The New Paper, 22 January 2009, Afternoon Edition

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    14 1 the new paper 22 Jan 09 SPORTS NOON EDITION 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      54 1 ROW OVER ‘NEW FANDI’ PAGE 6 Khairul Nizam, 17, stars for ITE in SR Nathan Cup, but doubts raised over whether he’s eligible to play PICTURE:AP SO,SO LATE RomanPavlyuchenko(left)and JermainDefoescoreinlasttwo minutesofextratimetodeny Burnley PAGES58and60 ITALIANCUP:Interknock outholdersRoma PAGE52 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008 S’POREAN CHARGED IN SYDNEY HEROIN BUST: PAGE 2 Wife
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      Lock icon Now she wants to keep family in the dark too
      816 2/3  -  She was in the dark WifeofS’porean charged in Sydney heroin bust found out onlywhentoldbyfriend REPORTS: VIVIEN CHAN vivienc@sph.com.sg HERhusbandtravelledsofrequentlyonbusinessthat she no longer asked him where he was goingorhowlonghewouldbeaway. So when Lawrence Loh Yong Shun, 41, left Singapore around Christmas last
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      Lock icon S’POREANS CAUGHT WITH DRUGS OVERSEAS
      152 2/3 HONGKONG Two Singaporean men, aged 35 and 41, were arrested last December at the airport with 1kg of methamphetamines, also known as crack or Ice. Officers found the drugs concealed around their waists. The drugs had a market value of about HK$560,000 ($110,000). NEW ZEALAND
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      1003 4  -  TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL GEARED TO TREAT HEART ATTACKS ROUND THE CLOCK REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg MR LEE Sit Seng missed a long-planned trip to Egypt and is happy he lived to miss it. He was scheduled to leave Singapore last night
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      Lock icon Did ITE register him in time?
      952 6/7  -  ‘NEWFANDI’INSCHOOLSFOOTBALLROW Sing Keng Loon –SingKengLoon,newsroomintern HE has been touted as the “new Fandi Ahmad”, so it’s no wonder that Khairul Nizam (right), 17, is hot property in Singapore football. So hot that his new school, the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), didn’t waste any
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      Lock icon Minister: Fund will boost research efforts
      209 8 $48MFORS’PORE-MITALLIANCE THE Ministry of Education will put aside S$48 million to fund up to 100 research scholars from two local universities to carry out work at the Singa-pore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). Announcing this on Wednesday, Education Minister Ng Eng Hen said
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      Lock icon Economy may shrink up to 5 per cent in 2009
      101 8 THE Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) yesterday revised Singapore’s GDP growth forecast downwards to -5 to -2 per cent from previous estimates of -2 to 1 per cent. A 5-per cent slump this year would be the worst ever
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      Lock icon IE chairman: Form alliances to improve competitiveness
      84 8 SINGAPORE companies should band together to sharpen their competitiveness in the current credit crunch, said Mr Sunny Verghese, chairman of International Enterprise Singapore, yesterday. This would involve the “formation of strategic alliances which allow the pooling together of resources” an “especially relevant strategy
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      Lock icon Telcos criticise IDA’s proposals but users back them
      89 8 MOBILE telephone operators have panned parts of a proposal by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) that would limit the length of mobile phone and broadband contracts and potentially lower the fees for terminating a plan early. SingTel called the recommendations, “unwarranted”. “The
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      Lock icon COE tumbles to $200 for cars above 1,600cc
      101 8 CERTIFICATES of entitlement (COE) for cars above 1,600cc fell to just $200 yesterday from $3,089 previously. COE for cars up to 1,600cc closed at $2,693 half its previous value. The Open COE collapsed to a record low of $3,200. Demand for commercial
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      Lock icon FLIGHT OF FANCY:
      26 8 FLIGHTOFFANCY:Thisshiny “cranetree”intheSingapore Botanic Gardens is the work of pupils from Nanyang Primary school. The 9,999 paper cranes represent hope and longevity. PICTURE: NPARKS
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      Lock icon Would you give up seat for this man?
      881 10 / 11  -  We go on the trains to find out REPORT: TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg YOU have probably heard or seen instances of boorish behaviour on MRT trains: An elderly commuter needs a seat, but they are taken by people whoseemoblivioustotheperson’sneeds. But what if
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      Lock icon It taught her to‘think on her feet’
      584 12 / 13  -  International Baccalaureate programme helps ACSgrad become better speaker REPORT PICTURE: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg IMAGINEtakinganexambasedonmateri-alyouhaven’tevenseen.It may sound daunting, but this is what studentsatAnglo-ChineseSchool(Independ-ent)’s International Baccalaureate (IB) programmegothroughregularly. Oral assessments, where students are expectedtoanswer questions basedon unseen extracts, are part of the grading process in
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      Lock icon No more showroom so he parks bikes on street
      445 14  -  Owner converts shop to KTVlounge,vehicles left on sale outside eventhoughit’sillegal Pearly Tan Tan,newsroom intern MOTOCYCLISTS have been gritting their teeth each time they pass this stretch of Geylang Road. Reason: The sight of 30 motorcycles and motorised bicycles hogging parking lots
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      Lock icon ‘It was not like the same horse’
      482 15  -  HORSE OWNER SUES TRAINER FOR $1.35 MILLION. JOCKEY SAYS: REPORT:ARUL ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg HE RODE the horse to victory on 23 Sep, 2007. But when jockey Saimee Jumaat rode King And King again more than a month later, he was surprised that it
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      Lock icon Knife, arrest drama at Thieves’ Market
      275 16  -  REPORT: VEENA BHARWANI veenab@sph.com.sg ITWASasimplerequestthatturnedintoastandoff–an incident during which a knife was allegedly flashedatagovernmentofficer. Thedramaunfoldedinfrontofpassers-byandhawk-ers at the Sungei Road Thieves’ Market on Tuesday morning. It escalated to a chase in which the officer was threatened with a stick before the police arrived and subduedasuspectwhowasresistingarrest. According
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      17 17 WHATTHEFISH:This309kgfish,whichcosta Chinese restaurant owner 60,000 yuan (S$ 13,200), will be on therestaurant’smenuovertheChineseNewYearfestival. PICTURE: AFP
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      224 17 MALAYSIA HIT BY ECONOMIC CRUNCH AFP MALAYSIA is preparing a second economic stimulus package to fend off the threat of recession and is considering freezing the recruitment of foreign workers, reports said Wednesday. The stimulus package, which comes after a S$3 billion programme unveiled last
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      Lock icon Number of unemployed in the UK may have passed 2 million
      92 17 UK unemployment was 1.92 million between September and November, up 131,000 from the previous three months, the highest level since September 1997, reported the BBC. BBC. That does not include the tens of thousands of jobscutsinceNovember. The total number
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      Lock icon Indian prime minister undergoes angiography
      77 17 AFP INDIAN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, 76, has been declared fit to resume work after a series of medical tests for heart-related problems, his doctor said on Wednesday. “Theprimeministerunderwentcoronaryangiography along with a series of other tests,” Dr K S Reddy told reporters at the state-owned
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      88 17 AP THE Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission said in a statement that a district branch leader in the United Malays National Organization party would be charged in court Thursday for allegedly paying RM300 (S$125) to another party member to nominate him for a higher post.
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      413 18/19 LAST NIGHT US president wife dance and charm their way through 10 balls A SMALL kiss here, an arm around the waist there and a snuggle during a dance. Small gestures that had a big impact on Americans. PresidentBarackObama’sactionsatthemarathon 10 inaugural balls he attended with First
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      Lock icon ...so did the stars
      504 20 LAST NIGHT HOLLYWOOD unbuttoned Washington’s collar at President Barack Obama’s inauguration events yesterday, bringing a touch of levity and star power to a historic day. Beyonce crooned a classic to the new president, Wyclef Jean got a black-tie crowd to wave their tuxedo jackets in the
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      831 21 Obama will be busy with ailing economy, Iraq Guantanamo Bay military prison TODAY AP YESTERDAY’S 10 inaugural balls kept US President Barack Obama up into the early morning hours. Barely a few hours later, Mr Obama started his first day in office. He is faced with
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      554 22  -  Beijing native runs errands for buyers of her time slots REPORT: LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg MEET the woman who’s selling “the restofherlife”ontheInternet. Miss Chen Xiao, a 25-year-old Beijing native, started her unusual online business last month on auction website Taobao.com. Her online shop is aptly
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      Lock icon Substitute teacher goes on caning ‘spree’
      529 23 He allegedly hits more than 40 primary school pupils till cane breaks FRUSTRATED that his young charges would not keep quiet, a teacher in a Malaysian primary school allegedly went on a caning “spree”. His students claim that he hit them so hard he
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      Lock icon He stabs wife over suspected affair
      235 23 MAN WHO DUMPED DAUGHTER THE man who left his baby in a dustbin on Monday allegedly did so after coming across an SMS sent to his wife by another man. Although details of the SMS were unavailable, Harian Metro said it had made the
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      11 17 DILBERTSCOTTADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Showers High:32˚,Low:24˚ Jakarta:Showers High:30˚,Low:23˚ Bangkok:Fair High:32˚,Low:22˚ Manila:Showers High:32˚,Low:24˚
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      29 24 / 25 FROM READER KISHURE KUMAR IS THAT A BICYCLE? This shopping trolley was spotted in a parking bay reserved for bicycles by our reader. E-mail your pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      97 24 / 25 1 MR BARACKObama became the first African-American president of the US on Tuesday. In his much-awaited inauguration speech, he called on Americans to choose“hope overfear, unity of purpose over conflictanddiscord”. 2 THE health budget will go upbya “a fewhundred milliondollars”.Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan
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      318 24 / 25 FROM READER RAYMOND ANTHONY FERNANDO CARE FORAGED MENTALLY ILL IREFER to the report, “Woman’s body discovered due to foul smell, (The New Paper on Sunday, 18 Jan). I am deeply troubled by the spate of suicides among the elderly and the lack of
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      131 24 / 25 FROMREADER B LIOW AROUND 10.15pm on Sunday, some of us who had left our bicycles at Woodlands MRT station’sbicycleparkingzonewerepuzzledto find that they all had punctured tyres. My own bicycle had both front and rear tyres deflated and I found puncture marks on them. We
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      23 24 / 25 What do you hope to seeinthisyear’s Budget announcement? “Aloweringoftransport costs and perhaps an interim cut in the GST rate.” MsAngieNg, 29,civil servant
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      120 24 / 25 Comments on new US President Barack Obama: I think Obama might, in the end, surprise us all. For all his faults, of which there are many,he’s pragmatic in the pursuit of his ideology. Against the sharks lurking in the international waters of the world, like Iran and
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      59 24 / 25 YOUR VIEWS E-mail tnptalk@sph.com.sg or write to The New Paper, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 Forverification,we needthe writer’sfull name andcontact number (preferably a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By your submission, it is deemed that you have granted us the right to
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      125 24 / 25 Got a seasonal greeting or special message for someone close? Want to reach out to former colleagues, classmates? Send us your picture message: tnpforum@sph.com.sg thenewpaper 2nd-most read English paper daily (Nielsen Media Index ’08) Become Debt Free Now! CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELLING SERVICES •'Are you near or over the limit on
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      186 24 / 25 The new Paper Fall Out Boy Contest FALL out BOY 10 february 2009 SINGAPORE indoor STADIUM tickets SISTIC 6348 5555 www.sistic.com.sg FREE! Latest Fall Out Boy album 'Folie a Deux', when you buy a $98 ticket. While stocks last! Folie a Deux! Shared madness for two has never been madder
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      Lock icon HEY, ISN’T THAT...?
      1008 26 / 27  -  Christopher Lee FannWongaren’tthe onlyfamiliarfacesyou’ll see in their new movie REPORT: GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg EXTRAS usually receive little, if any, attention. Most of the time, an actor would count himself lucky that his minor role is even credited. Butnotthese“actors”inTheWeddingGame. Definitely not when they include local personalities like Team
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      668 28 / 29  -  We hope these stars will have better luck in the Year of the Ox, but inthemeantime, TANKEEYUN andCHARLENE CHUAfind out what went wrong for the nominees for the Si Bey Suay Award TAN KEE YUN,CHARLENE CHUA 1. Hady Mirza, singer, 28 Claim to F(l)ame: During the
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      Lock icon Their tragedies broke our hearts
      615 28 / 29  -  Whowerethe celebritiesthat madeyou go ‘Ohno’?CRYSTAL CHAN looks back on the nominees that made the list for Shocker of the Year CRYSTAL CHAN 1. Jimmy Nah, comedian, 39 Claim to F(l)ame: Better known as MC King, Jimmy died suddenly on 4 Jan last year, after being
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        Lock icon They fight hard to be funny
        535 30  -  HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg LIKE:It’snot“glorious,delightfulandtouching”as the production notes say, but it is entertainingly bitchy. The claws were out in the opening half. I half expected Zoe Tay to burst forth to battle Fann in the epic catfight we all have been waiting
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        Lock icon Karaoke-lite game is heavy on hot videos
        363 32  -  REPORT: BILLY TEO tnp@sph.com.sg LIPS,fortheXbox360gameconsole,iswhatmanywouldtermacasualgame.That is, it does not have anything to do with fightingaliens,monstersorterrorists. To play, simply pick up the two supplied microphones and just sing well, yell, screech or shout alongtovideoclips. Lips has an important feature shared by other consolekaraokegameslikeSingStarandDisneySingIt... Originalmusicvideos.
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        Lock icon Solid gaming rig that doesn’t break the bank
        235 32 GATEWAY, the computer company that is well-known for its black and white cattle-like logo, is making a comeback by unleashing a stylish gaming laptop. Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Acer, the Gateway P7804GFX laptop is designed for gamers who want a
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      188 28 / 29 Vote win WHO wins? You decide. The more votes you send in, the higher your chance of winning. Results will be published on 27 Jan. Firstprize:One night’s stayin the Clubroom at Furama Riverfront, with breakfast for two. Second prize: One Aramsa Spa voucher worth $300. Third prize: A Creative Zen
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      219 31 TV Show CHANNEL 5 Noon The Rachael Ray Show 1.00pm ThePriceIs Right 2.00 SimplyThe Best 2.30 DebbieTravis: Painted House 3.00 TradingSpouses 4.00 Heroes 5.00 TheEllenDeGeneres Show 6.00 EntertainmentTonight 6.30 ThePriceIs Right 7.30 Mr Bean 8.00 Don'tForget The Lyrics! Singapore 9.00 BeautyFiles 9.30 News5Tonight 10.00 AmericanIdol 11.00 GwenStefani Harajuku LoversLive CHANNEL8
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        Lock icon WILLIAM LOW’S GUIDE TO KRANJI TRACKWORK
        164 45  -  WILLIAM LOW’S YESTERDAY’S workouts by horses engaged tomorrow: RACE 1: Slow work: Horace, Happy Win, Bombardier (P Knuckey), Rena Cross, Music Star, Chilli, Knotwithme, Stone Crab (D Chee), Star Fish Rim. RACE 2: Slow work: Samurai Kid, Undisputed. RACE 3: Slow work: Gourmet Paradise,
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        301 45  -  Larry Foley dkhoo@sph.com.sg THE fairytale that was Noel Callow and Singapore racing has ended. The “King of Kranji”, as the Australian was often referred to, has withdrawn his application for an extension to his licence. While family commitment was cited as a reason for leaving, the 2007
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        211 45 CLASS 2 1,600m: Slow work: Diamond Dust, Protege, Lim’s Connection, El Sordo, Big Honour, Imperial Green. CLASS2 1,200m: MonkeyMan? ?41.9. Slow work: World Excellence, Amadeus Mozart (RFradd), Blade Liger, Beau Brummell. CLASS 3 1,400m: Slow work: Quiero Bailar (B Vorster), Forest Gold
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        601 45 RACE1-1600m(SC) MS 6.30 1 Horace TAffandi* (10) 59 2 NaughtyPrincess BWoodworth (13) 59 3 HappyWin EDaSilva (15) 58.5 4 Bombardier PKnuckey (3) 57.5 5 Sean JSaimee (6) 56.5 6 RenaCross BVorster (7) 55.5 7 SeventySeven SJohn (17) 55.5 8 MusicStar MEwe* (12) 55
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        387 46 NST MIGHTY THREE RING looks the pick of the three Class 3 newcomers entered for the Selangor Turf Club meeting starting in Kuala Lumpur next Monday. Racing as Three Rings back home, the four-year-old New Zea-land-bred gelding by O’Reilly out of Soltanto raced once at two
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        95 46 NST MALAYAN Racing Association chief stipendiary steward David McGillivray was attacked by two men on a motorcycle in Ipoh last Tuesday. The 54-year-old suffered a deep cut to his left forearm, after being hit with a heavy object, but is in stable condition after undergoing
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        171 46 NST MIGHTY TRIPLE ACE underlined his chances in the Class 3 event over 1,200m on Tuesday with a smart workout yesterday. The four-year-old gelding by Testa Rossa was kept on the bit to clock 42.5sec over 600m. He finished full of running on a track
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        278 46 GOING: GOOD Race1 Class4 1650m 8 DASHINGCHAMPION122(22-11) CKTong (3) 1 9 STAYYOUNG120(53-17) HWLai (8) 2 5 EVERGREEN125(19-6) CSoumillon (11) 3 4 STRIKINGMASCOT128(30-12) WCMarwing (2) 4 ?Trainer:BKNg.Margins:1,nk.Time:1min41.8sec.EOB:$11.Forecast:$41. PlaceForecast:$7(Nos.5-8),$19(Nos.5-9),$14(Nos.8-9). Tierce:$238.Trio:$42.Quartet:$1682. Race2 Class5 1650m 12 ZEROGRAVITY113(50-15) HWLai (8) 1 1 KINGOFFISH133(19-11) KCLeung (3) 2 2 SIRLAGO131(57-14) CSoumillon (10)
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        397 46 GOING: SOFT Race1 MaidenPlate 1000m 1 CHEERSCAPTAIN58(16-6) SCormack (16) 1 3 FLASHALONG58(21-6) MJByleveld (12) 2 8 ALPHARHYTHM58(47-18) AMgudlwa (3) 3 ?Trainer:DDrier.Margins:3,hd,0.5.Time:58.2sec.EOB:$15.Forecast:$32. Place Forecast: $10 (Nos. 1-3), $11 (Nos. 1-8), $20 (Nos. 3-8). Tierce: $315. Trio: $141 Course scratchings: Speed Warp, Noble Park, Dancing Eyes, Goldrun. Race2
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        592 47 MORNING LATEST AP JAPANESE sensation Ryo Ishikawa will make his PGA Tour debut at the Northern Trust Open on 19Febafteraccepting asponsor’sinvite. The 17-year-old, who has already risen to No. 60 in the world, will then play at the Transitions Championship at Innisbrook. But it is the
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        283 47 AP FANS of Seve Ballesteros will be happy to hear this. The Spanish golf great said yesterday that his test results following his first course of chemotherapy were “quite good”. “Fortunatelythe results were quite good,” the 51-year-old said in a statement posted on his website, adding
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        827 48/49  -  BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg ON an afternoon when the temperature in Melbourne threatened to hit boiling point, a Taiwanese journeyman, with boy-band looks and a racket which could sing, put on a show on the Rod Laver Arena. Oh, how the crowd gave him a standing
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        601 48/49 MORNING LATEST Reuters CHINA seized the initiative in the 2011 Asian Cup qualifying yesterday with a 6-1 thumping of Vietnam, while Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates secured comfortable wins to take early group leads. Rebounding from their shock early
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        217 48/49 Reuters THAILAND’S King’s Cup match against Lebanon descended into chaos yesterday when the Middle East side twice walked off the pitch in protest at foul play that prompted two on-field brawls. Team staff and stunned security guards twice had to enter the field
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        767 50/51  -  AISHAH HAMZA npsports@sph.com.sg THE EVIL Avengers may look every bit as menacing as their team name suggests when they put on their protective goggles and brandish their paintball guns (better known in the sport as markers). But the nine-man paintball team only gave themselves that name
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        501 50/51  -  AISHAH HAMZA FOR 18-year-old Fadzrul Sidek, the youngest member of the Evil Avengers, playing paintball regularly comes with a heavy price– literally. The recent ITE graduate has to fork out $85 for every three to fours hours of a single paintball session. This does not include
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        476 54  -  JOE MORRISON npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a presenter with the Football Channel AROUND this time of year at Newcastle, whenever I walked into the chief scout’s office, he would have a pile of video tapes on his desk. Not, you must understand, because his days were
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        261 54  -  NOT GETTING enough updates on the local youth sports scene? Come 4 Mar, MediaCorp will be broadcasting a weekly 30-minute prime-time show covering all 26 sports contested in the National School Sports Championship 2009, from the quarter-finals on. The 13-episode programme, which will air on
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        Lock icon Prestige not pounds still football’s key currency
        651 56  -  FRANK MALLEY PA Sport WHEREdoManchesterCitygofromhere?Where do they go after reachingforthestarsonlytoberejectedbyKaka? Wheredotheygoafterlandingina rightoldManchestermesswithRobinho going AWOL from their Tenerife trainingcamp? To lose one Brazilian may be regarded as unfortunate, to lose two in the space of a few hours might be deemed more than careless
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        Lock icon Ibrahimovic strike knocks out holders AS Roma
        317 52 MORNING LATEST Reuters ZLATAN Ibrahimovic put In-ter-Milan into the Italian Cup semi-finals when his controversial winner sealed a 2-1 victory over holders AS Roma at home this morning. The Sweden striker hooked in on 63 minutes after a close-range header from Walter Samuel,
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        Lock icon Valencia rally to beat Sevilla, Barca draw
        307 52 Wire Services JUAN Mata’s deflected late winner gave holders Valencia a 3-2 victory over 2007 winners Sevilla in the first leg of their King’s Cup quarter-final this morning. The Spain international picked up the ball in the penalty area in the 86th minute
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        714 58  -  BURNLEY 3 Blake (34), McCann (73), Rodriguez (88) TOTTENHAM 2 Pavlyuchenko (118), Defoe (120) (Tottenham qualify 6-4 on aggregate) MORNING LATEST IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg ONLY Tottenham could make such a simple task so ludicrously difficult. Only Tottenham could take a
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        Lock icon He will tinker, AGAIN
        735 55 OH NO, here we go again. We thought the phrase “squad rotation” has been put to rest at Anfield, but Rafa Benitez has resurrected it from the dead. The Liverpool manager has confirmed he is planning to rotate his team for Sunday’s FA Cup fourth-round encounter
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        432 55 PA Sport EVERTON boss David Moyes has promised Liverpool another hard time when the sides clash again in Sunday’s FA Cup fourth-round tie at Anfield. Everton extended their unbeaten run to seven matches with a typically belligerent performance and claimed a deserved 1-1 draw
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      Lock icon De Jong signs for Man City
      368 57 MORNING LATEST Wires Services MANCHESTER City have completed the signing of Holland international Nigel de Jong from Hamburg in a deal believed to be worth around £17 million ($35.5m). The 24-year-old has signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with the Eastlands club, after agreeing personal terms
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      Lock icon Redknapp hails Palacios
      401 57 HARRY Redknapp feels that new signing Wilson Palacios will bring a new dynamic to his Tottenham squad. The 24-year-old Honduran midfielder joined Tottenham Hotspur from Wigan in a deal believed to be worth around £14 million ($29.2m). Redknapp believes that Palacios (right) has the sort of no-non-sense
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        Lock icon Cudicini conundrum:
        87 57 CHELSEA goalkeeper Carlo Cudicini trained as normal with the Blues yesterday amid speculation he is the subject of a £1 million ($2.07m) bid from London rivals Tottenham. Spurs are understood to see the Italian goalkeeper as the solution to a weak area of their squad. However, they are
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        Lock icon Spurs shopping in Milan:
        98 57 TOTTENHAM Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp has been linked with a raid on the San Siro. Marco Materazzi’s agent claimed Tottenham had made a move for the defender, although Inter-Milan denied it. “ThereisinterestinEnglandandIcansay that Tottenham in recent days have expressed a real interest in Marco,” Claudio Vigorelli
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        Lock icon Arshavin pushing for exit:
        61 57 ANDREI Arshavin’s agent has indicated his client would be willing to buy out his contract atZenit St Petersburg. The Russian playmaker is frustrated with the ongoing saga surrounding his future. AfterclaimingZenitwereaskingfora“totallyunacceptable”fee,agentDennisLachter said:“Ifthesituationremainsunchangedwe will use Article 17 of the Fifa rules and buy out Andrei’s contract at
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        Lock icon Indian star for English trial
        138 57 Wire Services INDIAN striker Sunil Chhetri is set to become the third Indian player to head to Europe after being offered a trial by English Championship side Coventry City. Sunil’sfather,Kharga,confirmedthetrial. “HereceivedacallfromCoventryCityfor trials,”Chhetriseniorsaid. “He (Sunil) got a call on the 16th of this month after coming
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        107 59 FA CUP (4th rd) Saturday: DERBY v NOTTINGHAM FOREST Ch 24,3.55am HARTLEPOOL vWEST HAM Ch 24,8pm KETTERING TOWN v FULHAM Ch 24,10.55pm DONCASTER v ASTON VILLA Ch 23,10.55pm Sunday: MAN UTD v TOTTENHAM Ch 23,1am CARDIFF v ARSENAL Ch 23,9pm LIVERPOOL vEVERTON Ch 23,11.30pm Pool’sXabiAlonsoandEverton’sMikel Arteta (far right) will
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        Lock icon TENNIS/BLURB
        17 59 AUSTRALIAN OPEN Today: MEN’S/WOMEN’S 2ND RD Ch 24,8am 4.30pm Tomorrow: MEN’S/WOMEN’S 3RD RD Ch 24,8am 4.30pm
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        345 59 FOOTBALL: TWO Copa Del Rey quarter-finals will be played tonight, with Athletic Bilbao facing Sporting Gijon and Real Mallorca taking on Real Betis. Lazio will also play Torino in their Copa Italia quarter-final today. TENNIS: THE SECOND round of the Australian Open continues, with world No. 1 Rafael Nadal(below)taking
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        133 59 AFC Asian Cup Qualifiers SINGAPOREvJORDAN When: Wednesday Time: 7.30pm Venue: Singapore National Stadium Ticketing details: Grandstand $10, Gallery $6 (adult), $2 (student/senior citizen)* Only applicable for secondary school, ITE Junior College students with proof of valid concession passes; Senior Citizens must be 60 years and above as of2009
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      Lock icon SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR
      317 60 MORNING LATEST PA Sport BURNLEYheroRobbieBlakeadmit-ted to a feeling of “devastation” after Tottenham snatched a place in the League Cup final at the end of a dramatictie. Leading 4-1 from the first leg, it looked likely to be a regulation night for Spurs but Blake
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      Lock icon HOW THE DRAMA UNFOLDED AT TURF MOOR
      110 60 34th: Robbie Blake whips in a curling free-kick which beats Spurs goalkeeper Ben Alwick at his near post. (Spurs lead 4-2 on aggregate) 73rd: Blake sends a low cross to the far post, where a lurking Chris McCann side-foots the ball home. (Spurs
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