The New Paper, 24 January 2010

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  • 19 1 The New Paper on sunday 24 Jan 2010 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION 118/01/2010 (P) MICA CENTS 80
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    • 828 2 / 3  -  ■‘S’poreman’offersillegalsextourstoVietnam, and1in5ofhisclientsisSingaporean ■Theypay$1,000forvirginswho can go for medical check-ups REPORT:SPECIAL REPORT:SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tnp@sph.com.sg A“SINGAPOREAN”hasbeenbrazenlyadvertisingsextoursinVietnamthroughtheInternet.On his website, the man, who claims to be a Singaporean and calls himself Ah Sam, offered to arrangesextourstoHoChiMinhCity. He has even claimed he could provide virgin girls forsex,includingthoseunder18. Ah Sam, 37, who is based
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    • 174 2 / 3 UNDER the Vietnamese Penal Code, anyone convicted of organising or encouraging prostitution can be jailed for between six months and five years. Harbouring and procuring prostitutes as well as having commercial sex with anyone aged between 16 and 18 years are also criminal
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    • PIMPS UNDER FIRE
      • 300 4 / 5 REPORT: SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tnp@sph.com.sg PSSSSST....wantavirgin?OnlyUS$800($1,100).The voice over the phone was warm and friendly. Buthow dowe know forsure thegirl is avirgin, weasked. “Youcantakehertoanyhospitalorclinicinthat areatocheck.Idon’tcheatmycustomers,”saidAh Sam. The“guaranteedvirgins”are17and18-year-old girls,headded. The New Paper on Sunday had posed as a customer to call Ah Sam on his
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      • 207 4 / 5 In 2005, The New Paper reported on a Singapore man who offered sex holidays to Vietnam. His “SexplorerTour” was provided byadating agency based in his Hougang HDB flat. Customers could opt to go on a four-day, three-night tour to find mistresses or simply for a
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      • 338 4 / 5 SEX tours have been a problem in Vietnam since the country adopted a more free market-based economy in the late 1980s, said Ms Magali Giaminardi. She is the in-country director of the Catalyst Foundation, a non-government organisation (NGO) helping orphaned, abandoned and
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    • 591 6 / 7  -  Tutor tells O-level students: No‘A’,don’tpay REPORTS: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg SOMEelectronicsretailersofferit.Sodosomecomputersoftwarecompanies.And now, education centres here are jumping in tooffermoney-backguaranteesontheirservices. At least two centres here are promising to give back their fees to students if they don’t do well in their exams. DrDarrenChua,thechiefexecutiveandprincipalof
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    • 533 6 / 7 Tuitionwoes HIRING a tutor can go very wrong, as Mrs Serene Kuoh, 45, recently found out. Not only did the tutor she hired turn out to be unsatisfactory, she claimed the tutor had lied about being a teacher at a secondary school.
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    • 705 8  -  That’sonereasonforeignstudentsare doing better, say parents and principals REPORT: MAUREEN KOH, VEENA BHARWANI tnp@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREAN students, it seems, try too much to be jacks-of-all trades, juggling enrichment courses in ballet, martial arts, music and art, to name a few. And this is among the reasons
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    • 819 10  -  FourstraysfounddeadinLimChuKang mayhavebeenpoisoned,sayvolunteers REPORTS:HEDYKHOO HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg FOUR dogs have been found dead in the same area in two weeks. All were part of a pack of 12 strays which lived in a forested area at Sungei Tengah, near Lim Chu Kang. The
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    • 210 10 THE Agri-Food Veterinary Authority (AVA) receive an average of 350 complaints of alleged animal abuse yearly. There were 12 cases of alleged abuse of stray animals reported to AVA in the past three years. Ten of these involved stray cats. But as
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    • 531 12/13  -  To meet red-packet orders,hisstaffwork onXmasandNewYear REPORTS: TAY SHI’AN shian@sph.com.sg HOWmuchtimedoyouneedtoprint60millionhongbaos?The answer, if you’re as big a player as SingaporeredpacketmakerCaston,issevenmonths. Thecompany’sprintingpressesandmachineshave been chugging non-stop since July last year, to make sure the company delivers its hongbaos on time to its clients. These include big names like DBS
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    • 259 12/13 Caston co-founders MrAlvin Tan and Ms Louise Loh took The New Paper on Sunday on a tour of their hongbao factory. The hongbaos have to be manually carried from one machine to the next. 1. Pre-printing: Once a design is confirmed, moulds are ordered from a
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    • 365 12/13  -  Teh Jen Lee,Tay Shi’an EACH year, hundreds of tonnes of paper go into printing hongbaos for Singaporeans. That’salotoftrees.Sohowcanweeach play a part to make red packets be more “green”orenvironmentallyfriendly? The hongbao makers Of the 150 to 200 tonnes of paper Caston is using this year, about 10
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    • 464 14  -  HTC holds SMS contest tolaunchhandphone forNSmenbut... Samuel Wee –SamuelWee,newsroomintern IT IS a smartphone designed with our military personnel in mind. So it was ironic that in a speed-texting contest organised by HTC to promote its Snap handphone, the girls were out-thumbing the guys.
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    • 736 16 TheAllahissuehasnotonlypolarisedordinaryM’sians.Itsaftershocks arealsobeingfeltinpoliticalcircles,writestheStar’sJOCELINETAN DRDZULKIFLYAhmad,thePartiIslamSe-Malay-sia(PAS)MPforKualaSelangor,oftenperformshisdawnprayersatthemosqueinShahAlam. In the last couple of weeks, he has noticed a long banner at the main gate to the mosque proclaiming: “Penggunaan nama Allah hanya untuk orang-orang Islam”(theuseofthetermAllahisonlyforMuslims). Thebanner,headmitted,doesnotsitwellwithhim. Dr Dzulkifly, as those in PAS would know by now, wasoneofthechiefadvocatesbehindtheparty’sstand that it is not wrong for
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    • 545 17 Taiwan man in debt duetobadinvestments THEY say desperate times call for desperate measures. So when a Taiwanese man found himself almost down and out and heavily in debt, he began offering himself as a human punching bag for a price. Every week from
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    • 402 17 THOUSANDS have been killed, thousands more are missing, many more have been rendered homeless. Haiti is in the midst of unimaginable suffering after the earthquake which flattened most of the country. So, is it the right time for a luxury cruise to drop
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    • 567 18/19 Emmanuelle who?Marisa from where? Stayingoutoftabloidheadlineshelped them top desirable women list MOREisless.Just look at Canadian actress EmmanuelleChriqui, who hastopped anannualpolloftheworld’s99mostdesirablewomen. edbythefactthatshedoesnotfeatureheavilyincelebritymagazines. The 32-year-old actress, best known for the TV series Entourage, was named by men’s website AskMen.com as the woman withthequalitiesmostmenwouldwantina girlfriendorwife. She took the
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    • 35 18/19 Watchingthesetabloidfixtures’ lives unfold can be like watching a train wreck in slow motion. No wonder they are missing from the most desirable list. (From top) Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
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    • 751 20  -  REPORTS: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg HE is one of Hong Kong’s best-known celebrity“tutorgods”.Hewassopopular that at one time, his salary went ashighasHK$1.7million ($309,000) amonth. But Karson Oten Fan Karno (above), 34, is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Hong Kong tuition chain Modern Education has
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    • 590 21 Actor reveals this and moreincandidinterview with a US magazine HE IS 65 and she is 40. The 25-year age gap between former Hollywood heart-throb Michael Douglas and Welsh stunner Catherine Zeta-Jones would have made their fans wonder about how they are keeping
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    • 361 21 ERIC Cantona is taking on a new role, and it has nothing to do with football. The one-time“king” ofManchesterUnited will be making his stage debut tomorrow in front of a 400-strong audience. He will be appearing in Face au
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  • 442 11 Studentsappreciatehavingdedicated& understandingteachers THEY applied to the school for different reasons,buthaveonecommonpassion– studying business and management. Singaporean Jasmine Lee, 19, had read an article on Dr Andrew Chua, principal and chairman of the East Asia Institute of Management, and was impressed by his drive andvision.Shesaid:“IdecidedthenthatI
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  • Enjoy
    • 788 15  -  Foreignersarewilling todowhatlocalswon’t evenwithmorepay, saysomeemployers REPORT:CRYSTAL CRYSTAL CHAN crystalc@sph.com.sg WHEN entrepreneur Adam Khoo wroteablogentrytitled“TheExpats Will Rule Singapore”, hedid notexpect the flurry of hate mail that followed. Mr Khoo, 35, co-founder and executive chairman of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group, had described how, when he
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    • 145 21 TOSS UP YOUR PROSPERITY 'Yu Sheng' Set Menus 18 Jan-28 Feb 2010 'Loi Hei' for good luck the whole year round. All set menus include a dish of 'Yu Sheng' and other auspicious creations. $258 for 4 persons $428 for 6 persons $468 $608 for 8 10 persons fts Festive
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  • News Exchange
    • 494 23  - Remember the sick needy THE BUZZ COMMENT: YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg IT takes a big man to forgive but I’m afraid I’m still feeling rather small. But I will try because it is the Buddhist thing to do. Here’stheirony:AroundthetimeIrediscoveredmy inner Buddhist, the Ren Ci Charity Show was born. And the
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    • 136 23 Weratethepastweek’snews–goodandbad Last week’s index: 100 This week’s index: 130 +10 Passenger traffic through Changi Airport hit 3.83 million in December, the highest ever for a month. Non-oil domestic exports also shot up by 26.1 per cent from December 2008. -10 Complaints about high-rise littering went up by
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    • 13 23 “Theysoundlike they’reallgiving birth.” –Amanataweddingdinnerwhenan all-girlstabletoastedthecouplewith“Yam Seng”. “Luckilymypantsare stretchy.” –Amanonhisdressingatabuffet.
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    • BIG NAMES BIGGER HEARTS
      • 323 24/25  -  HADY MIRZA Singer Passionate about: Children These big personalities haveafierypassionfor somethingmorethan their jobs. ELYSA CHEN speakstosomeofthese hottiestofindoutmore aboutthecauses they champion. ELYSA CHEN HIS grandfather showered him with love when he was a child, so now, he wants to do the same for
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      • 367 24/25 PAMELYN CHEE Actress, Fly Entertainment artiste Passionate about: The visually handicapped A CHANCE meeting with blind sculptor Victor Tan at the Singapore Association for the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) affected Pamelyn Chee so deeply that she has become a publicist of sorts for the association.
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      • 457 24/25 AMY KHOR Politician Passionate about: The environment FOR the past eight years, this petite, stately politician has been getting her hands dirty to promote the green cause. Just last week, Dr Amy Khor, Mayor of the South-West District, participated in a charitable recycling programme where
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    • Article, Illustration
      421 26  - SMILE SHINE WinnersofTeens ModelSearchoozed confidence,sayjudges REPORT: GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg YOU could say she smiled her way to a win. Nurse Deborah Yeo, who is 169cm tall, didn’t stop flashing her pearly whites every time she went on stage for Teens Model Search. And for that, the 19-year-old was judge PaulFoster’spicktowin.
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    • 182 26 With Facebook, Twitter, Tagged and a whole host of new social networking sites, this is definitely the dawn of the decade of oversharing. JULIANA JUNERASULand LIMSAY HENGsharethe Web’s best overshare compilation sites. OVERSHARERS.COM www. oversharers. com The site’staglineis,“Really, reallymore than you wanttoknow.” Boy, does it live up to
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    • Enjoy Shopping
      • 350 27  -  aspirei DOLORES TAY doltay@sph.com.sg BIGcatsnevergooutofstyle.Justaskthe Hollywoodcelebritycougars who have been hogging the media limelight with their young cubs. Ditto Courteney Cox and her hit series, Cougartown. Closer to home, leopard “preens” have been enjoying a mini revival since a certain newly-minted condom spokeswoman “boomz” her
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    • Enjoy Fly on the Wall
      • 351 28  -  LaunchofckCalvinKleinSpring2010collection REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg There is no escape. From all the cracks begging to be made about launching a fashion collection in a prison. Captive audience. Bar none. Prisoner of fashion. Jailhouse Rock. ck Calvin Klein released its Spring 2010 collection in Queenstown Remand Prison,
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    • Enjoy Hed Chef
      • 427 29  -  FRIED OLIVE RICE HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg Often, even if you’ve found someone you like, some things about him may still bug you. It’s like fried rice you never know what the cook is going to throw in there. You may not find everything
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    • Enjoy Columns
      • 526 30  -  JASON JOHNSON FATHER FIGURES jjohnson@sph.com.sg YOU hear all the time how damaging it can be for parents to play favourites with their children. A lot of people grow up with self-es-teem issues related to their perception that mummy and daddy loved one of
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      • 410 30  -  SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO JUST PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg DEAR Mr Orang Kaya/ Daddy Big Bucks, Don’tbelikethat,canbuyWorldCup2010for Singapore or not? The headline on everyone’s lips even if your sportispingpongortiddly-winks–isthatwemay not get to watch the matches at all. As usual it’s all got to do
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    • Article, Illustration
      119 33 This week, we’re showcasing pictures of your favourite December holiday snapshots. For two weeks from 7 Feb, we want to feature your favourite sports snapshots. Send your pictures to tnpforum@sph.com.sg Our kids, Nekysha and Nikhil, having fun at Disneysea, Tokyo, last Dec. FromJalil and Suat Eng Ismail, Atiqa,
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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 300 27 JSLENG WAH CINEMAS ir Online Bookings: www.ewcinemas.com.sg if Most 2K Digital Halls In Singapore! Clearest Sharpest Resolution! Best Sound Effects! if SINGPOST S.A.M. vour name? «Sn!5mSfcffmSSrair5iB15m!$ flirk" r.inpm? horror flick Cinema Online IIS WHI THE I li -i-iLi* r m s >w METROWEALTH (MIG) IN CONJUNCTION WITH f fENG WAH
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  • Page 31 Miscellaneous
    • 96 31 SEEING STARS BYKUAH SENGSENG Singapore’smostaccuratefakeastrologer ARIES: Be wary of the doctor who is doing your liposuction, especially when the degree mounted in his office says “DoctorateinLiposucking”. TAURUS: Your maturity will be in doubt because you are unable to stop giggling everytimeyouseetheheadline“Meryl StreepshowsoffherGoldenGlobes”. GEMINI:Here’sthereasonwhygirls won’tgooutwithyou–youinsistthatStar Trek was a documentary. LEO:Yourignoranceofcurrentaffairswill promptfriendstoaskwhichrockyou’ve
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    • 98 32 My Street Think you know Singapore like the back of your hand? Try answering these questions related to our country in our My Street series. Check the answers in this space next Sunday. 1. Where is the location of Singapore’sfirstsuspension bridge? 2. What was HarbourFront Centre formerly known as? 3.
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    • 250 32 WATCH’EM CHANNEL5 11.00 What’sGoodFor You? Noon FootballAsiaShow 2009 12.30pm Sports@SG 1.00 Movie:Paparazzi 2.45 JustFor Laughs 3.00 SoYou Think YouCanDance 4.00 Tinman 5.00 AmericanIdol IX 6.00 MyDadis Better Than YourDad 7.00 America’sFunniest Home Videos 7.30 TheShaggyDog 9.30 News5Tonight 10.00 TheLostRoom 11.00 BurnNotice Midnight MyName IsEarl CHANNEL8 11.00am ProjectA 1.00pm BioskinDreams ComeTrue
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    • 30 34/35 Saturday,23 Jan2010 First Second Third 9565 0094 8941 Starters 7431 2112 1369 0038 0067 6852 6315 1701 6947 4484 Consolations 3889 3015 8243 5777 4292 0750 6169 7206 1331 5680
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  • sports
    • Sports Racing
      • 62 34/35 TRAINERMichael Freedman’s Feline Groovy (No. 8, left) brought his unbeaten streak in Kranji to three with a gutsy head win in Race 7 yesterday. The winner, ridden by Danny Beasley, and Dishdasha(Mark Gallagher) swept to the lead together 200m out and battled all the way to the
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      • 1385 34/35 GOING: GOOD Race1 C5D*****m 4 DRUNKENHERO58(10-5) JMoreira (6) 2 2 1 (517) 3 STAIRWAYTOHEAVEN58.5(28-10) VDuric (5) 7 5 2 (498) 1.5 5 RIDDLER58c54(96-33) MFirdaus* (4) 4 3 3 (525) 0.75 2 LUCKYSUN58.5c57.5(28-6) AlanNg (10) 12 11 4 (496) 0.75 13 THAT'SMONEY53.5(68-22) SJohn (7) 5
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      • 441 34/35  -  DANNY KHOO dkhoo@sph.com.sg GOLDSCHATZ reeled off his fourth straight victory with another impressive display in the $150,000 Woodlands Classic Stakes in Kranji yesterday. The New Zealand-bred stayer from the yard of trainer Stephen Gray scored a resounding 33/4-length win in the 2,000m event after being
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      • 491 34/35 Going: Good (Races 1 -6), Yielding (7), Soft (8-9) Race1 C*****m 4 GOLDLION56(20-6) BWoodworth (7) 4 4 1 (517) 3 CLASSICSPARKLE56c53(150-28) SThaiYang* (8) 3 3 2 (467) 3.5 11 BABYRUNNER51.5c50.5(435-69) SAnandan (9) 7 8 3 (512) Nk 9 POSHEXPRESS54c51(76-15) IFadzlei* (10) 5 2 4 (517) Nk ?Winning
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      • 168 34/35 WE ALL knew it would happen sooner or later. So it came as no surprise yesterday when jockey Joao Moreira rode his first treble of the season and joined Vlad Duric at the top ofthe jockeys’ log. The talented Brazilian’s success on the
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      • 1693 36 FRIDAY RACE 1 PATRICIAN was slow. Shortly after the start, PEACE MAKER steadied when crowded between ZAC RAIDER, who shifted out, and LUCKY OCEAN, who shifted in, after beginning awkwardly. SUPER RETURN got his head up several times whilst over-racing in the early
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      • 1217 37 GOING FORECAST: SOFT RACE1 C5 1.15 -1200m LycosHandicap Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 2233-4 D'MightyVictory 57 (38) LSofhan 6 (6agJeromeTan-AlphaOne) 2 *****0 AceAguero 56.5 (37) NCallow 4 (6iregJeromeTan-ACE) 3 3-5090 BestQuality 56.5 (37) SHLee 2 (3agCecilRobert-First) 4 000-90 GoldenPartner 56.5 (37)
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      • 85 37 RACE1:2 AceAguero1 D’MightyVictory 11 She’sA Darling RACE 2:4 Mighty Ace 1 Strategy 7 E-Motion RACE 3:11 Mighty Greg 8 Diamong Melang 6 Natural Performer RACE 4:10 Blue Shark 6 Conundrum 4 Duke Greg RACE 5:6 Palmston 1 Dressed To Impress 10 Smiles All Round RACE 6:
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      • 81 37 RACE 2: Mighty Ace, Duty Free Spirit. RACE 3: Havana Cigar, Natural Performer, Diamond Melang, Mavros, Mighty Greg. RACE 4: Lapidado, Sinar Suria, Duke Greg, Colourland Way, Octopus. RACE 5: Zhen Dao. RACE 6: Swift Arrow, Al Khobar, Son Of Summer, Bullet Proof. RACE 7: Royal Adviser, Speedy Wind,
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      • 939 38 RACE 1 (1,600m) American Glory (5) has come to hand with straight placings over the 1,400m since a move to blinkers and should get this trip. Cheerful Happiness (8) has been racing well over the 1,400m and opened up a new avenue when staying on
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      • 938 38  -  GOING FORECAST: GOOD TIPSANDCOMMENTSBYPHILLIPWOO,COURTESYOFTHEHONGKONGJOCKEYCLUB PHILLIP WOO TIPSANDCOMMENTSBYPHILLIPWOO,COURTESYOFTHEHONGKONGJOCKEYCLUB RACE1 CLASS5TURF 1600m TIME:1:00 Stakes:HK$485,000 NO. HORSENAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 SPEEDRACER CWChang CKTong 133 3 2 PERPETUALDELIGHT ASchutz ODoleuze 132 9 3 LUCKYMONEYSTAR CHYip YTCheng 131 8 4 MASTERTOWER LHo HWLai 131 14 5 AMERICANGLORY CSShum
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    • Sports Mad about Golf
      • 342 39 AFP WET WEATHER was no impediment to Bubba Watson on Friday as he fired a 10-under par 62 to take a two-shot lead after the rain-delayed second round of the Bob Hope Classic. After rain storms washed out play on Thursday, the second round of the 90-hole
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    • Sports Australian Open
      • 648 40 / 41  -  BRIAN MILLER npsports@sph.com.sg ON THE first Saturday of the first Grand Slam event of the new decade, the big guys came out to play. And boy, did they act tough muscling the kids right out of Melbourne Park like so many school
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      • 437 40 / 41 AFP SERENA and Venus are on track for an all-Williams semi-final while a pair of in-form Eastern Europeans set up a fourth-round showdown at the Australian Open. Serena thrashed Carla Suarez Navarro 6-0, 6-3 yesterday and will now face local favourite Samantha Stosur, while Venus
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      • 28 40 / 41 “I definitely expect the crowd to root for Sam. Hopefully, my mom will cheer for me. I should befine.” SerenaWilliams on hernextgame against Samantha Stosur
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      • 90 40 / 41 (Selected) MEN’SSINGLES Fourth round Roger Federer v Lleyton Hewitt Fernando Verdasco v Nikolay Davydenko Novak Djokovic v Lukasz Kubot Jo-Wilfried Tsonga v Nicolas Almagro Andy Roddick v Fernando Gonzalez Marin Cilic v Juan Martin Del Potro Andy Murray v John Isner Ivo Karlovic v Rafael Nadal WOMEN’SSINGLES Serena
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      • 96 40 / 41 (Selected) MEN’SSINGLES Third round Jo-Wilfried Tsonga bt Tommy Haas 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 Lleyton Hewitt bt Marcos Baghdatis 6-0, 4-2 (Baghdatis retired) Nicolas Almagro bt Alejandro Falla6-4, 6-3, 6-4 Fernando Verdasco bt Stefan Koubek 6-1 (Koubek retired) Lukasz Kubot bt Mikhail Youzhny (walkover wrist injury) WOMEN’SSINGLES Third round
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    • 601 42 / 43 AP CALLING all people with sporting talent. Males must be over six-foot-three (1.9m), females over five-foot-11 (1.8m). Apply now for a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”to become an Olympic athlete. That’s the pitch launched by British officials to locate and train potential basketball players and rowers
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    • 414 42 / 43  -  Tsang Wing Han Newsroomintern THE UNITED States is one of the sporting powerhouses in the world but its success has nothing much to do with picking “tall andtalented”athletes. Rather, the Americans excel in sports mainly due to a highly-productive sports system at the college and
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      • 752 44  -  ThierryHenrytalksabouthisphilosophiesoffthepitch BEN LYTTLETON Special Correspondent The writer is based in Britain and writes for The Sunday Telegraphandguardian.co.uk A GAME of cards, a movie, dominoes, and a basketball game: Thierry Henry has given an insight into how he copes with life away from football. The
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      • 321 45  -  In her weekly Futbolita column, ASHIKINHASHIMlooksatMilan’sfood crazeandPepGuardiola’sbirthdaygift ASHIKIN HASHIM ITALY’Smosthighly-anticipatedMilanDerbytakesplacetomor-row (Singapore time), but players from both Inter-Milan and AC Milan are abuzz over culinary mattersinstead. Of course, there’s no cause for alarm it’s only part of the “tradizionedelcalcio”. Just ask Milan midfielder Gennaro
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      • 181 45 OLE! IN BARCELONA, Pep Guardiola’s decision to extend his contract with Los Cules may have been the result of him attending a concert on Monday. Aspartofthecoach’s39thbirthday celebrations, his family took him out to watch Manel in concert. There he was, minding his own business with 2,100 other
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      • 669 46  -  EXCLUSIVE INTER-MILAN v AC MILAN (Tomorrow, mioTVCh 61,3.45am) ASHIKIN HASHIM npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a freelancer THERE cannot be a greater contrast between the two Milan coaches. In the blue half is Inter-Milan coach Jose Mourinho, better known as The Special One for
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      • 800 47  -  From being a lost soul, Ronaldinhohasbecometheman towatchasthetwoMilansides clashinaSerieAshowdown tomorrow.DAVIDLEEputsthe spotlightonthebuck-toothed Brazilianmakingwaves once again DAVID LEE WIGGLING his hips to gain an extra metre on his defender, the hat-trick hero shimmied and slammed an unstoppable shot past the bewildered Siena goalkeeper for his third goal. Ronaldinho, reborn
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      • 590 48  -  ALISON RATCLIFFE SPORTS FEMME npsports@sph.com.sg ONE OF the best things about having so many foreign players in the Premier League is that they go back to their home countries and say such fabulously indiscreet things. Though it’s quite possible Carlos Tevez’s tongue is so loose he would
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      • 318 48 PA Sport SHUT up or else... Gary Neville and Carlos Tevez have been left in no doubt any repeat of this week’s caustic arguments ahead of the Carling Cup semi-final, second leg at Old Trafford on Wednesday will not be tolerated. Neither Neville nor Tevez
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        • 734 53 PA Sport MANCHESTER United won the Premiership title with 83 points in 2003. Sir Alex Ferguson feels that the winning tally could be even lower this season. And the United manager has come up with a magical number of
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        • 195 53 PA Sport MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini is looking forward to welcoming Emmanuel Adebayor (right) back to the club this week. The former Arsenal striker is due to return to the club today when City play Scunthorpe in the FA Cup. Adebayor has
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        • 437 54  -  MAN UNITED 4 (Wayne Rooney 8,82,86,90+4) HULLCITY0 DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg COMMENT HE IS reportedly asking for a £50,000 ($113,000) pay raise to take him to £140,000a week for the next five years. BasedonWayneRooney’sincrediblefour-goal haul against Hull City last night, why not? Almost single-handedly, the Manchester United
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        • 252 54  -  DAVID LEE AS MUCH as I’d love to, there really isn’t many negative aspects to pick on from LuisNani’sperformancelast night. There was just the one debatable incident in the first half where the Portuguese Pretender, after a delightful dribble into the Hull City penalty area, seemed
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      • 396 49 QUARTER-FINAL IVORY COAST v ALGERIA AP AFRICAN football will improve only when countries get rid of political interference and improve discipline on the pitch. That is the frank assessment of Ivory Coast coach Vahid Halilhodzic, a strong disciplinarian who has coached a number of teams including
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      • 401 50 FACUP4TH RD STOKE v ARSENAL (Tonight, StarHub Ch 23, 9pm) PA Sport IT’S AN interesting conundrum facing Arsene Wenger how to balance rotating his perpetually injury-hit squad while retaining the momentum which has propelled them to the EPL summit. The Gunners visit Stoke at the Britannia Stadium in
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      • 186 50 PA Sport REJUVENTAED Sol Campbell has declared that he is in better shape now than during his first stint with Arsenal. “Personally I feel in better shape now physically than when I left Arsenal, because I am fresher,” said the former Gunners captain. I played
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      • 380 50 FACUP4TH RD SCUNTHORPE v MAN CITY (Tonight, StarHub Ch 23, 11.30pm) PA Sport MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini has told his players to be on their guard against Scunthorpe in their FA Cup fourth-round tie tonight. Manchester United and Liverpool have lost to lower
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      • 540 51 EVERTON1 (Leon Osman 56) BIRMINGHAM 2 (Benitez 7, Ferguson 40) PA Sport MIKEL Arteta made his long-awaited Everton comeback at Goodison Park last night as a late substitute, but it was a solitary bright spot for the Toffees. Birmingham extended their unbeaten record to 15 games with
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      • 449 51 PORTSMOUTH 2 (Utaka 42,57) SUNDERLAND 1 (Darren Bent 15) PA Sport JOHN Utaka bagged a brace as Portsmouth came from behind to beat Sunderland and book a place in the fifth round of the FA Cup. The long journey south looked to have been worthwhile
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      • 620 52 Preston0 Chelsea 2 (Anelka 37, Sturridge 46) PA Sport DANIEL Sturridge enhanced his growing reputation by helping Chelsea secure a place in the fifth round of the FA Cup at Deepdale. The former Manchester City striker scored in the 47th minute his third goal for the
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      • 253 52 PA Sport CHELSEA captain John Terry admitted his side was given a good test by Preston last night albeit eventually running out 2-0 winners in the FA Cup clash. The Blues found themselves up against a stubborn Preston side at Deepdale, but goals on either side of
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      • 276 52 READING 1 (Gylfi Sigurdsson 87) BURNLEY0 Wire Services READING’S caretaker boss Brian McDermott hailed Gylfi Sigurdsson after the Icelandic striker’s late goal dumped Premier League side Burnley out of the FA Cup at the Madejski Stadium. The Royals had won a replay at Liverpool in the third
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    • SPORTS ON TV
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        194 55 LIVE TELECASTS FA CUP Tonight: STOKE v ARSENAL StarHub TV Ch 23,9pm Former Arsenal captain Sol Campbell (right) is ready to make his re-debut against Stoke City tonight. SCUNTHORPE v MAN CITY StarHub TV Ch 23,11.30pm SCOTTISH LEAGUE Tonight: ST JOHNSTONE v CELTIC StarHub TV Ch 115,11.25pm BUNDESLIGA Tomorrow:
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      • 22 55 BOB HOPE CLASSIC Tomorrow: DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 26,5.15am ABU DHABI GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP Today: DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 26,5.15pm
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      • 11 55 AUSTRALIAN OPEN Today: MEN’S& WOMEN’S4THROUND StarHub TV Ch 24,8am 4pm
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      • 584 55 LOCAL EVENTS ADVENTURE SPORTS What: Safra AVventura 2010 When: Today Where: Safra Yishun Country Club THE SAFRA AVventura is an adventure race consisting of multiple disciplines ranging from trail biking, running, kayaking, rope ascending, abseiling, navigation and mystery tests all rolled into one exhilarating race to fully challenge
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      445 56 Wire Services THIS will not go down well with Liverpool fans. Former Tottenham Hotspur and England manager Terry Venables has suggested that the best way forward for Liverpool would be to part with their talisman Steven Gerrard (above). While the former Barcelona coach acknowledged that the Liverpool captain
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