The New Paper, 24 March 2009

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    12 1 the new paper 24 Mar 09 tue 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      65 1 US plane crash kills 14, including 7 kids ‘It dropped like a rock’ PAGE 16 Small plane may have been overloaded MY MIRACLE BABY At 1.2 kg, S’pore girl may be tiniest to undergo complex op to help her breathe PAGE 2 TNP PICTURE: NG WAN PAGE 44 Stop behaving
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      Lock icon I turned white with fear for her
      931 2 / 3  -  S’poremumweepsnon-stopasbaby becomes‘world’ssmallestpatient’ for complex windpipe surgery REPORT:NG NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg SHE’S her mother’s “miracle baby”. She’s her father’spreciousbundleofjoy. “Miracle” because little Nur Yasmin Mohammed Ilmifidri became possibly the tiniest patient in the world to undergo a complicated operation and lived despite daunting
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      Lock icon How to be the next Edison Chen
      397 2 / 3  -  STREET TALK COMMENT:SM S M ONG smong@sph.com.sg SM Ong writes the weekly Act Blur column in The New Paper on Sunday. IF YOU picked up The New Paper on Sunday last weekend, you would have got a free bonus guide on howto pickup
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        Lock icon General election won’t be here so soon
        497 4 / 5  -  ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES COMMITTEE NOT YET APPOINTED REPORT: LEDIATI TAN ledtan@sph.com.sg PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has not yet appointed the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee. Nor has he decided when to do so, Deputy PM Wong Kan Seng told Parliament yesterday. The statement, on
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        Lock icon Make sure reel freedoms don’t cause real damage
        539 4 / 5  -  CHANGES TO FILM ACT PASSED. BUT MPs WARN... REPORT: NG TZE YONG tzeyong@sph.com.sg IN Parliament yesterday, the politicians debated US documentary-maker Michael Moore and YouTube, half-truths and half-baked rules, and logic versus emotion. Up for discussion were the proposed changes to the
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      Lock icon Prices falling but don’t worry about deflation yet
      246 6 INFLATION EASES FURTHER INFLATION continued to ease in February as costs were pushed down by falling food and oil prices. The consumer price index fell by 0.5 per cent over January, marking the fourth consecutive decline and establishing a clear pattern of
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      Lock icon 45,000 new jobs coming up, many suitable for PMETs
      114 6 AT LEAST 45,000 new jobs will be created in the next two years, with many of them suitable for professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs). In giving the update yesterday in Parliament, Acting Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong also listed where
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      Lock icon UBS lays off S’pore team that handled Turkish clients
      107 6 UBS, the world’s biggest wealth manager, has axed a team of six private bankers in Singapore, who were managing wealth for Turkish clients, sources familiar with the situation told Reuters on Monday. The Singapore team was managing clients’ assets worth between
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      Lock icon Govt investing $18b this year to build ‘highways’ of growth
      103 6 SINGAPORE will seize the opportunity in this downturn to build its own “highways” of growth by investing heavily in infrastructure, said Minister of State for National Development Grace Fu at an inau- gural Asia Infrastructure Summit yesterday. The Government will
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      Lock icon Proposed Act to give police greater powers
      102 6 HOME Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng tabled a Bill in Parliament yesterday that will give the police greater powers. The proposed Public Order Act targets outdoor activities of a politi- cal or cause-related nature. The most significant of the new provisions is the
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      32 6 DANGEROUS:Thispicturefrom an Internet website shows a man who was spotted sitting on a parapetatPeople’sPark Complex on Sunday afternoon. He appeared agitated but left the dangerous position after less than 10 minutes.
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      Lock icon ‘Garang’ pushcart aunty helps stop fight
      757 8  -  She also scolds one of the men involved DRAMA AT CATHAY SHOPPING MALL REPORT:AMANDA AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg SHE was tending to her pushcart at The Cathay. But after a fight broke out, the woman in her 50s did a bit more than mind her
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      Lock icon $10 in damages
      832 9  -  Landlord and tenant go to court over collapsed ceiling, but one of them gets only... REPORT: VIVIEN CHAN vivienc@sph.com.sg THE tenant complained that the false ceiling of the common toilet had collapsed but made it difficult for the contractor to fix it. Mr Eugene Ong Wee Gin
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      Lock icon How it unfolded
      62 9 22 Nov 2006 Ceiling of common toilet collapses 15 Dec 2006 MrOng demands repairs,waiverof Dec 2006 rent 1 Feb 2007 MrOng increases demand for waiver of rent 22 Mar 2007 MrOngdemands $3,700 to stay at a hotel and $500 monthly compensation Sep 2007 Tenancy ends, repairs on
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      Lock icon Gone: Illegal ice-cream vendors on Orchard Road
      618 11  -  Remaining ones have licence to sell island-wide Joanna Hor,Audrey Tan newsroom interns IF YOU go to Orchard Road frequently, you may recall seeing several ice-cream vendors, especially along the stretch outside Wisma Atria and Ngee Ann City. But the number has dropped significantly
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      Lock icon Weather updates wherever you go
      343 12  -  Get three-hour forecasts and real-time updates with new mobile service Bernice Huang newsroom intern WITH the weather becoming more unpredictable, motorcyclists like Mr Patrick Wan, 34, often find themselves drenched in unexpected downpours. And when there’s rain, there is bound to be traffic jams, resulting
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      Lock icon Police probing death of man at sea
      346 12  -  REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a Malaysian man during a collision at sea 10 days ago. Mr P Ramlee Salam died after his speedboat collided with a Police Coast Guard patrol boat around 1.50am on
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      33 13 Actress Emilia Fox poses on a sofa made of Galaxy chocolate to launch the Irresistible Reads campaign at Victoria Embankment Gardens yesterday in London. PICTURE: GETTY IMAGES
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      311 13 US unveils toxic assets buyout plan AFP THE US Treasury unveiled a long-awaited plan yesterday to buy up toxic assets clogging the financial system using government funds and Federal Reserve backing to attract private capital. The cornerstone of the plan is a “Public-Private
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      102 13 AFP MALAYSIA’S opposition said that two of its newspapers have been banned for three months, in what they fear is the start of a media crackdown under incoming premier Najib Razak. Malaysia is entering a period of intense political activity, with a leadership transition, a critical
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      Lock icon 2 killed in China stampede
      86 13 AFP TWO people were killed and 11 injured on Sunday as shoppers stampeded during a sales promotion in China, reported Xinhua. The tragedy occurred in Chongqing’sFulingDistrictafterapromo- tion for a medicinal product drew throngs of people, Xinhua quoted a district spokesman as saying. “One of the
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      112 13 Reuters FRANCE plans to introduce a law to limit executive bonuses in the form of stock options or shares as businesses are slow to accept a voluntary agreement, the ruling UMP party’spokesmansaid yesterday. Bosses at French bank Societe Generale have given up their stock
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      552 14 Opposition parties auction off broken plaque under Ipoh’s‘Treeof Democracy’ THEY are just pieces of a broken marble plaque, but in only one hour on Sunday, they enriched the coffers of opposition party Pakatan Rakyat’s Perak branch by RM42,900($17,800). The marble pieces are fragments of
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      Lock icon Woman found hanged on durian tree in orchard
      332 14 SHE was found hanging from a 2m-tall durian tree. A nylon rope was tied around her neck and she was wearing only her underwear. Initial investigations suggested that she died from hanging rather than having been killed and then tied to the
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        530 15 But is reminder too late, with accusations of a smear campaign already in the air? PM ABDULLAH PLEADS: THEMalaysianPrimeMinisterissuedasternwarningonSundaynight:Nodirty tactics against Umno election candidates. Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said at a press conference at the end of a visit to Kuwait that badmouthing people and
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        206 15 POLITICAL ANALYST WARNS: DON’Tcount on the incomingMalaysian prime minister to be a nice guy. That’swhat political analyst James Chin,from KualaLumpur’sMonash University, says. He told Malaysiakini that Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, who has been battered by a number of allegations, may return to the authoritarian
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        933 16/17 ‘Bodies on the ground they were all babies’ MONTANA, US THE small plane was flying low and making strange noises. Then it dipped, nosediving into the trees at the cemetery. Once it hit the ground, it burst into a huge ball of fire. Earlier reports said all 17 people on
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        Lock icon Pilots dead after plane crashes on runway
        215 16/17 NARITA, JAPAN AP TWO men were killed after a FedEx cargo planecrashedatTokyo’sNaritaAirport yesterday morning. They were the pilot and co-pilot, the only people on board. Japanese police spokesman Yoshino Ichihara said that Federal Express had told the police that the victims are pilot
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      Lock icon Tying The Knot 2: Tie Harder
      426 19 Bruce Willis marries Demi Moore-lookalike LIKE his ex-wife, actor Bruce Willis’ new wife is a brunette and has dark features. And like his ex-wife actress, Demi Moore, the Die Hard star has also settled down with someone much younger than him. Over the weekend,
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      235 19 Solo no more: Indiana Jones the engagement to Ally McBeal ANOTHER Hollywood spring-autumn romance would soon end in holy matrimony. Indiana Jones star Harrison Ford is set to marry his girlfriend of seven years, actress Calista Flockhart. Although Ford, 66, had reportedly proposed to Flockhart, 44, secretly while on a
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      13 13 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low26˚ Manila:PartlyCloudy High33˚,Low27˚
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      44 21 FROM READER WANG QIANSHENG NAIL THAT CAT: This is one way motorcyclists keep cats away from their seats. The seat of nails would certainly be a deterrent for wandering felines looking for a cushy spot to sleep on. E-mail your pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      206 21 WORKPLACE RIGHTS SAFETY FROMFARAH ABDUL RAHIM Director, corporate communications, for permanent secretary, Ministry of Manpower PLEASE refer to the letter, “Poster makes the Home Team look inhumane” (TNP, 23 Mar) by Mr Paul Antony Fernandez. The poster in question is part of
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      84 21 1 A43-second video showing a couple behaving intimately on East Coast beach has been posted on YouTube, drawing outrage from other beachgoers. 2 Some 40 participants in theAviva Ironman Singapore triathlon quit the race after being allegedly sabotaged during the cycling leg. Thumbtacks, scattered
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      147 21 FROM READER BRYAN TANG I FIND that many contractors are not following safety rules when doing work on the roads. While driving out of Johor on 16 Mar, I saw that workers pruning plants just after the customs check did not display any
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      299 22 FROM READER RAYMOND ANTHONY FERNANDO IREFER to the article, “No lawyer for appeal, no moneyforoverseasflat”(TheNewPaper,11Mar). While I empathise with Madam Amutha Valli Krishnan’s plight, I feel that she should not indulge in self-pity. Rather, she should start rebuilding her life, think positively
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      30 22 Should there be a centre where unwed mothers can leave their unwanted babies? “Itmay bealesser evilthan having unwed mothers choose totake theirbabies’lives or eventheir ownlives.” Lynn Lim, 35,financial consultant
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      77 22 On Internet service providers slashing prices to woo customers: Not enough competition. We are still paying too muchfor whatwe get.One tip.Don’tsign long contracts.Don’t getsucked into cheaptoday,but pay and pay later. What little choice we have is enough to make good judgements. Let the ISPs fight it out.
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      Lock icon Hollywood CATCHES Bollywood FEVER
      1105 23  -  Western stars ride Indian Wave to cash in REPORT: SETO NU-WEN seto@sph.com.sg INDIAiscalling.AndtheWestisheedingitscall.AsfarasHollywoodisconcernedthesedays,Bolly-woodisthenextbigthing. Several international stars are heading to India, the latestbeingAussiesingerKylieMinogue. Despite the economic crunch, the 40-year-old recently pocketed £100,000 ($220,000) a day for a week’s workinMumbai foran Indianmovie, Blue.The Carib-bean-setactionerisbeingtoutedasoneofBollywood’s biggestblockbusters,witha£20millionbudget. ItalsostarsSanjayDutt,LaraDuttaandKatrinaKaif. Minogue will
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        308 25  -  Danish pop group Michael Learns To Rock are regular guys REPORT:TAN TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg CALLthemtheanti-rockstars.ForthemenofDanishsoftrockbandMichaelLearnsToRock,theyprefertoseethemselves as “ordinary folks” who lead “normal lives”, not unlikeyouandme. Despite being one of the most popular musical acts in Asia and Europe, having sold more than 10
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        412 26/27  -  REPORT: YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg DO NOT panic if you’re out for dinner on Saturday and it’s dark everywhere you go. Being the good corporate citizens that they are, some hotels and restaurants are participating in the worldwide event called Earth Hour. On Saturday,
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        180 26/27 LOOKING for a guilt-free way to beat the heat of the day? Yogurt is a good and healthy option that you can indulge in. Besides being rich in calcium, it also helps improve your digestion and boost your immune system. And if you are
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        115 26/27 FOR the annual Swiss food fair, and the third birthday of the Cafe Swiss, you can enjoy food cooked by guest chef Rudiger Mayer from Swissotel Zurich. He will be in charge of the kitchen from Friday till 5 Apr. Mayer has worked in various restaurants
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        Lock icon Great food at great prices
        305 26/27  -  REPORT: YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg HOWoftencanyousayyou’vetastedfoodfroman eatery mentioned in the Michelin Guide? Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao in Harbour City, Hong Kong is mentioned in the 2009 guide for Hong Kong and Macau. Thebookdescribesthefoodas“veryfresh,aromatic andtasty”. Well,youdon’thavetotraveltoHongKongtotaste this.Themenu’sthesamehere. As expected, the food is way
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        148 26/27 ONE good thing to come out of the recession must be the bargains you can find. As aconsumer,you’re the king becauseof the good deals. At Huang Ting and Huang Jia restaurants, you can get a roasted crispy Peking duck for $23.80 instead of the usual
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        306 26/27  -  REPORT: KELVIN CHAN chanymk@sph.com.sg THE Grand Park City Hall is the first hotel here to offer a Healthier Choice menu for kids at its popular Indulge at Park restaurant. It worked with the Health Promotion Board and the result is a mix of familiar
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        687 28  -  Bills with inflated amounts not new at Newton Food Centre, but visitorsdrawnto‘brand’name K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg THEcustomerswerecharged$491foradinnerforsix at Newton Food Centre and it included giant prawnsthatcosts$239. American customer and his friends complain. Big brouhaha,publicoutrageandfolksupinarmsscreaming,“Howcanahawkerchargethesekindsofprices?” The media reports the facts and gets colourful
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      16 29 PICTURE: STAR MOVIES MIND OF A KILLER: Lindsay Lohan and Jared Leto star in Chapter 27.
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        919 38 RACE 1 MELANG ANGEL returned bro-ken-winded. The mare was impounded. PANIC ATTACK was lame off-fore. He also returned with sub-epiglottic cyst. RACE 2 While in the barrier, SAYA BOLEH became cast, resulting in B Woodworth being dislodged. SAYA BOLEH was removed from his
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        584 39 RACE 1 LUCKY DIP bled. RACE 2 A HA OBAMA, SMILES ALL AROUND and KIM ROCKET raced poorly. RACE 3 Trainer P Lee was fined RM100 ($45) for failing to produce the declared colours on NEVERANINCH. Near the 300m, NEVERANINCH ran up to,
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        451 40 AFP THE European Tour says it wants next month’s Volvo China Open to remain a co-sanctioned event with the Asian Tour and not the controversial new OneAsia Tour. The lucrative tournament has been jointly hosted by the European Tour, Asian Tour and China
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        533 40 Wire Services WHILE most of the talk this year has focused on the PGA Tour’s young guns, Retief Goosen and 50-year-old Tom Lehman proved this week that the veterans still have what it takes. Two-time US Open champion Goosen, 40, fired a one-under par 70 to win
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        533 41  -  ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg TIMES are bad but the prices to most of the tickets to the second SingTel Singapore Grand Prix have increased afterlastyear’ssuccess. That’s the case in most of the cheaper categories, and some of the more expensive seats for the Marina Bay
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        1173 42 Dundee United's Francisco Sandaza celebrates after scoring againstCeltic lastSunday. PICTURE: REUTERS LALIGA P W D L F A Pts 1Barcelona 28 22 3 3 84 24 69 2RMadrid 28 20 3 5 66 31 63 3Sevilla 28 16 6 6 42 26 54 4Villarreal 28 13 9 6 45
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        278 43  -  The majority of our readers predicted an all-English affair in Rome come May. Our Letter of the Weekend winner predicts a third meeting between the arch-rivals and feels his beloved United will fail against Liverpool LETTER OF THE WEEKEND Loh Shengli –LohShengli,24,bankofficer, Man Utd fan (The
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        385 43 THE POSTMAN GUEST: JOE MORRISON I HAVE spent a lot of time in the house recently. It is not, you must understand, because I am suicidal or lonely. No, it is because in this time of financial squeeze, we all, myself included, have to be a
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          85 43 UNLIKE Barcelona, Man United have to be aware of the hot pursuit of their closest rivals, Liverpool and Chelsea in the English League. Already out of the FA Cup, Liverpool can pool their resources just for the Premiership and Champions League. Arsenal have to make sure that
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          87 43 HAVING beaten Chelsea more times than they have lost, Liverpool would have a big advantage against the London side. Their biggest test would come in the form of the winners of the Barcelona versus Bayern Munich clash. If Rafael Benitez manages to pull off another masterstroke, his
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        580 44  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg ON THE weekend that saw the UK release of the Brian Clough movie “The Damned United”, it was alarmingtosee Manchester United’sdiscipline crumbling in a way that “Old Big ‘Ed” would never have tolerated. The legendary Nottingham Forest and
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        394 44 Wire Services NO MATTER what Manchester United say, its a fact: The Red Devils are a dirty team. According to the official statistics of the English Premier League, United are among the most ill-disciplined teams in the English top-flight. Sir Alex Ferguson’s superstars are third-from-bottom of the Premiership
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        762 45  -  DANIEL FINKELSTEIN Special Correspondent The writer is a soccer columnist and associate editor of The Times in London. A Chelsea fan, he was awarded an OBE in 1997. CAN Manchester United win the Quintuple? Here’s a surprising reply. No. It is surprising because it is
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        275 45 Wire Services THE cracks are starting to show: Manchester United are at risk of a total burn-out. The world, European and English champions are making an unprecedented bid for the Quintuple and it is obvious the historic task is taking a massive toll on
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        516 47 Even an astounding 5-0 win over Aston Villa hardly brought a smile to Rafa Benitez’sface. Here are 10 suggestions that may well cheer him up MAKE no mistake: Rafael Benitez is almost impossible to please. EvenafterSunday’s 5-0 victory over Aston Villa, Benitez looked about as happy as Simon
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        1067 48/49  -  IT’SALSO DOWN TO HIM We look at some of the reasons forLiverpool’s sudden turn in fortune GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg FOOTBALL has always been full of ironies. But the latest example may take some beating. Former Arsenal and England defender Martin Keown has claimed that Robbie Keane’s departure in
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        149 48/49  -  Skipper Steven Gerrard scored three times in the 5-0 thrashing of Aston Villa on Sunday. Here are some facts and figures about hat-tricks at Liverpool LIM SAY HENG FERNANDO Torres was the last Liverpool player to score a hat-trick. The Spaniard scored three goals last March in a
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        650 46  -  Few backed Liverpool to bash Villa5-0–ascorepaying$65 BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg I AM still asking around. I did the rounds at the pub on Saturday night. Zero. I followed it up at the betting shop. A few “ayes”.Mostly “nays”. Of the “ayes”, some were dodgy. I
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        258 46 Wire Services ASTON Villa are on a freefall. No wonder manager Martin O’Neill accepts it is going to be “very tough’’ for them to overhaul Arsenal and qualify for next season’sChampionsLeague. Villa’s bid to finish in the top four has collapsed over the past
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      367 50  -  GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg SQUEAKYbumtime.A weird expression, coined by Sir Alex Ferguson, usedtodescribe thetense moments,duringthe closingstagesofcompetitions,especiallyforthoseinthelead. The phrase made it to the Collins English Dictionary in 2005,noless. One wonders how Fergie’s bum is feeling at the moment. Littlewould hehave expected aseven-point leadwith a gameinhandtobenarrowedtojustonepointandagame inhandaftertheirlasttwomatches.
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        126 51 LIVE TELECASTS COPA LIBERTADORES Thursday: AURORA vGREMIO Ch 27,8.50am WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Saturday: RUSSIA v AZERBAIJAN Ch 27,8.55pm Andrei Arshavin (right) has scored twice for Russia in the Qualifiers. Sunday: ROMANIA v SERBIA Ch 22,2.15am GERMANY v LIECHTENSTEIN Ch 27, 2.55am PORTUGAL v SWEDEN Ch 21,3.45am SPAIN vTURKEY Ch
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        39 51 BLACK MOUNTAIN MASTERS Thursday: DAY 1 Ch 23,3.30pm Friday: DAY 2 Ch 23,3.30pm OPENDE ANDALUCIA Thursday: DAY 1 Ch 26,10.30pm Friday: DAY 2 Ch 26,10.30pm ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL Friday: DAY 1 Ch 26,3am Saturday: DAY 2 Ch 26,3am
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        437 51 LOCAL EVENTS TENNIS What: STA Open Singles and Doubles When: Until Sunday Where: Kallang Tennis Centre OPENtoall players,the men’ssingles champion will take home a trophy and $500, whilethewomen’s singles champion will win a trophy and $300. ATHLETICS What: SPH Schools Relay Championships 2009 When: Saturday and Sunday
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      184 43 QUESTION OF THE WEEK WHAT are the reasons behind the current feel-good factor at Liverpool? This feel-good factor has not only contributed a truck-load of goals and all-round confidence on the field, but also optimism off it as well. The word limit is 200 words and the deadline is 4pm
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      16 50 RAFABENITEZ: Smile,you’ve beatenRealMadrid, ManUnited and now, AstonVilla! PAGE47 PICTURE: REUTERS SINGTELSINGAPOREGP:Want togettickets? Checkout the prices. PAGE41
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