The New Paper, 22 December 2008

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      Lock icon Overcoming The S'pore Synctrome
      915 2  -  wmam V'* W 3 v The Lions may have lost, but they&ndother S'pore an sportsmen have done us proud this year GODFREY ROBERT com IS THE defeat of the Lions bringing back thoughts of that malaise embarrassingly called The Singapore Syndrome? Well, pause a minute. Because
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      Lock icon Her rare illness, your extraordinary <U-1 m m ri £• Readers respond to our report with J\ll LvLX Lwdd gifts for muscular dystrophy girl
      948 4  - Her rare illness, your extraordinary &lt; U- 1 m m ri Readers respond to our report with J\ll LvLX Lwdd gifts for muscular dystrophy girl Readers respond to our report with gifts for muscular dystrophy girl REPORT: GENEVIEVE JIANG genevievOspti.com.sg ACTOR Chew Chor Meng has the same mus-cle-wasting illness as
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      Lock icon She ain't heavy, she's my sister
      446 5 Miss Sharon Sia, 26, is Jin Zhu's main caregiver. Her life revolves around her sister's. She wakes up at 6am daily to prepare food for the family and takes Jin Zhu to school. During lessons in primary school, Miss Sia would stand outside the
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      Lock icon Scientists still looking for cure
      399 5 MALAYSIA'S legendary striker Mokhtar Dahari went from Super Mokh, a superfit scorer, to a wasted shell of his former self because of this devastating disease. He died at age 37. Now actor Chew Chor Meng is making headlines, having revealed that he has been diagnosed
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      139 3 WHY LIONS FAILED/PAGE 50 icc/Complete Book-Keeping /re-NITEC in Electronics ApnRA |hh| (Computer Networking) |kL. Private Secretary's Diploma /re NITEC in Food Beverage l ■ffig Lcc/-Certiflcate Diploma in Operations Computerised Accounting NITEC in Business z.cc/-Diploma in Business Studies (Administration) dMC .1 ClluCltiy Administration EDEXCEL-BTEC Higher National Diploma Your Lifelong Learning LCC/-Diploma
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      183 4 MAD ABOUT VAMPIRES F ans watch Twilight up t0 16 times THE IN SI RAT J S 1 I MRS TODAY Bosan Hair loss? Oily scalp? Grey hair? Damaged hair? Male treatment for 44 days Solve Yni ir 4-Ib-1 Session $18 f Computerised Hair Scalp Hair Mask. Analysis. Herbal Regrowth
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    Lock icon BACK ON HIS FEET:
    57 6 Four years ago, Mr Gerard Fransis, 23 was told he might never walk again after he was paralysed in an accident. Yesterday, he played Santa Claus at the Singapore Federation of Chinese Clan Association's chanty dinner. Mr Fransis hopes that by Christmas, he can finally throw
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    Lock icon Government to moderate public transport costs
    255 6 PTC ASSESSMENT OF BUS TRAIN FARES WITH 2009 shaping up to be a "difficult year", the Government will try to moderate public transport costs next year, said Transport Minister Raymond Lim yesterday. The Public Transport Council (PTC) will continue to take economic conditions into
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    327 6 Local 1,000 more children to benefit from CDAC assistance UP TO 1,000 more needy children will benefit from tuition fee subsidies next year, when the Chinese Development Assistance Council (CDAQ increases its income eligibility criteria for its education programme. Families with a monthly income of $2,500 and below
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      55 6 CALVIN AND HOBBES BILLWATTERSON dommm monsters I i don't know, how can I now does 7jwr Tx*etim£s crwr;apnpr ML UNDER THE BED TONIGHT 100 Ttll WITHOUT U3OKIN6? K9CUY Jk UTTLt WO GETTING TtU. WIF 100 TVE.X ,Al wXXJT V/r\X« HWIED AND EWIN *IN£. «Wt HOKSVRS? I IAUGW. WEATHER V. fTP——P"
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      Lock icon BASHED FOR HER HANDPHONE
      531 7 Woman (above) hit and dragged at carpaxkby smen near Yishun home A YOUNG woman was attacked by five men in a Yishun Avenue 7 carpark last Thursday. And all they seemed to be after was her handphone. The 26-year-old employment agency worker, identified only as Miss
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      Lock icon BASHED FOR NOTHING
      449 9  -  S'pore student (left) and Mend injured in random attack near Boat Quay REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayongOsptuxxTLsg IT was sudden and vicious, and the blows came fast and furious. The two friends were so badly battered they could not recall the details of the attack by a group
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      Lock icon Attack leaves his brain bleeding
      250 9 HE was beaten so savagely that he suffered bleeding in his brain. Mr S Subramaniam's wife, who wanted to be known only as Marcella, said doctors told her that her husband might be suffering from a brain haemorrhage. "They found bleeding in his brain and
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      926 10  -  INSURANCE CLAIM #1: Man, 82, still waiting for traffic accident claim after a year. Insurer says case is complex REPORT: BENSON ANG bangOsphxonusg IT HAS been more than a year, but his traffic accident claim has not been settled. Retiree Leong Kim Hong, 82, broke his thigh
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      Lock icon Man gets travel insurance payoff after second try
      555 10  -  INSURANCE CLAIM #2: REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg WHY reject my claim, since my situation was the same? That was what Mr Teng Chee Hiong wanted to know when he read The New Paper on 11 Dec. That day, he discovered that insurers
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      119 11 JUG Although AlG's travel insurance usually does nol cover delays and cancellations caused by riots, it made exceptions for policyholders affected by the protests in Bangkok. Asked if this would apply to those stranded in Phuket, AIG spokesman Lim Lay See said it preferred to answer directly
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      71 8 Thai HIV girl, 4, asks any Caucasian man that comes to shelter: ARE YOU MY FATHER? I M I' M m M mM I ■nn Be The First To Know Breaking News SMSAIerb&gt;* j j i?" V y w Plate!? 9 a re sp^ en a na a r Score
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    Lock icon Indonesia counters mock attacks in 6 cities
    224 12 ANTI-TERRORISM DRILL AP. INDONESIAN security forces stormed airports, glitzy hotels, passenger ships and the Jakarta Stock Exchange building on Sunday in a massive anti-ter-rorism drill in the world's most populous Muslim nation. About 7,000 police, soldiers and emergency-response workers were taking part in
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    Lock icon IMF chief: 2009 could be worse than previously thought
    106 12 INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said insufficient fiscal stimulus by governments to tackle the global slowdown may make a bad 2009 even worse, according to an inter- view released yesterday. Mr Strauss-Kahn told BBC radio that the IMF may need
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    Lock icon New Thai cabinet starts work despite protest threat
    103 12 THAI premier Abhisit Vejjajiva's newly-unveiled cabinet set to work yesterday on building reconciliation and reviving the economy, despite the threat of protests over some appointments. Key ministers from the Democrat Party met to discuss policy matters before today's official swearing in ceremony
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    Lock icon Talebaxt warns of overthrow of beefed-up US troops
    116 12 AFGHANISTAN welcomed a US pledge to send up to 30,000 extra troops by mid-2009, but the Taleban warned the US yesterday its forces would be "cruelly defeated" as the Soviets were in the 1980s. The statement came one day after a top
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    Lock icon 38 injured in Boeing 737 crash
    102 12 THIRTY-eight passengers were injured when a Boeing 737 airliner went off a runway and caught firfe at Denver International Airport on Saturday night. None of the injuries were life-threatening, but the injured passengers were taken to area hospitals. There were 112 passengers and crew
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    47 12 Global CHRISTMAS UNDER THE SEA: A whale swims by on a sky screen in a shopping mall in Beijing's central business district. The sky screen is 58m long, 2m wide and 2m high and the viewing surface is clad entirely with LED modules. PICTURE/ AFP
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      112 12 DELBERT SCOTT ADAMS nil lil I DIDNT HAVE lIA WORKING AS A jf YOU TOLD mi. TIfAE TO CHANGE I SCAPEGOAT FOR ttY ttE LJOttEN REGIONAL OUT OF tAY WORK I DEPARTMENT. SOfAE- g LIKE f\EN IN WTB'I'HI-'W CLOTHES I DAY I HOPE TO BE A UNIFORM. WJLAIttLK SCAPEGOAT FOR
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      Lock icon Car falls from flyover, crushes food stall
      293 13 DRAMA CRASH IN KL THE dramatic accident led to death for one man and a lucky escape for four others. A businessman was driving on a flyover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when his car crashed through the railing and flew off the road.
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      Lock icon BN picks political heavyweight for by-election
      462 13 A FORMER legal eagle has been named as Barisan Nasional's candidate in next month's Kuala Terengganu by-election Mr Wan Ahmad Farid SaUeh has held important posts during his 13 years in politics, including his present deputy home Minister portfolio. The 46-year-old former syariah court
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      410 14 MUMBAI ATTACKS Survivors allege cops' instructions led hostages straight to gunmen GUESTS trapped in a Mumbai hotel seized by gunmen last month have told the BBC they were given instructions by police that may have led to more people dying. A survivor who had
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      Lock icon Italy's poor to get caviar this Xmas
      267 14 SOME homeless people in Italy will be savouring beluga caviar this Christmas, thanks to officials who seized 40kg of the contraband delicacy from smugglers. The caviar has been given to Italian charities to be served alongside the traditional foods they feed the poor
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      Lock icon Copperfield's helper slashed by giant fan
      429 15 MAGIC TRICK TURNS TRAGIC THE audience waited with bated breath for illusionist David Copperfield to walk through the spinning blades of a 4m-high industrial fan. But they soon found themselves watching a far more dramatic event. Before the magician had the chance to perform
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      Lock icon Hong Kong man dies metres away from hospital
      264 15 COULD his dad have been saved? That's the question that haunts Mr Yang, 36. His father, Mr Yang Dexiang, 56, died just metres away from the door of Caritas Medical Centre, in Hong Kong. And the younger Mr Yang claims that hospital
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      Lock icon After they get billion-dollar BAILOUT they give themselves billion-dollar BONUS
      560 16 IT posted its first loss in almost a decade last week. And the firm was forced to accept a £6.5 billion ($l4. billion) lifeline from the US government earlier this year. Nevertheless, investment bank Goldman Sachs announced last week that
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      Lock icon World's richest man cuts off granddaughter
      593 16 WHEN your grandfather is the world's richest man, you'd hardly expect to have to worry about paying the bills. Yet Miss Nicole Buffett, the dreadlocked granddaughter of the famously frugal Nebraska billionaire Warren Buffett, has no cable television or health insurance. The 32-year-old abstract
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      53 17 FREE LOADER: Our reader saw this boycrossing a flyover bridge from Tampines to Simei on 29 Nov with his mother. The boy had a Carrefour supermarket basket, which clearly did not belong to them, on his bicycle. -inail yom pirunvs to iiipclii k(&lt; r sf tli.com.sg FROM READER LIONEL
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      300 17 FROM READER HOE CHENG FONG BABY DIES FROM COMMON BACTERIAL INFECTION I refer to the report "Mum's infection kills baby" (The New Paper, 20 Dec). I can empathise with the pain and sorrow the parents are going through and it is incomprehensible how this could
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      91 17 1 Security measures are being stepped up in the Queenstown area because it is expected to be the first of 10 dedicated sites to house foreign workers. 2 More needy children will benefit from tuition fee subsidies next year when the Chinese Development Assistance
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      161 17 FROM READER SHI NURRUDA BTE JOHARI First of all, let me offer my condolences to Madam Norashikin and her husband on the loss of their baby boy, Rizal Idris. I know what they are going through because I, too, lost my baby boy, Mohd Syawal.
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    119 18 On foreign workers who have been abandoned by their employers: "It is sad to read of employers behaving in unacceptable and callous ways. If it were their family members, would they simply leave them to starve and without any means to survive? It doesn 't reflect well
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    47 18 Should children be taught financial literacy? "Yes. I feel that it should start from home first, with parents playing a key role. Lessons in school would also help too. I think it would help them appreciate the value of money better." -Asifa Sultana, 34, IT trainer
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    Lock icon One 'sweet' Sunday
    203 19  -  S'poregeta taste of home v v *rY- 5 »t: REPORT: GERMAINE UM gerfimOsph-contsg WHEN it comes to eye candy, there can never be too much of it At yesterday's One Sweet Sunday concert, fans were torn between Filipino lookers Jon Avila and Victor Basa. Domestic helper Josephine
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      54 19 22 Dec 2008 THE NEW PAPER 19 Show THE HEAT IS ON Fahrenheit raises V temperatures at its first I concert here PAGE 21 if m t V .^v r. x1 &lt; Jb 1 TNP DESIGN PRADIP TNP PICTURES KENNETH KOH. KUA CHEE SIONG KA CHING: Oprah makes a move
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    713 20 From PAGE 19 The crowd, made up mainly of Filipinos, started gathering yesterday at Fort Canning Park as early as 10am four hours before the stars were due to appear. And when they did, out came the cameras and handphones as a screaming crowd jostled to pose
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    514 21  -  Taiwanese boyband Fahrenheit fires up fans at S'pore Indoor Stadium REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg IT was a tale of two responses at Friday night's Fahrenheit concert On the floor, scores of screaming teenagers were on their feet the whole night, bouncing up and down like Energizer bunnies. But
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    538 22  -  SOME LETTER HIGHLIGHTS From Gill CURRENT POST: Postwoman Germaine Lim writes about Christmas shopping during the current economic downturn. Instead of splurging this year, she plans to make handmade gifts for her loved ones. What are your penny pinching tips for this festive season? Post your comments on www.tnppostwoman.com
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      Lock icon Power couple gives to charity
      174 23 Money matters even to stars. We cash in on the highs and lows of celebrity dough HOLLYWOOD actor WUI Smith and his actress wife Jada Pinkett Smith donated US$l3 million (sl.9m) to charitable causes last year including a hefty U*****300 to best pal Tom Cruise's
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      74 23 TALK show queen Oprah Winfrey (left) is reportedly house-hunting in Washington DC so she can be closer to Barack Obama. She is eyeing luxury estates in the area, tc easily facilitate possible consultations with the US president-elect. Her team is apparently eyeing a nine-bedroom
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      Lock icon Shopping sprees kept secret from hubby
      120 23 BRITISH actress Emma Thompson is forced to lie to her actor-husband Greg Wise when she buys new clothes because he hates her spending money on expensive designer items. As Wise is extremely frugal and only buys new underwear every five years, she has to
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      Lock icon Curvy Duffy is new face of Diet Coke
      93 23 POP singer Duffy has been picked to sell Diet Coke. The 24-year-old Welsh singer has landed a six-figure deal to star in a TV ad campaign for the drinks company, reported The Sun. She was apparently picked for her "raw and edgy"
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      Lock icon The world's biggest scam
      400 24  -  Investors lost billions from Bexnie MadofFs hedge fund LARRY com LAST week's big news was the discovery of the world's largest scam. Bernard Madoff ran a hedge fund which he has admitted was a giant Ponzi scheme. He says it lost $70 billion. A Ponzi scheme
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      293 24 THE Madoff Hedge Fund said it used a strategy that involves buying shares and selling stock options. It looks like a sure-thing and works like this: You get a premium of $2 per share for issuing an option that permits a counterparty to buy General Motors shares
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      947 36 SWEET SUCCESS: Revolte sprinting clear of Powerful Ruler and Classic Express (nearest to camera) in the S200.000 Stewards' Cup in Race 9 at Kranji yesterday and it's all smiles for the trainer-jockey partnership of Michael Clements and Barend Vorster (above). E2 E 3 RYM8 HORSE 56 (11
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      2328 37  -  REPORTS: DANNY KHOO dkhooOsph.com.sg THE $200,000 Stewards' Cup may have been the final Group race of the Kranji season but for Michael Clements it was by far the sweetest. Thanks to promising Revolte, the Zimbabwean handler was able to bag his first Group success of the season and
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      1556 38 RACEI EL GREY and CHYNA JADE were slow to begin. In the backstraight, HESTON got his head up when awkwardly placed on the heels of SPLTTVILLE. Approaching the I,ooom, EL GREY checked after he raced up onto the heels of JUMBO STRIKE. Passing
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      1206 39  -  LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg IF LAM Chih Bing nqeded any reminder that he's ready to win his first Asian Tour title, it came after the second round of the Volvo Masters of Asia on Friday. The 31-year-old Singaporean received an SMS from his Australian coach Andrew Welsford after
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      311 40 BOXING AP. OVERWHELMING favourite Nikolai Valuev ended any hope of Evander Holyfield winning a fifth heavyweight title on Saturday, but only just. The Russian, narrowly defended his WBA title by majority decision. The 46-year-old Holyfield started the fight brightly, moving around the ring to neutralise Valuev's long reach
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      592 40  -  LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg WHEN Andrew Welsford played golf with Lam Chih Bing for the first time, he had only three words to describe the Singaporean. "I saw him as an untapped raw talent," said Welsford in a phone interview with The New Paper from
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      716 42 PA Sport. Till: fashion capital of the world is going ga-ga over I )a\ id Beckliam. The England midfielder became the new No. 32 of AC Milan yesterday after being presented at the club's San Siro stadium in front of a crowd of journalists from around the world.
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      353 43 Wire Services. AIL eyes will be on David Beckham while the football superstar is in Milan but none more so than his wife Victoria. According to reports from Italy, the former Spice Girl has blocked her husband from having a one-on-one interview with
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      212 43 Reuters. BRAZILIAN Maicon scored twice to steer Inter-Milan to a 2-1 win at Siena on Saturday to claim their eighth consecutive league victory and ensure they have a comfortable lead ahead of Serie A's three-week winter break. The defender dinked in the winner seven minutes
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      242 43 SPANISH LA LIGA Reuters. REAL Madrid climbed to fifth with 29 points, ahead ofVUlarreal on goal difference, after an early strike from Gonzalo Higuain gave them a 1-0 home win over Valencia It was Juande Ramos's first league win since replacing Bernd Schuster as coach last
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    883 44 Sports EPL Betting TEAM FACTS; ARUN RAJ; BEST PICK It WHO'S HOT, WHO'S HOT: BRIAN MILLER MANCHESTER UNITED 1 (Rooney 73) LIGADE QUITO O WAYNE Rooney scored late in the second half last night to lead 10-man Manchester United to a 1-0 win over Ecuador's
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      356 45 AISHAH HAMZA talks to some of the Singapore fans who made Kallang roar last night "It's great to see such a good crowd tonight. But I thought the Lions were disappointing. How can they miss so many chances, and playing at home? Melvin Chua, 35, businessman "It's
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      467 46  -  ERNEST LUIS npsportsQsph.com.sg THERE were too many missed chances by the Lions at the National Stadium last night, to be presented here in these pages. In short, they threw away too many chances to score and allowed Vietnam to beat them, just once. They
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      406 47  -  GARY LIM npsportsOsph.com.sg FOR weeks, he had been waiting quietly at the sidelines, wondering when his chance would come. Last night, it finally did. Shahril Ishak, who had just recovered from a lung infection, grabbed it with both hands. It was the first time he started
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      651 48  -  GARY LIM k «i FINALLY, the Lions bared their fangs. Alas, they didn't bite. And Singapore paid the price for not taking their chances in front of goal. Playing before 48,411 spectators at the National Stadium last night, Vietnam stole an unlikely 1-0 victory to clinch a
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    173 49 SUZUKI rou fl' rt *°you CUP2OOB tay Champion Motor* "Vietnam played very well in the first leg, and they should have won that game. But tonight, we should have won. We had so many chances, that it was impossible that we couldn't win. We had enough chances
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