The New Paper, 22 April 2011

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    12 1 the new paper FRIDAY APRIL 22 2011 70 CENTS MICA (P) 114/01/2011
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      48 1 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 GE 2011 We ask two women candidates: Do looks matter in elections? PAGE 2 SHE CRIES AND KNEELS UNTIL...PAGE 6 She drives a continental car, employs a maid, but she won't pay $100 to have car unclamped PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY EWS
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      23 1 EPL TITLE CHASE Why can't Arsenal hold a lead? PAGE 61 Too late for Chelsea to join chase? PAGE 62 8 "*****1 *****1
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    • GE 2011
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        Lock icon Not just pretty, but pretty serious
        1146 2 / 3  -  NSP’s Nicole Seah (above), 24, fields questions about her looks and youth REPORT: TAY SHI’AN shian@sph.com.sg SHE had lovely flowing hair, make-up and her good side showing. That was the picture her party sent out to the media. But National Solidarity Party’s (NSP) Nicole
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        Lock icon Pity cyber generation puts down its own kind
        427 2 / 3  -  COMMENT: KWAN HUI XIAN tnp@sph.com.sg I’M 21, an undergraduate, a registered voter and am not happy. After years of having been told that my generation is a politically-apathetic bunch, young people decided to step up and contest this election. There have been
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        Lock icon Looks part & parcel of game
        538 4 Looks part parcel of game Workers’ Party candidate (right) says appearance does impact voters THE Workers’ Party (WP) introduced another four candidates at a press conference at its headquarters yesterday. The party is expected to field a total of 23 candidates for the election. We speak to Ms Angela Oon
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        Lock icon SDP unveils six candidates, calls for debate on ‘excessive’ YOG budget
        292 4  -  Eugene Wee SHE’S 35, a teacher and contesting as a candidate with the Singapore Democratic Party. Yesterday she was among six candidates introduced at a press conference held at the Landmark Village Hotel. It is the first slate of
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      Lock icon Was she needy or just plain SNEAKY?
      1418 6 / 7  -  Woman kneels in carpark after car gets clamped REPORT: AMANDA PHUA, KWAN HUI XIAN tnp@sph.com.sg THE sign at the private carpark at Joo Chiat Road states clearly that unauthorised cars that park there would be wheel-clamped. Not only did a woman driver ignore
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      Lock icon ‘You want to park, be prepared to pay’
      313 6 / 7  -  Amanda Phua HER tears may have persuaded five men to pool their money to pay the $100 fine to get her car unclamped. But all 11 people The New Paper spoke to wouldn’t be quite so easily swayed. While none of them
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      Lock icon Victim charged with taking ketamine and another drug
      474 10  -  Sentosa murder victim also charged with possessing utensil used for drugs REPORT: PEARLY TAN pearlyt@sph.com.sg THE MAN whose decomposed body was recently found in a suitcase was charged in December last year for having consumed ketamine and methampheta- mine, both of which
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      Lock icon Man charged with taking $450,000 at knife-point
      214 10  -  Robbery at Marina Bay Sands hotel REPORT: PEARLY TAN pearlyt@sph.com.sg AN UNEMPLOYED man was charged in court yesterday with robbing a man of $450,000 in cash at the Marina Bay Sands hotel. Octavius TokTien Howe, 37, and another man allegedly robbed Mr Gay
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      533 11  -  Ex-S’pore Idol finalist still in coma REPORT: JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg HE IS better known as a singer to most Singaporeans. But it was football that brought the former Singapore Idol finalist Janson Tay together with his friends from St Gabriel’s Secondary School. And
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      Lock icon FANTASTIC
      812 12 / 13  -  Verdict on S’pore by Pierre-Yves, son of famed adventurer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau Ecosystem smothered by silt, but can still be REPORT: DIANE LOUYS dlouys@sph.com.sg MR PIERRE-YVES Cousteau, the son of world-fa-mous French explorer, inventor, film-maker and environmentalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau, made history when he took a dive in Singapore waters on
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      Lock icon Showcase of Singapore’s diverse plants and animals
      318 12 / 13 TODAY is Earth Day and to celebrate it, a new exhibition themed “A decade of biodiversity conservation and discoveries in Singapore” was launched yesterday. Organised by the National Parks Board (NParks) and the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research (RMBR),
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    • Global News watch
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      Lock icon Killed, stuffed in car boot
      418 17 Businessman bludgeoned to death MR A Samy and his friends noticed that an unlocked car had been parked along a road in Malacca. The 42-year-old, who had spotted the vehicle on Tuesday, told the New Straits Times (NST) that it looked as if the back
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      Lock icon Man killed after he reveals sex tape of couple to their son
      229 17 FIRST, he secretly filmed his neighbour having sex with his wife. Then he showed the clip to his friends. He even tried to show it to the couple’s 17-year-old son. But his voyeurism got him killed after the
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      Lock icon Forget watch, it’s biometrics now
      502 18 M’SIA SEX TAPE SCANDAL THE saga over the sex tape allegedly featuring opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has taken yet another twist. Malaysian newspaper Berita Harian, quoting a source, has claimed that biometric analysis by a South Korean broadcasting agency showed that the man in the
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      481 19 He turns on charm at social networking site HQ to connect to younger voters MY NAME is Barack Obama, and I’m the guy who got Mark to wear a jacket and tie. “Thank you,” Mr Obama added with a chuckle as Facebook employees rewarded him with a
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      534 20 / 21 Driven by fierce winds, flames rage across drought-plagued state RANCHERS flung open gates in the hope that their livestock could escape fast-moving flames. One family watched in horror as two of their horses caught fire and galloped away. Homes, barns, oil field pump jacks and thousands of
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      46 6 / 7 Tuck into THE GR AT CEO out koocCHARITY Feast on dum briyani cooked by Mr Mohamed Ismail, CEO and co-founder P&N Holdings Feel good because all proceeds go to charity When: Today (7-9pm) Where: Food Republic Beer Garden at St James Power Station the new paper
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      63 17 We have such a well-integrated public transport system that I no longer drive: I take trains and buses instead. c I spend less money compared to owning a car and reduce my carbon footprint too. travel by trishaws. 1 To Changi, uncle] My method produces even less pollution... Oh no]
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      471 22 Working mother’s woes FROM READER CAROL TAN I AM writing to share my thoughts about being a working parent in Singapore. I am a mother with a 29-month-old son and a sev-en-month-old daughter. My son is in a childcare centre at Woodlands while my
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      Lock icon Compassion for dying child shows kampung spirit
      776 22 FROM READER RAYMOND ANTHONY FERNANDO I REFER to the report, “He watches as 9-year-old slowly fades away” (The New Paper, April 16). While I am saddened by the tragic loss of two lives, I am encouraged by the public spiritedness demonstrated by Mr
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      260 22 YOUR VIEWS E-mail tnptalk@sph.com.sg or write to The New Paper, 1000 Toa Payoh North, Level 6, Annexe Block, Singapore *****4 For verification, we need the writer’s full name and contact number (preferably a handphone). We reserve the right to edit letters. By your submission, it is deemed that you have
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      1054 23  -  MichaelJackson tribute show gives Brit performer new life JOANNE LOW jlow@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM LONDON I DON’T think I’ll ever get sick of playing Michael, said Alex Buchanan. For the past two years, the British performer has been part of Thriller Live, a West End concert extravaganza that celebrates
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      407 24  -  REVIEW: JOANNE LOW jlow@sph.com.sg I THOUGHT Michael Jackson was going to live forever. I will never forget the day I was at the King of Pop’s concert at the National Stadium in 1993. Where he came on stage and there was an explosive fire
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    • The Great CEO Charity Cookout
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        739 25  -  PropNex CEO would rather cook than cater, even with 400guests REPORT: HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg WHENEVER this big boss invites guests to his home, he doesn’t order food from professional caterers. Not even when he has 400 names on his guest list. Instead, the chief executive of property
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    • Star Treks
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        690 26 / 27  -  Muggle and YES 933 radio dee jay Lin Pei fen visits the ‘birthplace’ of Harry Potter REPORT: TAN KEEYUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg LOCAL radio deejay Lin Peifen has never signed up for a package tour in her entire life. The bubbly 29-year-old, who hosts the evening home stretch belt
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    • Spotted
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        195 28 Who was where, and doing what? Here’s a round-up of the latest celebrity sightings in the region and Hollywood WHO: The Black Eyed Peas WHERE:New York WHAT The popular US hip-hop group will open a school in the city in July for local teenagers to learn
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        127 28 WHO: Susan Boyle, 50 WHERE:Blackpool, England WHAT: The Scottish singer saw double when she came face to face with her £150,000 (S$305,000) waxwork at the new Madame Tussauds wax museum attraction in Blackpool. Boyle’s lookalike is decked out in the same sparkly black dress she wore in the
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      78 24 Win tickets to Thriller Live Calling all Michael Jackson fans! We are giving away three pairs of gala tickets to Thriller Live on May 4 at 7.30pm, courtesy of Base Entertainment Asia. Each ticket is worth $113. For a chance to win, call Infoline at 1900-914 0801 and answer this
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      411 25 Help us reach out to them THE Great CEO Charity Cookout aims to raise money for Project Helping Hands, a community project to help elderly people who are living alone. The New Paper has partnered the Lions Befrienders Service Association and Ngee Ann Polytechnic and aims to raise $1 million
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      196 29 ALL IN THIS TOGETHER:Ella Chen (second from left), singing with S.H.E fans on stage. PICTURES: LIANHE WANBAO, BBC LIFESTYLE WATCH ’EM Singapore Entertainment Awards 2011 (above) E City (StarHub Ch 825), 8pm This year’s annual local awards ceremony which celebrates the best in Asian music, movies and television was held
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      298 29 CHANNEL 5 12.30pm Favourites: Avril Lavigne 1.00 Forbes Top 20 Young Royals 2.00 Prince William Harry Into the Future 3.00 William Kate The Royal Engagement 4.00 Movie: Disney Princess Protection Program 6.00 The Amazing Race 7.00 Movie: National Treasure 9.30 News 5 Tonight 10.00 American Idol 11.00 Survivor: Redemption Island
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  • Racing
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      Lock icon Rocket Man looks spot-on for third Lion City Cup
      1566 43  -  KRANJI BARRIER TRIALS TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg DUBAI Golden Shaheen winner ROCKET MAN, who has resumed training after coming out of quarantine last week, won his trial yesterday in preparation for the $500,000 lion City Cup on May 1. Expected to
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      2024 44 / 45 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 C4 D3 12.50 -1100m(Polytrack) Stakes: $55,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****1 El Patron 58.5 (61) SH Low* c2 1 (6ag D Baertschiger-Auric) 2 -2-107 Lockdown 58.5 (61) S Noh* c4
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      190 44 / 45  -  (Race 1 No. 3) BESTBET TAN THEAN LOON ANDIKO was a good thing beaten last time out on April 8. He suffered a few setbacks and yet flew home third (No. 3 above). He finished only a head and a nose behind Mr City over the 1,000m on the
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      Lock icon Corragio works well
      145 44 / 45 KRANJITRACKWORK IF YOU are looking for a good outsider, look no further than CORRAGIO in Race 11 on Sunday. The Steven Burridge-trained seven-year-old enhanced his chances with a superb hit-out yesterday morning. The back-in-form Australian-bred looked fighting fit when clocking 40.6sec over the 600m. A week ago,
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      Lock icon MUDLARKS
      187 44 / 45 THESE horses have won or have been placed On soft or heavy tracks: RACE 10: Waikato, Mighty Triple Ace, Powerful Ruler, Blesswithspeed. RACE 11: Ace Alarde. LEADING JOCKEYS 1st 2nd 3rd V Duric 38 27 19 J Moreira 26 20 26 J Saimee 23 18 13 B Vorster 19
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      579 44 / 45 Andrew Frost 1 RACE Marc Tan Brian Miller Tan Thean Loon 3 3 Andiko Andiko Andiko El Patron El Patron 1 3 1 1 El Patron 2 Lockdown 3 9 2 Andiko 1 El Patron Gateaway Trigger Synergy Lockdown 5 4 Magic Moxie Magic Moxie Magic Moxie 2
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      Lock icon Waikato well in with 4 kg claim
      2291 46 ANDREW FROST’S COMMENTS ON TODAY’S KRANJI RACES RACE1 (1,100m) 1 El Patron)))Scored a smart win last time and should be the testing material again. Hard to beat. 2 Lockdown)))Drops back to winning class and showed enough last start in Class 3 to be
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  • Sports
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        Lock icon Lam: I’m returning to my best
        432 47 AFP ON A day when the spotlight fell on world No. 2 Lee Westwood, it was Singapore’s Lam Chih Bing who stole some of the limelight in the opening round of the Indonesian Masters. The 34-year-old shot a five-under-par 67 at the Royale Jakarta
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        Lock icon New Tiger, old Tiger, they’re all the same
        376 47 AP HE STILL swears. He still tosses clubs. His interviews, still, are clipped and smug the few he gives, that is. This new Version of Tiger Woods (right) was supposed to be warmer, fuzzier, someone who showed more respect for the game
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    • Tennis
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        Lock icon Chinese women shuttlers hard to accept skirt rule
        124 48 BADMINTON Wire Services CHINESE women shuttlers still need some time to adapt to the new skirt rule as most of them still wear shorts at the Asian Badminton Championships this week. The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has introduced a new dress code,
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        Lock icon ‘Quiet Assassin’ meets prodigy
        494 48 SNOOKER PA Sport MARTIN Gould will take a killer instinct into his clash with young hotshot Judd Trump at the Snooker World Championship after being branded snooker’s “Quiet Assassin”. The 29-year-old (right) from north-west London has been tagged the “Pinner Potter” and was even rumoured to
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        428 48 Wire Services GAEL Monfils secured a quarter-final spot at the Barcelona Open as he stormed out early and strong against sluggish French compatriot Richard Gasquet, earning a 6-4, 7-6 (9/7) victory yesterday. But the seventh-seeded winner refused to think about the prospect of facing formidable king
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        Lock icon Kobe revels in new role
        659 49 Defensive display helps Lakers level series Reuters WESTERN CONFERENCE LA LAKERS 87 NEW ORLEANS 78 (Best-of-seven series tied at 1 -1) OFTEN criticised by Los Angeles Lakers fans for being a “ball hog”, Kobe Bryant played the role of facilitator to perfection yesterday morning (Singapore
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        640 50  -  TABLE TENNIS DILENJIT SINGH dilen@sph.com.sg ATRICIA Lu was probably the only person at P Toa Payoh Sports Hall yesterday who didn’t realise she had won the A Division girls’ table tennis title for Hwa Chong Institution (HCI). This despite the fact that the winning point
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        Lock icon Raffles’ girls zero in on victory
        413 50  -  SHOOTING CLEMENT YAP cyap@sph.com.sg THEY focused, they took aim, and they fired with deadly precision. The result? Raffles Institution (RI) hit the bull’s-eye by winning the gold in the Schools’ National A Division shooting (Air Rifle) competition yesterday. To make their victory even sweeter,
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    • S-League
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        553 51  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg GEYLANG UNITED 0 TAMPINES ROVERS 1 (Akihiro Nakamura 27) THE TAMPINES Express Train is showing no signs of letting up as they edged their Eastern derby against Geylang United 1-0 at the Bedok Stadium last night. It is now 14 matches since the Stags
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        132 51  -  (Kim Young Kwang 70, Vitor Borges 76) WOODLANDS 0 DAVID LEE OVER at the Toa Payoh Stadium, it was the Seventies Show as Balestier Khalsa’s foreign forwards Kim Young Kwang and Vitor Borges scored in the 70th and 76th minutes of a 2-0 win over Woodlands Wellington FC.
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        414 51  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg HISTORY suggests there is always some form of serious damage done in this fixture between the most successful S-League club of all time and the defending champions. Last season, the three matches involving eight-time S-League champions SAFFC and 2010 winners
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      808 52 / 53  -  New SSC CEO Lim charting new strategies for Singapore sports LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg AS A former military man, Brigadier-Gener-al (NS) Lim Teck Yin believes in leading “from the front”. While he is almost three weeks into the job, the Singapore Sports Council’s (SSC) new chief
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      637 52 / 53 Q&A WITH BG LIM I How would you define a sporting culture and do you think we already have one? I THINK we always have had (a sporting culture) in some sense, but there’s always a desire to go further. We will never be quite there
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      341 52 / 53  -  BOWLING LIM SAY HENG LAST year, national bowler Jazreel Tan struck a “spare” after finishing as runner-up for the Collegiate Bowler of the Year award. This year, the 21-year-old Wichita State University sophomore (above) followed up that feat with a “strike”, beating seven other nominees to
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        504 54 / 55 Defender Ramos breaks trophy; coach Mourinho makes critics eat humble pie AFP FINAL BARCELONA 0 REAL MADRID 1 (Cristiano Ronaldo 103, after extra time) I 0-0 at full-time REAL Madrid bathed in the adulation of joyous fans yesterday morning, after edging arch rivals Barcelona 1-0 in
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        700 54 / 55 Reuters REAL Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has answered his critics in the best possible way by adding an 18th King’s Cup to the club’s trophy cabinet and ending a two-year silverware drought in his debut season. The Portuguese, who has now won domestic cups in his
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        312 54 / 55 AP BARCELONA and Real Madrid have overtaken baseball’s New York Yankees as the best-paid global sports teams, according to a British study. The review published on Wednesday showed that the annual average pay during the 2009-10 season was US$7.9 million ($9.8m) at Barcelona
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        469 56 AP AC MILAN are starting to sense how close they are to their 18th Serie A title, now that Silvio Berlusconi’s club has opened up a six-point lead over Napoli with five matches remaining. Milan won their last title in 2004 and the wait for
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        386 56 ITALIAN CUP PA Sport SEMI-FINAL, FIRST LEG AC MILAN 2 (Zlatan Ibrahimovic 4, Urby Emanuelson 75) PALERMO 2 (Javier Pastore 14, Abel Hernandez 52) PALERMO hold the upper hand in their Italian Cup semi-final with AC Milan, after claiming a 2-2 draw in the first
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        370 56 EPL PA Sport ASTON Villa manager Gerard Houllier has allayed fears about his health after being admitted to hospital on Wednesday night. Houllier (right) underwent heart surgery in October 2001 after feeling unwell during an EPL clash with Leeds and did not return to
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        844 57  -  THREE FOR THE WEEKEND Many EPL teams will have to beef up their squads to remain competitive PATRICK KINGHORN npsports@sph.com.sg 1.A SUMMER OF UPHEAVALS THERE will not be a World Cup or a European Championship this summer, but it will still be a close
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        370 57 AP MANCHESTER United have been ranked football’s most valuable team by Forbes magazine for the seventh year in a row, while Barcelona’s valuation has dropped. Taking into account income, profitability and debt levels, the American business magazine’s valuation of United has risen slightly
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        135 58 Arsenal race to a 3-1 lead in the North London Derby but Spurs fight back gallantly to earn a point in one of the most exciting games in EPL history What a start! Arsenal's Theo Walcott scores in the fifth minute. But... Rafael van der Vaart equalises
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        469 59 PA Sport takes a look at the other classic games in the EPL APRIL 1996: LIVERPOOL 4 NEWCASTLE 3 KEVIN Keegan’s swashbuckling Newcastle side headed to Anfield three points behind Manchester United and with a game in hand. Robbie Fowler opened the scoring after two minutes
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        630 60 / 61 Wenger laments: 1. Gunners’ inability to hold on to leads 2 Ref’s failure to allow van Persie’s goal 3 His team’s lack of fitness 4. Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny’s naivety PA Sport TOTTENHAM 3 (Rafael van der Vaart 7,70pen, Tom Huddlestone 44) ARSENAL 3 (Theo Walcott 5, Samir Nasri 12,
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        627 60 / 61  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg YET ANOTHER Arsenal collapse. Watching the Gunners this season is almost like watching MacGruber trying to deactivate a bomb. Sometime, somehow, it is always going to blow up spectacularly in the face. And so it did again on yesterday morning (Singapore time), with Arsenal
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        223 60 / 61 PA Sport ARSENE Wenger emerged from the latest setback in Arsenal’s faltering title assault to declare his support for Cesc Fabregas, despite the Gunners captain appearing to undermine his boss in an interview with a Spanish magazine. The Gunners are now six points behind English
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        870 62 / 63  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg CHELSEA 3 (Malouda 3,62, Kalou 26) BIRMINGHAM 1 (Larsson 76-pen) COMMENT ON THE back of a 3-1 victory over Birmingham yesterday morning (Singapore time), Carlo Ancelotti was finally able to say with conviction that they are Premiership title contenders once more.
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        542 62 / 63 AFP CARLO Ancelotti believes the Premier League title race could go down to the final game of the season after Chelsea moved into second place with a 3-1 win over Birmingham yesterday morning (Singapore time). Ancelotti’s team sit above Arsenal on goal
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          94 62 / 63 EVENTS FOOTBALL TRIALS What: Goalkeeper trials for Tanjong Pagar United COE teams When: Tomorrow Where: Clementi Stadium, 3pm WANT to become the next Hassan Sunny or Lionel Lewis? Tanjong Pagar United will be holding goalkeeper trials for the Under-14, Under-16 and Under-18 Centre of Excellence teams this Saturday.
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          103 62 / 63 GOLF What: Indonesian Masters (Asian Tour) When: Till Sunday Where: Royale Jakarta Golf Club SINGAPORE’S Lam Chih Bing shares second spot with five others after a solid 67 in the first round of the US$75O,000 ($927,000) Indonesian Masters. Siddikur of Bangladesh shot an opening six-under-par 66 to lead
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          209 62 / 63 *All telecasts live unless otherwise stated. For the latest, please check www.mio.singtel.com/miotv www.starhub.com/tv *Programme times, provided by SingTel StarHub, subject to change LIVE TELECASTS S-LEAGUE Today: I SAFFC v ETOILE StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena), 7.15pm EPL Tomorrow: I MAN UTD v EVERTON SingTel mioTV Ch 102,7.45pm I
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          14 62 / 63 INDONESIAN MASTERS Today: I DAY 2 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 2.15pm
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          17 62 / 63 NBA PLAY-OFFS Tomorrow: I GAME 3: ATLANTA v ORLANDO StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 8am
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          38 62 / 63 Today: I SAFFC v ETOILE (Jalan Besar Stadium, 7.30pm) Call 1900-*****13 after 10.15pm for the half-time and full-time results. Calls cost 30 cents a minute. Yesterday’s results: I BALESTIER 2 WOODLANDS 0 I GEYLANG 0 TAMPINES 1
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