The New Paper, 11 January 2010

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    • 92 1/56 No money, no Torres? AreItalianmanagers nothingbut justthe flavourof themonthin Britishfootball? Page48 ‘Pool must finish top 4 to keep Torres, Gerrard PAGE 54 Mancini’s secret City makeover PAGE 50 Tila the Hun? Spore-born star wannabe slammed for milking heiress-girlfriend’s death to be famous PAGE 20 11 Jan 2010 mon PICTURE: AFP
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    • 455 1/56 Wire Services. AFTER two U-turns, Togo’s national team will return home and not compete in Africa’s biggest soccer tournament. Captain Emmanuel Adebayor said this late yesterday, after gunmen killed a Togo squad coach and press officer in an ambush. Adebayor plays his club football for
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    • Sports Racing
      • 503 43 Going: Good RACE1 CLASS5TURF 1800m 3 FORTUNEDRAGON132(22-10) BPrebble (9) 1 11 FEELTHEFUN124(45-12) HWLai (6) 2 8 CHEERFULHAPPINESS126(83-23) BDoyle (5) 3 14 NOBLETWINS113(83-24) WMLai (2) 4 ?Trainer: A Lee. Margins: 4.75, 0.5. Time: 1min 48.84sec. Forecast: $67. Place Forecast:$36(Nos.3-8),$36(Nos. 3-11),$94(Nos.8-11). Tierce:$1969.Trio: $631. Quartet:NoWinner($7710jackpotcarriedforwardtonextrace). RACE2 CLASS4TURF 1000m 7
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      • 659 43 Going: Yielding Race1 OB38(LC)1400m 3 BLUESHARK55.5(13-5) VSivan (10) 4 2 1 (494) 11 WORLDSUPERMAN51(347-67) YAify (12) 5 5 2 (500) 0.75 13 JACARANDABLOOM50c50.5(42-15) ISaifudin (14) 2 4 3 (463) 1.5 10 JERANTUTHILLS51c49.5(221-49) KYazid* (11) 1 1 4 (483) 1 ?Winning owner: David How. Trainer: S Cook. Time:
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      • 362 43  -  Four wins in succession... TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg CLASS ACT lived up to her name yet again. The Roy Rogers-trained New Zealand-bred mare produced another scintillating run in Race 5 at Ipoh yesterday to carve out her fourth straight success, and sixth in 31 outings. The
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    • 621 44 Davydenko becomes only the second player to beat Nadal and Federer in the same tournament twice TENNIS AFP. RAFAEL Nadal is still without a title for more than eight months after an astonishing defeat in the final of the Qatar Open on Saturday. Nadal failed to
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    • 376 44 GOLF Reuters. EUROPE survived a dramatic fightback to beat holders Asia 8½ to 7½ yesterday, winning the Royal Trophy for the third time in a thrilling match that went to the final hole. Player-captain Colin Montgomerie’s Europe sealed victory when Henrik Stenson sank a nervy
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    • Sports Football
      • 620 45 INTER-MILAN 4 (Milito 24, Sneijder 36,88, Samuel 90+3) SIENA 3 (Maccarone 18,65, Ekdal 37) FORZA! Wire Services. TWO LATE goals saved Inter–Milan coach Jose Mourinho from suffering his first home defeat in eight years on Saturday. His Inter side had to rely on its unrelenting spirit to
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      • 362 45 OLE! Wire Services. SEVILLA 1 RACING SANTANDER 2 SERGIO Canales showed why he is coveted by clubs across Europe afterscoringbothgoalstoleadRacing Santander to a 2-1 win over Sevilla on Saturday. Impressive build-up play put Canales (right) clear through on goal in the26thminuteandthe18-year-old calmly lobbed Sevilla goalkeeper Andres
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    • Sports African Nations Cup
      • 470 46 Wire Services. TOGO goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale is recovering at a South African hospital from injuries sustained when the team’s bus was attacked in Angola on Friday. “He is conscious and in a stable condition. He is fully receptive. He understands where he is. “We will still be
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      • 294 46 Wire Services. BAYER Leverkusen defender Assimiou Toure hasspokenofhisterroratFriday’sgunattack on the Togo team bus and revealed he could only pray he and his colleagues would get out alive. The 22-year-old was on board the coach heading for Angola which came under fire from politically-motivated militants,
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      • 466 47 MALAWI v ALGERIA (Tonight, 9.40pm, StarHub TV Ch 27) AFP. PLAYMAKER Karim Ziani says Algeria must defeat Malawi in the opening Group A match for both teams if they hope to reach the African Nations Cup knockout phase. Hosts Angola and Mali complete the
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      • 485 47 IVORY COAST v BURKINA FASO (Tonight, 11 pm, StarHub TV Ch 27) AFP. TITLE favourites Ivory Coast launch their African Nations Cup campaign today against Burkina Faso in the Cabinda enclave where the Togo squad were fired upon by separatists in a terror attack. The Elephants
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    • Sports EPL
      • 450 48 PA Sport BLACKBURN boss Sam Allardyce thinks Italian managers are currently the “flavour of the month” in British football. Allardyce believes the success of Fabio Capello and Giovanni Trapattoni may have influenced Manchester City’s decision to appoint Roberto Mancini as manager. So far, the Italian
        PA Sport; PICTURES: ACTION IMAGES, AFP, AP, REUTERS  -  450 words
      • 586 49 Wire Services. ROBERTO Mancini believes up to six clubs are capable of lifting the Premier League trophy this May. Only three clubs Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal have won it since 1995 and only the first two were tipped to achieve glory this season. But
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      • 631 50 MANCHESTER CITY v BLACKBURN (Tomorrow, 3.55am, StarHub TV Ch 27) Wire Services. THREE games. Three wins. Three clean sheets. How did Roberto Mancini achieve that feat in less that one month since taking over as manager at Manchester City? His secret? Mancini makes his forwards Carlos Tevez,
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    • 289 51  -  TheNewPaper’sfootballanalysttells TSANGWINGHANaboutManUnited’s biggest problem now TSANG WING HAN Manchester United need to buy a quality centre-back if they want to have a go at the title race. With Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic out injured, Wes Brown and Jonny Evans are the preferred central partnership
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    • EPL ACTION WITH Tiger
      • 588 52/53  -  BIRMINGHAM 1 (Cameron Jerome 39) MANCHESTER UNITED 1 (Scott Dann 63-og) DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg COMMENT MANCHESTER United just don’t look like winners of an unprecedented fourth successive Premiership title. Notatall. Not with the players they have. And the Red Devils could well be exorcised,andcastoutofthisseason’stitlerace. Let
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      • 286 52/53  -  DAVID LEE FOR MANCHESTER United, it could be the distinguishing factor in the title race, and a shaky defence could scupper their chances. With just eight clean sheets after 21 league games, it doesn’t look like United will match the whopping 24 clean sheets
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      • 174 52/53  -  DAVIDLEE LION HEART COULDitbe LionHart come June? Ina 24th-minute staredownwith potential Englandteam-mateWayne Rooney, Birmingham goalkeeperJoeHart, onloan fromManCity, came outtopsto thwart theManUnited striker ina one-on-onesituation. Thisisexactly the typeofconfidence and reassuranceEnglandneed ingoal, notDavid “Calamity”Jamesor Robert “ForeverGreen”. DEADLY STRIKER WAYNERooney maybe topof thescoring chartsbut hecould not outscoreCameronJerome yesterday. Includingyesterday’seffort, theBirmingham striker
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      • 162 52/53  -  DAVID LEE THE MATCH may have finished 1-1, and the Birmingham manager is still without a win overSirAlexFerguson,butthereisnodoubt Alex McLeish won the tactical battle against his former Aberdeen boss. Just as it was refreshing to see how McLeish fielded two forwards in Cameron Jerome and
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    • 684 54 Wire Services. RAFAEL Benitez has admitted that he cannot guarantee he will be able to keep Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard at Liverpool. That is if the Reds fail to finish in the top four of the Premier League in May. The Liverpool manager
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    • SPORTS ON TV
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        119 55 LIVE TELECASTS EPL Tomorrow: MAN CITY v BLACKBURN StarHub TV Ch 27,3.55am CRAIG Bellamy (right) is in the form of his life along with Carlos Tevez and these two should prove too creative and dangerous for SamAllardyce’smentocontend with. FA CUP Wednesday: COVENTRY v PORTSMOUTH StarHub TV Ch 24,3.45am Thursday:
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      • 19 55 JOBURGOPEN Thursday: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 26,6.15pm SONY OPEN Friday: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 26, 8.15am
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      • 11 55 MEDIBANK INTERNATIONAL SYDNEY Friday Saturday: MEN’SSINGLES SEMI-FINALS StarHubCh22, 8am &1.30pm
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      • 339 55 LOCAL EVENTS BASKETBALL What: Asean Basketball League When: Today Where: Singapore Indoor Stadium THE SINGAPORE Slingers face the KL Dragons. Tickets ranging from $8 to $18 are available at Sistic. BOXING What: Professional Championship Boxing When: Saturday Where: Suntec International Convention Exhibition Hall THERE will be six
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  • News
    • 799 2/3  -  Man whose voiceboxwas shattered in 2007freak accident describes remarkable road to recovery REPORTS:BENSONANG BENSON ANG bang@sph.com.sg A STRIP of metal sliced his neck and shattered his voicebox. The freak accident almost cost him his life. He survived, only
      PICTURES: BENSON ANG, COURTESY OF MR NG BENG CHOON AND MS CAROL HWEE; TNP INFOGRAPHICS: KELVIN CHAN  -  799 words
    • 261 2/3 ALLthroughMr Ng Beng Choon’s ordeal, from fighting for his life to slowly learning how to speak again, his girlfriend stayed with him. Ms Carol Hwee put her plans to be a teacher on hold to care for him. In the
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  • Local News watch
    • 62 4 DOUBLE TROUBLE: Two riders, one on a motorcycle and the other on a bicycle, crashed into each other at Kallang Bahru at 4.50pm on Saturday. The motorcyclist, a 27-year-old man, suffered serious head injuries and was taken to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for treatment. The cyclist, a 65-year-old man, was
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    • 220 4 CLOSERBONDS AMONGS’POREANS SINGAPORE’SfiveCommuni-ty Development Councils (CDCs) spent much of 2009 focusing on helping residents affected by the economic downturn. With the start of the new year, the CDCs will turn to enhancing integration among locals, new citizens and permanent residents. They say it will
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    • 88 4 A FIRE broke out at the Golden Mile Complex at around 12.50pm yesterday. An office unit on the eighth storey of the building was badly burnt in the fire, and a man who suffered from smoke inhalation was sent to Singapore General
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    • 84 4 A MAN is feared to have drowned in the waters off Kallang River even as search and rescue efforts continued through the night. He was spotted struggling in the river at the Kallang Riverside Park, which is popular with watersports enthusiasts
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    • 100 4 THE Singaporean soldier who was injured in a hit-and-run incident in Taiwan has been airlifted back to Singapore. Master Sergeant Lim Chin Hou arrived at the Changi Airport at around 6.30pm yesterday. He was then rushed by ambulance to the Intensive Care
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    • News New Editor At The New Paper
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        779 6 / 7  -  IVAN FERNANDEZ If you spotted something subtly different in the usual fixtures on the cover of our paper today, you deserve a prize. Well, the newspaper permit (Mica) number has changed. And the reason is because there is a new man in charge of The New Paper. Fromtoday,IamhandingoverthereinstoMrDominicNathan–amovethat
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      • 504 6 / 7  - STILL NEW NEWSY What keeps The New Paper, which will be 22 years old in July, new? Its editors tell LEDIATI TAN what its key values are LEDIATI TAN Founding editor 1988–1990:PeterHLLim The aim was for The New Paper (when launched in July 1988) to be as enduring as the
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      958 8 / 9  -  She had dreams of settling down after earning enough money Indonesian maid killed by Bangladeshi boyfriend REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg SHEhaddreamtofbecomingadentistinIndonesia, but her family could not affordthefeestosendhertouniversity. So Miss Yulia Afriyanti trained to be a dental assistant instead, said her mother, MadamYulismawati,48. Butthosedreamsareamemorynow,after MissYulia,25,wasmurderedinSingaporeby herlover,KamrulHasanAbdulQuddus. Madam Yulismawati said Miss
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    • 117 8 / 9 ON 16 Dec 2007, MissYuliaAfriyanti’s naked body was found in a big cardboard box in the storeroom of a third-storey unit in Viz@Holland, a condominium under construction. She was believed to have been strangled. Her lover, construction worker Kamrul Hasan Abdul Quddus, 35, was working at the
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      606 8 / 9 Hubby gets death sentence, but wife still in the dark HE USED to call home every three or four days, speaking to his wife for almost three hours each time. Then, in December 2007, the phone calls stopped. That was when Kamrul Hasan Abdul Quddus, 35, was arrested and
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    • 645 11  -  Some residents relieved, others sad, over absent monkeys REPORT: HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg THERE’S monkey business going on in Greenridge Shopping Centre in Bukit Panjang. At least two monkeys a mother and child have become familiar faces to residents in the area. They first
      PICTURE: TNP READER SHAH ENDY; TNP PICTURE: KUA CHEE SIONG  -  645 words
    • 542 12/13  -  Winning couple get into arguments during the competition, but it has drawn them even closer THE NEW PAPER WEDDING PLANNER REPORT: ELYSA CHEN elysac@sph.com.sg SUSPENSE, comedy, drama, romance starry-eyed couples of The Wedding Game experienced all these and more at VivoCity over the past three days,
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  • Global News watch
    • 242 15 TENSIONINM’SIA THOUSANDS of Christians in Malaysia attended Sunday services yesterday, presenting a united front of defiance in the face of a series of church fire-bombings that has heightened ethnic tensions. Four churches have been targeted since Friday amid an escalating row over the use of
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    • 84 15 THE prime minister of Togo, Gilbert Houngbo, yesterday ordered the national football team to return home immediately from the African Nations Cup after a deadly attack which killed the team’s assist- ant coach and spokesman. “We understand the position of the players
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    • 97 15 US CENTRAL Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director Leon Panetta on Saturday defended the US spy service following the suicide bombing in Afghanistan where seven CIA operatives were killed. Mr Panetta revealed in The Washington Post that the Jordanian doctor, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi,
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    • 99 15 TOP US senator Harry Reid apologised on Saturday for his comments about President Barack Obama’s appeal to voters during the 2008 presidential campaign. MrReid, the Senate’s Democrat- ic majority leader, was quoted in a new book about the 2008 White House race as saying
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    • 322 16 Ingredient could cause sudden death to drinker ONEsipofthisbrandofcoffeecangiveyoualift.Although not the kind of lift you would expect fromcoffee. The New Straits Times reported yesterday that a specialbrandofcoffeecostingmorethanRM20($8.30) acuphasbecomeahitamongagroupofconsumers. It was advertised as enabling men to feel their full masculinity. Tests revealed that it contained sildenafil, a
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    • 247 16 Man c lures wife's lover to fatal ambush' KL MURDER UNABLE to live with the humiliation that his wife was cheating on him, a man allegedly lured her lover with the promise that he could marry her. The love-struck man agreed to attend the meeting. It turned out to be
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    • 468 18 Tourists among those hit by corrosive liquid; police question suspect ANOTHER year, another acid attack in Hong Kong. Around 9.30pm on Saturday, two bottles of corrosive liquid were hurled onto the intersection of Temple Street and Nanking Street in the district of Yau
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    • 331 18 TWO suspected blackmailers went down with guns blazing and grenades in hand in a shootout with Malaysian police on Saturday. The men were shot dead at an oil palm estate near the Kristal Golf Resort in Penang at 4.45pm, New Straits Times reported. They
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    • 264 19 A SWISS court has issued a millionaire a record speeding fine of 290,000 swiss francs ($400,000), reported BBC. The man was reportedly caught driving a red Ferrari Testarossa at 137kmh, which was 57kmh over the speed limit. The penalty was derived based on the
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    • 454 20 S’pore-bornstar-wannabe TilaTequilablasted forflaunting body for photographers after death of heiress-lover MEDIAwhoreorgenuinefriend?Forsomeonewhoclaimstobedevastated by the death of her lesbian lover, pictures of her taken on Saturdayseemtocontradicther. With her cleavage exposed and smiling happily, Tila Tequila, 28, does not seem to be coping too badly with the death
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    • 303 20 A COUPLE in Washington state in the US came up with a creative way to save for their wedding and save the environment at the sametime by collecting aluminium cans. Mr Peter Geyer and Miss Andrea Parrish already have more than 18,000 cans
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    • 560 21 Bangladesh’spoor pan for gold dust in sewers under bazaar EVERY morning, before Dhaka’s goldsmiths open their shops in the city’s historic Tanti bazaar, Mr Shahabuddin climbs into the sewers under the alleyways to pan for scraps of discarded gold. When bullion began its record-breaking rally
      PICTURES: AFP  -  560 words
    • 323 21 WHOisgoing tocleanthe 24,000 windows oftheworld’s tallest skyscraper? An Australian company that has designed and built an A$8 million($10m)window-washing systemto burnish the reflective glass of the Burj Dubai tower that rises almost a kilometre above the Arabian desert, that is.
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    • 11 15 DILBERTSCOTTADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low25˚ Bangkok:Sunny High34˚,Low23˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low26˚
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      38 22 FROM READER SEBASTIAN SIM FLIRTING WITH DANGER: Our reader spotted this man sitting precariously at the back of a van along Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 126 22 FROM READER ACE KINDRED CHEONG Making roads friendlier to the elderly AFTERreadingthearticle“Elderlywomankilledjaywalking” (The New Paper, 29 Dec), I would like to recommend that the authorities build morezebracrossingsinsteadofoverheadbridgesfor thesafetyandconvenienceofpedestrians. I have seen many elderly people jaywalking insteadofusingtheoverheadbridges. Overhead bridges are useful only for younger pedestriansandnottheelderly.
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    • 130 22 FROM READER LEE KAY HAO DOMINIC I BOARDED a Transcab taxi with my pregnant wife and 2-year-old son on Hougang Avenue 4 shortly after 9pm on 27 Dec. Throughout our 35-minute j ourney, the driver appeared to be drifting in and out
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    • 154 22 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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    • 982 23  -  They’re young,havemanyadoringfemale fans...and areno longer single.Will newstatus affect theirstardom? REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg THEY are pretty boy pop idols who recently got hitched at the tender age of 22. So what were cutie-pie US singers Kevin Jonas (one-third of boy band Jonas Brothers) and Jason Castro (fourth-placed in
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      • 157 25 Money matters even to stars. We cash in on the highs and lows of celebrity dough TAYLOR Lautner’s famous abs have really taken him far. The Twilight Saga: New Moon hunk is set to become the high-est-paid teen actor in Hollywood right now. Lautner,
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      • 172 25 BEYONCE has raised eyebrows for accepting a US$2 million ($2.8m) pay cheque to perform at a private NewYear’s Eveconcert for controversialLibyan dictator and terrorism-backerColonelMuammar Gaddafi’sson Moutassim, also known as Hannibal. The all-American R&B singer is being increasingly criticised for associating herself with Gaddafi
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      • 135 25 LET’S seeifshe cankeep aPoker Face throughthisone. Pop star Lady Gaga once spent £52,000 ($116,000) on a huge bathtub for her performance on British reality singingcompetitionX Factor– and thatlevel of extravagance is finally starting to hit the 23-year-old in the pocket. According to The
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    • 720 26  -  10 years after playing Velma in musical Chicago, Aussie actress plays Roxie REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg WHEN Chicago The Musical was staged here 10 years ago, Australian actress Sharon Millerchip played sultry seductress Velma Kelly. She’llbebackwiththesameshowinApril –butthistimeasVelma’snemesisRoxieHart. Roxie, a nightclub
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    • 349 27 PRACTICEmakesperfect.When actress-singer Rainie Yang (right), 25, and actor-hostShowLuo,30,firstshotakissingscene in Taiwanese series Hi, My Sweetheart, there was no chemistry. They were just too shy to film the scene in which they had to lock lips and get cosy in bed after having a drinktoomany. But,
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        79 2/3 SIM GLOBAL EDUCATION 461 Clementi Road Call: 6248 9746 E-mail: study@sim.edu.sg Website: www.sim.edu.sg/ge MDIS UniCampus 501 Stirling Road Call: 6278 8000 E-mail: mdis@mdis.edu.sg Website: www.mdis.edu.sg Nearest MRT: Queenstown PSB Academy 355 Jalan Bukit Ho Swee Call: 6885 1000 E-mail: contactus@psb-academy.edu.sg Website: www.psb-academy.edu.sg Nearest MRT: Tiong Bahru Informatics Education Singapore
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        49 2/3 School D' Hospitality 1208 Upper Boon Keng Road Call: 6506 1290 E-mail: enquiry@sdh-edu.sg Website: www.sdh-edu.com Nearest MRT: Kallang East Asia Institute of Management 9 Ah Hood Road Call: 6252 5500 E-mail: enquiries@easb.edu.sg Website: www.easb.edu.sg Curtin Singapore 90 and 92 Jalan Rajah Call: 6593 8000 E-mail: info@curtin.edu.sg Website: www.curtin.edu.sg
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        253 2/3 International Sports Academy (member of Coleman College) 37 39 Middle Road Uweei Building Call: 6336 3462 E-mail: info@isa.sg Website: www.colemancollege.edu.sg Nearest MRT: Bugis Center for American Education 12 Prince Edward Road #01-03 Podium A, Bestway Building Call: 6223 4566 E-mail: inquiry@cae.edu.sg Website: www.cae.edu.sg Nearest MRT: Tanjong Pagar Camford Business
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    • 436 6  -  SANTOKH SINGH santokh@sph.com.sg MR SIOW Wei Jian, 23, and an ITE graduate, is keen to climb the corporate ladder. He feels that he has to start with the right qualifications. His research led him to the Diploma in Business administration at the PSB Academy.
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    • 134 21 SINGAPORE is well-known for being a multi-racial society. And when you step into one of our private schools,you’llfind that statementtaken to thenext degree– literally. At schools like SIM Global Education and theNanyang Academy ofFine Arts,you’llget the opportunity to mix around with students from countries
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    • 152 22/23 MrXu Weizhong, 22, from Hubei, China, is in the second year of his Diploma in Dance at Nafa FIRST IMPRESSION: Language differences “Icomefrom thenorthern partof China, so the first thing I noticed about Singapore was the language difference. “SingaporeanChinese peoplespeak Mandarin slightly differently from northern Chinese
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    • 129 22/23 Miss Youk Keun Yeh, 22, from Anyang, South Korea, is a second-year student in the Bachelor of Banking and Financecourseofferedby the University of London (UOL) in conjunction with SIM Global Education FIRST IMPRESSION: Different races “Itwasa sort of culture shockfor me when I first came into
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    • 130 22/23 Mr Dony Sukardi, 20, from Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, is in the second year of his BachelorofComputerSciencedegreefrom the Universityof Wollongongin conjunction withSIM GlobalEducation FIRST IMPRESSION: Travel convenience “Ifirst came toSingaporeabout three years ago on a holiday and liked it so much I decided to move here for
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    • 114 22/23 SHE DREAMS ABOUT FLOWERS Miss Kanako Furukawa, 22, from Shizuoka, Japan, is in thesecondyear ofher Diploma in Fine Arts course at Nafa. She specialises in ceramics FIRST IMPRESSION: Multi-cultural society “Singaporeisa multi-cultural society. Unlike Japan, there is a good mix of several races here. It makes for very interesting living.I’vemade
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    • 445 42 Here are new rules that private education institutions (PEIs) will have to abide by after the Private Education Bill was passed last September The Council for Private Education The Council for Private Education (CPE) will act as the watchdog for the private education
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    • 107 52 BETTER FACILITIES AND FUNDING “Thefacilites available to students are better and there is more funding for overseas lecturers andprofessors.” –MrKennethTan,29, diploma graduate in 3-D Design (Environmental Design Major), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts EXCHANGE PROGRAMMES “Thereismore flexibility in terms of overseas exchange opportunities.” –MsGwendolynWee,20,
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        • 516 10 International Sports Academy MONITORING the diets of world-class athletes is not an experience many have. But that is exactly what students taking the Sports Coaching Diploma at the International Sports Academy (ISA) –amemberofColemanCollege–didatthe2008Beijing Olympics. These students, together with those taking the Sports Management Diploma, were in
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        • 362 12 Lasalle College of the Arts EVEN before Vincent Lau, 17, started school at the Lasalle College of the Arts, he would visit the campus and imagine himself as a student there. “Icouldn’twaittostartschool,”hesaid. Vincent is doing his first-year education in Foundation Studies, part of
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        • 494 14 NanyangAcademyofFineArts CREATIVITY runs in her blood. With both parents in the arts field, it is no wonder Miss Tan Yi Xin, 20, decided to veer off from the well-trodden education pathandtakethecourseshewaspassionateabout– jewellery design. Miss Tan, a second-year student at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
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        • 410 16 Raffles Design Institute ARIESSACahyadi’sloveaffairwithcomputergames started when she played Final Fantasy 8 at the age of 12. “Ididn’tknowEnglishatthetimeanddidn’tknowhowto play,”the21-year-oldIndonesianrevealed. “Still,Iwasreallyfascinatedbytheartworkofthebeautiful bigcityinthegame.” Today, Ariessa is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communication) and majoring in Games Design at Raffles Design Institute. The third-year student, whose parents
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        • 483 18 SMa School of Management CLASSES every single day for two months. That was what Miss Danielle Menon, 20, went through when she was doing her Diploma in Mass Communication at the SMa School of Management (SMa-SOM). The diploma is offered in collaboration with the
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        • 308 20 SIM Global Education WHAT attracted Miss Rekha Manoharan to SIM Global Education (SIM GE) three years ago was its well-crafted curriculum. ShehadjustfinishedherOlevelsatCHIJ St Theresa’sConvent,andknewshewantedto work in the media. But of all the media-related courses around, the Bachelor of Arts in Communication programme at the University at
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        • 250 26 Camford Business School AT Camford Business School, classes are offered in both English and Mandarin. PrincipalIndraPadmakumara,31,said:“Ourlecturers are not only proficient in both languages; they also have a wealthofknowledgeaboutbusinessandaccounting.” The Chinese-medium diploma programmes are taught by professional lecturers recruited from China. MsIndrasaid:“Wealsowanttocatertoourinternational students who
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        • 494 28 Informatics Singapore TODAY, Informatics Singapore is an integral part of the country’soutstandingglobalposition. As Singapore moves towards becoming a global business, researchandinnovationcentre,there’snodoubtinformation is the key to survival and prosperity in the current fast-paced business environment. Breakneck developments in the business and information
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        • 507 30 Many teachers are business people give students insight into how things work in real world Kaplan Higher Education WITH both campuses located in the heart of the city, students of Kaplan Higher Education, formerly known as APMI Kaplan, can be said to be plugged into the
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        • 477 32 ManagementDevelopmentInstituteof Singapore AS A little girl, watching her uncle dismantle computers fascinated her. Today, Priscilla Loh, 23, has taken her interest one step further by pursuing an advanced diploma in information technology (IT) from the Management Development Institute of Singapore (MDIS). This is a step
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        • 296 34 PSB Academy SIOWWEIJIANispower-hungryandhe’sunabashed about it. “I’manambitiousguy,”the23-year-oldPSBAcademy student readily admitted at the beginning of the interview. “Ilikeworkingupthecorporateladder,andhere(PSB Academy),Icanknowmoreaboutthebusinessworld.” PSB Academy offers diplomas in banking and finance, mass communication, business administration and more, as well as Bachelors and Masters degrees that are accredited
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        • 508 36 Singapore Accountancy Academy HIS parents disapproved and his friends thought he was crazy when he decided to give up his A level studies in April last year to pursue a professional qualification at a private school. But for Aaron Lim, 20, it was not a
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        • 383 38 TMC Educational Group SHE wanted to study in an Australian university. But Miss Sylvia Yeoh felt that it would be costly to study in Australia for three or four years. The 18-year-old business student was also not sure if she wanted to spend
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        • 322 40 Curtin Singapore SHE had initially planned to study at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. But when Gwendolyn Wee found out that the course shewanted topursue commerce– wasavailable at Curtin Singapore, the 19-year-old decided to stay on hereafter completingher O Levels. For more than two
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        • 218 41 SIM Global Education WHEN former national shuttler Kendrick Lee, 25 went back to school last year, he chose the Diploma in Management Studies (DMS) programme. The course is offered under SIM Global Education (SIM GE). The DMS is awarded by SIM University. SaidKendrick:“Iwantedtogointobanking.TheDMS
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        • 497 44 East Asia Institute of Management MR WILLARD Tan, 23, hopes to create more awareness about hospitality and wine education in Asia. He wants to set up his own food beverage business too, so he can provide new experiences for customers. To fulfil his dream, he
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        • 499 46 Raffles Education Corp WHEN a clubbing event was held at Ace Club in Chijmes last year, the eight members in the organising committee were tasked to sell 10 tickets per person. They managed to sell 120 tickets. This was not a project handled by a
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        • 449 48 SchoolD’Hospitality WHEN Wester Lim, 29, was offered a job as a croupier in Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) after applying for a position there in June this year, it waslike “amiracle” tohim. “IfeltI would not(get in),butwashappy whenI managedto,” hesaid. As a croupier, his
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