The New Paper, 12 January 2010

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    • 63 1 Becks drops his shorts during game PAGE 48 tu s thenewpaper SLA evicts firm from Queenstown site It promises arts school, then builds canteen PAGE 2 INDIAN WORKER GUILTY OF KILLING PREGNANT PROSTITUTE IN GEYLANG HOTEL MATTRESS OF DEATH TNP FILE He hides body inside bed, then later has sex
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    • 664 2/3  -  KICKED OUT OF QUEENSTOWN SITE REPORTS: ANDRE YEO andrey@sph.com.sg ONCE a police station, it now sits abandoned. The building was to have been given new life by its tenant who was supposed to set up a private arts and
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    • 750 2/3 ABOUT60 of SLA’s3,000 tenants breached their tenancy agreements last year, said an SLA spokesman. These include cases of rental arrears and unauthorised renovations or activities. SLA said that in some cases, tenants couldn’tpayrenton time becauseoffinancial problems. Others carried out renovations without approval from SLA or
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    • 496 4  -  OUTRAM MRT SHOOTING INQUIRY REPORT: CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg FACED with a man who was charging at him with a knife, the police officer “had no choice”buttofirehisgunathim. This was the view of Superintendent Lu Yeow Lim, the assistant director (operations) of the
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  • Local News watch
    • 322 6 TRADE INDUSTRY MINISTER SINGAPORE is unlikely to fall back into recession though the economy is expected to be sluggish this year, Trade Industry Minister Lim Hng Kiang said yesterday. The consumption-boosting effects of government stimulus packages implemented during the global economic slump are waning,
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    • 115 6 THE Government is working towards reducing carbon emissions by 16 per cent. After the Copenhagen climate talks failed to produce a legally binding agreement, Singapore said it would cut emissions by up to 11 per cent by 2020. Environment and Water Resources
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    • 107 6 THE Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) suffered losses of about $800 million in a New York property project after the US owners defaulted on a debt payment at the weekend. GIC is believed to have written off more than US$575 million
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    • 102 6  -  Benson Ang THE driver of a Land Rover which ran over a national serviceman (NSF) has been charged. Muhammad Abdul Qaiyuum Muhammed Iskander, 19, is alleged to have caused the death of 2LT Nicholas Chan through negligence. He is accused of putting
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    • 1130 8 / 9  -  Man kills pregnant prostitute for refusing him more sex. Hehidesbody,thengoesouttofindanotherhooker REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg HE HAD sex twice with a Sri Lankan prostitute who was seven months’ pregnant. But he wanted more. She refused, unless he paid her more money. He
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    • News O-level Results
      • 788 10 / 11  -  BONNIE WUI, 18 Regent Secondary School HER SCORE: A1 for maths, mother tongue, combined science, literature; A2 for English Dropped out, kicked out. Now... Woo Sian Boon –WooSianBoon,newsroomintern SHE dropped out of an elite secondary school and then was expelled from a neighbourhood
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      • 518 10 / 11  -  CLARENCE LIM, 18 Punggol Secondary School HIS SCORE: 10 points for English and four relevant subjects REPORT: BRYNA SIM brynasim@sph.com.sg WHAT’Sthe pointof studying?This wasathoughtthat keptrunningthroughClarenceLim’smind. “IthoughtIwasbetteroffbeingknockeddownbya carthanstudying,”saidthe18-year-old. Then, Clarence surprised everyone, including himself, with his results in the O levels. The
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      • 189 10 / 11  -  REPORT: BRYNA SIM brynasim@sph.com.sg THERE was a flurry of excitement as The New Paper GO Guide was handed out to students all over Singapore yesterday. The colourful 52-page guide came free with The New Paper yesterday. The GO Guide, into its third year, was
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    • News Parliament
      • 150 12  -  CHANGES TO MEDICAL REGISTRATION ACT REPORT: LEDIATI TAN ledtan@sph.com.sg THE health and well-being of ordinary Singaporeans are now better protected, thanks to changes made to the Medical Registration Act (MRA) in Parliament yesterday. Not only has the Singapore Medical Council’s (SMC’s) disciplinary processes been fine-tuned,
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      • 432 12 Problem: Increase in the number of complaints in tandem with an increase in the number of doctors between 2003 and 2009. ButSMC’s capacitytocope withthe rising number of complaints has remained the same, resulting in a growing delay in processing complaint cases. Last year, a simple complaint took about
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      • 388 12  -  STREET TALK COMMENT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg CHANGES by the Ministry of Health to the Medical Registration Act (MRA) will make certain things like getting your complaint against a doctor easier and faster to look into. It will also improve the system that has been
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    • 424 14 Severely burnt as a toddler, KLboy has learnt to feed and dress himself HE SUFFERED burns on 90 per cent of his body at the age of 2. And he has to undergo a battery of medical treatments and surgeries well
      PICTURES: GUANG MING DAILY  -  424 words
    • 658 15 Irishpolitician’s younglover’s father said to be ‘oneofhermen’ MORE dirt has surfaced about Northern Ireland politician Iris Robinson. Last week the 60-year-old confessed to having an affair two years ago with a 19-year-old. Now British papers are alleging three more affairs, including one with her
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      500 16 Train commuters in 16 countries brave the chill to go trouser-free –justforfun DUDE, where are your pants? That’s probably what you would have thought when 3,000 people in New York took the subway without wearing trousers yesterday. Organisers of No Pants Day, a group called Improv Everywhere,
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    • 444 16 THEnieceofBritain’s juniordefence ministertold police shewas a “monster” after she confessed to the drunken murder of a young Frenchman in 2007, a French court heard yesterday. Jessica Davies, the 30-year-old niece of Britain’smulti-millionaire juniordefence minister Quentin Davies, looked pale and drawn as she
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    • 398 17 Alleged crime lord claims he had male and female sex organs POLICE in South Africa caught more than they expected in a Cape Town drug raid when a strap-on dildo fell off a suspected crime lord during a search, the Sunday Times reported. Fat
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    • 237 18 NINTH CHURCH ATTACKED MALAYSIA yesterday defended its refusal to allow non-Muslims to use the word “Allah”, as a dispute over the issue saw a ninth church attacked in a spate of fire-bomb-ings and vandalism. The Sidang Injil Borneo Church (right) in the central state of
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    • 102 18 MORE than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported. The study was conducted by the government-backed Chinese Acad- emy of Social Sciences. Sex-specific abortions remained extremely commonplace, especially in rural areas,
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    • 109 18 THOUSANDS of officials have fled China over the past 30 years with some 340 billion yuan ($69 billion) in public funds, state media said. As many as 4,000 officials have disappeared, using criminal gangs mainly in the US and Australia to launder
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    • 96 18 MOST banks have increased basic salaries and cut bonuses for executives. This is in response to calls for leaner compensation packages after the financial crisis, according to a survey by consultancy Mercer. asurvey byconsultancyMercer. Four-fifths of respondents in a survey of 61 banks and
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    • 13 18 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High33˚,Low23˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low24˚ Bangkok:Sunny High33˚,Low22˚ Manila:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low24˚
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      42 19 FROM READER DONALD CHEW DUMP SITE? A rubbish trolley is leftinaparkinglot opposite Block 123 Bedok North, near the Feng Shan Community Club, where empty lots are often hard to find. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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    • 45 19 OnSengkang’snewfoodcomplex “Iappreciatetheconcept but thedesign of the food centre is not appealing and doesn’tfit theyoung estate. It’slike a make-shift market store... it makes the Sengkang Centre so messy and unappealing...” Warmtoes “Thereisnoair-conditioning anditisvery hot during the day. The stalls are too manyandcrampedtogether.” Gerald_Chen
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    • 281 19 READER SHUBASHINI BALASUBRAMANIAM I AM a resident of Lengkok Bahru, and I am writing to draw attention to how cleaning and maintenance of HDB rental blocks in the area have been neglected. I live in a rental flat in Block 58. Despite
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    • 92 19 TAMMY TAN VICE-PRESIDENT, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS, SBS TRANSIT PLEASErefertotheletter“BusCaptainwrongly accusedme”fromreaderTayMengHow(The NewPaper,1Jan). We have conducted a thorough investigation into the matter, including reviewing CCTV recordings of the incident. Contrary to what Mr Tay has claimed, the recordings showed that our bus captain neither shouted nor
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      47 19 Are you excited about the opening of the new IR on Sentosa? Would you visit it? “Yes,I amexcited.I would visititfor Universal Studios, since it is the first in Asia. I would also like to stay in one of thehotelsif I have themoney.” IvanLee, 24, retail assistant
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    • 781 20/21  -  Today’sscandal-hitHK starlets fail to live up to Cantopop’sgoldenera REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg THEYmightbeyoung,nubileandattractive.Butintheeyesoftheirharshestcritics,theyareatotalflop. Indeed,amajordisappointmentafterthegoodwork by their superstar predecessors such as Sandy Lam, AnitaMuiandFayeWongfromthe’80sandearly’90s. It’s also a tight slap in the face of Cantopop, a diminishingmusicindustrywhichhassadlyoutlivedits goldenera. So who constitutes this “cannot-make-it” batch of
      TNP DESIGN: PRADIP KUMAR SIKDAR PICTURES: LIANHE WANBAO, APPLE DAILY  -  781 words
    • 796 22  -  That’showS’poresingersongwriter Art Fazil describes format of Singapore Idol final COMMENT:ART ART FAZIL tnp@sph.com.sg Art Fazil is an award-winning Singaporean singer-songwriter-musician currently based in London POP Idol has become a bit like McDonald’s there is one in every town and city. The reality TV singing
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    • 229 22 HER sweet tooth got her a sweet deal. MsTan GeckHua’sChocolat Frey purchase won her a seven-day Swiss holiday for two in a contest run by The Cocoa Trees and Focus Network Agencies last year. As part of her trip, she will also get to
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      • 116 23 IF YOU have a seafood craving, Kopi Tiam at Swissotel The Stamford has lots to offer. To start the decade, it has introduced a seafood promotion that lets you create your own meal. KopiTiam’s souschefNg Kwong Heeexplained: “It’s like ordering a made-to-measure suit. We are now
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      • 135 23 THE Teochews will get the spotlight this month. Teochew City Seafood Restaurant has brought back the month-long Teochew food festival with activities highlighting Teochew culture, history, food and performing arts. The wayto aSingaporean’s heartand head isthrough food, so at the public Teochew Food Culture
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      • 630 24  -  ForgetBuahKeluak–headfor thestuffyoucan’tgetinS’pore K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg I WAS eagerly anticipating this trip to Malacca, for two days of food, wine and culture in a landmark city for Peranakan and Eurasian heritage. I was about to learn what “die, die, must try”
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  • Sports
    • Sports Racing
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      • 919 37 RACE 1 Approaching the 1,000m, HOLLYWOOD ISLAND, who was laying in, shifted ground in, bumping WILL POWER onto THE SUN NUMBER ONE. Approaching the 700m, WILL POWER had to steady when THE SUN NUMBER ONE shifted out when not clear. TM Wan (THE
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      • 693 38 SUNDAY C3 (Turf)1200m *****4 MasterMagic 57 (74) (6agJMeagher-MasterMagic) 70-099 SuperbGeneral 56 (72) (7agMYusof-LeeLeParis) *****6 HappyEverybody 55 (70) (5agSBurridge-EightEightOne) 15 MrProfumo 54.5 (69) (4agCBrown-GBRacing) ***** Anecdotal 54 (68) (5agMFreedman-Interchem) *****7 PromiseMeGold 52.5 (65) (6agSBurridge-SBurridge) *****4 Shinkansen 52.5 (65) (4agBDean-Dean) *****7 Aranda 52 (64) (4agSGray-NorthwestRacing)
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      • 979 38 RACE 1 At about the 500m, CUTTING EDGE switched out over the heels of WORLD SUPERMAN to obtain a run. RACE 2 RUSSELL returned lame near fore. When questioned regarding the performance of POWER BABY, trainer KP Hoy said it was the
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    • Sports Mad About Golf
      • 443 39 Reuters HE SAID he could challenge Tiger Woods’ No. 1 ranking now that the top-ranked American golfer is out for an indefinite period. Geoff Ogilvy proved that he was not making empty promises when he made a triumphant start to the PGA Tour for a second year
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      • 178 39 Tennis AFP WORLD NO. 1 Roger Federer will not play in this week’s Kooyong Classic in Melbourne, preferring to practise ahead of next week’s Australian Open, tournament officials said yesterday. Tournament Director Colin Stubs said he had been holding the final spot in the
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      • 48 39 1 Tiger Woods 14.13 av. pts 2 Phil Mickelson 7.95 3 SteveStricker 6.73 4 Lee Westwood 6.43 5 Jim Furyk 5.58 6 Padraig Harrington 5.35 7 Henrik Stenson 5.23 8 Paul Casey 5.18 9 Geoff Ogilvy 5.09 10 RoryMcIlroy4.75 11 Kenny Perry 4.69 12 Ian Poulter4.51.
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    • Sports OLE!
      • 465 40 Meet the new teenage sensation Canales Wire Services NOT EVERY club can afford a Cristiano Ronaldo or a Kaka, so they need to come up with great players the old fashioned way. Racing Santander has seemingly done just that in the form of Sergio Canales,
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      • 300 40 REAL MADRID 2 (Higuain 8, Granero 50) MALLORCA0 PA Sport THERE was no clash of egos as Cristiano Ronaldo welcomed the return to action of Real Madrid team-mate Kaka. Real’stwo biggest summer signings were able to start only their second league match together since September
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    • Sports Euro Kick-off
      • UK
        • 246 41 Saturday: Arsenal 2 Everton 2 Birmingham 1 Man Utd 1 Postponed: Hull v Chelsea Burnley v Stoke Fulham v Portsmouth Sunderland v Bolton Wiganv Aston Villa West Ham v Wolves Liverpool v Tottenham Saturday (16 Jan): Chelsea v Sunderland Everton v Man City Man Utd v Burnley Portsmouth v
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          311 41 Friday: West Brom 1 Forest 3 Saturday: Cardiff 1 Blackpool 1 Coventry 3 Barnsley 1 Derby 1 Scunthorpe 4 Postponed Palace v Bristol City Middlesbrough v Swansea Preston v Doncaster QPR v Plymouth Reading v Newcastle Watford v Sheff Utd Sunday: Leicester1 Ipswich 1 Saturday (16 Jan): Barnsley v
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      • EUROPE
        • 250 41 Saturday: Valladolid 0 Atletico Madrid 4 Sevilla 1 Racing 2 Villarreal 1 Almeria 1 Sunday: Tenerife0 Barcelona 5 Deportivo 1 Osasuna 0 Malaga 1 Athletic Bilbao 1 Espanyol 2 Zaragoza 1 Real Madrid 2 Mallorca 0 Sporting Gijon 1 Getafe 0 Xerez 1 Valencia 3 Sunday (17 Jan): Almeria
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        • 249 41 Saturday: Roma 1 Chievo 0 Inter-Milan 4 Siena 3 Sunday: Bologna 0 Cagliari 1 Fiorentina 2 Bari 1 Genoa 2 Catania 0 Juventus 0 AC Milan 3 Livorno 2 Parma 1 Napoli 1 Sampdoria 0 Palermo 1 Atalanta 0 Udinese 1 Lazio 1 Saturday (16 Jan): Bari v Inter-Milan
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          207 41 Friday (15 Jan): Bayern Munich v Hoffenheim Saturday (16 Jan): Leverkusen v Mainz M’gladbachv Bochum Frankfurt v Werder Hamburg v Freiburg Hannover vHertha Berlin Stuttgart vWolfsburg Sunday (17 Jan): Cologne v Dortmund Schalke v Nurnberg Bayern forward Arjen Robben has recovered from an ankle injury and is likely to
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        • 245 41 Saturday (16 Jan): Nancy v Lyon Auxerre v Boulogne Bordeaux v Marseille Grenoble vEtienne Le Mans v Lorient Lille v PSG Monaco v Sochaux Montpellierv Nice Rennesv Racing Valenciennes v Toulouse Sunday (17 Jan): Bordeaux v Marseille Tuesday (19 Jan): St Etienne v Rennes Wednesday (20 Jan): Boulogne v
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          152 41 Today: St Mirren v Aberdeen Tomorrow: Hamilton v Dundee Utd Saturday (16 Jan): Celtic v Falkirk Dundee Utd v Hibernian Hamilton v Rangers Hearts v St Mirren Kilmarnock v Motherwell St Johnstone v Aberdeen Celtic’sGaryCaldwell challengesAberdeen’sLee Miller (in red) during a Scottish Premier match last month. SCOTTISH PREMIER P
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    • African Nations Cup
      • 357 42 MALAWI 3 (Mwafulirwa 17, Kafoteka 35, Banda 48) ALGERIA0 Reuters MALAWI stunned World Cup qualifiers Algeria 3-0 in their opening Group A match yesterday. Russell Mwafulirwa gave the rank outsiders a 17th-minute lead when he took advantage of slapstick defending and Elvis Kafoteka headed
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      • 192 42 Wire Services TOGO have been officially disqualified from the African Nations Cup. Togo were scheduled to play their first match against Ghana yesterday in Group B, but the team withdrew after two people from the Togolese delegation died in an ambush last week. Confederation of African
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      • 328 42 ANGOLA 4 (Flavio 36,42, Gilberto 67-pen, Manucho 74-pen) MALI 4 (Keita 79,90+3, Kanoute 88, Yattabare 90+4) AFP MALI made a miraculous recovery to pull back from a four-goal deficit to hold Angola to a 4-4 draw in the opening game of the 2010 African Nations
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    • Sports EPL
      • 554 43  -  DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg THE 21st round of 2009/10 English Premier League season goes down in history as the most weather-dis-rupted weekend since the division’s inception in 1992. Seven matches were called off at Hull, Burnley, Fulham, Sunderland, Wigan, West Ham and Liverpool as the
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      • Article, Illustration
        496 44/45 The big winter freeze-out has seen the postponements of several matches throughout English football, and clubs are counting the losses Wire Services SEVERE snowfall over the past two weeks in Britain has thrown football fixtures into disarray. Apart from fixture congestion in an already packed campaign, English
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      • 388 44/45 PA Sport DIDN’T play? Now you’ll have to bear the consequences. The Premier League will defend themselves vigorously if questions are asked regarding the number of postponements at the weekend as attention turns to rescheduling matches. After the recent cold snap across the country,
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      • 551 46  -  IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg IS IT nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them? A question posed 500 years ago by Hamlet in
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      • 126 46 MANCHESTER United have reported pre-tax profits of £48.2 million ($107.6m)) for the year to 30 Jun 2009. The figure includes the world record £80m fee collected from Real Madrid for the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo and also £41.9m paid out in interest on a mammoth
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      • 57 46 GROUP TURNOVER: 2009: £278.5m 2008: £256.2m MATCHDAY REVENUE: 2009: £108.8m 2008: £101.5m MEDIA REVENUE: 2009: £99.7m 2008: £90.7m COMMERCIAL REVENUE: 2009: £70m 2008: £64m GROUP OPERATING PROFIT BEFORE DEPRECIATION AND AMORTISATIONOF PLAYERS’ REGISTRATIONS AND GOODWILL: 2009: £91.3m 2008: £80.4m NET INTEREST PAYABLE: 2009: (£41.9m) 2008: (£45.5m) PROFIT
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      • 123 46 Wire Services TOM Hicks Jr was contacted by Liverpool fan Stephen Horner, who emailed him an extract of an article published over the weekend. The extract contained a series of points which analysed and explored the challenges facing Reds manager Rafa Benitez. The Dallas-based Liverpool
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    • SPORTS ON TV
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        119 47 LIVE TELECASTS FA CUP Tomorrow: COVENTRY v PORTSMOUTH StarHub TV Ch 24,3.40am Thursday: LIVERPOOL v READING StarHub TV Ch 24, 3.30am The FA Cup remains top priority for RafaelBenitez(right) afterLiverpool’s elimination from Champions League. This means they must beat Reading who held them to a 1-1 draw in the
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      • 19 47 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 47 MEDIBANK INTERNATIONAL SYDNEY Friday Saturday: MEN’SSINGLES SEMI-FINALS StarHubCh22, 8am &1.30pm
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      • 356 47 LOCAL EVENTS BOXING What: Professional Championship Boxing When: Saturday Where: Suntec International Convention Exhibition Hall THERE will be six fights including a top-of-the-bill Pan Asian (PABA) Championship title fight. Representing Singapore will be MohamadNor Rizan,(3-1, 3KOs).The super-bantamweight is now a sparringpartner ofLeon“Hurry Up” Moore and will benefit
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    • 355 48  -  ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg WHEN in Italy, do as the Italians do. But do Italian professional footballers take their shorts off during a game? England’s David Beckham did exactly that during a game against Juventus in the Italian Serie A on Sunday. He was captured
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