The New Paper, 4 February 2009

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1 52 The New Paper
  • 17 1 the new paper 4 Feb 09 ew dthenewpaper Singapore Press 9MM Holdings 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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  • News
    • 1140 2 / 3  -  REPORT:CHONG CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg IT STARTED with crank calls to her handphone. Then Ms Yeo Lay Har, 33, began receiving anonymous letters containing hellnotes–papermoneyusedasburntofferings for the dead. And if that wasn’t enough, there was a chilling message written on the back of one of
      PICTURES: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS, JONATHAN CHOO  -  1,140 words
    • 106 2 / 3 2007: Ms Yeo starts getting prank calls on her handphone. When she answers, the caller keeps silent. 2008: Her eldest daughter gets similar prank calls on her handphone. If she does not answer, the prank caller calls the home phone. Mid-2008: Ms Yeo gets hell notes in the
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    • 1006 6 / 7  -  Residents raise a stink over decaying bodies left out in the open SELETAR’SSERIALCATKILLER REPORT: TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg THERE were more than a dozen bags containing as many as 45 cat carcasses in Seletar Estate, and they all stank. They were
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  • News Parliament
    • 640 4 / 5  -  REPORT: LOW CHING LING lowcl@sph.com.sg HE CAST doubts on the Jobs Credit scheme. Then up jumped six other Members of Parliament (MPs) to rebut him. This became a heated 10-minute exchange between Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang
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    • Article, Illustration
      1026 4 / 5  -  –ByLediatiTan Lediati Tan MP for Aljunied GRC Yeo Guat Kwang: Is (Mr Low) aware (of) the savings arising from Jobs Credit? He also asked Mr Low if he knew that supermarket chain Sheng Sionghas announced its savings from the Jobs Credit scheme, and that it would open a
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    • 113 4 / 5 ONE thing the MPs agreed on was the Government not going the way of CPF cuts. Even Mr Low was not for it, though the alternative for him was not Jobs Credit either. MadamHalimah said: “CPFcuts...(were) the biggest and most important worry among our workers
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  • Local News watch
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      47 8 TUASTOSS:Twoprivatebusescollidedatajunctionbetween Tuas Avenue 20 and Tuas Crescent on Monday night. One of the buses turned turtle in the accident, trapping a passenger, but he was rescued after 20 people managed to lift the bus. 15 passengers were sent to hospital. PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
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    • 254 8 LOCAL TOURISM THE global financial turmoil hit Singapore tourism last year as tourist arrivals declined for the first time since the Sars crisis in 2003. Some 10.1 million visitors visited the Republic last year, a dip of 1.6 per cent from 2007, falling short
      PICTURE: REUTERS  -  254 words
    • 99 8 THE Singapore Sports Hub Consortium is facing difficulty in securing funds to start the Kallang Sports Hub due to the credit crunch. The Government is in active discussions with the consortium to address this, as well as options on how to move the project
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    • 110 8 FOUR people were charged yesterday over an allegedly fraudulent investment scheme in connection with multi-level marketing firm Sunshine Empire. Phang Wah, 49, also known as James Phang, his wife, Neo Kuon Huay, 46, Jackie Hoo Choon Cheat, 29, and Yong Wai Hong, 27, face
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    • 95 8 BOSSES here are more likely to sweat when their firm's reputation takes a hit than executives anywhere else, according to an online survey conducted between June and July 2008. About 97 per cent of local respondents were concerned about negative media stories about their firms or
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    • 1561 10 / 11  -  Social worker pays fees out of own pocket so she can be re-admitted REPORT:GENEVIEVE GENEVIEVE JIANG geneviev@sph.com.sg FOR the first three weeks of this year, a 6-year-old girl did not attend school. Her mother, Lynn, said it was because the
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    • 251 10 / 11  -  STREET TALK COMMENT: GENEVIEVE JIANG geneviev@sph.com.sg A LITTLE girl did not go to kindergarten for three weeks this year, until a community worker stepped in. Thereason– her mother thoughtthat becauseshe couldn’t affordher daughter’s fees and deposit, she had to give up her place. But
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    • 902 12 / 13  -  Crowd swells at his debut performance in Serangoon last night REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg HE EXPECTED no more than 20 people at his performance. After all, he was not a professional singer or musician, just a migrant worker who’s here in Singapore to make a
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  • Global News watch
    • 217 14 GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AFP ASIA’S economies could bounce back from their slump next year once the rest of the world claws out of recession, the head of the International Monetary Fund said yesterday. “Once the world economy regains its footing,
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    • 97 14 AFP THAILAND’S cabinet yesterday approved a plan to borrow up to US$2 billion ($3 billion) from international financial institutions as it tries to boost an economy hit by protests and global financial woes. Mr Chakkrit Parapuntakul, a deputy director at the Ministry of
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    • 109 14 AFP JAPAN said yesterday it will not accept any proposal at upcoming international whaling talks forcing it to end its lethal research programme. International Whaling Commis- sion chairman William Hogarth has proposed that Japan scale down or stop its whaling in the Antarctic Ocean over the
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    • 95 14 Reuters IRAN said it launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit yesterday, boasting major progress in its space technology when tension with the West over its nuclear ambitions persists. “In another achievement for Iranian scientists under sanctions, Iran launched its first home-made Hope satellite into
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    • 98 14 Reuters MALAYSIA must review its race-based economic policies if it hopes to rein in political discontent and regain competitiveness. Mr Nazir Razak, the brother of incoming prime minister Najib Ra- zak and chief executive officer of Malaysia's second largest bank CIMB, said the
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    • 26 14 Varnes Lutheran Church of rural Fertile in the United States is transported down the Minnesota State Highway to the Polk County Fairgrounds. PICTURE:AP
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    • 603 15 Gerakan president thought to be referring to Anwar THERE is a “katak” phenomenon in Perak state and it could infect other states. No,it’s nota virus. It’s the Malay word for frog and it’s now used to describe the political defections spreading in
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    • 283 15 A DRIVER was killed when the school bus he was driving plunged into a river at Jalan Masjid Negeri in Penang yesterday. But all 23 schoolchildren in the bus survived, some with minor bruises, reported Bernama. The drama started at 7.10am when bus driver
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    • 331 16 HE WAS hired to bury a baby who had supposedly died of a serious illness. So at the appointed time of 4am, the man known onlyasMr Huangarrived at hishirer’shouse in a village in Chongqing, China. He was given a basket with a bundle
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    • 508 16 She refuses to drop charges after she survives three-hour ordeal HE ALLEGEDLY pushed his wife into the river after he suspected her of having an affair. But his act of anger backfired when his wife survived her ordeal and accused him
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    • 446 17 He turns himself in to police after dad urges him to surrender FUJIAN BAR FIRE THEfirewasraginginthebarinChina.Insteadofstaying to help, Mr Zheng Minglai, the person in charge, switched off his handphone and fled the city. The 33-year-old only surrendered himself to the policethe following
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    • 488 17 BANGKOK CLUB FIRE HE IS just a scapegoat, an easy target for the police. So said Thai Justice Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga on Monday as he showed the media security-camera footage to prove that Saravuth Ariya, the lead vocalist of rock band Burn,
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    • 127 18 WORRIEDfor theirstudents’safety, two teachers in Hainan province, China, volunteer to carry them across a 20m-wide river. Itispart of the kids’journey to school but there is no bridge. So with their shoes on the bank, Mr Wang Wenzhou, 54, and Mr Wang Shenchao (left of picture), 45,
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    • 376 18 Strapped to trainer who suffers heart attack, soldier’smilitarybackgroundsaveshim ITWAShisfirstskydiveandhisinstructorwaseitherdeadordying.Theparachutewasheadingtowardsahouseandsometrees–fast. Private (Pte) Daniel Pharr knew he had to do somethingquickly. Strapped to his instructor, the 25-year-old soldier pulled at the right toggle on his parachute to avoid the house. He tugged at it
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    • 254 19 AS his Airbus glided towards the icy water, Captain Chesley (Sully) Sullenberger felt “calmonthe outside, turmoil inside”. These were the words the pilot used to describe his death-defying splash landing in the Hudson River which made him an American hero, reported
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    • 486 20 Investigators involved in the case cried in court after hearing verdict AP WHEN 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers’ badly decomposed remains were found inside a plastic box in Texas in October 2007, investigators promised they would do at least one thing for
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    • 120 20 IT WAS a display of gallantry not often seen in the world of politics. ButHungary’sPrimeMinisterFerenc Gyurcsany became a knight, sans shining armour, when he was on hand to catch a fainting government official, reported China Daily. He caught government spokesperson Bernadett Budai as
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  • Page 14 Miscellaneous
    • 13 14 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High27˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:Sunny High32˚,Low25˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High30˚,Low24˚
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  • You
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      17 21 FROM READER TEO HUAT PHENG LOO’SLOSS:Twourinalsweremissinginthe men’stoiletattheBoonLaymarketwhenthis reader visited the facility. E-mail your pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 347 21 READER TAN SHAO KEN BANNING STUDENTS FROM MALLS I READ with great dismay the report, “Schoolbarsstudentsfrommall–butisit working?”(TheNewPaper,3Feb). In the article, it was mentioned that Coral Secondary School students are not allowed to step into White Sands shopping mall even to buy food. If students
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    • 103 21 1 Coral Secondary School in Pasir Ris bans students from entering the nearby White Sands shopping mall, even to buy food. Offenders are sent for a two-hour detention. 2 A $100 million push to take Singapore service to the next level has been launched.
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    • 203 21 PATSIE TAN SENIOR MANAGER, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS SINGAPORE POST WErefertoMrChinKeeThou’sletter(Managelong post office queues with better staff deployment, The New Paper, 28 Jan). We are pleased to note that Mr Chin appreciates our continual efforts to serve our customers better. These include the extension of operating
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      38 22 What do you think of the naked couple who paraded in Holland Village? “Whatthey did wasridiculous. Holland Village is a family-friendly environment... I’mmore concerned whether their act tainted the minds of the childrenwho werepresent.” MasRahayu, 24,membership consultant
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    • 114 22 On the rat problem in Orchard Road: “Ratswererarely seenin the Orchard Road area in the past. I believe this is related to the reduction of the stray cat population, as a result of culling of stray cats. In the past, stray cats have done a good job
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    • 628 23  -  Actorsays:I’mnot seeing anyone now REPORT:GERMAINE GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg HAVEshowbizcoupleIxShenandEriciaLeesplitup?The38-year-oldMediaCorpactorhintedatthis byrevealingthatheis“single”. Healsoadded:“I’mnotseeinganyonenow.” Whenpressedaboutwhytheirsix-year-oldrelation-shiphadended,heavoidedthequestion. Hedeclinedtodiscusswhenheandthe32-year-old actress one of local TV’s most recognisable couples wenttheirseparatewaysorwhy. When the topics veered to marriage and fatherhood, Ix appeared dismissive and almost cynical. Of Ericia, all he would say is: “We’re
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    • 216 24  -  Germaine Lim COMPARED to Ix, actor Randall Tan (below) is still in the honeymoon phase a year after he tied the knot with actress Melody Chen. Randall,35, gushedtoThe New Paper: “I lovemarried life.It’s something I’ve really enjoyed– proposing, preparing for the weddingand lifeafter that.”
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      • 455 25  -  IVAN LIM PARTY ANIMAL pjlim@sph.com.sg IWASinTokyolastmonthforashortweekendtrip.Notforaparty,buttomeetmywifewhomIhadn’tseenformorethanaweek–shewasintransitback from a working trip to Los Angeles, and I needed a break from taking our three-year-old Alex to the Zoo everydaywhileshewasaway. Getting to baggage claim at Narita airport was a breeze. But clearing customs was even
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      • 283 26  -  Stacey Chia newsroom intern. IF YOU think that only the top nightspots can get a party started, think again. If the 5,000-strong crowd at the City Alive! event on Saturday was any indication, the next big parties could come from the People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM).
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  • Sports
    • Sports Racing
      • 477 36  -  WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK WILLIAM LOW’S TRAINER Patrick Shaw’s Malayan Racing Association (MRA) Cup pair of Mr Line and Ricoco caught the eye at Kranji yesterday morning. After cantering one round on the Polytrack, the duo breezed over the final 600m of their second lap in 35.6sec
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      • 108 36 TRIAL 1 (test) 1 Subordinate (J Powell) 2 High Key (A Kermond) 3 Slow Waltz (P Knuckey) 4 Shen Li (B Tai) 5 Cigar Royale (B Woodworth) 6 Two Of Spade (J Li) 7 Fly Over (O Chavez) Marginsandtime: 11/4,3/4,1/2,1/2, hd, 4(1min03.19sec) TRIAL 2 (test practice) 1 Seacrest
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      • 453 36 RACING WRITERS STAKES CLASS 3 1,400m (Turf): Any Humour? canter/36.3. Be A Man? (Powell) 38.2. Superb? (Beasley) canter/39.2. Pin Number (B Woodworth) canter/37.6. Orient Supreme (T Ong) barrier practice/38.8. Forest Gold? pace work. Celine Star? (O Chavez) canter/38.6. Daring Commander (YYOon) canter/38.1. Monday: Student
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      • 572 37  -  TIPSANDCOMMENTSBYGERMAINEMAHARAJ GERMAINE MAHARAJ RACE1 (1,000m) Dupont Dancer (No. 3) was two lengths ahead of Jada Leigh (6) at their debuts but Dupont Dancer did not improve on that fourth-place finish and ran poorly at his next start. Earth Angel (4) does not have great form either
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      • 540 37 GOING FORECAST: GOOD 6.25Race1 MaidenJuvenilePlate(Fillies)-1000m 1 CASHEWNUT(SNL) RHill (5) 57 2 DIORADDICT KTeetan (8) 57 3 DUPONTDANCER AMlaba(-2) (7) 57 4 EARTHANGEL MByleveld (1) 57 5 I'LOLLIPOP SCormack (2) 57 6 JADALEIGH BLerena (6) 57 7 PUBLICIST KJupp (3) 57 8 TERESINA SRandolph (4)
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      • 76 37 HIGH-RIDING jockey John Powell has copped a three-day suspension for careless riding atop Blue Angel in Race 8 at Kranji last Friday. He was suspended with immediate effect until Friday week. Jockey Din Azis also received a three-day suspension for the same offence
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      • 381 37  -  DANNY KHOO dkhoo@sph.com.sg TRAINER Desmond Koh will be introducing a useful sort in Cigar RoyaleatKranjion Sunday. Racing under the same name in his native home, the four-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Beautiful Crown out of Royal Magenta, scored over 1,400m (good) at Hawkesbury in 1min
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      • 908 38 Race 1 (1,650m) Fortune Gallop (No. 2) returned off a November win over today’s trip with another decent front-running fourth 28 days back and is an each-way fancy. For a Class 5 galloper, Zero Gravity (7) has been racing with consistency this term, scoring an overdue
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      • 657 38 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE1 CLASS5 1650M TIME:7:15 Stakes:HK$485,000(Qtt) NO. HORSENAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 SIRLAGO MeT GMosse 131 5 2 FORTUNEGALLOP KWL DWhyte 130 4 3 HAPPYHEROES CWC MWLeung(-3) 129 8 4 PRIMIATA ALe MLYeung(-10) 125 7 5 MRFLOODLIGHT CSS ZPurton 123
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    • Sports Mad About Golf
      • 584 39  -  GODFREY ROBERT npsports@sph.com.sg IT HAS been an agonising two weeks thepastfortnightforSingapore’sNo.2 golfer Mardan Mamat. A left-knee problem that has caused him severe pain saw him make regular visits to a chiropractor. And a physiotherapist. But although there has been some relief, the nagging pain is causing
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      • 370 39  -  LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg HERE’S an extra incentive for the 14 local golfers taking part in the two-day HSBC Women’s Champions qualifier starting tomorrow. Besides earning a coveted spot in the Champion of Champions event next month, the winner of the the 36-hole shootout
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    • 619 40/41  -  FormulaOne’srulingbodyFIAhasorderedthe alteration of the Singapore Grand Prix street track,tomakethisyear’sraceon27Sep, more exciting than it was last year. ERNEST LUIS dissects the changes ERNEST LUIS “Whilethecircuitand the event exceeded expectations around the world, as with any brand new event, there are always things which we now know we can
      TNP GRAPHICS: KELVIN CHAN, CHNG CHOON HIONG, FADZIL HAMZAH  -  619 words
    • 238 40/41  -  LUKE NETTO npsports@sph.com.sg THIS is the chicane with raised bumps on it that caused the drivers to go tighter across it, to skip into the air, land and crash into the following wall, which had little run-off space. Kimi Rai kkonen famously did it in his
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    • Sports Euro Kick-off
      • 540 42 EPL: Saturday: Arsenal 0 West Ham 0 Aston Villa 0 Wigan 0 Bolton 3 Tottenham 2 Fulham 3 Portsmouth 1 Hull 2 WBA 2 Boro 0 Blackburn 0 Stoke 1 Man City 0 Sunday: Newcastle 1 Sunderland 1 Liverpool 2 Chelsea 0 Saturday (7 Feb): Blackburn v Aston Villa
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      • 1160 42 LALIGA P W D L F A Pts 1Barcelona 21 18 2 1 65 15 56 2RMadrid 21 14 2 5 44 27 44 3Sevilla 21 11 5 5 28 19 38 4Valencia 21 11 4 6 42 32 37 5Villarreal 21 9 7 5 33 29 34 6Deportivo
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    • Sports FORZA!
      • 591 43  -  Geoffrey Lip looks at how a single result has given some teams a second chance Geoffrey Lip ONE CANNOT help but think of Michael Corleone after this weekend’sSerie Aaction. “Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in,” was the famous line uttered
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      • 256 43  -  GEOFFREY LIP IT WAS the kind of goal that would make one sit up instantly and ask, “who the heck was that?” As the first half in the game between Napoli and Udinese on Saturday was coming to a close, Udinese had pulled a goal
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    • Sports OLE!
      • 756 44  -  Looking at the past weekend in La Liga, GEOFFREY LIP realises thatJuande Ramos may still lose his job even if Real Madrid keep on winning GEOFFREY LIP IT MUST be frustrating being Juande Ramos. In fact, let’s put ourselves in his shoes. You’re headhunted to come
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      • 221 44  -  GEOFFREY LIP THEREare twoconstantsin Valencia’sseason. One is that they have been leaking goals like how an open faucet with a broken handle leaks water. And the other is that David Villa has been bailing them out like a bucket that would have even saved the
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    • Sports EPL Betting
      • 829 45 BRIAN: What a Saturday night. You talk about “fever”, last Saturday the fever knocked us out cold. I didn’t see it, but I heard that a lot of punters were crying in their beers. And just because some of the results didn’t go the way most
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      • 624 46  -  Bookiespayoutonfivedraws BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com. sg ISAID to the drunk: “No Sir, you do not have a hole in your pocket. You’vejustlost somemoney. “Check your wallet. Check those bettingslips.” True enough, he had wagered on the “threemosquitoes” andthey bit him. Arsenal, Aston Villa and Manchester City
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    • Sports FA Cup
      • 606 47 AFP FERNANDO Torres has told Everton they will face a more confident Liverpool side than at any time this season when the Merseyside rivals meet for the third time in 17 days tonight. After defeating Chelsea on Sunday to stay in the title race, Liverpool
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      • 472 47 AP EVERTON and Liverpool will meet for the third time in 17 days but Arsenal’s bid to reach the FA Cup fifth round has been held up by heavy snow. The Gunners were scheduled to face Cardiff, from the second-tier League Championship, at the
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    • Sports EPL Transfer Trail
      • Article, Illustration
        662 48  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg THE RETURN of Robbie Keane to White Hart Lane may have brought an end to his miserable six months on Merseyside, but it leaves Liverpool fans with one pertinent question; just what on earth is going on behind the scenes at their football
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      • 153 48 28 July, 2008: Liverpool announce the signing of Robbie Keane for £19m, with a potential £1.3m in add-ons in a four-year contract. They also make a donation to the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation for their poor behaviour in conducting the transfer. 1 Oct: After starting eight
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      • 464 49 Wire Services WITH Arsene Wenger hanging on tenterhooks, the announcement would have been met with a sigh of relief from the Arsenal manager. Russian side Zenit St Petersburg confirmed yesterday that their international midfielder Andrei Arshavin has been signed by the English Premier League giants. The
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      • 512 49 AFP WHEN it comes to the transfer market, no one wheels and deals better than Harry Redknapp. And the Tottenham boss is confident that a month of frantic transfer market activity has left Spurs better equipped for the battle for survival in
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    • 333 50 Wire Services FRANKLampard’ssending-offinSunday’s clash at Anfield has beenoverturned. The Chelsea midfielder will have his three-game ban wiped away after referee Mike Riley admitted he was wrong to brandish the straight red card. Lampard was sent off by Riley in the 60th minute of Chelsea’s 2-0 loss
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    • SPORTS ON TV
      • Article, Illustration
        125 51 EPL Saturday: MAN CITY v MIDDLESBROUGH Ch 27, 8.45pm CHELSEA v HULL Ch 27,11pm EVERTON v BOLTON Ch 22,11pm BLACKBURN v ASTON VILLA Ch21,11pm Sunday: PORTSMOUTH v LIVERPOOL Ch 27,1.30am TOTTENHAM v ARSENAL Ch 27,9.30pm WEST HAM v MAN UTD Ch 27, midnight BUNDESLIGA Saturday: ARMINIA BIELEFELD v HERTHA
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      • Article, Illustration
        46 51 ATP JOHANNESBURG Friday: QUARTER-FINALS Ch 21,11.30pm Former Australian Open runner-up Marcos Baghdatis (below) swept past South African qualifier Andrew Anderson 6-4, 6-2 at this hardcourt event on the grounds ofMontecasino. He will meet another South African, wild card Raven Klaasen, in the round of 16.
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      • 425 51 LOCAL EVENTS WINDSURFING CATCH exciting windsurfing action at the 2009 Singapore Open Windsurfing Championship. From Friday to Sunday, head down to the Water-Venture East Coast at East Coast Parkway. More details on the Singapore SailingFederationat www.sailing.org.sg CYCLING THE BIKE Quest 2009 this Saturday is organisedby the NUSStudents’ Artsand
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  • Page 39 Miscellaneous
    • 25 39 SPORTS BETTING WITH THE LEGAL BOOKMAKER h This match is played on neutral ground. Towards Community Purpose and Benefit RCB Reg No: *****0202G oINuArUnt m
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