The New Paper, 25 November 2007

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  • 24 1 the new Paper 25 NOVEMBER 2007 hp: 8"887 181"*****9" > Singapore Press MP Holdings MICA (P) 196/12/2006 80 CENTS 25 November 2007 the new paper
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    • 61 1 Rise and shine with our daily 7am edition DOORSTEP DELIVERY: Call 6388 3838 by 31 Dec get 20% off CAMBODIA DRAGON BOAT MISHAP: 5 S'POREANS STILL MISSING In Phnom Penh Grim, silent faces as relatives hope for miracle 25 NOVEMBER 2007 V- te* In S'pore Father (left) of missing rower
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    • 883 2  -  DRAGON BOAT MISHAP IN CAMBODIA Loves outdoor sports, served with Navy Joined national rowing team 5 years ago Joyce Lim joyccl@sph.com.sg IT has been more than 24 hours since his son went missing under the choppy
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    • 284 2 THE OTHER 4 MISSING LIFE vests are a must in Singapore waters and there are even officers on patrol boats to enforce it. But it's a different story when it comes to races held overseas. Ex-national team rower Kho Hao Yuan said
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    • 84 2 I am saddened to learn of the boating accident in Phnom Penh, and of the five members of the team who are still missing. I share the deep concerns of the families of the five Singaporeans. The Singapore Government will do all it can to
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    • Article, Illustration
      599 3  -  DRAGON BOAT MISHAP IN CAMBODIA Mood is sombre as family members await news of missina OUR TEAM IN CAMBODIA REPORT Kor Kian Beng kianbeng@sph.com.sg WORRY marked their faces, and silence was their armour against the despair they must have been feeling. The family members of the five missing
      PICTURES Jonathan Choo  -  599 words
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    • 48 2 YOUNG GENIUS S'pore undergrad gets rare chance to conduct orchestra in Germany Snapshot 21 Our Sun 22 Golf 40 mmm 1800-733 4455 Website tnp.sg E-mail tnpesph.com.sg Fax 6319 8266 Operations Desk *****544 Circulation Hotline 63St 3838 Too close for comfort Residents riled by foreign workers at void decks
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  • SUN NEWS
    • 1155 5  -  Student nabbed after doing $80 drug deal involving Erimin-5 tablets Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg AT just 15, Kenneth is already making a name for himself Not as a good student, but as one of Singapore's youngest drug traffickers. Together with two 17-year-old boys, he was peddling
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    • 154 5 TEEN drag traffickers here are extremely rare. In the past five years, fewer than 10 juveniles those below 16 years old have been arrested for drag trafficking, a Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) spokesman said. This represents less than 1 per cent of all the drug
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    • 794 6  -  ATTACKED AT VOID DECK... REPORT AND PICTURE Tay Shi'an shian@sph.com.sg ALL the 16-year-old did was SMS a former classmate to ask how she was getting on. But Matthias Lim ended up being threatened, surrounded by a group of eight, beaten, burnt with a cigarette and robbed.
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  • news
    • 531 8  -  WANT TO WATCH THE Fl? 3-DAY PASSES GRANDSTAND FROM $275 PADDOCK CLUB $7,500 Cara van Miriah caravm@sph.com.sg EXPECT to pay concert-ticket prices for passes to the Formula One Sing Tel Singapore Grand Prix (GP) next September. The three-day general grandstand pass from 26 to 28 Sep
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    • 985 8 WANT THIS VIEW? approximate price for 3-day package CALL it a million-dollar view. When the Formula One SingTel Singapore Grand Prix roars to life next September, those who party at One Fullerton's rooftop will get to see some of the most exciting action. This is because
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    • 1104 9  -  Not all Waterfront View residents have moved out, but construction work has begun Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg THE clear glass panels of this soon-to-be-ready showflat glisten in the sunlight. Inside, workers are busy putting together the interior. Nearby, a sign has been put
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    • 419 10 M'sian woman's ordeal: SHE wanted dark, luscious eyebrows but ended up with scarred and swollen eyelids instead. Ms Lim Wang Kang, 29, had gone to a beauty centre in a four-star hotel in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, on Wednesday afternoon for an eyebrow treatment. The
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    • 334 11 Bus, dead passengers found when bus company raises alert LANDSLIDE IN CHINA ONE of the victims: A 4-month-old baby. Another victim: His 20-year-old mother. Two 1 -year-old boys were also found dead. And so was Mr Zhang Cunyuan, 46, who had been taking his
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    • Article, Illustration
      903 12  -  Millionaire members fork out as much as 1 1,000 for one dating event CHINA'S MILLIONAIRE MATCHMAKING CLUB TOO RICH TO DATE? NOVEL IDEA CHARMS CHINA'S BUSINESSMEN Maureen Koh maurccnk@sph. com.sg WHEN you're rich, dating can be hard work. There's simply no time for it plus you never
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    • 950 13 Police unearth bodies of two missing women in UK family's home ONE week ago, this house on Irvine Drive in the seaside resort of Margate, Kent, was just an ordinary family home. Children played in the garden, the neighbours were friendly and the neighbourhood
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    • 378 14 China's latest currency headache DO you have one-yuan ($0.19) coins left over from travels to China? Get 100 of them together, and you'll be able to turn a tidy 25 per cent profit. That's because bundles of 100 one-yuan coins are going for
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    • SNAPSHOT
      • 61 15 "It used to be quite tricky and labour-intensive for reporters to run down photographs, workmates, friends, ana school contemporaries of people in the public eye. Now you run the risk of being a front-page story simpfy by standing next to someone newsworthy in a Facebook photograph/ 7 Sam
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      • 99 15 THE 16 judges for the Pedra Branca hearing are expected to deliver their judgement by September next year. Malaysia has wrapped up its final rebuttals, bringing the three-week long hearing over the sovereignty of Pedra Branca and its two outcrops of Middle Rocks and South Ledge to
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      • 82 15 RESCUERS (above) were carrying a victim of a collapsed bridge in Kalapara village, south of Dhaka, yesterday. The cyclone-battered bridge had given way under the weight of hundreds of hungry cyclone victims stampeding towards a relief centre in south-western Bangladesh. Officials said that at least three people were
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      • 92 15 THE National University of Singapore (NUS) is restoring a 160-year-old terrace house Baba House at Neil Road to keep the Straits Chinese culture alive. It will be ready in mid-2008 as a heritage home, restored at a cost of $4m donated by Ms Agnes Tan, daughter of
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      • 160 15 HOWARD'S OUr AFTER 11 YEARS Wire services. AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard yesterday conceded defeat at national elections as the Labor opposition swept into power, ending 11 years of Conservative rule. Mr Howard, a close US ally and staunch supporter of the war in Iraq,
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      • 86 15 A 21-YEAR-OLD man was nabbed by the police yesterday morning on suspected murder. The New Paper reported yesterday that Mr Suhaimi Sulong, 37, died after an attack at the second floor of Orchard Towers early Friday. He was believed to have visited a pub there. The suspect was
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      • 215 15 THE government plans to get three-quarters of all senior citizens aged 55 years and above to have access to the Internet within two years, under a $2.5 million scheme. Called Silver Infocomm Initiative, it will train 30,000 senior citizens to learn basic computer
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      • 79 15 A GROUP of about 40 Swedish women protested against what they call gender-biased rules on swimwear at public pools by taking their tops off, saying if men can do it, so can women. The group, called Bara Brost (Bare Breasts) was formed after two topless women at a pool
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    • 348 10 Front bottom AIR-CON SHOES FOR FRESH FEET DESIGNERS in the UK think they have found a cool solution to stamp out smelly feet air-conditioned shoes. A new range of men's shoes with in-built mini air-con units has hit the market, reported The Daily Telegraph. Air is sucked in through tiny
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  • OUR Sunday
    • 1198 16  -  BARELY A FRESHMAN, THIS S'POREAN 15... Ivan Lim pjlim @sph. eomsg WHAT do the Power Rangers and die Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar, Germany, have in I common? Not very much, unless you count-a young Singaporean musician who had die distinction of conducting the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra
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    • 162 16 Started learning the cornet in Jurong Primary School Brass Band at 7 years old Appointed band major and student conductor in Sec 3 at River Valley High School, his first experience at conducting. Studied in A-level Music Elective Programme in Raffles Junior College. Joined Singapore National Youth Orchestra
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    • 523 17  -  MACAU GRAND PRIX'S GRID GIRLS REPORTING FROM MACAU Cara van Miriah caravm @sph. com.sg TINY outfits, high-cut boots and lots of flesh. It was enough to steal the thunder from the motor races as the engines roared past the pidanes at the 54th Macau Grand Prix
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    • 429 17 HE is often compared to McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton, the rising star of Formula 1. Colin Turkington (above), a 25-year-old rookie, has earned a name for himself in the UK racing circuit, having won nine races since he entered the British
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    • Article, Illustration
      643 18  -  Can't wear makeup because of sensitive skin? Try the newest fad among celebs for that Genevieve Jiang gencviev@sph.com.sg FOR more than 10 years, she didn't wear foundation because her sensitive skin would sometimes suffer break-outs. Business development manager Caroline Chin, 38, recalled that some brands of foundation are
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    • 680 19  -  Siva Choy Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg WHEN I meet people I haven't seen for quite a while, I usually compliment them on how well they're looking, even if they're looking like month-old corpses. Of course I'm being shamelessly dishonest, but if being honest means saying
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    • 457 20  -  Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg DICK Lee Hwa. A gem of a marriage made in the firmament of the stars. Dick Lee, king of Singapop, and Lee Hwa the carats-above of jewellers, tied the knot, albeit a scintillating business one. The two icons made
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    • 162 21 A MAGICAL adventure, a brave little girl and an imaginary world of armoured bears and warring clans. Be one of the first to step into the mystical world of this year's most highly-anticipated blockbuster, The Golden Compass. The New Paper is giving readers a chance to
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    • 781 22  -  KF Seetoh Columnist tnp@5ph.com.5g WHEN Ms Elicia Lim's client sought her services to set up a steak house, she jumped at the opportunity. But she and her partner had no idea what the relation between ventilated ceilings for open fire grills and ventilation gaps
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    • 220 23  -  YOGA FOR HYPERTENSION 3 Bharat Thakur Columnist tnp@sph.com.sg IF you suffer from hypertension or high blood pressure, then what you need is a gende workout regime. Walking, combined with a gende yoga programme, is a good exercise combination. Last week, I gave you some yoga
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    • 73 23 Sit back, buttocks on heels, toes touching, back straight, palms on knees. Inhale and slowly raise both arms straight above your head. Exhale and slowly bend forward with your arms straight and in line with your ears. Rest your forehead on the floor and bring your
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    • 59 23 Lie flat on your back, arms by your side. Press down on your elbows, lift and arch your back and rest the top of your head on the floor. Place hands on thighs as shown. Hold for 10 to 30 seconds, breathing normally. Slowly release your
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    • 127 23 Exercise 3 Curl Lie flat on your back, arms by your side. Inhale and raise your right leg to 90 degrees or as high as possible, keeping it straight, foot relaxed Exhale as you bend your right knee to your chest, foot pointing forward. Interlock your fingers below your knee
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    • 71 23 Lie flat on your back I with your arms on your thighs and inhale. Exhale and raise your legs and upper body to 45 degrees off the ground. Stretch your arms straight out towards your toes, making a "boat" shape. Hold for 10 to 30 seconds, breathing
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 241 24 TView Batman Begins Channel 5, 6.45pm In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. Starring Christian Bale, Katie Holmes. h Zoom HBO (StarHub Ch 60), 9pm A
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    • 254 24 Hidden Heroes Channel U, 8.45pm A lazy cop meets a pretty android from the future without realising that she is on a mission to kill him the older brother of her genius creator. Starring Ronald Cheng, Chariene Choi. Lucky Number Slevin Star Movies (StarHub Ch 58), 9pm A case of
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  • Article, Illustration
    299 25 Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpforum@sph.com.sg My Dearest wife, Serene, I am looking forward to our Big day on 23 Nov 2007. A little
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  • SUN RACING
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    • 196 27 (Race 8 No. 1) t BEST BET RACE conditions, distance and form that is second to none makes Free Spirit the obvious pick in this afternoon's Coronation Cup at Ipoh in Race 8. The equine millionaire should be hard to beat if his recent showings are anything to
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    • 937 27 RACE 1 TOA HORSERADISH was difficult to load and caused some delay. POWER N WIN, who was fractious, broke through the front barrier and was captured shortly after. In this incident, POWER N WIN damaged the front barrier. As a result, all runners
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    • 2283 28 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 ife 5f.1> m -JLMI Ha. Laatl rait* 1 -07- Si 2 170-00 In 3 *****7 III 4 1-2316 R 5 3-6-21 6 -***** la HORSE rya Mas MEyaaCa* MM raKlagfeai saw Cat T1m Battle Wt Rl 57 (8 y 52.5i7 52
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    • 104 29  -  SULTAN GOLD VASE Tan Thean Loon loon@sph.com.sg HE raced poorly when 13 th in the Astro Wah Lai Toi Vase the run previous on 7 Oct. But yesterday Emit Time packed abundant speed to lead throughout in the RM300,000 ($130,000) Malaysian Group 1 Sultan Gold
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    • 123 29 NSF WIRA MALAYSIA CUP Enchanted Prince by a head, with Superb General third, a nose away. Fourth, another head away, was Smart Lion. The RM300,000 National Stud Farm Wira Malaysia Cup in Race 7 also saw an exciting finish when the topweight and favourite Summer
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    • 707 29 GOING: YIELDING (RACES 1-10); GOOD (RACES 11-12) Race 1 C5 D7 (LC) 1400m *79) 176) 3.5 133 Nk 197) 125 i;; m n v tj. n klMWWK# I (3 11 13 14 i 6 4 1 9 7 2 5 6 3 1 1 4 Winning owner
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    • 891 29 1 GOING: GOOD Rapp 1 "W F PTATIflNS TROPHY 17H0M I nouc f if w r i h i iuiio i fiurn 1 i A.UUIYI i 2 VALBrm 4 nuh 3 BASH OF 1 E MM 5S.S (8-o) (3) 1 MMY 55 (190-22) MM (2) 2
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    • 956 30 PHILLIP WOO'S (HKJC) COMMENTS FOR TODAY'S SHA TIN RACES RACE 1 (1,000m) Lucky Quality (No. 8) is bred for speed and has been coming along very well in his trackwork. He can deliver. Craig's Dragon (2) needs to overcome a seven-point hike in the ratings
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    • 1206 30 GOING FORECAST: GOOD ojw4—iw^nigmigg MO. HORSE HAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(M) BAH 1 TREASURE COLT CHY K Shea 132 9 2 CRAM'S DRAfiOH JM 6 Boss 129 7 3 UIQA JS DWhyte 129 6 4 SOLDIER ON DJH B Prebble 126 11 5 TOP
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  • Sunday SPORTS
    • Mad about golf
      • 854 31 World Cup with no cream ...indeed, there is only one member of the world's top-10 present this week, Justin Rose...These days...the reality is you could probably double the prize money and still not get the Big Boys to show up. What a shame! MAYBE the World Cup of Golf doesn't
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      • 38 31 Steve Newell is an experienced aolf writer who has worked with many of the world's leading players and teachers, and has written several books on golf. He now works primarily for top golfer Ernie Els
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    • 603 32 AP. 800 Weekley and Heath Slocum of the United States didn't need the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson to contend for the World Cup tide. America's most unlikely pair continued to hold their own and lead yesterday, shooting a stupendous six-under 66 for a one-stroke
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    • 245 32 Reuters. SOUTH Africans Trevor Immelman and Retief Goosen are hoping their experience as former winners of the World Cup will give them an edge in the final round of this year's tournament at Mission Hills. In yesterday's fourball or better ball format,
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    • 295 32 THE inaugural Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open is poised for a historic launch when the event tees off at the Phokeethra Country Club on Thursday. The US$3OO,OOO ($432,000) Asian Tour event, which has the full backing of the Cambodian government, will be the first professional
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    • 475 33  -  HANA BANK VIETNAM MASTERS GOLF LEADERS: 205 Chawalit Plaphol 206 Simon Griffiths 209 Paul McGinley, Anthony Kang, Lee Han, Chapchai Nirat 210 Simon Yates 211 Zaw Moe, Martin Rominger, Thaworn Wiratchant, Gary Rusnak, Boonchu Ruangkit 212 Charlie Wi, Lin Wen-hong, David Gleeson, Thammanoon Sri rot
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    • 374 33 VIETNAM may be one of the fastest growing economies in South-east Asia, but the same cannot be said of the development of golf in the communist state. In football-mad Vietnam, golf remains very much a sport for the upper echelons of society. There
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    • 73 33 SINGAPORE'S Lam Chih Bing shot two birdies against two bogeys to return an even-par 72 to lie in joint-25th position. He said: "It was an average round. I saved pars with two good, long putts on the 10th and 18th. I made only seven birdies all week.
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    • 965 34 HE was the Formula One rookie who almost became a world champion in his debut season. Yet, Lewis Hamilton could easily have traded his racing gloves for football boots if his F1 dreams hadn't come true. This, and more, is revealed in his autobiography
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    • 1234 35 AUSTRIA Coach: JOSEF HICKERSBERGER The man who guided Austria to the 1990 World Cup is under pressure, hampered by a lack of competitive matches recently. Star man: ERWIN HOFFER Lacking real attacking pedigree, the young striker will still be their leading light next summer. Qualifying
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    • 163 35 PA Sport. JOHN Toshack believes that Germany will be among the favourites to win Euro 2008 next summer. The Wales boss made his prediction after his own youthful side had fought out a remarkable 0-0 draw as both countries ended their group D qualifying campaign. Germany were
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    • 146 35 Championship winners AUSTRIA Coach: Josef Hickersberger Tournament debut^^ Record: Won 0 Drawn 0 Lost 0 CROATIA Coach: Slaven Bilic Tournaments: 3 W2-D2-L3 FRANCE X X Coach: Y Raymond Domenech Tournaments: 7 W14-D6-L5 GREECE X Coach: Y Otto Rehhagel Tournaments: 3 W4-D2-L3 NETHERLANDS X Coach: > Marco van
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    • 514 36 They're out of Euro 2008, so here's... WATCH EURO 2008 ANYWAY Perhaps the most radical suggestion of all. While England's absence feels like it might ruin the tournament entirely, all is not lost. We understand that contingency plans are in place for 16 other
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    • 713 37 The TNPPostman received more than 60 replies to his Weekend Question that asks about "life without England" at Euro 2008. Most of them welcome the exit of over-hyped England and tell us which Euro 2008 teams they'll follow more avidly from now on
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    • 750 38 Even Singapore will be awaiting the results of the Preliminary Draw for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa today (Singapore time), to see who it draws in the third round of the Asian Zone Qualifiers next year. GARY LIM looks at the undeniable record of the
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    • 266 38 Played 62 Win 25 Draw 13 Lost 24 For 92 goals Against 84 goals 2003 International Friendly: Singapore 4-1 Hong Kong Singapore 1-3 Oman Asian Cup Qualifiers: Singapore 1-3 Kuwait Kuwait 4-0 Singapore Singapore 2-0 Palestine Palestine 0-0 Singapore Qatar 2-0 Singapore Singapore 0-2 Qatar 2004: International
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    • 700 39 The Lions who have qualified for the third round of the 2010 World Cup Qualifiers could probably be playing the likes of Japan, South Korea or Australia next year at the Jalan Besar Stadium. But R RAJKUMAR asks if they can still play at the soon-to-be demolished
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    • FIFA 2010 WORLD CUP PRELIMINARY DRAW (Live on Ch 22, midnight)
      • 926 40  -  Andrew Warshaw npsports @sph. com.sg ALONG the freeway heading out of Cape Town towards the affluent wine region of Stellenbosch, a group of young black kids from the 760,000-strong Khayelitsha township of concrete shacks kick a ball around on the dusty, windswept roadside. Chances are none
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      • 220 40 ENGLAND could be in for a tough time during the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. That's because the Three Lions have been seeded in Pot Two for the qualifying draw. The European qualifying competition for the 2010 World Cup in
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    • 698 41 broken EN6U5H Who will be England's next manager? Wire Services. ANOTHER foreign manager for England? The possibility of Steve McClaren being succeeded by England's second continental coach after Sven-Goran Eriksson is ever increasing. And serial title-winner Fabio Capello heads the list of candidates. Capello's sub-standard
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    • epl 2007/08
      • 456 42  - Expect back BEWMG Dave Tindall and Jonathan Turner PA Sport FULHAM v BLACKBURN (Fulham 0 Blackburn 2) BLACKBURN have been in the higher reaches of the table for most of the campaign and a win in their game in hand would see them with an identical points haul to Chelsea.
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      • 103 42 wjmm TNP Special Dear Readers, JOIN the growing number of TNP readers who get their views published in our pages. Send your reactions for tonight's English Premier League game WEST HAM v TOTTENHAM Avoid run-of-play descriptions. We want more of your opinion on the bigger picture,
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      • 369 43 BETTING TEAM FACTS: LIU HAH MING; BEST PICK: GARY UM; WHO'S HOT, WHO'S MOT: lAIN MACIHTOSH (Reporting from London) INJURIES/ SUSPENSIONS: WEST HAM UNITED: Ferdinand, Boowyer, Dyer, Faubert (injured); Davenport (doubtful) TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: Gardner, Rocha, Malbranque (injured) HEAD-TO-HEAD: West Ham 43; Spurs 52; draws
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      • 374 43 INJURIES/ SUSPENSIONS: FULHAM: Keller, Cook, McBride, Bullard (injured) BLACKBURN ROVERS: Derbyshire, Savage, Roberts (doubtful) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Fulham 24; Blackburn 31; draws 20 LAST MEETING: 21 April, 2007 Fulham 1 Blackburn 1 (EPL) LAST FIVE LEAGUE RESULTS: FULHAM: L-W-D-D-L BLACKBURN: L-D-W-W-W GOAL STATS (SCORED, CONCEDED): FULHAM 0-15
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      • 1494 44 exclusive Tottenham's Finnish midfielder Teemu Tainio believes that the club can shake up its season over the Christmas period. Just don't mention Santa Claus when he's around TNP Special jk'yy Christmas Tainio hails from Tornio, in the frozen wastelands of northern Finland. A 1 I An unremarkable
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      • 310 45 MORE success stories like Teemu Tainio's will help enhance the game's credentials in Finland. But, far from seeing himself as an ambassador, he is more concerned with the immediate aim of establishing a regular berth in Tottenham and helping the club out of its
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      • 342 45 TEEMU Tainio chose to further his career under the guidance of renowned coach Guy Roux at Auxerre. A surprise destination, maybe, given the glitz and glamour offered by Old Trafford and the San Siro, but it was always the No. 1 choice for
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      • 638 46 There will be fireworks at Upton Park when bitter London rivals West Ham and Tottenham clash, says Your English Kaki FOOTBALL can be a cruel game sometimes. Eighteen months ago, after Sven-Goran Eriksson's departure, Alan Curbishley was one of the front-runners for the England job. This
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      • 641 47  -  5L Eric Baddeley Special Correspondent PA Sport ARSENAL moved clear at the top of the Barclays Premier League after finally seeing off a determined Wigan 2-0 with late goals at Emirates Stadium. Captain William Gallas netted with just seven minutes left, before Tomas Rosicky made
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      • 229 47  -  By Jeff Rand Special Correspondent GOALKEEPER Richard Kingson's blunder and a superb strike from Niko Kranjcar piled on the misery for managerless Birmingham and kept Harry Redknapp's side on course for a European spot. Caretaker manager Eric Black gambled on dropping the experienced Maik Taylor
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      • 548 48  -  ROUND-UP By Ken Gaunt Special Correspondent STEPHEN IRELAND struck in the final minute to keep the smile on boss Sven Goran Eriksson's face with a 2-1 win over Reading. The last-gasp victory keeps City in the EPL title race and boss Sven Goran Eriksson
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      • 577 48  -  SLi Paul Walker Special Correspondent PA Sport Desperate defending from Sunderland allowed Everton to romp to a stunning victory, and gave rookie manager Roy Keane a real lesson at Goodison Park. This result was a serious setback for Keane, but he is hoping the club
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      • 305 51 Wire Services. LIVERPOOL'S goal-scoring hero Steven Gerrard insisted he was not worried about fans' abuse after starring in his side's 3-0 win at hapless Newcastle. Gerrard (above), who was continually booed for his part in England's Euro 2008 debacle, opened the scoring with a
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      • 577 53  -  Gary Lim npsports@sph.eom.sg Tohari Paijan ALL eyes were on Steven Gerrard yesterday. There were some who wondered whether he could piece his shattered heart together after going through such a miserable week. After all, England had just been knocked out of Euro 2008 and Gerrard, who played in
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