The New Paper, 18 May 2008

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    24 1 the new paper HP" 18MAY2008I Singapore Press WU Holdings MICA (P) 113/12/2007 80 CENTS HI 8"*****1"*****9"> the new paper WE%b 18MAY2008 the new paper
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      89 1 •'T" 1 the Hew #4 ■».< .tt, i* ?*;\'.:v 4 2 i- .«H 18 MAY 2008 guide brought to you by -r V <\ M r M V m p .jii* 7 y X Singapore International {(firing .festival Singapore Airlines International Cup KrisFlyer International Sprint WHEN AND WHERE Singapore Racecourse
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    238 2 p A I oingapore Airlines International Cup 1 Inaugurated in 2000, the Singapore Airlines International Cup is an International Group 1 event and its $3 million prize money makes it the richest racing event in the region. The race, a 2,000m weight-for-age event, has been run and won
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    396 4 2 feet (0.6m) in height Made from sterling silver the ecstatic jockey, trainer and owner of the winning thoroughbred finally hold aloft the Singapore Airlines International Cup, you could probably think of three million reasons why they never bothered to ask who made the cup or
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    73 4 2008 Singapore Airlines International Cup Pick The Winner SMS Contest Send in your entry with the following information via SMS: Your Winning Horse <space> NRIC <space> Name to *****. Contest will be open from 16 May 2008,10am, till tonight, 7pm. 1st Prize: $1,000 cash plus a pair of economy
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    Lock icon HUSBAND ASKS: WHY SO HEARTLESS?
    1419 5  -  YOUNG ANGRY DRIVER TRIES TO STIP FAMILY FROM HELPING STROKE MUM Man chases woman driver (below) to her house after minor car collision Scolds, shouts at her even as she's carried to ambulance Woman suffers stroke dies ■Merc driver tails woman in BMW home after
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    716 6  -  SUN NEWS Syndicate helped illegal sex workers extend social visit passes at Woodlands Checkpoint Elysa Chen elysac@sph.com.sg IT'S known as the U-turn service, and it's used by illegal sex workers here to extend their social visit passes. For $300 each, the syndicate would arrange to drive the
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      97 6 II Bar Nona's new actbaasts five veteran musicians out for anuther shut at fame Fast news 25 Our Sun 26 Golf 45 Jl 1800- 733 4455 Website tnp.sg E-mail tnp@spli.com.si Fax 6319 8266 Operations Desk 6319 5544 Circulation Hotline 6386 3131 Green light for safety Seat belts a must for
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      332 8 THE Mercedes driver demanded $3,000 as compensation for a broken side mirror, and allegedly also submitted a fake invoice to claim $400 for car rental. Mr Edwin Han said the man had called him about compensation for the mirror the day after the accident. But Mr
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      622 9 READY... SET... Woman rushes back from Hong Kong just to stand still for five minutes as part of Orchard Road flash mob IMAGINE making a mad dash to Ngee Ann City in Singapore all the way from Hong Kong, just to stand still for
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      153 9 'Turn Back The Clock' Buffet* at Nostalgic Prices (Lunch Dinner) As River Garden undergoes a transformation to bring you a new dining experience, we have created a buffet spread of your favourite local and international dishes to be featured at the Lily Ballroom. Let the good times roll as we
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      Lock icon COMING TO A FULL CIRCLE
      416 11  -  Crystal Chan crystalc@sph.com.sg THE Singapore Flyer was bustling yesterday, but not with tourists. As part of celebrations for Vesak Day, which falls tomorrow, the 18th Dromtug Rinpoche Losang Choekye Pelden of the Kadampa Buddhist Society blessed the giant wheel. Almost 3,000 guests were present when
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      733 12  -  S'pore tourists return safely after tremors disrupt their holiday Crystal Chan crystalc@sph.com.sg WHEN rocks began tumbling down on their tour bus, a Singapore group on holiday in Jiuzhaigou in Sichuan thought bad road conditions or inclement weather was to blame. Eager to continue with their journey, the
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      Lock icon Trips to quake region too risky, say tour agents
      208 12 TOUR agencies contacted by The New Paper said holidays to Jiuzhaigou, Chongqing and Chengdu are definitely off for this month. SA Tours spokesman Ruth Lim said: "We cant take the risk, even though if s the peak season to travel to
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      Lock icon CHINA QUAKE GRIEF CHINA QUAKE ELIEF
      1122 13 Scenes like this appear all over Sichuan as families mourn their lost loved ones Miracle rescues keep the flame of hope alive even as the death toll rises TO the casual onlooker, they may look like piles of rubble, mounds of dirt, or the
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      Lock icon UNDERAGED & PUFFING IN AIR-CON AREA
      849 15  - UNDERAGED PUFFING IN AIR-CON AREA Tenants shoppers of Katong Shopping Centre see red over smokers who are... Tay Shi'an 5hian@sph.com.sg THEY'RE breaking two laws each time they light up, but these underage smokers don't seem to care. For the past few months, groups of them, some in school uniform, have
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      821 16  -  These drivers jn the Rally of Canberra had their family's blessings Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan@sph.comjg T| HEY drove at speeds which would make I any traffic policeman itch for his radar I gun. Charging hard into corners, they left dust clouds on hilly trails. It was the
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      Lock icon HE CUTS UP PLAIN TO MAKE THEM BEAUTIFUL
      952 17  -  With more S'porean patients, S Korean plastic surgeon wants to set up shop here Elysa Chen elysac@sph.com.sg TURNING plain Janes into beauties is all in a day's work for renowed South Korean plastic surgeon Kim Byung Gun. Some of his patients even
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      Lock icon Korean stars who go under the knife
      159 18 HAN Ae Ri, formerly from gill band Babyvox Re.V, wanted bigger breasts and a sharper "V-une" chin. She went under the knife twice in the space of just three weeks in November last year. She lost so much blood that she had to
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      Lock icon EXCLUSIVE I HAVE NO REGRETS
      1196 19  -  The man who could have been chief minister says... i REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR Patrick Jonas patrickj@sph.comsg IF he had said yes, he may have been sitting in the Perak menteri besar's chair today. Instead, Raja Petra Kamaruddin is out on bail battling a sedition
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      68 20 Ex-PM DR MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD Dr Mahathir is an adventurist. He took risks. But he does not listen to others. He is a good commander strong, but a lot of people have to make sacrifices for that. He has no strengths... But he is willing to listen. However,
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      Lock icon DIES AFTER FALLING INTO DITCH
      384 21 Robber chased by M'sian police THE robber thought he could escape from the law. But his attempt cost him his life. On Thursday, five men in Shah Alam, Malaysia stole a car and staged a fake accident to get another car to stop so they
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      445 22 Ex-biochemist in US gets life sentence Wire services. WHEN lab assistant James Fagone was enlisted by his ex-boss, biochemist Larissa Schuster, to break into her estranged husband's home, he thought the aim was to rob him. But Schuster, 47, had more sinister plans.
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      Lock icon DOOMSDAY CULT DRIVEN FROM THIS CAVE BY CORPSE FUMES
      237 22 AFP. IT took toxic fumes from rotting corpses to finally drive them out. The remaining members of a Russian doomsday cult, who had holed themselves in a cave for six months awaiting the end of the world, had persisted even as
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      Lock icon INCREDIBLE INDY VS MISSHAPEN SLUGGER
      645 23 AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL ONE is a former boxing champion who could literally floor his opponent with a single punch. The other is an award-winning actor whose most memorable roles have been as a space pilot and an archeologist. But looking at Mike Tyson
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        50 24 We continue to run deficits, and a larger share of our income goes to support this. Our attitude seems to be, 'Lord give us the strength to resist temptation, but not quite yet 7 Mr Brad Setser, a former US Treasury official, quoted in Tne New York Times
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        101 24 A MOTHER, who is accused of killing her son, was charged with murder in Tan Tock Seng Hospital yesterday morning. This was done in the presence of a field magistrate, who went down to the hospital. Kang Kah Li, 36, who is unemployed, was later transferred to the
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        11 24 10 minutes to put out the fire. pictures
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        84 24 LAS Vegas has not escaped the economic downturn in the United States. Latest figures by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority showed that gaming revenues at top casinos have dropped. Tliey fell 3 per cent in the first quarter compared to the same period last year.
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        103 24 THE China quake destroyed 300,000 hectares of cropland and left 12.5 million livestock and poultry dead in Sichuan province. But the massive losses are unlikely to trigger major food shortages or price hikes. Production would be stepped up in other provinces to make up for any shortfall
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        Lock icon SEAT BELTS TO BE COMPULSORY
        156 24 RUUE ON NEW MINIBUSES SOON THE government will soon make it compulsory for all new minibuses to be fitted with seat belts, Transport Minister Raymond Lim said yesterday. But the Land Transport Authority (LTA) will need another three to six months to study how to
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        Lock icon YANGON OPENS UP A BIT, TOLL 133,000
        197 24 MYANMAR'S ruling junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta yesterday as its toll of dead and missing soared above 133,000 people, making Cyclone Nargis one of the most devastating ever to hit Asia. The country has also been admitting
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        78 24 A woman in Romania, fed up with neighbours' gossip, went to a gynaecologist to prove is still a virgin .ai the*age pi 60. She (hen posted the results olhfet A 6 raagfrfirfukj iUal4fi jHfc' > tilMl iiYTt.iyt 11, >|M) i > lHi 'MM Ml'i f. rumours. She told local
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      132 15 Two weeks at #1 in Singapore and USA! TOP CRITICS AGREE! I IW Richard Cortitk "IT'S IRON MAN TO THE RESCUE!" "AN UNUSUALLY GOOD "SPECTACULAR!" "ENTERTAINING SUPERHERO PICTURE."' SbciNrtu Dork (Times Peter Travers AND FUN!" USA TODAY Claudia Puig "DOWNEY DELIVERS A BLAZING PERFORMANCE!" At ttir Movirs with Ebert &}Roeper
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      175 17 EUII ENG WAH CINEMAS f^ i- i, 71 ML T HOWE ALT H (MIC > Tftt'f l <V Ctirricr A v.ortvr 7tl** A/fwad \dhaw rhrrroj '^i 1 hff "Side's never alone..." J, UkA x f PG SHOWING NOW kt-HU» lil. unrrMfTMl-tZ- ~«♦.I r *>' H > 'U llt'r Iff I
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      244 18 I the new jpajßr THURSDAY MAN U \i CHELSEA Look out for our Champions League Final Special Noon Edition Our regular Sports Noon Editions will resume with Euro 2008 THE CONCORDE FAMILY GETAWAY PACKAGE rt t V 3DAYS 2NIGHTS STAY IN SUPERIOR ROOM SGD258NLTT INCLUSIVE OF BREAKFAST PACKAGE INCLUDES: 3
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  • OUR Sunday
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      899 25  -  Five Series made up of singers from past bands fires up the classics Brian Miller brian@sph.comsg WHAT would you give for a second shot at fame? Well, five guys I've known for too long have it down pat. "Everything," said Moses Vadham, grinning so much his
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      304 25  -  Yvonne Phoo tnp@sph.com.sg "ROMANCE only begins at 80", said Kirk Douglas on the Martha Stewart show. I'm 23, and I have to wait till 80 to find romance? Get real. The day Kirk went on TV, I was set to catch a preview of a
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      531 26  -  This Katong restaurant offers a nice selection of meats to be cooked on a hot stone, plus a portobello burger that's greasy but good Yeoh Wee Teck wceteck@sph.com.sg BEFORE we begin, let's get it out of the way: De Bali Stone Grill does not serve Balinese food.
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      36 26 De Bali Affair Stone Grill 91 East Coast Road (opposite Katong Mall) Tel: 6348 1211 Opens 11 am to 11 pm m V* WHO: Debbie Lim (left), 31, freelance translator Sing Siew Seem, 31, relocation professional
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    486 27 M Midi TENGKU MUSHADAD NTUC INCOME S. LEAGUE WHENEVER he can afford the time, Home United midfielder Tengku Mushadad would rent a boat at Changi Village with his friends and go boat fishing. The 23-year-old said: "Boat fishing is my favourite pastime. "My father introduced fishing to
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  • OUR SUNDAY
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      864 28 HE is the front-runner in the current season of American Idol, with only one other contestant to beat before he is crowned the champion. The judges love his voice. And the fans swoon over his boyish charm. But all that adoration couldn't save Idol hopeful
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      609 30  -  Santokh Singh santokh@sph.com.sg DEAR principals, please give yourselves a break. And in the process, give your teachers and other staff a break. More importandy, give your students a break. And, most importandy, give us parents a break. After all, that is why the Ministry
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      Lock icon Sailing off into the sunset... without puking
      511 30  -  By SM Ong smong @sph.com.sg I GET sentimental over the weirdest things. Like, say, missile gunboats known as MGBs for short, just call me Mr Softie. When I read that the Republic of Singapore Navy had decommissioned the MGB squadron in a sunset
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  • Festival
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      Lock icon GETTING BETTER
      1038 32 THERE is no doubt that the Singapore Airlines International Cup (SAIC) is the jewel in the crown of racing in Singapore and the region. From Day One, the race has seen the best of best in terms of world-renowned thoroughbreds, trainers and jockeys and the winners' list reads
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      Lock icon ROLL OF HONOUR
      477 33 SINGAPORE AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL CUP 2000: OUZO (Singapore) was confident of running a good race, but not of winning. But as I rode Ouzo onto the track, I told myself, 'I'm going to do this for Singapore.' My mum kept whooping, 'My son! My son!' She said it
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      626 34 Man Industry that retfes on many things to operate at Its Mi potential, there is one constant in all successful racing centres. It's not the trainers or jockeys. It's not even the quality of the thoroughbreds. It's the racetrack. Grass, sand, synthetic or dirt. If the track is
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      179 34 AFTER months of trials and consultations with various racing professionals, the Singapore Turf Club is set to replace the current fibresand surface at Kranji with Polytrack and work is expected to commence immediately after the SAIC. Several synthetic surfaces had undergone a battery of tests at
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      Lock icon NAPSHOT ANYONE?
      790 35 The four-legged ones... IT is said that only fools and horses run and that racing is a mugs' game. I reckon that line is attributed to some couch potato who doesn't know his foot from his navel. It's a mugs' game only if you want it to be.
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      Lock icon THE RIGHT REIN
      1184 36 The choice of rides can make or break a jockey... IN racing circles, when someone suggests that a Jockey has pulled the "wrong rein", the uninitiated may think literally mat the horse has gone left instead of right and the hapless hoop is to blame. But, more
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      Lock icon SHOW ME THE WINNER
      1206 37 fTS the time of year when just about everyone hat an opinion on who it going to win the $3 million Singapore Airtinet international Cup. With a maximum field of 16 looking likely to take part in the big race, its anyone's guess who will be
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      Lock icon STARTER'S U
      735 38 Meet Dale Jeffs, the man who will push that big red button in the Singapore Airlines International Cup IF Singapore Turf Club Chief Start Dale Jeffs had a dollar for every time someone told him "I could do that", he probably wouldn't ever need to work again. But
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE RACING
      658 39 IN years gone by, racing enthusiasts around the world were limited to what they could watch on any given day and it was no differenHn Singapore, with only races in the Republic and those across the Causeway being available for local consumption. But with a more sophisticated customer
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      Lock icon THE NEED FOR SPEED
      464 40 Welcome back $1 million KrisFlyer International Sprint... AFTER a five-year hiatus, the KrisFlyer International Sprint is back at KranjjL And while the $1 million international event over 1,200m is officially part of the undercard to the main event, the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup, whatever
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      253 41 OUR SUNDAY < V Meet The Fockers (i Channel 5,1 t (right) 5, 7.15pm Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CUA man Jack Byrnes and his wife, travel to Miami to meet Greg's parents, who are as different from them as can be. Starring
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      45 41 R.E.M The Next Generation IQds Cental 1130am This new drama series revolves around three sassy self-styled detectives Roxy, Elle and M who tackle criminals and solve mysteries with help from some erstwhile allies. Starring Ming Bridges, Jamie-Lee Frankland. OUR SUNDAY PAGES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 32
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      40 41 CABLE Breaking And Entering Star Movies (StarHub Ch 58), 9pm A landscape architect's dealings with a young thief and the latter's seamstress mother cause him to embark on an extra-marital affair and re-evaluate his life. Starring Jude Law, Juliette Binoche.
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      48 41 Brothers Celestial Movies (StarHub Ch 61), 9pm A pair of brothers who were separated at a young age at the insistence of their triad boss father are reunited because of a crisis over legitimising the family's illegal dealings. Starring Andy Lau, Eason Chan. Programmes are sudbject to change
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      45 41 Wish To See You Again E City (StarHub Ch 56), 7pm In this new Taiwanese idol drama, a novelist checks into a five-star hotel in search of creative inspiration only to find his first love and the meaning of life. Starring Vic Chou, Ken Chu.
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    422 42 OUR SUNDAY Getting married? Had a baby? Or just having a crusn? Maybe you want to thank someone? Whatever it is, we want to know. Send your pictures and messages to... tnpforum@ spn.com.sg To My Loving Wife-To-Be! For it took a very special maiden To warm this cold
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  • SUN RACING
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      Lock icon GRAY DOES THE CHA CHA CHA AT HOME
      634 44  -  Recuperating from surgery... Danny Khoo dkhoo@sph.com.sg TRAINER Stephen Gray was ordered to have complete rest by his doctor but that did not stop him from enjoying his three winners at Kranji yesterday. Watching the races from his Upper Bukit Tim ah home,
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S WATC (BELMONT) RESULTS
      544 44 GOING: GOOD 6 VERSTER 55 (137-25) LFUWrtwn 6) 1 11 VJUANTE 53.5 (266-51) 9 OUTSIDE INFLUENCE 53.5 (48-11) S O'DMMII (3) WPfka (11) 2 3 Trainer S Edwards. Mar|i«*: Nk, 2.25, nk. Time: 58.2 sec. EOB: $13. Forecast: $413. Place Forecast: $25 (Nos. 6-9). $54 (Nos.
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S SINGAPORE (LONG COURSE, E) RESULTS
      2058 44 GOING: GOOD Race 1 MS (LC) 1200m MMM Jockey Club Trophy 7 urn K COMK 53 (25-10) Fretftf (7) 1 1 1 (480) 8 SIXTH i IVBNE 53 (28-10) lUph (1) 8 7 2 (469) 1.5 13 PAUM TM 50 c 50.5 (159-29) >
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      97 45 s I II WM E9 fiEj!13£jjK 1 2Zmku &m 7 Auqust B6Zizou "IMi 3 Hello 3 Ihe 1 Jay 3 Richest Marc ffe3IHH Moon Clint |r RIUS jH Hornet Peg Gift Tai> JL 3 Chanq 1 Hadrian 20neninety- 12 Triple 5 My Royal 1 6FiqhtTo 2 6alius 2Temuiin
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      106 45 RACE 2: Lion City Hero, Coppola, The Firebird, Welcome Back, Rainera. RACE 3: Helium, Hello Gilmon, Zizou, White Magic, Smart Conqueror, Silent Account. RACE 4: Golden Flame, Paid My Way, Sea Of Tranquility. RACE 5: Crusoe, Breckeiiridge, Lim's Passion, My Royal Captain, Lim's Zerperb, Emperor Commands. RACE 6: Gamgee.
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      70 45 SAGITTARIUS (Race 5 No. 7 BEST BET A WIN today will be just reward for this former New Zealand-bred campaigner. Since resuming from a long break last month, the O'Reilly six-year-old has strung together three eye-catching placings, including a strong third to Waikato over the 1,200 m at his last
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S SINGAPORE TURF CLUB STIPES' REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
      794 45 RACE 1 S John, the rider of HAPPY HORSE, was fined $200 for negligence in that he failed to inform trainer S Burridge of his inability to claim his full allowance. Near the I,ooom, SCENIC DELIGHT brushed the running rail while being steadied
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      1829 46 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 fee. LMttn m HORSE wrt Rating Jockey Barrier (Afe/orlgln/tai, traiaar-ewaar) 1 *****3 lirMWHi 57 (53) M Airy* c4 12 (3rug S Gray-Big Valley) 2 ***** ZJaka 57 (52) T Affaatft* c4 10 (3wg S Burridge-C T)
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      2211 47 LARRY FOLEY'S COMMENTS FOR TODAY'S KRANJI RACES RACE 1 (1,400 m) 1 Bay Of Island Getting ever so close to overdue first win and 4kg claim might just do the trick. 2 Zinku Also has 4kg claimer and has looked good enough to
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      969 48 RACE 1 (1,000 m) Flying Colours (No. 5) showed good speed to go wire-to-wire on his debut over the 1,200 m and must have claims again. Hannah King Prawn (2) raced greenly when third at his debut and should be sharper. Debutant Hot Pepper (12) has
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      1164 48 GOING FORECAST: GOOD M. _JBHI ihm wm m '-T m PfY ASC 6 Boa 127 11 v KI Cl*ui(-5) 127 13 T~. MM. C W Wong(-3) 127 6 Ic lT M M Mums 127 4 DC MDoPtettrt 12S 7 TfiggM G Mosse 116 B
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      1475 49 $3 MILLION SINGAPORE AIRLINES INTERNATIONAL CUP Eight local horses will cross swords with eight foreign invaders in the $3 million Singapore Airlines International Cup tonight. The 2,000 m battle looks a thriller. TAN THEAN LOON previews the contenders •JAY PES (South Africa) 57kg M»y: A Marcus
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      788 51  -  Larry Foley npracing@sph.com.sg THEY say a fool and his money are soon parted trust me, I know! So when you do the form for the $1 million KrisFlyer International Sprint and one horse, Takeover Target, stands so far out it's not funny, you would imagine only an idiot would
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      Lock icon TORTURED SOUL
      731 52 Mad about golf IT SEEMS most sports produce every once in a while their own flawed genius those for whom a sublime talent was seemingly not nearly enough to keep them off the path of self-destruction. We can all think of a few names: George Best and Paul
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      553 53 S'porean overcomes bout of food poisoning to win by three LAM Chih Bing produced a gutsy performance to win the inaugural Mercedes-Benz Masters Indonesia at Emeralda Golf and Country Club yesterday. The Singaporean triumphed by three strokes from Angelo Que from the Philippines to complete a brilliant wire-to-wire
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      168 53 AP. Friday, shooting his second straight six-under 66 to take a three-stroke lead in the AT&T Classic in Atlanta. Georgia. Byrd (above), seeking his fourth win on the PGA Tour, shared the leadwith Kenny Penyr, soft and damp. and^^nersho^69s^ three-way tie for fbmSwith Charles Howell
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      142 53 Wire Services. HEAVY rain and flooding forced LPGA officials to scrap the second round of the Sybase Classic in New Jersey. No golfer managed to finish more man 15 holes before conditions became unplayable, so all results from Friday were scrapped. The event will be shortened
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      Lock icon Jude: The credibility is gone
      867 54  -  HOCKEYGATE IN INDIA AN EX-STAR TALKS Suresh Nair npsports@sph.com.sg HEY, Jude, what's wrong with Indian hockey? The former Indian skipper, now a Singapore Permanent Resident and staying at Hougang Avenue 4, shakes his head disappointingly several times, looks up at me and says: "I'm very,
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      1023 55  -  HOCKEYGATE IN INDIA Nagraj Gollapudi Special Correspondent ON 10 March, Indian hockey went into mourning. The country had gone down to Great Britan in the Olympic qualifiers in Santiago, Chile, and did not qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time in
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      Lock icon WHAT NEXT FOR INDIA?
      161 55 selection committee that comprises Ashok Kumar, Ajitpal Singh, Zafar Iqbal and Dhanraj PiDay. Ric Charlesworth, former Australian hockey captain and a legendary coach, was appointed adviser to the selection panel But ousted Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) chief K P S Gill's "talents" will be utilised when
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      Lock icon HIGHS & LOWS OF INDIAN HOCKEY
      421 55 HIGHS LOWS OF INDIAN HOCKEY THE HIGHS: Winners of eight men's hockey Olympic gold medals, six of them in successive Olympics from 1928 to 1956. Once the kings in world hockey, India are now not even among the top five teams in the world. Between 1924 and 1956, India won
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      694 56  -  Calling all sporty bosses! Do you have an active sporting lifestyle away from the office? Do you play one or more non-traditional sports? Or do you know of such a boss? Please email details to npsports@sph«com.sg The Sporty BOSSES Gary Lim npspofts@sph.com.sg TOM HAHL, one of the most
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      129 57 WHEN Tom Hahl came to Singapore In 1994, he was expecting to live here for only a year. There were two things on his mind: Bowling and business. He said: "I came here because there were many good bowling tournaments in Singapore which I could take
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      181 57 HE almost became a Singapore citizen but turned down the offer at the last minute. Tom Hahl's U-turn in 2002 came about after he found out that he could not compete in the Asian Games in Busan. Under the rules, he had to be a citizen for
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      775 58 Every Sunday in the Singapore at Large series, The New Paper profiles the Singapore sports scene with a national or grassroots perspective. Today/ LIM HAN MING checks out the local bodybuilding Scene which was recently in the news for all the wrong reasons THE doping issue in bodybuilding
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      Lock icon Can the dope issue be solved?
      242 59 IS DOPING here to stay? Singapore Athletic Association president Loh Lin Kok, who was a member of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) legal committee from 2001 to 2004, feels that the best way to eradicate the problem is through education, research and implementation. He
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      Lock icon Train smart for a better body
      455 59 JOYCE UM gets the views of some young bodybuilders on the recent wiping scandal in bodybuilding. w m HE won the flyweight (60kg) category at the National Junior Bodybuilding Championship in 2006. But recently, Muhammed Farhan has been feeling too embarrassed to be associated
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        503 60 DAVID LEE and The New Paper's football analyst TOHARIPAIJAN pick their own 2007/08 EPL Best XI MF: CRISTIANO RONALDO (MAN UTD) It is hard to think of something which hasn't already been said about the genius. He is that good. i MF: STEVEN GERRARD r (LIVERPOOL)
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        1182 61 JOYCE UM speaks to four footballbabes to get their views on the recently concluded tPL season and also their wishes and expections for the new season JOYCE: What do you think of the Premiership that ended last weekend? How do you think your favourite teams
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        391 62 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL: Man United v Chelsea (Moscow, Wednesday) PA Sport. BRING on the right substitute at the right time and you're hailed a genius. Failing which you risk being condemned as a brain-dead tactician. Avram Grant believes he has silenced the Blues boo-boys by mastering tactical
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        267 62 PA Sport. PATRICE Evra wants Manchester United to lift the Champions League trophy as a mark of respect to Sir Alex Ferguson (right). M I think a manager like him deserves to win the Champions League more than once," said the
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    • FA CUP
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          Lock icon POMPEY'S PRIDE
          141 63 John Utaka storms down the right flank and takes on Cardiff's Tony Capaldi. The Nigerian's trickery gives him a measure of space to whip in a stinging cross which Cardiff goalkeeper Peter Enckelman drops in a rare mistake. Nippy Nwankwo Kanu beats Roger Johnson to the rebound to
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          Lock icon Pompey party as worthy winners
          476 64 After winning only their second FA Cup, DAVID LEE and The New Paper's football analyst TOHARI PAIJAN analyse Portsmouth's impressive FA Cup run SO, there wasai to be oee final glaat-kllliag act for this season's FA Cap. Bat with so many upsets along the way
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          Lock icon MANCHESTER CITY GO DOWN IN BANGKOK
          250 64 NO problem for Manchester City to lose in Bangkok. These words came from the Premiership club's owner Thaksin Shinawatra after City suffered an embarrassing 3-1 defeat to the Thailand League All-Stars last night. "It's just a friendly match. This is not a protyleip for
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          460 65 Wire Services. AFTER spending his entire career trying in vain to gatecrash English football's grandest occasions, Harry Redknapp finally savoured success on the big stage yesterday. Redknapp has always felt his old school attitude and the unsubstantiated bung allegations that have dogged him for years
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          Lock icon Jones: Slight mistake cost us
          180 65 PA Sport CARDIFF boss Dave Jones said his side were undone by one small mistake. "A slight mistake cost us, we gave it everything we've got and we've done everyone proud," Jones said. "What we have done today is prove that maybe other teams can
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          Lock icon WHAT IF...?
          279 66 ...KANU had opened the scoring after 22 minutes? Isolated for the opening stages, the big Nigerian finally got some support up front and when he received a fine pass from Sulley Muntari, he danced around Glenn Loovens, zipped past Peter Enckelman and then poked his finish against the
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          Lock icon KING KANU
          706 67 CARDIFF 0 PORTSMOUTH 1 Your English Kaki salutes the d rea m -come-true victory of Portsmouth, ending a 69-year wait for FA Cup glory, thanks to a Nwankwo Kanu goal AFTER a wait of 69 years, Portsmouth finally lifted the FA Cup again after a tight, but composed
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          67 67 JAIN MACINTOSH-Your English Kaki who brings readers the latest on tne English Premier League can now be heard on 91.3FM during the Morning Show with Petrina and Joe, every Monday and Thursday morning, giving his latest updates on radio. His minute-long reports during the
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      118 67 SPORTSONTV Football: Spanish Primera Ligal Ch 22, 1.55am, tomorrow SEVILLA v ATHLETIC BILBAO Ch 21, 2.55am, tomorrow Football: Italia Serie A CATANIA v ROMA Delayed, Ch 5, 12.30am, tomorrow jT"!TOna[>T;Ta n Delayed, Ch 5, 2.30am, tomorrow Badminton: Thomas Cupl Ch 21, 7pm, today Golf: Irish Open Golf AT&T Classic Noon
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