The New Paper, 29 November 2009

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  • 21 1 The New Paper on sunday 29 Nov 09 __Ji_ A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION 80 CENTS MICA (P) 096/11 /2009
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    • 284 1 EPL: Devils on fire in second half 6 Nude Japanese family upsets HDB residents 54 The New Paper on 29 Nov 09 Winner of Reporting Breaking News Award '09 Society of Publishers in Asia BLOOD BATH AT HOME: ‘Slipper man’ broods over wife who lives in her own world makes
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  • News
    • 1440 2/3  -  Herpent-upfeelingsand impulsiveactsdestroyedall trust.Nowhewantsadivorce ‘SLIPPERMAN’ ON KILLER WIFE: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg SHE is over-sensitive and tends to keep her thoughts to herself. This is how former opposition politician Tan Lead Shake describes his wife, Wu Yun Yun, who has been jailed for killing his
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      479 4  -  S’poreanswatchingCyberJapan’s danceperformancenotaswildas those in Japan REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg IN JAPAN, men claw their way to the front of the crowd for a better view of these sexy CyberJapan girls. These bikini-clad dancers, known for their suggestive, acrobatic pole-dancing, strutted their stuff at the Fresh beach party at
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      989 6 / 7  -  Nude Japanese familyupsets Sengkang residents REPORTS: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg JAPANESE-style baths by a family in their Sengkang flat and conservative HDB neighbours don’t mix, it seems. A young Japanese couple’s habit of walking around naked at home after a bath have unsettled their neighbours, who live in the
      PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO  -  989 words
    • 121 6 / 7 TAKING baths together as a family is a common practice in Japan, a spokesman for the Japanese Association Singapore said. Shesaid:“It’snot unusualfor parents to bathe togetherwith theiryoungchildren.” The Japanese look at bathing as a social activity where many parents enjoy the experience and
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    • 326 6 / 7 Eight floors of spas Volcanically active Japan has thousands of natural hot springs. One Osaka onsen, or hotsprings, Spaworld has an eight-floor theme park. The complex is divided intothemesbycountry–Finland,Greece,Spain, France, Ancient Rome, and so on. You can soak amid a replica of the Trevi Fountain, in a
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    • 662 8 / 9  - ALL WORK NO PLAY? Enrichment classes during school holidays REPORT:ELYSA ELYSA CHEN elysac@sph.com.sg THEschoolholidaysarehere.But try telling that to 12-year-old JasmineLee. Even though she doesn’t have to look at another textbook till next year, she’s still goingfortuitionclassesduringthebreak. “I don’t want a break from classes, even if it’s the holidays,” said the
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    • 236 8 / 9 PARENTS wanting their children to do better than their peers and their increased ability to pay for such classes are some of the reasons for our“pressurecookersociety”. That is what Dr Carol Balhetchet, director of youth services at SingaporeChildren’sSociety,said. Dr Balhetchet, who once polled 50 students
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    • 162 8 / 9 PARENTS in the US who go a little too far in their parenting were the subject of a recent Time magazine article. They were termed “helicopter parents”, because of the way they hovered over their children at playgrounds and schools. The article, titled The Growing
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    • 238 10 / 11 NO eating ice cream on the balcony. Thatwas once the ruleat Heaven’sLoft, a restaurant and bar at Orchard Central. This led to complaints soon after they opened earlier this year. Patrons complained on popular food review websites. Whencontacted, therestaurant’sowner, Mr T K Wong,said:
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    • 536 10 / 11  -  Fromseatingrulesto ordering rules, restaurantswith behaviourandservice codesleaveabadtaste withsomeS’poreans REPORTS: AMANDA YONG, VIVEN CHAN, HEDY KHOO tnp@sph.com.sg WILL you swallow these rules at an eatery? Only one cup per teapot ordered. No photography or video recording. Some restaurants are throwing the rule book at their customers. Some
      PICTURE TNP READER; TNP ILLUSTRATION: CHNG CHOON HIONG  -  536 words
    • 287 10 / 11 WANT to share a rich dessert in a cosy way with your date?Drop thatthought ifyou’reat PSCafe. A “minimumorder ofonemenuitem perperson” isa must at two of the outlets in the PS Cafe group. This rule, which is implemented on weekends from 10.30pm onwards, is
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    • 238 10 / 11 WHAT you eat dictates where you sit. That is, if you dine at The White Rabbit. The restaurant and bar located off Dempsey Road, has rules on seating arrangements. The establishment comprises a main indoor dining area, called the White Rabbit,
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    • 959 12 / 13  -  YoungS’poreanspendstime with weather-beaten kelong mentoheartheirdaysofglory REPORT:HOLIAN-YI HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg IF IT wasn’t for the fridge, I can imagine being on this traditional structure in the time of Sir Stamford Raffles.There’snotmuchtechnologytoitreally. Stick a couple of poles into the sea. Put a net
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    • 417 14 Malaysian woman turns to man for help after leaving husband but... WHATEVER her husband did to make her leave him, it could not have been as bad as what happened next. Because the man she turned to for help not only held her captive but
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    • 358 14 FLUSHED against the rock solid face of a cliff is a temple that seems to be balancing on stilts. It is an architectural feat that a building that is 1,400 years old has not only endured the test of time, but stood
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    • 291 15 46thGoldenHorseAwardsinTaipei A TAIWANESE production, which is about a poor man’s fight to keep custody of his child, won the Best Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay and Outstanding Taiwanese Film of the Year. Its director, Mr Leon Dai, also picked up the Best Director award. The arthouse
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    • 548 16 ANISLANDparadiseturnedintohellonearth for one British couple after they were allegedly sexually abused while onholiday. TheDailyMailreportedyesterdaythecouple was allegedly subjected to A Clockwork Orange-style attack on the Thai holiday islandofKohChang. In a scene from the movie, a couple is attacked at home and the husband made to watchashiswifeissexuallyabused.
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    • 669 17 Agencymakesunusualmoveof buyingfull-pageadsbecauseit’s short of Arabic-speaking spies WANTED: Spies for the US. And the US government is going about hiring these secret operatives in a very publicway– through newspaperadvertisements. And they know where to look for them. Dearborn, a city of 100,000 in Michigan, has the
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    • News Snapshot
      • 344 18 DUBAI’SDEBT: OIL-RICHNEIGHBOUR ABU DHABISAYS: ABU Dhabi, the wealthy capital of the UnitedArab Emirates,will “pick and choose” how to assist debt-laden neighbour Dubai, a senior official said yesterday, after fears of a Dubai default sent global markets reeling. “We will look at Dubai’s commitments and
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        46 18 RIVERSIDE TRAGEDY: Bangladeshi villagers gather to inspect a capsized ferry in the remote coastal village of Bhola yesterday. At least 10 people were killed as the ferry, one of thecountry’s largest inlandvessels(similarto the ferryinset), with about 1,000 passengers partly sank on Friday. PICTURES: AFP
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      • 98 18 PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged Commonwealth members to actively engage in the issue of climate change at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Trinidad and Tobago. PM Lee, who will be attending the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen, said
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      • 91 18 THE Malaysian central bank is investigating a local money changer which was allegedly involved in the transfer of RM10 million (S$4 million) to London by Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar Mohamad Hasan last year. Bank Negara Malaysia declined to comment further, Malaysiakini.com
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      • 111 18 A BOMB derailed an elite passenger train speeding through the forest from Moscow to Saint Petersburg, killing up to 39 people and injuring nearly 100. “We are indeed talking about a terrorist attack,” Mr Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the federal
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      • 100 18 A NEW global climate pact may be within reach after rich nations at a Commonwealth summit offered to help poorer countries bear the costs of implementing any deal. The Commonwealth consists of 53 nations including Britain, Australia and India. UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon
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    • News Exchange
      • 550 19  -  THE BUZZ COMMENT: MELVIN SINGH melvin@sph.com.sg THE call to criminalise borrowing from illegal moneylenders has grown loud. Working on a simple principle of demand and supply, some believe that by punishing borrowers, the loan shark problem here can be effectively tackled. The picture painted of
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      • 118 19 Weratethepastweek’snews–goodandbad +10 The number of people getting infected with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is dropping sharply worldwide, the UN said in its annual report on the disease. -10 The Consumer Price Index continued to drop last month. But many school bus operators are increasing their
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      • 25 19 “Buyaunit,getaboat free.” –amanproposingamarketingcampaign forcondosinflood-proneBukitTimah “Ithinkhe’s pretending.” –awomantoherfriendonwhethera teenager, sitting in the priority seat on a crowded MRT train, was actually sleeping
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      455 20/21  -  Pioneermagazinehasbeenfeaturingafemale officeronthebackpagesinceAugust. ANDRE YEO (andrey@sph.com.sg) reports ANDRE YEO YEO(andrey@sph.com.sg)reports WHEN she was 8, she fell in love with tanks and the raw power they embodied. She lost interest in her Barbie dolls and militaryequipment becameher newobsession. That was how Captain Lee Yee San, now 27, startedher loveaffair
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      382 20/21 Mind body From air defence to psychologicaldefence PSYCHOLOGIST. Scuba diver. Triathlete. And now, Miss May. Major Boh Lee Wee, 28, will appear in Pioneer magazine next May. She is a military psychologist at the applied behavioural sciences department of the Ministry of Defence (Mindef). She assesses and improves a soldier’s
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    • 375 20/21 WHENsome ofthose who getthe magazinedon’t even remove it from the plastic wrapping, the editor knowshe’s gota problemon hishands. So the folks at Pioneer redesigned the magazine in January 2007. Still, they felt more needed to be done. Every month, 163,000 copies of the magazine
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      • 480 22  -  Leavingonajetplane? Don’tenduplooking likeatrainwreck ANGELINE NEO tnp@sph.com.sg ONthelasttripouttoBangkok,Iwasattheairportwithoneofmymates,wait-ing to check in at the flight counter, whenI noticedthe twoyoung women standinginthequeuebeforeus. One had lizard eyes, thanks to coloured contacts that covered nearly all her eye whites, and the other had faux eyelashes so longtheirtipspracticallykissedherverypen-cilled-inbrows. Judging by their luggage
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    • Enjoy Hed Chef
      • 408 23  -  Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg FOOD tastes better when shared. This is only because there is less to go around, soit’sharderforthelaw of diminishing marginal returns to kick in. While many may shun dining alone at a restaurant, I have no qualms doing
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    • 534 24 / 25 An excursion to the beach for our Dating Challenge singles provestobeagoodfoundationonwhichtobuildrelationships DATE number one was an excursion to the beach–withafuntwist. The Dating Challenge finalists were there, basking in the sun, on their first group date. Location: East Coast Park. Time: 8am. Mission: Build a
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    • 641 26 / 27  -  New Face 2007 finalist surprised by offer after tagging along for audition REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg SHE may have gone home empty-handed from The New Paper New Face competition two years ago. But today, Raine Ng is a full-fledged pop artiste, ready to join
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    • 235 26 / 27 RAINENgisn’ttheonlyNewFacebabewho has hit the big time. Here are two others who have made the competition their launch pad to stardom. Jessica Tan, 27 Yes, a smile can indeed go a long way. When Jessica (right) joined the New Face competition as a fresh-faced 20-year-old in
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      • 503 28  -  SANTOKH SINGH FATHER FIGURES santokh@sph.com.sg AS A father of two young girls, aged 13 and 11, I am disturbed by two recent developments. Both involve the manner in which the authorities have dealt with males who exploited the emotions of young girls. First,
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      • 461 28  -  HO LIAN-YI MIDDLE CRASS lianyi@sph.com.sg AS I huddled with three men, with our feet in a tub of icy water, I realised that I really should have paid more attention during Chinese lessons. The other two things I learnt were: 1.0 deg
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      • 321 28  -  S M ONG ACT BLUR smong@sph.com.sg MY SON got his Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) results on Thursday and he wasn’t Singapore’s top scorer. Which is fine. But then my son was not even Singapore’s second top scorer.
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      132 31 This week, we're showcasing pictures of you and your newborn baby. For two weeks, starting from 13 Dec, we want to feature pictures of you enjoying a day out at the zoo. Send your pictures to tnpforum@sph.com.sg Mother Mandy Baby Elvin... We love you so much... From Daddy
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  • Page 26 / 27 Miscellaneous
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  • Page 29 Miscellaneous
    • 89 29 SEEING STARS BYKUAHSENG SENG Singapore’smostaccuratefakeastrologer SAGITTARIUS: An encounter with a meteor will earn you the name Man of Steel. Not because you gain super powers, but due to the number of pins needed to reconstruct your body after it hits you. CAPRICORN:Therewillbeanawkward momentwhen,duringthenewTwilight movie,youwonderaloudwhenWesley SnipeswillcomeonasBlade. AQUARIUS:You’llkeepintouchwith friendsusinghand-writtenlettersagain, seeingasthereisnoInternetaccessin prison. refusetohireyoudespiteyourresume
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    • 114 30 MY STREET Think you know Singapore like the back of your hand? Try answering these questions related to our country in our My Street series. Check the answers in this space next Sunday. 1. Where in Singapore can you find Canada next to Sudan? 2. What favourite foodie hang-out used
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  • Page 30 Miscellaneous
    • 244 30 WATCH’EM CHANNEL5 11.00 CelebritySpellingBee Noon FootballAsiaShow 2009 12.30pm Sports@SG 1.00 Movie:Baywatch: HawaiianWedding 3.00 SoYou Think YouCanDance 4.30 TinMan 5.30 FlashGordon 6.30 Movie:Pirates OfTheCaribbean: Dead Man’sChest 9.30 News5Tonight 10.00 FlashFoward 11.00 Heroes Midnight MyName IsEarl 12.30am UglyBetty CHANNEL8 11.00am ProjectA 1.00pm WhereThe QueueStarts 1.30 Don’tForget The Lyrics 2.30 Movie:TheBride withWhite Hair2
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  • Sports Racing
    • 419 32/33  -  DANNY KHOO dkhoo@sph.com.sg TRAINER Cliff Brown (inset) continued his fine form with a double yesterday to take his two-day haul to a brilliant five. The Australian missed his three winners Otomodachi, Triumphant Mars and Any Takers on Friday but was present to lead in
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    • 1225 32/33 GOING FORECAST: GOOD Race1 MS1600m 6 WORLDFAMOUSMAN55.5(9-5) JPowell (3) 2 2 1 (519) 5 FAMOUSTHANU55.5(77-21) JMoreira (6) 7 4 2 (554) 1.25 8 FORTUNEEIGHT53.5c50.5(225-39) SRuzaini* (2) 5 3 3 (428) 1.5 7 HUNGARIAN54.5(354-60) BVorster (8) 1 1 4 (462) 3.5 2 BOUNCEBACK57(158-33) RStewart (10) 10 10
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    • 620 32/33 GOING: YIELDING Race1 C5(SC)1200m 13 ROYALCONQUEROR52(211-41) NAzman (2) 4 4 1 (500) 8 ENCHANTEDRIVER55c54(33-8) LouHo* (12) 5 5 2 (492) Nk 12 SKYBOX52.5(19-5) BNShahrul (1) 1 1 3 (469) 1 11 TRUEFRIENDSHIP53.5(76-19) SMarzuki (6) 6 6 4 (547) 0.75 ?Winning owner: M Din. Trainer: Cecil Robert.
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    • 183 32/33 S’PORESTIPES’ REPORTGENERAL RACE 10 LAST FRIDAY THE Stewards yesterday concluded an Inquiry into the reasons for SOUTH STAR (E Legrix) having to check whilst racing to the inside of ANY TAKERS (J Powell) near the 800m. It was established that passing the 800m, SOUTH
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    • 97 34 RACE 1:3 Jeram Fire 8 Hidalgo 4 Tomahawk RACE 2:3 Inter Dancer 5 Terima Kaseh 9 Victory Will Do RACE 3:16 Conduit 18 Screen Hero 5 Vodka RACE4:6 KINGAND NOBLE?4BrahmsReturn 1Sakima RACE 5:1 Captain De Lago 2 Bright Master 11 Iceberg RACE 6:11
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    • 1387 34 RACE 1 CLOSE ONE EYE and HUNGARIAN bumped on jumping. BOUNCE BACK was slow. GIFT OF HONOUR raced fiercely and was difficult to settle in the early and middle stages. From the 600m to the 300m, GIFT OF HONOUR was held up
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    • 1446 35 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING RACE1 C5 1.15 -1600m(LC) Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 78-0-0 InterTycoon 57 (35) SJohn 6 (3amgJBrink-Inter) 2 -007-0 Easy 56.5 (34) OChavez 11 (8agRLines-SilverNixon) 3 9441-- JeramFire 55.5 (32) JacksonLow*c1 14 (9nzgARahim-GoldPlus) 4 *****2 Tomahawk 55 (31)
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    • 950 36 RACE 1 (1,200m) Mighty Winner (7) has been backed-and-beaten in two runs this term, but has gone close over the 1,000m and 1,400m, and looks suited by this trip with a claimer aboard. High Return (2) is awkwardly drawn but has been knocking
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    • 949 36 Going forecast: Good RACE1 CLASS4TURF 1200m TIME:1:00 Stakes:HK$625,000 NO. HORSENAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 MANYGAINS KLMAN THSO 133 5 2 HIGHRETURN CHYIP WMLAI 129 9 3 BLADEFORCE ASCRUZ MCHADWICK 125 12 4 BRAVEHEART PO'SULLIVAN DWHYTE 125 7 5 CHIEFSUCCESSOR DJHALL BPREBBLE 125
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  • Page 32/33 Miscellaneous
    • 30 32/33 Saturday,28 Nov2009 First Second Third 8505 2554 1076 Starters 1556 9307 6031 4471 8690 4857 0785 2798 7001 3838 Consolation 4133 3698 6788 7356 1849 4628 1693 7217 6854 8595
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  • Sports Mad about Golf
    • 578 37 AP THERE are plenty of vivid details from the car crash that sent Tiger Woods to the hospital on Friday. His SUV hit a fire hydrant and a tree; his lips were cut and he had blood in his mouth; his wife smashed a
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    • 421 37 OMEGA WORLD CUP AFP DEFENDING champions Sweden and Italy’s Molinari brothers closed to within just one shot of long-time leaders Northern Ireland after the third round fourballs at the Omega World Cup in China yesterday. Ireland, leading by three strokes overnight, were unable
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    • 284 37 Wire Services WEBSITE TMZ which broke the news of Michael Jackson’s death alleged Tiger Woods was injured when his wife, Elin Nordegren, scratched his face during a heated row over reports that he was having an affair. The alleged row came after paparaz-zi-style
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    • 283 39 FACES OF STEEL STORIES OF STRENGTH IMi 1^1 6. -;>• "The generous hospitality of the Afghan people and their appreciation of our assistance are among my most poignant memories of that beautifully rugged, but war-torn land." I! I i: J n M ft In 2008, I was deployed as the
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  • Sports Swimming
    • 312 40/41 TENNIS AFP RAFAEL Nadal limped out of the ATP World Tour Finals on Friday after losing 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 to defending champion Novak Djokovic. But the Spaniard insists that he will be able to recharge his batteries in time to help Spain win their Davis
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    • 226 40/41 AFP RUSSIA’SNikolayDavydenkostunnedRogerFederer to reach the final of the ATP World Tour Finals with a 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 victory over the world No. 1 last night. Federer had never lost to Davydenko in 12 previous meetings, but the Wimbledon and French Open champion was unable to extend that
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    • 987 46 / 47 Wire Services HERE is the secret to Arsenal’s entertaining football: Go green, and stay out of red-light districts. Spectacular combinations based on speed of body and mind, together with technical ability and power, have made Arsenal Britain’sfavouritesecondteam. This season, more than any other since the Invincibles
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    • 333 48 / 49  -  ARSENAL v CHELSEA (Tonight, Ch 27,11.55pm) IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg IT’SNOTasbadasitseems.Granted, Chelsea would rather not lose a third league match before the start ofDecemberandArsenalaredesperatenotto suffer a fourth reverse already, but this is a verystrangeseason. LiverpoolhavealreadycollapsedandManchesterUnitedhavebeenbeatenthreetimes, sotheoldrulesdon’treallyapply. There’s actually
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    • 148 48 / 49  -  IAIN MACINTOSH HEAVEN only knows what Carlo Ancelotti (left) said after Chelsea’s amateurish defending cost them the game against Aston Villa last month, but since then the Blues have kept seven clean sheets in their last eight matches. At the other end, it helps
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    • 106 48 / 49  -  IAIN MACINTOSH THEY certainly are and that’s going to cause Arsene Wenger some serious problems. William Gallas is still doubtful after his clash of heads with Andrei Arshavin on Tuesday night. Thepoorman’seyeswelledupsobadlythathecouldn’tgethiscontactlensesin and a blind Gallas clattering around the pitch is the last
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    • 1171 50 / 51 FormerLiverpoolandEverton star PETER BEARDSLEY, who hasscoredwinnersonboth sidesoftheMerseysideDerby, talkstoTheNewPaperabout tonight’sclashbetween EvertonandLiverpool EXCLUSIVE You’veplayed forboth Liverpool and Everton. How different does it feel to wear red and then blue in a Merseyside Derby? WHEN I was at Liverpool, I always felt more confident and as though
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    • 543 52  -  BY KEN GAUNT Special Correspondent PA Sport IMMY BULLARD’S secondhalf penalty salvaged a valuable point for Hull and ensured Manchester City drew their seventh successive League game. Bullard drove home an 81st minute penalty to cancel out ShaunWright-Phillips’firsthalf effort which seemed to have secured victory
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    • 228 52  -  BY SIMON STONE Special Correspondent WIGAN produced the ideal responsetolastweek’s9-1 thrashing by Tottenham as Hugo Rodallega’ssolitarygoalwas enough to beat Sunderland. Midway through the half Wigan were unlucky not to take the lead whenCharlesN’Zogbia dispossessed Paulo da Silva on the right of the penalty
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      • 185 54  -  DAVID LEE WHAT a way to celebrate his birthday with his 100th Premier League goal. That would be Ryan Giggs, all of 36 years old today. Good would be a huge understatement for the Welsh Wizard who won a penalty, created another assist and
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    • 131 55 TNP POSTMAN READERS’REACTIONS ENGLISH PREMIERSHIP PREMIERSHIP leaders Chelsea and London rivals Arsenal clash in the match of the week at the Emirates tonight. Chelsea, five points clear of Manchester United, will be hoping to extend their lead with a win over Arsenal, who are still reeling from the shock defeat
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