The New Paper, 14 June 2008

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    • 53 1 Don't miss the latest EURO Highlights in the noon edition GROUP C: ITALY 1 ROMANIA 1 Buffon's penalty save keeps Italy alive r .1 i"> HE SLAPPED HER SOH, THEH =3 4. «sflfc jm 6"' *1! «»-<< CUE vw ",-v i <T *J I <U 4* 4* r r_ ROAD
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    • 412 2  -  THIS MORNING: GROUP C ITALY 1 ROMANIA 1 Lim Han Ming npsports@sph.com.sg THE signs were ominous for Italy even before the ball was kicked. It was Friday the 13th in Zurich, where the Azzurri took on Romania in a do-or-die Group C encounter. To
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      • 475 3  -  YESTERDAY'S GAMES Brian Miller brian@sph.com.sg DON'T feel sorry for the Germans. Don't weep for them. The truth be told, they just weren't up to the mark. Beaten 2-1 by Croatia, the situation is now critical. They cannot afford to lose their last match against
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      • 480 4 WHEN Austria's Ivica Vastic fired the ball past Polish goalkeeper Artur Boruc in the penalty on Thursday, he added to a growing tally. That of goals scored by a player not bom in the country he is playing for. Vastic's goal was the eighth in
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  • 929 6  -  SEMBAWANG COFFEE SHOP BASHING Man slaps boy, 5, near coffee shop Confronted later, he tells mum before punching her face: SAT NEWS Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg THE man punched her in the eye and proceeded to pummel her
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    • 65 7 FIGHT OF THE FIRST LADIES V With brains and beauty, Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain (above) add style to their hubbies' presidential campaign Fast news 12 1800-733 4455 Website tnp.sg E-mail tnp@sph.com.sg Fax 6319 8266 Operations Desk 631 ST5544 Circulation Hotline 6388 3838 THE LAST TIME I SAW MY SON
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  • 697 10  -  VET MAN DEMANDS TO BE COMPENSATED Man claims manager's vehicle knocked into taxi in carpark sh nays Hedy Khoo hcdykhoo@sph.com.sg HE thought the man walking towards him wanted to let him have his parking lot. He even rolled down his window to thank him. So Mr
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  • SAT NEWS
    • 249 12 FEELING bad about not saving more money for your future? You are not alone. A survey by Zurich International Life, an insurance-based financial services provider, has found that high net-worth individuals also feel that they don't have enough money to start saving for their
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      74 12 Picture: LIANE WANBAO t These terracotta replicas travelled from China's XTan, through Shenzhen and Song Koag before arriving m Singapore. Bat barefy a week later, they were ruined allegedly by an unidentified man who was filmed kffMttg them (inset) in the earfy hours of Thursday morning, outside an
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    • 102 12 SINGAPORE'S retail sales increased at a faster-than-expected pace in April, as rising food and fuel prices boosted revenue at supermarkets and petrol stations. The retail sales index gained 7.5 per cent from a year earlier, after climbing 5.6 in March. This was above the
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    • 99 12 FEWER people joined the online queue for National Day Parade (NDP) tickets this year. Last year, there were close to half a million ballots for 54,000 tickets to watch the parade at the new floating platform in Marina Bay. This year, applications have fallen to
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    • 96 12 THE number of compressed natural gas vehicles are set to grow in Singapore, with at least four petrol-electric hybrids already on the market. Later this year, Toyota will introduce a new hybrid, the Lexus GS450h, followed by the hybrid Camry next year, The
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    • 106 12 THE number of childcare centres in Singapore serving healthier food to young children has doubled, with figures increasing from 111 centres in 2006 to 206 centres in 2007. These centres are now part of the Health Promotion Board's Healthy Eating in Child Care Centres' Programme,
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    • 102 12 THE Sengkang Sports and Recreation Centre will soon be ready to inject more life to the sleepy Sengkang West neighbourhood. The $48 million centre is expected to be handed over to the Singapore Sports Council in early luly, The Straits Times reported. The centre
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    • 78 12 Weather IJjJpS Thunder storms "!n*r High: 33" Low. HUE* marc /Col in Goh.com IfiA, PA/ I THINK I WANT TO 8E AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER' r THEY SAY THE AEROSPACE INPUSTRY IS BOOtfINO, BUT OOT NOT ENOU3H PEOPLE/ P s r< *1» LS AEROSPACE SOUNPS VERY CHEEM, LAIR, 6IRL-0IRL/ YOUR 0RAPES
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  • SAT NEWSWATCHER WORLD
    • 278 14 Wire services. MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday that he has agreed on a plan to pass the premiership to his deputy. Mr Abdullah had previously rejected calls from within the ruling United Malays National Organisation (Umno) to formalise
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    • 57 14 More than 1,000 opposition supporter* marched through Kuala Lumpur yesterday shouting slogans protesting the fuel price hike. Activists took to the streets after Friday pram demanding the government withdraw the fuel mice hike or resign. The protest ended peacefully after police prevented the protesters from
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    • 104 14 AP. MALAYSIA'S second largest mobile phone company has suspended an SMS contest offering new cars for winners after Islamic authorities warned it contained gambling. Celcom said it would suspend its "100 days, 100 cars" contest till Tuesday. The move came after the Malaysian Islamic Development
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    • 109 14 AP. A SLOWDOWN in the global economy over the next few quarters will likely tame oil prices, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday. "The slowdown in growth will influence oil prices" on the downside, managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said on
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    • 98 14 AFP. A PLAN to create an Asia-Pacific community by 2020 received a boost, with the Asean secretary-general supporting it yesterday. Dr Surin Pitsuwan praised Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan for a community including the US, China, japan and India, saying it was a natural next
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    • 95 14 Reuters. A NEW York congressman, who has been linked by tabloids to several high-profile, beautiful women, is one step closer to creating a special US work permit for foreign fashion models. Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner, a 43-year-old bachelor, has proposed legislation giving beauties their
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    • 107 14 AFP CHINA and Taiwan signed historic air travel agreements yesterday. On the second day of landmark talks in Beijing, aimed at easing tensions, the countries agreed to establish regular direct flights, finally ending stopovers in Hong Kong. The direct flights will begin on 4
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  • 658 16  -  Pilot trainee who died in Brunei during training given posthumous pilot's wings news Liew Hanqing hanqing@sph.com.sg HIS dream has come true but only in death. Friends and family of Clifton Lam Jia Hao, 20, a pilot trainee who died during jungle training in
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    • 753 18  -  Stallholders say building is too covered up, blocking ventilation and driving customers away Elysa Chen elysac@sph.com.sg Renovated Chinatown Complex Food Centre is Singapore's latest hotspot literally. Stallholders claim the humidity in the Smith Street centre is unbearable and blame the recent $20 million
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    • 193 18 IMPROVING ventilation was a key consideration during the upgrading, said the National Environment Agency (NEA), which oversaw the renovation of the martet and hawker centre. The NEA said since the centre reopened, stallholders and patrons have given feedback that overall ventilation in the centre has
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    • 664 20  -  Cheated: Man gives $1,600 to 'temple uncle', who disappears Zaihan Mohamed Yusof zaihan@sph.com.sg HE keeps two bank transfer slips one for $600 and another for $400 to remind him of his mistake. Mr Murali Krishna, 35, had thought that a trusted
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  • 802 22  -  Her flatmates were living with her corpse without knowing it news Crystal Chan crystalc@sph. com.sg FOR three days, students Kid Wu, 22, and Stella Pan, 21, did not know they were living with a corpse. They had detected a foul smell coming from
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    • 506 24 Boy is youngest M'sian to climb 421 m KL Tower... just before 4th birthday HE was not even 4. And he's just 94cm tall. But little Sahrul Nizam Mat Noor didn't find the 421m-tall KL Tower, which is about 2 l h
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    • 210 24 HE was just doing his job, but got a beating because of it. The reporter from Malaysian newspaper Sin Chew Daily went to the site of a fatal car accident in Sitiawan, Perak after a tip-off. There he found the Mercedes that had
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  • 371 26 She apologises for remark about Obama fist bump (left) SAT NEWS SHE took a jab at the Obamas for greeting each other by bumping fists. But now, Fox News presenter E D Hill has found herself kicked off the airwaves for her comment, reported
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  • 362 28 SAT NEWS Korean mum's aim: To save money Her work: Giving advice online She gets: Points she can trade for items ONE Korean mother with a 17-month-old daughter has not bought a diaper in her life. She instead barters parenting advice for points that she uses
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  • 430 30 sht neuis COULD the Chinese authorities have warned that a massive earthquake would strike Sichuan last month? According to a leading American seismologist, the answer is probably no. Dr Walter Mooney, the US Geological Survey's top expert on earthquakes in China said yesterday
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    • 779 32 Man U star Wayne Rooney weds fiancee in Italy 9 JUN: SUNNY WEDDING DAY 12 JUN: RAINY THE England star and his girl had spent £5 million 13.4m) on their dream wedding. What they could not buy was good weather. When Wayne Rooney and
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    • 396 34 Survivors of Chile plane crash say: THEY spent five days huddled together in sub-zero temperatures. And when the food ran out, the survivors of a plane crash in southern Chile started thinking of doing the unthinkable: Eating their dead pilot. Pilot Nelson
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    • 203 36  -  GOODBYE, PUSHCARTS From Sham Almushalyah IT is sad to read about the dilemma of those pushcart vendors in the report "Goodbye, pushcarts". I see the points from both parties the authorities and the vendors, but I feel that the vendors need the
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    • 179 36  -  ORNAMENTAL SWORDS From Sharon Chan Assistant director Central Nature Reserves National Parks Board WE refer to the letter, "Crossing swords with park users" (The New Paper, 12 Jun), and thank the writer for the feedback. We do not ban the use
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    • 92 36  -  speak From reader! Stanley Goh iley Goh, 29, civil servant "In order for Tiger Airways to stay competitive in the airline Industry, It should not impose any charges for check-in baggage. "Travellers like myself will definitely be discouraged from flying budget carriers. "The
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      64 36  -  From reader Muhd Haldi SEEN anything newsy or interesting? Snap a photo of it and e-mail it to tnpclick(g spti. com. sg with 'Click as your subject title Tell us a little about your snapshot. Who knows? Your picture might win a prize. Reader Muhd I la idi spotted
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    • 141 37 From Lisa Yes, Sheela, I agree with you. Ladies Nights are getting boring! Almost every club has the same thing and I get tired of clubbing now because there's really nothing new out there. I think a Men's Night is a novel idea. It would be
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      1082 38  -  No, not the US presidential candidates, but their wives, Michelle and Cindy, who are as different as... black and white Jeanmirie Tan jcanm@sph.com.sg BOTH possess beauty, brains and impeccable style, lending a welcome touch of flash on top of emotional support to their husbands' gruelling campaigns. Both are
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    • 731 39  -  Suze Orman Columnist tnpQsph.comsg IF getting the house you long for requires the appearance of a fairy godmother, an inheritance from out of the blue, a winning lottery ticket, or stretching your finances to the point that the dream is destined to become a nightmare,
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    • 626 58 Ranked beyond 600, Hicks and Streelman outshine big names w $r> AP. THE huge galleries which followed the dream trio of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Adam Scott in the opening round of the US Open were confident that they were tracking a first-round leader. They would
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    • 1064 59  -  GIRL: TALK Our series on ESPN STAR Sports presenters Georgina Chang npsports @sph. com.sg PARIS is a beautiful city with museums, cathedrals and really good wines. I especially enjoyed the cuisine which was flavourful with surprising textures and usually slathered in butter.
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      • 134 61 EUROOB fever is on. To engage our readers, The New Paper's Postman has created an EurooB poll on its blog tnppostman.com. Which goalkeeper has the safest pair of hands Holland's Edwin van der Sar, Czech Republic's Petr Cech or Poland's Artur Boruc? We also want you
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        639 62 THEY always say that you can never write off a host nation in an international tournament. It's a time-honoured maxim borne out by success stories like South Korea in 2002, Argentina in 1978 and, of course, England in 1966. Good sides who fed off the fervour of their fans to
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      • 856 63  -  GERMANY: WHAT WENT WRONG TV VIEW Ernest Luis npsports @sph. com.sg INCLUSION OF AWKWARD LEFT-BACK MARCELL JANSEN The 22-year-old Bayern Munich left-back is the newbie in the German back-line that was steeled so impressively at the 2006 World Cup. At club level, to accommodate him,
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      • 327 64 GERMAN coach Joachim Loew's decision to go for what is really a three-man attack caused a slight imbalance in his team's defence. Because Lukas Podolski was positioned on paper as a left midfielder as part of a 4-4-2 system, he was instructed to support Mario Gomez and
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      • 739 65  -  CROA TIA: WHA T WENT RIGHTi TV VIEW Ernest Luis npsports@sph.com.sg ITS LEFT-BACK While the world waxed lyrical over Germany's win over Poland earlier in the week, Croatia's right midfielder Darijo Sma and his right-back team-mate Vedran Corluka must have been watching avidly. In particular,
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      • 245 65 GOING into this game, we have to admit that Croatia coach Slaven Bilic was very much overshadowed by Germany's Joachim Loew. But his credibility was instantly elevated yesterday morning with his team's 2-1 win. Looking at the way Croatia attacked Germany's weakest
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      • 376 66 «i pw»j Im Sloven Bilic certainly rocked Germanyto f/ie core yesterday morning. The frontman ■JjffmtMvy-metal band Rawbau played the tournament favourites effortlessly with his spot-on tactics and substitutions ♦Vedran Corluka sends in a threatening cross from the right flank and Ivica Olic fouls Lehmann while challenging
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      • 397 67 Sources: Infostrada Sports, UEFA DON'T expect to see many happy faces as you go about tucking into your lunch. As about seven out of 10 punters had wagered good money on Germany beating Croatia yesterday morning I reckon few will have the stomach for anything.
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      • 382 67 Sources: Infostrada Sports, UEFA IT never rains. It pours. Ask any punter. Then again, maybe you shouldn't unless you fancy a string of expletives being flung back in your face. YOU see, for most of them who had sauntered into the betting shop hours earlier,
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      • BETTING
        • 462 68  -  SWEDEN v SPAIN GREECE v RUSSIA Gary Lim npsports@sph.com.sg AS EXPECTED, Spain got off to a flying start. And what a game it was by Luis Aragones' boys, who walloped Russia 4-1. David Villa gave many punters plenty to smile about with his
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        • 57 68 GARY SAYS: With technically-gifted players such as Xavi Hernandez, Torres and Villa, it will be difficult for the Swedes to get anything out of this game. Take Spain to win on the 1x2, and try 2-1 on the Exact Score, because experience tells me that Sweden
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        • 63 68 GARY SAYS: I always think that with Guus Hiddink as coach,the Russians are worth at least four points. My opinion hasn't changed despite the 4-1 thrashing by Spain. The Russians are going to get their first three points of the tournament by beating Greece tomorrow
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        • 416 69  -  THE FINK TANK Daniel Finkelstein Special Correspondent SWEDEN SPAIN (Sweden win 20 per cent, Draw 30 per cent, Spain win 50 per cent) SPAIN showed their class against Russia simply brushing them aside and putting to rest the always silly idea that they can't perform in
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        • 61 69 Spain's hat-trick hero David ML Picture: REUTERS Picture: REUTERS 1\2 i Odd/eveii score Hear Sttnm Mlv fT Dmr 2 times Bfetfu,- I lyd ii Wil« 9 uMK IHK 0 QMS {mk 6 ttmt i W V g 4' i. M. > [Tjyrr^B in RKz*' ti ■iLi|k|fl HHMiUrkb.dM
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        • 382 70  -  FROM THE GROUND Eric Ding npsports@sph.com.sg LAST evening, I went for a haircut and my stylist was telling me how easy it is to win money at this Euro08. "The 2004 European Championships was unbelievable as there were plenty of upsets and shocking results that
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        • 362 70 Best bet r Gary Lim Today: 6 Total hits: 24 Russia to win on the 1x2 ticket should cover your beer money. There's no sure thing in football, yet, this is as close as it can get. But if you're thinking of ordering a few more
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        • 397 71 MT Fernando Torres, that Blond Bomber, hasn't yet slipped into his scoring boots. He allowed David Villa to take centre-stage in the opening match. Now watch him strut his stuff in the Austrian town of Innsbruck. Watch him get his name on the scoresheet.
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        • 484 72 TEAM FACTS: LIM HAN MING; BEST PICK: BRIAN MILLER; HUM'S HOT, WHO'S NOT: BRIAN MILLER HOT It's hard pinpointing a single player who fits this "hot" category especially when this is a match between two teams who lost their opening games. But if anyone
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      • 551 73 GROUP D: GREECE v RUSSIA 2.35 AM TOMORROW AFP. FOUR years ago, Otto Rehhagel, the German disciplinarian who turned Greece into officially the best team in Europe, could have snapped his fingers and reserved himself a table at the best restaurants in the country. But the
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      • 476 73 COME OUT ATTACK Hiddink to Greece: Wire Services. OFFENSIVE football. That's the only way to go for both Greece and Russia when they meet in tomorrow morning's (Singapore time) do-or-die clash. Given Greece's notoriety for being defensive-minded, Russia coach Guus Hiddink has fired a salvo, as if trying to goad
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    • 455 74 Wire Services. HE MAY not possess the shooting prowess of Zlatan Ibrahimovic or the experience of Henrik Larsson, but that has not stopped Johan Elmander from being identified as a dangerman tonight. Spain coach Luis Aragones has named the striker, who came on as a substitute for
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      107 74 DAVID Villa is fast becoming No. 1 on die shopping lists of major European dubs this Euro08. British papers reported that Chelsea want the Valencia hotshot, while Spurs and Real Madrid are also interested. Team-mate Cesc Fabregas has also urged club manager Arsene Wenger to bring Villa
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    • 591 75 GROUP D: SWEDEN v SPAIN MIDNIGHT THE British newspapers are brimming with speculation about Luiz Felipe Scolari, but they could not care less about what he does with Portugal. All the talk is of the "blank cheque" that he has reportedly been promised by Roman
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    • 150 75 SPORTS TV SWEDEN v SPAIN Ch 30, 11.50pm, tonight GREECE v RUSSIA Ch 30, 2.35am, tomorrow SWITZERLAND v PORTUGAL Ch 30, 2.35am, Monday TURKEY v CZECH REPUBLIC Ch 30, 2.35am, Monday SINGAPORE v SAUDI ARABIA Ch 5 A Ch 23, 7.25pm, today SEMI-FINALS Ch 5, 2pm, today FINALS Ch 5,
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