The New Paper, 10 June 2007

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  • SUN NEWS
    • 888 2  -  Zaihan Mohd Yusof zaihan@sph.com.sg ALL the elderly man has left of his dead son are memories and they are enshrined in what used to be his bedroom. But there's not a single picture of accident victim Toh Bock Keong in
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    • 258 3 ON Friday, deliveryman Urn Uang Heng, 28, was Jailed 37? years aad banned from driving for a total of 20 years. Lim had pleaded guilty to drink-driving and causing the death of Toh Bock Keong, 34, by driving dangerously on 12 Feb last year.
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    • DRINK-DRIVING: SHOULD LAW BE TOUGHER ON...
      • 557 4  -  1. Those who drive for a living Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph.com.sg HE has always warned his drivers about their road-safety responsibilities, so he was upset to "read about how Lim Liang Heng's drinking had caused a fatal collision. Lim was jailed 3'/2 years and banned
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      • 162 4 LAST year, 3,733 drivers were nabbed for drink driving that's about 10 drivers every night. Of these, one in 10 was involved in an accident. This is about 25 per cent higher than in 2005, which saw 2,989 cases. In 2004, there were 2,929 such cases.
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      • 1042 5  -  2. Passengers Cara van Miriah caravm @sph. com.sg IT was 3am on Vesak Day, and cars were caught in a half-kilometre traffic jam on Clemenceau Avenue. As the vehicles inched forward, some drivers panicked when they saw the familiar flashing police beacon and officers
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      • 58 5 ASIA Pacific Breweries Singapore will be providing V 20 handheld breathalysers L (left), to be shared by St James Power Station, Zouk and the Ministry of Sound clubs later this month. This will let clubbers test i their alcohol consumption level. The legal limit
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    • 1594 6  -  INSIDE THE BROKEN LIVES OF ORCHARD ROAD'S ladyboys A LADYBOY'S ■PPIH 9 NIGHT IN The New Paper on Sunday m goes behind the scenes with M A Selina gil page ORCHARD TOWERS TURF WAR Step in the wrong turf and you could get a
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    • 438 9 FOR Wanda (above), a 27-year-old transvestite, prostitution is the fast track to womanhood. "I will quit once I have enough money for a sex-change operation," the N-level holder claimed. "I want to be a woman." He estimated he would need $10,000 for the operation,
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    • 756 10  -  J Sick girl dies after move to 'perfect' home. Parents blame fengshui master Maureen Koh maureenk@sph.com.sg Desperate to save their dying daughter, two larents turned to a 'engshui master for help. They hoped that by changing the "luck" of the family, their young
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    • 388 11 THERE is some truth to the adage, "if it ain't broken, don't fix it". A businesswoman here learnt this the hard way recently. She hit a patch of bad luck soon after she changed her name and renovated her shops following the advice of the same
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    • 216 11 IT may be an uphill task to sua a fengshui master unless the victims can prove their misfortune is due to the bad advice. Lawyer Loo Eng Teck, from Harry Ellas Partnership, said: "One of the issues the court will look at is whether the
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    • 713 12  -  f He htr /r? f changes Cft name from V\—I —I Maureen Koh maureenk @s ph. com.sg IS popular Mediacorp actor Christopher Lee's recent trouble with the law linked to his move to change the characters of his Chinese name recently? Some geomancers and
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    • 367 13 UPSET with what they think are the bad apples among them, a few renowned fengshui masters here have formed an association to set a professional code of practice. Geomancer Tan Khoon Yong, who is one of three vice-presidents of the two-year-old International Feng
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    • 77 3 Website* tnp.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Hotline: 1800 -733 44 55 M OUR j fairway ladies High tea? It's i more like high tee. More S'pore women including celebs are learning golf 22 OUR men of mettle He's better known as S'pore's golf champ, but Mardan Mamat used to have to play
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  • 718 15  -  DPM reveals why DIY radical detained SUN NEWS By Zubaidah Nazeer zubaidah @sph.eom.sg THOUGH Abdul Basheer had not actually been involved in violence, he had plans to fight overseas and kill. Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng said last night: "How can
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  • 482 17 HANDCUFFED STABBED TO DEATH He'd pone to meet man claiming to be a cop SUN NEWS HE told his girlfriend that he was going to meet a client, who claimed he was a policeman interested in buying a house. But less than an hour later, Malaysian real estate agent Bobby
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    • 118 18 t Ist Anniversary |j|m Thanks to our valued readers, sponsors and partners, my paper Ist A Itkl '*1 Anniversary promotions and SCREAM 07 Party were truly something fm m to rave about! Your overwhelming participation simply bowled us over. M, a M Look out for more exciting my paper events
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 437 19 BOLLYWOOD AWARDS BOWLS OVER ENGLAND IT'S Bollywood time in the UK. Last night, top Hindi film stars gathered in Leeds to take part in the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFAs). That was after they had created a wave of
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    • 597 20 JUST as he settled into his plane seat in the hope of making a quick escape to Athens, the police caught him. Last Tuesday, Mr Abdelaziz Bilal Hamze, 24, was arrested just four minutes before the flight he was on was due to
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    • SNAP SHOT
      • 55 21 If you employ someone to design a car and it kills you, you're pretty unhappy... If you employ someone to design a logo and they haven't done a basic health check, you have to ask what they do for their money. London Mayor Ken Livingston, on the much-criticised
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      • 66 21 RADIO-CONTROLLED cameras fitted on lifts 14 km away are said to have interefered with take-offs and landings at Beijing airport. "The radio waves severely disturbed normal flight take-off and landings. It was using the same frequency as the airport radar," Mr Su Qing of the Northern China
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      • 239 21 M'sian PM weds MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 67, exchanged wedding vows with 53-year-old leanne Abdullah, his former sister-in-law, in a private ceremony at his residence yesterday. The couple then headed to a nearby cemetery to pay respects (above) to the premier's late first
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      • 81 21 TAIWAN-BORN Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube, says consumers in many parts of the world will be able to access the site on handphones by next year. He was speaking to enthusiastic web users at a forum on Internet developments in Taipei. Commuters on subways or buses are
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      • 147 21 THE GST increase is three weeks away, but there have been 33 reported cases of profiteering in the last six months. Still hawker and cooked food prices have been fairly stable since November when it was announced that GST will go up from 5
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      • 60 21 SOUTH African workers striking over pay and benefits have a new complaint they no longer have the energy for sex. A trade union leader complained that work conditions are so tough "when you get home at night it becomes a problem expanding our families". Public sector workers are in
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 30 21 Weather Central Partly cloudy Ajlortti storm South Partly cloudy East Partly cloudy storm Temperature max 33 C min 25 C High Tide first tide 23m 6.00am second tide 2.4m 7.06pm
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  • OUR SUNDAY
    • 1300 22 ■rse. Ho Lian-Yi meets our celebrity golfers ACTRESS-DI Vernetta Lopez loves golf. While she enjoys taking a good whack on the driving range, it's been years since she has been out on the course. Why? "I've held it off because I was terrified of playing golf
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    • 455 23 Vivien Tan DO not be alarmed if you see Vivien Tan, 35, absentmindedly hitting a fruit down a street. The radio DJ and TV host is just practising her swing. "I practise day and night, in the supermarket, even walking down the street swinging my
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    • 632 24  -  Siva Choy Columnist tnp@sph.cpm.sg THE most important event in my student life was probably the transition from primary to secondary school, when I discovered science labs. There were other important attractions of course the right to wear long pants, a school tie for special occasions,
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    • 720 25  -  Mardan Mamat was too poor to afford golf. He used to play in secret Not Just A Rich Man's Game by Mardan Mamat I'VE always been obsessed with golf. The challenge of the game, the competition against oneself and the exposure
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    • 763 25  -  Charity veteran Gerard Ee on his first visit to a home at age 9 Not You And I, But Us bjT Gerard Ee WHEN I first visited a home for children with multiple sclerosis, I left with an uneasy feeling. I was then just 9
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    • Article, Illustration
      560 26  -  Learn how to draw cute Japanese comic characters at workshop Yvonne Poon poonyr@sph.com.sg THE only thing I can do successfully when it comes to wielding a pencil is poking someone with it. So I was understandably apprehensive when I attended my first manga lesson on Wednesday at Takashimaya
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    • 511 27 We search the heartlands and tell you about the gorgeous people we meet WITH a toss of her hair, a vibrant smile and a spring in her step, this bank sales manager is the epitome of "picture perfect". Miss Lim, who enjoys
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    • 810 28  - For the sake of our mums kids Let's make healthcare system better To: awomanswish@singhealth.com.sg Leong Ching chingl@sph.com.sg Dear Singhealth: What a great idea to ask women what they want in local healthcare. I hope your new initiative to tap women's brains and get our opinions on women's issues will get
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    • 1018 30  -  Turn yourself into a winner with this special writing exercise Joe Nathan Lourdes is the director of Hypnosis Works and the co-founder of the Asia Pacific Hypnosis Institute. For more information, check out www.hypnosisworks.com.sg and www. asiapacific hypnosis.com Joe Nathan Lourdes tnp@sph.com.sg A FEW
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    • 928 31  -  KF Seetoh Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg SOME moons ago, there was Loy Sum Yuen, a no frills tablecloth-and-peanut-plate kind of eatery that came with air-conditioning so customers could keep really cool while tearing at the signature steamed fish head simmering over canned fire, the ginger prawns and
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    • 437 32  -  Bharat Thakur Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg WHAT sort of posture do you have when you sit at a desk for hours on end? I can bet that, like most people, you find it difficult to keep your back straight for long. After a while, we all
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 354 33 CHANNEL 5 11.00am Treasure Hunter (Variety) 12.00nn Sports Disasters (Variety) I.00pm Operation Delta Force 5 (Movie) 3.00 Extreme Makeover 4.00 Windfall/J.A.G X (Drama) 6.00 Gilmore Girls/The Simpsons 730 Just For laughs Gags 7.45 Shrek 2(Movie) 9.30 News 5 Tonight 10.00 Ugly Betty II.00 America's Next Top Model VII 12.00mn Pepper
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    • 71 33 CHANNEL 8 11.00am My Fair Princess III (Drama) 1.00pm Beauty Experts II I.30 Famous Chinese Cuisine IV 2.00 Lady Of Leisure 2L30 Ah Hong Food Tour 3 JO The Price Of Peace 4.30 The Chinese Medic Master 6.30 Singapore Today (News) 7.00 A Handful Of Love (Drama) 9.00 The Sheng
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    • 61 33 CHANNEL U 10.00am Working Women Hi 12.00nn The Story In China 1.00pm King Of The Kitchens I.30 Making Of Men In White 2.00 Little Bride/Shoot II 5.00 Chronicles Of The Heaven Dragon 7.00 News Club (News) 7.30 Condor Hero 9.00 Love Undercover 2: Love Mission (Movie) II.00 News World 11
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    • 45 33 SURIA 10.00am Suria Segar Musim Baru! 11.00 Anugerah 2007 (Variety) 12A0nn Galeri Kerja/Hairulnizam I.30pm Fesyen Asia/Deria Kota 2.30 647km2/E.C (Drama) 4.00 80'an Gerek/lmpian/TV Kini &30 Masak Apa?/Kelab K/Setelur 8X0 Berita (News) &30 Kisah Benar/3R 9.30 Suria Segar-Musim Baru! 10.30 1,2,3 ll/Bicara III II.30 Berita (News)
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  • OUR SIMDRV
    • 198 34 EVEN superheroes like Spider-man and Batman couldn't resist taking part in The New Paper Big Walk, as seen in the picture below, by reader Daniel Tan. He said he had to jostle with a big crowd at the 2005 Big Walk before he could get
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    • Article, Illustration
      374 36 Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever jt is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpforum@sph.com.sg The couple (Siew Cheong and Hwee Huan) hired me as their photographer for their wedding day. The matrimonial
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  • RACING
    • 399 38  -  Danny Khoo dkhoo @sph. com.sg WAR HORN overcame a torrid trip to score a sensational victory at Kranji yesterday. The five-year-old by Festin, with replacement hoop Mark Gallagher up, swept to an emphatic l 3 /4-length victory in the $125,000 Kranji Stakes A event over
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    • 2187 38 GOING: GOOD Race 1 C5 (SC) 1200m 3 BRANDY DAY 57 5 <12-5) N Callow {4) 2 2 1 (512) 2 DM'S SWING !ifl (16-5) »..T 0*f <3) 4 4 2 (492) 0 75 1 DON GIORGIO 58 (24-10) Richard Um (8) 5 5
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    • 673 39 GOING/GOOD Race 1 To Kwan Wan Plate 1200m 7 MASCOT FOKTUK 118 (23*6) J Praftttf (3) 4 OWQBLB 125 (17-11) >Mj« (11) 9 OUR UKXT BABY 111 (11-5) VIIIM (10) 1 2 3 Tratoar. KL Man. Margtos: 1.25, neck. Ttan: 1min 09.3sec. Faracaat $17.
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    • 85 40 (RACE 10 No. 2) BEST BET Has hit a bright patch and should keep up his good work. Was denied his third success inside four starts by none other than the highly-touted My Royal Captain last time out. He swept to the lead in the final 200m but just
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      169 40 Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon A J} Marc Tan A ddK U F53 rfl7^ P5H 5 Oncwponallme «1 2 Ace Centurion tfflU 1 Pearllnsky 1 Why Be 1 2 Starts 2ftnd«lll BOH 2 Carry On Glofy ■a HI sun KS9I ISFS9! IB El jf < > 7 Warlord
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    • 1037 40 RACE 1: ALWAYS NATURAL reared as the start was effected and became momentarily cast. As a result, he dislodged M Azrull and galloped riderless for the remainder of the race. After reviewing the films, the stewards felt that ALWAYS NATURAL was not denied a
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    • 1800 41 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING Y4HM ||Q OtNkBK $***** No. Last 6 inns HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 4 Triple Seven 59 (62) M Gallagher 10 (3ag D Murphy-Triple Seven) 2 6 Sir Koitti 54.5 (53) KB Soo (4ag D Koh-Salome No
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    • 120 41 RACE 3: Screaming Eagle, Orion, Who Is Jimmy, Titan Fun, Royal Warrant, Leading Witness. RACE 5: Royal Crown, Party Boy Taipei, Big Sweep, White Magic, Joe And Jayzeeca. RACE 6: Contango, Working Class Man, Sporting Chance, Midnight Hunter, Eastern Sun, Batman City. RACE 7: Poltop, Daring Commander, River Fuji,
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    • 2060 42 RACE 1 1 Triple Seven Looked good at debut and will win one soon, but backing up from last week is a concern 2 Sir Keith Had some support on debut, and gets in okay at the conditions, so can consider with blinkers added for
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  • SUNDAY SPORTS
    • 743 43 US OPEN GOLF PREVIEW Mad about golf MAKE no mistake, the US Open is returning to a great, great golf course this week, starting on Thursday. Oakmont in Pennsylvania has never been outside the top-10 golf courses in Golf Digest magazine's authoritative ranking. No surprise, then, that
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    • Article, Illustration
      206 44 THOSE who know Lam Chih Bing are used to seeing him in golfing attire. Yesterday, the Republic's second-ranked golfer (left) was almost unrecognisable in a smart black tuxedo matched with a black bow tie. The 30-year-old married his stock analyst girlfriend of five years, Sophie Loh Zimi, at a
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    • 499 44  -  Godfrey Robert rips ports @sph. com.sg SINGAPORE'S Mardan Mamat moved up two notches but fell back another five shots behind leader South Korean Lee Sung on the third day of the Bangkok Airways Open at Koh Samui yesterday. A superb four-under 67 moved Mardan up from joint-fourth
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    • 178 44 Wire Services. MICHELLE Wie, unable to use a driver because of a lingering wrist injury, narrowly made the cut at the LPGA Championship on Friday. The 17-year-old Hawaiian bogeyed the final hole for a two-over-par second-round 74, squeezing through right on the number. Wie, who has not
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    • 780 45 Wire Services. HIS life story will one day make a compelling movie. And another chapter was added to John Daly's chaotic personal life on Friday, when the popular player said his wife, Sherrie, had attacked him with a
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    • 277 45 AP. ADAM Scott is cruising along with fellow Australian Andrew Buckle close behind. Scott shot a four-under 66 that gave him a one-shot clubhouse lead when darkness suspended the second round of the Stanford St Jude Championship on Friday. Buckle was among
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    • FRENCH OPEN TENNIS
      • 297 46 AP. SCOTT Piercy, a Las Vegas golf pro who had qualified 11 times for PGA events but never won, cashed in for US$2 million ($3m) on Friday at the winner-take-all final of The Ultimate Game. Piercy was three back of Ken Jarner on the
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      • 633 46 Wire Services. JUSTINE Henin joined the Roland Garros greats by defeating Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-2 yesterday to complete a hat-trick of French Open titles. In what was an embarrassingly one-sided 65-minute final, the 25-year-old Belgian became just the second woman in the post-1968 Open era to win
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      • 676 47 Reuters A THIN line separates each man's quest for glory. One simply wants a third Cup for his mantelpiece and the other is chasing history. So it is that Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer will spend a sleepless night ahead of today's French Open final,
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      • 256 47 Reuters. NOVAK Djokovic refused to be downcast after losing to Rafael Nadal in Friday's semi-final. The Spaniard extended his dominance over the world No. 6 to 3-0 on clay with a ruthless baseline exhibition to win 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. "I learn something new from every
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    • 705 48  -  The New Paper's Singapore at Large column profiles the sports scene with a national or grassroots perspective every Sunday. Today, we look at overseas-based sports talent largely funded by their own parents Wang Meng Meng npsports@sph.com.sg NO regrets. That is the firm belief
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    • 358 48  -  Lim Say Heng npsports@sph.com.sg IT'S more an emotional sacrifice than a financial one. So say the parents of national cyclist Low Ji Wen, who is on a six-month training stint in Normandy, France. "(The main sacrifice is) not being able to be with
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    • 633 49  -  Comment By Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg IN Singapore, it's sometimes the sport you take part in that determines how far you can goTake the two athletes we've featured here, who find themselves able to pursue their dreams in their chosen sporting field only because of
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    • 238 50 Reuters. ENGLAND'S players have agreed to donate their international wages to charity, according to a report in the Daily Mail. A new Team England Footballers' Charity has pledged a minimum of £1 million ($3 million) over the next four years to good causes, the newspaper
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    • 531 50 PA Sport. DAVID Beckham's advisers insist the midfielder will allow no obstacle to stand in his way of playing for England when he moves to Los Angeles Galaxy. The 32-year-old looks to have secured his England squad place for the rest of the
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    • 1423 51 His life DECO is a cultured player with excellent touch and vision at the heart of the Barcelona and Portugal midfields. He has enjoyed considerable success at the club level, including Uefa Champions League victories with Porto in 2004 and Barca last year. Deco is actually a Brazilian
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    • 1110 52  -  Meet Dr Michael Soon, a local surgeon who gets to rub shoulders with players like Samuel Eto'o, Luis Garcia and Xavi on a regular basis. He speaks to GARY LIM in a phone interview Gary Lim npsports @sph.eom.sg FOR most people, meeting some
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    • 207 52 DR RAMON Cugat is so renowned for his skills with a scalpel that WIPs fly in especially to seek treatment. One such example is Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych, who went to see to doctor last month. Dr Michael Soon said: "His bodyguards, all looking tall
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    • Holland 2007
      • 565 53  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg NOT too long ago, punters wear a black face once the regular European season ends. These days, they are spoilt for choice at Singapore Pools. There is the S-League, J-League and Spanish La Liga, which are still going on. And
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      • 527 53 PA Sport. FORMER England Under-21 boss Peter Taylor has backed Stuart Pearce's youngsters for success in the European Championship. Pearce admits the work of Taylor has made his preparations for Holland a great deal easier, even though things have not gone smoothly for
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      • 473 54 REMEMBER this name: Giampaolo Pazzini. Not Gianpaolo. Not Giampaulo. But Giampaolo. Defenders in Serie A have made it a point not to forget this. Born in the Tuscany city of Pescia on 2 Aug 1984, the slick-haired Italian is the heir apparent to the Calcio's goal
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      • 147 54 FIVE time winners Italy are looking to add a sixth title to their names after a disappointing showing last year. Champions in 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000 and 2004, the Italians crashed out of the tournament in 2006 after finishing third in Group B.
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      • 232 55 CZECH Republic will appear in the Uefa European Under-21 Championship for the first time since they won the competition in 2002, where the likes of Petr Cech and Milan Baros beat France on penalties in Basle. The team's four-man backline, consisting of Martin Latka, Michal
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      • 181 55 ALTHOUGH Serbia will be competing in the tournament as an independent nation for the first time this year, the country has tasted much success in the past. Under the flag of Yugoslavia, they won the inaugural competition in 1978, while the Serbia and Montenegro team
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      • 482 56 Bayer centre-forward has yet to prove his worth Players on the transfer market: Michal Papadopulos (Czech Republic) Perhaps, ail is not well on the Czech Republic production line. A crack outfit on the world football scene, the Eastern European nation's reputation as an entertaining and power-packed team
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      • 411 56 Players on the transfer market: Bosko Jankovic (Serbia) IF, as expected, Bosko Jankovic creates waves in the Euro Under-21 Championship, a flurry of clubs will come calling with chequebooks in hand. But any interested party will have to beat Barcelona and Valencia first, two Spanish
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      • 804 57  -  REPORTING FROM SPAIN Gary Lim npsports-sph.com.sg IN the same week his elder brother made a record-breaking transfer to Manchester United, Anton Ferdinand became a full professional at West Ham. Five years on, Rio is an established international while Anton is still waiting for his chance. It's really up
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      • 138 57 THEY look alike. They carry similar smiles. Heck, they even play like each other. So, there is no running away from the fact that Anton Ferdinand has often been compared to his elder brother, Rio since he was a kid. Once, he was asked if the comparison
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      • 596 58  -  Uefa Under-21 Championship BETTING Brian Miller npsports @sph. com.sg CALLING all England fans. Now is the time. Put your money where your heart is because you won't get better odds anytime later. Of course, I'm talking about the European Under-21 Championships due to kick-off in
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      • 432 58 Wire Services. ENGLAND Under-21s are about 7/2 ($4.50) with most betting firms to win the European Championships which kick off in Holland today. Stuart Pearce's men warmed up for the finals with a 5-0 win over Slovakia on Tuesday as' Premiership stars
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      • 838 59 PA Sport. STUART Pearce feels he has been let down by David Bentley after the midfielder's surprise withdrawal from England squad for the European Under-21 Championship. The Blackburn starlet has left manager Pearce a man short for the tournament in Holland after pulling out due
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    • 285 60  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg THE afternoon sun was scorching-hot at La Manga, Spain, on Friday. But the kids, numbering more than 200 and coming from more than over 40 countries, didn't mind. It was a once-in-a-lifetime chance for most of them. After all, it's not every day
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    • 230 60 PA Sport. MANCHESTER United chief executive David Gill has revealed Sir Alex Ferguson will have yet more funds to spend this summer on a striker. Raids for Owen Hargreaves, Nani and Anderson looked to have put an end to the Red Devils' spending before
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    • 82 60 Wire Services. MCLAREN rookie Lewis Hamilton clocked the fastest time in Montreal's final practice. His time of lmin 16.071 sec boosts his hopes for a first Grand Prix pole and should worry team-mate and world champion Fernando Alonso, who was 0.4 seconds slower. Hamilton is having a dream
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    • 457 61 PA Sport. CRISTIANO Ronaldo has revealed that he still feels the wrath of Sir Alex Ferguson, despite the manager's claims that he has mellowed. The Manchester United winger believes Ferguson is as capable of giving his players the famous "hairdryer treatment" as ever.
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    • 31 61 GARY LIM will be in Holland to bring you the latest on the Uefa European Under-21 Championship from today till 23 June. Look out for his reports.
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