The New Paper, 13 March 2010

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    13 1 the new paper 13 Mar 2010 st a 70 CENTS MICA (P) 117/01/2010
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      44 1 Korean woman on Romanian envoy: Why we fought in car PAGE 5 Andrea De Cruz tested for drink-driving PAGE 4 JACK NEO CLAIMS IN INTERVIEW I CHEATED WITH ONLY 70 CENTS MICA (P) 117/01/2010 Aussie drug addict to have liver transplant in S’pore PAGE
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      5 2/3  - REPORT: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg I
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      460 4  - REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg ACTRESS Andrea De Cruz allegedly failed an initial breathalyser test when she was stopped at a police road block at Clemenceau Avenue in the early hours of Thursday. But she was subsequently cleared in a second, more conclusive test at the Traffic Police headquarters. Reliable
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  • News Embassy Car Hit-&-Run
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      1061 5  -  Korean woman on why she blew up at Romanian envoy in car: REPORT: GAN LING KAI ganlk@sph.com.sg WHEN Korea-born opera singer Jeong Ae Ree, 41, stepped out of the Audi A6 in a run-down carpark,something just didn’t feelright. First,
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      Lock icon THE CASE
      158 5 THEformercharge d’affaires atthe Romanian embassy here, Dr Silviu Ionescu,told thepolice thathis car– a black Audi A6 that was involved in a doublehit-and-runaccident was stolen outside his office in the early hours of 15 Dec. But the 54th and last person on the standatthe coroner’s inquiry, Station Inspector Raimi
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      Lock icon HDB gets tough on illegal subletting
      247 6 Errant flat owners THE Housing Board (HDB) yesterday said that it is stepping up enforcement action against unauthorised subletting of HDB flats. It also disclosed that it has acted against 56 errant owners between January 2008 and last December, and fined them between $1,000
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      Lock icon Elderly in HDB estates happy with their homes
      113 6 ELDERLY residents living in HDB estates are proud of their homes, and feel a sense of belonging to their neighbourhood, according to a HDB Sample Household Survey carried out in 2008. The survey, which polled elderly residents above 65 years, showed that
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      Lock icon More helpfor SMEs in infocomm sector
      90 6 MORE help will be given to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the infocomms sector with $25 million set aside under a new scheme. Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lui Tuck Yew said yesterday that under the new iSPRINT scheme, SMEs
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      104 6 THE number of training places for professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) will be expanded five times from 50,000 now to 240,000 by 2015, said Minister of State for Manpower Lee Yi Shyan yesterday. Noting that many Singaporeans in their mid-20s and 30s
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      89 6 A NATIONAL census to collect a wide range of information on Singapore’s population and households began yesterday. To be carried out till June, this is the fifth census since Singapore’s independence, said the Department of Statistics. Detailed information including demographic profile, economic status,
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        742 8  -  REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg WHEN two customers fight over a popular bag, you can bet the seller will be smiling all the way to the bank. Now think millions. That’s what happens whenpay-TVretailers–SingTelandStarHub try to outbid each other for exclusive content. Yesterday, the Government revealed
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      309 11  -  COMMENT: BRYNA SIM brynasim@sph.com.sg WHEN I was in school, many of my peers regarded learning Chinese like a relationship that is past its use-by-date: Painful. We were the product of an educational approach that did not encourage us to love Chinese. While memories of learning
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      742 12/13  - REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg HEwasreprimandinghissonwhenhisnext-doorneighbourspewedvulgari-tiesathimfromhisflat. WhenMr Basri Bakri, 45, a freelance diver and engineer, confronted the neighbour, the mengotintoaheatedargument. But it turned violent when the neighbour grabbedajarofhydrochloricacidandflungit atMrBasri’sface. Yesterday, Rio Lawrence Patrick Dutton, 46,acleaner,wasjailed15monthsforhurting hisneighbour. While Dutton’s time behind bars will be temporary,MrBasri’sscarsarepermanent. His eyesight is now marred and he
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      699 14/15  - 24-year-old rejected back home over REPORT: NG WAN CHING wanching@sph.com.sg ARECALCITRANTdrugaddict,shehasmadehead-lines in Australia due to the controversies surrounding her need to get a second liver transplant. But 24-year-old Australian Claire Murray is now in Singapore,readytomakenewsagainasthefirstperson heretoundergoasecondlivertransplant. According toAustralian press reports, Ms Murray, a single mother of two, suffered liver damage
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  • Global News watch
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      Lock icon China slams US over human rights, yuan
      238 16 Ties worsening between two giants CHINA slammed US criticism of its human rights and currency policies yesterday. It alleged a campaign of defamation as relations between the two giant powers took another turn for the worse. China rejected a US State Department report
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      98 16 HAMBALI, one of the alleged Bali bomb masterminds, filed a petition on Thursday seeking his release from Guantanamo prison. He has been detained for more than three years. Considered the operational chief of Jemaah Islamiah until his capture in Thailand in 2003, Hambali, whose
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      Lock icon Two suspected militants shot dead in Aceh
      109 16 TWO suspected militants were killed and eight arrested yesterday after a gunfight in Aceh province. The Indonesian police have been carrying out counter-terror-ism raids since last month. A police source told an AFP correspondent at the scene that the gunfight started when police
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      Lock icon Ground Zero workers in $915m settlement deal
      104 16 MORE than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York’s Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totalling US$657 million ($915 million) for health problems. On Thursday, the head of an insurance company that was funded with federal dollars to
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      475 18 Court told he fathered 6 children with them because he wanted AMAN described as “depraved” chose to father children with his daughters as he believed that only he would be able to create a “pure bloodline”. Aswad Ayinde, 51, has been charged with raping five of his daughters and making
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      Lock icon BURIED alive for 54 hours
      328 20 WHAT: Massive landslide WHERE: Shaanxi Province, China WHEN: Wednesday TOLL: 27 dead THE siblings held on for 54 hours after a massive landslide buried them when it hit their hometown in Shaanxi, China. Surprised rescue workers, who had all but given up hope, heard faint
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      575 24/25 Tension expected to mount as more protesters ROSES are being handed out, songs are being sung and some Thais were wearing T-shirts saying“ThaisLove Peace”. But as the sea of red-shirted protesters gather in the streets of Bangkok, Thailand, these celebratory scenes are an ominous sign that of a calm before
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      Lock icon China women perform public stroptease to snare husbands
      225 26 SOMEmightcallitcreative.Otherswouldslamitas sheer desperation after a group of women in Guangzhou, China, handed out leaflets and strippedtotheirunderwearinapublicitystuntaimed atsnagginghusbands. The women, aged between 25 to 30 years old, donned masquerade-type masks and did their act nearthecrowdedXiaobeistation. One of them cooed to passers-by: “Please pay
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      17 16 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL: Thunderstorms High32˚,Low25˚ Jakarta: Thunderstorms High33˚,Low26˚ Bangkok: Sunny High34,Low27˚ Manila: Thunderstorms High32˚,Low27˚
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      126 24/25 parkcentral AMK Limited units available! Visit our showflat now! Ang Mo Kio Street 51 Hotline: 6451 8002 Website: www.parkcentral.com.sg Park Central @AMK is a prestigious DBSS public housing project in the heart of Ang Mo Kio New Town. Complete with condominium-style ambience and facilities including themed precinct pavillions, an exclusive
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      418 27 FROM READER MARIETTA KOH IREFER to the Father Figures column “Teach Kids toRespectMaids”(TheNewPaper,7Mar). We are indeed raising whole generations of kids who have been waited on hand and foot by maids, and it is no wonder they are growing up to be brats. What is
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      276 27 THETIPPING POINT FROM READER ARTHUR LIM IREFERtothereport“Didyouknow?Ownerskeep servicecharge”(TheNewPaperonSunday,7Mar). Since the service charge was introduced years ago, those in the industry have known that in many cases, it hasbeenpartoftheestablishments’revenue. Some restaurant chains and owners give all kinds of excuses to justify this. It seems to be a lame
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      203 27 FROM READER LE MINH KY AFTER11/2yearasahospitalitystudentandwaiting almost two months for a work permit, I am now working as a trainee waiter at a restaurant in Changi Village. There is a 10 per cent service charge applied for bills at the restaurant. It is sad
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      36 27 FROM READER NG TEE CHEONG A DIFFERENT ANGLE: Aman pulling a stroller along Havelock Road on Mondaywith only half the wheels touching the ground. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      236 27 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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      20 28/29  -  REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg A TNP DESIGN: PRADIP KUMAR SIKDAR TNP PICTURE: GAVIN FOO
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        555 30  -  BMW’sS1000RRcould spark a bike revolution ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg WHAT’S the big deal with BMW’s latest 1,000cc sportsbike, the S1000RR? After all it’s just another in-line four cylinder motorcycle. You could also argue that compared to the big four Japanese companies (Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha), which
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        293 32  -  SonyVaioS Series PRICE: Starts at $1,999 G adgetGUY REPORT: EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg UTTER the Vaio name in the presence of geeks, and you’ll instantly conjure up the image of laptops that look as good as they work. Sony’slatestSSerieslineisnodifferent. Developed as an all-rounder for both personal and
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        309 32  -  Gadget GAL REPORT: DOLORES TAY doltay@sph.com.sg “PRETTY”isnot aword you’d commonly use to describe a laptop. But that was the first word that came to mind when I laid eyes on the pretty-in-mint test set. The latest addition to the Sony Vaio family, the S Series
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        90 32 Creative HS-930i PRICE: $149 Designed specifically for the iPhone, the HS-930i pulls double duty as earphones and a hands-free kit. It features tiny 6mm micro-drivers, which not only allow the earpieces to be lighter and more compact, but places them closer in your ears for better
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        102 32 Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 PRICE: To be confirmed The DMC-G2isPanasonic’s latestentrant into the increasingly popular Micro Four Thirds System segment. Featuring a 3-inch touchscreen display, the G2 is also being touted as the first in its class to offer touch-control shooting.All youneed todo toengagethe G2’sintelligent
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        87 32 SonyXperia Pureness PRICE: $798 Whenitcomesto minimalistchic, Sony’s latest candybar format phone is hard to beat. Itfeaturesthe world’sfirst transparent LCDscreen, which displays text and graphics on a screen that you can see right through. The keypad, which sports numbers that are lit up, disappear when
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      301 31 PICTURE: STARHUB CABLETV WATCH ’EM Trick Or Cheat (above) Star Chinese Movies (StarHubCh62),9pm Facing one final hurdle before graduating high school, a group of students decides to cheat on a critical public examination. Starring William Chan, James Ho. CHANNEL 5 Noon OurMakan Places:Lost And Found 12.30pm GPRacing– On Track 1.00
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      72 40 Be part of a dynamic multi-media company Main board-listed Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) is Southeast Asia's leading media organisation, engaging minds and enriching lives across multiple languages and platforms. It publishes 17 newspaper titles in four languages and close to 100 magazine titles in Singapore and the region. Every
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      58 43 Career Guide 2010 is available at Borders, Kinokuniya, MPH, Times, Times Newslink, Page One, Harris, Prologue, Popular, Giant, NTUC FairPrice, Buzz Draw 1 will be held on 1 Mar 2010 and Draw 2 on 15 Apr 2010. One Sony Vaio W laptop will be given away in each lucky draw.
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      406 44  - Starfilly’sMerlionTrophy win gives champ Saimee first winner ofnew season TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg ONE beaten run does not make her a bad horse. In fact, it made champion owner Jupiter Stable’s Mexican Rose spot-on to bounce back in style in Race 7 last night to capture the $200,000 Merlion Trophy.
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY’S SINGAPORE (POLYTRACK) RESULTS
      405 44 GOING: GOOD Race1 C5D*****m 3 SUNDAZZLE57c54(76-19) SHLow* (5) 6 4 1 (463) 6 CASINOROYALE56c55(50-17) AlanNg (2) 2 2 2 (494) 0.75 5 SURELIMIT56.5c55.5(24-8) MKellady (7) 3 3 3 (519) 0.5 2 GLORYKNIGHT57c55(41-11) MEwe* (3) 5 5 4 (484) 1.75 10 HONEST55c53(16-7) EAslam (9) 9 8 5
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      190 45 RACE 1: 11 Smiles All Round 8 That’s Me 4 Knight Greg RACE 2: 11 Secret Attire 4 Ace Aguero 1 Inner Sanctum RACE 3:5 Royal Beauty THESE horses have won or placed on soft or heavy tracks: RACE 1: Shadow Wind, Knight Greg, Best Quality, Aggressive, That’s Me, Smiles
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      1919 46 / 47 TIPS AND COMMENTS COURTESY OF AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS AND MATT NOWLAND(ASCOT) RACE 1 Flemington (1,600m) 1 DAO DAO (M,W&J Hawkes) 6g (16:7-5-1): Runner-up both outings this prep at Gr2 and Gr1 level respectively incl lg hd 2nd (58.5kg) Rangirangdoo 1200m R'hill Expressway Stks heavy trk 6 Feb and 23/4 len
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      1060 46 / 47 12:10Race1 FLEMINGTON 1600M 1 DAODAO SWARNOLD (3) 58 2 VIGOR GBOSS (4) 57 3 DOCTORFREMANTLE DDUNN (7) 57 4 LORDTAVISTOCK JLWADDELL (6) 57 5 RIGHTFULLYYOURS CNEWITT (2) 56 6 RAFFAELLO SRKING (8) 55 7 LIFETOTHEFULL GMURPHY (1) 55 8 HISSINGSID BMELHAM (5) 55 9 LEICALARRIKIN MPEGUS
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      266 46 / 47 FIRST-UP winner Flying Cat geared up for back-to-backwinsin tomorrow’sGildedDome Handicap for Class 4 horses over 1,100m in Race 9 with a one-round workout in Penang yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the three-year-old Australian gelding by Tale Of The Cat cantered one round on the sand track and pulled
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    • Sports Formula One
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        333 48 / 49 GOLF AP TIGER Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans said. Woods has been practising at Isleworth near his Orlando home the last two weeks, and swing coach Hank Haney flew there
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        688 48 / 49  -  ERNEST LUIS npsports@sph.com.sg EXPECT a Red Bull to wreak havocinFormulaOne’schina shop this year. That’s my early prediction for this year’s F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing. With all the attention surrounding the McLaren versus Mercedes (all-England v all-Ger-many) rivalry, it’s easy
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        567 48 / 49  -  STARSports’guestcommentatorand ex-Formula One driver ALEX YOONG tells ERNESTLUIShispicksforthisyear’sworld champion and the team champions ALEX YOONG, ERNEST LUIS ERNEST:We knowit’s too early to make a straight prediction for thisyear’sdrivers’ world title, butwe’ll askyou anyway.Who’s your tip to be F1 world champion? ALEXYOONG: I’mgoingtonarrowitdowntoabattle between Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
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        607 48 / 49 We ask Singapore Pools to clarify last year’skeyincidents that affected Formula One punters here in case there are repeats in the new season this year 2009 Australian Grand Prix: JARNO Trulli finished third on the podium but was demoted after an appeal by McLaren after the race. Lewis
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        407 50 FORMULAONE GERMANY’S Nico Rosberg stayed ahead of team-mate Michael Schumacher to put Mercedes on top of the timesheets in practice yesterday for the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. After compatriot Adrian Sutil had stolen some of the returning seven-time champion’s limelight in the first session with the quickest time for Mer-cedes-powered
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        16 50  - SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ npsports@sph.com.sg A GEYLANG UNITED 1 (Tomko72) BEIJINGGUO’AN3 (Tan Tiancheng 28,52, Zhang Xizhe 90+3)
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      466 52 Spurstorule FACT:It’s almost 300kmfromEwood ParktoLondon’s WhiteHart Lane.And Blackburnknow thatit’s nevereasy taking points fromTottenham. TEAMNEWS:Blackburncan’t complain.Theyhave afull set of playersto choosefrom.Tottenham will miss theirbig man,Huddlestone. MATCHGUIDE: Tottenham, beingsuch a forceat home,will go for that earlygoalwhich will have Blackburn backpeddling.GoHome-Home. LAST3EPL MATCHES: Tottenham(Home) WDW. Boltonhaveedge Blackburn(Away) DL L. LASTSEASON’S
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        28 54 BRIAN MILLER STRIKE CARD HITS 593 GARY LIM STRIKE CARD HITS 565 ERIC DING STRIKE CARD HITS 557 JAMES EASTHAM STRIKE CARD HITS 538
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        985 54 BRIAN MILLER Liverpool to clear 1/2-Goal hurdle LISTEN, do you want to know a secret? So sangLiverpool’s FabFour manydecadesago. Well, this is no secret. Indeed, this is a no-brainer. Portsmouth will make that long trip to Anfield for nothing. Yes, if I were Avram Grant, I would be
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        979 56  - JAMES EASTHAM Special Correspondent The writer is a freelancer. HULLvARSENAL (Take Arsenal on 1/2-Goal) FORthe neutrals, it’s great toseeArsenal finally enjoyingadecent spellofform.Arsene Wenger’syoungsters deservesome silverware, and should continue their EPL title challenge by beating a Hull side caught up in a relegation battle. SamirNasri was outstandingin theGunners’ 5-0winagainst Porto in
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        857 57  -  FROM THE GROUND ERIC DING npsports@sph.com.sg The writer is a freelancer. IT IS back to Stamford Bridge for West Ham manager Gianfranco Zola and the signs are ominous for his side. Chelsea are second and chasing for the title while West Ham sit
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        396 60 JUVENTUS 3 (Legrottaglie 9, Zebina 25, Trezeguet 45+3) FULHAM 1 (Etuhu 36) Wire Services PRIOR to Fulham’s Europa League round-of-16 clash with Juventus, their manager Roy Hodgson said their ongoing best ever European foray was“beyondour dreams”. But the challenge posed to them by European giants
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        230 60 Wire Services FULHAM manager Roy Hodgson was disappointed by his side’s lacklustre defending that gave Juventus a 3-1 victory, but insists it can fight back to reach the next stage of the Europa League. Hodgson (left) insists his team can still reach the quarter-finals, but
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        185 60 ATLETICOMADRID 0 SPORTINGLISBON 0 SPORTING Lisbon had defenders Leandro Grimi and Tonel sent off and yet Atletico Madrid failed to capitalise on their extended spells of possession. Sporting coach Carlos Carvalhal complained about the refereeing at the final whistle but is convinced his side will still
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        655 61  -  SARA ANN K HER BLOG npsports@sph.com.sg THERE’S a saying, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. It always leaves me a bit sad. It remindsmeoffairweatherfriends,ofusersand abusers, of people who just take, of divided loyalties. Many fellow Liverpool fans have been very disheartened by
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        690 64/65  -  COMMENT DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg IF ANYONE has an axe to grind with the national football coach Radojko Avramovic, it would be me, for the 60-year-old Serb never replies to my SMS-es. Personal grievances aside, I do feel Raddy is the man to lead Singapore football
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        668 66 Wire Services MANNY Pacquiao may be renowned the world over for his prowess in the boxing ring, but the sweet science isn’t all the Filipino is good at. The Pacman dabbles in politics, film-making, acting and music when he’s not beating opponents into
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        27 67 RBS 6 NATIONS Tonight: IRELAND v WALES StarHub TV Ch 22,10.30pm Tomorrow: SCOTLAND v ENGLAND StarHub TV Ch 22,1am FRANCE v ITALY StarHub TV Ch 22,10.30pm
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        28 67 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX Today: QUALIFYING StarHub TV Ch 24,6.50pm Tomorrow: PREVIEW StarHub TV Ch 24,7pm RACE DAY StarHub TV Ch 24,7.45pm CHEQUERED FLAG StarHub TV Ch 24,9.45pm
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        647 67 WHAT'S ON BLUKBS FIXTURES LOCAL EVENTS HOCKEY What:SHFU-21 Championships When: Today Where: Sengkang Stadium THE SHF U-21 Championships will culminate today at the Sengkang Stadium. Singapore Recreation Club will be defending their title against a talented and equally determined Jansenites side in the girls’final,which willbegin at 5pm.The boys teams from
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      606 68  -  FRANK MALLEY Chief Writer, PA Sport NOBODYdoesitbetter.No one in the history of football delivers a headlinequitelikeDavid Beckham. Getting sent off at the crucial stage of a World Cup quarter-final. Getting in the way of a flying boot kicked by Sir Alex Ferguson.
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