The New Paper, 27 January 2009

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    • 50 1 S’PORE COUNSELLORS: We’re seeing more same-sex relationship problems PAGE 8 Only English paper available today S’PORE-BASED STUDENT PILOT SURVIVES PLANE CRASH IN JOHOR TRAPPED Plane wreckage balances dangerously on tree in jungle Nightfall forces rescuers to halt operations spend night with him PAGE 2 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008 FILE
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  • News
    • 614 2  -  Student pilot who crashed in Johoris part of Elite Flying Club REPORT: TAN MAE LYNN maelynn@sph.com.sg HISlightaircraftispercheddangerouslyinatreeinajungleafterhisplanedroppedfromtheskyyesterdaymorning. But at press time, rescuers said they are not freeing himyetbecauseofbadweatherandnightfall. So student pilot Sanjay Purosottam, 40, would have spent last night trapped in the
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    • 568 3  - Flyer’s spinning again look what’s on board Operations restart on 1st day of Ox Year with back-up drives, emergency stash REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg IT’Sspinningatlastandthecrowdsareback.AT11.18pmonSunday,thelastnightoftheYearoftheRat,theSingaporeFlyergotthegreenlightfrom theauthoritiesto“fly”again. TheFlyer’smanagementreleasedthenewsatonce. Andby3pmyesterdayafternoon,thefirstdayofthe Year of the Ox, more than 1,000 people had flocked to the Flyer for the experience of floating serenely in a
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    • 760 4 / 5  -  PM Lee: If recession lingers and the Govt needs to do more, it can do more REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg THIS recent cartoon (right) in Lianhe Zaobao, on the Budget unveiled last week, caught the Prime Minister Lee HsienLoong’seye. The
      LIANHE ZAOBAO ILLUSTRATION; TNP PICTURES: FRANCIS LEE  -  760 words
    • 550 4 / 5  -  REPORT: TAN MAY PING mayping.com.sg HELPING businesses survive the sharp downturn and savingjobsformedthethrustofthisyear’sBudget. But to the man in the street, cash in hand is what matters. This emerged from a random poll of 200 Singaporeans conducted by The New Paper over the weekend.
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 4 / 5 PM,HOW’SYOURMUM?:One oftheworkers atGSK hadapersonal question for PM Lee. Mr Bahari Kitan (right), 53, a logistics technician, wanted to know howthe PM’smother, Mrs LeeKuan Yew,was doing.SaidMr Bahari: “Ithought that since this is the first day of the Chinese New Year, we miss those whom we loveifthey are not withus.
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    • 546 6 / 7  -  Pricesdidn’tfallaftermidnight onCNY,soChinatownshoppers played the waiting game REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg AT THE stroke of midnight, which ushered in the Year of the Ox, there was much anticipation in Chinatown that prices for Chinese New Year goodies will drop. Traditionally, that is usually what happens.
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    • 522 8 / 9  -  Counsellors say arguments over gender roles common among same-sex couples REPORT: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg THEY have little support in the wider community. So, more people in same-sex relationships are seeking help from professional counsellors. This is the observation of five counsellors interviewed by
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    • 488 8 / 9 MORE parents are seeking counselling to come to termswith theirchildren’shomosexual tendencies. Psychologist Daniel Koh saw three such cases of parents last year, which is more than the number he saw two years ago. He told The New Paper of a case involving parents
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    • 276 8 / 9 SAME-SEX couples, like heterosexual couples, seek affection, comfort and fulfilling relationships, says American family therapist Dr David E Greenan. Both face similar problems, such as difficulties in having their emotional needs understood and met. Dr Greenan, 55, conducted a workshop in Singapore last
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      796 12/13  -  Our team visits the Indonesian suburb where US President Barack Obama spent part of his childhood Asian link ZUBAIDAH NAZEER zubaidah@sph.com.sg MOHD ISHAK SAMON ishak@sph.com.sg GENDUTlovedhiskeropok.Heevenwonakero-pokeatingcontest.Gendut or “chubby” is now known all over theworldasUSpresidentBarackObama. His former teacher, Mr Effendi S P D, 64, told The New Paper at
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      521 14 Sweet home for Obama Asian link IT IS easy to miss this house on Jalan Tun Amir Hamzah in the Matraman area of Jakarta, with all the fancier houses surrounding it. But you won’t. Ask anyone on the street, and they willleadyoutothe“Obamahouse”astheycallit. The paint is peeling, and the
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    • 274 15 BookofUSleader’s speeches is No 2 on bestseller list with 420,000 copies sold AP ASPIRING English speakers in Japan have made US president Barack Obama’s book of speeches and accompanying CD a national best-seller. In Aichi, central Japan, a Buddhist monk has reportedly
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    • 345 16/17 UK PRIME MINISTER SAYS IN SPEECH: AFP THE financial crisis must not be an excuse to retreat into protectionism, said UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a speech yesterday. Instead, the challenges the world is facing should be viewed as the
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    • 190 16/17 YOUdon’t have towait for thefilm festival toget star sightings in Cannes, it seems. Wander down the street in this French city and you might spot wall murals of Hollywood stars painted on the sides of its buildings. Since 2002, the Municipality of Cannes has
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    • 693 16/17 WHAT can make your stomach churn, your head ache and your waistline balloon? Theeconomy, that’s what. More specifically, the bad state of the economy. US doctors are seeing more stress-relat-ed problems and more patients giving up healthy habits, reported the Boston Globe. Examples
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    • 577 18 IT WAS a desperate attempt at reviving his wife but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise. After two weeks of watching his wife in deep coma, Mr Andrew Ray leaned over and kissed his wife, hoping she would wake up. Andshedid–likeastoryoutofafairytale.
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    • 245 18 FOR THIS Toronto resident, a police visit meant more than the police knocking on her door. The police cruiser skidded and smashed into her house after it swerved to avoid an oncoming car on the road outside. The incident occurred at 9pm on Sunday
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    • 479 19 Will growing global demand outstrip supply in 5 years? BEFOREViagra,therewasTongkatAli.But by 2014, man would have used up all the cultivated Tongkat Ali in the country, bringinganendtothebest-sellingherbinMalay-sia,reportedNST. It is the most used herb in the country but unplanned commercial harvesting and increasing demand may force
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    • 400 19 Reuters INDONESIAN yoga teachers disputed yesterday that the practice was damaging for Muslims after the country’s top Islamic body issued a fatwa banning followers from yoga that includes chanting mantras or meditation. The weekend meeting of Indonesia’s Ulema Council, known as MUI, had discussed
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    • 345 20 / 21 Hundreds wanting to work as security guards held back by unusual delay, says JB job agent THEjobsarethereacrosstheCauseway–inSinga-pore.ButMalaysianswantingtoworkassecurityguardshavehadtoplayawaitinggame. The Malaysian government is taking longer than usual to issue letters of good conduct to hundreds of applicants, M Selvam, the director of
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    • 72 20 / 21 CUSTOMERS in the A380 In-flight Kitchen, a restaurant in Taipei named after the giant Airbus airliner, last week. Imagine a flight without security checks, turbulence or even ticketing. Betterstill,you’re served morethan just fishor chicken for dinner.Started by a Taiwanese entrepreneur in November, the restaurant looks
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    • 393 20 / 21 Reuters INTERNATIONAL calls to investigate Israel over alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip prompted Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday to promise military personnel state protection from foreign prosecution. “ThecommandersandsoldierssenttoGazashould know they are safe from various tribunals and Israel will
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    • 665 24 Magazine pulled because of story on royal family Wire services THIS week’s edition of the Economist has also not been distributed in Thailand. This is due to local objections to an article about the royal family. The disruption is the second in two
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    • 177 24 HIS team won big, but he ended up losing his job. Mr Micah Grimes, the coach of a Texan girl’sbasketballteam, ledhischarges toa 100-0victoryover anothergirl’s school. The victory margin sparked a controversy thatended in Mr Grimes’ firing. Inagameheld on13 Jan.Mr Grimes’ teamfrom
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  • News Resilient S'poreans
    • 771 10  - Her son, 7, is blind cannot walk She refuses welfare because she wants to work to pay for his care Resilience is the new buzzword after the Budget measures were unveiled last week. In the first of a three-part series, we look at a resilient individual who wants to stand
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  • News New Year, New Hope
    • 321 22 / 23 AFP AP CHINA gave the Lunar New Year a raucous welcome yesterday with parties, feasts and thousands of tonnes of firecrackers. A barrage of fireworks (left) across Guiyang city in the southwestern Guizhou province reached its deafening peak at midnight yesterday and lit up the city
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    • 77 24 OUT NOW! S SUTRA february '09 UNCONDITIONAL LOVI "YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT ME TOGETHER WITH ALL MY 'ACCESSORIES'. I COME IN A PACKAGE." DJ NONA KIRANA ON POTENTIAL SUITORS WHO MUST BE ABLE TO ACCEPT HER SON AS WELL. LOOKING FOR LOVE IS LYNN NASIR DIVORCED FOR THE 3RD TIME?
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  • You
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      40 25 READER CHOO TAILGATE THIS: Tempted to tailgate this brightpink taxito takeacloser look? You’renot seeing things, this car sports horns and a pert little tail to herald the arrival of the Year of the Ox. E-mail your pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 181 25 Premise owners the public have to pitch in S SATISH APPOO DIRECTOR, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT AGENCY SMOKING BAN WE refer to the letter “How to enforce no-smoking law island-wide?” (The New Paper, 21 Jan). Since September 2006, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has engaged officers from private enforcement
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    • 99 25 1 An islandwide campaign by grassroots leaders and educators has led to a drop in the number of children who do not attend preschool. It fell by half over the last two years. 2 Malaysia has offered to take back two of its citizens
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    • 154 25 FROM READER CHIN KEE THOU AS A regular user of the fitness corner at MacRitchie Reservoir Park, I would like to warn users and visitors of a troop of monkeys frolicking within the vicinity. As they appear to be in heat, they are very
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    • Article, Illustration
      67 26 What do you think of this year’s$20.5bBudgetgoodies? “Ithink allowingsmall businesses to get loans from banks is a useful measure, but I still feel it is a small helpinghand. I don’t foresee a great impact on the economy.” MsEstersChan, 31, salesmanager Note: The Government said the Resilience package will not
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    • 86 26 Reactions to the Government dipping into national reservestotideS’poreover the economic downturn: “Ifeelthat theGovernment should not dip into our reserves. As we are a small and open economy, we should be aggressive and bold in our fiscal stimulus only when the world’seconomy showssigns of an upturn. By using
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  • Show
    • 343 27  -  The votes are in and here arethereaders’picks REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg SHE scored an F9 in Chinese Language for her A levels. And now she’s playing a Chinese language teacher in her next Channel 8 drama, My School Daze. The New Paper’s Babe Of The
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    • 304 28 / 29  -  REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg DAIYangtianhasanimportantmissiontoaccom-plishthisyear.“In2009,Ihopetofallinloveandhaveaproper relationship,”hesaid,withawistfullookinhisdeep-set eyes. It might come as a shock to his legions of female fans,especiallythosewhovotedhimDudeoftheYear. The 24-year-old, who pipped Caldecott seniors Christopher Lee and Tay Ping Hui for the top spot, confessed that he has not had a
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    • 293 28 / 29  -  -ByCharleneChua Charlene Chua SHE posted her Breakthrough Performance of the Year nomination on her blog and didn’tgetasinglecomment. The last thing she expected was to win. ButNgHuidid. The 29-year-old, who played long-suffering maid Ah-Tao in The Little Nyonya, believes she has the hit TV series to
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    • 408 28 / 29  -  –ByTanKeeYun Tan Kee Yun SINGER-actress Chen Meixin won Newcomer of the Year the day the pilot episode of Guandong Master was aired nationwide on China Central Television. The serial created a brief stir last year, when its director, acclaimed comedian-turned-filmmaker Zhao Benshan,
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    • Show Makan Sites
      • 257 30 / 31  -  Not all Chinese eateries are closed on 2nd day of CNY Han Su-Ying –HanSu-Ying,newsroomintern. DON’T worry that you’ll go hungry today. Contrary to popular belief, there are some Chinese restaurants open for business. Sodon’tfret. To celebrate Chinese New Year, bring the family out for a festive
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      • 159 30 / 31  -  REPORT: BELLE CHARLENE KWAN belkwan@sph.com.sg APPETISERS are often overlooked, but oh-so-important in setting the right mood for a good meal. Grand Shanghai’s signature Shanghai Cold Dish offers a myriad of starters that youjustwon’tbeabletogetenoughof. Their crispy eel especially is bound to find a special place
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      • 266 30 / 31  -  Han Su-Ying –HanSu-Ying,newsroomintern AFTER a frantic Chinese New Year, you may not be in the mood to cook a meal. So do the next best thing: Buy one. And if yu sheng is on the top of your shopping list, head to
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      • 188 30 / 31  -  Yeoh Wee Teck IWON’T mention thenameof the restaurant I had my reunion dinner at, but yet again, it proves a point to me: A restaurant may be fabulous during any other day, but when the crowd comes pouring in, standards suffer. I thought I had a
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      • 677 32  -  K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg IF the old doesn’t go, the new won’t arrive. The proverbial idiom, popular this time of the year, tells us that we should discard the old, so that it can make way for the new. I say this proverb must
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  • Page 28 / 29 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 192 33 PICTURECOURTESYOF THEGREAT SPYEXPERIMENT WATCH’EM AKucinta FamilyReunion Channel5,10pm InthisspecialNewYearmovie,astatueof theKucintacatdisappears,affectingthe livesoffivepeopleinthemostunexpected ways.StarringMindeeOng,PierrePng, BrandonSeah. CJ7 AXN(StarHubCh19),11am Afathertryingtomakeendsmeettoraise hisyoungsonstumblesupona life-changinggreenorb.StarringStephen Chow. Live‘N’ Loaded Channel5, 8.30pm Getupclose andpersonal with thebest ofthe local musicindustry inthis new ‘live’series, with performancesbyElectrico, TheGreatSpy Experiment(above),Shirlyn Tan,Ling Kaiand more. Hostedby Utt. CHANNEL5 Noon Movie:Rebound 2.00pm Movie:BruceAlmighty 4.00 Rihanna“Live” 5.00 EntertainmentTonight
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  • Sports
    • Sports Racing
      • 87 38 IT will pay to be patient and wait for this Laurie Lax-on-trained galloper in the final event. The Al Akbar four-year-old gelding was far from disgraced at his last two engagements over the metric mile when he went down narrowly. Beaten a head
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        461 38 (SINGAPORE) Danny Khoo /j/m v>t-mv\ Tan Thean Loon Marc Tan Larry Foley RACE1 Rl ACE 2 Rj ACE 3 Rl ACE 4 RACE 5 Rl ACE 6 R ACE 7 RACE 8 RACE 9 RJ ACE 10 RJ ACE 11 Ri ACE 12 4 Lim's Swing 3 Val
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      • 1515 38 RACE 1 (1,600m) 1 Elegant Spirit???Foot on the till and will be right in this finish. 2 Swift Strike???Had plenty of excuses when third last time and can win this if he gets any sort of run. 3 Winniedun??Won at any old odds at
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      • 1247 39 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE1 C5 1.15 -1600m(SC) Stakes:$35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 *****2 ElegantSpirit 57 (43) KBSoo 13 (7nzgSGray-DOC) 2 4-0673 SwiftStrike 57 (43) JLLi*c4 14 (6agDesmondKoh-Igua) 3 *****1 Winniedun 57 (43) MarcusAu 1 (4nzgHKTan-WLNeo) 4 25--23 Lim'sSwing
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      • 688 40 RACE1 1st 4 Centover ($35-$5) 2nd 2 Bopalula ($9) 3rd 5 Ambassador ($7) 4th 7 Another Nip. EOB $132. Forecast $90. Tierce $835. Trio $28. Quartet $3664. RACE 2 1st 8 Reward For Effort ($36-$15) 2nd 1 Rarefied ($8) 3rd 4 Bombay Sling ($11) 4th 6
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      • 541 40 GOING: YIELDING (RACES 1-3), GOOD (4-10) Race1 SuccessAllTheWayStakes RM(SC)1200m 11 STREETLEGAL55c54(20-7) AFiezan (6) 3 3 1 (457) 12 TIVOLLI55(61-17) IAzhar (5) 2 2 2 (452) 0.75 10 ROADRUNNER55c54(274-43) SSani (11) 7 7 3 (478) 2.5 3 BLUECENTRE55(8-5) WHokai (1) 5 4 4 (479) 0.5 ?Winning stable:
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      • 306 40 (KUALA LUMPUR) Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Marc Tan RACE 10 RACE 9 RACE 8 RACE 7 RACE 6 RACE 5 RACE 4 RACE 3 RACE 2 RACE 1 Wing Aura Lim’s Melody Free Spirit Kingdom Power King’s Angel Jeram Fatt Choy Venetian Holiday Top Cool Hattrick 4
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      • 59 41 FORGET that he ever went around in the Sprint Trophy at Penang last month. The Citidancer seven-year-old gelding rarely runs a bad race, let alone two on a trot. Jumping up to the 1,600m this afternoon, the long-striding galloper should return to
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      • 1195 41 GOING FORECAST: GOOD TO YIELDING RACE1 RM 1.35 -1200m(SC) Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 Blesswithtalent 55 HSGill*c2 4 (3agBTLim-Blesswithluck) 2 BrightSprinter 55 HSamsirc2 9 (3nzcOSidek-MdmMariamLiaw) 3 04 Conflience 55 SJohn 5 (3agRLines-Confidence) 4 66 DancingGrey 55 LSofhan 3 (3nzgFMaynard-DOC) 5
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    • Sports Mad About Golf
      • 520 42 AFP PAT PEREZ finally captured the long-awaited first title of his US PGA Tour career. And he did it in style, with an eagle at the final hole of the US$5.1 million ($7.7m) Bob Hope Classic. Perez, 32, posted a three-under 69 in the fifth
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      • 72 42 Reuters SPAIN’SAlvaroQuiroswontheEuropeanPGA Tour’sQatarMastersbythreeshotsaheadof Sweden’sHenrikStensonandSouthAfrica’sLouis Oosthuizen on Sunday. Quiros fired a three-under 69 in the final round for an aggregate score of 19-under 269. Stenson and Oosthuizen shared second place on 272. Stenson hit a final-round 68 while Oosthuizen had a 71. “Itwasn’taperfectday.Itooktimetogetgoing.It isasurprisetowinhere,”saidQuiros. “Ithinkitiseasytosmilewhenyouarewinning but I
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      • 146 42 THE GRASS at Turf City driving range is attracting more and more golfers to its premises. Beingtheonlyothergrasssurface–theotherat SeletarBase–opentothepublic,golfersenjoy hitting off the surface unlike the mat surface found in most driving ranges. Becauseoftheincreasingpopularity,therange’s owner George Wuu is planning to have a golf clinic for youngsters
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    • Sports Tennis
      • 405 43 AFP HE WAS just too good. And I could not match up with him. Andy Murray offered no excuses after his shock fourth round exit from the Australian Open at the hands of Spaniard Fernando Verdasco yesterday. The 14th seeded Verdasco outplayed him for
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      • 602 43  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg WE saw some heroes at the Australian Open and one of them was Victoria Azarenka of Belarus. The 19-year-old looked to be on her way to a famous upset when she took the first set against Serena Williams. Then, in the second set,
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    • Sports The Postman
      • 287 44  -  Most readers feel that Liverpool are under pressure and the cracks are showing. Our Writer of the Weekend was able to identify best the reasons for the situation atAnfield LETTER OF THE WEEKEND Tan Kang Loon Edwin TanKang LoonEdwin, 22, full-time national serviceman, Sevilla fan (The writer
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      • 342 44 POSTMAN’SGUEST:JOEMORRISON I KNOW I am a bit dumb. I mean, I do have a degree from a university but the university was in Scotland and the degree was in Agriculture so it doesn’t really count. So here is my dumb question: Why does the Premier
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    • Sports EPL Betting
      • 876 45  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg NOW that you’re flushed with money collected from friends and relatives over the Lunar New Year period, my thinking is this: You will want to load up at the betting shop. Well, if you’re looking for some midweek winners, then I suggest you
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      • 750 46  -  FROM THE GROUND ERIC DING npsports@sph.com.sg Thewriteris afreelancer. CHINESE New Year is often associated with red. The common belief is that anything that is red in colour represents luck. I was having lunch at the coffee shop the other day when I had a discussion
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      • 292 46 AFP TOTTENHAM Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp will revert to his strongest side when fellow Premier League strugglers Stoke City visit tonight (tomorrow morning, Singapore time) after criticism of his recent selection policy. Redknapp’s frank admission that he didn’t care about the FA Cup this season,
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      • 262 47 WEST BROM are not too shabby and, of late, have been showing signs of improvement. Man United have a team of walking wounded and they will be tested on this trip to the Hawthorns. A wager on West Brom on the 1/2 Goal where
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      • 155 47 For 217 matches (as at 20 Jan) 1x2 PICK THE SCORE 1 H: Home Number D:Draw of times A: A way H 94 D 55 A 68 Home wins 1-0 20 2-0 13 2-1 28 3-0 13 3-1 4 3-2 5 4-0 3 4-1 1 4-2 2 4-3
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      • Transfer Trail
        • 188 47 PA Sport TOTTENHAM have signed Carlo Cudicini on a free transfer from London rivals Chelsea. The Italian arrived at Tottenham’s training ground yesterday and he has quickly agreed to a move to White Hart Lane. Cudicini has seen limited first-team opportunities at Stamford Bridge since the
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        • 161 47 PA Sport DAVID Beckham has hinted he could stay at AC Milan beyond the end of his loan spell. The England midfielder is due to return to the Los Angeles Galaxy in March and all parties have always insisted he will be back in America
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        • 54 47 Reuters Portsmouth announced a double signing yesterday as Portuguese midfielder Pele arrived on loan from Porto and Hayden Mullins was signed from West Ham United on a three-and-a-half-year deal. Pele, 21, a Portugal under-20 international, has joined the Premier League side until the end of the
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    • Sports FA Cup
      • Article, Illustration
        558 48  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg AS A £20 million ($41.7m) striker, failing to make the starting line-up is disappointing. Being repeatedly substituted on the odd occasion that you do is even worse. Butthe nadir of Robbie Keane’s short and unhappy time on Merseyside must surely be
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      • 267 48 LIVERPOOL 1 Gerrard (54) EVERTON 1 Lescott (27) AFP RAFAEL Benitez’s sharp tongue has struck again. The Liverpool manager sparked a war of words with his Everton counterpart David Moyesafterhisside’slatestfrustratingdraw. For the second time in a week Benitez (above right) was left fuming as Everton came
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      • 267 48 CARDIFF0 ARSENAL0 PA Sport ARSENAL manager Arsene Wengeradmittedhisside’s 0-0 draw at Cardiff has left him with an FA Cup headache. Wenger (above right) had hoped his much-changed side would overcome the Bluebirds, who were last season’s beaten finalists, at the first time of asking. But now the
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    • Sports EPL
      • 249 49 AFP ITISgettingcrowdedintheManches-terUnitedsickbay.With 12 players out injured (see below), even a squad as large as United’s isstarting to feelthe pinch ofthis crisis. “You could do without these things,” said United manager
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      • Article, Illustration
        247 49 Wire Services Wayne Rooney Injured in the game against Wigan on 14 Jan with a hamstring problem, and could now be out until the end of February. PatriceEvra:TheFrenchleft-backinjuredhimselfinthegameagainst Chelsea on 11 Jan, and is out with a twisted ankle. He is expected to be back in the first week
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      • Article, Illustration
        421 49 Wire Services Goalkeepers: Edwin van der Sar: United’s first-team goalkeeper should play against West Brom. If he keeps a clean sheet here, he will set a new Premier League goalkeeping record of minutes without conceding a goal. Ben Foster: Impressed in the League Cup semi-final against Derby, and the
        Wire Services  -  421 words
    • 517 50 / 51  -  Do Singapore athletes really lack mental strength? GARYLIM speaks to sports personalities here SINGAPORE ATHLETES GARY LIM YOUR biggest enemy is yourself. Most sports psychologists would drumthat intoathletes’ heads. Indeed, a sportsman’s mental strength is as important as his physical strength. Tiger Woods didn’t win truckloads
      FILE PICTURES  -  517 words
    • What they say:
      • 190 50 / 51 AS THE head of the sports psychology unit at Singapore Sports Council, Andrea Furst’s job is to ensure that the psychological aspect of the athletes is taken care of. Among other things, Furst (right) teaches them how to concentrate effectively, relax their muscles and sometimes,
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      • 117 50 / 51 HE IS sick of athletes giving him excuses. And they usually come before the competition even begins. Loh Lin Kok, Singapore Athletic Association president, cited shot-put specialist Zhang Guirong as an example. Loh (above) said: “The moment they see a big event, they worry, and
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      • 160 50 / 51 SINGAPORE SAILING president Low Teo Ping feels that what Singapore lacks is a real sporting culture. Indirectly, athletes become less demonstrative and vocal. Asked if he thinks Singapore athletes are mentally weak, he said: “Put it this way,Idon’t think it’saclinical issue. “I don’t
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      • 140 50 / 51 REMY ONG seldom gives in to nerves. His bulging trophy cabinet says it all. Among the many titles he has won in his career so far are three golds at the 2002 Asian Games and two golds at the 2006World Men’sChampionships. He revealed the one
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    • Sports Face To Face
      • 809 52 / 53 Singapore’sSportsDivasdiscussthefactors holding back Singapore sports in a frank dialogue with The New Paper JESSIE PHUA: THE BEST athletes in the world fail more than they win. But when they lose, it never dampens their spirit. Instead, they come back stronger, they come back fighting
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      • 442 52 / 53 Does sports funding also smack of a losing mentality? JESSIE PHUA: CIVIL servants in sports expect results instantly. Let me share with you my experience with the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) after the 2005 Manila South-east Asia Games. Bowling bombed out in Manila after the hosts
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    • 318 54  -  The New Paper kicks off a bold, three-part series called Face toFace, with Sports Editor R.JEGATHESAN, ERNEST LUIS and LIM HAN MING in a no-holds barred dialogue with Singaporesports’mostpowerfulwomen.Wediscusswhat’s ERNEST LUIS npsports@com.sg THERE’SonlyonethingtodowhenyoumeetSinga-pore sports’ most powerful women on an “ulu” farmsomewhereintheLimChuKangarea. Letthemdothetalking. Especially
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    • SPORTS ON TV
      • Article, Illustration
        84 55 EPL Tomorrow: WEST BROMv MAN UTD Ch 27,3.45am Paul Robinson (far right) and his West Brom team-mates face a daunting task when they take on in-form league leaders Man United. TOTTENHAM v STOKE Ch 22,4am PORTSMOUTH v ASTON VILA Ch 21,4am Thursday: EVERTONv ARSENAL Ch 27,3.40pm WEST HAM v
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      • 35 55 AUSTRALIAN OPEN Today: MEN’S/WOMEN’S QUARTER-FINALS Ch 24,8am 4.30pm Tomorrow: MEN’S/WOMEN’S QUARTER-FINALS Ch 24,8am 4.30pm Thursday: WOMEN’SSINGLES SEMI-FINALS Ch 24,10.30am MEN’SSINGLES SEMI-FINAL Ch 24,4.30pm Friday: WOMEN’SDOUBLES/MIXED DOUBLES FINALS Ch 24, noon MEN’SSINGLES SEMI-FINAL Ch 24,4.30pm
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      • 592 55 FOOTBALL: CAN MAN United open up a three-point lead over Liverpool with a win over West Brom tomorrow morning?The defending championswillbe hoping to put some light between them and Liverpool at least for 24 hours before the Reds travel to meet Wigan on Thursday morning. TENNIS: DEFENDINGchampionNovak Djokovicwill
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