The New Paper, 19 August 2010

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1 76 The New Paper
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    11 1 the new paper THURSDAY AUG 19 70 CENTS MICA (P) 117/01/2010
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      49 1 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES S’pore swimmer Rainer Ng grabs silver ‘I missed gold by this much’ PAGE 74 TNP PICTURE: KELVIN CHNG HILTON DEATH FALL LOST, DRUNK CONFUSED Groom was Father skips coroner’s inquiry. Sister and friends sob as videos of his last moments are played in court PAGE 2
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      17 1 Hit by food poisoning, but YOG volunteers, staff carry on PAGE 8 "*****1 *****1 THURSDAY AUG 19
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      Lock icon Cameras capture his final moments
      386 2/3 Coroner's inquiry into Hilton death fall 2.30am: While his wife removes her make-up and washes up in the toilet, a drunk Mr Vernon Leong Jun Wei, clad in singlet and shorts, gets up from bed. He goes to the toilet but urinates into the bathtub
      TNP INFOGRAPHICS: CELESTINO GULAPA and FADZIL HAMZAH  -  386 words
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      Lock icon Sister cries in court as video clips are played
      644 2/3  -  REPORTS:AMANDAYONG AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg FOR close to half an hour, all eyes were riveted on the portable white screen that stood on one side of the darkened courtroom. As each video clip was played, state counsel Terence Chua gave a description
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      Lock icon Couple’s niche draws strangers
      706 4  -  REPORT: ELYSA CHEN elysac@sph.com.sg SINCE their deaths, the relatives of Mr Vernon Leong and Ms Kerin Peh have been visiting the niche. But they are not the only ones to do so. Apparently, strangers have also been visiting the couple’snicheattheChengHongSiangTngtempleat Arumugam Road in Ubi, too. Their
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  • News Embassy Car Hit & Run
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      Lock icon Victim wins civil suit against Ionescu
      827 6/7  -  REPORT:LEDIATI REPORT:LEDIATI TAN and SHREE ANN MATHAVAN tnp@sph.com.sg A VICTIM allegedly knocked down by Romanian Silviu Ionescu has won the first civil suit filed against the former diplomat. The High Court, in a default judgment on Aug 12, ruled that Ionescu pay Mr Bong
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      7 6/7 YOG organisers act to fix ticketing frustration
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  • News Youth Olympics 2010
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      Lock icon Volunteers carried on despite their pain
      528 8  -  Some members of YOG workforce hit by food poisoning after eating catered food over weekend REPORT: BRYNA SIM brynasim@sph.com.sg THEY put on brave smiles for the athletes. But what they really wanted was to go to the bathroom– fast. Twenty-one members of the Youth
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      Lock icon Complaints over food at Olympic village
      277 8  -  Benson Ang, Pearly Tan THE food served at the Youth Olympic Village at Nanyang Technological University has also come under fire from several quarters. The New Paper has learned that several complaints have been lodged about the quality of food at the Village and
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      286 9 This series is brought to you by East Asia Institute of Management Culturalmelting pot makesmixing fun I (Clockwisefromleft)MsYangXiaoQiandMrWongHeanHao,lecturersatEASB,withtheirstudentsMrLinNan andMissCherryMok. SOMEforeign studentsinSingapore may findit difficulttoadaptto the culturehere. Butnot forthose studyingat theEast Asia Instituteof Management(EASB). Theschoolisa cultural meltingpot and thelecturers and students helptomakeeveryone, regardless of nationality, feelwelcome. TakeChinese nationalLin Nan, 20. Whenhefirst
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      Lock icon Companies should consult workers earlier
      239 10 REHIRING OLDER WORKERS A SURVEY by the National Trades Union Congress of 100 unionised companies has found that more needs to be done about re-employment consultation before a worker reaches 62. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office Lim Boon Heng said that close to half
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      Lock icon MRT service disruptions for two weekends next month
      112 10 UP TO 400,000 commuters may be affected by service disruptions next month because of modifications at the Jurong East train station. There will be no train services between the Jurong East and Clem- enti stations on the East-West Line on Sept 4
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      Lock icon COEs fall on weak demand in latest bidding exercise
      107 10 DESPITE a smaller supply that kicked in this month, all but one certificate of entitlement (COE) premiums ended lower at the latest tender yesterday. The COE for cars up to 1,600cc fell to $29,000 from $32,104 two weeks ago. COE for
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      Lock icon Mentor plan for jobless workers to be expanded
      99 10 A MENTORING programme for jobless white-collar workers has worked out so well that its organiser will be increasing the intake by 50 per cent. Yesterday, the Northeast Com- munity Development Council (CDC) said that it would raise the intake of the second
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      Lock icon Vandal Fricker's jail term extended by two months
      99 10 SWISS vandal Oliver Fricker has been slapped with two more months in jail for a total of seven months. The prosecution had fought for a heavier sentence against him for trespassing the SMRT Changi Depot. The 32-year-old had also vandalised two train
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      Lock icon $2,400 bag goes missing at restaurant
      710 12  -  Woman also loses iPhone and $1,000 wallet REPORT: GERALDINE YEO geryeo@sph.com.sg SHE checked her mobile phone every 20 minutes during the 11/2-hour dinner at an upscale Japanese restaurant. Her phone was in her Miu Miu designer handbag hanging behind her chair. As the dinner
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    • News Youth Olympics 2010
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        606 13  -  Homestay stint gives Canadian family insight into local life REPORT: MELANIE CHU melchu@sph.com.sg THEY came to Singapore to support theirdaughter,whoisinCanada’sbasketball team for the Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Thanks to a homestay programme by the High Commission of Canada, they will leave with a deeper appreciation
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        Lock icon What other embassies are doing
        252 13 OTHER embassies here have also been busy putting out the welcome mat for YOG athletes and their families. IBritain The British High Commission held a pre-dinner reception on Aug 13 at Eden Hall, the British HighCommissioner’s residence, forBritain’s athletesand their families. It also gave its
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      214 14 Domestic spending and external demand up Bernama THE Malaysian economy grew by 8.9 per cent in the second quarter, fuelled by strong domestic and external demand. In comparison, the country’s economy shrank by 3.9 per cent during the same period last year. Bank Negara
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      100 14 AFP THE European Union (EU) nearly doubled its aid to flood-stricken Pakistan to 70 million euros (S$120 million) yesterday and announced a trip by its top aid official. European humanitarian aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva announced that she would travel to the affected
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      Lock icon US bankruptcy filings exceed 400,000
      83 14 Reuters A SLOWING economy and high unemployment pushed US bankruptcy filings to their highest level since 2005, according to government records. The Administrative Office of the US Courts said filings numbered 422,061 between April and June. “Weknowthecausesof bankruptcyareprincipally job losses and health care, with the
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      Lock icon 27 freed in Nato raid on Taleban prison
      89 14 AFP AFGHAN and Nato forces raided a secret prison run by the Taleban in southern Afghanistan, freeing 27 inmates and killing 13 people including five prisoners, officials said yesterday. terday. The militants had been holding abducted aid workers and people affiliated with
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      416 15 Malaysia’sChinesecommunityonNewEconomicModel: MALAYSIA’S Chinese community has not taken to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s New Economic Model (NEM). Sixty-one per cent of the respondents to a survey commissioned by the Associated Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Malaysia (ACCCIM) has said that they would not
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      Lock icon Apple to launch iPad mini?
      216 15 IS ANOTHER tablet along the lines of the iPad on the way? Taiwan’sChinese-languageEconomicDaily News has reported that the 7-inch touchscreen will be ready for launch by the end of the year. The Economic Daily News was among the first to correctly report that Apple was
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      343 16 BBC weatherman fails to predict when camera will be on him And now for the weather... VIEWERS of the BBC News Channel had a rude shock on Monday morning when they were surprised by a live shot of the weatherman making an obscene gesture.
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      301 16 £ISSoBa £ysderhaca ISHE amodern-day RobinHood? A 42-year-oldman from Southamptonwalked into aBarclays Bank branchin south-eastEngland and askedtheterrified staff member theretohand over themoney. Hetold themthat he isheavily armedand would nothesitate tokill. The man,who was notnamed, got ameasly £1,600 (S$3,400). Butinsteadofrunning away,he walkedabout 5mand did something bizarre,the
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      587 17 US MUM ALLEGEDLY STRANGLES KIDS IN THIS MOTEL AP BROKE,joblessandbe-rated by her mother for her failings, Shaquan Duley allegedly killed her young sons, then strapped their lifeless bodies into their car seats before rolling the vehicle into a South Carolina river in a
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      Lock icon Will the real Beethoven please stand up?
      400 19 US teens surveyed think composer Beethoven is a dog and artist Michelangelo is a virus AFP MOSTyoungAmericansenteringuniversitythisyear can’t write in cursive, think e-mail is too slow,thatBeethoven’sadogandMichelangelo a computer virus, according to an annual list compiledbytwoacademicsataUScollege. Beethoven is an 18th century German composer and
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      17 14 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER I KL:Thunderstorms High31˚,Low23˚ I Jakarta:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low25˚ I Bangkok:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low26˚ I Manila:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low26˚
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      227 20 FROM READER STEVEN NG HOOLIGAN HAWKERS I WAS at the market at Block 210, Toa Payoh Lorong 8 for dinner with my family at about 8pm on Aug 10. A man and a woman from a drinks stall near where we were seated approached us anddemanded
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      51 20 FROM READER RASYDAN AZMAN BREAKING BREAD: Our reader spotted delivery men picking up trays of bread which may have fallen off their vehicle while making a turn along Admiralty Road on Aug 18. I E-mail pictures totnpclick@sph.com.sgandtell us whereandwhen they were taken. Please include your full name and contact
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      Lock icon Stricter checks on worker housing
      179 20 FROM READER YAP NGIM CHOON IREFERtothereport,“Aterribleplaceto live”(TheNewPaper,Aug17). I am appalled by the total disregard for the regulations on the housing of foreign workers. How can anyone be so cruel as to place human beings in such a filthy and uninhabitable environment? I cannot believe that
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      92 21 WIN PREMIUMS FROM THE EXPENDABLES, STEP UP 3D, CITY UNDER SIEGE AND MORE WE KNOW MOVIES ALL ABOUT THEIBUTISTHEEXPENDABLE LADIES?WHY IT’S BEEN CALLED THE MANLIEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME. BLESREALLY... BUT IS THE EXPENDABLES REALLY... PLUS SYLVESTER STALLONE ON WHYMEWAS JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME WASEROUN EXPENDABLE THIS TIME ROUND... CIRQUE DU
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  • WE KNOW MOVIES FIRST
    • FIRSTFEATURE
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        1013 22 / 23  -  SylvesterStallone’snewensembleactionspectacleTheExpendables hasbeencalledtheultimateguyflick,butit’sthegirlswhoreignsupreme JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph .com .sg The Expendables is being trumpeted as The Manliest Movie Of All Time. The most notable action icons and tough guys of the past30 years SylvesterStallone,Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger– have joinedforcesto kickbutt, take names,
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        171 22 / 23 Sylvester Stallone is setting the bar for the retirement age for action heroes. At 64, the senior citizen is still loading up his gun and firing away, taking his fellow ageing peers along for the ride. Perhaps he has created a new genre: The geriatric action film. Besides
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        Lock icon Sylvester Stallone doesn't believe in using special effects to enhance himself or his movies.
        1263 24 / 25 So why not assemble a crew of action veterans in The Expendables to prove that old-school muscles can still be cool? He’soften ridiculed for hismachismoand for doing only action flicks. His Mr Universe-like body sure points
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        316 24 / 25  -  Jason Johnson Jet Li, Bruce Willis, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren. It seems like every tough guy in the universe has beencast inSylvester Stallone’s The Expendables. Unfortunately, for every awesome action hero who isinthe movie, there’sanother awesomeaction hero whoisn’t. So who had the nerve
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        868 29  -  JONATHAN ROBERTS Themovieworld doesn’tjust love books, it devours them. Whetherit’s theBible, The Da Vinci Code or Twilight, filmmakers know that a big-selling book can make an even bigger-selling movie. The number of films based on novels is staggering, many of them successful. The book’sfanbase provides an inbuilt audience,
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    • FIRSTBITES
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        75 26 KristenBellisbecoming amother on thebig screen, at least. In what is probably a bid to ditch her usual sweet-girl-looking-for-love stereotype, Bell will play an overbearing mother who enrols her obese 10-year-old daughter in dance classes. The dark comedy, Dance Of The Mirlitons, is said to be
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        Lock icon SNEAK PEEK
        117 26 There are only 91 more days before Harry Potter returns to the big screen. The first part of the final movie, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, promises much more danger for our three heroes, as these new pictures indicate. The Death Eaters are in power and Harry,Hermione
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        Lock icon HUGH, THE MAKE-UP'S OFF
        115 26 Hugh Jackman has traded make-up for push-ups. The Aussie actor has just dropped out of Avon Man, which he had joined about a month ago. His reason? He needs to spend time pumping iron to get back into killer shape for X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2, which
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    • FIRSTREADERS
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        61 27 MNightShyamalan’s The Last Airbenderwas well receivedby loyal FiRST readers Darren and his dad Danny Soh (above). Bothfoundthe film “enjoyable” despite“whatcriticssaid about the movie”and gave ita perfectscore. AngelinaJolie’s Salt capturedSarina Samian’s(above,right) attention, who awarded the action thriller full marks. Janet Oh (right) went teary-eyed over Aftershock and gave
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    • FIRSTINTERVIEW
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        Lock icon SIEGE MENTALITY
        453 28  -  Tan Kee Yun Science fiction has never been easy ground to tread, especially when it comes to filmmaking in Asia. It’s aniche genre shunned byeven the most accomplished and experienced of directors, as comparisons with Hollywood are inevitable. Films in the West still beat Asian productions hands down
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        846 30  -  Jason Johnson Two years ago, Sharni Vinson left Australia a star and arrived in Hollywood a nobody. Having landed a full-time gig on the massively popular Australian soap opera HomeAnd Away thesame TVprogramme that launched the careers of Heath Ledger, IslaFisher and Guy Pearce– the actress gave
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        615 34  -  Tan Kee Yun LookslikeKitty Zhangisn’t simply content to rest on her laurels as a Sing Girl. Discovered by veteran Hong Kong director-actor Stephen Chow of Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle fame, the telegenic and voluptuous 24-year-old Shandong native has the privilege of joining the ranks of actresses
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    • FIRSTLOOK
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        295 31  -  A supervillain with a conscience Joanne Soh What happens when Lex Luthor kills Superman? That’sthe premise ofthis3-D animated film from the people who gave us How To Train Your Dragon. Yes, DreamWorks Animation is gearing up to take a chunk of the year-end box office pie with Megamind, a
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    • MOVIEDATE
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        Lock icon THE EXPENDABLES
        451 32  -  AMarsversusVenuslookattheweek’shottestmovie JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg JEANMARIE TAN jeanm@sph.com.sg The A-Team? The Losers? Predators? Are you kidding me? Now this is an action movie. I’mnot normallythe sortof guywhogets misty-eyed at the sight of a shirtless guy carryinga bazooka– I’m kindofa hippie. Plus,I’m straight. Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and all
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    • REVIEWS
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        Lock icon THE JONESES (M18)
        115 32  -  JJ It’s acrying shame thata smart, well-craftedsatirelike thiscan’tfind a sizeableaudience. Aswith MikeJudge’s Idiocracy, onewondersifit simplyproved too subversive forthe tastes ofstudios executives. Ismellaconspiracy! Anyway,even ifit didn’tgeta fair shakeinthe US, wecanstill enjoyit here. The Jonesestells thestory ofa seeminglyperfectfamily that moves into abeautifulsuburb whereits primaryoccupation– its only occupation!– seemsto be
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        132 32  -  JJ Thisisthe sort ofmovie thatcritics are supposedtodespiseoutright or dismiss outofhand. It’s cometothe pointin film criticism whereeveryone seemstoknow really know– what agood movie isand whata bad movie is,asifsuch informationis chiselledsomewhere ona stonetablet. It’s boring. Solet mebe oneofthe fewtosay thatStep Up3Dis asuperb dance film. It’s thestoryof aNew Yorkdance crew,The
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        78 33  -  JJ Asa Canadian,Iwonder if many Singaporeanscanreally understand how hardthe coldcan bite. Well,you’llatleast have some ideaafter watching Frozen, thestoryof threeyoung peoplewhoget stuck ina chair-liftata ski resort. Incidentally,you’llhave someidea how hardwolvescan bite, too. The biggeststarin the showis undoubtedlyShawn Ashmore,who played Icemanin theX-Men flicks. Thatsaid, he’s nota verybig star. That’sokay though,because
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      674 56 / 57  -  SYLVIA TOH PAIKCHOO catchesup withracing socialite JaylianSee, the first of The New Paper racing’s occasional features on events, news and personalities SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO ALMOSTanygirlwouldbethrilledtopiecestoreceiveMyLittlePonyforapresent.Meet one girl who woke to the clip-clop of four feet,ofaracehorse,namedforher. MissJaylianSeewasledtoabridletheendofwhichwas attachedtoabeautifulfilly,christianedPrincessJay. Jaylian confessed she was expecting a gift closer to a Bulgari
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      494 58 / 59 KRANJI NEWCOMERS POWER BLITZ, a raced newcomer to trainer Patrick Shaw’s (above) yard, won’t need much schooling in the ways of racing and should fit nicely into Class 4. With 11 races under his belt, the dark bay or brown gelding by Fusaichi Pegasus
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      80 58 / 59 LAST-START winner The Dancer showed up in a gallop at Kranji yesterday. The Patrick Shaw-trained gelding looked a picture when sent out to clock 40.5sec over the 600m. He is handicapped to run in Race 6 tomorrow. Other gallops by tomorrow’s runners: RACE 1:
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      265 58 / 59 Race1 MaidenPlate 1200M 8 GALILEO'SDESTINY58(29-5) AMarcus (16) 1 4 CASTLETHORPE58(9-7) KNeisius (17) 2 15 UMFUTHO58(305-63) AFortune (12) 3 9 GOODGRIEF58(175-32) COrffer (8) 4 XTrainer: C Laird. Margins: 1.25, 9.25, 0.25. Time: 1min 09.48sec (Going: good). Forecast: $11.PlaceForecast:$6(Nos.4-8),$36(Nos.4-15),$52(Nos.8-15). Tierce:$440.Trio:$149.Quartet: Nowinner($960jackpotcarriedforwardtonextrace).Course scratchings:ReadMyHeart,ObamaWay. Race2 MaidenPlate(F&M) 1450M 9 GOOSEVALLEY55(58-17)
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      452 58 / 59 WILLIAMLOW’SKRANJITRACKWORK TRAINER Laurie Laxon yesterday served notice of his intentions to add the Jumbo Jet Trophy to his glittering array of racing silverware. He chose to do it in a most positive way by getting two of his Trophy runners, Waikato and Good Feel, to
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      601 58 / 59 RACE1-1200m MS 6.50 1 BigFortune VDuric (4) 57 2 FastLaneYes SCormack (14) 57 3 Natalia TRBarnabas* (7) 57 4 ZacImperial DBeasley (12) 57 5 Steven JSaimee (8) 56.5 6 Nikolay RStewart (10) 56 7 RobertE JPowell (2) 56 8 AftBurner RFradd (13) 55.5 9 Windspout
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      500 60 Ipoh races cancelled, trainers told to monitor horses under their charge NST MALAYSIA’S billion-ring-git horse racing industry has been suspended for two weeks. A ban has also been imposed on the movement of horses. This is to contain an outbreak of strangles after a confirmed
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      785 60 RACE1-1400m(Turf) C5D1 12.45 1 MongolianStar MGallagher (10) 57 2 SambhoGaya MEwe* (1) 57 3 Takeshi VDuric (4) 57 4 ZambeziRush KBSoo (3) 57 5 MoneyBee JMoreira (5) 56 6 FiveClaws RStewart (6) 55.5 7 ChunDoong JPowell (11) 54 8 RagingBull MFirdaus* (8) 54
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      449 61 HE IS used to playing competitive golf when he’s fasting during Ramadan. So it was business as usual for Mardan Mamat at the Mercedes-Benz Masters Malaysia yesterday, when he drew on his vast experience to take the first-round lead with a six-under-par 66. The Republic’s
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      173 61  -  LIM HAN MING GEORGE Foo (left, above) and Johnson Poh (left, below) will meet in the men’s matchplay final of the 11th Singapore National Amateur Championship today. Johnson earned his place in the final by beating Marc Ong 4 and 3 while George defeated Jerome Ng
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      414 61 AP STEVE Williams doesn’t believe his job as Tiger Woods’caddie isunder anythreat. That is despite media speculation about their 11-year association and concern over the world No.1 golfer’sform. The New Zealander said in a radio interview yesterday that he and Woods remain close friends and
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      50 61 Ip Yii Always play with care. [responsibiyj Do not bet illegally. No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize. For details, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg or call 6786 6688 Towards Community Purpose and Benefit SINGAPORE m RCB Reg No: *****0202G
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  • Sports Tennis
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      341 62 World No. 1 Nadal admits... Reuters THE US Open is the only Grand Slam that world tennis number one Rafa Nadal has yet to win and the Spaniard admits he has found it tough physically to raise himself at the end of the season. The
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      311 62 AP DISPENSING with a coach has been a good move so far for Andy Murray. Since splitting late last month with Miles Maclagan, his coach of three years, the fourth-ranked Murray has reached the finals at Los Angeles and beaten top-ranked Rafael Nadal and 16-time
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      532 63 EUROPA LEAGUE PLAY-OFF (FIRST LEG) LIVERPOOL v TRABZONSPOR DirkKuyt on Europa League: AFP DIRK KUYT has urged Liverpool to take confidence from their opening Premier League game against Arsenal as they bid for a place in the group stages of the Europa
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      Lock icon Skrtel signs new deal
      175 63 MARTIN Skrtel celebrated signing a two-year extension to his Anfield contract yesterday. The Reds’ Slovakian defender had two years remaining on his current deal, but has now put pen to paper on a new agreement which will keep him on Merseyside until at least 2014. “I’m
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      267 63 AP NICOLAS Anelka has scoffed at his 18-matchsuspensionfromFrance’sna-tionalfootball team,sayinghe was“dyingof laughter”. The French Football Federation (FFF) suspended the Chelsea striker on Tuesday for his profane tirade against then coach Raymond Domenech at the World Cup. As a consequence of his tirade, Anelka was sent home
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  • Sports Champions League
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      622 64  -  FRANK MALLEY PA Sport Chief Writer PA Sport ROMAN Pavlyuchenko would probably have walked back to Moscow six months ago, such was his disillusion at warming the bench so often at White Hart Lane. But the Russian striker might just have earned Tottenham a £30 million ($63.5m) Champions
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      301 64 PA Sport JOSE Mourinho has backed Mesut Oezil to be a key player for Real Madrid for a decade. The Germany midfielder completed his move to the Bernabeu from Werder Bremen yesterday for a fee believed to be in the region of £12.4 million ($26 million).
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      8 65 TNP ILLUSTRATIONS: TEOH YI CHIE
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      619 66/67  -  PLAY-OFF FIRST LEG YOUNG BOYS 3 (Senad Lulic 4, Henri Bienvenu 13, Xavier Hochstrasser 28) TOTTENHAM 2 (Sebastien Bassong 42, Roman Pavlyuchenko 83) YOUR ENGLISH KAKI IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg A YEAR of hard work, epic late-season victories over Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City and finally a chance
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      509 66/67 PA Sport MICHAEL Dawson refused to criticise Young Boys’ artificial pitch after his Tottenham side only just avoided total humiliation on it on their Champions League debut. Manager Harry Redknapp called for Astroturf to be banned from the competition, following yesterday morning’s 3-2 defeat at
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      270 66/67 IZENIT STPETERSBURG 1 AUXERRE0 ALEXANDER Kerzhakov gave big-spending Zenit St Petersburg a third-minute lead against Auxerre. But the Russians faded and Dennis Oliech struck the woodwork for Auxerre, and Poland striker Ireneusz Jelen also missed two great chances for the visitors. IROSENBORG 2 FC COPENHAGEN 1 STEFFEN Iversen
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      495 68 Wire Services MANCHESTER United new-boy Bebe has set himself the target of emulating countryman Cristiano Ronaldo. As Ronaldo ended up being crowned World Footballer of the Year during his time at Old Trafford, it is a fairly stiff test. However, it could be
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      259 68 Wire Services MANCHESTER United boss Sir Alex Ferguson had never seen Bebe play before signing him. Not even on video. “OnthisoccasionIdidn’twatchhim,” admitted Ferguson (right). “ItisthefirsttimeIhavedoneit.” However, that did not stop Ferguson from swooping down on Bebe before Real Madrid and a number of top
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      659 69  -  SIMON STONE PA Sport Chief Football Writer SIR Alex Ferguson has launched the first volley of fire across Manchester City’s bows by condemning the “kamikaze”spendingin the transfer market. Holding court at Old Trafford barely an hour after City had unveiled their most recent big-money purchase, Mario Balotelli,
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      380 69 PA Sport MANCHESTER City welcomed new striker Mario Balotelli on Tuesday. And at the same time bid adieu to not one, but most probably two of their players. Craig Bellamy left the building at the arrival of Balotelli and it looks like Roque
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      541 70 / 71  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg CLAD in black shorts and a red track top Daryl Tan (above) looked every bit the teenager in the streets. With a fringe that runs diagonally across his forehead and a scrawny frame measuring 1.65m and 55kg, he doesn’t look like he is capable
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      509 70 / 71  -  NG YANG HAN ngyh@sph.com.sg HANDS up if you had expected Singapore’s two of three medals in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) so far to have come from taekwondo. It was, in national coach Wong Liang Ming’s words, a pleasant surprise. “It’s fantastic for the sport. Nobody
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      297 70 / 71  -  YESTERDAY (SELECTED) JOSHUA MANGHAM ARCHERY IGIRLS’RECURVE INDIVIDUAL (LAST 16): Elif Begunhan Unsal (TUR) bt Vanessa Loh 121-119. IBOYS’RECURVE INDIVIDUAL (LAST 16): Mohamed Jaffar Abdud Dayyan B bt Julien Rossignol (FRA) 107-96. ATHLETICS IBOYS’1000m (ROUND1): Zachary Devaraj finished in 8th position with a time of 2:32.27. IGIRLS’100m SPRINT(ROUND
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      475 70 / 71  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg SPORTS run through her veins. They come so naturally to 17-year-old Shafinas Abdul Rahman (above) that she excels in both taekwondo and netball. OnTuesday,shebecameSingapore’ssecondmedallist at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) when she reached the semi-finals of the taekwondo women’s Under-55kg category. The genes
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  • SINGAPORE 2010 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAME Football
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      624 72 / 73  -  FOOTBALL SINGAPORE v MONTENEGRO (Tonight, 8.45pm, MediaCorp Ch 5 Ch 5 HD StarHub TV Ch 241) DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg BOTH teams are already in the semi-fi-nals of the Youth Olympics football tournament. But Singapore and Montenegro will be going all out to win
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      303 72 / 73  -  DAVID LEE IF THE Cubs think that a place in the final is all but assured, trust coach Kadir Yahaya to whip them into shape. The former Singapore international told The New Paper that his boys are fully immersed in the Youth Olympic Games experience,
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      293 72 / 73 There is hardly anyone faster on the backstroke. Meet 18-year old Rainer Ng, a rising star in swimming who realised his talent at the tender age of 4 when he started swimming in a bid to overcome asthma. Last year Rainer wl Gam was a si year for There is
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  • SINGAPORE 2010 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAME Swimming
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      794 74 / 75  -  GREGORY LOO, DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg HE SHOULDERED the expectations of a nation as he sliced through 50 metres of water on his back. For 26.45 seconds, Rainer Ng had the capacity crowd assembled at the Singapore Sports School on its feet as a constant stream
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      206 74 / 75  -  RAINER NG takes DAVID LEE through his silver medal-winning swim in the 50m backstroke final DAVID LEE START IRAINER:“Iwas feelingabit nervousbecause the crowd was very enthusiastic, but I also felt they motivated me and willed me on to a good race. “Somepeopletold me afterthe race
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      81 74 / 75 LIVE TELECASTS J-LEAGUE Saturday: IKYOTO SANGAvYOKOHAMA F. MARINOS StarHub TV Ch 222,6pm EPL2010/2011 Saturday: IARSENALv BLACKPOOL SingTel mio TV Ch 102,10pm ISTOKECITYv TOTTENHAM SingTel mio TV Ch 103,10pm IEVERTONv WOLVERHAMPTON SingTel mio TV Ch 104,10pm IBIRMINGHAM vBLACKBURN SingTel mio TV Ch 105,10pm IWEST HAMvBOLTON SingTel mio TV Ch 106,10pm
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      27 74 / 75 SORRY Anelka banned 18 months for World Cup outburst (TNP, Aug 18): The headline is wrong.Itshould be‘Anelka banned 18 matchesfor World Cupoutburst’. Weare sorry for the error.
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