The New Paper, 9 January 2011

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    20 1 The New Paper on sun day JAN 9 2011 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION 80 CENTS MICA (P) 118/01/2010
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      102 1 SELANGOR ‘WILD BOAR’ WOMAN FINDS LOVE DESPITE RARE SKIN AILMENT Now, fate deals a deadly blow... The New Paper on PICTURE: FEMININE MAGAZINE Cancer will kill her in 10 months, but she’s... GRATEFUL DESPITE HER DREAD Even as Lions are culled, Tigers are prowling proud. Why? JAN 9 2011 ‘Doting
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      Lock icon They call me a ‘DIRTY WILD BOAR’
      933 2 / 3  -  M’sianmumwithwildboarskinanddalmatian spots used to life-long taunting, but now she faces biggest battle from cancer: 10 months more to live FIRST SKIN DISEASE, NOW TERMINAL CANCER REPORTS:MAUREENKOH MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg FATE can sometimes be cruel, conceded this 41-year-old Malaysian mother of three young daughters.
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      Lock icon She sleeps around for revenge
      1374 4 / 5  -  Only 15, girl has multiple partners to get back at ex-boyfriend REPORTS: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg SHE works her charm with mature confidence, spurred by a sinister motive. Mary (not her real name) is never short of male attention. In just eight months, she slept
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      Lock icon Parents should not give up on kids
      537 4 / 5 IF YOU find out that your child is involved in underage sex, the last thing you should do is to give up on them, say child experts interviewed by The New Paper on Sunday. While it may come as a rude shock, parents
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      Lock icon BUKIT BATOK’S DARK PAST
      1229 6 / 7  -  thescene,saidhehadinjuriestohishead. Heisbelievedtohavebeenhitwithabluntobject. didn’tturnup.” Shewasn’t worriedthenbecause she saidhe would Policehaveclassifiedthecaseasunnaturaldeath. No arrest has been made yet, and police investigationsareongoing. Therehavebeenatleast8Heisbelievedtohavebeenhitwithabluntobject.Mrok’smothr,MadamKuikTuaMoi,66,sidherShewasnt worriedthenbecause she saidhe wouldsomtimes stay ovrnight at Mr Goh’s place atNo arrest has been made yet, ationsareongoing. casesofmurder,rapeand stabbingsoverlast19years REPORT:CHAI CHAI HUNG YIN and KELVIN CHNG tnp@sph.com.sg
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      Lock icon Technician dies after falling in lift shaft
      620 8  -  The 27-year-old had plunged two floors during maintenance works at Tanjong Katong Complex REPORT: KOH HUI THENG kohht@sph.com.sg HEKNEWsomethingwaswrongwhenhisbroth-er’scolleaguecalledhimyesterdayafternoon.The message that Mr Shri Kanth Ramasamy, 30, heard over the phone made his heart sink: “Your brother’sgotintoanaccidentinsidealift.Quick,come hereandsee.” Thatwasaround1pm.Hisbrother,MrRajanRamasamy, 27, a lift technician, had
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      Lock icon S'pore tie that binds?
      548 9  -  Luxury label puts Merlion on its ties REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIKCHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg WOULD you wear the Merlion round your neck? Ah, thought so. But hang on, what if it was a stylised Merlion, discreetly patterned on silk that feels like the caress of ababy’sbottom? Nowwe’reinbusiness. Plus,thebeautiful-soundingeight-syllabledname
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      Lock icon MAN BY DAY WOMAN BY DARK
      787 10/11  -  With counselling, he turns straight after 15 years of being gay and is open about his past to girlfriend CROSS-DRESSINGACCOUNTANT’SDOUBLELIFE REPORTS: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg WHEN accountant Aaron Ng announced that he had invited his girlfriend home for dinner, his mother broke down in tears.
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      Lock icon Support group head targeted by hate mail
      585 10/11 CHANGEisn’teasy.Indeed,it cansometimesbe ugly. Liberty League founder Leslie Lung found this out the hard way when he set up his community service group in December 2004. He immediately became the target of hate mail from the gay community. He had started the League to
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      Lock icon Experts: We don't change them, but help them cope
      398 10/11  -  REPORT: REPORT: NG WAN CHING and AMANDA PHUA tnp@sph.com.sg HOMOSEXUALITY is not considered a type of mental illness. So counsellors and psychiatrists who see individuals hoping to change their sexual orientation help them to be more comfortable with themselves instead. Dr
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      Lock icon Turning the heartland into ARTLAND
      575 12  -  Exhibition brings art to HDBstairwell–andeven intosomeone’shome REPORT:CRYSTAL CRYSTAL ABIDIN crystala@sph.com.sg FORthenexttwoweekends,membersofthepub-lic can view a brand new corridor at Block 58, MarineTerrace,ona“half-storey”. Affectionately termed floor “seven-and-a-half” by residentsinthe area,the stairwellbetween theseventh and eighth storeys of the block have been decorated withanamorphicdrawings. These are distorted projections that
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      Lock icon Maid of M’sian minister says: My employer never raped me
      564 13 IT’Sallalie.Henev-er made any sexual advances towards me. Nor did I ever encounter any problems withhim. The Indonesian maid at the centre of the alleged rape ingMalaysia’sInformation Communication and Culture Minister, Dr Rais Yatim, has come out in support of herex-employer.
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      Lock icon Killer’s litter
      436 14 HK man hacked into pieces, his legs and right arm are thrown off 16th-storey flat HEHADjustgothomefromwork.But before he even had time to change out of his uniform, he was brutally killed and his cut-up body was throwntothegroundfromhis16th-storey unit. This was the picture painted by Hong Kong police and
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      Lock icon Aussie couple fight for right to have baby girl
      310 14 AN Australian couple with three sons who are desperate for a daughter have launched a legal bid to be allowed to choose the sex of their next child. The couple, whose daughter recently died shortly after birth, have already aborted twin
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      Lock icon Young wife No 2 slashes wife No 1
      641 15 Daughter also hurt Bitter jealousy in Kedah home BITTER jealousy turned into violence in a Malaysian household when one wife allegedly attacked another with a parang on Friday morning. The victim, identified by Harian Metro as Madam Siti Aminah Hanafi, in her
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      Lock icon Boy, 8, boxes to support family
      378 15 HE RUNS 4km, does does chin-ups, works a punching bag and spars with a trainer for two hours daily. If a picture of a professional boxer comes to mind, banish that thought. This is the story of a eight-year-old Thai boy who has no
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      Lock icon She won't let death keep them apart
      404 16 US woman must build crypt to keep corpses of husband and sister she lived with AP ITLOOKSlikeMsJeanStevenswillbereunitedwiththe two people she loved so much that she wanted themtokeephercompanyaftertheydied. The 91-year-old widow who lived with the embalmed corpses of her husband and twin sister until
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      Lock icon Coupon-crazy Chinese youth key to economic recovery
      338 16 AP HER purse is crammed with more than 30 shopper discount cards and dozens of coupons. Her apartment is packed with freebies, from cosmetic samples to key chains. She often lines up before dawn for tickets to discounted movies. Miss Ding Can is
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      Lock icon CONFLICTS OVER SUGAR... ...& SPICE
      986 17 CONFLICTS OVER SUGAR... SPICE Two dead in riots over rising food prices unemployment in Algeria Onion woes worsen rift between India Pakistan AP AFP TWO people were killed and 400 injured in riots in Algeria linked to rising food costs and unemployment, Interior Minister Dahou Oul Kablia said yesterday as
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      330 13 Il TREATS 80 MI us OF puis my is BE HON t c.PST a comprehensive Don't miss your copy o« f rev iews, articles FROM THE CREATOR OF CO NAN" AND THE PRODUCER OF "RESIDENT EVIL" U P T v j /wM| J V V 1 ii. lip-. f >
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      Lock icon Swee Say: S'pore civil service is world's best, so high pay warranted
      104 18 LABOUR chief Lim Swee Say said yesterday that Singapore should not be shy about having one of the highest paid civil service in the world. Speaking at the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees (AUPE) Delegates Conference, he said
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      Lock icon Najib meets with 135 Barisan Nasional MPs
      104 18 THE Malaysian Prime Minister held his marathon meeting with 135 Barisan Nasional MPs yesterday, when he was briefed by the elected representatives on the situation in their constituencies. Mr Najib Razak had earlier indicated that he wanted to know first-hand the situation on
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      105 18 AP US PRESIDENT Barack Obama is trumpeting private-sector job growth and lower unemployment, telling the public that “the trend is clear” on the economy and it’s encouraging. The president used his weekly radio and Internet address yesterday to discuss the
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      Lock icon Floods in India and China inflate onion and garlic prices in M'sia
      121 18 FLOODING in India and bad weather in China over the last few months have caused prices of onions and garlics to double. The Federation of Sundry Goods Merchants’ Association of Malaysia president Lean Hing Chuan said erratic supply
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      Lock icon $1b to revamp HDB heartland
      335 18 HOUGANG, EAST COAST AND JURONG LAKE TO GET NEW BUZZ THREE areas have been selected for a makeover under the Housing Board’s “Remaking OurHeartland”(ROH)programme. The Government will spend about $1 billion over the next five years to realise the remaking plans, reported Channel NewsAsia. The
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      42 18 FOUND DEAD: The body of Mr Jordan Ng Shi Han, 22, (inset) was found in a canal near Block 88, Zion Road, at about 11pm on Friday. Police have classified the case as an unnatural death. PICTURES: SHINMIN DAILY NEWS
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      Lock icon Boy, girl – raise them right
      361 19  - Boy, girl raise them right THE BUZZ COMMENT: EUGENE WEE eugenew@sph.com.sg “IWANTmynextbabytobeaboyaswell.I’dhatetogetagirl.”This was told to me by, ironically, a female friendwhowasplanningforanotherchild. Her reason when the baby girl grows up, the boys will come sniffing around, and she’ll have to be on guard24/7 with ashotgun to ensurethey don’t endup takingadvantageofher. But
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      Lock icon SINGAPORE HAPPINESS INDEX
      171 19 Weratepastweek’snews–goodandbad +10 Private hospitals now publish bill sizes for the top medical conditions on the Ministry of Health’s(MOH) website, making it easier for patients to compare prices across both private and public hospitals. -20 Prices of HDB resale flats rose 2.4 per cent in Q4 of last
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      30 19 Man:“Mywatchiswater resistantto300m.” Hiswife:“Soifyoudrown,your watchwillstillbealive.” “Likethatalsocanah?” –Amancommentingonthelooksof Chen Guilin, better known as Gary Ng, who slept with dozens of women and posted videos of their acts online
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      Lock icon New’s kid on the blog
      902 20/21  -  Emily New (left) draws online fans with her bringing-up-baby experiences.Andshe’s not the only mummy blogger with a following REPORT:CRYSTAL CRYSTAL ABIDIN crystal@sph.com.sg MOTHERS know best indeed, going by the number of people who are turning to their blogs for advice. Mummy bloggers mothers who write
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      Lock icon Dads write too
      133 20/21 IT’Snotjustformums.Dadsarealsogetting in on the act. Well, at this least daddy is. Mr Edmund Tay (left, with his family) a 38-year-old social worker, has a blog, edunloaded.com, that gets up to 500 unique views a day. His readers are mostly mothers aged between 25 and 40. Since starting
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        Lock icon Never too snobbish for sales
        255 22  -  ...especiallyifyou’restockingupforCNY afford YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg WHEN I was still an ingenue and believed in making resolutions, almost always I would promise to spend less money. I believed then, as I do now, that being thrifty is a virtue. It is just that keeping to
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        93 22 IA friend pointed metoa website called Tua Lobang (tualobang.blogspot.com). It is such a wonderful website for deal chasers, collating the sales of everything from discounted air tickets to pots and pans to bed linen. I found the Scanteak furniture warehousesale. It’s ontoday and nextweekend at60 Sungei Kadut Drive, with
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        72 22 ICharles& Keith’s end-of-seasonsale has started. It’s a30 percentdiscount on selecteditems. Butifyou’retoo lazyto leavehome,the sale is extended online too. Just visit www.charleskeith.com. I (Right) PorscheDesignboutique (#01 -08 Ion Orchard) is offering a further discount on its range of T-shirts, watches, driving shoes, jackets and innerwear. But its bags would be
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        117 22 IThe Dressing Salonsale tillJan16 is a great place to find a great dress for a party. You’llfind brands likeKaren Millen(above), Maxstudio.com, Miss Selfridge and Warehouse at prices up to 80 per cent off the original price tag. It’s heldatWingTai IndustrialCentre (105 Tampines Road), Tuesday to Sunday from noon to
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      Lock icon YOGA, GIRL!
      447 23  -  Free lessons for foreign domestic workers REPORT:CRYSTAL CRYSTAL ABIDIN crystala@sph.com.sg FREEyogalessonsworth$160?Only if you are a foreign domestic worker (FDW)inSingapore. H.om Yoga, together with United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem Singapore, is introducing Karma Yoga for maids free of charge. HeldattheH.omYogastudioatCantonStreet, the hourly classes from 1pm to 2pm
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      Lock icon Pageant beauties model bridal wear
      335 23  -  REPORT:BJORN BJORN TEO WEN CHENG bjornteo@sph.com.sg TALK about a gathering of beauties in a single location. Yesterday, at TheNew Paper Wedding Planner 2011 held at Vivocity, 15 pageant winners took to the stage in a dazzling display of colours to showcase beautiful evening gowns. The
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        Lock icon Beat the heat and danger
        1026 24/25  -  Keeping hydrated is the serious biker’scoolwaytoride ZAIHAN MOHD YUSOF BIKER BOY zaihan@sph.com.sg IT COULD start out as a muscle spasm in your thigh. Oraslight dizzinessthat simply won’tgo away. Before you decide to continue charging up the circuit on your motorcycle, perhaps it would be wise
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        637 26  -  CHERYL LIM cheryll@sph.com.sg PAIRING wine and food is a common practice, at home and in restaurants. Lately, chocolate lovers have also experimented with the marriage of chocolates and wine. Slightly newer though, is the practice of pairing food and whisky. Along with vodka martini and gin and
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        Lock icon Give him a royal treat fit for a king
        347 27  -  Hedy Khoo hedykhoo@sph.com.sg WHEN a man calls you dear, do make sure he means the honeyed term of affection. He could be referring to the bills you racked up on his supplementary card shopping for the new year. Show your man
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        Lock icon For one day, kids have run of office
        471 30  -  NTUC’sLittleOnes@Workcampaignfocuseson work-life balance, but pays off in other ways REPORT:JOANNE JOANNE S0H joannes@sph.com.sg SOME parents hope for their children to follow in their footsteps. For Madam Harpall Kaur, her grandchildrendidjustthat–literally. Madam Kaur, 61, a security officer at Gleneagles Hospital, took her five
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        Lock icon Some people wait a lifetime for this
        573 30  -  S MURALI FATHER FIGURES muralis@sph.com.sg ANOTHER newyear, folks, and I have more to report than just finding more quick-sprouting white hair in my nostrils. Actually,whatI’mtalkingabouttook place at the tail end of 2010, but it was one of those special moments that will surely
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        Lock icon Alamak, it's rush, rush, rush one month after another
        558 32  -  Non-stop festive prepping and eating since Oct SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO JUST PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg And it is not over. The unrelenting festivities started all the way from last October (Deepavali) to November (Hari Raya) to December (Christmas) to last week’s
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          Lock icon Twins, but a year apart
          108 32 Odd news that is for real had.– AP. NEWBORNS Madisen and Aiden, of Machesney Park, Illinois, are twins. Buttheydon’t sharethe same birthday. Or birth year. Little Madisen was born in the last minuteof lastyear– her twin brother, Aiden, in the first minute of this year.
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          Lock icon Arrested,he gives false name– of another wanted man
          139 32 AP. A MAN in Montana who had three outstanding warrants for his arrest gave officers a false name during a traffic stop. But he ended up in custody anyway because the man whose name he gave was also wanted. Court records said
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        Lock icon Why I will never be Singapore's Edison Chen
        344 32  -  S M ONG ACT BLUR smong@sph.com.sg LASTweek,Irescindedmynewyear’sresolutionto haveabodylikeMediaCorp“hunkle”actorZheng Geping as I thought it would be unchivalrous to look better than my wife. SoI’mstuckwiththisnon-hunklebodyofmine, whichI’vecometobeashamedofbecauseofZheng. I mean, how can I go to foam parties now? I’llbeparanoidthatsomeonemighttakeapictureof me half-naked at a foam party sticking
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      119 33 Today and next week, we showcase your New Year shots. On Jan 23 and 30, we will feature your best back-to-school photos. From today till Jan 23, the best photo of the week wins a$100KidStyleOshKoshB’Gosh voucher. Send your pictures and messages to tnpforum@sph.com.sg A picture of Julian in
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      34 30 GENERATION NEXT So, how was school today? It was OK, but a bunch of us did get a tattoo of our class mascot on our forearms. You want to take a look? Whaaat!? Kidding.
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      267 31 Enjoy TV& Comics Nobody’sPerfect CelestialMovies(StarHubCh868),9pm Twochildhoodarch-rivals,whohavenotmetinyears,arereunited duringawedding.Butaprankbringsbackmemoriesoftheirconstant fighting.StarringStephyTang,KaryNg. WATCH’EM PICTURE:SHAW MOVIES Miranda itvGranada(StarHubCh523),10.30pm ThisnewcomedyseriesrevolvesaroundasociallyawkwardAmazonian womanwhoisawkwardaroundmenandishappiestplayinggamesat herjokeshop.StarringMirandaHart,TomEllis. EdgeOf Darkness (above) StarMovies (StarHubCh 622), 9pm Asa homicidedetective investigatesthe death ofhis activist daughter,heuncovers not onlyhersecret life but a corporate cover-upandgovernment collusion. StarringMelGibson, Ray Winstone. DILBERT SCOTTADAMS CHANNEL5 Noon America’sFunniest HomeVideos 12.30pm Films&Stars Asia
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      Lock icon TODAY'S SINGAPORE (LONG COURSE C/POLYTRACK) RACE CARD
      1509 34 / 35 GOING FORECAST: GOOD BIG IMPROVER: The grey Daring Splendour has chalked up two wins and a second since wearing blinkers.He’s worth following again in Race 6 this afternoon. PICTURE: SINGAPORE TURF CUIB RACE1 MS 12.50 -1600m(Turf) Stakes:$35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey
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      Lock icon Big Gallant set to make amends
      1598 34 / 35 ANDREWFROST’SCOMMENTSONTODAY’SKRANJIRACES RACE 1 (1,600m) 1 SteadfastWarrior)))Backingupand has gone closeenoughontheoddoccasiontopickuparace.Hardtobeat. 2 Whooshka)))Anotherwhoisbacking-upandshould be suited over the extra journey. Big chance. 3 Miura)))Shown enough on the track to pick up a race and looks good each-way option here. 4 BoldOfLove))Noformsofar. 5 Happyisgood)Notforme. 6 Jodie)Riseintripcouldsuit,butneedstoshowmore. 7 CarnivalStar)))Ledlasttimeandrananimproved
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      589 36 / 37 Tan Thean Loon Andrew Frost Danny Khoo Marc Tan 1 RACE Wing Warrior Whooshka Whooshka 11 2 1 Carnival Star 2 1 11 Wing Warrior 7 11 Steadfast Warrior Steadfast Warrior Carnival Star 11 Wing Warrior Steadfast Warrior 1 Steadfast Warrior 3 7 Wing Warrior 1 3 Miura
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      Lock icon Argy Bargy ready to win first-up
      109 36 / 37  -  BESTBET TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg THERE’Severyindicationthatnewcom-er ARGY BARGY would make a winningdebutinRace10atKranjitoday. The Patrick Shaw-trained Argentine-bred coltsignalledhisintentionbywinninghislast twotrialsemphatically. The speedy bay by Mutakddim clocked a splendid time on both occasions for the 1,000m on the Polytrack in 1min 00.86sec onDec28andin1min00.48seconTuesday. He was ridden by
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY'S AUSTRALIA RESULTS
      573 36 / 37 RACE 1 (Randwick) 1st 4 Brayroan ($8-$5) 2nd 3 Our Boy Lukas ($6) 3rd 1 Daintree Road ($6) 4th 6 Well Handled. Forecast $17. Place forecast $10 (1-3), $4 (1-4), $4 (3-4). Tierce $53. Trio $13. Quartet $482. Scratchings: Voltabolta, Breeze Up. RACE 2 (Randwick) 1st 3
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      Lock icon Common Interest a‘non-starter’
      787 36 / 37 LASTFRIDAY’SSINGAPORE STIPENDIARYSTEWARDS’REPORTHIGHLIGHTS COMMON INTEREST was fractious in the barrier and reared before the start of the opening race on Friday. When the start was effected, COMMON INTEREST jumped without his rider, John Sundradas. Afterreviewingthefilmsandpriortothe“All Clear” being given, the Stewards were of the opinion that COMMON INTEREST was
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      582 36 / 37 Race1 MS(STRAIGHT)1100m 12 XANADU53c52(55-14) BTai (15) 4 2 1 (512) 11 SINARGEMILANG53(112-27) ISaifudin (3) 3 3 2 (437) 6.75 9 SUNSUPREME54(13-7) YFLeong (9) 5 5 3 (505) Nk 5 VINO56c54(126-34) CalvinGoon (13) 6 6 4 (500) 1.25 XWinning stable: Vamos. Trainer: M Thwaites. Time: 1min 05.6sec (Going:
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      41 36 / 37 THESE horses have won or were placed in soft or heavy conditions: RACE 1 Sweet Dream, Wing Warrior. RACE 7: Famous Than U. RACE 8: Anak Lutong. RACE 10: Megaplus Ocean, Count Zerpour, Kirin Arising. RACE 12: Innocent Star.
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      939 38 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING RACE1 C5 1.40 -1600m(LC) Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 -***** GlobalNomad 57 (43) MDjulkiflic1 9 (8agEBreukelen-LCLim) 2 *****- TrueParadise 57 (43) KYYap*c3 3 (8nzgFNathan-FNathan) 3 46-006 BestWrestler 56 (41) KYazid*c2 6 (7agPKLeong-MingKingdom) 4 -3-12- ShadowWind 56 (41) IAzhar
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      89 38 RACE 1:11 IWish7BoomerPrince4ShadowWind3Best Wrestler. RACE 2:8 Hot Shot 3 Anh Yeu Em 2 Bukit Naga 11 Ba Ba Rich. RACE 3:1 Yours Truly 5 Moving Forward 3 Kawan Street 7 America Navy. RACE 4:4 Sounds Good 13 Jun Tu 9 Good Winner 10 Golden Treasure.
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      115 38 THESE horses have won or were placed on soft or heavy tracks: RACE 1: Global Nomad, Best Wrestler, Thrill Seeker, Boomer Prince, Sinar Suria. RACE 2: Bukit Naga, Spice Master, Hot Shot, Ba Ba Rich. RACE 3: Yours Truly, Tiger General, Moving Forward, Summer Ash. RACE 4: Sounds Good,
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      Lock icon HODGSON OUT DALGLISH IN
      293 56 Reuters FIRST, the good news for Liverpool fans. Roy Hodgson has quit Liverpool by mutual consent just a day before the Reds’ crucial FA Cup third-round clash against bitter rivals Manchester United. Now, the better news. Pool legend Kenny Dalglish has been appointed caretak-er-manager until the
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        723 39  -  BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM HUA HIN, THAILAND I HAD expected Colin Montgomerie to carry a box of tissues when he attended the post-match conference yesterday. After all, if we were in his situation, there would be some tears. The Asian team had run
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        Lock icon In Tiger's footsteps
        521 39  -  So much drive in Manassero and Noh BRIAN MILLER RYO ISHIKAWA is one of the headliners at the Royal Trophy. He’s been likened to great Asians like Isao Aoki, KJ Choi, “Jumbo” Ozaki, Tommy Nakajima andYang YongEun. That’sfine. But here at the Royal Trophy, I see two
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        Lock icon Sick Nadal delays Melbourne trip
        622 40 AFP. RAFAEL Nadal will delay travelling to Australia for the first Grand Slam event of the 2011 season because of the illness which contributed to his shock defeat in the Qatar Open on Friday. Nadal will hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same
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        327 40 AFP RUSSIA’S tennis ace Vera Zvonareva threw down the gauntlet ahead of the Australian Open with an awe-inspiring demolition of world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki in Hong Kong yesterday. The 26-year-old took just 56 minutes to thrash the Dane 6-1, 6-0 on the back of an equally
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        91 40 AFP. PETRA Kvitova emerged as an Australian Open contender after she overpowered Germany’s Andrea Petkovic 6-1, 6-3 to claim the Brisbane International yesterday. The 20-year-old Czech demolished her German opponent in 71 minutes at the Pat Rafter Arena. Meanwhile, top seed Robin Soderling will meet defending champion
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        78 40 Reuters UNHERALDED Greta Arn completed her giant-kill-ing run and claimed her second WTA Tour title when she beat defending champion Yanina Wickmayer 6-3, 6-3 in the Auckland Classic final yesterday. The 31-year-old Hungarian had earlier knocked out three other seeded players on her way to the final.
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        451 41  -  SWIMMING LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg THE YEAR 2011 will be a busier one for swimmers, as far as the local calendar is concerned. The Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) has introduced four new events to the local swimming calendar, in addition to the National Age-Group
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        Lock icon United States clinch No. 6
        402 41 Hopman Cup AP. BETHANIE Mattek-Sands and John Isner beat Belgium’s Justine Henin and Ruben Bemelmans 6-1, 6-3 in the mixed doubles yesterday to give the United States their sixth Hopman Cup title. Isner levelled the title contest 1-1 with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Bemelmans
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        252 41 INDIANA PACERS 87 SAN ANTONIO SPURS 90 BASKETBALL AFP. MANU Ginobili (right) scored 25 points as the San Antonio Spurs rallied from a 15-point deficit to beat the Indiana Pacers 90-87 yesterday morning (Singapore time) and snap a modest two-game losing skid. France’s Tony Parker iced the
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        739 42 AFP DEFENDING champions Inter Milan will not entertain wild hopes of catching Serie A leaders AC Milan despite starting their new era under coach Leonardo with a 3-1 win over fellow title hopefuls Napoli in midweek. Today, they face a tricky trip to Sicily to
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        505 42 LALIGA Wire Services. REAL Madrid coach Jose Mourinho watched his second-string players lose their Copa del Rey away leg 2-0 to Levante in midweek and thensaidthat hissquad had“limitations”. The fact that Real Madrid had won the first leg of their cup tie 8-0 rendered
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        553 44 / 45 Middle East side reduced to 10 men, had goal appeal turned down GROUP A KUWAIT0 CHINA 2 (Zhang Linpeng 58, Deng Zhuoxiang 67) Wire Services CHINA’S new generation made a winning start to their Asian Cup campaign with a 2-0 victory against 10-man Kuwait
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        320 44 / 45 GROUP A QATAR0 UZBEKISTAN 2 (Odil Akhmedov 58, Server Djeparov 77) Wire Services DISAPPOINTED Qatar coach Bruno Metsu apologised to the fans after the Asian Cup hosts crashed to an opening 2-0 defeat by Uzbekistan yesterday morning (Singapore time). A 30-metre thunderbolt from Uzbekistan’s
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        481 44 / 45 But will defensive woes cost them? GROUPB JAPANvJORDAN (Tonight, 9pm, SingTel mio TV Ch 114) AFP JAPAN’S World Cup hero Keisuke Honda is ready to orchestrate attacking football against largely defensive rivals at the Asian Cup, as the Blue Samurai aim for a recordfourthcontinentaltitle. “Mypersonalgoalandtheteam’sgoalare one
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        349 44 / 45 GROUPB SAUDI ARABIA v SYRIA AFP THREE-TIME Asian Cup winners Saudi Arabia desperately need a winning start in Group B against Syria tonight to convince the doubters they have what it takes to banish the pain of four years ago. Portuguese coach Jose Peseiro
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        1806 46 / 47  -  How‘KingRaja’turnedTigers into an Asean soccer power DILENJIT SINGH dilen@sph.com.sg HE’S THE man credited with resurrecting the roar of the Malaysian Tigers, a tranquillised footballing animal that hadn’t had a sniff of a major trophy for two decades prior to his arrival. Eight months after he was appointed
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        542 48 / 49 THIRD ROUND CHELSEA v IPSWICH Ancelotti to the Blues: PA Sport CARLO Ancelotti has admitted that Chelsea will “destroy” their season if they fail to put an end quickly to their worst run of results for almost 15 years. But the Blues boss
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        435 48 / 49 THIRD ROUND TOTTENHAM v CHARLTON Wire Services HARRY Redknapp will field a sec-ond-string line-up in Tottenham’s FA Cup third-round tie with Charlton Athletic tonight but insists his reserves are good enough to win the competition. It is a measure of the progress Spurs
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        481 48 / 49 Wire Services MANCHESTER City signed Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko from VfL Wolfsburg on Friday (yesterday morning, Singapore time) as the world’s richest club once again flexed its financial muscles to boost an assault on the Premier League title. The 24-year-old has agreed
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        417 48 / 49 THIRD ROUND LEICESTER CITY v MAN CITY (Tonight, 11.30pm,SingTelmio TV Ch115) Wire Services LEICESTER City manager Sven-Goran Eriksson had a profound influence on Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini back in the Serie A. At Sampdoria, Mancini played for him. At Lazio, Manciwas his assistant
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        493 50  -  Sunderland ................1 Notts County ..............2 Sunderland: Bent (81) pen Notts County: Westcarr (5), Hughes (75) BY DAMIAN DAMIAN SPELLMAN Special Correspondent CRAIGWESTCARRandLeeHughesteameduptodumpSunderlandoutof theFACupasLeagueOneNotts CountyclaimedaPremier Leaguescalp. BlackCatskeeperSimon MignoletdroppedWestcarr’s fifth-minutecrossintohisown netaftercollidingwithteammateKieranRichardsontohand thevisitorstheperfectstart. Amuch-changedSunderland’s responsewasinsipidandHughes madesure15minutesfromtime when,afterMignolethadsaved hisinitialeffort,hefiredhome fromthereboundtomake DarrenBent’s81st-minute penaltyirrelevant. Fromtheoff,Countywerenot overawedand,backedbya vociferoustravellingsupport, tooktheleadwithjustfive minutesgone. Westcarr’sdeflectedcrossfrom theleftseemedtobeheading straightintoMignolet’sarms,but
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        293 50  -  Southampton..............2 Blackpool ..................0 Southampton: Barnard (53), Do Prado (88) BY ANDY SIMS Special Correspondent SOUTHAMPTON came up with a Cup shock of sorts as they sank a second-string Blackpool side at StMary’s. Second-half goals from Lee Barnard and Guly Do Prado secured a deserved win for
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        469 51 FA Cup round-up SHANELONG’Sfirst-halfgoal proved the difference as Reading dumped 10-man Premier League club West Brom out of the FA Cup. Long grabbed his seventh goal in the last six games with a clinical finish before Albion had substitute Jonas Olsson sent off for
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        372 51  -  Doncaster ..................2 Wolves ......................2 Doncaster: Sharp 41, Hayter 43 Wolves: Milijas 38, Hunt 58 (pen) BY MARK STANIFORTH Special Correspondent STEPHENHUNT’Ssecond-halfpenaltyearnedasecondchancefor10-man Wolves afterapulsatingFA Cup thirdroundtieatDoncaster. BillySharpandJamesHayter scoredtwogoalsinasmany minutestogiveDoncasterthe half-timeleadafterNenad Milijasopenedthescoring. ButHunt’s58thminutespotkicklevelleditandWolvesmade itbacktoMolineuxdespite GeorgeElokobi’sredcard. WolvesbossMickMcCarthy namedastrongteam,withonly fourchangestothesidethat claimedtheirheroicwinover Chelseainmidweek. MarcusHahnemannreplaced theinjuredWayneHennesseyin goal,andtherewerealsorecalls forMilijas,StephenWardand MatthewDoherty,withKevin Doyledroppingtothebench. McCarthy’smenalmost grabbedthelead30secondsafter
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        774 52 / 53  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg THIRD ROUND ARSENAL 1 (Cesc Fabregas 90-pen) LEEDS UNITED 1 (Robert Snodgrass 54-pen) THE ATTRACTION of the competition may have waned over the years, but the romance is very much alive. The FA Cup, which the English FA is always quick to claim as the
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        532 52 / 53  -  THIRDROUND:MANCHESTERUNITEDvLIVERPOOL–Tonight,9.25pm,SingTelmioTVCh115 IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg THERE are few in the Manchester United squad who can justifiably say that they have had a good season, but new captain Nemanja Vidic has a better case than most. Consistently indomitable, aware and ferocious in the tackle, he was a natural
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        549 52 / 53 AS MANAGER of a profoundly disappointing team, Roy Hodgson had to take ultimate responsibility for Liverpool’sfailings. However, the blame does not belong to him alone. The men he sent out every week of his brief reign must also acknowledge their role in this dire run
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        586 54 / 55  -  Failures at Newcastle and Celtic make King Kenny yesterday’smanbutatleast he’llunitetroubledReds IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM THE UK IT HAD to end. Roy Hodgson was out of friends, out of luck and out of time. When the axe finally fell yesterday, the only
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        598 54 / 55 FORMER Liverpool defender Phil Thompsonbelievesthe“unprecedented” way the club’s fans had turned on manager Roy Hodgson was instrumental in his departure. Liverpool announced yesterday that Hodgson had left the club by “mutual consent” with the Reds 12th in the Premier League, just four points above the
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          79 54 / 55 *Alltelecastsliveunlessotherwisestated.Forthelatest,pleasecheck www.mio.singtel.com/miotv www.starhub.com/tv *Programmetimes,providedbySingTel&StarHub,subjecttochange LIVE TELECASTS FA CUP Today: IMAN UNITEDv LIVERPOOL SingTel mio TV Ch 115,9.25pm ILEICESTERv MAN CITY SingTelmio TVCh115, 11.30pm AFC ASIAN CUP Today: IJAPANv JORDAN SingTel mio TV Ch 114,9pm Tomorrow: IINDIA vAUSTRALIA SingTel mio TV Ch 115,9pm Tuesday: ISOUTH KOREAv BAHRAIN SingTel mio TV
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