The New Paper, 14 October 2009

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    19 1 the new paper 14 Oct 09 wedthenewpaper A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008 70 CENTS
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      50 1 wedthenewpaper Winner of Reporting Breaking News Award ’09 Society of Publishers in Asia Posh Orchard Road condo development HEAVEN ABOVE 200 foreign workers squeezed into smelly, pest-ridden dorm in basement HELL BELOW Contractors now house workers in proper lodgings, complete with plasma TVs PAGE 2 70 CENTS MICA (P) 193/11/2008
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      33 1 TEKONG MONSTER FISH So big, butcher had to hack it PAGE 6 PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS POP DIVA COCO LEE: I WANT TO BE S’POREAN PAGE 19 PICTURE COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL MUSIC
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      Lock icon Luxe condo... .. .ghetto basement
      598 2 / 3  - Luxe condo... .ghetto basement Project manager admits he failed to look into welfare of workers as he was concerned about work progress REPORT: BRYNA SIM brynasim@sph.com.sg HEAVENabove–andhellbelow.Thatishowonecouldhavedescribedthesceneat the construction of a posh Orchard Road condominiumtwoweeksago. The Hilltops condominium development at hillRiseisintheheartofDistrict9andisbeingpromoted as “luxury hilltop living with the privacy and seclusionofanexclusiveresort”.
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      163 2 / 3 DECEMBER 2008 CHICKEN POX Eight foreign worker dorms at Tagore Industrial Estate were found to be cramped, dingy and poorly ventilated. There was a chicken pox outbreak too, with 13 reported cases and one death. The living quarters were not approved by the authorities. The workers were later
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      Lock icon Rates cut but Spur to stay
      627 4 / 5  -  Jobs Credit Scheme extended to Jun 2010 REPORTS: DESMOND NG desmondn@sph.com.sg IFithelpsthecompany,it’llhelpme.That’s the mantra safety officer Aziz MohdRauslivesby. He feels that as long as his company shipyard Jurong SML stays afloat, his job willbesafe. So, he is a strong advocate of the Jobs Credit
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      Lock icon PM Lee: How we can stay competitive
      105 4 / 5 SINGAPOREANS must get used to lower growth, said PM Lee Hsien Loong. It’sa trade-offwhichwe can’tavoid.But helisted ways for companies and workers to stay competitive. They include: 1) Expand the workforce By encouraging more seniors and women to work. 2) Become more productive Each
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      Lock icon ‘I was afraid it would break weighing machine’
      676 6  -  Restaurant owner estimates fish weighed over 100kg TEKONG MONSTER FISH REPORT: CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg THE fish was so big, the two cooks gave up halfway, after spending an hour trying to descale it. They were so tired their boss had to
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      820 7  -  Chow’slawyersays client was admitted to hospital, DPP calls it ‘anabsolutefarce’ FORMER TV ACTOR (RIGHT) CHARGED WITH MOLEST REPORT:AMANDA AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg FIFTY minutes after his court hearing was supposed to start, there was still no sign of Mark ChowYee Sze. Chow, 29, who had
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      9 4 / 5 US recession over, but recovery to be moderate PAGE13
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      Lock icon Mass resignation at RBS Coutts
      252 8 PRIVATE BANK LOSES STAFF A THIRD of the staff of the Singapore office of RBS Coutts, or about 70 people, have quit in a mass resignation. RBS Coutts is a private bank part of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), which was rescued by the
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      109 8 PROPER and rigorous economic analysis is essential for governments to understand markets and act accordingly, said Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang at the MTI Economic Dialogue Session held at the Singapore Management University yesterday. While the study of economics is not perfect,
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      81 8 SINGAPORE’S smallest mobile operator MobileOne (M1) will begin selling the Apple iPhone by end of the year, breaking Singapore Telecommunications’ year-long monopoly on the popular device and leaving No 2 mobile operator StarHub as the only player without the gadget on its shelves. The Straits Times
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      Lock icon Fewer S’pore millionaires
      106 8 MEMBERSHIP of Singapore’s millionaires’ club has taken a hit in the face of the global economic downturn. The number of high net worth individuals here those who hold at least US$1 million ($1.4 million) in investible assets shrank by 21.6 per cent to 61,000 last year, up
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      483 9  -  Some participants at photo marathon claim memory cards‘caught’virus fromorganisers’laptops HO LIAN-YI REPORT:HOLIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg THEYweretheretotakepartinaphotomarathon.Butsomeofthemendeduphavingtheirmemo-ry cards infected by a computer virus when they used the designated laptops at the competition venue touploadtheirpictures. Their claims have appeared on websites like local photographyforumClubsnap. They had taken part
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        565 10  -  Mr Dennis Foo says laksa and chilli crab identifiedasS’pore icons in 2002 St James Holdings CEO to M’sianTourismMinister: REPORT: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg SORRY Madam Malaysian Minister, you are seven years behind time. We had already identified laksa and chilli crab as iconic foods of Singapore in
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      Lock icon H1N1 virus can stay in your body for up to 12 days
      578 11  -  CDC advises patients to wear masks if they have to go out REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg IF YOU feel the flu coming on, and it is influenzathatyou’vegot,chancesare,it’s H1N1. And if you have H1N1, once the symptoms of
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      Lock icon WOULD CANOPIES PROVIDE BETTER SAFETY?
      692 12  -  REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg HOW often have you seen migrant workers perched precariously on construction material or even cabinets while riding in the back of pick-up trucks? One moment of folly, and an accident can turn into a tragedy with the workers flung off the
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      Lock icon THE NEW RULES
      140 12 FROM 1 SEP THIS YEAR: A worker cannot be seated any higher than 1.1m from thelorry’s cargo deck. Those who breach this rule will be fined $200. Anyone caught ferrying more workers than allowed by the space on the cargo deck will also be fined $500 forthe
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      244 11 pepperdine lacks Place Jack s Place Restaurants: Bras Basah Complex Fel: 6338 6634 AnchorPoint Tel: 6475 9790 Ang Mo Kio Central Tel: 6454 9677 four EKperieHce Our group started with the popular Jack's Place Steakhouse in 1966. We then evolved to include more dining concepts. In each of our 4
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      33 13 ULTRA-SOUND: Former Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi with superheroes Ultraman (left) and Ultraman King (right) in Tokyo. He provided the voice for Ultraman King in the movie Mega Monster Battle:UltraGalaxyLegendstheMovie. PICTURE: AFP
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      240 13 Weak spending expected THE worst US recession since the Great Depression has ended, but weak household spending as the labour market struggles to create jobs, will slow the pace of the economy's recovery, according to a survey released on Monday. The survey
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      99 13 AFP MALAYSIA’S ruling party Umno kicked off its annual meeting yesterday with reform plans. It hopes this will help it regain public confidence a year after disastrous general elections. The four-day general assembly will feature constitutional amendments to fight rampant graft. Umno secretary-general
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      118 13 AFP MORE than one in three Taiwanese colleges could be forced to close by 2021 due to a shortage of students as the island’s birth rates continue to fall, local media reported yesterday. About 300,000 school leavers are eligible to apply for
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      104 13 AP MACAU may curb the growth of its booming casino industry with limits on the number of gambling tables and other restrictions, the government said. ThesouthernChinese city’s gov- city’s government met on Monday with executives of six casino operators, including Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts,
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      333 14 Robbery suspects gunned down nearKL&in Genting TWO robbers, who were believed to have struck three banks in two months and got away with RM1 million ($412,000), were shot dead in separate locations in Malaysia on Monday. The two, who were high on the wanted
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      202 14 Police said the two men shot dead were behind at least three recent bank robberies. According to the Malay Mail, they were: 24 Aug Two robbers in full-face helmets and armed with two pistols robbed RM750,000 ($300,000) from a Hong Leong Bank in Taman Puchong Prima
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      575 15 China national cleared ofboy’smurderwhile accomplice and lover killed himself last year M’SIANBODYINSUITCASETRIAL A CHINESE national escaped the gallows yesterday when the Shah Alam High Court in Selangor sentenced her to life imprisonment for kidnapping a 7-year-old boy in May 2006. Su Qiaomei was
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      466 16 US insurers say baby has obesity problem despite his clean bill of health HEISblue-eyed,cuteandcuddly.But “adorable” wasn’t exactly the first word that popped into US insurers’ mindswhentheysawthischubbybaby. In fact, insurers initially refused to cover 4-month-oldAlexLange. At first, the Colorado baby was denied health-care coverage
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      357 16 JAPAN’SSHORTAGEOFBURIALGROUNDS TO GET around the shortage of final resting places, especially in its big cities, more Japanese are turning to high-tech, multi-storey graveyards. Not only is it practical for some relatives, it is cheaper than burial plots, which in Tokyo, can cost more than
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      273 17 Bells are everywhere atthisyear’s Melbourne Arts Festival RINGINGbellsareasignalforpeopletogather.Theymark apoint of transition and transformation–thebeginningofceremony,ofcelebration, of commemoration, the start of school, or mass, or meditation. Last Friday, just before sunset, bells in Melbourne’s churches chimed to signal the start of another year of colourful, creative celebration that is the
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      13 13 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low24˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low25˚ Bangkok:Thunderstorms High33,Low25˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High29˚,Low27˚
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      35 15 PLUS AS GOOD GETS? AS IT Actor-turned-director Huang Yiliang has turned to selling his debut movie on DVD. We look at why S’pore movies are so hard to sell and ask can we do better?
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      347 18 FROM CHIA HUI KENG HEAD,PUBLIC &INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS BRANCH CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION, IMMIGRATION CHECKPOINTS AUTHORITY CAUSEWAYJAMS WE REFER to the letter “Can more lanes be opened?”by Mr Chua Kheng Yeow (TheNew Paper, 9 Oct). On Saturday, 3 Oct, the Woodlands Checkpoint had experienced a higher traffic
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      31 18 Do you think Singaporeans show too little support for our talents? “Theydo support our talents. But they don’texpress it. We need to express more andnot beshy!” TanPeixian, 19, television programmer
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      72 18 On Singapore PR Zhang Yuan Yuan getting online flakfortakingpartinChina’sNationalDayparade: “Sheisnota citizen. She has nottaken anoathor pledge to be loyal to Singapore. She has not bad-mouthed Singapore in any way. She has only expressed her loyalty to her motherland. She isa goodexample ofloyalty to nation.” frodosamo “Ifshe hadbecome
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      59 18 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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      909 19  - Trees, foodWHAT'S NOT TO LOVE Is pop star Coco Lee (left) serious about REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg SHElovesSingaporesomuchthatsheisthinkingofbecomingaSingaporean.“I’m not kidding, I’m absolutely serious,” said a bubblyCocoLee. “My sister is looking into the procedure of how to goaboutattaining(Singapore)citizenship.” The34-year-oldsingerwasborninHongKongbut spent much of her childhood and youth in San Francisco. She
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        541 21  -  REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg INDIE band gets big. Indie band gets trashed for selling out. Indie band doesn’t care and in the process, changes its sound, and logo. Onethingyoucan’tcall MalaysianbandHujan(the wordmeans“rain”inMalay)istimid. After bursting onto the scene in 2006, Hujan unveiled a new sound and
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        239 21 HE followed his aspirations. But now,he sayshe’s indebt. Local actor Huang Yiliang had high hopes for his directorial debut Autumn In Winter. The movie is about an emotionally unstable woman, played by model Sheila Sim (above), who rents out rooms in her home to strangers and then
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        672 22  -  NIGHT OUT AT MANDO CLUB IVAN LIM PARTY ANIMAL pjlim@sph.com.sg AN OUTING with a couple of friends last week nearly knocked me out. I enjoy a drink. Indeed, many editions of the same concoction in the same night, but I try never to
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      183 51 TNPPOSTMAN POST-MATCH REACTIONS TO THE WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS IT’SD-DAYfor the countries whosefates hang in the balance for South Africa 2010. For those countries which have already qualified, they will be using the matches as preparationfor next year’sWorld Cup. Readers, we want to get your post-match reactions for the following matches.
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      199 51 Group Eight: Italy v Cyprus (Are the reigning world champions good enough to retain their title next year?) SOUTH AMERICA Uruguay v Argentina (Can Argentina get at least the point they need to qualify for nextyear’sWorld Cup?) Go to www.tnppostman.com to post your views or email tnppostman@gmail.com, leaving your full
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      603 52  -  FRANK MALLEY Chief Writer, PA Sport NO Wayne Rooney. No creativity. No X Factor. No chance of winning the World Cup. For all the progress made by England manager Fabio Capello in an impressive qualifying campaign, that is the perception which is most difficult to shake.
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        536 38 Freedman’s last-start winner worth backing again on Friday WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK LAST-STARTwinnerAnecdo-tal caught the eye with a superb hit-out on the PolytrackatKranji yeterdaymorning. Accompanied by stablemate Kalash (jockey Vlad Duric aboard),the five-year-old wasfull of zest when reeling off 600m in 38.4sec with jockey Danny Beasleyastride. The Michael Freedmantrained
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        310 38 TRIAL 1 (test) 1 Raleigh (TR Barnabas) 2 Sky Lord (I Andy) 3 Villain 4 Colourland Season (D Azis) 5 Nero Grotto (M Zaki) 6 Sky Knight (R Fradd) 7 Arowana Charm (KK Ng) 8 RindaJade (MEwe). Margins and time: 23/4, 3/4, nk, 41/4, 11/2, 41/4, 3 (1min00.98sec).
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        364 39 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK IMPROVING Desert Links will go into Sunday’s Raffles Cup a very fit horse. The David Hill-trained six-year-old South African-bred looked very well when he easily disposed of 600m in 41.3sec on the Polytrack yesterday. Desert Links’s Kranji form reads 8-5-3-2 in four starts.
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        671 39 GOING FORECAST: GOOD 6:50Race1 6MaidenPlate 1200M 1 VAIQUEMQUER SCormack (10) 58 2 REVRESCO RDanielson (7) 58 3 ROSEMONT ADomeyer (14) 58 4 KOMANIRULER GWright(-4) (12) 58 5 D-DAY GCoetzee(-2) (16) 58 6 MONEYFORJAM RCurling(-4) (8) 58 7 TOYWITHTROUBLE KJupp (11) 58 8 ASKTHEAFGHAN SRandolph
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        604 39 GERMAINEMAHARAJ’STIPSANDCOMMENTSFORTODAY’SCLAIRWOODRACES RACE 1 (1,200m) 2 REVRESCO plodded late when in need of the run last time out and will be much fitter. 1VAIQUEM QUER has made big improvement after a rest and, on his last two runs, must be a big factor. 12ILSANPIETRO is
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        974 40 RACE1 (1,200m) King’s Choice (No. 8) came away a bleeder last term but did resume with a nice second on dirt last month and has proven form sprinting over this course. Fast Go (1) has an awkward draw but did
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        654 40 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE1 CLASS5TURF 1200m TIME:7:15 Stakes:HK$485,000 NO. HORSENAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 FASTGO CWCHANG CKTONG 133 10 2 FEEL-SO-GOOD DEFERRARIS DWHYTE 133 6 3 BIGKAHUNA PO'SULLIVAN BPREBBLE 132 1 4 WITHALLMYHEART TKNG MWLEUNG 132 4 5 DAILYDOUBLE TWLEUNG BDOYLE 129 7 6
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      449 41 GOLF AFP GOLF’S return to the Olympic fold will help the sport find a new audience in China which is ripe for expansion, according to the country’s best-known player Zhang Lianwei. The International Olympic Committee voted last week to add golf
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      263 41 TENNIS TENNIS hit the fast lane yesterday during the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Fernando Verdasco combined to play the “Fastest Tennis in the World” on Shanghai’s famous Maglev train, the fastest commercial train on the planet. Reaching a top-speed of 431
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      284 41 AP EUROPEAN Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie believes that Tiger Woods’ perfect performance for the United States in last week’s Presidents Cup will make his own team’s task even tougher next year at Celtic Manor. Woods,who missed the Americans’Ryder Cup victory at Valhalla last
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        733 42/43  -  Motorshows like this one have become more sophisticated and interest in these have grown, thanks in no small part to the arrival of Formula One in Singapore CHERYL TAY npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a freelancer. THIS car show is much more than a flesh parade of sexy
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        296 42/43  -  CHERYL TAY THIS IS not the first time that drifting demonstrations featured at a local car show in Singapore. But the fact that it is becoming a regular sideshow at car shows is a shot in the arm for the local drifting scene. Local drift drivers from
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        164 42/43  -  CHERYL TAY THE CUTE LamborMini All-Terrain-Vehicle (ATV) from Japanese tuning company Liberty Walk Co. Ltd made its debut at the 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon this year. The 4x4 buggy made its first public appearance out of Japan at the Asia AutoSalon last weekend. Ten units have been sold
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        711 44 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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        263 44 GROUPA 1Cameroon 5 3 1 1 7 2 10 P W D L F A Pts 2Gabon 5 3 0 2 9 6 9 3Togo 5 1 2 2 2 7 5 4Morocco 5 0 3 2 3 6 3 GROUPB 1Tunisia 5 3 2 0 7 3 11
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        128 44 HOWTHEYSTAND P W D L F A Pts 1Brazil 17 9 6 2 33 11 33 2Paraguay 17 10 3 4 24 14 33 3Chile 17 9 3 5 31 22 30 4Argentina 17 7 4 6 22 20 25 5Uruguay 17 6 6 5 28 19 24
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        119 44 HOW THEY STAND P W D L F A Pts 1 US 9 6 1 2 17 11 19 2 Mexico 9 6 0 3 16 10 18 3 Costa Rica 9 5 0 4 13 13 15 4 Honduras 9 4 1 4 16 11 13 5 El
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        345 47  -  PORTUGAL v MALTA Ch 120 (FC3), 2.45am, tomorrow DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg PORTUGAL have enough in reserves to cope without crocked Peacock Cristiano Ronaldo, according to The New Paper’s football analyst Tohari Paijan. A sprained ankle means Ronaldo will be sidelined for at least three weeks, ruling
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        329 47  -  DAVID LEE IF YOU met Liedson off the pitch, you probably wouldn’t even offer him a second glance. You see, the 31-year-old looks so ordinary in his 1.75-metre, 63kg frame that he’s been kindly dubbed Levezinho, or the Slender One. However, the Sporting Lisbon striker is
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        298 47 FRANCE v AUSTRIA Ch 119 (FC 2), 2am, tomorrow AP WITH nothing at stake in their qualifying match against Austria, France will be hoping to build on their momentum ahead of next month’s World Cup Play-offs. Even if they lose to Austria tomorrow morning at
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        320 48  -  URUGUAY v ARGENTINA COMMENT IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg BECAUSE this could be the biggest shock in the recent history of international football. There is only one automatic qualification place left for the South American teams and Argentina, twice winners of the
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        113 48  -  IAIN MACINTOSH THEY’REhumiliated. Maradona was a national hero after 1986, but all that has changed now. Effigies of him are appearing in the stands, fans wave little cardboard coffins with his name on. It’s the manner of the defeats that has hurt so much. This isn’t
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        98 48  -  IAIN MACINTOSH OF COURSE they do. They’ll have home advantage and they're in form as last weekend’s comeback against Ecuador proved. Though Manchester United fans may laugh, they have the class of Diego Forlan (above, left) up front as well as the dangerous Luis
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        245 49  -  GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg COMMON belief has it that England’s success in next year’s World Cup depends onone man WayneRooney. England have a chance to find out how true that is when they take on Belarus tomorrow morning. The Manchester United striker picked up a calf injury
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        176 49  -  GARY LIM RIO FERDINAND has been under intense scrutiny after a series of poor performances for club and country. Last Saturday, he put in yet another shoddy display in the 1-0 defeat to Ukraine. It was his poor judgment that resulted in a long ball bouncing
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        164 49  -  GARY LIM THE FACT that England more or less count 39-year-old David James as their No. 1 says it all. The Portsmouth custodian would never have imagined finding himself back in favour. It was last year, during Fabio Capello’s first match in charge of
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        779 45 FRANK LAMPARD v TIMOFEI KALACHEV Lampard may not have found his goalscoring form for Chelsea yet this season. But for England, the 31-year-old midfielder has reached the 20 goals mark with his penalty against Croatia. Kalachev, the former Shakhtar Donetsk midfielder, netted twice against
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        769 46 LOWRISK TakeBelarus on the 1/2-Goalwhen theyplayEngland ENGLANDlosttheir unbeatenrecord in thisWorld Cupqualifying campaignwhen theywentdown 1-0toUkraine over the weekend. The defeat burnt the fingers of many punters here, and some are not too optimistic about them beating Belarus tomorrow morning. Belarus are not a bad team to begin with. When
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