The New Paper, 5 December 2009

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      Lock icon Bashed up over $250 karaoke bill
      695 3  -  Woman says manager beat her after she complained Ng Wan Ching IT WAS supposed to be a fun trip out to a karaoke club for two women. But it turned into a nightmare after one of them complained about the bill. The Chinese national,
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      Lock icon Was he jovial salesman or HUMAN SMUGGLER?
      886 4/5  -  Conflicting accounts of man found dead at East Coast Park in his underwear REPORT: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg JUST days after his body was found, loan sharks came knocking at his former workplace. So who is Mr Steven Ng Yon Soon, the man connected
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      Lock icon Hostess’ passport, belongings left at lounge
      582 4/5 CHINAnationalHanYanfei,28,whoisnicknamed“Jing Jing”,hasbeenmissingfor28days. The 165cm-tall woman, who is slim and fair, was last seen around 3am on 8 Nov at the karaoke lounge where she worked. Madam Zhang, her mother, said Ms Han would normally contact her parents every two days via webcam. But since
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      Lock icon Guardian couple turn into abusers
      779 8  -  Mangets24years’jail,24strokes of cane for sexually assaulting girl, 7 REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg HER father was in jail and her mother was busy at work. So the girl, who has a lower than average IQ, and her younger sister were placed in the care of a
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      Lock icon Sudden brake & a lucky break
      524 10  - Sudden brake a lucky break Lorry driver narrowly misses being impaled by pipes he was ferrying REPORT:TEH TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg A TRAILER-TRUCK driver narrowly missed being crushed to death when he braked suddenly and caused the thick metal pipes he was carrying to smash through the front cab. The
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      44 3 Website: tnp.sg Email: tnp@sph.com.sg Fax: 6319 8266 Operations desk: 6319 5544 Circulation: 6388 3838 TNP hotline: 1800-7 33 44 55 Tiger Woods scandal EPL survey MAN CITY FOR TOP 4 ISFEAR MONEY KEEPING HER SILENT? OR So who drops out? PAGE 68 PAGE 30
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      33 4/5 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Get the latest in our Sports Noon Editions newpaperthe No Sports Noon Edition on Monday Wed: Wolfsburg vs Man Utd Chelsea vs Apoel Nicosia Thu: Liverpool vs Fiorentina Olympiakos vs Arsenal
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      Lock icon IN A HEARTBEAT: This handphone records your heart rhythm in 30 seconds and sends an electrocardiogram (ECG) to a 24-hour centre from anywhere in the world. Called EPI Life, the phone was designed and developed by home-grown technology company Ephone International. Users of the service pay $ 199 a month over a two-year period.
      56 12 IN A HEARTBEAT: This handphone records your heart rhythm in 30 seconds and sends an electrocardiogram (ECG) to a 24-hour centre from anywhere in the world. Called EPI Life, the phone was designed and developed by home-grown technology company Ephone International. Users of the service pay 199 a month over
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      Lock icon Length of basic military training changed
      221 12 OBESE SAF RECRUITS THElengthsofthebasicmili-tary training course will be tweaked for recruits who areobese. Details of the changes were released yesterday from a two-stage review conducted by the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). The current course for most obese recruits is 15 weeks, comparedto the regular
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      Lock icon Combination flu vaccine may be available next year
      86 12 INDIVIDUALS may soon be able to immunise themselves against both the H1N1 flu and the seasonal flu with a single vaccine. A new vaccine that can protect against the various flu strains may be available by mid-2010, reported Channel NewsAsia. The medical
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      Lock icon Those in financial need urged to avoid loan sharks
      95 12 SENIOR Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs, Ho Peng Kee, called on Singaporeans in financial need to try other channels. Turn away from loan sharks, he urged, and try community-based channels, such as the One Hope Centre which has
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      Lock icon Traditional medicine sector vibrant: Minister
      110 12 TRADITIONAL medicine is doing a roaring trade here, with imports growing by 63 per cent over the last five years to hit US$35 million ($49 million) last year, said Minister in the PrimeMinister’sOfficeLimSweeSay. Mr Lim, speaking at the inaugural Traditional Medicine Expo yesterday, also observed
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      Lock icon Room rates slashed by up to half as competition heats up
      862 14/15  -  4 NEW BUDGET HOTELS OPEN IN BALESTIER REPORT: CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg A PRICE war has broken out among the budget hotels in Balestier Road and the question is: How low can they go? Already one hotel is charging $69
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      Lock icon Fined for flashing knife at cops
      565 16  -  Man claimed he was alone at the time REPORT: DESMOND NG desmondn@sph.com.sg USING a knife to confront anyone especiallypolice officers doesn’t pay. One man found this out the hard way and landed himself in prison for his antic. Siaw Kah Pin, 39, was either
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      Lock icon Top businessman was nearly bankrupt
      646 18 / 19  -  Veteran headhunter crawls back from debt-laden past to win entrepreneur award REPORT: BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg HE is celebrated as a top businessmen, being one of 15 to win this year’s Entrepreneur of the Year award. But few know that Mr Joshua Yim, 45, chief executive
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      Lock icon Spare whom a dime?
      483 20 / 21  -  Sparewhomadime?Opinionsdifferonhow theGovernment shouldspend PRE-BUDGET DIALOGUE SESSION REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg INoursavingsbox,thedollarcoinisthesizeitis.But given the chance to toss it, in the face of the guardians of our coffers, it takes on the size of a wheelthatdrivesoureconomy. SoSingaporeansareencouragedtocomeupwith suggestions on where the spokes go and how the
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      Lock icon Go ahead and sue me
      514 22  -  Shotputter’smumbreaksdownin court, claims SAA president said: REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg FOR three days, she had remained calm under intense cross-examina-tion, giving her answers in a voice that was loud and firm. But the steel-like composure of Madam Zhang Ping, 54, finally broke in court yesterday.
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      339 24 S’porean apprentice says of his Israeli martial arts master (right) HE BROKE MY THUMB He wanted to know if I was serious The New Paper on g/> SingTel PRESENTS SINGAPORE -/f?C) V V n A DANCE MUSIC FESTIVAL v m r SENTOSA SAT 12 DEC 09 H$mT ILOSO TIGA AEROPLANE
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      25 24 Parents move out after daughter, 15, tests positive for H1N1. She says: THEY WERE TOO SCARED TO EVEN BRING ME FOOD The New Paper on
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      Lock icon POLITICAL SUMMIT:
      47 26 Nepalese politicians take part in a Cabinet meeting at Kalapattar Plateau, 5.3km above sea level, near Mount Everest yesterday. The politicians, who were equipped with oxygen cylinders and travelled by helicopter, met there to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas. PICTURE: AFP
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      Lock icon Handphone use not linked to brain tumours
      229 26 30-YEAR STUDY ON 16 MILLION PEOPLE WHILE handphone use soared from the 1990s onwards, brain tumours did not become more common during this time, reported Danish Cancer Society researchers in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Thursday. They conducted a 30-year
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      Lock icon M’sian anti-graft chief steps down
      99 26 FROM 1 Jan next year, the deputy chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Mr Abu Kassim Mohamed will be the new head of the agency. He succeeds Mr Ahmad Said Hamdan, 57, who submitted a written notice to have his contract of service shortened
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      Lock icon Indonesian President raises idea of moving capital
      92 26 INDONESIAN President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Jakarta is too crowded and congested. He again raised the issue of ingthecountry’scapitalfromJakarta to somewhere else. “About 15 years ago, there was mention of moving the administration from Jakarta to Jonggol in West Java,” said the president
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      Lock icon More than 3,000 Terengganu flood victims evacuated
      100 26 THE third wave of monsoon rains worsened the floods along the east coast of Malaysia. Throughout the state of Terengganu, 3,473 flood victims were evacuated, reported The Star. uated,reported A state National Safety Council spokesman said the Hulu Terengganu district registered the highest
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      Lock icon Protons hot with M’sian car thieves
      453 28 Thieves are stealing them and other brands for spare parts THE hottest cars in Malaysia are not Mercedes or BMWs. They are the Protons at least to thieves, according to reports. Malaysian police said 5,290 Proton cars were stolen in the first 10 months
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      Lock icon Wife poisons herself with weed killer
      258 29 She mixed it with her nasi bungkus AFTER registering her divorce with her husband, a Malaysian housewife resorted to taking poison in an attempt to kill herself. The incident happened at about 4.30pm on Wednesday in their house in a housing estate in Kuantan,
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      876 30/31 The scandal surrounding golf great Tiger Woods has become amatterofcommonsense– dollars and sense, that is $CANDAL.That’s one way to describe what happenedto superstargolfer TigerWoods. Yesterday, The New Paper reported on claimsthat hewould bepaying aseven-fig-ure sum to his wife not to leave him after three women were
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      Lock icon Rolling Stones’ Wood arrested for assault
      325 33 ROLLING Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his Russian girlfriend, cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova. Wood’s wife divorced him last month on grounds of adultery. He was arrested in Claygate, which is south-west of London and near his home, on Wednesday
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      Lock icon Nigerians used ‘voodoo curses’ to control girls
      348 34 Gang members jailed for forcing 140 women into prostitution TWO Nigerians accused of using voodoo curses to force about 140 Nigerian girls into prostitution in Europe were sentenced to jail terms of four and and four-and-a-half years on Thursday. Four other defendants received
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      Lock icon Oprah's White House Christmas
      450 36 Talk show host tours USpresident’shome forX’masTVspecial OPRAH and the Obamas have teamed up again. Billionaire talk show host Oprah Winfrey descended on the White House on Thursday, with a large entourage of personnel and equipment, to interview US President Barack Obama in his first year in
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      40 38 FROM READER JANE CHO HUNDRED YEARS, GOOD MATCH: A car dressed up for a wedding is spotted in Chinatown with its back licence plate covered with a decoration. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      117 38 On respecting alternative lifestyles “Weneedmore tolerance,understanding and compassion. We need increased efforts at dialogue and social interaction across different social groups. While religious leaders have the right to uphold their beliefs and values, they should bear in mind Singapore’sfragile socialfabric,and avoid militant and confrontational attitudes towardsotherswho are
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      155 38 FROM ADAM RAHMAN CORPORATE AFFAIRS DIRECTOR, CITI SINGAPORE CitiSMRTPlatinum Visa Card WEREFERtotheletter“WhyshouldI pay for bank to learn from their mistakes?” (The New Paper, 30 Nov)byMrOngYeeLoong. WethankMrOngforhiscomments. We wish to clarify that our customer feedback and findings show that $30 is the preferred auto
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      Lock icon Train overran station due to technical fault
      183 38 FROM BERNADETTE LOW MANAGER, CORPORATE MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS SMRT CORPORATION LTD I REFER to the letter “Technical fault or driver error?” by Andrew Seow (The New Paper, 17 Nov). On 12 Nov around 7pm, an east-bound train experienced a technical fault as it
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      16 38 Doyouthinkthatit’snecessaryfor Primary One kids to be streamed? “It’sunnecessary.At thatage, it’stoo earlyto judgeachild’s capabilities.” SharonTeo,24, marketingexecutive
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      944 39  -  Thrilled at winning Best Actor award for Englishspeaking role, Adrian stuns host Allan Wuwith victory, er, clutch ASIAN TELEVISION AWARDS REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg SO, WHAT do you do if there’s no time for thank-you speeches at an awards show? Simple,mock-humpthehost’sleg. That was what Adrian Pang did to
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      599 42  -  Local singer Kelly Poon target of ‘otherwoman’accusationonTwitter REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg –additionalreportingbyKwokKarPeng –additionalreportingbyKwokKarPeng POOR Kelly Poon. The past week could very well have been the most distressing in her career so far. First, there were Taiwanese media reports about the local songbird’s apparent intention
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        526 43  -  Andrea Fonseka relaxes–and spills the beans on her beau MYFAVEspot Samuel Wee newsroomintern ANDREA Fonseka carries herself with an uncommon grace and poise. That’s why it’s hard to imagine the 25-year-old celebrity sprawled on a mattress-couch in a corner of her living room. It’s
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        155 43 buzz TREND IN A three-part series starting today, Trendbuzz offers some tips on how to decorate for the festive season, starting with Christmas trees. First, you have to decide where to place your tree. Conventional wisdom dictates that a Christmas tree should be in
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        259 44  - Lou behold, it’s Klum’s new baby We round up the Internet sites or videos that people are talking about REPORT: JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com.sg What’sthenoise SEVEN-week-old Lou Sulola Samuel, daughter of singer Seal, 46, and supermodel Heidi Klum, 36, made her public debut onherproudpapa’sofficialwebsite this week. In a series of snapshots,
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      791 75  -  ANDREW WARSHAW npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM CAPETOWN THEDRAWfornextsummer’sWorld Cup Finals may have beentheglobalfocusofsporting attention in Cape Town yesterday. But a few hours earlier, on the morning of the draw, another World Cup drama wasunfolding in the palatial grounds of a government building on the outskirts of thecity. Forget
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      705 76  -  ANDREW WARSHAW npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM CAPE TOWN The writer is a former sports editor of The European and a regular contributor to daily and Sunday national newspapers in the UK. AS A SYMBOL of the changing face of South Africa, the decision to hold the latest
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        168 77 LIVE TELECASTS EPL Today: PORTSMOUTH v BURNLEY StarHub TV Ch 27,8.40pm BLACKBURN v LIVERPOOL StarHub TV Ch 27,11pm WEST HAM v MAN UTD StarHub TV Ch 22,11pm Howwill the Hammers’impressive young striker Zavon Hines (right) fare against the Premiership champions? ARSENAL v STOKE StarHub TV Ch 21,11pm ASTON VILLA
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        11 77 CHEVRON WORLD CHALLENGE Tomorrow: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 26,4.15am
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        16 77 DAVIS CUP 2009 FINAL Tomorrow: SPAIN v CZECH REPUBLIC (DAY 2) StarHubTV Ch 21, 2pm
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        438 77 WHAT'S ON BLURBS /RESULTS LOCAL EVENTS BASKETBALL What:U Sports 3 on 3 Basketball Showdown When: Ends tomorrow Where: National Library Board Headquarters THE BASKETBALL Association of Singapore will be tapping on this competition for YOG athlete selection. The Singapore Slingers will also make a special appearance at this half-court basketball
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        1613 54/55 RACE 1 Rosehill (1,300m) 6 INFORMALITY (JA O’Shea) 4g (6:4-0-0): Lightly raced up and comer who can be forgiven for 63/4-len 8th (56kg) Express Air 1600m E Farm Qld Gneas heavy track 6 Jun. Resumed in excellent shape, charging through
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        1166 54/55 12:05Race1 TOPCUTSTEAKSHCPBM85(ROSEHILL) 1300M 1 MRSLICK KODYNESTOR (3) 61 2 LEGENDARYMAN BAVDULLA (2) 59.5 3 TIBER NRAWILLER (5) 58.5 4 JERSEYLILY MICHAELPALMER (6) 56.5 5 SKYTRAIN KMCEVOY (10) 56 6 INFORMALITY CWBROWN (4) 55.5 7 BUTTIDO JBOWMAN (7) 55 8 MUSTARD RMQUINN (9) 55 9 GAZZAGURU TOMMYBERRY (8)
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        242 54/55 GOING: SOFT BRAHMS RETURN wound up his preparations for a comeback win tomorrow in the Melbourne Racing Club Stakes for Class 4 stayers over 2,000m in Race 6 with a two-round workout in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old American-bred gelding cantered
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        365 54/55 RACE1 1st 7 Warm Love ($14-$5) 2nd 1 Dutchy’s Lass ($24) 3rd 3 Magic Of Emma ($19) 4th 4 Maraaseem. EOB $33. Forecast $52. Place forecast $20 (1-3), $24 (1-7), $17 (3-7). Tierce $676. Trio $90. Quartet $7559. Scratching: Wild Goose. RACE 2 1st 6 Ballet Point
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        1159 56 GOING FORECAST: SOFT RACE1 C5 1.45 -1400m(LC) Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 901-30 BlackSapphire 57 (35) EAslamc2 10 (7nzgPeterLee-StarSapphire) 2 55-802 SupremeAura 56.5 (34) MWTehc2 9 (5agPSKumaran-Denon) 3 0410-- Christie 56 (33) NCallow 13 (5mmFMaynard-CKTan) 4 -596-- MissInvincible 56 (33)
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        1114 57 GOING: GOOD Race1 C*****m 4 SUNDUVAN55.5c53.5(19-6) MEwe* (7) 1 1 1 (517) 12 ZACPOWER52(18-5) JMoreira (9) 3 3 2 (462) 0.75 6 QUEENOFHEARTS55c52(167-39) AFeiruz* (8) 2 2 3 (508) 1.25 2 SPARKLE57(17-7) MGallagher (2) 6 4 4 (504) 0.5 10 THANKSFORMEMORY52.5c51.5(397-85) AlanNg (11) 10 11 5
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        318 57  -  Magic Moreira gets Big 5 but second aboard hot favourite Bumble Bee in $175,000 Proinn Construct Stakes DANNY KHOO dkhoo@sph.com.sg GOLDSCHATZ will go down as the first horse to win a Group race on the Polytrack in Kranji. Not noted as an alternative track performer, the Stephen
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      312 58 Mad About Golf AFP TAIWAN’SChanYih-shinheldon to his lead at the King’s Cup in Thailand with a battling one-over-par 73 yesterday but sixplayerswerehotonhisheels. The 32-year-old failed to repeat his opening-round magic when he shot a sparkling course-record 64 but will still enter the weekend one stroke ahead
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      247 58 Reuters HOME favourite Stuart Appleby took advantage of an early start to race into a six-shot lead at the Australian Open yesterday. A five-hour delay due to high winds left the second round incomplete and players frustrated. The 2001 champion (above) fired a second consecutive
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      194 58 AFP ENGLAND’S Ian Poulter took double-bogey at the final hole on Thursday to slip into a tie for the lead with Zach Johnson at the Chevron World Challenge. A wayward tee-shot at the last saw Poulter finish on four-under 68, while Johnson was delighted with a
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      265 58 THAILAND 4 CAMBODIA0 SEA Games Football STRIKER Sompong Soleb scored a hat-trick to help Thailand beat Cambodia 4-0 and claim their first win in Group A yesterday. The defending champions, whohadwonthemen’sfootball crown in every edition of the South-east Asia Games since 1993, did not get the
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        547 59  -  SINGAPORE v INDONESIA LIM HAN MING npsports@sph.com.sg DISCIPLINE.That is the catchword for the Singapore Under-23 footballers ahead of their South-east Asia Games opening Group B match againstIndonesiatoday. “Mymainconcernisthattheboysmustkeep theirdisciplineandcomposureagainsttheIndonesians,” Under-23 coach Terry Pathmanathan told The New Paper in a phone interview from Laosyesterday. “The
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        457 59  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg THE TRUTH be told, the SEA Games football programme holds little interest to the punter. I checked. I asked my punter pals if they were going to bet on the football matches being played in Vientienne, and all I got
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        825 60/61  -  Singapore’sSEAGamesfootballcampaignstartstodayinaGroupBgameagainstIndonesia. LIM SAYHENG takes a look at the 20 youngsters who will attempt to build on the bronze-medal success of2007 LIM SAY HENG GOALKEEPERS HYRULNIZAMJUMA’AT Jersey No: 1 Date of Birth: 14 Nov 1986 Club: Young Lions The 1.80m tall goalkeeper has been knocking on the door
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        557 60/61 “Wecan dowell aslong as everyone is playing for one another and has belief in ourselves. “Oneplayerwho will bepushing the rest hard would be Hariss Harun. He is an aggressive player who fights hard for the team. “Hopefullythis willrub offon the restoftheplayers.” Assistantcoach VSundramoorthy 1
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      487 62 Pompeymustwin FACT:Whata longtripsouth for the guysfrom TurfMoor.It’s almost 400km to gettoFratton Park. Itcould be sapping on theplayers. Portsmouthplayed inmidweek. TEAMNEWS:Burnleywon’t have Rodriguez,but McCann’sready.Pompey’s BoubaDiop and Finnanarestanding by for call-ups. MATCHGUIDE: This isthe type ofmatchPortsmouth cannot affordto lose. So,expectAvram Grant tofashion somethingspecial for Burnley’svisit. LAST3EPL MATCHES: P’mouth(Home) LWL.
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        1186 64 TOP OF THE TIPS GARYLIM Portsmouth to beat Burnley on the 1x2 TRUE to form, Burnley lost to West Ham last week, although they somehow managed to make the scoreline less embarrassing in the closing stages. More crucially, they have to ask themselves how they allowed West Ham
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        859 65  -  FROM THE GROUND ERIC DING npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is freelancer. SOMEONE once told me that home advantage counts double in the Premiership and there is better value to back the home teams. That probably explains why there are certain games where
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        137 65 Today, AH PEKand BIG BIRD eye the Singapore-Indonesia SEA Games clash ERNEST: So Ah Pek,you backing the Singapore Under-23s against Indonesia? What does your infinite wisdom tell you? AH PEK: Yes, the Young Lions can win. Low profile, little pressure from the public now. So
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        889 66  -  JAMES EASTHAM Special Correspondent The writer is a freelancer. ASTON VILLA v HULL (Back Villa to clear the 1 /2-Goal) Before the season started, I backed Aston Villa to finish in the top six. They are now there, after proving that relying on a
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        43 66 BEST BET: Stoke have an appalling record away to the Big Four since winning promotionto theEPL last year (W0-D1-L4)and, until lastweek’s 3-0 collapse against Chelsea, Arsenal had a peerless home record. Stoke are noChelsea soback theGunnersto earna comfortablewin.
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        605 68  -  SARA ANN K HER BLOG npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a RazorTVjournalist. SO THE Tiger is still in the woods as far as his married life is concerned. And he probably will be stuck there for some time because he's been a b-a-a-a-d boy.
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        410 68 Can Man City break into the Top Four? Yes, according to a Barclays survey among international journalists FOOTBALL writers and broadcasters from across the globe have tipped Manchester City to qualify for the Uefa Champions League after the club’s transfer activity over the
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        720 70  -  OOPS! EDWIN YEO npsports@sph.com.sg Thewriteris afreelancer. WHY THE British media recently seems insistent on picking apart the youths of modern football is as baffling as Tiger Woods’ ability to drive. A car, that is, not a golf ball. It all started with Manchester
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        300 70 Wire Services FROM boss Rafael Benitez to team-mates to fans, the return of Fernando Torres onto the pitch is highly anticipated. The 25-year-old Spanish striker, who had been undergoing three weeks of intense treatment on his serious groin injury, returned to full training
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        298 71  -  BLACKBURN v LIVERPOOL DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg THE REDS had been rather sterile in October and November, winning only two out of seven league matches, but still managed to linger around the top four. Their saving grace? An almost impeccable record in north-west Derbies this
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        253 71  -  DAVID LEE I ONCE likened Alberto Aquilani to the letter Q in a game of Scrabble you get one and hang on to it, waiting for the right moment to throw it onto the board, only to find your opponents already streets ahead on
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        169 71  -  DAVID LEE THEIR league record against the traditional Big Four this season does not make pleasant reading for any Rovers fan. Chelsea handed out a 5-0 stuffing, and that was following Arsenal’s 6-2 thrashing, while Manchester United also beat them with 2-0. However, this unfortunate
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        331 72/73  -  MAN CITY v CHELSEA Ch 27,1.30am, tomorrow GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg AT THE moment, not a single Premiership team can touch Chelsea. There is only one word to describe the Bluesrightnow unstoppable. The reason the Blues are top of the Premiership table is simply that they
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        182 72/73  -  GARY LIM EIGHT hours and eight minutes have passed since Chelsea last conceded a goal in the Premier League. The last time they let in one was in the 2-1 loss to Aston Villa at Villa Park in mid-October. Since the days of
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        292 72/73  -  GARY LIM UNFORTUNATELY, Man City will be fighting an uphill battle to win their first Premiership game in eight tomorrow morning. After an excellent start to the season, Man City are beginning to look worryingly fragile. Amazingly, last week’s 1-1 draw with
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        264 74  -  WEST HAM v MAN UNITED IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg ABSOLUTELYvital.Manchester City’s morale will have been boosted by their thumping victory over the Arsenal Under-12s in midweek and there’s every chance that they could take something from Chelsea inthe late gametonight. That meansthat nothing less thana
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        156 74  -  IAIN MACINTOSH THAT’Strue. Upton Park is a smallish stadium where the fans are positioned very close to the sidelines and that can sometimes upset players who are young or just new to English football. They don’t breed ’em polite in this
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        159 74  -  IAIN MACINTOSH THEY’D have more of a chance if Carlton Cole was fit. But the big striker will miss at least the next six games with a knee ligament injury. The former Chelsea frontman (above) might not be the most refined of
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        250 69 SPANISH giants Real Madrid plan to launch a lingerie line next year, and they already have a fan in their defender Pepe, who is confident it would be a hit. “I am sure that a club with so much history and such special fans will have
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      105 77 THEPOSTMAN READERS’REACTIONS READERS, we want your post-match reactions for these matches (see below). The deadline for the EPL matches listed is 4pm on Monday. Selected posts will be published in The New Paper. Go to tnppostman.com to post your views or email npsports@sph.com.sg leaving your full name, age, occupation and
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      50 77 WORLD CUP ANDREW Warshaw, former sports editor of the European, and a regular contributor to daily and Sunday national newspapers in the UK, was at the World Cup draw in Cape Town early this morning. Look out for his reports in The New Paper on Sunday. WARSHAWAT ROBBEN ISLAND /PAGE76
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      335 78 WORLD CUP 2010 The World Cup draw was conducted early this morning in Cape Town, past our press time. Here are some facts about the greatest show on earth, which will be held from 11 June to 11 July next year. 200m viewers watching the draw live worldwide 3 World
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