The New Paper, 2 September 2007

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    • 116 1 New tease at getai shows: 'KISS' TAKE hongbaos i BK SINGL Meal includes your choice of Mushroom Swiss. BBQ Turkey Bacon or Rendang burger. Medium Fries and Medium Coke. •rj o $4 .95 MEAL tf 5 FREE MUSHROOM SWISS F R FI a Js. nii*. for a limited period! rrr
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 806 2  -  ILLEGAL RACING SPILLS OVER FROM M'SIA THEY'RE RECKLESS DRIVERS, SILLY BIKERS AND... ■At least 25 clips of racing and stunts posted on Internet ■Viewed by at least 100,000 people REPORTS Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph. com.sg THE showoff was flirting with death, performing stunts at high speed while
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    • 542 3 THE Traffic Police (TP) is aware of motorists doing stunt-riding on roads here. Judging by the heavy penalties for illegal racing and dangerous driving, the message from TP is clean They do not condone such irresponsible behaviour. Yesterday, TP launched Ride Safe 2007,
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    • 577 4  -  WITH COMING F1 FEVER, WILL RECKLESS SHOWOFFS... #COMMENT Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph.com.sg EVERY time stories of daredevil bikers surface, my old-timer biker friends sigh. The problem is nothing new. They recall how, in the '80s, motocross was a hot sport. It flourished at its home track
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    • 90 3 T H I tlin.M Email: Hotline: 1800-*****55 OUR PRECIOUS POOCHES .w .y I oBH W Training on treadmills and air-conditioned bedrooms that's just another day in the life for a show dog here 24 OUR FAVOURITE FOOD Love the babi panggang (roast pork) of Bali, but can't fly there every
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 498 6  -  Maureen Koh maurecnk@sph.com.sg IK A SEXY singer leaning into the arms of a man, using her mouth to receive a WOL hongbao clasped between his lips. Or even a male performer receiving a hongbao this way, no By hanky-panky involved. Jr This is not a
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    • 820 7  -  Spotted in Little India yesterday Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg IT'S not often that you get married in a restaurant, pay the bill and bump into Oscar-winning actor and director Mel Gibson. More so, when it's in the Serangoon Road area, not Hollywood. But on the biggest
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    • Article, Illustration
      585 9  -  NTUC Club's new e!Hub boasts 24-hour fun, food games Can van Miriah caravm(3>sph.com.sg THE buzz among residents in Pasir Ris these days is over a four-storey glass complex. It houses the e'.Hub, Singapore's first 24-hour lifestyle and entertainment complex at Downtown East. The $80 million hub, operated by
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    • 177 6 A competitive combat sport widely practised around the world, Muaythai is an unarmed fighting skill known by many as "The Art of Eight Limbs" as it uses 8 points of contact (shins, knees, hands and elbows) to execute its strikes. Versatile in its offensive and defensive moves, Muaythai is so
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 1056 10  -  Some see properly values double, but not all are cashing out now #REPORTS AND PICTURES Joyce Lim joycel (Qsph.comjg ENVY them not For among those who ride the property market roller coaster these are both winners and losers. Some can make a 100
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    • 189 11 HE is still recovering from die paper loss on properties bought in 1996. During the property boom then, Mr Tan decided to put a large portion of his retirement funds in property. He bought two condominium units at Stratford Court in Bedok and two terrace
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    • Article, Illustration
      786 12  -  MM Lee spoke of need to find next-generation leaders. So, who are volunteering to join young PAP? Ng Tze Yong tzeyong @sph. com.sg THEY came to dip a toe in the waters of politics. Perhaps not even that. To just hear what it would be like to get
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    • 647 14  -  $5b Marina Bay Sands IR to feature shows by Hindi superstars Mega-mall complete with ice-skating rink Cara van Miriah caravm @sph.com.sg PICTURE this: With just a 10-minute drive from your office in Shenton Way after work, you could catch Hindi superstars like Aishwarya Rai
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    • 443 15 HONG KONG TV SCANDAL HE knows their phone numbers, their work schedules and even their health problems. Worst of all, the stalker, who has been terrorising seven attractive anchors of a Hong Kong cable TV channel, seems to be someone who works among them. According
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    • 306 15 AT 24 days old, he hadn't even been named yet But that didn't stop die baby's parents from leaving him home alone in a rodent-infested hut on a hillside in Sha Tin, Hong Kong. His dad was attending a wedding and his mother was taking
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    • 312 16 SHE is said to have exercised for years to prepare for the role. But the 103-year-old Chinese woman's bid to be a torchbearer for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics has been rejected. Madam Cao Zuozheng had applied to be a torchbearer through her
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      178 16 SKIMPY BIKINIS FOR BEACH VOLLEYBALL IN SOUTH PACIFIC GAMES TONED bodies clad in skimpy bikinis while playing beach volleyball may be a thing of the past, at the South Pacific Games. Locals in Samoa have raised concerns about the official uniforms for beach volleyball, reported the Australian Associated Press.
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    • 957 17 SPOTLIGHT: DOGFIGHTING LIKE canine gladiators, the pitbulls are thrown into an arena where they face off in a bloody fight. Anything goes in this savage competition, where the combatants claw, bite, and maul each other into submission. Losing is not an option. If they give
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    • 905 18 VIRGINIA TECH MASSACRE GUNMAN'S FAMILY TELLS OF HIS... SOMETIMES, Mrs Cho Hyang-Im would become so frustrated with her son, Seung Hui, that she would shake him. He rarely spoke and never looked anyone in die eye. It was as if he lived in a world of his
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    • SNAPSHOT
      • 85 19 STARTING this month, free legal clinics will run four nights a week in the heartlands, under a new move by the Law Society and the North West and South East Community Development Councils. Lawyers will provide basic legal advice and information to needy Singaporeans at the councils'
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      • 65 19 When Diana presented herself to her adoring public as a guileless girl who fell in love with a chap who just happened to be heir to the English throne, only to have her innocent young love spurned, she was acting a lie. Feminist writer Genmaine Greer on the
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      • 83 19 A RECENTLY constructed overpass collapsed in the Pakistani city of Karachi yesterday, killing at least six people and injuring others, reported AFP. Rescuers were trying to clear the wreckage to retrieve those trapped and injured amid fears the death toll could rise. At least two cars
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      • 83 19 MORE emergency exercises island-wide to prepare for terrorist attacks and disasters will be planned by community leaders. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said it is conducting workshops for 1,000 members of the 84 civil defence executive committees from next month, to ensure all constituencies are ready to
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      • 196 19 Tony Tan on how to have more spots for S'poroans TO provide more university places for students, Singapore will have to expand die intakes of the three universities next year. The National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) could each add 200
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      • 117 19 POLICE have issued a stern warning against those who organise and take part in illegal assemblies. This follows an assembly of a group of Myanmar nationals dressed in white at the Orchard MRT station on 25 Aug. The group later headed for the City Hall MRT station.
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      • 209 19 SOUTH Korea paid Afghanistan's Taliban more than US$2O million ($30.4 m) to release 19 missionaries they were holding hostage, a senior insurgent leader said yesterday, vowing to use the money to buy arms and mount suicide attacks. "We got more than USs2om from them
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      • 68 19 McDonalds in Germany is developing a new form of ice-cream holder after numerous hedgehogs died in tumblers used for the McFlurry soft ice-cream. After climbing in and licking the remains, the animals could not get out and perished. The new holder will have a rubber rim to prevent them
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    • 188 13 Mil I N I II III \l Ml I HI! M I N INTERNATIONAL MIJAYTI IAI CI iAMPIONSH I P 2007 M \m \l\ )KI IMHHiR s \niUM 14 si r 11 \\i>i u mm. M>r\l M. M)V\\ FIGHT IS I n liii v i i; S I M Mi.
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 1073 20  -  Champion show dogs have: 24-hour aircon room Playground with treadmills Sheela Narayanan r shctla@sph.comsg TASHA works out twice a day, gets plenty of haircare, and sleeps in air-conditioned comfort. It's a tough job being a beauty queen, but some dog has to do it. The
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    • 95 21 Most coveted award Given to the top dog that defeats all competitors. Written standard of excellence. Considered official description of perfection for particular breed. Dog has to conform to prescribed standards of perfection set by kennel dub for dog's breed. Obedience Dog and handler judged on ability
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    • 565 22  -  Deep pockets meet sleek beauties in Mercedes Ball for Milk charity Give Milk? Sylvia Toh Paih Choo paikchoo @sph. com.sg NUTs. Not the Usual Tai-tais. You know you are at a classy dinner when you have to eat the cappuccino and drink the caviar with NUTs in
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 651 24  -  Leong Ching chingl@sph.eom.sg THE other night the Significant Other and I sneaked off for a movie it was the Bourne Ultimatum, and we both found it very good indeed. Perhaps it was because the last time we watched a movie was about
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    • 708 25  -  If horses could talk, that's what they'd say Siva Choy Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg HORSES have been held in QJ high regard for centuries C in every culture in the world (except perhaps among. Eskimos and Pygmies). 3 They signify strength (though Q 1 in strange
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    • 724 26  -  Ar»d no harm b*in B a/ lovable at a hamster HEROES IN STORE Jeanmarie Tan jcanm@sph.com.sg AN unknown just a year ago, Japanese-American actor Masi Oka (above) is now hero to millions of women, children and IflH geeks all over the world. To them, his
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    • 351 26 SENDHIL Ramamurthy isn't technically one of the Heroes, but that doesn't mean he doesn't wield any power. His geneticist character Mohinder Suresh, who links the heroes, is the only one of the core ensemble who hasn't displayed any superpowers yet Unless you count the power to make women
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    • 402 26 IT takes a real hero to be doing what glamorous Hollywood actress Ali Larter (right) plans for the upcoming Emmys, where her show Heroes is nominated for Best Drama Series. As part of the Real Beauty publicity campaign for Dove Hair Care,
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    • 833 27  -  Joe Nathan Lourdes Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg AS I cycled across Malaysia in 1984,1 C slept in churches, H) temples, police stations and even on the tables S of a kindergarten, jjg courtesy of a kind priest M in Tapah, Perak. That six-week trip was a journey
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      893 28  -  Island's signature dish is food critics' favourite KF Sectoh Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN makan pal and TV food show host Tony Bourdain first tucked into babi guling in Indonesia, it sent him into a monologue of superlatives about the the dish. And when local foodie kaki (pal) Chia Boon
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    • 491 29  -  Bharat Thakur Columnist tnpQsph.comsg WALK into any supermarket or shop and just take a look at the huge range of soaps and other body-cleansing products. But that's just skin-deep cleaning. How do we clear the dirt and pollution in our lungs and our digestive system? After
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 262 30 OUR SUIlDflY IF YOU MUST STAY IN ALL DAY.. CHANNEL 5 1040am 7th Heaven 1l4p M American Inventor (Variety) 1240m Guinness 9-Ball Tour 2007 Mr. Holland's Opus (Movie) 440 I 11th laaf World Championship HO Athletics (Sports) 5.00 JAG. X (Drama) x Gilmore Girls (Drama) The Simpsons (Sitcom) 740 1
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    • 58 30 IF YOU WANT TO CATCH A MOVIE.. EVAN AIMGHTY SV-VC 10am, 10.15,12.30pm, 12.45, 2.45, 3.30, 5, 6,6.30, 7.15, 8.45, 9.05, 9.35 6V-FS 12nn, 2.15pm, 4.30,6.45,9 6V-6W 11.50am, 2.10pm, 4.30,6.50, 9.10 8V-MS 11am, 1.20pm, 4,6.40,9.05 SO-U 10.30am, 12.25pm, 2.20,4.15,6.10,8.05,10 SMS 10.15am, 5.55pm, 7.50,9.45 CA-1C 11am, 1.05pm, 3.10,5.20,7.30,9.40 CMC 11.20am, 12.30pm, 1.20,2.35,3.25,
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    • 56 30 RATATOUHJJE GV-VC 10.30am, 11,11.05,1.15pm, 1.40,3.45,4.15, 4.40, 6.20, 6.50, 7.15, 8.55, 9.25, 9.30, 9.45 Otf-FS 11.15am, 12.50pm, 1.20,1.50,3.25,3.55, 4.25,6,6.30, 7, 9.05,9.35 Itf-OV 12.30pm, 3.15,6, 8.45 8V-MI 11.10am, 1.40pm, 4.20,9.40 M-U) 10.30am, 11.30,1pm, 2,3.30,4.30,6. 7,8.30,9.30 »fj 10.30am, 12.45pm, 3, 5.15,7.30,9.45 1MB 10.30am, 12.05pm, 1,2.30,3.30,4.55, 7.20,9.45 CA-TC 10.30am, 11.20,12.50pm, 1.40,3.10,4,5.30,620,7.50, 8.40,10.10,11 CA-OC 10.35am,
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    332 31 OUR SUNDAY Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to fnank someone? whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpforum@sph.com.sg Daddy my love, do I look cute? Danica i Lijuan, its been nearly 10 years since
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  • sun RACING
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    • 973 33 RACE 1: M Hairin replaced D Azis on ROOK as the latter was unable to make the weight. Azis was fined $200. MR INVINCIBLE jumped awkwardly and lost ground. MOUNTAIN RAIDER jumped awkwardly in and bumped KRANJI BEAUTY, resulting in KRANJI BEAUTY
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    • 1576 34 GOING FORECAST: GOOD TO YIELDING RACE 1 to. Latins MORSE 1 9-0-6 NtStaaT 2 9 On win 1 8 R ft ■Hal Jicfcav Barifcr (kf/wlfla/'Mi, Mmmhv) 9) KVLaaai t (3ag Tony Yao*»-PT Yeoh) m Yn 1 i 3iug Pk Leong-KK leong) i M VNpair 3ag
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    • 72 34 BEST BET LEFT it a little late last Sunday when he flew home to finish a dose third behind Best Of The Week over die mile. Hie I,Boom journey today in the Shah Alam Trophy should give him enough time to gather in
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    • 78 34 RACE 2s Wunderbar. RACE 3s I Don't Know, Royal General, Abraham, Kim Emma, Heart To Hard, Istidado, Best Humour. RACE 4: Tinker Bell, Flip Master. RACE 6: Pandai-Pandai, Surreal, Success Ace, Kipo, Jeram New Special, Han Venture. RACK 7: Speed Chaser, Kingdom Power, See Me, Rainbow Sapphire. RACE (k
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    • 812 35 GOING: GOOD Race 1 C5 03 (LC) 1400m 1 KM Of UN 57 c 55 (13-5) 9 BREAM MflCfH52 (41-10) 4 OKU If LIFE 54 (36-8) ..„.'CaMn |m IL- v My I Mm 1 7 6 1 (458) 6 5 2 (494) 3 9 8 3 478)
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    • 249 35  -  Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg IT took the Barry Brogan-trained Benarrtvo all of 40 starts to greet the judge. Yesterday, at his 42nd local outing, the former Australian-bred campaigner doubled his tally with a fighting win in Race 5 at Kuala Lumpur. Ridden by apprentice Jacky Lim, the
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    • 718 35 GOING: GOOD a 4 KAtfTUM 55 (31-8) M fw4m (10) 1 2 BEALAM 55.5 <63-16) P XMKkay (5) 2 3 WAVE KMGOT 55 5 (62-17) J Mate (9) 3 Traiaer RC McPherson. Margins: Nk. 1.25, hd. Tbae: 59.27sec. Ferecast $63. Place Forecast: $50 (Nos. 2-3), $30
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
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  • 884 36 Fisher could have lost the KLM Open because of a spectator's call Sunday SPORTS Mad about golf THE official Rules of Golf is a delicate subject, whichever way one tackles it. It is with some trepidation that I embark on this column.
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  • SUN SPORTS
    • 633 37  -  Lim Han Ming npsports@sph.com.sg IT'S hardly likely the daunting Serapong Course at Sentosa Golf Club would cast any fear in Adam Scott. After all, the world No. 4 golfer did come out tops in his last two battles with the award-winning championship course. But then, if the
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    • 138 37 WHAT is a world-class tournament without a world-class commentator? Come November, renowned golf commentator lan Baker-Finch (right) will be lending his voice to the Barclays Singapore Open 2007. The former British Open winner and popular golf analyst will team up with the regular
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    • 254 37 Reuters. SWEDE Fredrik Andersson-Hed moved to the top of the Johnnie Walker Championship leaderboard early yesterday when strong winds affected scoring in the third round. The 35-year-old dodged the worst of the conditions to post a seven-under 66, while overnight leaders Thomas Levet
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    • 347 38 AUSTRALIA'S Adam Le Vesconte yesterday enjoyed a blistering finish to stretch his overnight lead to four shots at the US$3OO,OOO ($450,000) Brunei Open. Le Vesconte, bidding for his second Asian Tour title, birdied two of his last three holes en route to a
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    • 331 38 Wire Services. CAMILLO Villegas fired an eight-nnder 63 to take a two-shot lead after the opening round of die US$7 million ($10.6 m) Deutsche Bank Championship. Defending champion Tiger Woods shot a 72 on Friday in his FedEx Cup debut and is tied for
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    • 274 38 AFP AMERICAN Sherri Steinhauer opened up a two-shot lead after shooting a six-under 66 in the second round of the LPGA State Farm Classic in Springfield, Illinois. At 11-under 133, Steinhauer leads Christina Kim by two shots. Steinhauer had seven birdies and one bogey. Defending
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    • 837 39  - NBH MADNES'S'... UP CLOSE PERSONAL Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg THEY came for two reasons: One was to take a photo with the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy the most coveted in basketball worldwide. The other was to mob NBA rising star TJ Ford, who plays for the Toronto Raptors, but hails
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    • 78 39 HERE'S your last chance to catch the NBA Madness Asian Tour in Singapore today, at Novena's Velocity from 11am to Bpm. Get up close and personal with TJ Ford of die Toronto Raptors, the New Jersey Nets Dancers, the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy, and Sly, the lovable
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    • 780 41 NOT BOWLING and cuesports. Let's look at the similarities here. Similar airconditioned indoor environments, and emphasis on technique, not physique. The difference? Singapore bowling has a world champion in Remy Ong. But in pool, snooker or billiards? None. At mass participation level, both
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    • 77 41 UNLIKE the very popular pool, and less popular snooker, billiards is played with only three balls. A red ball, and two cue balls belonging to the two players. The players choose between using the white and yellow cue balls. Taking the example of a player using a
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    • 183 41 CUESPORTS Singapore has announced additional prize money of up to $3,000 for the player who achieves the highest break during the World Billiards Championship, starting this week at the Orchid Country Club. A $1,000 prize will be awarded if the break is between 500 and 749 points. And
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    • 177 41 THIS is the first international billiards tourney in South-east Asia. Some 36 players from 13 countries, including Australia, England, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Myanmar, New Zealand, Scotland and Vietnam, will take a shot at winning the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) World Billiards Championship trophy and
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    • 251 41 U.S.OPEN TENNIS Reuters. IT was a big day for Serbians at die US Open. Men's and women's third seeds Novak Djokovic and Jelena Jankovic rallied from behind to win their matches while fifth seed Ana Ivanovic charged into the fourth round. Tennis-mad Serbia was treated to an enjoyable
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      413 41 AP. RADEK Stepanek backpedalled and pumped his fist, twirling his finger to whip the packed crowd into a full frenzy. Then Novak Djokovic (above), not to be outdone, waved his hands to raise the fans out of their sticky seats after captivating them for four-and-a-half-hours and five sets
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      770 42 In this week's instalment of Johnnie Walker's behind-the-Fl scenes series, we take a look at what goes on in the design of a Formula One circuit F1 2007 FORMULA One is not just about building fast cars. You need to create circuits for these cars to race. One
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    • 970 43 epl TNP SPECIAL: ASK JOE MORRISON READERS, is Ultra anything you want to know from Joa Morrison, the now face of English Premier League coverage in Singapore? Now you have a chance to ask him his views on the hottest Premiership issues.
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    • SUPER CUP FINAL
      • 815 44 You might have expected the atmosphere to be grim at Saturday's Super Cup final/ since one team was mourning trie loss of a player. Not so, says KOR KIAN BENG, who was in Monaco courtesy of Carlsberg to catch the action Mourning is the usual way
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        548 45 It doesn't get any better than this for uncle Choo THE Jalan Besar Stadium was where he used to watch live football matches in the early *****. He could still remember the roaring cheers from the crowd and the exciting pitch action from football legends like Quah Kim
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      • 643 46 Wire Services ONE moment he was a raw teenager plying his trade in England's fourth division. The next he was in the Premiership. Such has been the meteoric rise of Lukas Jutkiewicz, who signed for Everton from League Two outfit Swindon Town in March this
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      • 149 46 Wire Services THE EVERTON team paid their respects to Blues fan Rhys Jones as they visited the scene of his murder early this week. Led by club captain Phil Neville, the players made time before training to visit the makeshift shrine that has been put up
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      • 667 47 IT must be a terrible thing to be an Aston Villa fan. They're a distinctly average club these days, the kind of team that no one ever gets too fussed about. It's been 25 long years since they lifted the European Cup and
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        • 340 48 INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: ARSENAL: Gallas, Lehmann (injured); Sagna, Eboue (doubtful) PORTSMOUTH: Stefanovic (doubtful) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Arsenal 27; Portsmouth 14; draws 23 LAST MEETING: 13 May, 2007 Portsmouth 0 Arsenal 0 (EPL) LAST LEAGUE RESULTS: ARSENAL: W-D-W PORTSMOUTH: L-W-D-D GOAL STATS (SCORED, CONCEDED): ARSENAL 0-15 min: 0,1 16-30:1,0 31-45:
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        • 365 48 TEAM FACTS: LIM HAH MIHG; BEST PWK: BRIAH MILLER: WHO'S HOT, WHO'S HOT: lAIH MACIHTOSH (Reporting from London) INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: BLACKBURN ROVERS: Berner (injured) MANCHESTER CITY: Bojinov (injured) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Blackburn 47; Man City 37; draws 25 LAST MEETING: 11 March, 2007 Blackburn 2 Man City
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        • 328 49 INJURIES/SUSPENSIONS: ASTON VILLA: Berger, Sorensen (doubtful) CHELSEA: Bridge (injured); Carvalho, Ballack (doubtful) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Villa 53; Chelsea 49; draws 31 LAST MEETING: 2 Jan, 2007 Villa 0 Chelsea 0 (EPL) LAST LEAGUE RESULTS: VILLA: W-D-L CHELSEA: W-D-W-W GOAL STATS (SCORED, CONCEDED): VILLA 0-15 min: 0,1
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        • 709 49  -  Jonathan Turner PA Sport ARSENAL v PORTSMOUTH (Arsenal 1 Portsmouth 2) ON the face of it Arsenal look to have made a cracking start to the season. They've taken seven points from their first three games and have booked their place in the group
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      • 2047 50 Surprise, surprise, surprise. Arsenal, West Ham and Newcastle left it very late to beat the transfer deadline in making last-minute signings. British newspapers reported that there were a lot of "panic buys" as club bosses frantically bent backwards to find the missing jigsaws prior to
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      • 797 51  -  By Mike McGrath Special Correspondent Diomansykamara scored a spectacular equaliser a minute from full-time as Fulham grabbed a point against Tottenham. Spurs had been ahead since the 11th minute through Younes Kaboul, with Dimitar Berbatov adding a second. Clint Dempsey pulled one back but Spurs
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      • 417 52  -  ROUND-UP By Ian Parkes Special Correspondent FIRST-HALF goals from David Wheater and Stewart Downing sealed an easy win for Middlesbrough against Birmingham at the Riverside Stadium. Wheater headed home Andrew Taylor's cross after just 12 minutes and Downing doubled the lead from close range nine
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      • 656 52  -  BU Steven Butlen Special Correspondent PA Sport Michael owen ended Newcastle's Premier League goal-drought on Tyneside after 647 minutes with a late winner against 10-man Wigan. The 27-year-old, watched by England boss Steve McClaren, headed home from Obafemi Martins' cross three minutes from time
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      • 209 53 Reuters SUREE Sukha's hopes of becoming the first Thai to play in the English Premier League have hit a setback. His application for a work permit was rejected by die British government Fullback Suree (above) had impressed Manchester City on a two-week trial, but the
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      • 73 53 Wire Services GARLING Cup Third-Round draw: Blackburn v Birmingham, Reading v Liverpool, Manchester United v Coventry, Tottenham v Middlesbrough, Hull v Chelsea, Blackpool v Southend, West Ham v Plymouth, Arsenal v Newcastle, Luton v Charlton, Manchester City v Norwich, Sheffield United v Morecambe,
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      • 702 53  -  TV VIEW Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg THERE was never doubting the talent. To many, it was just a matter of when he will come good. Then, in first-half injury time, Ryan Babel exploded onto the scene in va-va-vroom fashion. Alvaro Arbeloa's pass to the Dutch forward seemed
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      • 423 54 WHAT a result by the Reds. It couldn't have been any better. Derby County were in complete shambles and, from the start of the second half, it was positively painful to watch their defence leaking goal after goal. This takes nothing away from Liverpool. I
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      • 277 54 Derby goalkeeper Stephen Bywater remembered that his job is to keep out the goals? To concede six goals in one game is no laughing matter, unless you're supporting the winning side, of course. The embarrassment of picking the ball out of the net on six occasions will stick
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          325 55  -  By LIM HAN MING DEFENCE J The loss of Tal Ben Haim and Abdoulaye Faye could prove costly for Bolton. Faye's move to Newcastle on the last day of the transfer window meant that Sammy Lee had to field the inexperienced pairing of Abdoulaye Meite and Gerald Sid in
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          288 55 DEFENCE A Nevermind that Joleon Lescott scored the last-gasp winner for Everton. While the new fullbacks Phil Jagielka and Leighton Barnes look like shrewd acquisitions by Moyes, the central defensive partnership of Lescott and Joseph Yobo look shaky at times. A case in point was the 55th minute when
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      • 291 56 ...Ayegbeni Yakubu's work permit was not granted in time for this match? The former Middlesbrough striker's move to Everton was originally scuppered because he did not play in 75 per cent of international matches played in the last two years. Luckily for Everton, his complicated move was sorted
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      • 557 56 BOLTON 1 EVERTON2 PA Sport. JOLEON Lescott grabbed a late winner to give Everton all three points at the Reebok Stadium. The Everton centre-back scored his second goal in five Premier League appearances in the 89th minute, just when Bolton appeared on course for a deserved
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