The New Paper, 31 December 2009, Afternoon Edition

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      Lock icon A FRIEND’S GUILT
      831 2/3  -  He blames himself for hisfriends’injuries TWO YOUTHS HURT IN ACCIDENT ON PIE REPORT: LEDIATI TAN ledtan@sph.com.sg HIS friends wanted to cheer him up after his grandmother’s death, so they took him out to celebrate his birthday. Their outing turned to tragedy on the PIE when a van
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      Lock icon A FATHER’S REGRET
      429 2/3 He cries talking about son’ssportingtalent THOUGH his son was a national floorball player, Mr Basri Hurdi has never seen him play. Now he may never get the chance after his son, Mr Muhammad Hadi Hassan Basri, 21, was seriously injured in an accident on 21 Dec. Mr
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    • News Embassy Car Hit & Run
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        Lock icon His wife says she’s in the dark
        705 4  -  Diplomat has heart pains is in Romania for treatment, she says Doyouknowabouttheaccidents?Don’tknowDon’tknow Doeshevisitkaraokelounges? What’sthat? Whattimedoeshecomehome? Don’tknow Whenwillyourhusbandore? returntoSingapore? Don’tknow REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg HIS superior and colleagues do not know when he will return to Singapore. And now, it seems, neither does his
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      48 2/3 y J JACKPOT Sales Close at 6pm Draw at 6.30pm J, ooo, oooL TODAY! A Date With Singapore Pools Feng Shui for 2010 Will the Tiger Maul the Market? by Grand Master Raymond Lo 8 January 2010, 7.30pm at Singapore Conference Hall RCB Reg No: *****0202G SINGAPORE E
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      Lock icon Suspended land sites up for sale again
      270 6 Industrial land sales programme for 2010: THE industrial land sales programme launched yesterday reflects the recent upturn in the property market. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) reinstated two sale sites on the confirmed list, which had been suspended earlier this year
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      Lock icon Exchange unused parking coupons for new ones
      111 6 PARKING coupons valid up to 2009 can no longer be used in the new year, beginning tomorrow. The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) and Housing and Development Board (HDB), in a joint statement, advised motorists to exchange their unused coupons for new ones during
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      Lock icon Mum is first S’porean woman to reach South Pole
      99 6 SINGAPOREAN Sophia Pang has become the first woman here to reach the South Pole. The mother of three joined six other participants from Commonwealth countries Cyprus, Ghana, India, Brunei, New Zealand and United Kingdom for the journey, reported Channel NewsAsia. The
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      Lock icon Coffee shops worried about 100 per cent smoking ban
      94 6 THE National Environment Agency (NEA) is looking to phase out smoking corners at non-air-conditioned food centres. But members of coffee shop associations, like the Foochow Coffee Restaurant and Bar Merchant Association and the Kheng Keow Coffee Merchants Restaurant and Bar-Owners Association,
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      Lock icon I really hope body isn’t my daughter’s
      754 8/9  -  Corpse found on same day Mum of missing China womancomestoS’pore REPORT: VIVIEN CHAN vivienc@sph.com.sg HER daughter has been missing for 51 days. So when Madam Zhang Xiang Yun, 49, heard news that a badly decomposed body had been found in a park on
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      Lock icon My MEN of THE DECADE
      514 10  -  COMMENT For better and for worse SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg TIME magazine names its Person of the Year everyDecember.In1999,Time’scoverheralded its Man of the Century (personally, I would have chosen Deng Xiaoping and not Albert Einstein, but all is relative). As the first decade of
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      Lock icon He regrets IOU with bankrupt
      650 11  -  Unemployed friend of events organiser said the latter failed to repay loan on promised date REPORT: BRYNA SIM brynasim@sph.com.sg HE’S well-known in car show circles as the project director of the popular local exhibition of modified performance cars called Super Import Nights. He’s also one
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      Lock icon Party like it’s 2009
      861 12  -  Tonight’sgonnabea good night.New Year’s Eveparties will begoing onaroundthe island. Butif you’re stillunsure ofwhatto do andwhereto go,we list someparties. It’sthe lastdayof 2009. Goall outandendit with abang –CompiledbyGermaineLim Germaine Lim HEARTLAND HOTSPOTS PUNGGOL EAST YEAR 2010 COUNTDOWN Where: Harmony Square, Rivervale Crescent (Tel: 6875 5376). What:Witness theresidents’ attempt
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      91 7 POLY YOUR BEST START Building EcoBusiness Parks. So glad I can play a part. Save the Earth? You can! With a Polytechnic education, the opportunities to create a cleaner, greener world are countless. Equip yourself with a diploma now and pursue your mission to heal the Earth. m i >1
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      77 8/9 ‘Oh God, I don’t want to die’ Singaporean woman on Northwest flight rr c r i y n C X j > m w The Perfect Place for Holding a Festive Party "V We make sure your festive celebration is a pleasant and memorable one with cosy accommodations, great facilities
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      15 8/9 WILL CHILL YOU TO THRILLS. GRAB A CAN, TAKE A HHP AW CHILL OUT INSTANTLY.
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      104 11 WHY PAY TOO MUCH TO LOOK YOUR BEST! Achieve your ideal image with our reliable and realistic solutions, that take one third of the time by conventional methods. Using only the latest technologies and finest formulations, you will see optimal results with no empty promises and at affordable rates. 17th
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  • Global News watch
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      Lock icon India assures tight security at event
      277 13 COMMONWEALTH GAMES FEARS NEW Delhi Commonwealth Games organisers yesterday sought to ease security concerns after a London newspaper reported that there was “virtually no chance” of England sending its team next year. Mr Suresh Kalmadi, the head of the 2010 organising committee, released a
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      Lock icon Former Indonesian president Gus Dur dies
      97 13 AFTER a long battle with illness, former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid, popularly known as Gus Dur, died in hospital yesterday, aged 69. Local television reported that the cause of death was heart failure but this has not been confirmed, reported AFP. Gus Dur, Indonesia’s
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      Lock icon PM Najib: No need to probe claim against Dr M
      98 13 MALAYSIA Prime Minister Najib Razak has dismissed the call for a Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad. The call was prompted by a re- prompted by cent book, Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times,
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      Lock icon China proposes anti-piracy base in Gulf of Aden
      102 13 A TOP Chinese naval official has proposed setting up a permanent base to support ships on anti-pira-cy missions in the Gulf of Aden. In an interview on the defence ministry website on Tuesday, Admi- ral Yin Zhuo, a senior navy researcher, said
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      Lock icon Asean-China FTA set to start
      99 13 THE Asean-China free-trade area (FTA), which has been eight years in the making, will come into effect tomorrow. It will be the world’s biggest FTA, liberalising billions of dollars liberalising in goods and investments and covering a market of 1.7 billion consumers, reported AFP. The
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      Lock icon Man paralysed in cop chase given $200,000
      538 14 Court rules that accident 10 years ago wasresultofpoliceman’snegligence A PARALYSED man won damages amounting to about half a million ringgit ($205,000) after a Pahang High Court ruled that his injuries and disability in an incident on Pulau Pangkor 10 years ago wascausedbyapoliceman’snegligence. The
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      Lock icon Twins, 28, arrested for plot to kill dad
      197 14 A PAIR of twins have been held in Malaysia for planning to kill their father. The twins, both men aged 28, had allegedly planned to kill their father by making it look like a car accident near their house in Taman Ampang
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      Lock icon Can you spot the Tiger?
      900 15 15 IT IS a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. That is how British World War II leader Prime Minister Winston Churchill described Russia in 1939. Now, 70 years later, those same words can be used to describe golf superstar Tiger Woods, 34.
      TNP GRAPHICS: KELVIN CHAN, SIMON ANG ADAPTED FROM VISUAL ON PIFFE.COM  -  900 words
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      Lock icon ABDULMUTALLAB Failed bomber is Liverpool fan
      776 16 He also says he is sexually ‘frustrated’inwebpostings YOU’LL be seeing red if you are a Liverpool fan. The 23-year-old Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US-bound passenger jet on Christmas Day is supposedly a big fan of your club. In several posts
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      Lock icon US security under review
      238 16 THEUS isdeterminedto“find and fix” securityproblemsthat ledtolast week’s narrowly averted attempt to blow up a US passengerjet,the country’stop security official said yesterday. The thwarted Christmas Day plot to blowup aNorthwest Airlinesplane “is a powerful illustration that terrorists will go to great lengths to try to defeat the
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      Lock icon Family frees bank robbers from noose
      276 17 TWO convicted bank robbers sentenced to hang in a district in Iran (above) had their ropes cut loose by family members and their supporters. The botched rescue led to a violent bloodbath that left five people dead and around 25 injured when officials attempting
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      Lock icon Man recovers his stolen kitchen items on eBay
      426 18 He poses as interested buyer and leads police toseller’shome WHEN he returned from his weekend vacation, Briton Tristan Brooks found his kitchen stripped bare of his new items worth £8,000 ($18,000). The thieves made off with everything including a £700 fridge freezer
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      13 13 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High30˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:PartlyCloudy High32˚,Low24˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High30˚,Low25˚
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      27 19 FROM READER JOHN ONG HUNGRY? FINE: A reader spotted this passenger eating on the train. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      Lock icon INTERNET HOT BITES
      56 19 On helping maids by paying their levies: “Byallmeans, pay theiragency fees, but do so at the end of the service contract.” misnomer “IftheGovernmentdoesaway with the levy and stipulates a higher salary for maids, Singapore maybe able to get good maids. Currently, experienced maids go to Taiwan and
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      Lock icon Why there must be strict measures
      308 19 MR CHIN CHI LEONG DIRECTOR, BUILDING PLAN MANAGEMENT BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY MR HO SEIN YEAN DEPUTY DIRECTOR (HOUSING MAINTENANCE) HOUSING DEVELOPMENT BOARD WINDOW SAFETY WE THANK Mr Raymond Anthony Fernandoforhisletter“Tooharshonneedy S’poreans”(TheNewPaper,23 Dec). Keeping the public safe from falling objects in our high-rise living
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      Lock icon Why is it so difficult to find recycle bins?
      185 19 FROM READER ZHENG BEIYI MANY Singaporeans have expressed disappointment with the Copenhagen summit. Yet, is Singapore really that much better? The condominium I live in along Pine Grove does not have enough recycle bins. Suggestions that the recycle bins be placed
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      57 19 Who would you vote for Man of the Year? “BarackObama. Thespeechhe madeto the kids at the beginning of the school year (encouraging them to stay in school and take pride in their education) was very inspiring, because he spoke to them not just as a president, but in a
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      59 19 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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      121 20 WATCH’EM PICTURE:AFP Rain’sFashionConcert (above) Channel U, 11.30pm In this special fashion show-cum-concert held in Hong Kong in June, Korean superstar Rain showcases his Six To Five Autumn/Winter collection and performs a couple of his songs. Countdown To 2010 Channel 5,11pm This live countdown music show at The Float@Marina Bay features
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      217 20 CHANNEL 5 Noon Planet's Funniest Animals 12.30pm Rachael’sVacations 1.00 GuinnessWorldRecords 2.00 Simply The Best/Wheel Of Fortune 3.00 Growing Up/American Idol VIII 5.00 Just For Laughs 5.15 Entertainment Tonight 5.45 Movie: Bean 7.30 Godzilla(Part1) 9.30 News 5 Tonight 10.00 Godzilla (Part 2) 11.00 CountdownTo2010 12.20am Movie: Sky Captain And The World
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      79 21 WE KNOW MOVIES 31 DEC 09 Win Cool Clint Movie premiums from The Treasure Hunter, Old Dogs, Hear Me, The Fourth Kind, It’s Complicated Invictus director Clint Eastwood, still sizzling at 80 p25 action hero Lin Chiling tells us why her stunts in the Treasure Hunter were amped up halfway
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  • WE KNOW MOVIES FIRST
    • FIRST ASIAN
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        892 22/23  -  GAN LING KAI ganlk@sph.com.sg The Treasure Hunter might star a charismatic Jay Chou as a gungho hero.But it’s Taiwaneseeye candy Lin Chiling who shines most brightly In the movie, 35-year-old model-actress Lin Chiling plays Lan Ting, the clingy sidekick and childhood love of archaeologist protagonist
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        Lock icon THE THRILL OF THE HUNT
        260 22/23  -  Jason Johnson Forthose ofus whodon’t happen to bepirates or archaeologists, treasure-hunting flicks offer great vicarious thrills, without having to worry about all the snakes, hostile natives and booby-traps. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) StevenSpielberg’s Raiders OfThe Lost Ark defined action and adventure for an
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    • FIRST INTERVIEW
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        Lock icon Steady, EDDIE
        605 24  -  Charlene Chua If you think memorising a script is difficult, try doing it in sign language. In the new Taiwanese movie Hear Me, lead actor Eddie Peng took two months to master his script that included both spoken and signed speech. The Taiwanese actor plays a happy-go-lucky guy
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    • FIRST FEATURE
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        913 25  -  Jonathan Roberts In five months, actor/director Clint Eastwood will be 80. But thenthat’s onlyabout 50 inClint years. The man famous for playing someone dirty or nameless has a fair stake on being the greatest film star ever. No star has straddled the roles of actor and director
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        771 28 / 29  -  JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg For anyone who is a fan of genre movies, horror or science fiction flicks in particular, Milla Jovovich should be considered nothing less than a shining, goldengoddess. Movie snobs have Meryl Streep. Mainstream audiences make do with JenniferAniston. Indie fans gettheir quirk on with Zooey
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        Lock icon They're coming to take you away!
        324 28 / 29 While some aliens are wondrous, magical creatures who only wish to help humanity, other aliens are probe-happy abduction monkeys. Here are the ETs you want to watch out for. THE BLUES COMMUNION (1989) Adapted from the supposedly autobiographical book by Whitely Strieber, Communion is
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        1021 30 / 31 As we herald the new year, the FiRST team looks back at the standout moments of the cinematic year. It was a hard choice–therewerefights, bloodshed, and some of us may never walk the same again. Then below, find out the team members’individualbestand worst of the past
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    • FIRST BITES
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        Lock icon HAWKING HAWKMAN
        94 26 Even as Hollywood struggles to make decent movies out of the popular superheroes (after Batman and Spider-Man 2, the drop-off is quite huge), the talk is that Hawkman is the latest DC Comics hero to go big screen. A lot will probably hinge on how well Green Lantern
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        Lock icon TAYLOR VISION
        87 26 Taylor Lautner is looking to build on his body sculpting efforts from New Moon. The remake of’80s high-schoolwrestling flickVision Quest is looking to get a hold on Lautner. Wrestling, get a hold, get it? No? Oh well. The original is notable only for using the then barely known
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        Lock icon NEW INCEPTION
        45 26 Unleashed this week is the second trailer for ChristopherNolan’s Inception. At the moment, who knows what his follow-up to The Dark Knight is actually about. All we can say at the momentisOMG! HE JUSTFOLDED A CITY IN HALF! Check it out at www.apple.com/trailers/wb/inception/
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        Lock icon MIGHTY KNIGHTLEY
        50 26 Keira Knightley will be appearing between two former Inglourious Basterds. Christoph Waltz and Michael Fassbender will play Sigmund Freud and Karl Jung, the pioneers of psychoanalysis, in David Cronenberg’sThe TalkingCure. Knightley will play the beautiful woman whocomesbetween them, unlessshe’s going to play Freud. But that would be weird.
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        Lock icon SMITH’S COP OUT
        154 26 Kevin Smith is the writer/director still most famous for Clerks. He also had The Green Hornet as his next project for the best part of the decade before being ejectedin favourofSeth Rogen’s takeon the character. Not to let anything go to waste, he has used his vision
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      38 27 More Avatar fans! Reader Leo Carlo Dacon gives Avatar a four-finger rating... ...while Mary Tiffin Cristobal gives the movie a five-finger rating. Reader Teo Boon Leng gives Alvin And The Chipmunks 2 a two-finger rating.
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    • MOVIE DATE
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        Lock icon NO CINEMATIC TREASURE HERE
        455 32  -  A Mars v Venus look JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com.sg Foranyonewho’s seenthe Koreanflick The Good, The Bad And The Weird from the great Kim Ji Woon, The Treasure Hunter will seem hopelessly derivative. Set in the same sort of pitiless desert, featuring the same treasure
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    • REVIEWS
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        Lock icon STILL HOT
        65 32 Treat your family to family films for the whole family! AVATAR Avataris adream youwon’t wanttowake up from– you have to see it to bel ieve it. And then you have to see it again. SHERLOCKHOLMES Holmesgoes Hollywood. RobertDowneyJrand director GuyRitchie offerup a much-neededreimaginingof thebeloved SherlockHolmes. ALVIN AND THECHIPMUNKS
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        Lock icon THE FOURTH KIND
        68 32  -  JJ The FourthKind represents aunique sort of film-makingexperiment. The storyofapsychologistin Nome, Alaska,whosuddenly realises thata bunch ofherclients arelikely being abductedby aliens,The Fourth Kind features both “real-life”videotapedincidents and dramaticre-enactments. The psychologistisplayedby Milla Jovovichin the re-enactments,but it’s an openquestion whoplays the“real”Abbey Tyler.The consensusseems tobe thatThe FourthKind is afiction fromtop tobottom.
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        Lock icon OLD DOGS
        64 32  -  JJ It’s supposedtobe afeel-good family film, butitisovershadowed by ourknowledge of tragicreal-worldevents. Watchingthismovie about thejoysof fatherhoodjust isn’tthe samewhen you knowthat oneofthe film’s stars,John Travolta, recentlylosthis 16-year-oldson. Ifthatwasn’tsad enough, Bernie Mac, who’sinthe film aswell, hasalso died. Travolta and RobinWilliamsstar as businesspartners whostand tolose abig accountwhen along-lost lover introduces a lovechild
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        67 32  -  Gan Ling Kai DirectorBong Joon Hotells thestoryof an intellectuallychallenged youth sowell, it maygiveyou along-lastingbitter aftertaste.At first,you maybe trickedinto believingthisisa comedy-thriller. Afterall, thetitular character (Kim Hye Ja)breaksinto a ridiculousdance in the beginning,and heart-throbWon Binplays thementally impaired sonwho constantly getshimselfinto laughabledisasters. Butby theend ofthe 129 minutes– duringwhichWon Bin’scharacter gets accusedofmurder, leavinghis
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    • FIRST LOOK
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        Lock icon UP IN THE AIR
        228 33  -  A first-class Oscar favourite? Joanne Soh After winning numerous top honours for his coming-of-age dramedy Juno in 2007,Canadian actor-writer-director Jason Reitmanhasdelivered another masterpiece. Adapted from a Walter Kirn novel, Up In The Air has already bagged several acting and writing laurels. The film is also a
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    • FLICK CHAP
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        Lock icon LEGOLAS WAS FIRST AVATAR
        505 34  -  Small talk about big flicks JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg When he saw the CGI Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings, James Cameron said he knew it would finally be possible to make Avatar. Far be it for me to contradict The King Of The World, but
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    • FIRST FASHION
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        Lock icon SHE JUST DOESN’T HAVE A CLUE
        409 35  -  Stars glam up the red carpet... or not Jeanmarie Tan Such a beautiful face and figure, so much red carpet potential. But why is it that whenever Rachel McAdams makes an appearance to promoteanew film, something’salwaysoff? It’s amystery thateven SherlockHolmes can’tcrack. This year, the
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    • FIRST BUYS
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        Lock icon I LOVE YOU BETH COOPER
        261 36  -  Great moments, not-so-great extras Jason Johnson MOVIE: EXTRAS: Never in the history of Hollywood has a nose like that of I Love You Beth Cooper star Paul Rust been seen on screen. It’snotjustalittlelong,likeAdrienBrody’snose,orabit bumpy,likeOwenWilson’s. It’safull-onschnoz,thesortofthingyouexpecttosee attached to a pair of joke glasses. The fact that
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        Lock icon CORALINE
        111 36  -  Joanne Soh MOVIE: EXTRAS: It was a pity that I missed Coraline in its 3-D glory at the cinemas. But beggars can’tbechoosers,and this 2-D version is still quite a spectacle. I’malwaysamazedbythe amount of effort that goes into a stop-motion animation. Everything is painstakingly handcrafted (seethe awe-inspiring Making Of featurette)
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        Lock icon THE COVE
        142 36  -  Kane Cunico MOVIE: EXTRAS: Sohere’s another biased eco-documentary telling us what to do, what to eat and what is bad for Planet Earth. And boy do we need more of them. TheCoveisn’tjustaregular documentary.It’sapure, edge-of-your-seat thriller about a small fishing town in Japan that allegedly slaughters 23,000 dolphins a
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        Lock icon ORPHAN
        111 36  -  KC MOVIE: EXTRAS: Not since Macaulay Culkin in 1993’sTheGoodSon has a child with such innocuous looks freaked me out this much. Orphan tells the story of the Colemans, whose attempt at having a thirdchildgoesawrywhenKate’s drinking problem causes her to have an accident and a miscarriage. Yet, this rich couple
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        176 43 WORKOUTS by horses engaged tomorrow: RACE 1: Colourland Season 44.1. Slow work: Lucky Sorcerer (T Affandi), Presumed Innocent (M Au), Drunken Hero. RACE 2: Sacred Asahi (S Sam) pace work. Slow work: Benji’s Glory, My Show King, Silver Legend. RACE 3: Common Interest (R
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        162 43 TRIAL 1 (official): 1 Torpedo (AKermond) 2 Eternal Bright (KB Soo) 3 Big Handsome (JL Li) 4 Abyss (J Burridge) 5 Buru Buru (I Andy) 6 Hundred Miles (O Placais) 7 Cigar Supreme (M Ewe). Margins and time: Nk, 23/4, 23/4, 11/2, 11/4, 11(1min 01.56sec). TRIAL 2
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        241 43 KRANJI NEWCOMERS ESCAMONDA is a classy sort from Argentina. The only raced newcomer at the Kranji double-header meeting ran 13 times back home for six wins, a second and two thirds. The four-year-old stayer by Alpha Plus out of Wise Girl achieved his biggest win
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        637 43 RACE1-1100m(Polytrack) MS 1.15 1 LuckySorcerer SRuzaini* (12) 59 2 Miyagisan VDuric (9) 58 3 PresumedInnocent KBSoo (7) 57.5 4 Blitz MGallagher (11) 56.5 5 ColourlandSeason DinAzis (8) 54.5 6 BossMan JPowell (2) 54 7 WiseChoice DBeasley (1) 54 8 DrunkenHero OPlacais (5) 53 9 SirAlex
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        375 44 WILLIAMLOW’SGUIDETOKRANJITRACKWORK LAST-START winners Teskara and First Blood showed they are retaining their winning form in separate hit-outs in Kranji yesterday. Teskara, with jockey Danny Beasley up, drew notice when he reeled off 600m in a smart 35.8sec after warming up with a lap of
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        669 44 RACE1-1600m(Polytrack) MS 1.15 1 GoldenCity TRBarnabas* (12) 57.5 2 Oblivion KBSoo (6) 56.5 3 BounceBack OChavez (13) 56 4 Nobleman JPowell (8) 55 5 FamousThanU OPlacais (4) 54.5 6 MissBellissima ISaifudin (14) 54 7 LuckyFind MGallagher (9) 53 8 AtomicCannon TAffandi* (1) 52 9 FortuneEight RStewart
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        427 45 GUIDETOIPOHTRACKWORK NST STAR Of THE PARK geared up for a comeback win in the Banded 38 and below event over 1,200m in Race 2 on Sunday with a smart workout in Ipoh yesterday morning. Brought out by a track rider, the seven-year-old Austral-ian-bred gelding
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        404 45 GOING: GOOD Race1 MaidenPlate(F&M) 1200m 14 RESPECTABLELADY58(7-5) KNeisius (4) 1 5 OLIVEROUTE58(51-12) JVyapooree (1) 2 2 RAMLA58(94-19) GSchlechter (2) 3 3 ARCTICBLUE58(252-35) RKhathi (8) 4 ?Trainer: B Marcus. Margins: 2.25, 1.75, shd. Time: 1min 13.4sec. EOB: $12. Forecast: $18. Place Forecast: $20 (Nos. 2-5), $8 (Nos. 2-14), $7
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        434 45 FOCUS ONIPOH NEWCOMERS NST PENANG-based trainer Jerome Tan will be introducing a promising Class 4 newcomer in Blue Spirit at the first meeting of the new Malaysian racing season, starting in Ipoh, on Saturday. Racing as Rapid Rhythm back home, the four-year-old brown Australian-bred gelding
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        225 46/47 JANUARY 6 Jan AFC Asian Cup Qualifying Round Grp E: Singapore vs Iran 8-10 Jan 29th Singapore Open Windsurfing Championship 10-12 Jan Commonwealth Judo Championships 17 Jan Singapore Canoe Marathon 22-24 Jan Singapore Cadet Fencing World Cup 2010 24 Jan SAFRA AVventura FEBRUARY 1Feb GreatEastern-Yeo’s S-League KicksOff 6
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        311 46/47 JANUARY 10-31 Jan African Nations Cup, Angola 18-31 Jan Australian Open tennis tournament, Melbourne FEBURARY 28 Feb Carling Cup final 2010, Wembley Stadium, London MARCH 12-14 Mar Formula One: Bahrain GP, Sakhir 26-28 Mar Formula One: Australian GP, Melbourne APRIL 2-4 Apr Formula One: Malaysian GP, Kuala Lumpur
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        411 46/47 Friday, 11 Jun South Africa v Mexico, Gp A, 15:00 Uruguay v France, Gp A, 19:30 Saturday, 12 Jun Argentina v Nigeria, Gp B, 15:00 England v USA, GpC, 19:30 South Korea v Greece, Gp B, 12:30 Sunday, 13 Jun Algeria v
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        262 48/49  -  ASTONVILLA0 LIVERPOOL 1 (Fernando Torres 90+3) GARY LIM npsports@sph.com.sg FINALLY.For the first time since September, Liverpool notched their first back-to-back wins in thePremiership. But while it is a huge psychological boost to the Liverpool players, they should also realise that the climb back to a top-four
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        231 48/49  -  GARY LIM MARTIN O’Neill felt like a broken man yesterday morning, and he had every right to feel that way. Aston Villa were by no means inferior to Liverpool. They even played better football than their opponents in the match. Yet, they lost the home
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        265 48/49  -  GARY LIM THE WAIT may be finally over, but there is no reason to rejoice just yet. When Liverpool bought Alberto Aquilani from Roma, they already knew that the Italian midfielder was recovering from a serious injury and would not be playing for a
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        167 48/49  -  GARYLIM WEAK DEFENCE THROUGHOUTthe game,the Liverpool backfour had atoughtime dealing withthe paceof Gabriel Agbonlahorand the powerofJohn Carew. Duringset-pieces,the defendersappeared extremelyuncertainand werelucky notto be punished. Infact, AstonVilla alwayslooked themore likelyside tobreakthe deadlock. SAFE HANDS OVER thelast fewseasons,PepeReina has blossomedinto arguably thebest goalkeeperin thePremiership. Heshowed justwhy heissohighly-rated with yetanother excellentdisplayagainst
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        428 48/49 MORNING LATEST PA Sport LIVERPOOL defender Glen Johnson faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines. The England international suffered a medial ligament injury to his right knee during the 1-0 win over Aston Villa yesterday morning (Singapore time). Johnson was assessed by the club’s medical team
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        701 50  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg COMMENT IN A sport where the silky-skilled playmakers dominate the race for individual honours, Fernando Torres is a constant reminder that the most important position on the pitch is actually slightly further forward. Kaka, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo might have
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        350 50  -  GARY LIM DEPRIVED of the service that his quality deserved, Fernando Torres had to make his one and only real chance count. That he did. Pouncing on a lucky ricochet, the Spaniard took the ball into the penalty box with the grace of a gazelle galloping
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        693 52/53 PORTSMOUTH 1 (Nadir Belhadj 74) ARSENAL4 (Eduardo 28, Nasri 42, Ramsey 69, Song 81) MORNING LATEST PA Sport ARSENAL remain in the hunt for the Premier League title with a 4-1 victory over Portsmouth this morning (Singapore time). Pompey’s defeat deepened their troubles on and off
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        732 52/53 Arsene Wenger says... PA Sport ARSENE Wenger is keeping his cards close to his chest. The Arsenal manager refused to confirm if he would be strengthening his squadnextmonthinthewakeofhisside’s impressive 4-1 victory over Portsmouth. Goals from Eduardo, Samir Nasri, Aaron Ramsey and Alexandre Song completed a
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        277 52/53 AP FOOTBALL fans do have a say after all. It has emerged that Gary Megson was fired by Bolton Wanderers after failing to convince the fans he was the right manager. The 50-year-old (above) was booed off the pitch yesterday morning after
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        578 54 Five star United MORNING LATEST MAN UNITED 5 (Rooney 28, Carrick 32, Rafael Da Silva 45, Berbatov 50, Valencia 75) WIGAN0 PA Sport WAYNE Rooney delivered another masterclass as Wigan meekly surrendered to Manchester United for the second time this season. Sir Alex Ferguson has argued for years that if
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        373 51 David Beckham emotional over looming Champs League clash against United Wire Services DAVIDBeckhamalmostcriedwhenhisAC Milan side was drawn against former club Manchester United in thelast16oftheChampionsLeague. The 34-year-old, starting his second five-month loan at Milan from Los Angeles Galaxy, is especially looking forward to March’s second leg in Manchester
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        235 51 Wire Services CRISTIANO Ronaldo has asked the Real Madrid fans to be more like those of Manchester United. The Portugal international (right), who moved to Spain from Old Trafford for a world-record fee over the summer, feels the Real Madrid supporters do not support their
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        141 55 LIVE TELECASTS FA CUP Saturday: BRISTOL CITY v CARDIFF CITY StarHub TV Ch 24,8.30pm MIDDLESBROUGH v MAN CITY StarHub TV Ch 24,11pm Man City will miss the services of midfielder Stephen Ireland (far right), who is ruled out of action for two weeks with a hamstring injury. Sunday: READING
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        465 55 LOCAL EVENTS FOOTBALL What: Singapore v Iran When: 6 Jan, 7.30pm Where: National Stadium SINGAPORE take on Iran in their penultimate Group E match in the 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification match. With two games remaining, Iran remain at the top of the table with seven points
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      401 56 MORNING LATEST PA Sport I WILL score more than 23 goals this season. Wayne Rooney will be stunned if he fails to eclipse his best seasonal goal tally after the Manchester United striker found the net for the 15th time this season. The England international scored
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