The New Paper, 10 April 2010

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1 72 The New Paper
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    13 1 the new paper April 10 2010 st a 70 CENTS MICA (P) 117/01/2010
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      39 1 Why Messi has both feet planted on ground PAGE 64 Oh, brother April 10 2010 st a PHUKET YOUTH FIGHTS FOR LIFE AFTER JET-SKI CRASH S’pore victim and two friends on jet skis collide 200m from shore PAGE 2
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      23 1 PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS SENTOSA COVE DEATH Victim’s cousin asks: Why was she in pool when she can’t swim? PAGE 14 *****1
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      Lock icon S'POREAN IN PHUKET JET-SKI CRASH Friends find him floating, unconscious
      901 2  -  20-year-old (right) now in critical condition REPORT: PEARLY TAN AND VEENA BHARWANI tnp@sph.com.sg DON’Tcrash.The jet-ski operators in Phuket said this to the fiveyoungSingaporeanmenbeforetheyheadedouttoseaonseparatejetskis. Buttragedydidstrike. Threeofthejetskiscollidedabout200mfromshore andallthreeriderswereflungintothewater. While his two friends escaped unscathed, Mr Loh YingJie,20,wasnotsofortunate. HeisnowfightingforhislifeattheSingaporeGeneralHospital(SGH)wherehe’sincriticalconditionatthe NeuroscienceIntensiveCareUnit. At the hospital
      PICTURES: LIANHE WANBAO; PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO  -  901 words
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      Lock icon Go slow and safe on jet skis
      298 4  -  REPORT: VEENA BHARWANI veenab@sph.com.sg DON’Tgo too fastanddon’t get tooboisterouswhen jet skiing. Three jet-ski operators gave this advice to beginners who might not be aware how dangerous this activity can be. Mr AndrewChua, 43, owner of JetskiSafari which runs several water sports facilities in
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      Lock icon Arrest warrant, Interpol alert issued
      232 6  -  Romanian ex-diplomat in hit-and-run case VIVIEN CHAN HE HAS been named as the driver of the car that sped through two traffic junctions on Dec 15 last year, leaving one dead and two injured. And now, Dr Silviu Ionescu (right), 49, currently in Romania, is
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      Lock icon Free NTUC insurance for needy families
      102 6 SOME 13,000 needy families with young children stand to benefit from a free insurance scheme. To qualify, the children must be receiving childcare, kindergarten and student care subsidies under Comcare. Coverage will automatically be extended to them, so the families need not apply. Called
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      Lock icon PIE shut down for 4 hours after fatal pile-up
      89 6 A FOUR-VEHICLE accident yesterday afternoon along the PIE towards Tuas left two men dead. The accident happened around 3.25pm, near the Pioneer Road exit. It involved a motorcycle, a prime mover and two lorries. The motorcyclist and one of the lorry
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      Lock icon Demerit point system to flag repeat fire safety offenders
      108 6 BUSINESS operators who repeatedly flout fire safety rules will not get off lightly, said the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) at its annual work plan seminar yesterday. SCDF will introduce a demerit point system to track and flag these repeat offenders
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      780 8/9  -  Do speculators play a role in driving up prices for COEs? REPORT:BRYNA BRYNA SIM, DANSON CHEONG tnp@sph.com.sg HIS advertisement in the local papers raves: Why wait for a further price increase? Get your COE today! Open category COE available for immediate transfer. Price negotiable! He’s 57 and has been
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      Lock icon Race between buyers, sellers and speculators
      460 8/9 LEG1:1990–1995 May 1990 and the cars are off! The Government introduces Certificates of Entitlement (COE) to control vehicle population. The vehicle population growth rate is targeted at 3 per cent annually.Demand for COEs is high. Prices creep up. Some car dealers hold on to
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      Lock icon Alleged S'pore loan-shark boss nabbed in M'sia
      488 12  -  REPORT: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg YOUcan runbutyoucan’t hide. From a lead following an islandwide crackdown on loan sharking activities in January, police arrested a 35-year-old Singaporean Chinese man in Johor Baru early yesterday morning. He is believed to be the loan shark towkay (boss)
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        818 14/15  -  Family members sell land, borrow money to fly here to claim body REPORT:HOLIAN-YI HO LIAN-YI lianyi@sph.com.sg THEmysteryoftheSentosaCovebungalowdeathdeepens.OnMarch24,thenakedbodyofChinesenational Li Hong Yan, 24, was found in the lap pool of the upscaleresidentialestate. But it appears that she had no reason to be in the
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      Lock icon FAR-FETCHED, ILLOGICAL, INCONSISTENT
      1017 16  -  NUS HOSTEL DEATH Police officer points out contradictions intestimonybyvictim’sfriend REPORT: CHONG SHIN YEN chongsy@sph.com.sg HE WAS with the American student just before his death and was a key witnessatthe coroner’s inquiry. But Mr Jason Ho Zhi Yuan was not a credible witness and his testimony was “riddled
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      Lock icon Answer: BRITISH ACTRESS
      595 18  -  Who voiced this S’pore-accented game character in Just Cause 2? A.S’poreactress B.S’poresinger C.S’poredeejay REPORT:WOO WOO SIAN BOON sbwoo@sph.com.sg WHO’StherealBoloSantosi?This could be the most asked question in cyberspaceatthemomentamonggamers. Bolo Santosi, the villain in a UK-made video game, Just Cause 2, is creating a major buzz online for ingherlinesinwhatsoundsunmistakablylikeaSingaporeanaccent.
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      Lock icon News channel Al Jazeera English moves to M1
      363 20  -  The Qatar-based outfit maysoonbeonM1 mobile phones REPORT: ARUL JOHN anathan@sph.com.sg AL JAZEERA’S English news service will soon be available on M1 mobile phones, the Qa-tar-based news network told The New Paper in an e-mail on Thursday. It said that it “recently launched”
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      57 10 Man jailed for posing as modelling agent to shoot girls in the nude and have sex with them. One victim says: He said sex was part of the ‘training’ for the job THIS EXEC WORKS WITH DEAD PEOPLE FOR A LIVING SPORTS NOON EDITION Thursday, April 15 Wigan v Portsmouth
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      93 12 When you’re at the movies, we want you to send us photos of yourself with your instant reviews. Stand next to the poster of the movie you’ve watched, strike a pose and let your fingers do the rating. One to five fingers one for really poor and five if the
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      Lock icon Asean eyes US, Russia as partners
      221 21 HANOI SUMMIT ASEAN leaders will be studying the proposal of an Asean Plus Eight meeting. It will see the US and Russia meeting the 10 Asean members and sixof the grouping’s dialogue partners on a regular but informal basis. This was revealed by Prime
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      106 21 AFP. CHINA’S vehicle sales jumped 55.8 per cent year-on-year last month to 1.74 million units, setting a new monthly record. The figures were released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. Vehicle sales in the first quarter rose 71.8 per cent from
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      Lock icon Sri Lankan president's alliance claims majority
      101 21 AFP SRI LANKA’S ruling party claimed victory in the parliamentary polls. The results showed it was ahead of the divided opposition but short of a two-thirds majority needed to amend the constitution. With 80 per cent of the ballots counted, President Mahinda Rajapakse’s United
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      Lock icon Six nations agree to further talks on Iran sanctions
      113 21 AFP SIX major powers agreed to further talks on new UN sanctions against Iran as the US and Russia warned Teheran that its continued nuclear defiance would not be tolerated. Envoys of Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany
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      Lock icon No more asylum in Australia for Afghans & Sri Lankans
      96 21 No more asylum in Australia for Afghans Sri Lankans AFP AUSTRALIA stopped accepting new Afghan and Sri Lankan asylum seekers in an attempt to thwart an influx of boat people. Immigration Minister Chris Evans said: “The decision has been made in the light of the changing circumstances in bothSri LankaandAfghanistan.”
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      789 22 / 23 THE Thai army warned yesterday it could use rubber bullets to enforce the state of emergency. Army spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said: “The police and the army need to maintain order in accordance with the law from the use of soft to harsh meansinsevenstepsifprotestersviolate(thedecree).” The seven steps
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      Lock icon No sex, soman flings acid on wife
      415 24 / 25 M’sianmanallegedly attacks wife after she says she has headache HE RETURNED home at 2am on Wednesday and woke his wife up for sex. But he was rebuffed. Angered, the 47-year-old Malaysian rubber plantation owner allegedly splashed acid on his wife. The man was
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      433 27 Damage to genitals responsible for death: medical report AP JUST four days after an arranged marriage, a 13-year-old Yemeni girl died of injuries to her genitals, a human rights group said. The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Yemen
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      Lock icon Teen sues mum for Facebook ‘slander’
      370 28 Shechangesson’s password and posts items after reading his shocking entries AP THE mother of a 16-year-old US boy said she was only being a good mum when she locked him out of his Facebook account. She had read on it that he had driven
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      13 21 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER KL:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low25˚ Jakarta:Thunderstorms High34˚,Low26˚ Bangkok:Cloudy High36˚,Low28˚ Manila:Cloudy High34˚,Low28˚
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      36 29 FROM READER HANS ERLANGGA ABANDONED CARTS: These NTUC shopping carts were left near Block 658D Jurong West Street 65. The coin-operated locks were empty. E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg
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      225 29 FROM READER DARYL TEO ZHE WEI IREFERtotheletter“ScreendoorsatMRT stationsnotdeterrent”(TheNewPaper,2 Apr). I disagree and would like to commend the new initiatives by SMRT. The newly installed screen doors may not prevent suicide attempts entirely, but they will eliminate accidents where commuters unintentionally fall onto the tracks.
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      230 29 FROM READER GOH HOWE SONG FIRST, as a Singaporean, I would like to congratulate Changi Airport for bouncing back to become the World’s Best Airportinthisyear’sSkytraxsurvey. However, it seems that a local budget airline cannot match the airport’sstandards. I took a Tiger Airways flight from Krabi
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      60 29 REV DR JONATHAN SEET PASTOR-IN-CHARGE PAYA LEBAR METHODIST CHURCH WE WOULD like you and your readers to know that the reported activity was not an organised programme of the church. We have spoken to the young people involved and have counselled them to be more
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      149 29 FROM READER ARTHUR LIM I READ with interest the report “Churchyouthsgivetreatsto befriendkids”(TheNewPaper, April 8). There have recently been other reportstooaboutthe“stealth” approach adopted by some evangelists. Some of them even run down other religions. Religion is a private affair and there is no need for stealth
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      59 29 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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      Lock icon CLASH OF MAKDOPJiPMTfliNS S.H.E vs Mayday WHO WILL WIN?
      956 30/31  -  We’llfindoutnextSaturday,whenboth popular Mandopop groups go head to head REPORT:TAN TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg S.H.EversusMayday.TheMandopoptitansgoheadtoheadwithconcertsinSingaporeonApril17. A spokesman for S.H.E’s record label H.I.M International Music told The New Paper that all 8,000 tickets for the concert at the Singapore IndoorStadiumhavebeensold. MaydaywillbeplayingatthenearbyNational Stadium. And
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        266 32  -  We round up the Internet sites or videos that people are talking about Seto Nu-Wen What’sthenoise: THEY’RE calling him the “Taiwanese Susan Boyle”. And aptly so. Lin Yu Chun (above), a cherubic 24-year-old has become an Internet sensation after an appearance on Taiwanese talent show,
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        209 32  -  Seto Nu-Wen What’sthenoise: Netizens are having a good laugh with a new spoof of Lady Gaga’s latest hit video Telephone. The original video, directed by Jonas Akerlund and featuring Beyonce, has been a viral hit, thanks to Gaga’soutlandishcostumes. And this spoof, available on YouTube, lampoons it
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        290 34  -  LG notebook T280 PRICE: $1,099 (without 3G), $1,299 (with 3G) Gadget GUY REPORT: LESTER HIO lesterh@sph.com.sg THEsleekandminimalistde-sign of the T280 is the first thingthatcatchestheeye. “Coollaptop,”mybrothercommented.“Whatbrandisit?” “It’sfromLG,”Ireplied “They make laptops now? Are you sure it’s not a really big handphone?” Jokesaside,LGisstillpredominantly a mobile phone company in many
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        358 34 Gadget GAL REPORT: TAN MAE LYNN maelynn@sph.com.sg LOOKS like a netbook, feels like a netbook but works like a fully-powered laptop. LG has successfully built a capable notebook with the mobility of a netbook. Excellent. When I removed the review set fromthe box,I’d
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        85 34 You could cheekily nickname this smartphone the Whiteberry. It’s basicallytheexact same phone as the Bold 9700, but in an elegant white chassis. It still packs all the goodies of the original 9700, like 3.2-megapixel camera with flash, 3G, Wi-fi and 256MB of internal memory. Ifthe256MB isn’tenough for storing
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        91 34 The X-fi Style is the latest portable multimedia player from Creative to feature its X-fi technology. Thismeans that when you play music on it, the X-fi feature intelligently restores detail that is lost during file compression, giving you much better sound quality. It plays movies as well,
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        69 34 Sony’s newestCyber-shot is one of those cameras youshouldreach forif you’reofffor aholiday by the beach or at the pool. Just 18mm thick, Sonyistoutingthe TX5 astheworld’sthinnest underwater camera. It can go 3m underwater, is shockproof for dropsfrom1.5mand will still keepclicking in -10degC temperatures. This 10.6-megapixel shooter also features a
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        688 36  -  With pump prices rising, Biker Boy gives you tips on how to make every drop of fuel count ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg UNLESS your father owns an oil well, every drop of petrol counts. Stretching your fuel dollar always becomes a priority every time pump prices
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        274 49  -  TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg JOCKEY Joao Moreira achieved a milestone in his short Kranji career last night. The 26-year-old Brazilian, who has “Magic” as his middle name, rode his 100th winner when he steered Sky Knight to win a thrilling three-way finish in Race 4, the Initiation
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        81 49 KLTRACKWORK FIGHTER JET looks ready for tomorrow’s RM600,000 ($258,000) Selangor Gold Cup over 1,600m in Race 8. Yesterday, the stout-looking son of Jetball just cantered one round on the sand track but looked in terrific shape. The going was good. Fighter Jet has eight wins, six
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      167 51  -  LIMSAY HENG THE SINGAPORE Sports Council’s (SSC) audit team also visited SAA’s headquarters yesterday morning for a follow-up audit. This came after the an earlier SSC audit of the association revealed 10 “high-risk” areas, which the SAA said it would rectify. “SAA and SSC had a constructive
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        680 52/53 Woods shows he still has the confidence and his swing AP TIGERWoodsmighthavelosthismoralcompass.Buthisswinghasn’tgoneanywhere. He struck what might have been the most pressure-packed shot of his career off the first tee, then hit his approach shot 12 metres left of the hole this as a
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        542 52/53 Reuters PLAYING The Champions Tour has made Fred Couples feel like a kid again and on Thursday the 50-year-old had a bounce in his step as he fired a 66 to lead the US Masters after the first round. The 1992 champion notched seven
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        193 52/53 JAPAN’STetsujiHiratsukaproducedanother sterling performance to open up a commanding five-shot lead after the second round of the Air Bagan Myanmar Open yesterday. Hiratsuka posted a sizzling seven-un-der-par 65 for a two-day total of 15-un-der-par 129 in the US$300,000 ($420,000) event, which is making a return on the
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        536 54  -  DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg THE BALL and me. This is the footballing philosophy the Football Association of Singapore (FAS) hopes to inculcate in the next generation of footballers. It comes with the launch of the National Football Syllabus aimed at arresting the “big problem” young
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        229 54  -  DAVIDLEE OUT WITH the standard 4-4-2, and bring on the more dynamic 4-3-3. This is what FAS technical director Slobodan Pavkovic hopes will make Singapore football more attractive to watch, even at youth levels. He said: “As you can see (from the diagram), the 4-3-3 is flexible.
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        230 55  -  DAVID LEE DON’T belittle these 20 Basic Moves and 6 Juggling Levels like I did. Inspired by Dutch coaches Wiel Coerver and the late Rinus Michels, these skill challenges are designed to “create excellent ball and body control”, while being fun, practical and achievable. Under the
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        652 55  -  TAMPINES0 HOME0 S-LEAGUE SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ npsports@sph.com.sg HEADINGinto last night’s game, Home United defender Shariff Samat spoke of how nervous he was feeling. After all, he would be playing against his former team Tampines Rovers for the first time since swapping clubs last December. For the better
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        258 56/57  -  –LIMSAYHENG SOUTH-EAST Asia is one of the most active regions at present when it comes to interest in grassroots football, says Fifa Grassroots Coordinator Jorge Diaz-Cidoncha Garcia. Garcia, who was here last month for the Fifa Grassroots Proactive course, added that almost every country
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        114 56/57  -  –LIMSAYHENG LAUNCHED last September, Fifa’s Grassroots programme aims to promote football among 6 to 12-year-olds. The programme is designed to help the various football associations provide football coaching and increase participation among the age-group, in conjunction with their respective governments and schools. The emphasis of the
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        905 58 TOP OF THE TIPS TakeManCity on allfronts HAVINGsaid that,I hopeit doesn’t comeback tobite mein the posterior.After all, ManchesterCityhaven’t been amostreliable teamas faras thepunters areconcerned. Whenthey’regood,they canbe very,very good– aswesaw last week. Butwhenthey’re bad, theycanbe vomit. However,I don’t seehow things cango wrongwhen theyentertain Birmingham. Everythingpoints to aManCity win– and
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        706 60  -  FROM THE GROUND ERIC DING npsports@sph.com.sg HULL City entertain fellow strugglers Burnley with both sides desperate for a win to boost their survival hopes. There is plenty at stake and the winners of this clash will edge closer towards survival while the losers will
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        987 62 TheNewPaper’sfootballanalystTOHARIPAIJANtells CHUA SIANG YEEwho he prefers and why Name: Lionel Andres Messi Age: 22 Nationality: Argentine Position: Forward Current Club: Barcelona NOTABLE HONOURS Individual: Ballond’Or (2009) Fifa World Player of the Year (2009)
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        211 63 THERE is no denying that there is plenty at stake. Real Madrid and Barcelona are locked on 77 points at the top of La Liga, with Real Madrid leading on goal difference. However, Barcelona will overtake Real Madrid with just a draw, by virtue of a
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        182 63 REAL Madrid are without Kaka while Barcelona will have to deal with the absence of Zlatan Ibrahimovicfortonight’s El Clasico. Kaka hasn’t played since March 10 due to a thigh problem but Real have coped well without the eight-goal Brazilian, who hasn’t exactly set
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        483 63  -  Real striker has the firepower to silence La Liga title rivals DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg AFTERBarcelona’s stupendous performances against Arsenal, there is not a football fan not in awe of the Catalan giants at the moment. With Lionel Messi in top form, Barcelona look like the best
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