The New Paper, 19 July 2009

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    13 1 The New Paper on sunday 19 Jul 09 80 CENTS MICA (P) 194/11/2008
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      63 1 FURORE OVER ZOE’S COMMENTS ON ‘SEVEN PRINCESSES’ Candid or catty? 10 Winner of Reporting Breaking News Award ’09 Society of Publishers in Asia ‘Princesses’ react... S’POREAN INJURED IN JAKARTA BOMBINGS INCHES FROM DEATH Ceiling would have collapsed on him if he had sat at opposite end of breakfast table Could
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      Lock icon Wheelchair wheeler dealer
      1069 2/3  -  Bukit Batok man sellsillegalcigarettes in‘plainsight’ REPORT:SPECIAL SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tnp@sph.com.sg HE SITS in his wheelchair outside the shops at Bukit Batok every night and does brisk business. But this man, who looks to be in his 60s, is not selling something as innocuous as tissue paper. His product
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      Lock icon The answer is ‘Jocie’... no, it’s ‘Stef’
      720 4  -  Students help PM tackle questions at launch of Chinese-learning website REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg SHE was picked to help Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong with a Chinese quiz yesterday. But Miss Mandaraz Lim, 19, a polytechnic student, almost ended up giving PM Lee
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    • News Jakarta Bombings
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        Lock icon SAVED by taking different seat at breakfast table
        1022 6 / 7  -  RELIEF S’poremanager barely escapes being crushed by hotel ceiling in Jakartablast REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg HIS choice of seat probably saved his life. The width of a restaurant table was the difference between life and death for Singaporean Thomas Thong. The 52-year-old
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        Lock icon Indonesians mourn Kiwi as ‘father figure’
        535 6 / 7 Victim had set up charities to help struggling locals GRIEF HE escaped terrorist threats in Sri Lanka. But Mr Timothy David Mackay (above) could not escape them in Indonesia. Mr Mackay, 62, president and director of Swiss-owned Holcim Indonesia cement company, wasamong the ninepeoplekilled
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        Lock icon How bombers evaded security, intelligence
        757 8 / 9 Jakarta blast bombers managed togetpastmetaldetectorsto detonate their deadly cargo BUNGLED COULD the Jakarta bomb attacks have been prevented? Indonesian police believe two suicide bombers were behind the attacks at the Ritz-Carlton and J W Marriott hotels on Friday. And it seemed at least one of
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        Lock icon ‘People had become complacent’
        475 8 / 9  -  BLASTED REPORT: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg THEY should have seen this coming. That is what one terror expert feels about the hotel bombings. “Theattacks inJakarta werepossible because people had become complacent and lettheir guard down,”said Mr Arabinda Archarya. “Afterallit had beenalmostfouryears since the country saw any
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      Lock icon Miss Crude or MISUNDERSTOOD?
      1096 10 / 11  -  Plain candid or just catty? TheQueen’sblunt commentsonthe princesses in Caldecott Hillhavedrawnfirefrom viewers,leavingher bewilderedandhelpless KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com. sg IT’SnoteasybeingtheQueen.EvenbeforethefuroreoverZoeTay’s wrinkleshas died down, the 41-year-old Queen (or ex-Queen, assomeinsist)ofCaldecottisfacingmorecriticism. This time, it’s for an interview that the actress did morethanfourmonthsago. Actor Chen Hanwei, Zoe’s close friend of
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      Lock icon First rejected, now they’re First-class graduates
      760 12 / 13  -  Armybuddiesspurredeachotheron toretakeAlevels.Theythenmadethe mostoftheirchanceinuniversity REPORT: TAY SHI’AN shian@sph.com.sg WHEN they first took their A level exams, army buddies Jeremy Sor and Donald Lim did so badly that no university would accept them. But instead of giving up, the duo decided to retake the exams, eventually
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      Lock icon Juggling books and diapers
      610 12 / 13  -  REPORT: VEENA BHARWANI veenab@sph.com.sg GROW up, go to university, get married and then have a baby? Ms Norainee Mohidu, 28, decided to shake things up by getting married first, having a baby, then getting her university degree. She graduated from the Singapore Management University (SMU) last
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      548 12 / 13  -  Formany,itwouldbeanightmaretohaveyourfatheras your university lecturer. Not for this student REPORT: VEENA BHARWANI veenab@sph.com.sg HOW would you like to have a parent as your teacher in school? Given the choice, most of us would run as fast as possible to get away from such a situation. But
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      Lock icon She’s not against gay people, just against gay agenda
      977 14 / 15  -  S’porelawlecturerdefends herself in 18-point e-mail toNYULawSchooldean REPORT: TAY SHI’AN shian@sph.com.sg SHE’S tired of the “bullying” and “torrent of abuse” she has received for her views on homosexuality. She questions why her detractors have chosen to attack her personally and jeopardise her
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      Lock icon Could classes be cancelled because too few signed up?
      247 14 / 15 DRThio’sdetractors arenow speculating if her classes could be cancelled, making the debateswirling aroundher a“moot point”. AboveTheLaw.com, the US legal blog whichposted DrThio’se-mail, quoted an unnamed source as saying that both of Dr Thio’sclasses are“severely undersubscribed”. She is scheduled to teach two
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      Lock icon From ‘classy’ mall to Myanmar market
      831 16 / 17  -  Local tenants at Peninsula PlazaunhappythatMyanmar shopsaredrivinguprent REPORT:HEDY HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg STEP through the sliding glass doors of Peninsula Plaza at City Hall and you may think you are in Yangon. The words on shop signboards are Burmese. So are the goods available, ranging from
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      Lock icon Service your bike at 1 am? No problem
      1061 18 / 19  -  Despiterisks,JB’smidnightworkshopspopularamongS’poreans REPORT&PICTURES: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg YOU could call them the 7-Elevens of motorcycle workshops, where you can get a tune-up or oil change as late as (or as early, depending on how you look at it) three in the morning. While
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      Lock icon Helping out by stepping up
      528 20  -  Participants at carnival complete10millionsteps in aid of needy families REPORT: TAY SHI’AN shian@sph.com.sg SHE wanted not just to receive, but to give. When single mum Madam Rashima Mohd Ali, 41, an administrative assistant, heard of a charity event that would provide her and thousands of
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      Lock icon They donated national song
      232 20 DID you know that We Are Singapore was donated to Singapore by Dairy Farm? That’sright, thatnational song thatstartswith: “Therewas a time when people said that Singapore won’tmakeit, butwedid.” On 23 Jun 1987, the song was presented to Mr Wong Kan Seng, then-Minister for Community Development and
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      Lock icon Why did L’Oreal heiress give $2.4b to male pal?
      615 21 Heiressdenies‘mentalfrailty’ butdaughtercallsforprobe HEisallegedtobea62-year-oldbully.When Mr Francois-Marie Banier appears in court, prosecutors may be tempted to ask him: “WhatfirstattractedyoutoEurope'srichestwoman?” Mr Banier, 62, a well-known photographer, is accused of bullying Mrs Liliane Bettencourt, the 86-year-old heiress to the L'Oreal fortune, into giving himgiftsworthcloseto£1billion($2.4billion). Her
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      Lock icon Jackson not his kids’ dad, says masseur
      310 21 THE King of Pop is unlikely to be the father of his three children. Masseur Paul Gohranson, the former lover of Dr ArnoldKlein,Jackson’slong-timedermatologist and friend, told US website Radar that Jackson was sterile and Dr Klein donated his own sperm so he could
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      471 22 Ownersmaketheircarsso beautifulwithart,ithurtsto drivethem.SuchisJapan’s hobbyknownas‘itasha’ THESE cars look so stylish, it seems a shame to drive them. These Japanese itasha cars are painted so well with characters from Japanese manga, and movies that they look like mobile works of art. Itasha is a Japanese word that refers to
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        Lock icon S’pore is still nation in transition
        295 23 MM LEE AT ORANGE RIBBON CELEBRATIONS DESPITE achieving harmony among all races in Singapore, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said yesterday that the country is still a work-in-progress when it comes to nationhood. “Are we a nation yet? I will not say we are.We'rein
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        70 23 HITTING HOME: An Oscar Mayer Wienermobile crashed into the deck and garage of a home in Wisconsin on Friday. Police said the driver thought she was moving in reverse. No one was home at the time. In another incident in Houston, a Vietnamese man accidentally stepped on the
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        Lock icon 49-year-old man is S’pore’s first H1N1 -related death
        101 23 SINGAPORE has its first H1N1-re-lated death, said the Health Ministry yesterday. A 49-year-old man with multiple health problems died yesterday afternoon from a heart attack, caused by severe pneumonia with underlying H1N1 infection. A patient of diabetes, hypertension and high cholesterol, he
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        Lock icon Haj priority for first-timers
        109 23 FIRST-TIMERS aiming to perform the haj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca will now be given priority, even over those already in the queue, as a result of changes announced by the Islamic Religious Council of Sin- gapore (Muis) yesterday. Muslims here must apply to Muis, which works
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        Lock icon Mumbai attackers’ trial adjourned
        107 23 THE trial in Pakistan of the five accused of involvement in last year’s terror attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai has been adjourned until next week. A total of 166 people died and more than 300 were injured in the November attacks, which saw 10
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        Lock icon Group with ties to Al-Qaeda threatens revenge on China
        96 23 AN OFFSHOOT of a secessionist group with ties to Al-Qaeda is threatening revenge for the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in clashes with Han Chinese earlier this month. The Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group said a video re- leased this week by the
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        Lock icon The bottom line on Zoe’s wrinkles
        490 24 / 25  -  THE BUZZ COMMENT: YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg IT’SfascinatingtowitnessthehooplaoverZoeTay’swrinklesonHighDefinitionTV.For some reason or other, it seems that the Queen ofCaldecottistobeblamedforthemassivefailurethat wasTheUltimatum, shotonthe unforgivinghighdefinitionformat. If only she had a shot or two of botox, the series wouldhavebeenahit. Runforyourlives!Zoehaswrinkles! Ohmygoodness,whatisthebigdeal? She is older, and she has lines. The
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        Lock icon SINGAPORE HAPPINESS INDEX
        188 24 / 25 Werate the past week’snew goodand bad. +10 Some 33,000 HDB households will benefit from a $1 billion boost to the Home Improvement Programme that will take advantage of lower construction costs and create more employment over the next three years. -10 There has been a trend of
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        Lock icon 5 things about Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe
        110 24 / 25 1 Admitsthat he’ssoused to playinghis characterin the moviesthat when someonecalls outtoanother personnamed Harryin the room,he sometimes responds. 2 Knownasthe prankster among thecast. Once instigatedmaking a“kickme” signfor co-star EmmaWatson tostick on Robbie Coltrane’sbackand changing thelanguage ofhis mobilephone toTurkish. 3 Heisanaspiring poet, butyou won’tfind
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        Lock icon OVERHEARD ON THE STREETS
        38 24 / 25 “Again? Don’tbluff.” Awoman’s responsewhen told about the twin hotel bombings in Jakarta “Pay50 centsfor something you getfree fromthe taphe’sokay. Butbus fare go upby 5cents, he kicks upafuss.” Aman complainingabout hisbrother, whodoesn’t mindpaying forbottled water.
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        Lock icon Strangers called her ‘fat’ when she was pregnant
        499 26 / 27  -  40Growingolderundertheglareof publicscrutinycanbecruel,as actressZoe Tay,41,recentlyfound outaftershedrewflakforher wrinklesinThe Ultimatum.SHREE ANNMATHAVANasksthree good-lookingwomenintheir saboutageinggracefullyittingthebigSOonspthefeemtptichGrowingolderundertheglareof publicscrutinycanbecruel, as actressZoe Tay,41,recently found outaftershedrewflakfor her wrinklesinThe Ultimatum. SHREE ANNMATHAVANasks three good-lookingwomenin SHREE ANN MATHAVAN EVEN though former model and actress Jazreel Low, 42, left showbiz more than 15 years ago,
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        Lock icon ‘Who doesn’t have wrinkles at this age?’
        349 26 / 27 SO what if you have wrinkles? That’sMs NanzChong-Komo’szen-liketake on ageing. The model-turned-entrepreneur, motivational speaker and newly appointed district councillor of the North East Community Development Council feels that Singaporeans should adopt a broader, more holistic mindset, rather than just zoom in on the
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        Lock icon Many people thinkthis grandma is in her late 30s
        328 26 / 27 THOSE who see this mother and daughter pair together often assume that they are sisters. That’sbecause freshly mintedgrandmother Azizah Doll has aptly youthful and doll-like features, which often lead people to think she is in her late 30s. She is actually
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          780 28 / 29  -  YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg ONE of my best friends is coming home in December. Daniel left for Florida a few years ago to study to be a nurse and now that he has his green card, he’s free to come home for a month-long visit. I can hardly
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          Lock icon Find the right shirt fit here
          111 28 / 29 IFyou’re looking for officewear,the new T.M.Lewin boutique at Orchard Central is the answer. It was established in 1898 in Jermyn Street, London, by Mr Thomas Mayes Lewin. And he was one of the first to make the coat-shirt, the groundbreaking idea of a shirt
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        Lock icon These fillies will give you a flutter
        505 30 / 31  -  SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg FOR Dato K C Tan, it was the sweetest win-win situation. His mare won the Emirates Singapore Derby and his filly won for best-dressed. Dr Tan is the renowned liver surgeon, and his horse Jolie’sShinjustreakedaheadfromstarttofinishtograb the million-dollar prize
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        230 30 / 31  -  REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg CALL it prescient, how else could they have known? And then again, Nicholas Hayak, the precision head timekeeper of Swatch group, has always been ahead of histime, and everyone else’sitwould looklike. Swatch unfurled its fall/winter 2009 line-up with an UtterlyArtyParty in
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        Lock icon When people are ‘phased out’ ahead of time
        493 32  -  S MURALI FATHER FIGURES muralis@sph.com.sg I WOULD like to write this week about an acquaintance. To qualify for this column, I must state that he is a father, and so, a father figure like me. He is a man on top of
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        Lock icon Grill your man like shredded potato
        394 33  -  Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg MEN know the type. The woman with the mobile fingers. Yes, especially nimble when sending you those template text messages. Some samples: Where are you? Why are you not home? What time are you coming home? Yes, nod in resigned unison
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        Lock icon Sylvia Toh Paik Choo for President. Hey, why not?
        566 34  -  The similarities between our columnist and US SenatorAl Fran ken are amazingly uncanny. SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO JUST PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg TWO Americans of prominence in the headlines this week resonated. Both, not coincidentally, appeared on the same“show”. Yesterday-comedian-today-senator Al Franken,
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        Lock icon Cabby socked with a fine
        131 34 QUEENSLAND cabby Kidd Moors was slapped with a fine by a police officer last month for not pulling up his socks. The offence stated on the ticket issuedwas “Failed todress neatly”,and theevidence identified “WHT/runners, shortrunningsocks”, reportedThe Courier-Mail. Mr Moors, 41, said he intends to fight
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        99 34 AP HE was feeling hot, so he stripped and walked around nude in the park for about an hour. But when he could not find his clothes later and was found naked by the police, the man in Lincoln, Nebraska, made up a story about being
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        411 34  -  S M ONG ACT BLUR smong@sph.com.sg TWO Sundays ago, around 1,000 people showed up at Velocity@Novena Square to get their head shaved for theChildren’sCancerFoundation(CCF). I wanted to be one of them, but then I found out that I had to
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      302 35 SEEINGSTARS BRAINWORKOUT TANKINLIAN Thereare fivehouses with differentcolours in a row.Each occupantplays adifferent sport,keeps adifferentpet andspeaks adifferentlanguage. 1. The rugbyplayerkeeps schnauzer. 2. The volleyballplayer speaksKorean. 3. The golf playerspeaks German. 4. The Koreanspeakerlivesright ofthe white house. 5. The cricketplayer lives leftof themaltese owner. 6. The scientistlivesleft ofthe Japanesespeaker. Howtoplay 1.Findthecluesthat indicateafixedHouse
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      275 36 WATCH’EM TheMummy:TombOf TheDragonEmperor (above) HBO(StarHubCh60), 9pm Famedexplorer andmummyfighters Rick O’Connell,his wife andson combatthe resurrected Qinemperorinan epicjourney thatraces from the catacombsofancientChina tothe frigidHimalayas. StarringBrendanFraser,Jet Li. PICTURE:20TH CENTURYFOX Levity UniversalChannel(StarHubCh99),10pm Aparoledex-conwhokilledateenagerduringan attemptedrobberytriestofindredemptionintheformof amysteriousministerandtwoneedywomen.Starring BillyBobThornton,MorganFreeman. WhatHappensInVegas(below) StarMovies(StarHubCh58),9pm Twopeoplediscoverthey’vegotmarriedfollowingawild nightinLasVegas.Theytrytoundermineeachother afteroneofthemwinsahugejackpotafterplayingthe other’squarter.StarringCameronDiaz,AshtonKutcher. PICTURE:20TH CENTURYFOX CHANNEL5 Noon FootballAsiaShow 2009 12.30pm Sports@SG 1.00 RacingStripes 3.00 BeautyAndThe
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    • Sports Racing
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        Lock icon TODAY’S KUALA LUMPUR RACE CARD
        1474 38 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE1 RM 12.40 -1100m(SC) Stakes:RM65,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 900-90 RoyalArmada 57 (42) WKYanc1 4 (3agOSidek-MdmMariamLiaw) 2 0-0-8 GrandPeak 57 (41) SSandana*c2 18 (3agEBreukelen-EBreukelen) 3 6- Angki 57 HMohammad*c3 16 (3nzgLimHoonSeng-LhAng) 4 5 EquityCapital 57 BWoodworth 11
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        Lock icon Sunday Tips
        213 39 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 Mighty Triple Ace Sky Hunter One And Only Viva Volksraad Clarke Quay 9 Stay The Cause Brahms Return I’mbless 1 4 7 7
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        Lock icon LAST FRIDAY’S SINGAPORE TURF CLUB STIPES’ REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
        1081 39 RACE 1 GOLDEN TIGER began awkwardly and lost ground. SHEN JIANG was slow into stride. Shortly after the start, STILLETO had to be steadied when TRANSFORMERS shifted out. TRANSFORMERS laid out throughout. THRILL SEEKER was held up behind EXPRESSARDO between the 600m
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        Lock icon BEST BET VIVA VOLKSRAAD (Race 5 No. 4)
        62 39 THIS Barry Brogan-trained three-year-old seems to have immense potential. Taking away his third start in which his rider was dislodged, he has a win and two seconds in three other outings. At his last start over today’s course and 1,600m, he was
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S KL RESULTS
        657 40 GOING: GOOD Race1 RM(SC)1100m 11 ROCKETELITE50(10-6) VSivan (12) 1 1 1 (486) 4 LEGENDARY57c55(157-40) HSamsir (2) 3 3 2 (457) 4.75 5 SILVERDASH57c56(38-14) HMohammad* (3) 4 4 3 (462) 1.25 1 BRIGHTMASTER57c55(20-5) EAslam (6) 2 2 4 (431) 0.5 ?Winning owner: SK Chong. Trainer: KH Ng. Time:
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S AUSTRALIA (CAULFIELD/BELMONT/TOOWOOMBA) RESULTS
        696 40 RACE 1 (Caulfield) 1st 6 At The Crease ($15-$6) 2nd 2 Bertonic ($5) 3rd 5 Cascabel ($33) 4th 11 Slither. EOB $14. Forecast $20. Place forecast $41 (2-5), $6 (2-6), $36 (5-6). Tierce $625. Trio $197. Quartet $6108. Scratching: Flying Tryst. RACE 2 (Belmont) 1st 5
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        Lock icon William Low’s guide to yesterday’s Kranji gallops by horses engaged on Wednesday
        261 40 OPEN BENCHMARK 97 1,600m: Superb Legend? 35.7. Holtmail (R Fradd) 41.8. Ukrainian? (Fradd) 35.9. El Sordo? ?canter/36.7. Abdicate (KK Ng) 36.5. Daring Commander canter/37.8. GRADUATION 1,000m: Lago Bay? ?(J Powell)38.6. HappyEnding? ?canter/36.5.Excelify? (V Duric) canter/38.2. Apache Junction? canter/37.8.
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        747 41 RACE 1 (Casterton) Tips and comments not available. RACE 2 (Casterton) 1 IT'S A DUD (Patrick Payne) 6g (29:6-6-4): Unbeaten in two runs at this track and is the class runner. Rates highly. 4 WHAT AN HONOUR (B S Wilde) 8g (62:4-15-12):
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        904 41 11:40Race1 COMMUNITYOFHEYWOODRST68 1200M 1 BOKOLO PMARKS (15) 57.5 2 SIEGERSIEGER DYENDALL (9) 57.5 3 STARACT APATTERSON (11) 57 4 REIGNINGSHARK JFRY (4) 56 5 TEXASHOLD'EM STSAIKOS (8) 56 6 BOOKERNOAH CAROBERTSON (16) 55.5 7 FLAMINGSAMBUCA MSKWALTERS (6) 55.5 8 LIVEFASY SVELLA (17) 55.5 9 OUTBACKDUSTY
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        392 42 Reuters UNHERALDED American Bryce Molder rolled in a series of long putts to recover from a poor start to take the early clubhouse lead on level-par in the British Open third round yesterday. “You need a little bit of luck but I made the putts when
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        102 42 AFP PADRAIG Harrington threw in the towel in his bid to complete a historic hat-trick of British Open titles yesterday after a third-round 76 left him out of contention at Turnberry. But the Irishman has been sufficiently encouraged by his form this week to believe that he will
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        264 42 Reuters TOM WATSON kept up his remarkable performance at the British Open by opening a one-shot advantage at the top of the leaderboardmidway throughyesterday’s third round. Watson, who turns 60 in September, began the day in a share of the lead with fellow American Steve Marino,
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        266 42 FORMER golfing powerhouse Lu Ch-ien-soon beat Antonio Lascuna on the second extra hole to win the Mercedes-Benz Masters Malaysia yesterday to make amends for losing in a playoff last weekend. Lu splashed out from sand to a foot on the par-five 18th to make
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        617 43 AP IT FELT like a familiar scene as Tiger Woods played the closing holes of a British Open course in the late-after-noon light with the suspense building. Outside the ropes, spectators were jostling for position. Inside the ropes, photographers were scrambling for the
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        409 43 BASKETBALL Reuters CHINESE basketball star Yao Ming’s foot surgery will keep him out next season, but the National Basketball Association will not feel the pain in China because the United States sports league has grown beyond any one player there, analysts
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        971 44 / 45  -  This week, an all-female rally pair tell JOYCE LIM their challenge in pushing the boundariesinthe male-dominatedrally car scene JOYCE LIM THE ROADS were rough and rutted. And the drivers got thumped around in the most treacherous conditions. Yet Emma Gilmour and co-driver Rhianon Smyth battled all the way,
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        322 46 / 47  -  Just over 100 days into his job as Head Coach in Singapore swimming’sHighPerformanceTeam,ANGPENGSIONG talks to Brian Miller about his ambitions plans BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg TO BE THE best we can be in 2013, when Singapore plays host to athletes of South-east Asia in the SEA Games. That’s also
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        346 46 / 47 SO MY meeting with Peng Siong began, not at the Toa Payoh pool where I thought would be ideal if we were to go into some heavy reminiscing, but at a Japanese restaurant in Goldhill Square. He ate some raw stuff, I had a drink and chatted
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        364 46 / 47 SO, how has it been since taking over as Head Coach in March this year? He shrugged, like not wanting to make a big deal out of it. “I’ve been busy. We have all beenbusy. It’sbeenabusytime. “There’s national planning. Setting targets. It’s a four-year cycle to the
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        302 46 / 47 I WAS, of course, curious about the SEA Games. Not the one in 2013 but the more immediate one, the one happening in Laos infive months’time. Peng Siong was forthcoming. “Looking at the Asian Youth Games performers,” he said. “We didn’thavesomeofourtopswimmers but we did well. “We are in
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      267 48 Sharapova is hottest woman athlete; Singapore’sLiJiaweimakesittotop-five WHO is the hottest woman in sport? The answer is tennis babe Maria Sharapova. According to a recent MSN poll, which saw 3,600 responses in less than a week, the stunning Russian beat 29 other superstars by a landslide victory. Hosted on
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        890 49  -  In our report yesterday, FAS general secretary and S-League chief executive WinstonLeeassuredparentMaryLimthat professional football can be a viable career for her son, Stanely. Today, Lee says young players must be ambitious STANLEY HO npsports@sph.com.sg MARY LIM: Will Stanely get a wage package that is competitive in the
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        207 50 BARCELONA and Inter-Milan have reached an agreement in principle to exchange Inter striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Barca forwardSamuel Eto’oplus cash. The conclusion of the deal depends on the Sweden and Cameroon international strikers agreeing personal terms, said Barca president Joan Laporta. Barca did not specify the amount of
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        488 50 TRANSFER TRAIL MANAGER Carlo Ancelotti is certain Chelsea captain John Terry will remain with the club despite the overtures of Manchester City. Terry is a target for City boss Mark Hughes, who believes he can tempt the England skipper away from Stamford Bridge, but
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        415 51  -  ASHIKIN HASHIM gets up closeandpersonalwith ManUnitedplayers ASHIKIN HASHIM The writer is a freelancer. THEY may be among the world's top footballers, but last Friday, Manchester United’s stars proved that they still have a sense of humour. At an exclusive meet-the-players session held in Kuala Lumpur, The New Paper
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        588 52/53  -  MALAYSIAN XI 2 (Mohd Amri Yahyah 45,52) MAN UNITED 3 (Rooney 8, Nani 27, Owen 85) Man United new boy scoreswinninggoalon hisdebuttohelphis club to a 3-2 victory GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR AT FIRST, there was scepticism. When news of Michael Owen’s transfer to
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        591 52/53  -  GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR THERE was a hint of casualness in the performance. Complacency even. But even after witnessing his Manchester United team slog to a hardfought 3-2 win over a Malaysian XI, manager Sir Alex Ferguson was pleased with yesterday’s display
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        341 52/53  -  GARY LIM MANCHESTER UNITED have decided to remain in Kuala Lumpur, before flying off to South Korea for their next exhibition game. On top of that, they will also play a second exhibition game against the Malaysian XI tomorrow evening. The decision came after the
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      449 54  -  MALAYSIAN XI 2 (Mohd Amri Yahyah 45,52) MAN UNITED 3 (Rooney 8, Nani 27, Owen 85) OncedeemedMalaysia’shas-been,AmriYahyahisthe... DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg HOW MANY players can claim to have scored a double in a match against World Club and English Premier League champions Manchester United? If we’re talking about league
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        57 55 LIVE TELECASTS CLUB FRIENDLY Tomorrow: RAPID VIENNA v LIVERPOOL Ch 27,1.10am Anfield veteran Jamie Carragher (right) fears that all the good work done over the past season maybe undone if his team is ripped apart by scavengers stealing the Reds’best players. VODACOM CHALLENGE 2009 Wednesday: MAN CITY v KAISER
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        7 55 SWEDISH OPEN Tonight: FINAL Ch 21,8pm
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        16 55 BRITISH OPEN Tonight: DAY 4 Ch 23,6pm Can Thongchai Jaidee (right) do South-east Asia proud?
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        576 55 WHAT'S ON FIXTURES RESULTS LOCAL EVENTS RUNNING What: Shape Run 2009 When: Today Where: Starts at Raffles Boulevard ORGANISEDby SPHMagazines’ Shape,the women-only run will see 8,000 participants. The first flag-off time will be 7.30am for the 10km individual category. The other two races are the 5km individual and the 5km
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      71 51 This match is played on neutral ground. J League and K League matches are also on sale. For more details, please check Singapore Pools website. Ip Always play with care. [responsibiyf Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket
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