The New Paper, 14 January 2009

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1 56 The New Paper
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    12 1 the new paper 14 Jan 09 wedthenewpaper 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      58 1 PSYCHO ATTACK ON MP Others mentally ill alone out there? PAGE 6 42" Plasma TV t for $250 or lower*? www.tatarah.com.sg r SINGAPORE’S LAST KAMPUNG And now, the end is TNP PICTURE: MOHD ISHAK Plans afoot to fully develop Lorong Buangkok kampung. Once just rumoured, now it’s concrete, says landowner
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      903 2/3  -  Ownergladthere’s something concrete about development plans REPORTS:DESMONDNG DESMOND NG desmondn@sph.com.sg TIME once stood still for Singapore’s sole surviving kampung. Now, the clock has started ticking, andthependulumlookslikeawrecker’sball. The Government’s plan to develop the kampung land will flatten the last 28 houses standing and erase
      TNP PICTURES: MOHD ISHAK; THE NEW PAPER, 19 AUG, 2007  -  903 words
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      Lock icon Kampung life can still live on
      379 4  -  REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg ASTHElastkampunginSingaporelooksset to bite the dust, Mr L T Toh, 62, can’thelpbutrememberhisownkampungdays. His family lived in the Wu Lin San (Boo LimCemetery)kampung. “Those days, to rent a house in the kampung was very cheap, something like $2 a month. “We
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      379 6/7  - Security less access? STREET TALK COMMENT:SM S M ONG smong@sph.com.sg A RESIDENT accosted an MP at a grassroots event because the resident wasapparently upset thathedidn’t get what he was there for. No,I’m nottalking about theman who set MP Seng Han Thong on fire last Sunday. I’mtalking about myself. I had
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      983 6/7  -  MP’sallegedattackerlivingalone. What about others in same boat? Alone and mentally ill: REPORT: NG TZE YONG tzeyong@sph.com.sg THEY called him Ah Pek, but no one really knew much about him. In the Yio Chu Kang HDB estate where he lived, Ong Kah Chua was a 70-year-old former
      PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO  -  983 words
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      14 8 SUNRISESTOOCCASION:SingerStefanieSunreceivingatokenof appeciationforservingasMercyRelief’sgoodwillambassadorforits rehabilitation efforts in Sichuan, China. PICTURE: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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      Lock icon NTUC FairPrice extending discount on house brands
      216 8 SUPERMARKETCHAINTOHELPS’POREANSCOPE TOHELPcustomersandsuppli-ers cope with the current economic downturn, NTUC FairPrice yesterday announced a range of initiatives to keep the basic necessitiesaffordable. Itsplans include: An extension of the 5 per cent discount on 500 house brand-items tillend ofthe year Doubling the range of budget
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      Lock icon MOH to step up hiring drive, 4,500 positions to be filled
      114 8 WITH 4,500 positions in the public health sector to be filled over the next two years, the Health Ministry will speed up its recruitment plans to help provide jobs to those who may be retrenched, said Health Minister Khaw
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      101 8 SINGAPORE is No 2 again as Hong Kong tops the ranking of the world’s freest economies for the 15th consecutive year. The Lion City scored 87.1 on the Index of Economic Freedom, which is published annually by The Wall Street
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      98 8 NURSE clinicians at SingHealth Polyclinics are taking over some duties from doctors, such as treating chronically ill patients. This is to free up doctors to deal with more serious cases in some polyclinics. The programme was rolled out in phases to SingHealth’snine polyclinicsmorethan
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      Lock icon GONE: Two years of her pay
      703 10/11  -  MOMofficergets9months’jail forCBTfortakingmaid’s$4,250 REPORT: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg THE $4,250 she earned in about two years was misappropriated by a Ministry of Manpower (MOM) officer in 2005. Indonesian domestic worker Sugiati, 30, has still not got her money back. Two months ago the officer, Jeffrey Lee
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      Lock icon Couple's $55,000 makes workers' fund possible
      270 10/11 THE Peace and Justice fund aims to provide welfare assistance to migrant victims who have been exploited and have to return home penniless. It was set up this month when an anonymous couple donated $55,000 on 31 Dec to the fund which is being
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      Lock icon Top national record? It wasn’t even her target
      417 12  -  O-level student only wanted to top school’sNormal Academic cohort Joanna Hor Peixin –JoannaHorPeixin,newsroom intern SHE was the top student at the GCE N-level examiniations in 2007. But some doubted the strength of that achievement. After all, 1,200 of her peers were allowed
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      321 13  -  Students aim to skip 372,000 times to raise $45,000 for needy REPORT: TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg ONE minute into her skipping routine, she started to get tired and breathless. But 10-year-old Kong Minji, a Korean student at Eunos Primary School, pushed herself to skip for another four
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        449 14  -  Many asked about financial aid REPORT: VEENA BHARWANI veenab@sph.com.sg HOW can I save money on my children’s school fees? What are the financial aid schemes or scholarships available to students at the tertiary level? You know the economic crunch is on everyone’s minds when unlike previous
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      153 15 TERROR SUSPECTS ON TRIAL AP SINGAPOREANterrorsuspectFajarTaslimactedascourierin2000betweenOsamabin LadenandtopJemaahIslamiyah operativeHambali. Thiswasrevealedathistrialina Jakartacourt. Heisontrialwithnineother terrorsuspectsforallegedlykillinga Christianschoolteacherand plottingtobombacafe. Taslim,35,whoworkedasan EnglishteacherinSumatra,is allegedlyamemberofa Singaporean cell which is believed to have plotted to hijack a plane in Bangkok in 2002 and crash it into the international airport there. Taslim allegedly
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      111 15 A MALAYSIAN religious court has sentenced a man and a woman to six strokes of the cane for drinking alcohol, said an New Straits Times report on Tuesday. Mohamad Nasir Mohamad, a 38-year-old father of four, and 22-year-old waitress Noorazah Baharuddin were
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      85 15 EXPORTS from China registered their biggest decline in a decade. Exports in December were down 2.8 per cent from the same time last year, a bigger decline than November’s2.2percentdrop,the China Daily said. The numbers indicate a serious trade slump that has causedawave
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      94 15 AFP THAI security forces are systematically torturing suspects in their fight against a deadly insurgency in the country's Muslim-majority south, a report by Amnesty International said yesterday. The rights group said it had found 34 cases of ill-treatment including beatings, people being buried up to their
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      Lock icon 6 CEOs in US companies let go in 8 days
      105 15 CHIEF executive officers (CEOs) at six major United States companies have lost their jobs in the last eight days, The Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Tuesday. Mr William Watkins, who was ousted on Monday at hard-drive maker
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      40 15 DELIBERATECRASH?:Aplane flown by American businessman Marcus Schrenker crashed in Florida on Sunday. According to news reports, the crash was an apparent attempt by Schrenker, whose financial management companies were under investigation, to fake his own death. PICTURE: AP
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      560 16 Onthetrailof‘economicterrorism’ MACHINEgunsandgrenadesarenotthe only weapons terrorists are usingtoattackIndia. AMalaysianresearcherhassaidthatPakistani terrorists are trying to destabilise the country by flooding it with counterfeit rupees,usingMalaysiaasatransitpointforthe funnymoney. Indian Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis senior researcher S K Saini told the New Straits Times that the transfer of fake
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      508 18 British adventurer in novel journey THERE are many ways to get from London to Timbuktu, such as by plane, train or automobile. However, British adventurer Neil Laughton has picked a much more novel wayto make the trip– by flyingacar. Today, the former special forces officer will begin
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      480 19 Outgoing US President Bush has fans in Israel, Lebanon and Africa WHEN he leaves office next week, US President George Bush will end his eight-year term as one of the most globally unpopular US presidents in history. But he can take heart that there will
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      301 19 WITH the US car industry on the brink of collapse, the Detroit Motor Show was meant tobe a“glitz-free” and “austere”affair. However, foreign car makers attending the major car show may not have gotten the memo. While US motor companies are slashing costs, cutting
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      374 20 LUXE TRAIN LAUNCHED IN INDIA DESPITE DOWNTURN SOMEONEmusthaveforgottentotelltour-ism officials in India that there is a major globaldownturninprogress. Because on Sunday, the RajasthanTourism Development Corporation (RTDC) launched a super luxury train called the Royal Rajasthan on Wheels, which has rooms costing up to US$2,000
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      13 15 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Cloudy High31˚,Low22˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High29˚,Low23˚ Bangkok:Cloudy High26˚,Low16˚ Manila:Cloudy High27˚,Low22˚
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      28 21 FROM READER SAIFUL HAIQAL WHAT’STHEUSUALPRICE? Items on sale are normally cheaper but not for this particular item, as our reader found out. E-mail your pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      151 21 1 A HEALTH Ministry survey reveals that eight in 10 people here support moves to change transplant laws to make more organs available, and punish organ traders more severely. Eight in 10 were in favour of the proposal of reimbursing living organ donors– but
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      221 21 FROM READER SYED M HAFIZ RESERVING TABLES I WOULD like to highlight an incident which happened to me and my family on 3 Jan at around 7.45pm. My family and I were looking for an empty table to have dinner upon reaching
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      183 21 FROM READER MOHD AMIRUDDIN BIN REDUAN IREFERtothearticle“Notrich,butthey spendthousandsonstrays”(TheNewPaper, 10 Jan). My heart really goes out to the cats, whoareputtosleepover“disturbance”and “nuisance”. I strongly believe and know that we, the human race, do not own this world. Animals have a role to
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      99 21 TANTY NAZLIANAH ROSLI, SENIOR EXECUTIVE, MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS SPORTS MARKETING GROUP, SINGAPORE SPORTS COUNCIL IREFERtoMrAndyWongMengKeong’s letter,“Timetofixsportscomplex’sfacilities?” (The New Paper, 12 Jan). I am pleased to let Mr Wong know that as partofSingaporeSportsCouncil’s(SSC) ongoing cyclical maintenance to refurbish its existing sports facilities, St Wilfrid Sports Complex is
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      79 22 Should drivers give way to those who cut queues at Woodlands Checkpoint? “Fear oflosing out makes us refuse to give way, lest we be taken for fools. We also fear being honked at by those behind us for beinggracious.” Eagle2004 “ICAshould have a U-turn at the end
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      37 22 Should there be a MinistryofWomen’s Affairs in Singapore? “It’sagood idea asit’llhelp strengthen what is in place to ensure gender equality andpromote women’s rights. But I think it would take some time before this becomesapriority.” MichelleNg,30, secretary
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      29 23 They have shown you their unique take on the biggest movies for the best part of a decade. Now, our infographics journalists (below) pick what to
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      697 24/25 Three of our infographics journalists each pick three movies to look out for in 2009 SIMON ANG KELVIN CHAN JONATHAN ROBERTS SIMON’S PICKS UP Release date: 4 Jun Director: Pete Docter Voice talent: Edward Asner Reasons to see: All it took was one lofty, whimsical trailer to
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        240 26 BRAD Pitt and Angelina Jolie went home empty-handed at the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Butitdoesn’t meantheyweren’t the centre of attention at the post-show parties at the Sunset Tower in Beverly Hills. Jolie still looked stunning despite wearing a rather drab silver
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      465 27  -  COMMENT MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg SAD.Andthat’sthemostpolitewordIcanthinkoftodescribethe“specialthree-minutecapsule”forThe Little Nyonya that was shown on Channel 8 onSundaynight. Itwas,simplyput,aninsulttotheintelligenceofthe commonfolks,likemyself. Granted, it was not billed as an alternative ending. And logically speaking, how much can anyone expect from a brief interlude which took a mere morning to film? Yet, one
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        513 28  -  Have we lost our tropical touch to bowl over visitors with our nightlife? MINDY TAN tnp@sph.com.sg IRODE on the Putra Light Rail Transit in Kuala Lumpur last week in a cabin splattered with a full-blown “Party in Singapore” marketing campaign. There were pictures of the Merlion and Clarke
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      310 29 CHANNEL 5 Noon The Rachael Ray Show 1.00pm The Price Is Right 2.00 Football Asia Show 2008 2.30 Debbie Travis: Painted House 3.00 Volvo Ocean Race 4.00 Kyle XY 5.00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 6.00 Entertainment Tonight 6.30 The Price Is Right 7.30 America’sFunniest Home Videos 8.00 America’sGotTalent 9.30 News
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      151 29 PICTURE:COURTESYOF FOX WATCH’EM American Idol 8 (above) Star World, 6pm, repeat at 8pm Channel 5,10pm TV’sbiggestrealityshow shakes things up for its eighth season with a new judge, Kara DioGuardi, and atwo-hour premiere. The Secret Of CooCoo Island Mei Ah Drama Channel (SingTel mio TV Ch 73), 9.30pm In this new
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      4 29 ARGYLE SWEATER SCOTT HILLBURN
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        653 40 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK LAST-START winner Fantastic Owners is maintaining form. The Brian Dean-trained five-year-old Australian-bred impressed over 600m on the Polytrack in 35.6sec with winning-jockey Mark Gallagher astride at Kranji yesterday morning The going was good. At his last start on 21 Dec, Fantastic Owners scored a
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        226 40 SINGAPORE THREE-YEAR-OLD SPRINT 1,200m: Daring Shani 42.6. DaringKnight? ?canter/37.4. Monday: Rocket Man? (R Fradd) 35.9. OPEN BENCHMARK 83 1,400m: Huat Chai (J Saimee) 36.9. Quiero Bailar (B Vorster) 35.3. Deefour35.4. CLASS 3 2,000m: Zoid 35.3. Tobias? (M Cahill) 43.1/36. Twice Regal? 37.2. Go
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        591 41 GERMAINEMAHARAJ’SCOMMENTSFORTODAY’SSCOTTSVILLERACES RACE1 (1,600m) Celtics Clash (No. 8) has been placed in all but her first of six runs and looks as if she should cake-walk this. Slick Chick (3) is improving with every run and will be right there at the finish. Stardom (13) showed
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        522 41 GOING FORECAST: GOOD 6.50Race1 MaidenPlate(F&M)-1600M 1 KEYOFLUCK ISturgeon (4) 58 2 HAVENOREGRETS COrffer (2) 58 3 SLICKCHICK JSamuel (10) 58 4 SUNNYDAY SCormack (1) 58 5 FARINA MByleveld (12) 58 6 LARA'SGEM AForbes (5) 58 7 SOCIETYGIRL RDanielson (14) 58 8 CELTICSCLASH RHill (8)
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        208 41 Trial 1 (test): 1 Pleasing Ledger (P Knuckey) 2 Vegas Prince (A John) 3 Royal Suit (M Cahill) 4 Icy Domain (R Fradd) 5 Fortune Warrior (B Tai) 6 Triple Your Luck (M Razali) 7 Grey Goose (D Beasley) 8 Divest (M Gallagher). Marginsandtime: Hd, 11/4,1/2,
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        923 42 RACE 1 (1,000m) King Creole (No. 1) has been threatening to greet the judge, with a second and a third over this course at his last two runs, and should enjoy a dream trip from gate four. He looks hard to beat. Silver Wraith
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        651 42  -  GOING FORECAST: GOOD Tips and comments by Philip Woo courtesy of The Hong Kong Jockey Club RACE1 CLASS5 1000M TIME:7:15 Stakes:HK$485,000(Qtt) NO. HORSENAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 KINGCREOLE KWL DWhyte 133 4 2 HAPPYSUNDAY ALe GMosse 131 7 3 OPTICKING BKN CKTong(-5)
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        419 43 SINGAPORE’S top amateur Quincy Quek was pleased with his opening-day performance at the Asian Tour’s Qualifying School event in Thailand yesterday. With five birdies against two bogeys and a double-bogey, Quek shot a one-under 71 at Rayong Green Valley Country Club to lie in
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        197 43  -  GODFREY ROBERT HE’Sonly13. And already he will represent Singapore in a major golf match. Marc Ong, a student of Singapore Sports School, is among 10 golfers selected for the Singapore Golf Association versus Beijing Golf Association annual game at the Palm course of Raffles Country Club starting
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        85 43 AP IAN Poulter has pulled out of this week’sAbuDhabiGolfChampionship in order to undergo corrective eye surgery. “Ihavebeenhavingaproblemwith my vision in poor light, and my doctors have advised me that I should have this surgery as soon as possible to prevent furtherdeterioration,”theEnglishgolfer (above) said in a statement. “Iamrelievedthattheproblemcan be
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        150 43 FELDMAN Tan was the best Singapore finisher after the first day of the 2009 Mission Hills Asia Pacific Open Amateur golf championship in China yesterday. At the Jack Nicklaus Course in Mission Hills, Tan shot a 76 to be in 19th position. TheleaderisJapan’sItoShingoon 70. This APGC
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        772 44/45  -  This week, we speak to parents who spare no expenses to support their children’skartingaspirations CHERYL TAY npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a freelancer. HE ASPIRES to be a Formula One driver one day. It is anybody’s guess if Suriya Bala Kerisnan Thevar, 16, will achieve his dream, but
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        239 44/45  -  CHERYL TAY MOST boys their age are preoccupied with computer games. But there is just one thing which can get 13-year-olds Liam Gout and Ross Philipp allexcited karting. Both boys are foreigners Liam is Australian while Ross is German-South-Afri-can but they have been representing Singapore in karting
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        634 46  -  Singapore play Iran in Teheran tonight in their opening Asian Cup qualifying campaign. GARY LIM asks the Lions the questions uppermost on the Singapore fans’minds GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg HOW much about the Asian Cup Qualifiers is about making amends for the Suzuki Cup
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        533 47 EPL: Saturday: Arsenal 1 Bolton 0 Aston Villa 2 WBA1 Everton 2 Hull City 0 M’brough1 Sunderland1 Newcastle 2 West Ham 2 Stoke City 0 Liverpool 0 Sunday: Man Utd 3 Chelsea 0 Wigan 1 Tottenham 0 Saturday (17 Jan): Blackburn v Newcastle Bolton v Man Utd Chelsea v
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        674 48  -  Few collect on United’s3-0‘upset’ BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg I UNDERSTAND there was free booze in the pub on Sunday night. Pity, it wasn’t the one which I frequent. I could have done with a freebie or two. Anyway, I asked the guy what the celebration was
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        395 49  -  MAN UNITED vWIGAN (Man United 3 Wigan 0) JONATHAN TURNER PA Sport AFTER Sunday’s impressive 3-0 win over ti-tle-rivals Chelsea, Manchester United now have the chance to move to the top of the pile this week. They’ve two games in hand on all their main
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        330 49 AFP LET’Saimforthetop. Wayne Rooney has urged reigning champions Manchester United to take full advantage of their games in hand and leave themselves looking down on the rest of the Premier League once again. United can hit the top of the table, for a brief spell
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        263 49 PA Sport WIGAN manager Steve Bruce has warned his Premier League counterparts that no one wins in a psychological battle with Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson. On Friday, Liverpool’s Rafael Benitez launched into a stinging attack on their arch-rivals in the north-west, alleging
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        648 50  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg PUNTERS are dead certain of one thing. Chelsea will crush Southend in their FA Cup replay at Roots Hall. “If they lose,” said one smart aleck, “then they deserve to be buried alive. All of them. One on top of the other with (Luiz
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        937 51  -  IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg Iain Macintosh will also be travelling to Southend. Look out for his match report tomorrow. AFP SIX MONTHS ago, who could have believed that Chelsea would see tonight’s trip to Southend as anything other than a formality? For just a
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        246 52/53 Wire Services CRISTIANO Ronaldo won the Fifa World Player of the Year award to complete a clean sweep of football’s top individual honors for 2008. “It is an overwhelming moment, a veryspecialmomentinmylife,”Ronaldo said in his acceptance speech on Monday. “I would like to say to my mother and
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        397 52/53 Reuters THE BEST IN THE WORLD WITH his clever step-overs, fast footwork with both feet and good heading ability, Ronaldo has scored 102 goals for Manchester United in 264 matches for the club. STAND-OUT SEASON THE WINGER enjoyed a highly successful 2007-08 season, scoring 42 goals in all
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        598 52/53  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg SO THAT’S the World Player of the Year, the Ballon D’Or, the PFA Player of the Year, the Football Writers Footballer of the Year, the European Golden Shoe and something called the FIFPro Award. It seems that the only thing
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      365 54 PA Sport JOSE Mourinho has criticised the Chelsea display in their 3-0 capitulation at Manchester United on Sunday. The Blues crashed to defeat at Old Trafford, heaping pressure on under-fire manager Luiz Felipe Scolari and casting doubts over their title bid. Mourinho, who is now
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        74 55 FA CUP (REPLAY) Tomorrow: SOUTHEND v CHELSEA Ch 24,4.05am EPL Tomorrow: MAN UTDvWIGAN Ch 27,3.40am Can Dimitar Berbatov (right) score for Man Utd against Wigan tomorrow morning? *Programme times subject to change EPL Saturday: BOLTON v MAN UTD Ch 27,10.55pm CHELSEA v STOKE CITY Ch 22,10.55pm BLACKBURN v NEWCASTLE
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        438 55 OCBC CYCLE SINGAPORE RIDE FOR CHARITY When: Saturday 17 Jan Time:9am– Noon Venue: Kit Runners 1018 East Coast Parkway #01 -01E (facing beach), behind Long Beach Sea Food, Car Park C-3 Hotline number: +65 6377 5322/5323 AFC ASIAN CUP QUALIFIERS: IRAN v SINGAPORE When: Tomorrow Time: 7.30pm (Singapore
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