The New Paper, 8 January 2006

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      808 2  -  COUNTDOWN-PARTY MOLESTERS Dressed like THIS i BUT STILL., m groped A GROKDfI Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan@sph.com.sg SHE was wearing a tudung, a Malay headscarf. But that did not stop a group of men from allegedly molesting the Singaporean mother. She was on Orchard Road with her teenage daughter when
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    • 112 2 AT the recent Christmas and New Year's Eve parties on Orchard Road, 11 cases of molest were reported, the police said. In eight of the cases, the suspects were caught. The suspects comprised Singaporeans and men of other nationalities, said a police spokesman. The victims were women
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    • 609 3  -  COUNTDOWN-PARTY MOLESTERS Bangladeshi worker, who admits he purposely knocks into women in crowded streets, says 'any man'... Crystat Chan crystalc@s ph. com. sg YES, he admits to going out for cheap thrills. But he reasons: "Any man would try to touch a woman if he If
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    • 113 3 WHILE molest can happen anywhere, eve-teasing, a term used in India for sexual harassment of women in public places, is a growing problem throughout the subcontinent. Eve-teasingjranges from sexually-slanted comments to molest and even rape. It often happens in crowded places, which makes detection
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      474 4  -  COUNTDOWN-PARTY MOLESTERS Snow-spray louts Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@ sph.com.sg THERE were the three wise men, and then there were 300 dumb goons who turned the nativity scene at the Civic Plaza into the most uncivilised place in Singapore on Christmas Eve (with a repeat performance on New Year's
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      530 4  -  Call to BAN SPRAYS Dawn Chia dawnch ia@sph. com. sg BAN aerosol foam sprays in Singapore entirely, screams an online petition. They're the bane of street partygoers, as sex predators use these to spray on their victims' faces and molest them while they're temporarily blinded. By last night, more
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    • 745 5  -  YESTERDAY TODAY Come, BUT BEWARE /Page 10 COMG, BUT DONT WALK LIKE A HERO /Page 11 Low Ching Ling lowcl@sph.com.sg MR Freddie Long insists Johor Baru is safe for Singaporeans as long as you take the necessary precautions. The Johor state executive councillor
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    • 479 5  -  Samantha Fong sfbng@sph.com. sg ABOUT $3 million worth of Singapore-registered cars were stolen in Malaysia over the last two years. This estimate, from insurance company payouts, means losses of 100 to 200 cars a year. Nine in 10 of these cars were
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    • 293 6 BE WARY OF THESE CRIME-PRONE AREAS HOLIDAY PLAZA Shopping mall popular with Singaporeans Last month, Mr Mohd Fairus Japar, 26, parked his car here. Two hours later, he returned to find v the car missing SHELL PETROL STATION AT JALAN WONGAH FOOK About a two-minute drive from
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    • 716 7  -  JB RESIDENTS: Esther Au Yong estheray@sph.com.sg SURE, it may not be as safe as Singapore, but it's not as if Johor Baru is Iraq. And Singaporeans shouldn't treat IB as their backyard. That's the view there. lohoreans who spoke to us said Singaporeans
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      667 8  -  His care-giver daughter was there to the end PEVAN NAIR Clarence Chang clarence@sph.com.sg SHE was the only family member by his bedside when her late father, ex-President Devan Nair, took his last breath in his adopted hometown of Hamilton, Canada. That was exactly one month ago. Yesterday in
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    • 700 9 DEVAN NAIR PASSIONATE UNIONIST 1961-1981 PRESIDENT OF S'PORE 1981-1985 "near concert-quality singing voice", Mr Janadas revealed, and he loved singing classical Hindi and Bengali songs. But was he quirky as well? You bet. "He couldn't tell the difference between a football and a basketball," his son disclosed to
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    • 507 10 Two workers violently ill; fumes from unmarked box in train suspected TWO workers were rushed to hospital after a toxic gas leak at the KTM railway station near the Causeway in Johor Baru on Friday. Mr Ibrahim Mohamad and Mr A Ramadas, both in their
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    • 334 10 HE was sacked for bathing naked in full view of punters at the Penang Turf Club. But Mr P Kandaya (inset) is determined not to let the matter rest until all the facts of the incident are laid bare
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    • 492 11 Only 8 AND HE HAS ALREADY... AP. AIDAN Gold (below) is only 1.2 m tall but he has climbed mountains almost 5,000 times taller than himself. His accounts of reaching high peaks in the shadow of Mount Everest, traversing glaciers and rotten-rock cliffs with I,Boom exposures and
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    • 484 12 Nurse in Taiwan charged with sexually abusing bedridden patient NURSE'S CARING TOUCH...Jar ar EMPLOYERS are sometimes in the news for sexually abusing their maids. But in Chang-hua, Taiwan, a Vietnamese nurse hired to look after a bedridden man has been charged for abusing him sexually.
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    • 744 13 One teen stands accused of stabbing his mother more than 100 times. Two others allegedly strangled and killed their grandmother. What turns kids into killers? IN Michigan, 15-year-old Christopher Dancovich allegedly stabbed his mother 111 times during a row over a curfew. In Britain, twins Robert
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      • 81 14 Ariel Sharon... maintained that that which cannot be done with force can be done with extra-force. I loathed him for being the enemy of peace. And then two years ago, a sudden change occurred-. (Now) he is leaving us with two great mysteries: Why in the autumn of
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      • 86 14 TURKISH authorities have been scrambling to tackle an outbreak of bird flu, after tests confirmed it in three people, including two siblings who died this week. The World Health Organisation sought to allay panic over the spread of the disease as the results of the tests
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      • 124 14 PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh has launched a dual citizenship programme for all Indians who left the country after 1950. About 25 million people of Indian origin have moved abroad, often in search of jobs and education in wealthier countries. The government wants them to invest in India,
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      • 78 14 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has cancelled a trip to Indonesia and Australia to keep watch on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's fight for life. "She decided that because of the situation in the Middle East, it was the right decision to stay in Washington," State
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      • 53 14 MINISTER Mentor Lee Kuan Yew watched lion dancers perform in Chinatown yesterday before launching Chinese New Year celebrations with firecrackers and a colourful display of lights. There will be various shows, 500 stalls and a street party on 12 Feb. picture J
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      • 152 14 NEW ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, INTERNET HOTSPOTS FOR COURT USERS IT'S a building that's been designed to serve our legal system "well into the 21st century, for decades to come," says Chief Justice Yong Pung How. The new Supreme Court building boasts new technology like an electronic
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      • 184 14 GOOGLE is upping the ante in the field of online video, and taking on Apple's pioneering iTunes store. Google's move, announced on Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, already has commitments to sell thousands of downloads, including recent
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      • 35 14 9 11V k A US juryjpotabyrat tkf attemptejfffljfi(j|'(frfra i authoritie^acTmissed: 30 bags of what appeared to be cocaine. The deliberations were stopped after the the jury told to return to the courthouse next week.
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    • 11 15  -  Skye Tan skyetan@sph.com.sg V
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    • 1102 16 SHOTGUN. That was what disgruntled fathers used to brandish at naughty boys who dared put a bun in their daughters' ovens. Unless the offending chap married the girl, his head could be blown off. And so the term shotgun marriage was born. But while they
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    • 303 17 IF you have it, flaunt it. That seems to be the case in Hollywood, if you've got a pre-wedding bump. Last year's most-photographed couple Tom Cruise, 43, and Katie Holmes, 26, not only enjoyed smooching for the cameras on the red carpet, the
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    • 637 18  -  Edwin Yeo k tnp@sph.com.sg LAST week, I did the one thing most parents would have to do at least once in their lives. No, not have sex. I don't know what they teach you in biology class, but everybody
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    • 460 19  -  Dolores Tay tnp@sph.com.sg I LOVE blogs. Really, I do. Where else can I read about the daily sex lives, love lives, careers, social lives, sex lives and more sex lives of real people with dubious monikers like "thetemptations" and "hotsplashes", bad English notwithstanding. It's all
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    • 329 26  -  SMILING CHARMINGLY AT A GUY IS JUST ONE OF THE WAYS THAT ONE FEMALE POLL-TAKER MEETS HER SURVEY QUOTA CrystalChan crystalc @sph.com.sg THEY are all over Orchard Road on weekends, pleading with shoppers to spare a few seconds of their time to answer some survey questionnaire.
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    • 382 26 'fess up! What really goes on in 9-to-5 jobs? E-mail tnp@sph.com.sg "Getting $5 for each form is really easy money if I do the surveys myself. Besides, it's well-known that all types of research carry a certain percentage of error. "Even if I don't do the surveys myself, there's no
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  • 562 31  -  guide Dawn Chia dawnchia@sph .com. sg THIS is no illusion or magic trick. The woman you see below IS being set on fire. The Life of Life Healing Spa in Hong Kong is boasting that this method, called the Aqua-Fire treatment, is the newest way
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      142 32 Bare arms and mora are de rigeur when you're at a Hollywood movie premiere unless you're Diane Keaton, of course, or in her company 9 Translation not required: Scarlett Johansson has grown some since The Horse Whisperer. Here in Rome for the premiere of Match Point, directed by Woody
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    • 515 33  -  This fortnightly column seeks to demystify alternative treatments and show you how to be healthy with minimal fuss. Send your questions to tnp@sph.com.sg By ChuaWeiYng PAIN is something that all of us are familiar with. But for those suffering from chronic pain, it is a
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    • 265 34  -  Snap judgment (Strip poker takes on a whole new meaning for the two geezers and Cameron Diaz in In Her Shoes) SylviaToh Paik Choo tn p@sph.com.sg A Shue-in Dreamer Not that anyone's been asking whatever happened to Elisabeth Shue, Kris Kristofferson, Kurt Russell well here they are,
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 138 35 Guide HHII r>, &>r a )> I f 3 THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE UON THE WITCH AMD 6V-MS12.25pm, 3.30,2.40,4.50,7. 9.20 BV-GW 12.20pm, 3.40,6.40,9.50 GV-PS 12.30pm, 3.30,4.15,6.30, 9.30 SO-LD10.30am, 1.15pm, 2.55,4, 4.45,6.45,9.30 S0-PJ3.30pm,6.15,9 SO-M11.15am, 4pm, 6.45,9.30 CA-OC11.05am, 1 45pm, 4.25,6.30, 7.05,9.10,9.45 EW-ST 10.50am, 1.30pm, 4.30,6.20, 9 A CHINESE TALL STORY
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  • Page 37 Miscellaneous
    • 165 37 Guide TView The Apprentice IV Channel 5,10pm In the fourth season opener, 18 new candidates handpicked by Donald Trump are split along gender lines again and tasked to create a new money-spinning class at two branches of Bally's Total Fitness Centers. Ren Ci Charity Show 2006 Channel U, 7.30pm This
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    • 86 37 Harold Kumar Go To White Castle Star Movies (StarHub Ch 58), 9pm Two slacker dudes suddenly crave to get food at an elusive White Castle Burgers joint, which becomes a perilous all-night search full of silly and surreal adventures. Starring Kal Penn, John Cho. 1 Zheng Cheng Gong (Drama) Raging
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    • 106 37 The Flight That Fought Back Discovery (StarHub Ch 12), 9pm This docudrama provides the most detailed account of what really happened on board United Airlines Flight 93 after it was hijacked on 9/11, featuring extensive interviews with family and friends and moving voice recordings of those who died. Little Britain
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    • 66 37 ill 10.30 Power Rangers Dino Thunder 11.00 Gundam Seed Destiny 11.90 RockmanExe 12.00m Machine Robo Rescue 12.30pm B-Legend! 1.00 Jolly Time 2.00 Music Mantra (Variety) 3.00 Star Interview: Interview With Vikram 3.30 Arangathil Indru: Naser 4.00 Cinema Express: Unnai Charanadaithen 7.00 Planet Galatta (Variety) 0.00 Vasanthathudan (Series 2) 0.30 Vasantham
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    • 516 38  -  Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg THIS afternoon's domestic Group 3 Three Rings Trophy in Race 8 might as well be called the Laurie Laxon Trophy. After all, the two-time champion trainer holds all the aces in the $125,000 feature for three- and
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    • 1378 39 GOING FORECAST: HEAVY Race 1 1 HniBdHk4a mmm 1M |-1M. V+atfcC! ■k_ LM>»fW HORSE «R Rati*f Jocfcsy Bamei (Aje/origta/sai, Tutaw ■■m i 9-40^ SKY VENTURE 58.5 (40) *KK Ng c15 9 (4nzg Pintiekl-Sky) z 090(H) UNIVERSAL QLORY 58.5 (40) *MZairic2.5 1 (5treg leek-lucky)
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    • 91 39 (Race 7 No. 3) BEST BET A patient ride by champion joQjcey Soo Khoon Beng did the trick for Lim's Passion at his last outing over 1,400 m on 23 Dec. On that occasion, he tracked race leader Connery till the straight and won with something in hand
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    • 85 39 RACE 1: Zinniah. RACE 2: Almarwah. RACE 3: Sharp Spur, Road House, Destiny Classic, Gunong Naga. RACE 4: Bless Year, Itmaybeyou. RACE 5: Top Enterprise, Working Class Man, Emerging Force, Given Chance, Establish, Good Benefit. RACE Zambucca, Star Bid. RACE 7: Wasabe, Grand Canyon, Connery, King Of Them All,
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    • 141 40 RACE 1: The Fighter, Herecomewongchoy, Fairman, The Nexus, Break The Bank. RACE 2: Asia Star, Mi Bestz, Military Force, Tough Power, King Of Durban, Royal Pacific, Lion Mountain, Sound Perfect, Cook The Books. RACE 3: Motion, Timbertop, Big Kash, Purple Hakka, Danzuround, Future Wonder. RACE 4: Hogansville, Highest Happiness,
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    • 100 40 (Race 4 No. 12) BEST BET By all means, you must not ignore this Lee Yoke Bill-trained galloper. The Mukaddamah gelding just loves the I,loom trip over the straight course in Ipoh having won twice over the distance and track in good and soft going. He had
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    • 798 40 GOING FORECAST: HEAVY! RACE 1 CSItt—im»(»trlBfct) 1 THE FIGHTER ♦MYusri 3) 57 2 UNITED ONE KM Lai 1) 56 3 BIG BOOM PBraem 5) 55.5 4 HEREC0MEW0N6CH0Y M Djulkifli 8) 55.5 5 PERUGMOPOWER 'KEirwan 6) 54.5 6 FAIRMAN I Saifudin 4) 52.5 7 THE NEXUS •HKLim
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    • 248 41  -  Marc Tan marc@sph.com.sg Another exotic bet for race-goers will be introduced on 5 Feb. The Triple Trio, which will be offered by the Singapore Turf Club (SNTC) for the first time, requires race-goers to pick the first three finishers in three designated
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    • 395 41  -  Marc Tan marcGsph. com. sg THE current wet spell dampened the proceedings at Ipoh yesterday whtfn only the first four events were conducted. The heavy track was deemed unsafe following a meeting between racing officials, jockeys and trainers and the
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    • 294 41 GONG: HEAVY w 4 CURIM MPS 55 (139-27) *HK Urn (5) 1 1 1 1 UULMWI55 (39-14) KTChtaf (6) 4 5 2 8 MUMZMA55c52.5(15-7) •MYwri (10) 5 3 3 Wtaaiag sbMac Pentagon. TMmt Or Tan Swee Hock. Nk, 2 v*, nk. flan: 1 min 09.1 sec. ftrecvt
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  • sports
    • TENNIS
      • 454 42 QATAR OPEN AFP. WORLD No. 1 Roger Federer has started the new tennis season in exactly the same way he began the last by winning the Qatar Open for a second successive time with a 6-3,7-6 (7/5) win over French teenager Gael Monfils. Last night's
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      • 169 42 AUSTRALIAN HARDCOURT AFP. RISING Czech star Lucie Safarova capped a big week with victory in the final of the Australian women's hardcourt tennis tournament on the Gold Coast yesterday. The 18-year-old left-hander claimed her third WTA Tour title with a 6-3,6-4 victory over Italian fourth
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      • 122 42 AUSTRALIAN OPEN AFP. MARK Philippoussis was yesterday given a wildcard entry into the main draw of this month's Australian Open. The 29-year-old two-time Grand Slam finalist, who is attempting a comeback after a dismal 2005 season, was supported by his national federation in recognition of his past performances.
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    • 866 43  -  NBA: Leonard Lau nps ports@sph.com.sg WHILE it's not yet the halfway mark in the current NBA season, it is a new year and always a good time to take a step back and look at the overall picture in the association. The scenery is quite
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    • MAD ABOUT GOLF
      • 447 44  -  Godfrey Robert npsports@sph .com. sg About 1,700 golfers will share the joy of being part a golf challenge that will almost certainly make its entry into the Guinness Book of World Records today. They will be taking part in the National University of Singapore's
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      • 492 44 Reuters. GOLF clubs within the European Union must treat men and women equally or face prosecution from December 2007, the European Commission has said. According to the new law, clubs in the 25 member states must end such things
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      • 364 44 India golfs sleeping giant AFP. INDIA, rather than China, is viewed as the sleeping giant of the golf world, with huge scope for development, Asian Tour chief executive Louis Martin said. While the number of events in China is rapidly increasing as sponsors seek a. slice of its remarkable economic
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      • 545 45 Mercedes Championships: Reuters. GUSTING winds of up to 60km/h played havoc with the Mercedes Championships leaderboard on Friday when the average second-round score climbed to 75. Australia's Stuart Appleby, chasing a record-equalling third victory in a row at the Kapalua Resort, ended a gruelling day on
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    • 742 46 Royal Trophy: Early shock for Woosnam but... TODAY'S SINGLES: Hi Imanov Howell Zhangv McGlnley Randhawa v McDowell Atwal v Faldo Wlratchant v Woosnam Ho v Feme Fukabori v Bjorn Jaideev Stenson AFP. SEVE Ballesteros-led Europe took a commanding 6-2 lead over a faltering Asia in blustery conditions
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    • 1128 47  -  AIDizon npsports© sph.com.sg WHEN Philippe Mahouin, 36, graduated from a French university in the early 90s with a postgraduate degree in corporate strategy and economics, he had three career options open to him: information technology, telecommunications and tourism. "Because I love people, I selected tourism,"
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    • 633 48 Rio's younger brother tied to West Ham for another years, foiling Liverpool's bid TRANSFER TRAIL \V- i V «A< PA Sport. ANTON Ferdinand's decision to stay with West Ham thwarted a Liverpool bid to sign him. The 20-year-old has signed a bumper new £22,000-per-week
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    • 290 48 PA Sport. RED Star Belgrade have admitted their giant striker Nikola Zigic has been the subject of an offer from West Ham United but insisted he will not leave the club until the summer. The 2-metre target man, who will feature in Serbia Montenegro's
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    • 339 49 AP RUSSIAN banking tycoon Alexandre Gaydamak took over as co-owner of struggling Portsmouth on Friday and shrugged off allegations that he and his father, Arkady, had a murky business background. Gaydamak faced the media after Portsmouth confirmed he was teaming up with chairman Milan Mandaric and
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    • 512 50 TRANSFER TRAIL PA Sport. Middlesbrough manager Steve McClaren has admitted his shock after 'keeper Mark Schwarzer handed in a transfer request. The 33-year-old Australian (below) rocked the Teessiders when he asked for a move just six months after signing a lucrative three-year contract, with his agent
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    • 288 50 PA Sport. MIDDLESBROUGH boss Steve McClaren admits his side may have to sacrifice some of its attacking flair to prosper this season. McClaren (above) has spent heavily in the transfer market to give the Teessiders a cutting edge, and has reaped the rewards of his
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  • Page 51 Miscellaneous
    • 310 51 j SpOrtS i THE NEW PAPER ON SUNDAY, 8 Jan 2006 Page 59 Ernest Toh-Toh ...with Ernest Luis and the Kopi-0 Kian ISI Ttfl lIK The Kopi-O Klan is thankful for 2005 and M ■i look forward to a new friend... I HullO HMjBK«mmMM»r >«Jlllllllll||||l||lllnAaMMaawHMMMj[lißP Uncles, may I introduce a
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    • 968 53 HOW ABOUT AN ENGLAND CAP? The good times for the Premiership's big boys may be coming to an end, if British sports minister Richard Cabom has his way. The statesman, who is also the chairman of European Sports Ministers, wants to impose
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    • 364 52 A look at the examples listed here, which is by no means exhaustive, and you can see why the Premiership is in danger of alienating its fans. Chelsea players are believed to be on £300,000 ($870,000) per man if they win the Champions League this season. Frank Lampard
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    • 339 53  -  Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg IS the salary cap just a piece of idealism? Top Premiership clubs seem to think so. But sports across the Atlantic have shown how equality can be achieved. English football's cousin, the American NFL, have successfully implemented a ceiling on wages
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    • FA CUP
      • 668 54 BURTON v MANCHESTER UNITED PA Sport. SIR Alex Ferguson (below) will have Manchester United ready when they arrive at non-League Burton, looking to avoid the biggest shock in FA Cup history today. Twelve months after their humiliating Old Trafford draw with Exeter
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      • 507 55 ARSENAL 2 CARDIFF 1 AFP. ROBERT Pires scored twice as holders Arsenal avoided an embarrassing exit in the FA Cup third round by overcoming Cardiff City at Highbury last night. Cardiff, who won the 1927 FA Cup Final to become the only non-English winners
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      • 395 55 WIGANI LEEDS 1 1 AFP. LEEDS United scored a dramatic 87th-minute equaliser yesterday to earn a third-round FA Cup replay against their Premiership hosts Wigan. The late, scrambled goal by centre-forward Rob Huisewas no more than Kevin BlackwelTs confident and buoyant Championship team deserved
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      • 784 56 HULL CITY 0 VILLA 1 PA Sport. GARETH Barry's deflected second-half winner squeezed Aston Villa through to the FA Cup fourth round. It also went some way towards improving a recent knockout record, which manager David O'Leary described as "an absolute joke". Barry hit a long-range
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      • 647 57 FA CUP RESULTS (3rd Round) Hull 0 Aston Villa 1 Arsenal 2 Cardiff 1 Wigan 1 Leeds 1 Barnsley 1 Walsall 1 Blackburn 3 QPR 0 Brighton 0 Coventry 1 Chelsea 2 Huddersfield 1 Cheltenham 2 Chester 2 Palace 4 Northampton 1 Derby 2 Burnley 1
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      • 122 57 LASTnight, ESPN STAR Sports —which telecasts live FA Cup matches from England—was supposed to show the Chelsea-Huddersfield third-round tie on their Star Sports channel and the Millwall-Everton game on their ESPN channel. But when Singapore viewers tuned in at 11pm, they had to make do with
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    • 658 58 THIERRY HENRY: PA Sport. THIERRY Henry has pledged his future to Arsenal, insisting he was ready to stick with the Gunners for the rest of his playing life. The French striker had been strongly linked with a summer move to Barcelona, but has instead vowed to
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    • 281 58 OUR FOOTBALL ANALYST SAYS: DON'T believe Thierry Henry, says The New Paper's football analyst Tohaa£aijan. "As a captain, he omnot say he's leaving," he says. "That would affect tflp morale b&lly—before the season has ended." t Henry's contract expires in 18 months' time. But
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    • 101 57 d SSSSSm SUNDERLAND v NORWICH Ch23, 10.55pm, tonight i BURTON ALBION v MAN UTD Ch24, 11.55pm, tonight LEICESTER v TOTTENHAM Ch 24, 2.25 am, tomorrow OSASUNA v RACING Ch22, 11.55pm, tonight VILLARREAL v REAL MADRID Ch 22, 1.55 am, tomorrow 3rd Round Ch 23, Bam, today Final Round Ch 23,
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