The New Paper, 12 October 2009

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1 48 The New Paper
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    12 1 the new paper 12 Oct 09 mon 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      69 1 Noh Alam Shah jives.. .in Java THERE WILL BE NO SPORTS NOON EDITION TODAY PAGE 36 Winner of Reporting Breaking News Award ’09 Society of Publishers in Asia Want to share single-set chicken rice Pay $1 to use pair of chopsticks Novena eatery’s policy riles customers EXCLUSIVE PAGE 2 Fann
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      Lock icon Is the PRICE RIGHT ?
      542 2/3  - Is the PRICE RIGHT Customers are upset over eateries imposing extra charges for additional services REPORTS:VIVIEN VIVIEN CHAN,AMANDA YONG tnp@sph.com.sg ONE eatery refused to sell hot water, even to make milk formula for a hungry baby. Another wanted $2 for a disposable container topackacustomer’sleftoverfishheadcurry. Yet another charged $1 for the
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      Lock icon $1 for extra chopsticks
      437 2/3 PAY $1 to use an additional pair of chopsticks. That was what Mr Julian Lim, 37, an IT consultant, was asked to do when he had lunch with his wife and brother-in-law at Nan Xiang Chicken Rice restaurant at Square 2 at Novena on 12 Sep.
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      Lock icon $2 for takeaway container
      398 2/3 HAVING to pay $2 for a plastic throwaway container to pack his leftover fish head curry so incensed one customer that he dumped the leftovers in the bin. Madam Ng Kwee Kee, 54, a coffee shop assistant, had gone to a coffee shop in Toa Payoh
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      Lock icon Hot water? Sorry, we don’t sell that here
      458 2/3 ALL they wanted was some hot water to make a bottle of milk formula for their hungry, crying baby. But the drinks stall workers they approached refused their request. Thebaby’sparentsgotthehotwatereventually– from theownerof another stallat the coffee shop at Block 116, Bukit Merah
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      Lock icon Sick? Here are map & address of exam centre
      787 4  - Sick? Here are map address of exam centre Those are what school gave Sec 4 student down with chicken pox REPORT:LIEW LIEW HANQING hanqing@sph.com.sg THE ISSUE: Could a school have done more for a sick student who was due to sit for an exam? Yes, says his former teacher. No,
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      Lock icon Schools should learn to have some heart
      350 4  -  STREETTALK COMMENT: SANTOKH SINGH santokh@sph.com.sg WHEN The New Paper got the e-mail extollingMrC P Tham’shelp,it was a story that had to be told. I was convinced after I spoke to the former teacher on the phone. He sounded surprised that his offer of
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      130 4 Win a pair of Night Safari tickets Halloween tram tickets worth $70 Answer this question: Halloween Horrors at Night Safari happens every Friday and Saturday this October.True or False? SMS your answer to ***** in this format: TNPSAFARI<space>Answer<space>NRIC<space>Name *20cents/SMS; Multiple entries allowed. Contest ends 23:59 on 30 Sep Three lucky
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      Lock icon AH-LONG ALARM:
      47 5 ALARM: An alarm is one of the latest intiatives by residents and police in Clementi to deter loan sharks who resort to vandalism. The alarm will activate flashing lights in the house and can only work for units with no common corridors. PICTURE: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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      Lock icon Long term focus is productivity: Minister
      237 5 Decision on Jobs Credit Scheme extension out tomorrow WHETHER the Jobs Credit Scheme will be extended depends on the economic outlook. Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport Lim Hwee Hua said this yesterday after a walkabout in
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      Lock icon H1N1 vaccine should be in S’pore in few weeks: Khaw
      109 5 The first batch of H1N1 vaccines is expected to arrive in Singapore in a few weeks’ time, said Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan yesterday. Exactly when, however, has not been confirmed because of the strong global demand for the jab,
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      Lock icon Contract workers’ children receive bursaries
      96 5 THE labour movement’s Unit for Contract and Casual Workers (UCCW) gave out bursaries and scholarships to the children of cleaners and other contract workers for the first time. One of the recipients at a ceremony yesterday was Ms Thahira Begum Mohamed Nordin, 19, a student
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      Lock icon Sembawang wet market to stay as lease to be renewed
      102 5 SEMBAWANG New Market won’t make way for a FairPrice supermarket after all. The operator of the only wet market in Sembawang has decided to extend its lease with HDB, said Health Minister and Sembawang GRC MP Khaw Boon Wan yesterday.
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      Lock icon This feels REAL AT LAST
      638 6 / 7  -  ChrisandFann’sMalacca wedding sweeter, more intimatethantheirS’poreevent EXCLUSIVE REPORTING FROM MALACCA MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg PICTURES CHOO CHWEE HUA chweehua@sph.com.sg PERHAPS it was the fuss-free, no-frills treatment. The Christopher Lee-Fann Wong wedding celebration at the Renaissance Melaka Hotel last night turned out to be a warm kampung affair.
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      Lock icon Little Nyonya big hit with guests
      254 6 / 7 ACTRESS Jeanette Aw almost upstaged at the ChristopherLee-Fann Wong’s Malaccawedding last night. Thiswouldhave been soifshe’d turnedup in a sexy, body-hugging outfit. The Little Nyonya was in Malacca filming a new 36-episode drama, Together, and could not attend the wedding banquet in Singapore. Butwhenshe finallycould
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      Lock icon FACE MASSAGE MY FOOT
      652 8 / 9  -  Outlet claims it can giveyou‘facelift’ without touching face REPORT:SHREEANN SHREE ANN MATHAVAN shreeann@sph.com.sg CAREforafootmassageforyourface?Yes,youheardright.Thisisthequirkysalespitchof a Tan Quee Lan Street foot reflexology outlet inBugis. During the treatment, which costs about $90 for an hour, your feet are stroked, caressed and kneaded, sometimeswithvarioustools. Your face is untouched, yet
      TNP PICTURES: KUA CHEE SIONG  -  652 words
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      Lock icon No instant results, but I’ll start smiling
      375 8 / 9  -  Shree Ann Mathavan FACELIFTS are never pretty. Incisions, pulling the skin back and trimming excess skin away, sound downright gory to me. And the resultant look, at least from what I gather from gossip shows, is not always flattering. A face with skin
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      631 8 / 9  -  New facial therapy uses sound waves without surgery in facelift procedure REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg ULTRASOUND is best known for providing images of the foetus during pregnancy. But a new machine is using the same technology to lift, firm and smoothen facial skin, without surgery, injections or
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      Lock icon PLANE CRASH:
      25 10 PLANECRASH:Apeacekeeperinspectsthewreckageofa United Nations plane, which killed 11 peacekeepers when the aircraft crashed in a remote mountain area in Haiti last Saturday. PICTURE: AP
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      Lock icon Slow rate hikes likely to kick off next year
      332 10 ASIA-PACIFIC INTEREST RATE CYCLE AFP THE interest rate cycle has turned in the Asia-Pacific region, but increases in benchmark borrowing costs will be gradual in order not to nip fragile economic recovery in the bud, analysts say. Australia’s surprise quarter-point hike
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      Lock icon Barisan wins by-election
      96 10 Reuters MALAYSIA’S government won a state by-election yesterday, its first win in Malaysia since national elections last year, and said the big majority showed the electoral tide had begun to turn in its favour. The Barisan Nasional coalition that has ruled this South-east Asian country for 51
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      Lock icon Pakistani troops storm army HQ, free 39 hostages
      109 10 AFP TROOPS stormed Pakistan’s army headquarters yesterday, ending a day-long hostage drama and freeing 39 people held by militants, who brazenly struck at the heart of the military establishment. Three hostages, two soldiers and four suspected Taleban militants were killed in a
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      Lock icon Obama pledges to repeal military’s gay ban
      115 10 AFP PRESIDENT Barack Obama promised gay and lesbian activists on Saturday that he will repeal a ban on gays in the US military, rebuking complaints he has not honoured his promises to fight for equal rights. “I will end ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”.
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      Lock icon Will a big quake hit M’sia?
      704 11 Experts warn of disaster ifIndonesian quakes trigger inactive fault lines MALAYSIA has many movers and shakersit’snotawareof. And its people should start paying attention to them, said the country’s earthquake experts. The Star reported yesterday that many Malaysians think earthquakes will never occur in the
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      Lock icon Coincidence or harbingers of doom?
      307 11 Some Malaysians are taking a series of unusual sightings as warnings of disaster, reported Malaysian newspapers HUNDREDS of small crabs emerged from a pond in Tengkera, Malacca, on 1 Oct, a day after Indonesia was rocked by earthquakes. Those small crabs were still seen last
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      Lock icon Missing word nearly leads to stomach op
      438 12 HKmedical report omits theword‘no’before ‘gallbladderinflammation’ A MISSING word gave him a needless fright and almost sent him through an unnecessary operation. Fortunately, the Hong Kong man known only as Mr Zhang, 42, later found out that the medical centre made a mistake. The
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      Lock icon Boyzone singer dies in sleep after partying
      347 12 FANS of boyband, Boyzone, reacted with shock yesterday when they learnt one of its members, Stephen Gately (right),33, had died. The gay Irish pop star and actor was on holiday with his long-term partner, Mr Andrew Cowles, in Majorca, Spain, when he suddenly
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      Lock icon Gun-toting soccer mum shot dead by husband
      345 13 He later kills himself in their US home AMERICA’S most heavily armed soccer mum is dead. Mrs Meleanie Hain (below), 31, made headlines for carrying a handgun to her daughter’s football game last year. But the firearm was no help when she was
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      Lock icon VANISHING TRADE
      526 14/15 China’s‘invisibleman’ literally paints himself into a corner in protest SELF-PORTRAITS are given new meaning when Liu Bolin has a paint brush in his hand. The Beijing-based artist spends up to 10 hours each time painting himself to get the right effect, the Daily Mail reported. Whether lurking next
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      13 10 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low24˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low25˚ Bangkok:Thunderstorms High30˚,Low25˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low26˚
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      54 16 FROM READER SHAH ENDY MONKEY MISCHIEF: Our reader snapped a photo of this little monkey making itself at home at a bus stop in Bukit Panjang. As it ate a mango, another bigger monkey chased away people who were staring at it. E-mail your pictures with your name and
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      212 16 FROM READER ALLAN ZHENG RISLOW: TOO SOON TO FORGIVE OR FORGET I AM writing about the various articles that have been published about Ris Low and how she came to lose her Miss Singapore World crown. There seems to be some confusion over the
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      44 16 On second runner-up Miss Pilar Arlando representing Singapore at the Miss World finals: “Itis betterthat Singapore gives thisyear’s Miss World a miss. Miss Pilar will still have to bear the stigmaofwhat happened.” Xiaowei_69 “Goodchoice.She is beautiful.Good luck to you, MissPilar.” Patpong_Girl
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      204 16 FROM READER NUR RUZANNA I am writing about repeated delays caused by technical faults on MRT and LRT lines and the inconvenience they cause to commuters. I take both the MRT and LRT to work every day. On 29 Sep, I took the
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      49 16 Closure of five wet markets to make way for air-conditioned markets: What do you think? “Forme, I don’t goto themarket often,so it’snot a major problem. But when I do, I enjoy the wet market experience. Wet market stallholders are like your neighbours– there’sasense of communityaboutit.” FaizahIshak, 30s, lecturer
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      59 16 YOUR VIEWS E-mail tnptalk@sph.com.sg or write to The New Paper, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 Forverification,we needthe writer’sfull name andcontact number (preferably a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By your submission, it is deemed that you have granted us the right to
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      Lock icon A DJ returns... ... and another leaves
      574 17  - A DJ returns... and another leaves Ex-Perfect 10 deejay Madeline Tan joins 91. 3FM REPORTS:GAN GAN LING KAI ganlk@sph.com.sg YOUcantakeaSingaporeanoutofSingapore,butyou can never take Singapore out of a Singaporean. So says deejay Madeline Tan, who after eight years of living in India and Thailand, has finally returned home. The 35-year-old will
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      Lock icon Ex-DJ Suzanne heads to Sudan as a UN volunteer
      369 18 HELLO Sudan, goodbye Singapore. On Saturday, former 91.3FM deejay Suzanne Walker, 39, will be travelling to the northeast African country to volunteer with the United Nations. But the mother of a 13-year-old son is not worried for her own safety. Instead,she’smore
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      Lock icon Bird’s nest prince helps band take flight
      553 19  -  Local band Milubing gets $100,000 to produce 3rd album REPORT: GAN LING KAI ganlk@sph.com.sg BIRD’Snestandapop-rockband.A strange partnership, but one that seemstobeworking. Mr Lawrence Tan, general manager of Dragon Brand Bird’s Nest, is pumping in almost $100,000 to produce local band Milubing’sthirdalbum. Theband,whichwonSingapore’sfirstSuperband talent
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        Lock icon Disney star sets million-dollar charity goal
        110 20 Moneymatters– evento stars. We cashin on the highs and lows of celebrity dough WHATado-gooder.Singer-actressSelena Gomez aims to raise US$1 million ($1.4m) for the United Nations Children’s Fundbythe end ofthisyear. The 17-year-old Disney star was recently appointed an ambassador for the charity last month after
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        Lock icon Madonna to buy flat for Brazilian beau
        115 20 IT’Sgoodto beMadonna’stoy boy. The51-year-old Material Girlisscoutingfor an upscale apartment in New York specially for her boyfriend,Jesus Luz. Althoughshe’s beenspendingalot of time withJesus, sources say sheisreportedly reluctantto havehim movein with her and her kids. Instead, Madonna wants her 22-year-old Brazilian beau to live within
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        Lock icon Carell’s 8-year-old daughter cashes in
        142 20 IT’Salsogoodto beSteve Carell’sdaughter. The comedian recently revealed that his 8-year-old daughter, Annie, has been learning how tomake aprofit fromher dad’s celebrity status. Carell, 47, said that Annie has been selling lemonade to paparazzi lurking around their Los Angeles home and raking in a profit. The
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      399 21 FILMING two dramas back-to-back is not easy, as MediaCorp actress Felicia Chin can attest. The actress recently travelled to Malaysia to film a new co-production drama titled Baby Bonus. In it, her role is different from her previous characters as she plays a
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        502 22  -  They sound like good ideas, but look deeper andyou’llfindflaws LARRY HAVERKAMP mail@AskDrMoney.com I TALK to people who tell me their good ideas for getting through this recession. Here are three of the worst “good ideas” I have heard. See what you can learn from
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        Lock icon Is the recession really over?
        158 22 YOU can come out from hiding and spend, spend, spend. Stock and property markets confirmthe economy’sV-shaped recovery. The other view is: Who knows? We have just turned the corner at the bottom ofthe“V” and could be onthe way upor we could bump along the bottom
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      163 23 REUNIONOFSORTS: Theconartists in Hustleare back fora fifthseason butwith afew membersmissing. PICTURE:BBC ENTERTAINMENT WATCH’EM Hustle 5 (above) BBC Entertainment (StarHub Ch 76), 9pm In the fifth season of the crime drama, Mickey returns to London to find out that half of his crew have gone to the US and his mentor,
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      438 48 EightteamsmadeittoFinalsafterSaturday’sQualifiers,and two more were given a lifeline. Here are some teams that made it or on the verge and the men who made it possible Wire Services ARGENTINA 2 PERU 1 MARTIN PALERMO Argentina coach Diego Maradona called the goal by second-half substitute Martin Palermo “The MiracleofSt. Palermo”.And why
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        450 34 GOING: GOOD FEATURE DOUBLE: Mighty Triple Ace made it a big-race double for trainer Johnny Lim with an upset win in the Astro Wah Lai Toi Vase yesterday. Lim won the Dato Sir Clough Thuraisingham Memorial Trophy with Generous Tycoon on Saturday. Race1 C5(SC)1400m 3 ROYALSPRINT56.5c54.5(10-5)
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S HONG KONG (SHA TIN) RESULTS
        390 34 GOING: GOOD RACE1 CLASS5 1600m 12 FOREVERFORTUNE115(175-42) WPIKE (11) 1 7 MYTHICSTEED124(65-19) GCHEYNE (13) 2 8 DRAGONBOY123(15-10) DWHYTE (8) 3 13 PUREALPHA113(33-7) WMLAI (1) 4 ?Trainer: CS Shum. Margins: 1.75, shd. Time: 1min 36.43sec. Forecast: $523. Place Forecast:$15(Nos.7-8),$103(Nos.7-12),$33(Nos.8-12).Tierce:$9013.Trio:$672.Quartet: NoWinner($*****jackpotcarriedforwardtonextrace).EOB:$13. RACE2 CLASS3 1200m 8 GOODLUCKWIN120(266-39)
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        630 35 SteveStrickerand Tiger Woods continue to be unbeaten as a team AP TIGER Woods and Steve Stricker were perfect as Presidents Cup partners. And they got enough help from US team-mates on Saturday to put the Americans in position to stay perfect on home soil. With an improbable
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        327 35 WHEN he was seven-years-old, Chinnaswamy Muniyappa worked as a caddie in Bangalore, earning just one Indian rupee ($0.03) a day. His rags-to-riches story was complete yesterday when he triumphed at the US$1.25 million ($1.75m) HeroHondaIndianOpen,takinghomethewinner’s cheque of US$198,125, reported the World Sport Group. The 32-year-old Indian drained
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        647 36/37  -  REPORTING FROM MALANG GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg A SUNDAY MARKET hawker in the Malang town centre proudly showed off his merchandise. On a hanger was a back-facing blue Arema Malang jersey, glistening in the golden afternoon sun. It read: NohAlam Shah. A recent online poll by the
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        485 36/37  -  REPORTING FROM MALANG GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg THIS is what we came here for. It was the first thing Singapore player Ridhuan Muhamad said to this reporter after his side, Arema Malang, beat Persija Jakarta 1-0 in their opening fixture of the Indonesian Super League (ISL) season. Ridhuan was among
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        311 36/37  -  GARY LIM 1/8AREMA MALANGcoachRobert Alberts left nothing to chance. So determined was he to achieve success in his debut season with Arema, that he resorted to divine help, literally. Squad numbers here were not chosen by players themselves, as one thinks would be the case.
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        887 38 GROUPONE P W D L F A Pts 1Denmark 9 6 3 0 16 4 21 2Portugal 9 4 4 1 13 5 16 3Sweden 9 4 3 2 9 4 15 4Hungary 9 4 1 4 9 8 13 6Albania 9 1 4 4 5 9 7 7Malta
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        173 38 I CALL THE SHORTS: Argentina’s Federico Insua (left) tries to get away from Peru’sRainer Torres. PICTURE: AP HOWTHEYSTAND P W D L F A Pts 1Brazil 16 9 6 1 32 9 33 2Paraguay 17 10 3 4 24 14 33 3Chile 17 9 3 5 31 22
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        57 38 Saturday results: Group A: Cameroon 3 Togo 0 Gabon 3 Morocco 1 Group C Zambia 0 Egypt 1 Group E Malawi1 Ivory Coast1 QUALIFIED: South Africa (host), Ghana, Ivory Coast EQUATION: Cameroon need to beat Morocco on 14 Nov to qualify. Tunisia will qualify if they beat Kenya and
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        110 38 HOWTHEYSTAND P W D L F A Pts 1US 9 6 1 2 17 11 19 2Mexico 9 6 0 3 16 10 18 3CostaRica 9 5 0 4 13 13 15 4Honduras 9 4 1 4 16 11 13 5ElSalvador 9 2 2 5 9 14 8 6TrinidadandTobago
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        442 39  -  GROUP EIGHT REP OF IRELAND 2 (Whelan 8, St Ledger 87) ITALY 2 (Camoranesi 26, Gilardino 90) COMMENT DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg THREEminutes.That was how close the Republic of Ireland were from a famous 2-1 homevictoryagainstworldchampions Italy and a result that would have kept the men in
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        262 39  -  DAVID LEE THE REIGNING world champions will be in South Africa to defend their title, after winning a fairly competitive Group Eight with a game to spare. Assuming they make it past the group stage in the World Cup Finals, the Italians will need
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        138 39  -  DAVID LEE IF IRELAND can demonstrate the same battling qualities over the two-leg Play-offs like they did against Italy, Giovanni Trapattoni’s men will have nothing to be afraid of. Even if, as unseeded Play-off qualifiers, they may need to face one of four countries with the
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        380 42/43  -  ARGENTINA 2 (Higuain 48, Palermo 90+3) PERU 1 (Rengifo 90) COMMENT LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg THE MANNER in which he celebrated MartinPalermo’s winner saidit all. Unleashing all the pent-up frustration inside him, Diego Maradona flung himself at pitchside at the Monumental in Buenos Aires after
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        198 42/43  -  LIM HAN MING ARGENTINA moved up to fourth place on 25 points the last automatic spot in the South American zone after their win over Peru yesterday morning. But the Albicelestes are not out of the woods yet. Diego Maradona’s men go into
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        254 42/43  -  LIM HAN MING DIEGO Maradona’s team selection has come under fire during his short stint. In a bid to turn around his team’s fortunes, he handed Gonzalo Higuain his debut and recalled playmaker Pablo Aimar from the wilderness. His gamble paid off as Aimar
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        560 42/43  -  DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg ALL HAIL Saint Martin. Martin Palermo, that is. The veteran striker, controversially called up by Diego Maradona for the recent World Cup Qualifiers, scored the winner against Peru yesterday morning three minutes into stoppage time to revive his country’s hopes of qualifying for South
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        330 44  -  Was Ferdinand at fault? His England boss says no, we ask our analyst TOHARIPAIJAN what he thinks. SHEAJOHN DRISCOLL reports YES! Rio Ferdinand has had his good games, but there have been a number of howlers too Shea John Driscoll Man Utd v Man City (20
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        214 44 13TH MINUTE: AS AN experienced defender, you can never let the ball bounce. It’s so important to clear it and get rid of potential danger. Ferdinand let the bounce beat him, probably because of a lack of concentration. The striker’s then gone and cruelly exposed his lack
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        246 44 THE TIMES: NOT FOR the first time in recent weeks, we witnessed that haunted look of Rio Ferdinand; a man so poised in possession but now shaken by disbelief at his own poor decision-making. As he traipsed off, Ferdinand would have been the first to acknowledge that
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        757 45  -  HistorywasmadeonSaturdayasEngland’s1-0defeat againstUkrainewasthefirst‘live’international football match to be shown exclusively on the Internet. But not all were pleased with the product MARTYN ZIEGLER Chief Reporter, PA Sport TO LORD Triesman of the FA, Rupert Murdoch of Sky, and Mark Thompson of the BBC, a plea to you
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        320 45 POOR PICTURE QUALITY PROMISES, promises. Potential purchasers perusing the www.ukrainevengland.com website last week were promised they could see the gameona“highquality,flashvideostream”. If this meant a slightly fuzzy picture and what sounded like an elevator muzak soundtrack to a public information film burbling in the background,thena“highquality,flashvideostream”isexactlywhatwe got. –TheTimes THE BLURRY,
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        Lock icon Any plus points for England?
        333 46  -  UKRAINE1 (SergiyNazarenko29) ENGLAND0 COMMENT IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg OH, ABSOLUTELY. For starters, it will lower expectations and release the pressure on the players. The English are cocky enough at the best of times, but if they actually went into a World Cup on
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        218 46  -  –IAINMACINTOSH MISS OF THE DAY WHATisitwith AndriyShevchenkoand vital penalties?Puthim on the spotand he goesto pieces. First therewas that feebleeffortagainst JerzyDudek in2005 and now thistimidscuff againstDavidJames’ farpost. Ifitwasn’tfor that magnificentlayeredand highlightedhomage toPatrick Swayzeontop ofhis head,he’d have nothing goingfor him atall. STUPIDEST MOVE THOUGHyou couldn’ttellfromthe Internetcoverage, itseemsthat refereeDamir Skominainitially attemptedto
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        76 46  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YES, HE absolutely should. Emile Heskey ran himself into the ground, playing in an utterly thankless lone role after England dropped down to 10 men. Heskey (right) ran after absolutely everything, desperately trying to drop headers in the path of his team-mates. He’sanenabler,ahelper,aselflessgiver tothecauseandyoucan’treplacethatwith
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        Lock icon How bad is this for Green?
        130 46  -  IAIN MACINTOSH ITDOESN’TlookgoodforRobert Green at all. Even though you’d have to say that Rio Ferdinand is far more culpable for the events leading to the red card and penalty, it wasn’t the kind of decision-making that will fill Fabio Capello with confidence. Green (right)
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        101 47 LIVE TELECASTS 2010 WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS Wednesday: GERMANY v FINLAND Ch 27,11.55pm MiroslavKlose’s(right)50thgoalfor Germanysentthemtonextyear’sWorld Cup Finals as they beat Russia 1-0 on Saturday. Thursday: ITALY v CYPRUS Ch 21, 2am BOSNIA v SPAIN Ch 27, 2am FRANCE v AUSTRIA Ch 119 (FC 2), 2am CZECH REP v NORTHERN IRELAND
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        20 47 PORTUGAL MASTERS Thursday: DAY 1 Ch 26,10.15pm JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN OPEN Friday: DAY 1 Ch 26,4.15am
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        21 47 SHANGHAI MASTERS Today Tomorrow: 1ST ROUND Ch 22, 2pm Wednesday: 2ND ROUND Ch 22,2pm Thursday: LAST 16 Ch 22, 2pm
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        386 47 LOCAL EVENTS AEROBICS What: I Survived All Shapes Aerobathon When: Saturday Where: Playground Big Splash SWEAT it out in the name of charity with this two-hour non-stop aerobic workout marathon comprising bolly jolly, kickboxing, body sculpting and yoga. For more details, goto www.allshapes.com.sg/aerobathon. BASKETBALL What: Asean Basketball League
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