The New Paper, 5 December 2015

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  • news
    • KOVAN DOUBLE MURDER
      • 1381 2 / 3  -  Judge disagrees with defence’s version of events, sentences cop to death for 2013 murders Report by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg HE WANTED TO ESCAPE UNNOTICED Iskandar Rahmat’s lawyers said during the nine-day trial that their client was in debt and facing bankruptcy proceedings. So he
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      • 180 2 / 3 After finishing his O levels at Victoria School, Iskandar Rahmat spent a year at Singapore Polytechnic before dropping out and signing on with the Singapore Police Force (SPF). He was eventually sponsored by the SPF and completed a diploma in management and police studies at Temasek Polytechnic
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      • 302 2 / 3  -  Report by ELIZABETH LAW lawsm@sph.com.sg Madam Ong Ah Tang, the widow of motor workshop owner Tan Boon Sin, still struggles with accepting the deaths of her husband and son. When The New Paper visited her home at 14J, Hillside Drive, yesterday, she did not answer
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    • 80 4 $50k The fine imposed on a dentist, Dr Myles Edward Holt, for using a qualification that had not been approved. The Singapore Dental Council held a disciplinary inquiry against him and found that he had used the unapproved qualification in a certificate issued to a participant at
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    • 184 4 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his brother Hsien Yang have each agreed to donate half the value of the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s Oxley Road house to charity. The money will go to the charities named in the late
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    • 73 4 ‘She was my pillar and my rock’ (The New Paper, Dec 4): The Association of Employment Agencies Singapore (AEAS) has clarified that the event is called the 13th AEAS FDW and FDW Employer of the Year Awards 2015. The awards have been jointly given out by AEAS and the
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    • 367 4 Minister drops another hint about rail restructuring Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan has again hinted at restructuring the rail industry. Speaking at a Joint Forum on Infrastructure Maintenance yesterday, he said that “creating an excellent rail system requires an integrated approach, from design through
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    • 70 4 FIRE FORCES PRISON EVACUATION: Police escort prisoners through a street in Manila yesterday after a fire in a shantytown nearby. The fire destroyed at least 500 huts, leaving up to 5,000 people homeless. There were no serious injuries. Some 500 handcuffed female prisoners were moved to a nearby chapel as
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    • 171 4 The Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board will further extend the operating hours of its service and call centres from Monday as some services on its website remained unavailable. The service centres at Bishan, Jurong, Robinson Road, Tampines and Woodlands will extend their queue ticket issuance
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    • 162 4  -  Zaihan Mohamed Yusof A senior bank executive was charged in court yesterday with assaulting an 11-year-old boy at a condominium playground. Ali Reza Broker, 48, was alleged to have done so on May 17 at Wing On Life Garden condominium in Bukit Timah Road.
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    • 239 6 The Man Who Knew Infinity is local movie company Xeitgeist Entertainment Group’s first production. Founded by Australians Jomon Thomas and Mark Montgomery in 2011, Xeitgeist chose the film for its crossover potential. “We were fortunate enough to be approached by producer Edward R. Pressman
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    • 543 6  - Actor Dev Patel likes his UK life says: I’m not going to Bollywood Reports by LISA TWANG lisat@sph.com.sg He’s won international acclaim, including a Bafta Best Actor nomination for his role in the Oscar-winning 2008 movie Slumdog Millionaire. But British-Indian actor Dev Patel thinks conquering Bollywood isn’t for him. “I
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    • 135 8 AFP Critics have hit out at a new security law in Malaysia that grants unprecedented emergency powers to the government. They say it is aimed at quashing challenges to scandal-tainted Prime Minister Najib Razak and is propelling the country towards dictatorship. Malaysia’s Parliament
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    • 384 8 Father arrested for urying son’s body and hiding incident from the authorities A six-year-old boy was killed in Sabah when a fish bomb went off while his 11-member sea gypsy family was constructing it. The accident occurred in a stilt house off Pulau
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    • 337 8 A 35-year-old Malaysian woman who allegedly killed her two young sons in Taman Wira Indah may have suffered a mental breakdown. The father, 36, is a chef in Singapore. Kedah Criminal Investigation Department chief Assistant Commissioner (AC) Mohd Nashir Ya said the woman
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    • 421 9  -  Teen gets nearly 9 years’ jail for assault that left victim bedridden Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg The judge described the “brutal” assault as one that “almost defied description”. District Judge Mathew Joseph said yesterday the “senseless and vicious” attack was “one of the worst cases
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    • 124 9 AFP A petrol bomb attack on a Cairo disco killed at least 16 people and wounded two in the early hours yesterday as a blaze broke out, police said. Police launched a manhunt after the perpetrators fled the scene of the firebombing in
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    • 138 10 The Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has advised people not to buy or use a product labelled “TCM Recipe Licozen Ointment” (right). It has been found to contain high levels of arsenic, the HSA said yesterday. A doctor alerted HSA after a woman said there was
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    • 561 10  -  Spat over ice at ultra marathon ends in shocking violence Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg It was a heated argument between two men over ice. And it got one of them so riled up, he sank his teeth into the other man’s ear
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    • 924 11  -  A day before heading to Paris for the COP21 World Climate Change Conference, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan talks green issues with the media. JUDITH TAN (juditht@sph.com.sg) reports on his main points JUDITH TAN (juditht@sph.com.sg) SINGAPORE’S STAND INPUT We are a small
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    • 135 11 AFP Thai police on Friday said that Moscow’s top intelligence agency has warned that 10 militants from terrorist organisation Islamic State have entered Thailand to target Russians. A leaked letter, marked “secret” and “urgent” and signed by the deputy head of Thailand’s special branch,
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    • 625 12 / 13  -  K-pop group BTOB back in S’pore for fan meeting report by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg It has been three long years since K-pop boy band BTOB made their way to Singapore. And loyal fans of the seven-mem-ber group were duly rewarded at the two-hour I
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    • 565 12 / 13  -  Jocelyn Lee He may have played the popular guy in Our Times, the Taiwanese movie that took Asia by storm, but in real life, Taiwanese newcomer Dino Lee was the complete opposite. The 22-year-old idol, who portrayed the smart, suave Ouyang Extraordinary in the coming-of-age
      PHOTOS: DALENE LOW, TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX  -  565 words
    • 1252 14 / 15  -  Pride and sweet relief for engineers The public gets a preview of the new Downtown Line 2 today, ahead of its opening on Dec 27. FOO JIE YING (fjieying@sph.com.sg) looks at five things you may not know about the construction of our latest rail
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    • 765 16 / 17 No longer just a place for teenagers to skateboard or while away the time waiting for a movie at Cineleisure to start, *Scape has been transformed into a breeding ground for local
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    • 409 18 Gunman in San Bernardino shootings is said to become radicalised after getting married in Saudi Arabia AFP A US-born Muslim who, along with his wife, gunned down 14 people in California may have been radicalised and had been in contact with terrorism suspects,
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    • 140 18 AFP Canadian model and actress Pamela Anderson is back in Playboy for the final nude edition, before the magazine’s redesign. Ms Anderson, 48, of TV series Baywatch fame, will be on the magazine’s cover for the 14th time. Hers will be the final
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    • 289 18 Reuters A former girlfriend of actor Charlie Sheen (above) is suing him for assault, negligence and emotional distress, saying they had sex at least five times before he revealed he was HIVpositive. Ms Scottine Ross, 26, who said she met Sheen while she
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    • 913 19 Last month, former Cabinet minister S. Dhanabalan became only the eighth person to be awarded the Order of Temasek (First Class), Singapore’s highest civilian honour. In a recent interview with tabla!, he spoke about the issues affecting the Indian community in Singapore. Here
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    • 292 20 LOCAL WEATHER THUNDERY SHOWERS High 34° Low 24° watch ’em 20TH ASIAN TELEVISION AWARDS 2015 Channel 5, 9.30pm The 20th Asian Television Awards celebrates the best in Asian television. Attending stars included local actors Felicia Chin and Pierre Png (both pictured, right) and Aaron Aziz, as well as overseas stars
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  • 368 21  -  By HectorTan htan@sph.com.sg With Christmas only 20 days away, it’s time for some planning if you haven’t started. Greeting cards Planning to send your greeting cards by mail? Factor in a two-week allowance. It is better for the card to arrive earlier than after Christmas itself. Madam
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    • 44 1 SATURDAY DECEMBER 5 2015 24-page pullout ASEAN PARA GAMES TERRIFIC THERESA Swimmer rediscovers ‘fire’ as she splashes her way to two gold medals ›S2 TNP PHOTO: JONATHAN CHOO goalKeepeR IZWaN MaHBuD WoN’t let tHe eleMeNtS get IN tHe WaY oF HIS J.league DReaM ›S20
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  • sports
    • 8th ASEAN PARA GAMES
      • 615 2 / 3  -  Swimmer Goh wins two golds on first day in the pool, almost back to her best form Report by LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg In the lead-up to the Asean Para Games (APG), swimmer Theresa Goh had told The New Paper that she is nearly back to
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      • 447 2 / 3  -  Paralympic gold medallist Yip’s time in 100m free won’t stand due to rules LIM SAY HENG Physically, she was the most disabled among the five competitors in her race yesterday. Yet, 2008 Paralympic gold medallist Yip Pin Xiu managed to clinch a silver —behind teammate
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      • 205 2 / 3 SWIMMING Theresa Goh l Women’s 100m freestyle (S5) 1:45.51 l Women’s 100m breaststroke (SB4) 2:02.02 (Games rec) Han Liang Chou l Men’s 100m breaststroke (SB14) 1:19.06 Toh Wei Soong l Men’s 100m freestyle (S8) 1:05.46 (Games rec) TENPIN BOWLING Mohamed Ismail l Mixed Singles (TPB 3) 1,137
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      • 574 4 / 5  -  Rausyan, Ismail and Anuar fly Singapore’s flag high with three golds at the lanes Report by JESLEEN SOH jsoh@sph.com.sg He bowls, plays badminton and table tennis, among many other sports. But bowling is the sport Mohamad Rausyan chose to represent Singapore in at the 8th Asean
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      • 467 4 / 5  -  Tipped for gold, wheelchair racer finishes last but vows to bounce back as Thais excel Report by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg He was touted as a potential goldmedal winner in the men’s 100m T54 race. Alas, after a poor start, wheelchair athlete Firdaus Nordin finished
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      • 435 4 / 5 Women’s Long Jump (F20) 1. Rica Oktavia (Ind) 5.07m AR 2. Siti Noor Radiah Ismail (Mas) 4.98m 3. Siti Nooraisah Mohamad Ariffin (Mas) 4.90m Women’s Long Jump (F44) 1. Lai Thi Ngoc Anh (Vie) 3.81m GR 2. Inginn Khin (Mya) 3.52m 3. Nguyen Thi Thuy (Vie)
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      • 504 6 / 7  -  Shooter Ritchie, 16, just pipped to gold by Thai paralympian Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg He took a deep breath, clenching his fist before the television camera started rolling, but that should come as little surprise. Only 16, Ritchie Chan is taking part in his first Asean Para
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      • 500 6 / 7  -  Report by GABRIEL TAN npsports@sph.com.sg There was no fairy-tale goalball debut for Singapore at the 8th Asean Para Games (APG) at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) yesterday. The men’s team were beaten 14-4 and 16-6 by Laos and Indonesia respectively, while their female counterparts lost
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      • 317 6 / 7  -  Report by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg An hopeful home crowd which included Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong packed themselves into at the Marina Bay Sands Hall B last night, hoping to will an improbable upset. Singapore, the unranked home side, took on Causeway rivals Malaysia, ranked 30th
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    • 140 8 / 9 PA Sport Massimiliano Allegri has played down reports linking him to the Manchester United job. The Juventus coach (right) won the Serie A title at the end of his first season in Turin, also guiding the Bianconeri to the Champions League final where they were
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    • EPL
      • Article, Illustration
        829 8 / 9  -  Liverpool boss proves that winning with style and smiles is possible NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg In the English Premier League, perception is reality. Juergen Klopp dazzles like a Serengeti sunset and Louis van Gaal is as dull as dishwater. Liverpool and Manchester United are light and shade,
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      • 878 8 / 9 PA Sport Slaven Bilic insists Manchester United are anything but boring. Louis van Gaal’s side have been accused of being dull this season despite lying third in the Premier League, a point off top spot. Sections of their own fans have chanted “attack, attack, attack” in
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      • 703 10 Pellegrini doesn’t rule out City winning an unprecedented Quadruple PA Sport Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has refused to rule out the prospect of leading his side to a clean sweep of trophies this season ahead of their Premier League trip to Stoke tonight.
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      • 137 15 PA Sport QPR have confirmed the appointment of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink as their new manager. The former Leeds and Chelsea striker has left his role at Burton, who are currently top of League One, and signed a rolling contract at Loftus Road. Hasselbaink (right) replaces
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      • 763 15 Mourinho laughs off Costa speculation but won’t confirm if he will start against Bournemouth PA Sport Jose Mourinho sees no reason why Diego Costa’s future is subject to speculation, but declined to say if the striker will start tomorrow morning’s (Singapore time) Premier League game against Bournemouth.
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    • 164 10 Reuters Real Madrid have been thrown out of the Copa del Rey after they used an ineligible player in Wednesday’s last-32, first-leg match at third-tier Cadiz, Spanish radio station Cadena Ser reported yesterday. Real included Denis Cheryshev in their starting line-up for the
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    • racing
      • 471 11 Going with local talk, Oscar Chavez could figure among the favourites in tomorrow’s Attitude International Jockeys’ Day in Mauritius. The Singapore representative is said to have drawn well at the annual jockeys’ series ride allocation draw at The Ravanela Attitude Hotel on Thursday
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      • 1760 11  -  By Singapore Turf Club AUSTRALIA FEED (#OTH2) 12:12PM Race 1 (A$20,000) Ellers--1400m 1 3312 Brakbar H J Moki (3.0) [6] 60 2 0243 Hollywood Lad M Du Plessis [11] 60 3 1226 What’s Up Alf S Spratt [4] 60 4 2341
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      • 473 12 / 13  -  Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg The odds appeared stacked against him: A strong field, a wide draw and he had yet to win over 1,200m. Still, the last-minute money came pouring in for Polytrack specialist MY LUCKY STRIKE in the main event last night, the
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      • 53 12 / 13 YESTERDAY’S GALLOPS BY TOMORROW’S RUNNERS: RACE 4: Time Odyssey HH (MM Firdaus) 37.2. RACE 5: Terms Of Reference (B Vorster) 40.3. RACE 8: Time After Time 37.5. Lam Edition (CC Wong) 40.1. RACE 9: Coronet Peak 39.2. Vertical Start HHH(Vorster) 38.3. RACE 10: Power Lin (Wong) 38.1. Mighty
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      • 1565 12 / 13  - 05-12-15 SATURDAY KOREA RACING RACE CARD (SAND TRACK) By Singapore Turf Club NO SIMULCAST FOR RACE 1 TO RACE 3 Race 4 12:00PM (KRW55,000,000) Seoul --1000m 1 00 Bridgetanna 53.5 [1] Kim Gui Bae 2.4% Lee Hee Young 11.0% 2 43 Triple Shining 55 [2] Choi Bum Hyun 13.3% Ha
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      • 429 12 / 13 Race 1 Maiden Plate 1200M 3 ISLAND EXPRESS 60 (58-19) Juan Paul V’D Merwe (9) 1 2 TOWNSHIP TALK 60 (41-12) Karl Zechner (12) 2 10 KING’S FIRE 57 .5 (13-7) Greg Cheyne (2) 3 9 SPEED LIGHTNING 60 (168-27) Barend Vlooh (1) 4 Trainer:
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      • 1755 12 / 13 Race 1 C5 1100m 3 TIM 56.5 (31-12) A Da Silva (10) 2 2 1 (500) 2 SUPER JOY 57 (28-10) K A’isisuhairi* (5) 1 1 2 (491) Shd 8 ALWAYS A WINNER 53 (33-12) B Woodworth (3) 3 4 3 (500) 1.25 9 LIVE IN
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      • 412 14 KUALA LUMPUR AND PENANG TRACKWORK NST LUCOSTAR looks ready to break through in the Open Maiden event over 1,200m in Race 4 today, going by his workout at Sungei Besi yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the Lawson Moy-trained five-year-old New
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      • 1510 14 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING RACE 1 C5 1.45 —1400m (LC) (Turf) Stakes: RM22,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/Origin/Sex, trainer-owner) 1 0075-7 Thrust 59 (35) KC Wong* c2 8 (6ag I Ismadi-Genius) 2 0068-7 Eleven Up 57 (31) S Ruzaini c2 6
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    • EPL BETTING
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        723 16 / 17  -  GARY LIM BRIAN MILLER DAVID LEE BanKer Pool to beat Newcastle Newcastle manager Steve McClaren’s recurring nightmares show the face of Juergen Klopp. The last time his side met Klopp’s was in the German Bundesliga, when McClaren’s Wolfsburg lost 3-0 to Borussia Dortmund in 2011. Soon after, he
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      • 1488 16 / 17  -  BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg CHELSEA v BOURNEMOUTH This is the first meeting between these two teams. While Chelsea have won just three from seven at Stamford Bridge, the Cherries have won just once when on their travels. Over-2.5 Goals seems the way to go. In total,
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    • 143 18 Reuters Dwyane Wade’s 28 points, including two game-winning free-throws with 1.5 seconds left, helped the Miami Heat to a 97-95 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder yesterday morning (Singapore time). Wade (right) scored Miami’s final eight points to overshadow Oklahoma duo Russell Westbrook and Kevin
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    • 369 18 PA Sport Louis van Gaal has warned Gary Neville he faces a “very difficult” job reviving Valencia’s fortunes. The former Manchester United captain took his first job in management on Wednesday when he was appointed head coach of Valencia. The Spanish side have won
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    • GOLF
      • 466 18  -  All five golfers contribute as Republic look poised for top-five finish S MURALI muralis@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM TURKEY In the end, it was a tremendous team effort for Singapore. In the first round of the World Amateur Golfers Championship in Antalya, Turkey, Patrick Goh was the
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      • 107 19 AFP World No. 1 Jordan Spieth aced the par-three second hole, while England’s Paul Casey fired a six-under 66 to share the lead after round one of the Hero World Challenge in Bahamas. Casey’s bogey-free round put him alongside Americans Jimmy Walker and Zach
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      • 566 19  -  Despite double-bogey on the 13th, he stays in touch as Taiwanese Lin takes lead Report by GODFREY ROBERT godfrey@sph.com.sg Despite an unlucky doublebogey on the 13th hole yesterday, Singapore’s Koh Dengshan is having his best start on the Asian Tour since he turned pro four years
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      • 289 19 AFP Tiger Woods says he has reconciled himself to his golf career possibly being over and told his children about the mistakes that led to his divorce in an interview with Time magazine. Woods (right), a 14-time Major champion who has chased the
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    • 87 20 / 21  -  LIM SAY HENG Namibia have pulled out of the upcoming Mission Foods Netball Nations Cup due to “funding issues”, organisers said yesterday. Instead, an invitational team made up of Singapore national squad players, club players, and a Fiji international will join Singapore,
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    • FOOTBALL
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        733 20 / 21  -  *Wonderful in Japanese ongoing trial with Japanese club SUBARASHII!* tough conditions, goalkeeper Izwan despite impresses in DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg l David Lee’s trip is sponsored by Epson Singapore. REPORTING FROM MATSUMOTO, JAPAN Fingers numb, toes stiff, nose dripping, it wasn’t just Singapore goalkeeper Izwan Mahbud who found the going
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      • 221 20 / 21 1 Izwan Mahbud comes from a family of six, and is the third of four siblings. He has an older sister, an older brother and a younger sister. 2 His favourite food is any chicken dish his mother cooks, especially ayam masak merah. 3 If he
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      • 751 20 / 21  -  DAVID LEE From the first time he came into contact with a football when he was six, Izwan Mahbud had just one simple dream to be a striker like his dad was for his team Stable Boys. But Anderson Primary School did not
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      • 866 22 / 23  -  LionsXII to split, players to join S.League clubs next year report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamir@sph.com.sg Izwan Mahbud may be miles away battling the Japanese winter but, even as he embarks on an adventure to convince coaches at Matsumoto Yamaga to make him the first Singaporean to ply
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      • 646 22 / 23 PA Sport The full extent of fifa’s corruption scandal was laid bare by fresh indictments on Thursday, after US justice authorities revealed huge sums destined for disaster relief and development projects were embezzled by senior officials. The new indictments followed the dawn arrests of
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    • 136 22 / 23 Indian movie legend Amitabh Bachchan has become co-owner of the OUE Singapore Slammers, alongside local company UD Group, who acquired the team this year. Bachchan will make a courtside appearance on Dec 20 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on the season’s final day. He will
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    • ON TV
      • 217 22 / 23 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Today: STOKE v MAN CITY Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium), 8.45pm ARSENAL v SUNDERLAND Singtel TV Ch 103 StarHub TV Ch 228 (mio Stadium), 10.55pm SWANSEA v LEICESTER Singtel TV Ch 104 StarHub TV Ch 229 (mio Stadium), 10.55pm WATFORD v
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      • 27 22 / 23 NBA Today: DETROIT PISTONS V MILWAUKEE BUCKS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 8.30am DALLAS MAVERICKS v HOUSTON ROCKETS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 9.30am
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      • 38 22 / 23 INT’L PREMIER TENNIS LEAGUE Tomorrow: JAPAN WARRIORS v S’PORE SLAMMERS Singtel TV Ch 114 StarHub TV Ch 208 (FOX Sports), 4pm UAE ROYALS v PHILIPPINE MAVERICKS Singtel TV Ch 114 StarHub TV Ch 208 (FOX Sports), 7.30pm
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      • 41 22 / 23 AUSTRALIAN PGA C’SHIP Today: day 3 StarHub TV Ch 204 (SuperSports 4), 10.30am HO TRAM OPEN Today: day 3 StarHub TV Ch 112/205 (SuperSports Arena) 76.25MHz, 1pm NEDBANK GOLF CHALLENGE Today: day 3 StarHub TV Ch 204 (SuperSports 4), 4pm
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    • 488 24  -  SEA Games marathon champ still hoping to set national best despite foot problem MARATHON Report by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg In his first marathon, Soh Rui Yong clocked 2hr 26min 01sec at the California International Marathon last December; the second-best performance by any Singaporean. In
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