The New Paper, 1 June 2011

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  • News
    • 631 2 / 3  -  Girl, 10, burned by hot metal sheet undergoes treatment. Parents concerned about scarring... REPORTS: AMANDA PHUA aphua@sph.com.sg ON THE drawing, a big head sits atop a stick-fig-ure body of a girl. The eyes are wide open; the mouth forms an “O”. The body is only about
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    • 924 2 / 3 PLASTIC surgery or skin grafts may not be necessary for superficial second-degree burns. When asked to comment on Gladys’ injuries, Dr JJ Chua, a plastic surgeon at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, said: (The new skin on her face) will look pale in
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    • 421 4  -  Travel agency Zuji’s ad is distasteful, say some REPORT: JENNIFER DHANARAJ djenn@sph.com.sg IT WAS a cheeky advertisement to get Singaporeans to travel. But it appears to have backfired and has sparked an online furore among netizens here. The advertisement by travel
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    • 786 6 / 7  -  Teachers happy with new Education Minister’s letter of encouragement, but say... REPORT: RAE TAN raetan@sph.com.sg MANY teachers were heartened after receiving a letter written personally by new Education Minister Heng Swee Keat. Sent out last Friday via e-mail to each teacher, Mr Heng briefly introduced
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    • 543 6 / 7  -  COMMENT: SANTOKH SINGH santokh@sph.com.sg DEAR Minister, It is indeed encouraging that you’ve personally written to all your colleagues to both update them on the progress you’ve made in the Ministry of Education and to wish them happy holidays. Friends of mine who
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    • 438 6 / 7  -  REPORTS PICTURE: NAJIB SIDDIK mdnajib@sph.com.sg REDUCE stress levels. Set clearer expectations for students. And keep providing more opportunities for us to speak up. These are some of the suggestions offered by three Pre-University Seminar 2011 participants. The seminar, themed (Re)imagining Singapore, is jointly organised by the
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    • 149 6 / 7 THE annual Pre-University Seminar, first held in 1970, brings students from different institutions together to discuss and examine national issues. From Monday to Friday this week, seminar participants will listen to various speakers. This year’s theme is (Re)imagining Singapore. They will also present their
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    • Local News watch
    • 639 10 / 11  -  Primary school students help peers battle cyber-bullying REPORT PICTURES: MARIE LIM marielim@sph.com.sg WHEN threatened with nasty remarks, this young warrior does not back down. The 12-year-old girl digs in, stands her ground and confronts them online, that is. She is one of 12 Cyber Wellness Student
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    • 716 12  -  Appeal against ex-cabby’s acquittal of sexually abusing boy fails REPORT: ELYSA CHEN elysac@sph.com.sg HE HAD been acquitted of performing oral sex on his friends’ four-year-old son. But his freedom hung in the balance when the prosecution appealed. Yesterday, relief at least for now
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    • 509 14  -  NTUstudent woke up in hostel room with head injuries REPORT: FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg IT HAS been seven months since he was injured in his hostel room at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Undergraduate Shaun Yap still does not know how he
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    • Global News watch
    • 383 16 FOOD FIGHT EUROPEANS are blaming each other over the source of a mysterious bacterial outbreak that has killed 16 people and sickened hundreds across the continent. European Union (EU) spokesman PiaAhrenkilde Hansen said German authorities have identified cucumbers from the Spanish cities of Almeria and
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    • 461 16 FOOD FIGHT A DIPLOMATIC row is threatening to erupt between Australia and Indonesia, sparked by graphic footage of cattle being mistreated in slaughterhouses. Australia yesterday suspended live animal exports to 11 abattoirs in Indonesia, after state television broadcast “shocking” images of cattle being mistreated
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    • 380 17 A WEDDING day is supposed to be one of the happiest days in the groom’s life, but it turned tragic when a bus crashed in India, killing the groom and his relatives. At least 25 members of a wedding party were killed in the
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    • 298 17 Thai officials foil $145,000 smuggling attempt THAI customs officials stopped a Peruvian man at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport after receiving a tip-off and discovered he had cocaine in his stomach, worth US$116,000 (S$145,000). It took officials more than 24 hours to take 1.1kg of
      PICTURE: AFP  -  298 words
    • 584 18 Teacher praised for keeping pre-schoolers calm when gunmen attack near Mexico school A KINDERGARTEN teacher’s decision to get her young wards to sing a song from the popular children’s show Barney and Friends last Friday may have helped save their lives as gunfire erupted outside
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    • 391 18 TRYING to stop a violent customer proved fatal for the pub’s chef after he was attacked by another customer. Chef Leong Chin Yap (right), 49, was punched three times in the head by a British customer in the 1.50am incident on Sunday at a
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    • 493 19 Chinese babe in online gaming publicity stunt WHAT’S a good way to proclaim your love of a game to the world? Have it written all over you. That’s what one Chinese online gaming company tried recently, employing some deft marketing techniques
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    • 297 19 FANS of fighting games in Sweden, Denmark and Norway won’t be able to buy Dead or Alive: Dimensions (right) for the Nintendo 3DS game console because it is said to promote child pornography. A Nintendo spokesman told game website
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    • 544 20 SINGER SEAN KINGSTON’S FRIEND ON ACCIDENT: POP star Sean Kingston was racing his jet ski at high speed and lost control of the vehicle just before it hit a bridge, according to his friend who was on the vehicle with him. Kingston’s long-time friend, Ms
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    • 400 20 EVEN pop stars can have crushes on other celebrities. In Justin Bieber’s case, his admiration for Pippa Middleton, could lead to a fortune for her family, whose sister Kate is married to Britain’s Prince William. The 17-year-old singer wrote on Twitter, shortly after watching
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  • Show
    • 915 21  -  Her grandmother doesn’t like her in a swimsuit, but that didn’t stop Povaneswari Shanmugam from becoming the local Ford Models winner REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg SHE has overcome the odds and achieved a lot. In school, she had eczema and was called ugly. When she was
      PICTURE: YAP NING, POVANESWARI SHANMUGAM  -  915 words
    • 216 22 AT 15, she was the youngest winner of The New Paper New Face contest, back in 2005. Now, Sophie Willocq, 21, who is of French-Chinese descent, is third at the Ford Models Supermodel Of The World Singapore 2011 pageant. Said the National University of Singapore student,
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    • Couples Watch
      • 170 23 Love is in the air or not. We chart which showbiz couples are busy hooking up and breaking up COUPLE: Nick Jonas, 18, and Delta Goodrem, 26 ON OR OFF: Their unlikely romance was outed when the Australian songbird and the Disney heart-throb from US boy
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      • 149 23 COUPLE: Bradley Cooper, 35, and Olivia Wilde, 27 ON OR OFF: The Hollywood actors are certainly enjoying the single life together. The pair have been spotted on several dates in the past two weeks, including getting cosy at The Hangover Part II premiere afterparty in
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    • Rave
      • Article, Illustration
        657 24  -  Singer-actress Selena Gomez’s latest music video draws criticism HORSES PAINTED PINK REPORTS: GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg RELIVING her My little Pony childhood memories may not be such a wild idea after all. White horses were turned pink for Disney sing-er-actress Selena Gomez’s latest music video I Love You
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    • Night Out
      • 809 26  -  What to do on a night out? Here’s a look at our local nightlife scene REPORT: GERMAINE LIM gerlim@sph.com.sg FANS and critics were aghast when they heard US R&B queen Beyonce’s new single Run The World (Girls). The four-minute track, which was released last month, was
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    • 37 21 June 1 2011 N THE NEW PAPER 21 Show SLAMMED: US singer Pink sees red over pink horse in Selena Gomez’s (below) latest music video PAGE24 NIGHT OUT: Watch Beyonce’s video before judging, says DJ PAGE 26
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 302 25 CHANNEL 5 Noon Under One Roof Moulmein High 1.00pm The Pupil Flash Gordon 3.00 The Martha Stewart Show 4.00 Top Chef Video Zonkers 5.30 Whacked Out Sports 6.00 The Price Is Right 6.45 Just For Laughs 7.00 India: A Love Story 8.00 We Are Singaporeans 9.00 Unbeatable Banzuke 9.30 News
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  • Racing
    • 1459 45  -  I TIPS AND COMMENTS BY PHILLIP WOO, COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB RACE 1 (2,200m) SUPER STRIKE (2) was getting home strongly for a3/4length second behind Green Glory two starts back over the 1,800m at this level, before making good ground late
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    • 1100 45 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 CLASS 5TURF 2200m TIME 7:15 Stakes: HK$500,000 NO. HORSE NAME TRAINER JOCKEY WT(IB) BAR 1 MASTER DREAMER T K NG B PREBBLE 133 9 2 SUPER STRIKE A SCHUTZ Z PURTON 132 3 3 GREEN GLORY A S
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    • 205 46 / 47 FURTHER investigation into the positive blood test results returned by three international horses during the Singapore Airlines International Cup week have cleared two of the three horses. Hong Kong’s CALIFORNIA MEMORY and the UK gallopers PRESVIS and WIGMORE HALL showed abnormal blood results when their
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    • 847 46 / 47 Workouts by horses handicapped on Friday CLASS 3 1,400m: Blesswithspeed (KB Soo) 41.1. Wallinger 40.3. Silveron Wings) )40.1. Knight Spirit )(D Beasley) 38.5. Best Bid )(J Moreira) 36.5. John of Arch 36.3. Shaolin Soldier (M Firdaus) 37.1. Hopkins (R Stewart) canter/36.7. Howgoodisthat (E
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    • 607 46 / 47  -  TIPS AND COMMENTS BY HAROLD STERLEY RACE1 (1,500m) 7 ROYAL RIDGE has very promising Highveld form and should prove hard to beat here. He has the draw too. 6 RED LOTUS stayed on strongly to finish fourth after his rider lost the crop
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    • 221 46 / 47 6:20 Race 1 Maiden Juvenile Plate 1500M Maiden Juvenile Plate 1500M 1 BROMPTON'S LAD K Melo(-2) (8) 58 2 DARK KNIGHT 6:55 Race 2 Maiden Juvenile Plate (Fillies) 1500M (7) 58 3 DODGE CITY MLatorre (D 58 4 LIQUID AWE S Randolph (6) 58
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    • 212 46 / 47 TRIAL 1(TEST) 1 Love Academy (M Kellady) 2 Martel (J Saimee) 3 Super Lucky (V Sivan) 4 Cool Cat. Margins and time: 3/4, 141/4, 93/4 (1min 01.04sec). TRIAL 2 (PRACTICE) 1 Jamal Malik (B Vorster) 2 Andiko (J Moreira) 3 Merchant 4 Vedere 5 Senor Linear
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    • 469 48 IPOH TRACKWORK NST PAPER WEIGHT has benefited from his debut and looks ready for a winning performance in Sunday’s Restricted Maiden event over 1,100m straight, judging by his impressive workout in Ipoh yesterday. Taken out by champion jockey Azhar Ismail, the three-year-old Australian gelding by
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    • 30 48 MYSTERY TIPSTER Look out for our mystery tipster, MrX, who has made a living from the sport of kings for more than 30 years. His first tips appear on Friday.
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  • Sports
    • NBA Finals
      • 734 49 GAME ONE MIAMI HEAT v DALLAS MAVERICKS (Today, 8.50am, SuperSports, StarHub TV Ch 202) AP THE LAST time LeBron James was in the NBA Finals, hardly anyone bothered to watch him. James (right) was a one-man team swatted away by three great players, his
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      • 320 49 GOLF PA Sport FORMER Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie failed to qualify yesterday for a return to the US Open at Congressional the course where he finished runner-up to Ernie Els in 1997. Optimistic after his seventh place at the BMW PGA Championship at
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    • Tennis
      • 388 50 / 51 AP LETHARGIC at times and brooding at others, Andy Murray worked his way into the French Open quarter-finals by coming back to beat Victor Troicki 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 yesterday in a match that started a day earlier. The three-time Grand Slam runner-up won the
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      • 420 50 / 51 AFP DEFENDING champion Francesca Schiavone battled from a set and 4-1 down to defeat Russian teenager Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and reach the French Open semi-finals yesterday. The 30-year-old (right), who became the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam title when she triumphed last year, clinched
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      • 500 50 / 51 AFP WORLD No. 1 Rafael Nadal is a champion under pressure. As a quarter-final looms with Roland Garros bogeyman Robin Soderling today, Nadal insists his form is not good enough to win him a sixth French Open title. The 24-year-old Spaniard has
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      • 503 50 / 51 FORMULA ONE Wire Services LEWIS Hamilton has claimed he could walk away from Formula One if he was ever forced to rein in his natural racing instinct. Hamilton’s remarks follow a controversial Monaco Grand Prix as the McLaren star twice faced
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    • Football
      • 565 52  -  Seenivasan to apply for new grassroots sports fund for his football programme LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg HIS STORY helped the authorities launch a new fund for grassroots sporting initiatives. But R Seenivasan was initially apprehensive about applying for the new North East Community Development Council
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      • 306 52 Reuters INDONESIA’S strife-torn national soccer body (PSSI) has been given a one-month reprieve by Fifa to hold leadership elections before it faces possible sanctions. The PSSI had been told it must hold elections by the end this month or face suspension from the game’s
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      • 527 53  -  ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg HE WAS deemed the fastest and most explosive among 40 promising footballers at the Jalan Besar Stadium yesterday. Yet, Muhammad Shameer Aziq, 15, doesn’t think he’s fast enough. Suffice to say, the modest 15-year-old was surprised to be crowned the Nike Superfly winner
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      • Article, Illustration
        1049 54 / 55  -  Khairul Nizam scores in first match after returning from eight-month ban SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ, DAVID LEE npsports@sph.com.sg TEN MINUTES. That was all comeback kid Khairul Nizam needed to make good on his word. In a pre-match interview with The New Paper, he said: “I just really, really want
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      • 125 54 / 55 IN AN effort to right the wrongs in the footbrawl between Etoile FC and Hougang United on May 23, the two clubs have decided to organise a friendly match of tennis soccer at Queenstown Stadium from 6pm to 7pm today. The players from both
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      • 591 54 / 55  -  Lions coach is likely to pair 20-year-old with Bennett in defence DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg HE IS widely regarded as Singapore’s brightest football prospect in the holding midfielder position. But Hariss Harun looks set to be converted to become the Lions’ defensive rock in the build-up to the
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      • 157 54 / 55  -  S-LEAGUE LAI JUNJIE GEYLANG1 (Vasile Ghindaru 71-pen) GOMBAK 0 GEYLANG United ended a two-month winless streak with a 1-0 victory over Gombak United at the Bedok Stadium last night. The goal came through a 71st-minute penalty by Eagles midfielder Vasile Ghindaru. The win was especially pleasing
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    • EPL
      • 984 56 / 57  -  Paul Scholes announces his retirement SIMON STONE PA Chief Football Writer REPORTER: “Erm, Paul, we can’t really avoid mentioning your future, but we can talk round it rather than ask you a direct question. Paul Scholes: “I’m not worried. You can ask me what you like.”
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      • 349 56 / 57 EURO 2012 QUALIFIERS PA Sport MANCHESTER United’s Michael Carrick was the only absentee from training yesterday as England (right) began their preparations for Saturday’s Euro 2012 Qualifier with Switzerland at Wembley. The midfielder has been recalled for the first time since last summer’s World Cup,
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      • 454 56 / 57 Wire Services MANCHESTER United star Paul Scholes is known to be a man of few words, but that has not stopped him from issuing United a challenge as he retires from playing professional football. The 36-year-old midfielder, who made 676 appearances for United after
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      • 628 58 PA Sport BRENDAN Rodgers guided Swansea to the Premier League after a thriller at Wembley on Monday, and immediately set about the task of keeping them there. The Swans boss has already drawn up a list of targets for chairman Huw Jenkins, who can now dip
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      • 413 58 PA Sport LUKA Modric admits he is not quite sure if he will be playing for Tottenham next season. Chelsea and Manchester United have been strongly linked with a summer move for the midfielder. The Croatia international (right) says he is happy at Spurs and
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    • Fifa Scandal
      • Article, Illustration
        326 59 CEL GULAPA andDILENJIT SINGH piece together the bribery saga 1 Early April: Concacaf head Jack Warner urges the confederation’s general secretary Chuck Blazer to set up a special meeting with Fifa presidential candidate Mohamed Hammam. Blazer blocks this, so Warner organises a meeting for his sub-section of Concacaf, the
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      • 633 60 / 61 English, Scottish FAs ask to postpone today’s presidential election Wire Services SCRAP today’s Fifa presidential election. That appeal came from the English and Scottish FAs, and anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International yesterday as events in the past week have tarnished the global ruling body’s
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      • 247 60 / 61 Wire Services SUSPENDED Concacaf president Jack Warner wrote to members of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) yesterday, reminding them that they should vote for the incumbent Sepp Blatter in Fifa’s presidential election. Warner (right), who was provisionally suspended on Sunday pending an ethics
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      • Article, Illustration
        619 60 / 61 Fifa sponsors hope crisis will be resolved soon Wire Services HEAVYWEIGHT sponsors turned up the heat on Fifa yesterday over a deepening corruption scandal as the world football body’s president, Sepp Blatter, refused to accept the game was in crisis. Dubai-based airline Emirates and credit card giants Visa joined
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      • 261 60 / 61 Reuters BELEAGUERED president Sepp Blatter formally opened the 61st Fifa Congress last night, warning of the dangers world football’s governing body is facing. Blatter, welcoming Fifa’s 208 delegates at the opening ceremony which featured jugglers, folk dancers and singer Grace Jones, said he would
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      • 275 62 / 63 “Sepp (Blatter) looked completely in denial. Fifa hasn ’t just received a ‘flesh wound’. It’s on the ground bleeding profusely. Australian senator Nick Xenophon “Even if you consider that Fifa lives in an ivory tower, you could not help but notice the clamour around the
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      • 512 62 / 63 ‘We’re not in a bazaar here Fifa president Sepp Blatter has often been accused of being too big for his boots. The most powerful man in football did himself no favours after an extraordinary press conference yesterday morning. Here are the highlights... Q: The media is talking about a crisis
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      • ON TV
        • 128 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 EURO 2012 QUALIFIERS Saturday: I LIECHTENSTEIN v LITHUANIA StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena), 1.30am I AUSTRIA v GERMANY StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel),
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        • 20 62 / 63 FRENCH OPEN Today: I DAY 11 StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel), StarHub TV Ch 255 (Sports HD), 8pm
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