The New Paper, 10 May 2009

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    • 1137 2 / 3  -  BAD TIMES HIT MISTRESSES, ONE HITS BACK REPORT: TAY SHI’AN shian@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREAN wife Alice Tan (not her real name) was at work earlier this year when she got a call from a woman in China. The woman claimed to be her
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    • 392 2 / 3  -  REPORT: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg LOUNGE hostesses have also been hit by the downturn. Business at KTV lounges and nightclubs is down, said three mamasans and five hostesses The New Paper on Sunday spoke to. Singaporean mamasan Nana, 41, told The New PaperonSunday:“Tell mewhich tradehas not
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    • News Mas Selamat Caught
      • 1074 4 / 5  -  Dead-end trails in hilly Johor PhotojournalistZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF getsonsportsbikeandsurveys possible escape routes taken by terrorist Mas Selamat while on the run ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF 1 RECCEREPORT OILPALM ESTATE Johorlocation: Oil PalmPlantationon theoutskirts of BandarNusajaya. Watercrossing:Lessthan 700m fromSingapore. Jump-offpoint:Directly opposite SungeiGedong (live firingarea). This would’ve been the shortest escape
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      • 791 6  -  Expertsdifferonwhetherit’sbetter forMasSelamattostaydetained indefinitelyorfaceanopentrial REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg CLOSED-DOOR handling of his case or have an open trial? Now that Mas Selamat Kastari is once again in custody, the next question is: How should Singapore deal with him when the terrorist is handed over by
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    • 712 8 / 9  -  She wins despite Q& A stumble REPORT: JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com.sg SHE was mired in some controversy at this year’s Miss Singapore Universe (MSU). But Rachel Kum managed to skirt the heat and become the latest winner of the local beauty pageant heldatShangri-LaHotel’sIslandBallroomlastnight.
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    • News Mother's Day Tributes
      • 475 10 / 11 NMP Dr Thio Li-ann on her motherDrThioSuMien ATTHEheightoftheAWAREfurore,mymother asked whether she had disgracedmebyherinfamy. I hugged her and said I was proud of her courageinstandingupforherprinciplesand graceinfacinguncouthopposition. I expect nothing less from her. She is a woman of integrity who taught me to always championwhatisright,goodandjust,evenif thisattractsflak. My
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      • 605 10 / 11 ShirinAroozooto writes to her mother HedwigAnuar, founding member of A ware DEAR Mum, You’rethestrongestpersonIknow. Everyone knows you as the first woman who became director of the National Library, but I just knowyou as Mum. As a child, I remember how you made a name for
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      • 353 10 / 11  -  REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE-BORN diva Anita Sarawak, 57, haseverything butchildren ofherown. All because of a vow she made as a youth growing up in a broken home. “Ipromisedmyselfthat ifIgot married, never to have a child and have a divorce, and makehergo throughwhatI had
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      • 341 10 / 11  -  Ho Lian-yi IN the popular imagination, a mother-in-law is not someone you would actually want to live with. National footballer Baihakki Khaizan, 26, though, had few qualms about moving in with the family of his wife of nearly a year, Suria artiste Norfasarie, also 26. Itwas
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    • News Mother’s Day: Lost & Found
      • 364 12  -  Elysa Chen FOR more than 40 years, she has had only one Mothers’ Day wish: To find her three lost daughters. She was separated from them when she left her first husband, who had cheated on her with another woman. She has no pictures, no mementos,
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      • 385 12  -  REPORT: ELYSA CHEN elysac@sph.com.sg HE HAD to wait 48 years to celebrate Mother’sDaywithhismum. Cabby Lim Peng Huat, 48, and his mother were finally reunited in March this year, after his 10-year search. He had been given away when he was five months old,
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      • 303 12  -  Audrey Tan Ruiping newsroom intern MOTHER’SDayhas comeand gone with an empty feeling for her 42 times. This time, Ms Tammy-Sue Bender (righ), a Singapore-born British citizen who was adopted when she was 11/2 years old, hopes it will be different. Ms Bender, who lives in London, is
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    • News The New Paper Auction
      • 188 13 BIDDING FOR SERIES 1 PRIZES ENDS TODAY HURRY today is your last chance to bid for one of the five prizes sponsored byAudiohouse. Up for grabs are a Canon camcorder, a Shinco portable DVD player, a Samsung 5.1 home theatre system,
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    • 994 14/15 The New Paper On Sunday suggests3waystotweak meet-the-people sessions A NUMBER tag in one hand, a petition in the other, and a long wait in line for a few precious minuteswithyourMemberofParliament. FormanySingaporeans,thisistheirqueueofhope– a chance to get a favour, bend a rule, find some sympathy, get a little
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    • 737 16  -  Who’rethebest-looking local politicians? Wepoll100S’poreans REPORT: SHREE ANN MATHAVAN shreeann@sph.com.sg IT’S an “election” in which political newbies like Ms Eunice Olsen and Mr Teo Ser Luck have trumped ministers with decades of experience. That’sbecausethe“voters”hadonlyonecriteriainmakingtheirchoice–looks. The New Paper on Sunday polled 100 people on who they thought
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    • 607 18/19 UKgangused‘extreme violence’andbragged aboutcrimesonline THEY wore dark clothing, balaclavas and masks from the horror film Scream, and were armed with knives and mallets. They often carried out a spate of robberies in one night, and once attacked eight people in three hours. They were not a
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    • Article, Illustration
      229 18/19 Competitors in Red Bull Cliff Diving Series gofrom0to100kmhin3seconds PICTURESTORY Wire services THIRTEEN men, eight challenging competitions and 26m between take-off and dive. The new Red Bull Cliff Diving Series 2009 got off to a cracking start at La Rochelle on Friday. La Rochelle is a city in western
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    • 566 18/19 LEAKED details of items claimed by British MembersofParliamenton expenses– from chocolate to a sack of horse manure werepublishedyesterday, pilingfresh embarrassment on Prime Minister Gordon Brown’sgovernment. On Friday, conservative daily The Telegraph revealed details of expense claims made by Mr Brown and
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    • 659 20 Modeldenies she’sillegitimate childofItalianPM AT 18, this stunning, curvaceous model can turn many heads. But now, Noemi Letizia has an entire country scrutinising her every move. The reason: Her “seeming” closeness to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Rumour mill has it that Noemi is Mr Berlusconi’sillegitimatedaughter.Considering the
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    • 356 20 HE had a life savings of US$100,000 ($145,000). But a homeless South Korean was unable to use a single cent of that money because he could not prove his identity to the bank, South Korean officials said. He died of cancer
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    • 451 21 She lost legs in Sichuan quake,butnowdancesto raise funds for victims DANCE teacher Liao Zhi lost both legs in last year’sSichuanearhquakeon12May. But the 23-year-old did not give up on her dancer dreams. Not only is she able to stand up again, she now dances across
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    • News Exchange
      • 498 22/23  -  THE BUZZ COMMENT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg THATwastheweekthatwas.To say it was not exactly a propitious one for womenistoputitmildly. Womenbehavingbadlyandwildly.Andwithoutthe excuse of being caught unawares either. (In one case, womanwascaughtwithpantsdown,seebelow.) CaughtUnawares IwasoutoftowninAprilandmissedtheunravelling oftheAwaresaga. Coming in from the cold, if you’d read just a single
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      • 32 22/23 “Ilose aballin every ninthhole.” Aman commentingon hisgolf games “There goesmy retirementplan.” Aman joking about howhe canno longer claim the million-dollar reward for turning in captured fugitive Mas Selamat
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      • 93 22/23 1 HE wasborn in Kendal, a provincein Central Java. His familymigrated toSingapore whenhe was ayoung boy. He grewupin akampung in KakiBukit and attended Kaki Bukit Primary School. 2 Helatermoved to aflat inthe BedokReservoir area. A few yearslater, he gotmarried and wenton tohave five children–
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      • 138 22/23 Werate the past week’snews goodandbad. +20 Singapore stocks have soared by more than 50 percent from their low two months ago, with the STIcrossing2000 and wiping out losses all the way back to October. -20 Corporate profits have plunged for listed companies and the IMF has slashed
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    • News Snapshot
      • 95 24 AFP THREE Indian activists were among 13 detainees who were freed in Malaysia yesterday. The trio, M Manoharan, P Uthayakumar and K Vasantha Kumar, were members of the banned eth- nic Indian rights group Hindraf. They had been held under the Internal Security Act after mounting
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      • 114 24 AP HEALTH officials in Canada said that a woman in her 30s died after contracting the Influenza A (H1N1) virus. She is the first patient to die of the virus in the country. This makes Canada the third country after Mexico and the United
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      • 105 24 AFP UNITED States President Barack Obama yesterday renewed his appeal to Congress to pass a credit card reform bill that would outlaw sudden interest rate increases, hidden fees and what the White House calls“unfairpenalties”. In his weekly radio address, Mr Obama
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      • 95 24 AP UNITED Nations officials said that an international treaty has been expanded to restrict or ban nine more dangerous chemicals beyond theoriginal“dirty dozen”. The substances are used in pesti- cides, flame retardants and other products. The UN Environment Programme said that the chemicals
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      • 248 24 RE-CAPTURE OF MAS SELAMAT KASTARI THE news that terror suspect Mas Selamat Kastari had been caught by Malaysian authorities was a closely guarded secret. Even Singapore ministers were not told about it, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong revealed in a statement yesterday. He said
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      • Article, Illustration
        49 24 UNREASONABLE: The owners of this house, Sheila and Gayle Muhs, shot 4 people, including 2 children, on Friday. They claimed the four had trespassed while driving to a levee encircling a lake in Texas. Investigators said the road and levee were open to the public. PICTURE: AP
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  • enjoy
    • 786 25  -  FormerbeautyqueenJaime Teothoughthersinglemum wastoostrictwithher REPORT: GAN LING KAI ganlk@sph.com.sg FORMER beauty queen Jaime Teo and radio deejay Daniel Ong have more in common than just being married to each other. They come from similar family backgrounds too they were both raised by
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    • 350 26/27  -  Oldestamongeightfinalistsiscrowned ‘FashionisticMum’ David Ho –DavidHo,newsroomintern MADAM Dorothy Paw Yoke Yue certainly proved that age is no barrier to being trendy, intelligent and fashionable. The 36-year-old homemaker walked away with the title of “Fashionistic Mum” at the competition finals held at Plaza Singapura yesterday, despite being
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    • Enjoy Shopping
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        • 328 28  -  YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg AS much as I adore my mother, and as much as I enjoy shopping, I cannot shop for my mother. It is an impossible task. It would be easier for me to lose 10kg in a day. For a little
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        • 202 28 1 No need to buy your mother a huge bag when a purse would do. If you head to Liz Claiborne (VivoCity, Raffles City, among others), you’ll find delightfully colourful purses for only $39 handy for coins, keys and an ez-link card. Besides, it’s not everyday you’ll
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    • Enjoy Fly on the Wall
      • 327 29  -  Despite downturn, the show must go on as ChristianLacroixopensAudiFashionFestival REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg Absolutely.Fabulous.Darlings.ChristianLacroix’shautecoutureopen-ing gala at the Audi Fashion Festival Tent@Orchard on Wednesday night was abbofabbo,mydears. Anditallverynearlydidn’thappen. In a year that added buzz words “babygloomers”, “chiconomics”, “recessionistas” and “credit-crunch couture” to our strapped-for-cash vocabulary, it looked
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    • Enjoy Hed Chef
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        488 30  -  Hedy Khoo hedy khoo@sph. com. sg FINDING the perfect clam chowder is very much like finding the right guy. Both are equally elusive. Choosing to order clam chowder off a rant’smenuisanexperiencefraughtwithpotential emotional potholes. Alas, there have been many times when I’ve tasted disappointment after venturing a brave finger
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    • Enjoy Columns
      • 588 31  - Go on a date get your chores done too DAVID TIAN tnp@sph.com.sg Learn more about dating expert Dr Date at his website: www.powerofbeingasian.com IN THIS second article on the theme of first dates, we’ll be looking at one of the most effective first date ideas: The tag along date. Remember
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      • 355 31  -  S MURALI FATHER FIGURES muralis@sph.com.sg WHENEVERItellanyonethatIhavetwokids–aboy andagirl–theautomaticreactionis:“Oh,you’reso lucky.” One of each, they say, just nice. It always makes me wonder what these same people wouldsayifIhadtwoboysortwogirls. U nlucky? Tryhardernexttime? I’msuretheywouldcomeupwithsomethingmore diplomatic, but it did set me thinking. Why do some people automatically assume that havingkidsofbothgendersmakesfor“complete”
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      • 207 31 YOURtipshavebeenreally helpful.I’vebeenabletostart conversations with girls I was too scared to look at before. I’mstillscaredthatshemight have a boyfriend, though. How do you deal with this? Yours, Richard. Dear Richard, It’sgreat tohear thatyou’re having somesuccess with your new social skills! I just assume that most attractive girls will be
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      • 298 32  -  S M ONG ACT BLUR smong@sph.com.sg WHENtheAwareoldguardbeattheusurpersatthe EGM earlier this month, it was a victory for pluralism, diversity and tolerance and I’mjusttalkingaboutthehair. Basically,thepeoplewiththecraziesthairwon,and letmetellyou,Iknowfirst-handaboutcrazyhair. Onthe scalps of the 3,000 whoswarmed the Suntec event was an eye-popping variety of coifs in
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      • 493 32  -  COMMENT:JOANNE JOANNE SOH joannes@sph.com.sg PINK is for girls, my son said to me one day. Although surprised by my three-year-old’s declaration, I was secretly pleased. I had lost some sleep about his oftentimes pansy behaviour. You see, my son has
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    • 32 31 Ask Dr Date Have problems finding love? Make a date with DrDate.He’ll go over thefiner points ofcourtship in his weekly column in The New Paper on Sunday. E-mail your questions to tnp@sph.com.sg
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  • Page 33 Miscellaneous
    • 293 33 BRAIN WORKOUT TAN KIN LIAN Thereare fivehouses with differentcolours in arow.Each occupantplays adifferent instrument,speaksadifferent languageand keeps adifferentpet. Howtoplay 1.Findthecluesthat indicateafixedHouse (egGeorgelivesinfirst house)andotherrelated clues(egbluehousenext toGeorge’s).Fillthetable withtheclues. 2.Findothercluesthat canbeplacedintable. Youmayhavetofigure outafewrelatedclues together. 3.Onceyou’veworked outallthecluesandput theminthetable,you’ll beabletoanswerthe question. Answers/PAGE34 1. Edward lives in the third house. 2. Charlie speaks German. 3. The Spanishspeakerkeepsa
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  • Page 34 Miscellaneous
    • 286 34 WATCH’EM PICTURES:WARNERBROS, STAR MOVIES Fool’sGold(above) HBO(StarHubCh60), 9pm A newclue tothe whereabouts ofa losttreasure rekindlesa marriedcouple’ssense ofadventure and theirestranged romance.StarringMatthew McConaughey,KateHudson. CHANNEL5 Noon FootballAsiaShow 2009 12.30pm Footballer’sLives 1.00 TheAmazing Race XIVMarathon 5.00 AmericanIdol VIII 6.15 AreYouSmarter Than A 5thGrader? 7.15 Movie:Charlie andthe ChocolateFactory 9.30 News5Tonight 10.00 S Factor 10.30 Harper’sIsland 11.30
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  • Page 35 Miscellaneous
    • 28 35 4 Genevieve Loh, Today Jason Johnson, SPH The New Paper 'an edge-of-seat thrill-ride' Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile 'exhilarating' Colin Kennedy, Empire Magazine L- 4 Jill T H E
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    • Sports Racing
      • 249 36 Danny Khoo Tan Thean Loon Marc Tan RACE 1 RACE 2 RACE 3 RACE 4 Wealth Sector 11 4 Blazing Blair 7 Sinar Permata 2 8 Ultimate Fighter 4 9 8 Copenhagen Blazing Blair 11 Copenhagen 5 Jun Tu Titikilla 8 Seven Stars A Week 4 Titikilla 8
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      • 1315 36 RACE1 SHEN JIANG was slow to begin. ELITE began awkwardly and bumped the hindquarters of SIR ED and lost ground. Near the 1,000m, DARING TOURIST checked when racing between SHEN JIANG to his inside and NAPOLI to his outside. An inquiry into
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      • 1070 37 GOING FORECAST: SOFT RACE1 MS 1.45 -1400m Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 TwelveFairies 57 (53) PBraem 15 (4ahCecilRobert-GoldHill) 2 53--- UltimateFighter 57 (53) IAzhar 11 (4nzgMSukri-SHWah) 3 48-- ArcticSunrise 56.5 (52) YAifyc1 14 (4agPRoslan-Marine) 4 0060-3 BlazingBlair 56.5 (52) MZairi*c3 1
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      • 79 37 THIS impressive last-start winner should carry on from where he left off. Fitted with the blinkers at his third and last-start, he gave his rivals a galloping lesson to win a 1,100m event at Kuala Lumpur by a slashing 3 1 /2
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      • 402 38 Races 1 to 5 not available RACE 6 (3,300m) 6 KIMBERLEY DANE (RE Laing) (44:7-5-4): Backing up quickly but will go close if right. 2 ASSENT (PA Healey) (22:3-0-3): Should give big sight. 4 DEVON DESTROYER (ME Templeton) (15:3-1-1): Should play a
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      • 1100 38 10:40Race1 SEYMOUR 1300M 1 AYAL MPEGUS (12) 57 2 BILLYOFCHICAGO MSCPULS (10) 57 3 DJAVAKNIGHT JNOONANA4.0 (6) 57 4 FICKLEBUSINESS SBASTER (5) 57 5 INTOTHESUN JACKHILLA2.0 (7) 57 6 MCENROE BRAWILLER (11) 57 7 THEWOODSMAN ASPITERI (1) 57 8 WILHUSTLE JBALDOCK (8) 57 9 EMCLASS
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      • 391 39 GOING: SOFT Race1 MS1400m 7 MANINBLACK53c53.5(15-7) OChavez (8) 6 6 1 (425) 8 SHE'SADARLING52.5c52(25-9) MZairi* (9) 3 3 2 (443) Nk 4 SHAMBALA54.5c53.5(33-8) SSalee (7) 2 2 3 (444) 2.25 3 KIMELLY54.5(66-16) PBraem (2) 1 1 4 (429) Nk ?Winningowner:BHHo.Trainer:PPereira.Time:1min26.7sec. Forecast:$15.Tierce:$294.Quartet:$2497.MalaysianW/P:RM19,RM11,RM13,RM12. EOB:$15.PForecast:$9(7-8),$25(8-4),$11(7-4).Trio:$78. Coursescratching:13:Marblehead Race2 C*****m 8 READYTOGO55.5c54.5(31-13)
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      • 312 39 GOING: GOOD RACE1 CLASS5(TURF) 1600m 6 GOODTIMECHARLIE129(20-6) BPREBBLE (8) 1 3 DECAGONAL132(20-7) WCMARWING (12) 2 12 ENERGETICBOY115(19-11) MDUPLESSIS (6) 3 10 DANEPRINT116(44-15) CWWONG (5) 4 ?Trainer:TWLeung.Margins:Shd,0.5.Time:1min36.2sec.EOB:$14.Forecast:$21. PlaceForecast:$8(Nos.3-6),$8(Nos.3-12),$8(Nos.6-12). Tierce:$101.Trio:$17.Quartet:$239. RACE2 CLASS4(TURF) 1600m 1 GODANGO133(24-8) ZPURTON (3) 1 9 AMITYSHIP117(23-9) HWLAI (2) 2 12 LIVERBIRD116(88-24) MLYEUNG
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    • Sports Face-to-Face
      • 704 40/41  -  GODFREY ROBERT npsports@sph.com.sg SHOCKING it was to see him badly miss a 10-foot downhill dou-ble-breaker putt although against the grain. Fortunately, it was not during a competition, but for a photo-shoot at Orchid Country Club last Thursday. “I was playing it blind,”
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      • 654 40/41  -  IthasbeenjustoveraweeksinceQuincyQuekbecameaprofessional golfer.HerehesharessomethoughtswithGODFREYROBERT GODFREY ROBERT GODFREY: WHAT made you decide to turn pro? QUINCY: My love and passion for the game and the constant challenges that this game poses under varying conditions. I feel I’m at the top of my game and
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      • 311 40/41 THERE are about 145 professional golfers in Singapore, but fewer than 10 are playing pros. That’s because the playing pros’ life is a tough one on account of the high standards in the region and the limited number of Challenge Tours, or supporting tournaments
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    • 488 42 GOLF AFP ALEX Cejka charged to a surprise two-stroke lead halfway through the Players Championship on Friday, just a week after an epidural injection in his neck. The Czech-born German took advantage of benign morning conditions to shoot a near-flawless five-under-par 67 in the second round
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    • 357 42  -  FORMULA ONE LUKE NETTO npsports@sph.com.sg AS EXPECTED, Ferrari are competitive once again. Felipe Massa did well in qualifying for fourth place, but yet another screw-up from the team caused team-mate Kimi Raikkonen to start from 16th place. Ferrari’s new and improved F60 looked a lot more complete
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    • 271 42 AFP LORENA Ochoa fired a six-under-par 65 on Friday to stretch her lead to three shots at the LPGA Michelob Ultra Open. The world No. 1 woman golfer had a two-round total of 13-under 129, making the most of ideal conditions to increase
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    • Sports Formula One
      • 824 43 CHAMPIONSHIPleaderJen-son Button was fastest in qualifying yesterday to takepoleposition fortoday’s FormulaOne’s SpanishGrand Prix. The Brawn GP driver took his third pole of the season with a record Circuit de Catalunya track timeof 1minute, 20.527seconds. “I got the lap on the high fuel so I’m very
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    • Sports Girl Power
      • 917 44/45  -  This week, in our series on women who push the frontiers of sport, readabouthowonewomansurvivedaracethroughtheworld’s windiest desert JOYCE LIM npsports@sph.com.sg TWO SETS of T-shirts and shorts, five disposable panties and a backpack filled with instant food saw her through a week in the Gobi Desert. She did not
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      • 426 44/45  -  JOYCE LIM JUST last year alone, ultra-marathoner Liew Wei Yong completed four major marathons and a 10km charity run. In May, she clocked 12 hours and seven minutes at the inaugural adidas Sundown ultra-Marathon (84km). Barely a week later, she left for the Gobi March in China,
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