The New Paper, 2 December 2007

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    24 1 the new Paper Sunday 2 DECEMBER 2007 .rsr MICA (P) 196/12/2006 80CENTS ********** l 8 "*****1 M2OOO9 l, > 2 Dec 2007 the new paper
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      53 1 mmm a !r4rtLne«ij la i I ii F; 11 A v. S'pore PR allegedly bites Seremban neighbour's ear in dispute over pet dogs Jaws 2 DECEMBER 2007 MICA (P) 196/12/2006 80CENTS 8 "*****1 "*****9" > 3* Kembangan terrors had ravaged family friend before attack on neighbour's pooch. He needed 10
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  • SUN NEWS
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      Lock icon ARMS MAULED WHEN HE BLOCKS FACE FROM ATTACKS
      1587 2  -  ■Dogs set upon friend of family a month before last week's attack on jack russell ■Victim's family speaks up to refute defence that the dogs don't attack people ROW OVER KEMBANGAN ROTTWEILERS Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg BEFORE dogs bit dog, dogs bit man.
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      833 3  -  AVA tells family to give up 2 of 5 rottweilers, but desperate owner says... ROW OVER KEMBANGAN ROTTWEILERS Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg MADAM Satpal Kaur has been told to find a new home or homes for two of her five Rottweilers, following a vicious attack
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    Lock icon EAR CHOMPED ON BY 'HUMAN DOG'
    764 5  -  Quarrel with neighbour over noisy dogs turns ugly ROW OVER SEREMBAN DOGS sun neuis Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan @sph.eom.sg HE has bred pedigree and guard dogs and is familiar with their ferocity. Yet, there is one fierce breed which Mr Wee Hock Seng has
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  • SUN NEWS
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      1145 7  -  Cara van Miriah caravm@sph.com.sg THE chequered flag is not due till next September, but at least one Formula One race is already on. Five-star hotels in the Marina and Orchard areas are vying for the bookings of race teams, in deals which could be worth several million dollars
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      Lock icon 'BIGGER THAN MTV AWARDS'
      297 7 IT will be bigger and more glamorous than the MTV Asia Awards. .The city will be buzzing when the F1 race zips into town. So whether you are an F1 groupie or a party animal, there will be a lot to do and see between 19
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      Lock icon PLANE BOOKING CONFIRMED BUT GRANNY TURNED AWAY
      905 8  -  Crying, S'pore dishwasher left stranded and begging in Chennai to find way back to family in hotel Elysa Chen elysae(3>sph.eom.sg AN airline's system error caused an elderly woman to miss her confirmed flight back to Singapore. It kicked off a series of unfortunate
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      Lock icon N-S HIGHWAY BLOCKED OFF FOR HANDPHONE BUST
      461 9 S'poreans suspected to be involved in 1.28 m smuggling operation FIRST, they watched. Then, they swooped. In what is likely to be their biggest such operation so far, Malaysian Customs officers busted a large handphone smuggling syndicate. Yesterday morning, officers blocked off the
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      Lock icon REWARD FOR GOOD SERVICE: COMMISSION + TIP + CAR = $1 MILLION
      1017 10  - REWARD FOR GOOD SERVICE: COMMISSION TIP CAR $1 MILLION S'PORE ESTATE AGENT'S SURPRISE WINDFALL Maureen Koh maureenk@sph.com.sg IMAGINE getting paid $1 million for completing a deal in just one day. That was what property agent Agnes Foo made when she successfully brokered an entire block of 11 apartments for a
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      Lock icon I WANT TO BE A WOMAN AGAIN
      839 12 Operation 1: MAN BECOMES WOMAN Operation 2: SHE BECOMES MAN AGAIN J Now, operation 3? AP. MOST sex-change patients undergo the transformation only once. But odd-job worker Michael Berke chose to do it twice going from man to woman, and then back again.
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      Lock icon WE'RE NOT GOLD-DIGGERS... WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR LOVE
      1000 14  -  Th is week, 'millionaire matchmaking' club women say: REPORTS Maureen Koh maurecnk@sph.com.sg MOST of them are respected professionals with a good educational background. Most are pretty. But they have been hit by the marriage blues remaining single longer than they have expected.
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      413 14 NOBLE Single's hopefuls both men and women have to go through a rigorous screening process before they are picked, said its marketing director, Mr Jasper Tan. He told The New Paper on Sunday: "We have a team of professionally trained consultants or "love headhunters". They
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      Lock icon MISS CHINA, MISS WORLD
      374 15 WOMAN WHO WOOED THE WORLD 1.82 m beauty face of Beijing Olympics? SHE stands head and shoulders above the other contestants in more ways than one. Not only was crowd favourite Miss China the tallest contestant at 1.82 m, she also won the Miss World 2007
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      Lock icon Brit teacher bears no grudges
      271 16 WOMAN WHO RILED A NATION THOUSANDS of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and swords and beating drums, burned her pictures and demanded her execution on Friday. Many shouted: "Kill her! Kill her by firing squad!" But jailed British teacher Gillian Gibbons, 54, told her two
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      Lock icon Democratic reforms: faster or slower?
      150 16 WOMEN WHO WANT TO MOVE HONG KONG AP. TWO ideologies, two "iron ladies" and one vacant seat in government. Eight candidates are contesting to fill a seat on Hong Kong's Legislative Council (Legco) vacated by Mr Ma Lik, a pro-China politician who died in August.
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      Lock icon NURSE SHOT DEAD IN LIFT LOBBY
      366 17 She told police ex-boyfriend was harassing her, tnen... SHE had just finished her shift and was about to enter the lift to her condo flat. But just before she could do so, she was shot at point-blank range. Ms M Sandanamary, 40, a nurse,
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    • SNAPSHOT
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        58 18 If you don't change the base, then even if one form of despotism dies, another will emerge. I am trying to influence the cultural base of China. I think that is more important and effective than direct confrontation. Author Jiang Rong, whose Wolf Totem has won the the
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        Lock icon HOSTAGE DRAMA IN HILLARY'S OFFICE
        82 18 A MAN claiming to be armed with a bomb took over one of Hillary Clinton's campaign offices for more than five hours on Friday, before surrendering to police, reported AFP. He walked into the New Hampshire office at around 2am and took some people hostage.
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        Lock icon DAREDEVIL RIDER DIES
        103 18 SYNONYMOUS with daredevil stunts and astounding crashes in motorcycle leaps, showman Evel Knievel died of lung failure on Friday, at the age of 69. Among the Florida-based daredevil's most well-known stunts was a failed bid in 1967 to jump across the fountains in the Caesar's Palace casino
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        Lock icon 3 INJURED IN COLLISION NEAR TERMINAL ONE GRIDLOCK AT AIRPORT
        303 18  -  REPORTS AND PICTURE Zalhan Mohd Yusof zaihan <Qsph. comsg FOR almost two hours, traffic near Changi Airport Terminal One came to a stand-still last night. Motorists trying to make their way out of Terminal One were caught in the massive
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        212 18 MALAYSIA has told India to stay away from its internal affairs after Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee expressed concerns over treatment of minority ethnic Indians in Malaysia, reported the Associated Press. Indians make up 8 per cent of Malaysia's 27 million people, the
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        63 18 A man drove a truck into the Guinness Brewery on Dublin's Victoria Quay and made off with a trailer full of booze. Irish police said 450 kegs, with a total of about 40,000 pints of Guinness, Budweiser and Carlsberg were stolen. The loot was estimated to be worth $135,000.
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  • OUR Sunday
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      Lock icon From CLINIC to KARAOKE to CONCERT
      857 19  -  Doctors start singing group, perform for charity Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com.sg BY day, they carry out brain surgery, deliver babies and see patients. By evening, they think nothing of belting out karaoke hits in a doctors' lounge. Their "sideline" has taken them to the
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      980 20  -  Jeanmarie Tan jeanm@sph.com.sg THEY are the new faces of local gameshow Deal Or No Deal's second season telecast on Channel 5 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm. But did you know that these six sexy briefcase babes first got their showbiz start in
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      Lock icon HUGE in more ways than one
      638 21  -  The Golden Compass deals with big questions about life, love and loyalty REPORTING FROM CANNES Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo@sph.com.sg THE polar bear froze in mid-lunge, not unlike a sniffed and mounted exhibit in an Arctic museum. My reflex was to proffer food, a
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      564 22  -  New treatment uses light and suction power to remove hair, clear pimples Ng Wan Ching wanching@sph.com. sg DO you have pimples that just won't go away no matter what? Are you sick of having to shave your legs regularly to keep them smooth and hair-free?
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      Lock icon Not another reality show
      436 23  -  Scriptwriters in the US are on strike. What's next? Sylvia Toh Paik Choo paikchoo @sph. comsg THE last time the Hollywood writers went on strike, in 1988, something bad happened, well something debatably bad occurred. Reality shows hit American television. That five-month walkout of the Writers
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      627 24  -  Chua Wei Yng Columnist tnp@sph.eom.sg MANY of us spend eight hours or more in the office daily, most of it sitting at a desk. At the end of the day, it's no surprise that we feel sore all over. Here's how you can make
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      Lock icon Who's game for RABBIT HEADS?
      718 25  -  K F Scctoh Columnist tnpQsph.comsg WHENEVER someone asks me what is the strangest thing I've eaten a question I cannot answer as I simply classify food as edible and inedible -1 entertain him with my experiences with smoked donkey, shark's liver or snake skin hotpot.
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      259 26  -  YOGA FOR HYPERTENSION 4 Bharat Thakur tnp@sph.com.sg IT is very simple. To help control your hypertension, or high blood pressure, you have to learn to relax completely. Yes, I know, this is easier said than done, but it is your health and well-being at stake. It involves an
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      230 26 I, 1 1 ai M ..,a or on a nara mattress, j g. Concentrate on your breath. Breathe deeply from the abdomen and focus on yourself inhaling and rrchaling. There are 16 vital points In your body that can relax you totally if you concentrate on them. Start
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      104 26 Sit in the lotus position. Keep your back straight, close your eyes and relax your whole body. Focus on your breath. Be aware of every inhalation and exhalation. Let your breathing gradually become slower and deeper. Now, imagine a passage between your navel and the front of your
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      48 26 Keep your eyes closed and your body relaxed. Gently insert your thumbs in yoi&ears and place your fingers on your head as shown. Sit and listen to the silence in your body. Be aware of thoughts you have and continue "-'li to listen to the silence.
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      231 27 |^^aPff|Lp resente d by HSBC<» "Wt fflH jJßfef fc dUH^I A Special Festive Workshop Pick up heartwarming, palate-tickling Qiristmas recipes by Chef Judy Koh, food columnist and founder of Creative Culinaire Hie School, as she demonstrates signature creations like: Apricot Chicken in Phyllo Cup, Duchess Potato Turkey Roulade in special
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      240 27 TView Dr Seuss' The Cat In Tha Hat Channel 5, 7.45pm The lives of two bored Idds who are left home alone are turned upside-down when a talking cat comes to visit them and introduces them to their imagination. Starring Mike Myers, Dakota Fanning. t CABLE Just My Luck Star
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      258 27 Purpl« Butterfly Arts Central 9pm An unexpected encounter reunites a female member of a powerful resistance group in Japanese-occupied Shanghai with an ex-lover who is actually an officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling the organisation. Starring Zhang Ziyi Liu Ye. Failure To launch (toft) HBO (StarHub Ch
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    348 28 our sunpflv Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crush? Maybe you want to tnank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... We would like to thank our guests who came to spice up our wedding. Most importantly, our
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  • SUN RACING
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      Lock icon ROSSINI KING CAN RULE AGAIN
      2227 30 RACE 1 (1,200 m) 1 Triple Seven Blinkers added and should go okay in what looks a very weak field 2 Big Wheel Not likely 3 Fingers Crossed Looked only fair at the trials, so prefer to watch on debut with market best guide 4
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      14 30 ST, ■fa Denotes tipster's best bet of the day l—u A ST"
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      Lock icon TODAY'S KRANJI (SHORT COURSE, D/FIBRESAND TRACK) RACE CARD
      1497 31 GOING FORECAST: GOOD* a RACE 2 to. imtmm mm VI MNr Jiatai MB 1 8-5 2 363SS5™ 58 58 cSfa* t 4 i 4ag 0 HM-Triplt Sevan No 2) 4rag RB March-Mart L Oenipsiy i 3 -OB 4 5-749 5 474-2 6
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      Lock icon FOREST SPIRIT
      50 31 (Race 5 No. 4) BEST BET HAS taken a while for this Argentine-bred to get going. But judging by his last-start second, this v r V' Ssfw V £< < f' two-time winner is ready to put his act together. He has been working with gusto on the
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      Lock icon MUDLARKS!
      87 31 RACE 8s Golden Hawk, All It Takes, Baby Emperor, Double Happiness. RACE 5s D'Mighty Star, Landau, Promise Me Gold, Daring Commander, Royal Bay. RACE 7s Parua Bay, Royal Warrant Lim's Ocean, New Generation, Patchouli, Royal Warrior, Titan Fun. RACE 8: Crusoe, Bambaazon, Luckytino, Mushroom, Kilat Dharma, Lim's Fighter, Strawberry
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      Lock icon HORSE WHO GIVES HIS ALL
      504 32  -  Easy winner Raphael described by trainer as a... Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg PROMISING Raphael made amends for his unlucky last-start defeat with a stylish victory at Kranji yesterday. The Michael Clements-trained three-year-old, who went down to Ace Amigo by a neck, was too good for his
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S KRANJI (SHORT COURSE, C/FIBRESAND TRACK) RESULTS
      2236 32 GOING: GOOD 9 TMNLLSKKB 53.5 (140-20) NMhfltar (6) 2 2 1 (445) 6 LUCKY MM 55.5 (38-6) YFImm (1) 5 4 2 (473) Shd 7 STIATMT 55.5 (9-7) 1 FraM (4) 1 1 3 (485) Shd 11 F8XX 50 (31 -8) ....iWfrst* i7)
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S SINGAPORE STIPENDIARY STEWARDS' REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
      1105 33 RACE 1 WONDERFUL WORLD, CAPITOL and STRATEGY bumped on jumping. JAVELIN, who was slow, steadied off the heels of KRANJI BEAUTY, who rolled out shortly after. BORN FREE blundered on jumping. STRATEGY was obliged to race wide in the early and middle stages. R
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S HONG KONG (SHA TIN) RESULTS
      596 33 GOING: GOOD 3 MMMC TOUCH 128 (86-17) M W Lai (3) 1 6 HAPPY HEROES 121 (39-10) _...IPwl* (4) 2 4 SEA THEASWE 127(30-9) 0 Mm (5) 3 TuiMi L Ho. M«|lw 1.25,1. Tiar Imin 50 4sec. Ftrtcast: $111. Ptaca Faracast: $24 (Nos. 3-4),
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  • Sunday SPORTS
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      Lock icon Predicting is unpredictable business
      952 34 Mad about golf UNBELIEVABLE. I mean, seriously. Absolutely unbelievable! What was it that I said last week? 44 1 would confidendy bet against either of those two pairings (Scodand or Germany, that is) challenging for the tide again this year". I was referring to the World
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      Lock icon Golf for the heartlanders
      224 35 IF you think golf is a sport for the well-heeled, think again. In a bid to promote the sport among heartlanders, the Punggol South Division and Seletar Country Qub jointly organised a "Community Golf Appreciation Workshop" at Seletar Country Qub yesterday. Normally, a three-hour golf lesson
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      Lock icon Groom in front on 13 under
      357 35 AUSTRALIA'S Adam Groom held on to a narrow one-stroke lead over American Bryan Saltus after firing a two-under-par 70 in the third round of the Johnnie Walker Cambodian Open yesterday. Groom, ranked 47th on the Asian Tour's ÜBS Order of Merit, looked on course
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      Lock icon Lam's 68 earns 15th spot
      168 35 FIVE birdies on the back nine saw Singapore's Lam Chih Bing post an impressive four-under-par 68 in the Cambodian Open. The Republic's No. 2 golfer got off to a bad start with a bogey on his opening hole. A birdie on the second and a
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      Lock icon Rose regains footing to maintain two-horse race
      282 35 IT is turning out to be a two-horse race at the Sun City Challenge in South Africa. England's Justin Rose and South Africa's Trevor Immelman were tied for the lead after the third round at the Gary Player Country Club yesterday. The two
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      Lock icon Revving up for Volvo Masters
      696 36 TWO-TIME Asian Tour No. 1 Thongchai Jaidee is eager to pull off an end-of-season double whammy at the Volvo Masters of Asia. The Thai is looking to successfully defend the title he won in a nervy finish last year and continue his fantastic streak of
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      Lock icon Park grabs two-stroke lead
      237 36 AP JANE Park shot a one-under-par 71 in windy and wet conditions on Friday to take a two-stroke lead over Kelli Kuehne after the second round of the LPGA Tour's Final Qualifying Tournament The top 17 players at Daytona Beach, Florida, will earn cards on die
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      764 37  -  No furning back for Aide Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg HE lets out a smile, but the usual glint in his eyes was missing. We exchanged greetings, yet his tone was somewhat sombre. After all, the past few days have been a trying time for Aide Iskandar. A "click" at the
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      Lock icon Meet Aide, the actor
      253 37 YOU have not seen the last of Aide Iskandar. Despite his recent resignation from the national team, he has a whole range of activities which will very much keep him in the public eye. While his prowess on the football field was what brought him fame,
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      Lock icon Lions on the right track
      696 38 The Singapore national football team has grown from strength to strength. The Lions won two Asean Championship titles and last week, made it to the third round of the 2010 World Cup Qualifiers. R RAJKUMAR tracks the reasons behind the Lions' rise IN June 2004,
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      Lock icon Raddy blasts tame U-23s
      622 39  -  SEA GAMES 2007 SINGAPORE 0 LAOS 0 Eric Ding npsports@sph.com sg HE was furious. And he did not mince his words. Singapore national coach Raddy Avramovic was an angry man after his team's SEA Games campaign got off to a stuttering start last night. The Lions
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      373 39 Reuters IT was not bent, it was dead straight. David Beckham scored from the penalty spot to seal an emphatic 4-1 win for the LA Galaxy in a friendly with the Wellington Phoenix yesterday. When Carlos Pavon was brought down in the box in the
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      802 40  -  Lim Han Ming npsportsf&sph.comsg NOT many people can mix work with sports. Basil Chua is one of the rare exceptions. As the marketing director of National Geographic Channel Asia, the 37-year-old Singaporean gets exposed to places which are beyond the reach of the normal
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      257 40 'tOpMcha what he does in his As the regional marketing director for National Geographic Channel Pi!* Basil Chua is responsible for the maricetiiig plans of National Geographic Channel, National Geographic HD, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Adventure, FOXCRIME, FX and ttfcyTV. Today, the National Geographic Channel is
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      975 41  -  Ashikin Hashim npsports@sph.com.sg IT has been around before Singapore gained independence in 1965 even before Singapore started self-governing itself in 1959. The Shell Traffic Games, which started in 1958, has seen more than one million students participate. Remember that school excursion to the East Coast Road Safety
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      308 42 WITH Formula One here for the next five years, a racing track planned in Changi, and go-karting encouraged in the heartlands, Singapore's motorsports culture can only grow. In March this year, Hafiz Koh, 23, and his family formed Team TaraDTM to
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      314 42 SINGAPOREANS from different generations at the Shell Traffic Games last month remember their own Road Safety Park experiences. UKE A CHILD ALL OVER AGAIN Tan Kim Slang, 36, IT engineer I remember being so excited about seeing the pedal-karts,
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      839 43  -  WEEKENEWAG Ivan Lim npsports @sph.com.sg POOR Brendan Ong. The 22-year-old national serviceman has supported Manchester United probably since he learned how to kick a ball, but his girlfriend of seven years chose to support Liverpool just to annoy him. M I started being interested in football
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        327 44 BETTING INJURIES/ SUSPENSIONS: LIVERPOOL: Alonso, Pennant (injured); Agger (doubtful) BOLTON WANDERERS: Helguson, Vaz Te, O'Brien (injured) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Pool 48; Bolton 43; draws 32 LAST MEETING: 1 Jan, 2007 Pool 3 Bolton 0 (EPL) LAST FIVE LEAGUE RESULTS: POOL: W-W-D-D-W BOLTON: W-D-D-D-L GOAL STATS (SCORED, CONCEDED):
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        366 44 TEAM FACTS: UM HAN MING; BEST PICK: GARY UM; WHO'S HOT, WHO'S NOT: lAIN MACINTOSH (Reporting from London) T\ INJURIES/ SUSPENSIONS: TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: Gardner, Rocha (injured); King, Kaboul, Jenas (doubtful) BIRMINGHAM CITY: Oubina (injured); O'Connor, Jerome, D. Johnson (doubtful) HEAD-TO-HEAD: Spurs 43; Birmingham 26; draws
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        426 45  -  BETTING David Tindall and Nick Hext PA Sport LIVERPOOL v BOLTON (Liverpool 2 Bolton 0) LIVERPOOL have won 3-0 and 4-1 since stories about Rafa Benitez being on borrowed time starting doing the rounds. Which means the unrest behind the scenes isn't exactly filtering through
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        357 45 AP UEFA is opening up the Champions League to more clubs from smaller countries and moving the annual showcase final to a Saturday. In a number of changes to the competition approved on Friday, Uefa also said three English, Italian and Spanish clubs will
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        101 45 Wmnmtnm ifflU3B8aHi 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 LIVERPOOL v BOLTON Avoid run-of-play descriptions. We want more of your opinion on the bigger picture, possible after-effects,
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        985 46 Wire Services. CARLOS Tevez plays every match as if he's trying to escape from the ghetto. His footballing style is straight from the street, as if every match is a trial, with a desperate need to make his mark. He has already done so at Manchester United. Tomorrow,
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        384 46 Wire Services. EMMANUEL Adebayor is ready to quit football unless Arsenal win the title. The Togo striker is so convinced the Gunners will go all the way this season, he has even bet his shirt on Arsene Wenger's side lifting the Premier
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        273 47  -  Blackburn Nnnrvtir 1 nvnvuMlv iiHMiHiHmuiA Backtwm: Bentley 54 67, Tugay 90 Hiwrtt Martins 47 NcIMR *B|Mfca| Blackburn: Frtadel, Emerton. Ootjar, Samba. Warnock, Bentley, Karimoglu. Mokoena (Raid 66), Dunn (Paderaan 58). Santa Cruz. McCarthy (Roberts 61). Sub 6 (not used) Brown, Savage Booked: Bentley. Kadmoglu.
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        520 48  -  ROUND-UP By Ian Parkes Special Correspondent' TUNCAY SANLI came off the bench to net his first goal for Middlesbrough and snatch a 1-1 draw at Reading but it was not enough to ease his side's relegation fears. Dave Kitson looked to have
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        356 49 West Ham were furious as they claimed that Chelsea's Joe Cole was in an offside position before he received the pass that led to the only goal of the game. R RAJ KUMAR analyses the Chelsea move and explains why the assistant referee was spot on with
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      261 52 DIDIER Drogba had opened the scoring in the ninth minute? Finding a bit of room for the only time in the half, he curled an elegant shot just wide of the far post. An early goal would have settled Chelsea's nerves and put them in control of the
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      197 52 Reuters. EUROPEAN football authority Uefa has given police a list of 15 matches it suspects may have been fixed, a senior Uefa source said yesterday. News of the match-fixing investigation came as Uefa officials and coaches gathered in Lucerne ahead of the draw for
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      128 52 SPORTSONTV m H LIVERPOOL v BOLTON Ch 27, 10.55pm, tonight TOTTENHAM v BIRMINGHAM Ch 22, 11.55pm, tonight I BETIS v ATLETICO MADRID m Ch 22, 1.55 am, tomorrow VALENCIA v ATHLETIC BILBAO Ch 21, 3.55 am, tomorrow m SINGAPORE v VIETNAM Ch 5, 4.30pm, tomorrow m •}:(Jll i 'A c<
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