportsBuzz@Kranji SportsBuzz@PoMo (For 18 yrs and above) LW Livewire MBS Livewire RWS (For 21 yrs and above) IpLAY® Always play with care. [responsibly/ Do not bet illegally. Singapore Pools
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      706 56  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg HE CANNOT even remember the last time he went on a holiday with his family. He is not an old man suffering from amnesia, but one of Singapore’s best young footballers, Safuwan Baharudin. For most players, the end of the season
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        139 44 Reuters WORLD No.1 Novak Djokovic suffered a shock loss to Australian Bernard Tomic at the Hopman Cup team event yesterday, two weeks before the defence of his Australian Open title. Djokovic was defeated 6-4, 6-4 as Australia took a 1 -0
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        105 44 AFP CHINESE tennis star Li Na cruised through to the quarter-finals of the Shenzhen Open yesterday with a straight-set victory over American Julia Cohen. The 2011 French Open singles win- ner and top seed took one hour and 34 minutes to defeat Cohen
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        127 44 AFP BARCELONA coach Tito Vilanova visited team players at their training ground yesterday, less than two weeks after he had cancer surgery, the club said. The visit raised hopes that Vilano- va, 44, may soon return to work with the team, who are
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        498 44 TENNIS AFP INDIAN tennis was hit by controversy yesterday over reports that top players may boycott next month’s Davis Cup tie against South Korea if a slew of demands were not met. The group of players, headed by Somdev Devvarman, want a better distribution
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        Lock icon Simon shines in the Brisbane sun
        341 45 AFP FRANCE’S Gilles Simon began his fine-tun-ing for the Australian Open with a hard-fought win over Colombia’s Alejandro Falla in the second round of the Brisbane International yesterday. In temperatures as high as 35 deg C on one of the Queensland Tennis Centre’s outside
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        527 45 AP TOP-RANKED Victoria Azarenka opened her 2013 season with a 6-3, 6-3 win over Germany’s Sabine Lisicki yesterday to join No. 3 Serena Williams and fourth-seeded Angelique Kerber in the Brisbane International quar-ter-finals. Azarenka, who won the competition in 2009 without dropping a set, got
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        531 46 Wire Services DENVER NUGGETS 92 LA CLIPPERS 78 THE high-flying Los Angeles Clippers failed to stretch their 17-game NBA winning streak into the New Year, slipping to defeat against the Denver Nuggets. The Nuggets stopped the Clippers’ impressive run with a 92-78 victory, handing Los
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        331 46 AFP NY KNICKS 100 PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS105 AMARE Stoudemire made his NBA season debut and Carmelo Anthony made a big contribution, after a two-game injury absence yesterday morning (Singapore time), but couldn’t lift the New York Knicks over the Portland Trail Blazers. Portland’s
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        577 47 AFP REAL Madrid captain Iker Casillas admitted yesterday the players are unhappy after dropping 16 points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona, but denied any tensions in the changing room and vowed to fight to regain his spot after being unexpectedly left on the
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        Lock icon Lucas wants to become world’s best
        302 47 LIGUE 1 Reuters LUCAS Moura wants to be regarded as the best player in the world one day, the young Brazil midfielder (right) said after linking up with his Paris St Germain teammates for the first time on Tuesday. According to media reports Qatari-backed
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        Lock icon Four aim for Hariss’ place
        931 48 / 49  -  Quartet offer Sundram more options in the middle of the park SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg HE WILL have big shoes to fill. But one member of V Sundramoorthy’s new-look LionsXII side will have to step up to the plate and take Hariss Harun’s spot in
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        512 48 / 49  -  Players to benefit from assistant coach’s alternative skill LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg DON’T be surprised if you see LionsXII assistant coach K Balagumaran leading the team in yoga during training sessions this season. The former Gombak United coach has been practising the Hindu discipline
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        532 48 / 49  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg HE COULD have been still basking in AFF Suzuki Cup glory, or resting on his laurels as the top local-born striker in the S-League for the last two seasons. Instead, new LionsXII striker Fazrul Nawaz, along with fellow debutant Syafiq
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        Lock icon Wenger slams poor Gunners
        623 50 / 51 PA Sport SOUTHAMPTON 1 (Gaston Ramirez 35) ARSENAL1 (Guilherme do Prado 41 -og) IT’S the new year but Arsenal are back to their old ways. Just three days after whipping Newcastle 7-3 in the English Premier League which prompted talk of joining the title race, Arsenal
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        348 50 / 51 Benitez vows to rotate squad as talk with Ba continues Wire Services RAFAEL Benitez is confident that Fernando Torres will accept occasionally sitting on the bench if Chelsea bring in another striker during the transfer window. With Liverpool-bound Daniel Sturridge having been out of favour for
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        181 50 / 51 PA Sport ANYONE who takes over as manager of Chelsea and cannot be successful would have to be a dope, according to Queens Park Rangers manager Harry Redknapp. Redknapp took over at Loftus Road just three days before Chelsea hired Rafael Benitez as their
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        Lock icon Aguero out, Balotelli in?
        732 52 / 53 AFP MAN CITY 3 (Pablo Zabaleta 43, Edin Dzeko 56, Sergio Aguero 74-pen) STOKE 0 SERGIO Aguero’s loss could be Mario Balotelli’s gain, after the Argentine striker went off injured during his side’s 3-0 win at home to Stoke City on Tuesday. The New Year’s Day
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        601 52 / 53 PA Sport TOTTENHAM 3 (Michael Dawson 10, Emmanuel Adebayor 51, Clint Dempsey 79) READING 1 (Pavel Pogrebnyak 4) TOTTENHAM manager Andre Villas-Boas is interested in Brazil pair Leandro Damiao and Willian. Internacional striker Damiao, 23, impressed at the Olympics where he was the tournament’s top scorer,
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        Lock icon Lloris settling well in London
        101 52 / 53 “I have fun every day. I’m here to improve and push myself in a different context. It’s important in sporting terms, but also personally. A goalkeeper has to be the master of his penalty box, even if it’s trickier in England than elsewhere. Spurs goalkeeper
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        Lock icon RVP the best Fergie signing? No way...
        660 54 / 55  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com. sg WIGAN 0 MAN UNITED 4 (Javier Hernandez 35, 63, Robin van Persie 43,88) THE first goal was a technical masterpiece, a superb curler into the far corner following some brilliant footwork. The second was a simple close-range finish, after
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        Lock icon Top 5 Fergie signings
        290 54 / 55 1. Peter Schmeichel (Goalkeeper) I Appearances: 398 I Goals: 1 CONSISTENT, reliable and acrobatic, Schmeichel is the epitome of a complete goalkeeper. Fergie called him “bargain of the century” but, in truth, it was an understatement. In eight seasons at Old Trafford, he won the European
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        Lock icon Van Persie enjoying life at United
        207 54 / 55 PA Sport ROBIN van Persie has admitted his joy at playing for Manchester United and says his first goal in the 4-0 win at Wigan on New Year’s Day was one of his bestyet. He could hardly have enjoyed a smoother start to life
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          240 54 / 55 LIVE TELECASTS *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 FA CUP Saturday: I BRIGHTON v NEWCASTLE SingTel mio TV Ch 111 (mio Sports), 8.25pm I SOUTHAMPTON v CHELSEA SingTel mio TV Ch 111 (mio
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          70 54 / 55 HOPMAN CUP Today: I US v SPAIN StarHub TV Ch 209; SingTel mio TV Ch 115, (STAR Sports), 10am I ITALY v AUSTRALIA StarHub TV Ch 209; SingTel mio TV Ch 115, (STAR Sports), 5.45pm Tomorrow: I SOUTH AFRICA v FRANCE StarHub TV Ch 209; SingTel mio TV Ch
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          53 54 / 55 Today: I BOSTON CELTICS v MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 8.30am I GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS v LA CLIPPERS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 11.30am Saturday: IOKC THUNDER v PHILADELPHIA 76ERS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 9am I MIAMI HEAT v CHICAGO BULLS StarHub TV Ch
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