The New Paper, 16 May 2015

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  • 24 1 the new paper SATURDAY MAY 16 2015 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI (P) 137/12/2014 tnp.sg facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838
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    • 54 1 STEVEN GERRARD’S AN FIELD FAREWELL A lifetime of devotion for so little ›S4 PhoTo: REUTERS DRIVER DOZES OFF AND SMASHES INTO PARKED TAXI, PARALYSING CABBY, WHO LATER DIES Widow, who also lost teen daughter to cancer 4 months earlier, says I forgivehim ›2 TNP PhoTo: KEN LU 8 "88 7
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    • 34 1 MALAYSIAN FA CUP SEMI-FINAL (SECOND LEG): TERENGGANU V LIONSXII Fandi: We’d stay tight, and counter ›S2 TNP PhoTo: BENJAMIN SEEToR STAFF, GOLFERS AT JURONG COUNTRY CLUB: It’s like breaking up a big family ›11
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  • news
    • 958 2 / 3  -  Her cabby husband dies one year after accident, just months after daughter dies of brain cancer Reports by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg She lost her 15-year-old daughter to brain cancer in January 2013. Four months later, Madam Josephine Cerdan Manap’s husband was involved in a road
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    • 335 2 / 3 That fateful day on May 4, 2013, he was on his way home from supper at about 4.30am after a few drinks. Having stayed out the whole night and not slept for 20 hours, Lim Wei Hong found himself nodding off at the wheel. He
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    • 38 4 $50,000 The fine imposed on StarHub for a cable television disruption on Sept 28, 2013. It lasted nearly five hours and affected some 170,000 subscribers in various parts of Singapore, the Media Development Authority said.
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    • 126 4 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday called on people to reflect on the values of unity and inclusiveness that brought the country far and will keep it going. These are not dissimilar from Buddhist values such as kindness, tolerance, compassion, selflessness and moral
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    • 107 4 A panel of experts from the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos) has recommended that the 156-year-old Botanic Gardens be inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. The Unesco committee makes a final decision at its 39th session in Bonn, Germany
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    • 321 4 New condos push sales to highest in a year Sales of new private homes last month rose 83.4 per cent from March, boosted by two condominium launches, figures from the Urban Redevelopment Authority showed yesterday. Developers sold 1,124 new homes, with 1,344 units being launched
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    • 63 4 OPAH DIFFERENT STYLE: Biologist Nick Wegner of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with an opah caught off California. Researchers said in the journal Science, released on Thursday, that the opah, a deep-water denizen, is the first fish known to be fully warm-blooded, circulating heated blood throughout its body,
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    • 181 4 Teen blogger Amos Yee says he is “extremely remorseful” for a claim that his former bailor Vincent Law had molested him. Mr Law, a family and youth counsellor, had demanded an “unreserved apology” after Yee, 16, made the claim on Facebook late on Tuesday
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    • 179 4  -  David Sun One of the women in the viral videos taken at Simei Green condominium was charged in court yesterday. Tang Lei, 47, a Chinese national, was charged with assaulting a condominium manager, spitting and splashing liquid from a drink can at him. She
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    • 510 6  -  Nurse dies after she was hit by SBS bus near Punggol Bus Interchange Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg She was a caring nurse who was well-liked by her colleagues and patients. Sadly, senior staff nurse Lucinia Wong Hang Yee, 30, who worked at
      PHOTOS: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS  -  510 words
    • 119 6 Eighteen people have been injured in Thailand’s southern province of Yala after a string of bomb attacks by suspected Muslim insurgents, the army said yesterday. This comes after recent measures to rein in separatist violence. More than 6,500 people, most of them civilians, have
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    • 161 8 / 9 The wreckage of a US military helicopter that went missing with eight people on board while delivering aid in quakehit Nepal has been found, the Nepalese army said yesterday. Defence Secretary Ishwori Prasad Paudyal told Reuters that there were no survivors as the helicopter
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    • 736 8 / 9  -  Top nursing student at Ngee Ann Poly was volunteering in Nepal when second quake struck Reports by DEWEY SIM deweysim@sph.com.sg Wanting to help victims of the first Nepal quake, he went there with medical supplies. But Mr Brandon Chia, 22, nearly became a casualty himself
      PHOTOS COURTESY OF BRANDON CHIA; TNP PHOTO: CHOO CHWEE HUA  -  736 words
    • 580 8 / 9 As he juggled being a father, husband, full-time student, shop owner and holder of a freelance job, there were times he wanted to give up on his polytechnic studies. But he knew he could not because he would be setting a bad
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    • 859 11  -  Members, staff lament upcoming closure of Jurong Country Club for KL-S’pore rail station Report by GODWIN NG ngodwin@sph.com.sg Tucked away in an inconspicuous corner of Jurong Country Club’s (JCC) driving range is a tiny snack bar. It is where Madam Lee, 64, spends her
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    • 157 12 A man who went on a six-month crime spree, which included theft and appearing nude in public, was sentenced to six years’ corrective training on Thursday. Last September, Loh Tzu Chye, 35, was spotted running towards Block 333, Kreta Ayer Road, at 1.45am, wearing
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    • Article, Illustration
      206 12 ON TNP FACEBOOK On Amos Yee’s false allegation that he was molested by his former bailor: Alan Ong Why don’t his parents just terminate his broadband subscription and give him a 2G phone so he cannot continue posting? OnJin San He is not sincere. I suggest terminating his
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    • 358 13 Gang of four flee after grabbing manager and customer from popular seafood restaurant About 100 customers were sent scurrying when four gunmen burst into the popular Ocean King Seafood Restaurant by the Sandakan seafront and took two people hostage on Thursday evening. The gunmen grabbed
      PHOTOS: THE STAR  -  358 words
    • 277 13 Malaysian police have reminded parents to be mindful of their children’s safety in schools and public areas, in light of attempted kidnappings at two primary schools in Johor Baru recently. Seri Alam Superintendent Abdul Samad Salleh said that following the two recent cases one
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    • FASH BASH
      • 659 14 / 15  -  JEANMARIE TAN No other red carpet event can really compete when the Cannes International Film Festival is underway, or when style superhero Fan Bingbing turns up you’ll get crushed either way, says JEANMARIE TAN That took a long time to put it on and take it off...
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    • 554 16 Marina Mahathir appeals for temporary solution to help stranded Rohingya migrants Sending boats laden with food, water and other essentials could be a short-term way to help the Rohingya migrants stranded on boats, said social activist Marina Mahathir (inset). Appealing via
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    • 672 17  -  ‘Invasive’ red-billed quelea, native to Africa, spotted in Singapore Report by DAVID SUN davidsun@sph.com.sg The bird dubbed the “feathered locust”, because of the devastation it inflicts on crops, has been spotted in Singapore. The red-billed quelea, a species native to Africa, has been estimated to cause
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    • 439 18 Actor flies pets back to the US after warning from Australian minister Actor Johnny Depp flew his dogs home yesterday, a day after Australian Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce warned him to send them back to the US to be quarantined or face having them put
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    • 137 18 AFP Thirty people died on Thursday when a bus plunged off a cliff in China, officials said, in the latest deadly traffic incident in the country. The accident in Chunhua county, in the northern province of Shaanxi, killed 25 people on the scene
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    • 297 18 A 33-year-old Oklahoma man (right) has been charged with killing his stepfather (below, right) by giving him an “atomic wedgie’, one that caused the victim to suffocate on his own underwear. He pleaded guilty on Monday to first degree manslaughter. Brad Lee Davis was
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    • 687 20 / 21  -  He hunted down cop killer the ‘old-fashioned way’ Three individuals, whose stories are featured in the book Living The Singapore Story: Celebrating Our 50 Years 1965-2015, tell GAO WENXIN (wxgao@sph.com.sg) what life was like in the early years of independence GAO WENXIN (wxgao@sph.com.sg) Singapore may
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    • 356 20 / 21 Back in the days when Singapore was part of the Third World, pirate taxis plied the streets. Mr Teo Kim Swee, now 74, drove one in the late 1960s to supplement his income as a hawker. “In my pirate taxi, I would drive
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    • 397 20 / 21 He has been in the satay business for 70 years and knows the exact flavours that appeal to the locals. “Singaporeans feel that sweet satay tastes better. I know because I sell,” said Mr Ngalirdjo Mungin, 94, in Malay. Although Singaporeans have
      TNP PHOTO: MOHD ISHAK  -  397 words
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
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    • 44 1 SATURDAY MAY 16 2015 STEPPING STONE 24-page pullout sports school principal tan teck Hock hopes athletes’ success at sea games can spur them on to the world stage ›s20 sundram roped in to assist stange for world cup qualifiers ›s24 TNP PHOTO: SHAHRIYA YAHAYA
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  • sports
    • 129 2 / 3  -  SHAMIR OSMAN GEYLANG 2 BALESTIER 2 Geylang International came from two goals down at half-time to draw 2-2 with Balestier Khalsa in an S.League fixture at the Jalan Besar Staduim last night. The Eagles could not have left it any later, with Bruno Castanheira equalising with
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    • MALAYSIAN FA CUP
      • 618 2 / 3  -  Goalkeeper ill be key if LionsXII are to stop Terengganu’s threats Rangel and Lopez ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM KUALA TERENGGANU There were laughs aplenty at the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium during the LionsXII’s training session yesterday afternoon. Team spirit was high, as coach Fandi Ahmad and
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      • 433 2 / 3  -  ALI KASIM They say attack is the best form of defence. When Terengganu take on the LionsXII in the second leg of their Malaysian FA Cup semi-final at the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium tonight, Turtles head coach Abdul Rahman Ibrahim would have drummed
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    • EPL
      • Article, Illustration
        1639 4 / 5  -  No fairytale ending, but tears expected in Gerrard’s Anfield finale RICHARD BUXTON npsports@sph.com.sg LIVERPOOL v CRYSTAL PALACE (Tomorrow, 12.30am, Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227) Liverpool’s longest goodbye has reached its final curtain. In the early hours of tomorrow morning (Singapore time), Steven Gerrard will bring
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      • 173 7 PA Sport Petr Cech has been given the green light to talk to other clubs by Chelsea, according to the goalkeeper’s agent. After a decade as No. 1, Cech has found himself second choice behind Thibaut Courtois this season, as Chelsea won the Premier
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      • 602 7 Wenger wants Arsenal to get a good result against United to lay down marker for next season PA Sport Arsene Wenger has challenged Arsenal to “make a symbolic statement” by beating Manchester United on their own turf tomorrow to secure their place in the Champions League. The Gunners
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      • 360 7 PA Sport Hull manager Steve Bruce has backed his players to bounce back from last week’s defeat by Burnley and give themselves a fighting chance of staying in the Premier League. The Tigers travel face Tottenham tonight in the knowledge that only a win will
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      • 151 6 PA Sport Chelsea have signed Brazilian midfielder Nathan from Atletico Paranaense for an undisclosed fee. Nathan bolsters the ranks of Brazilians at Chelsea, joining Ramires, Willian, Oscar and Filipe Luis. The Blues also have young Brazilians Wallace and Lucas Piazon out on loan. Nathan said on
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      • 921 6 'I'LL RETURN IF I CAN CONTRIBUTE Gerrard will be back at Liverpool only if he feels he is able to make a difference Wire Services Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard will leave this summer with his reputation secured as the best player in the club’s history, but he admits that will
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    • EPL BETTING
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        792 8 / 9  -  GARY LIM BRIAN MILLER ALI KASIM BANKER Liverpool to go Home-Home This is going to be Steven Gerrard’s final game at Anfield. So, for Liverpool fans, have a box of tissues by your side as you watch the match. There will be plenty of emotions involved in this
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      • 1531 8 / 9  -  RICHARD LENTON npsports@sph.com.sg SOUTHAMPTON v ASTON VILLA Southampton have picked up just a solitary point out of the last 12 available, and may well find it difficult to contain an in-form Villa side who have registered 12 goals in their last six matches. Southampton have
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    • racing
      • 629 10 / 11  -  GROUP 1 SINGAPORE GUINEAS Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg A supremely confident ride by jockey Michael Rodd in Race 7 last night saw AFFLECK score a dominant win in the $500,000 Group 1 Singapore Guineas over 1,600m, the final leg of the Singapore
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      • 551 10 / 11 GROUP 2 AUSHORSE GOLDEN HORSESHOE Short-priced favourite SUPER ONE captured the last leg of the Singapore Golden Horseshoe series, the $325,000 Group 2 Aushorse Golden Horseshoe over 1,200m, running his 11 two-year-old rivals ragged in Race 5 at Kranji last night. The exciting prospect (right)
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      • 1820 10 / 11 Race 1 C4 D2 1200m 3 WHITE COFFEE 56.5 (30-10) O Chavez (3) 11 7 1 (464) 8 SWIFT 52.5 c 51.5 (273-62) T See* (2) 5 4 2 (475) 0.5 5 SILVER STAR 55.5 c 53.5 (32-11) J See* (8) 1 1 3
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      • 592 10 / 11 Race 1 Maiden Juvenile Plate 1000M 3 HUMBLE HARRY 58 (62-11) Raymond Danielson (10) 1 4 MEMPHIS MAFIA 58 (190-32) Luyolo Mxothwa (12) 2 1 COXSWAIN 58 (12-6) Muzi Yeni (14) 3 5 MINNAROOM 58 (13-7) S’Manga Khumalo (8) 4 Trainer: R du Plessis. Margins:
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      • SI A CUP/ KRISFLYER SPRINT: 1 DAY TO gO
        • 1127 12 / 13  -  What’s it like for horses to travel from one country to another, for an event like tomorrow’s Singapore Airlines International Cup at Kranji? BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg Here’s a question: Can horses fly? Pegasus could. But he had wings. Rocket Man, too. But that’s another story. They
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        • 921 12 / 13 The shutters are almost up on this week-long trackwork among the International contenders, but clockers were still kept on their toes now and again yesterday morning. After not being seen for a more serious hit-out since their arrival last Saturday, Hong Kong trainer
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      • 1586 14 / 15  -  COMMENTS BY PHILLIP WOO, COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB RACE 1 (1,200M) DRAGON ENERGY (3) will relish a return to Class 5, where he was an earlier come-from-behind winner and third from as many starts over this course and distance (C&D).
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      • 1463 14 / 15 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 CLASS 5 AWT—1200m TIME 1:00 Stakes: HK$575,000 No. Horse name Trainer Jockey wt(ib) Bar 1 PALEPALE D E FERRARIS A SUBORICS 133 5 2 SUPER KING STAR R GIBSON N CALLAN 133 8 3 DRAGON ENERGY A T
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      • 589 14 / 15 RACE 1 (GEELONG) 1st 3 Yours Mine Ours ($13-$8) 2nd 9 Choctaw Ridge ($6) 3rd 2 Munjiz ($23) 4th 10 Bowtale Forecast $14 Place Forecast (3-9) $7, (2-3) $31, (2-9) $23 Tierce $196 Trio $54 Quartet $3113 Quadro $205 RACE 2 (GATTON) 1st 15 Tangent ($75-$18) 2nd
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      • 1178 16 / 17 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1 TE RAPA, NZ (1,600M) 2 VITALI (Runs:23 Wins:3(1H) Places:2): 14.6-metre 7th 59kg to Flying Fantasy in 1,400m Te Aroha BM65 April 29. 3 READY EDDIE (Runs:14 Wins:2 (2H) Places:2): 9.1m 14th 56kg to Jumanah in
        COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS  -  1,178 words
      • 1546 16 / 17 12:22 Race 1 TE RAPA—1600M 1 EL BANDIDO C J GRYLLS (13) 59 2 VITALI S C SPRATT (14) 59 3 READY EDDIE S T COLLETT (8) 58.5 4 VANTAA L G INNES (10) 58.5 5 GALAKTIKA O P
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      • 930 16 / 17 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 C5 2.15 —1100m (STRAIGHT) Stakes: RM20,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/Origin/Sex, trainer-owner) 1 -0578-Uncle Bully 59 (36) P Mogun* c4 8 (3ag K Coetzee-Super Singh) 2 *****5 Berni Dancer 57 .5 (33) Lou Ho c1 2
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    • 176 18 AFP Robert Streb fired a 65 yesterday morning (Singapore time) to take a one-shot lead in the US PGA Tour’s US$7.1 million ($9.4m) Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow Streb, seeking to add a second US Tour title to the McGladrey Classic trophy he
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      176 18 Children from the Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (ST SPMF) participated in the 24SEVENS Kids MiniTournament yesterday at the Cage Sports Park at Turf City. The event, organised by Amc! Experience, saw the ST SPMF kids (above) square off against talented youths from FC Barcelona Soccer
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    • 586 18 Unheralded Ukraine side stun Napoli to set up final with holders Sevilla EUROPA LEAGUE AFP Holders Sevilla will face unheralded Ukrainian side Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the Europa League final in Warsaw on May 27. The finalists progress to the Polish capital finale in wildly contrasting fashions
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    • 123 19 Singapore’s Choo Tze Huang moved up to joint-fifth after a three-under 69 at the PGM MNRB Sarawak Championship yesterday. He is lying three shots away from leader Erwan Vieilledent of France who shot a 71 to lead by one shot over Malaysia’s R. Nachimuthu
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    • 352 19 TENNIS AFP Roger Federer remained on course for a semi-final clash with Spanish rival Rafael Nadal at the Italian Open after cruising past Tomas Berdych 6-3, 6-3 in just over an hour yesterday. Federer (right) has made the final in Rome three times in
      AFP; PHOTOS: AFP  -  352 words
    • 456 19 AFP EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS SEMI-FINAL, GAME 6 CHICAGO BULLS 73 CLEVELAND CAVALIERS 94 l Cleveland win series 4-2 The Cleveland Cavaliers punched their ticket to the NBA Eastern Conference Finals yesterday morning (Singapore time) but, in the West, the Los Angeles Clippers stunningly
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    • SPORT IS COMING HOME (JUNE 5-16) DAYS TO GO 20
    • 130 22 / 23 Tickets for the 28th South-east Asia (SEA) Games opening and closing ceremonies have sold out. Eighteen out of the 36 sports that will feature at the June 5 to 16 Games here are ticketed and some have already been sold out. These include fencing,
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    • 533 22 / 23  -  4x100m quartet set surprise new national mark in Taiwan ATHLETICS Report by LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg They did not think they ran a good race. Without the official timing to refer to, the Singapore women’s 4x100m team immediately started to analyse what went wrong with their
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    • 132 22 / 23 Reuters Malaysia have delayed revealing their gold-medal target for next month’s South-east Asia (SEA) Games in Singapore. Malaysia’s Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin declined to follow chef de mission Norza Zakaria in targeting 50 golds at the June 5-16 biennial Games for
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    • 627 22 / 23  -  It cannot continue its association with Italian club, and will change its name, says Cerny Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg In just over six weeks, on June 30, the Juventus Soccer School (JSS) will cease to exist in Singapore. Jiri Cerny, the managing director of Kickster,
      TNP PHOTO: SHAMIR OSMAN  -  627 words
    • ON TV
      • 201 22 / 23 MALAYSIAN FA CUP SEMI-FINAL Today: TERENGGANU v LIONSXII StarHub TV Ch 112/205 (Supersports Arena) 76.25MHz, 8.30pm ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Today: SOUTHAMPTON v ASTON VILLA Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium), 7.45pm WEST HAM v EVERTON Singtel TV Ch 103 StarHub TV Ch 228 (mio Stadium),
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      • 17 22 / 23 NBA PLAY-OFFS Today: MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES v GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 9.30am
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      • 29 22 / 23 SUDIRMAN CUP MIXED TEAM C’SHIP Today: DAY 7, SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 1pm DAY 7, SEMI-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 7pm
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      • 50 22 / 23 ATP ITALIAN OPEN Today: DAY 6 (SEMI-FINAL 1) StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 8pm Tomorrow: DAY 6 (SEMI-FINAL 2) StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 2am WTA ITALIAN OPEN Today: SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 6pm SEMI-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 10.30pm
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      • 17 22 / 23 KINGSMILL CHAMPIONSHIP Tomorrow: DAY 3 Singtel TV Ch 114 StarHub TV Ch 208 (FOX Sports), 5am
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      600 24  -  Tampines coach roped in to assist Stange at World Cup qualifiers Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg He was the man the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) turned to in the five months of uncertainty between the departure of Radojko Avramovic the most successful Lions’ coach and the appointment
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