The New Paper, 5 August 2014

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    • 107 1 2014 SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN SPORTS REDESIGN NEWS-BREAKING PHOTO FEATURE DESIGN PAGES SPORTS HUB COO’S CALL TO S’POREANS: Only you can bring back the Kallang Roar!›S10 BOBBY TONELLI IS SO OVER JOANNE PEH DJ-host has new girlfriend and new lifestyle ›6 CITY HARVEST CHURCH
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  • news
    • PARLIAMENT
      • 1008 2 / 3  -  Minister on why NLB made U-turn on controversial book after 5 years Reports by LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg A controversial children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, that was removed last month, had gone through an internal review by the National Library Board (NLB) in 2009
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      • 367 2 / 3 Singapore Airlines (SIA) Flight 351 was in the airspace in eastern Ukraine, about 90km away when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down on July 17, said Minister of Transport Lui Tuck Yew (right) yesterday. In light of the
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    • 28 4 1.9m The number of inspections the National Environment Agency has conducted this year to check for breeding sites of mosquitoes that carry the dengue virus.
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    • 132 4 New road features aimed at improving safety are being introduced in five residential estates, under a “Silver Zone” pilot programme by the Land Transport Authority (LTA). Some of these include special road signs and markings, centre dividers and road humps, as well
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    • 96 4 An Institute of Technical Education student who hacked into the Istana website was placed on probation yesterday, reported The Straits Times Online. Melvin Teo Boon Wei, 18, is the second person to be convicted of hacking into a Government website. He admitted to one of four
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    • 306 4 Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill It is against the law to hold a mobile phone and make a call while driving. But what about sending a message from a tablet? That will be an offence too, under a bill introduced in Parliament yesterday. The Road Traffic
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    • 154 4 Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) celebrated its 30th anniversary with a special birthday concert by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (SSO) yesterday afternoon at Victoria Concert Hall. The lunchtime concert, which was part of the SPH Gift of Music series, was the first free public concert by
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    • 194 4 SMRT has installed devices in its buses to check if drivers are speeding or acting recklessly. The move is part of a broader plan to improve driver behaviour so commuters have a smoother and safer ride, the public transport operator said yesterday. The devices track
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    • 141 4 Eight men have been nabbed for setting off an improvised explosive device made out of sparklers. Police said yesterday that last Friday, officers responded to a report of a fire at Woodlands Drive 50. They found burn marks on the ground and bundled sparklers that
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    • 791 5  -  Elderly cleaner hurt in 4m fall at Somerset condo Report by NG JUN SEN ngjunsen@sph.com.sg An elderly cleaner fell four metres down a lift shaft at a condo near Somerset MRT station yesterday afternoon. The man, who is in his 70s, fell one storey down
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    • 603 6  -  Report by NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg This past Ramadan saw American actor-host-radio DJ Bobby Tonelli try something for the first time. The Fly Entertainment artist and Class 95FM radio jock joined Muslims all across the globe
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    • 381 7 SPCA investigates those transporting animals A young giraffe died from head injuries sustained while being transported, blindfolded, in an open truck along a South African highway, an animal welfare agency said. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ (SPCA’s) Rick Allan told
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    • 327 7 A mother of two died after her pet dog licked her hand. Animal lover Sheena Kavanagh, 53, died from septic shock, reported UK’s The Telegraph. The saliva from her pet terrier one of three dogs she owned entered her bloodstream through a small
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    • 1620 8 / 9  -  Assistant producer makes YouTube video to try to get himself a girlfriend Reports by BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg He is 24 years old, and has never had a girlfriend. So what’s a guy to do? In Mr Terry Chia’s case, it’s taking to YouTube
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    • 515 10 Malaysian lawmakers ask for alternatives to paying new toll to enter Singapore, including walking path across Causeway The Causeway should be reopened for people to walk into Singapore as an alternative to driving and paying the new toll, said Malaysian Land Public Transport Commission chairman
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    • 221 10 A 22-year-old Chinese national was abducted and gang-raped after her friend was robbed and assaulted as he stopped for a toilet break at the Penang Bridge rest area in Malaysia on Sunday. The victim’s friend, a businessman, had just alighted from his
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    • CITY HARVEST CHURCH LEADERS TRIAL
      • 866 11  -  With 32,500 copies sitting on shelves, church spends... Reports by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg She was supposed to become a global superstar and then use her popularity to spread the church’s message. But the reality was that Ms Ho Yeow Sun, who uses the
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    • 669 12 / 13 The couple used farm implements like hoes to dig out their four children. They had been buried in the rubble after an earthquake struck Yunnan province in China on Sunday afternoon. Mr Lu Faming and his wife managed to dig them out
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    • 344 15 A group of well-meaning New Jersey paramedics smashed an SUV’s window to dramatically rescue what they thought was a baby inside the hot, locked car. Instead, it turned out that the “baby” was only a doll. Several witnesses had called the emergency services to report
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    • 328 15 Women probed for taking baby from orphanage Two women have been arrested for allegedly trafficking a child from an orphanage in a Hanoi pagoda famed for rescuing abandoned babies, Vietnamese state media said yesterday. Nguyen Thi Thanh Trang, the 36-year-old manager of the orphanage in
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    • Article, Illustration
      579 16 / 17  -  One performer in horse acrobatic show saved from slaughterhouse Report by STEPHANIE GASCON sgascon@sph.com.sg Its name, Renato, means “born again” in Latin. An apt name for the horse, considering that just six years ago, it was whiling away its days at a French farm, waiting to be sent
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    • Article, Illustration
      641 23 K-pop group endure long rehearsals, meagre food portions to realise their pop star dreams “Time to get up girls!” The call comes at 6am as it does every morning, pulling Ray from her bunk bed at the start of another 16-hour day in search of stardom. Ray and the
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    • THE BIG PICTURE
      • Article, Illustration
        506 24  -  Photo of boy reaching for milk in supermarket is Big Picture winner Report by JUSTIN ZHUANG tnp@sph.com.sg Whenever he is in a supermarket, Elroy Ting will grab food that he likes. The three-year-old was with his family at the Cold Storage supermarket in West Coast Plaza three Sundays
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    • 32 1 MISSION KALLANG ROAR Singapore Selection v Juventus can be the start of a new love affair ›S10 TUESDAY AUGUST 5 2014 16-page pullout ST FILE PHOTO golF: tiger’S down, perhapS Forever ›S16
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  • 16- PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • FOOTBALL
      • 717 2 / 3  -  Van Gaal’s men and Rodgers’ Reds have plenty to gain or lose in a pre-season clash of some significance GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg Real work has come early. The English Premier League season doesn’t start until Aug 16, but the gloves will come off for two
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      • 340 2 / 3 PA Sport Louis van Gaal will sit down with his players after their tour and tell them whether they have a future at Manchester United. Van Gaal (below) and his 25-man squad fly back to Manchester, following their final game of the US tour
        PA Sport; PHOTOS: ACTION IMAGES  -  340 words
      • 825 4 / 5  -  Newcomers must prove their worth quickly, with talismanic striker gone and ageing skipper fading away NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg To pinch Rafa Benitez’s priceless analogy, Brendan Rodgers has sold the table and bought six lampshades. Against Manchester United this morning (Singapore time), the Liverpool manager’s
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      • 546 4 / 5 Rodgers admires the temperamental forward, but says he will not sign him for Pool Wire Services Liverpool may sign more players for the upcoming season, but AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli will not be among them. Reports linking the Italy international to Anfield surfaced after Reds
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      • 154 10 / 11 Singapore’s success at hosting a leg of the Extreme Sailing Series has been rewarded. Marina Bay will once again be the venue as the Republic hosts the curtainraiser to the 2015 Extreme Sailing Series world tour the first of eight host
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      • 169 10 / 11 AFP Chelsea slumped to their first pre-season defeat yesterday morning (Singapore time) as they were beaten 3-0 by Werder Bremen in Germany to spoil the return of Didier Drogba and the debut of goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois. Blues captain John Terry conceded a soft penalty
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      • Article, Illustration
        756 10 / 11  -  oon saysonly Singapo eans can make the new National Stadium ‘rock and roar’ Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg His arena was the pool, and, as a national swimmer, Oon Jin Teik even flew the Singapore flag at the 1984 Olympics. He eventually swopped his trunks for
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      • 649 10 / 11  -  Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg Memories flood their minds when they are asked of the Grand Old Dame, but their recollections are sepia-tinted and hazy. Names of opponents, dates and scores often elude both Fandi Ahmad and V Sundramoorthy, but there are two
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    • EPL
      • 590 6  -  Arsenal need to step up as curtain-raiser looms IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM THE UK EMIRATES CUP ARSENAL 0 MONACO 1 (Radamel Falcao 37) After the fun of battering Benfica, the mundanity of losing to Monaco. The suggestion that expectations might be unrealistically raised by a successful
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      • 266 6  -  IAIN MACINTOSH BENFICA1 (Derley 2) VALENCIA 3 (Jose Gaya 50, Pablo Piatti 54, Andres Guardado 60) Benfica manager Jorge Jesus will return to Portugal with much to ponder after a disastrous Emirates Cup ended with a second heavy defeat in two days. Having been
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    • racing
      • SINGAPORE RACES
        • 811 7 FRIDAY SG3 1200m Woodlands Handicap *****1 Goal Keeper 59 (103) (6ag T Kieser-CK Sam) *****5 Huka Falls 58.5 (102) (5nzg L Laxon-Silver Fern R Brent Gil) *****4 Holy Empire 57.5 (100) (5ah M Freedman-Horizon) 1-3467 El Padrino 56.5 (98) (6nzg HW Tan-One Eight Eight) 1463-5
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        • 1084 7 SUNDAY OB 83 1200m Magneto 58 (79) (4argc P Shaw-Avengers) *****2 Astrostar 57 (77) (4ag S Yeoh-UNI) *****4 Flash Gift 57 (77) (5amg J O’Hara-Saratoga) *****1 Mycaptainoblivious 56.5 (76) (5nzg S Baertschiger-Club Med Lodge) *****4 Sichuan Ruler 56.5 (76) (7ag HW Tan-HW Tan) 1-7292 Coronet
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      • 481 8 / 9 One of his three winners is for his new owner, Sabah Racing Stable Trainer Shane Baertschiger enjoyed a good day at the office on Sunday when he landed a treble, including getting a new East Malaysian venture off to a bright start. The Australian’s first leg
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      • 229 8 / 9 Jockey Matthew Kellady, who was apprenticed to Shane Baertschiger’s father Don in the early 2000s, was over the moon with his faultless result. “Two rides, two wins. Couldn’t be happier with that,” he said. “He was coming along really well in the home straight, as
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      • 135 8 / 9 Apprentice K A’Isisuhairi, when questioned regarding the run of Sunday’s Race 10 beaten favourite GEESON MASTER, said that the gelding was inclined to lay outwards making the turn near the 1,200m mark. When making the turn near the 800m mark, his mount hung outwards badly
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      • 617 8 / 9 RACE 1 SUPER SIX: Slow into stride after jumping awkwardly; raced wide. PEREGRINE FALCON: Jumped awkwardly; made contact; taken inwards to obtain clear running. DESTINY GENERAL: Made contact; laid outwards. BIG HEART: Raced wide. MAGIC DRAGON: Hung outwards. BIG BANG KING: Taken outwards to obtain
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    • 154 12 AFP Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban blasted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the wake of NBA star Paul George suffering a broken right leg playing for the US national team. Cuban told ESPN he sees the IOC as reaping all the
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    • TENNIS
      • 968 12  -  Singapore named as one of four IPTL franchises; women’s world No. 1 Williams and Agassi in the side Reports by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg Serena Williams versus Maria Sharapova, Andre Agassi head to head with old rival Pete Sampras, Tomas Berdych up against Rafael Nadal.
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    • GOLF
      • 176 13 Reuters Australian Geoff Ogilvy broke out of a slump with a convincing victory at the US$3 million ($3.74m) Barracuda Championship in Reno, Nevada yesterday morning (Singapore time). The 2006 US Open winner finished 21-under for 49 points in the modified Stableford format on the
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      • 603 13 McIlroy is golf’s No. 1 again after winning at the WGC Bridgestone Invitational AFP Rory McIlroy is back on top of the golf world, following up his British Open triumph with an elite World Golf Championships (WGC) win yesterday morning (Singapore time). The 25-year-old Northern Irishman
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      • 573 16 His body’s br aking down, his game’s lost and, maybe even at just 38, Woods will not get it back Wire Services He is not only in doubt for this week’s US PGA Championship, but there is now also a serious question mark over the future
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    • C’WEALTH GAMES
      • 493 14 / 15 Glasgow 2014 has rekindled some of the lustre of the ‘Friendly Games’ AFP Despite ending in a weekend washout, Glasgow 2014 has rekindled some of the lustre of the Commonwealth Games after a troublesome Games in New Delhi four years ago. Here, AFP Sports looks at some
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      • 154 14 / 15 AFP World No. 1 Serena Williams climbed out of an early hole to beat thirdseeded German Angelique Kerber 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 yesterday morning (Singapore time) to win the WTA Stanford crown. The top-seeded American, playing her first tournament since a disappointing Wimbledon campaign in which she
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      • 419 14 / 15 AFP Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue helped bring the curtain down on the 2014 Commonwealth Games yesterday morning (Singapore time) in a colourful, upbeat ceremony which saw the 11-day showpiece hailed as “the best ever”. A crowd of 45,000 at Hampden Park roared
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      • ON TV
        • 133 14 / 15 GUINNESS INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS CUP Today: LIVERPOOL v MANCHESTER UNITED StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 7.53am MLS ALL STARS Thursday: MLS ALL STARS v BAYERN MUNICH StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 9.50am ALL STARS CLUB FRIENDLY (LEGENDS) Sunday: BAYERN MUNICH v MANCHESTER UNITED StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel),
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        • 92 14 / 15 ROGERS CUP Today: DAY 2, ROUND 1 2 StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 11pm Tomorrow: DAY 3, ROUND 2 (SESSION 1) StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 11pm Thursday: DAY 3, ROUND 2 (SESSION 2) StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet
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        • 46 14 / 15 US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Friday: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 1am Saturday: DAY 2 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 1am Sunday: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel) Ch 255 (Sports HD), 2am
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  • Page 4 / 5 Miscellaneous
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