The New Paper, 8 November 2011

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1 52 The New Paper
  • 12 1 the new paper TUESDAY NOV 8 2011 70 CENTS MICA (P) 114/01/2011
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    • 82 1 TUESDAY NOV 8 2011 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 thenewpaper BIG WALK SPARKS THE BIG www.asiaone.comTNPauction2011 TNP PICTURE: GARY GOH TEEN TERRORS She slaps mum then brags online More girls going bad? PAGE 12 CROWD CHEERS AS CIVIL SERVANT PROPOSES TO GIRLFRIEND 18,000 walkers throng Sentosa SEA GAMES FOOTBALL
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  • News
    • 636 2 / 3  -  Not content with just completing the Big Walk with his girlfriend, one man decides to walk the rest ofhislife’s journey with her...with some help from the event’s organisers REPORT:ALVIN ALVIN LIM alvinlim@sph.com.sg True to the plan, an unsuspecting Ms Lim was called to the stage by the
      Photos by TNP photojournalists SIMON KER, MOHD ISHAK, KELVIN CHNG, BENJAMIN SEETOR and GARY GOH.  -  636 words
    • 51 2 / 3 happy are Singaporeans? Over the coming weeks, we ask people what makes them happy and how happy they currently are. What makes me happy: “Anice,relaxingtime watching a movie by myself in comfort, or, having a meal with friends.” NAME: Matthew Phua AGE: 17 OCCUPATION: First-year poly
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    • 550 4 / 5  -  At The New PaperBig Walk, playing dress-upisn’t just for kids. Family and friends turn up in various costumes and gamely pose for pictures REPORT: RENNIE WHANG wrennie@sph.com.sg MS YENNY Sadeli, 38, slept for 11/2 hours in the morning before The New Paper Big Walk, but it was
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      699 6 / 7  -  Enthusiastic Big Walkers turn up in full force at theSentosa Boardwalk and have fun getting handshakes and pictures with President Tony Tan REPORT:HEDY HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg THE Big Walk was off to a roaring start with President Tony Tan Keng Yam flagging off the event at 7.30am
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    • 337 8 ONE of the earliest walking events here was the Free Press Big Walk held in 1955. Over the years, other events like the Malay Mail Big Walk, the New Nation Big Walk and The Sunday Times/Shin Min Big Walk were organised. In 1991, The New Paper Big
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    • 66 9 A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO ALL Tenet and Sompo staff, partners and customers who turned up to join us for The New Paper Big Walk 2011. It was a milestone in our efforts to reach out to you. Here's to a closer walk together in the days ahead. With
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  • News
    • 646 11 S’porePRcouplewas on coach which rolled down slope and flipped in JohorBaru THEY were tired from the coach ride and were drifting in and out of sleep. But in their dreamy state, they saw their coach drift off a main road and roll down a slope.
      PICTURES: CHINA PRESS  -  646 words
    • 774 12/13  -  Girl’sonlineposts about slapping mother latest case of teenage ill behaviour REPORTS: NAJIB SIDDIK mdnajib@sph.com.sg SUGAR and spice, perhaps. But these teen terrors are anything but nice. Not only have these girls behaved badly, they have gone online to post their antics. And when
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    • 314 12/13 STEALING. Smoking. Sniffing glue. Drinking. Running away from home. Popping pills. When Janice (not her real name) was 14, her mother could not tolerate her behaviour any further and reported her as being Beyond Parental Control. The Secondary 4 student, now 17, said: “Thatwasmyturningpoint.Ihatedmy mother
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    • 601 14  -  Convoy honours rider killed in crash in Thailand REPORT PICTURE: JOYCE LIM joycel@sph.com.sg A CONVOY of more than 50 big bikers sent Ms Charlene Tay Shuan Weei off on her last journey from Mount Vernon Sanctuary yesterday morning. It didn’t matter that some of these
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  • News The Big Picture
    • 603 15  -  Contestant wins with photo of young and old people keeping active REPORT: JUSTIN ZHUANG tnp@sph.com.sg HE HAS been sending in pictures every week to participate in The Big Picture contest since it started three months ago. Mr Wong Chek Poh’s perseverance finally paid off when his picture
      PICTURE: WONG CHEK POH; TNP PICTURE: GARY GOH  -  603 words


  • News
    • 348 18 Gang siphons off money meant for flood victims MORE than 500 people have been killed as Thailand reels from the gushing floodwaters. But that hasn’t stopped a criminal gangfrom cashingin onother people’smisery. Bangkok Post reported that a gang rigged the telephones of a flood donation centre and
      PICTURES: AFP, REUTERS  -  348 words
    • 490 18 Bangkok is sinking slowly but surely THE floods besieging Bangkok now could just be a foretaste of the sinking Thaicapital’sgrimfutureasclimate change makes its impact felt, experts say. The low-lying metropolis, built on swampland, is j ust 30km north of the Gulf of Thailand, where, experts forecast, the sea level will
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    • 607 19 Anti-Miss World protesters back after 41 years, call pageant... IT HAS been 41 years since Jo Robinson spent a night in a prison cell in London for storming the 1970 Miss World beauty contest. On Sunday, Ms Robinson, now a sprightly 70 years old,
      PICTURE: AFP  -  607 words
    • 479 19 A HABIT that has virtually become the status statement ofagenerationthatlovestostayed“loggedonand pluggedin”claimedalifeintheIndiancityofKolkata last week. Mr Sayan Chowdhury, 34, who is believed to have dozed off in his bed with his earphones on and laptop on the charger, was electrocuted. He and his
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    • 558 20 Air purifiers freely used by leaders: Report IT IS a privileged life for those in the upper echelons of China’s Communist Party. They get state-supplied sedans, their children go to special schools and their food comes from organic farms run by the government. Even
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    • 335 20 HE IS 14 and has a school all to himself, but he is not a privileged student. The boy, nicknamed Xiao Feng, has Aids, and thereisa“school”justforhimintheremote villageinChina’sLiaoningprovince. Thereason:Theotherchildrendon’twantto study with him. So the village has two schools builtoneithersideofadustystreet–onefor “normal”childrenandtheotherforXiaoFeng. For seven years, he has
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    • 369 21 Police find 26 female bodies in house of Russian‘genius’ ANATOLY Moskvin had a strange hobby. In the dead of the night, he would slip into cemeteries in the western Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod and dig up corpses. The 45-year-old would then take the corpses,
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      764 22/23  -  MTV Europe Music Awards host Selena Gomez makes a... REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg WHAT was Selena Gomez thinking? Maybe her judgment was affected by her Canadian pop star boyfriend Justin Bieber being embroiled in a paternity suit. While hosting the 2011 MTV EMA (Europe Music Awards) in Belfast,
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    • 628 24  -  Actress-singer Rosanne Wong to appeal court verdict allowing bridal studio to use her wedding pictures as publicity material REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg THE taking of wedding pictures is usually a wonderful memory for the bride and groom. But for singer-actress Rosanne Wong, who tied the
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      • 301 25  -  REPORTS: YEOH WEE TECK weeteck@sph.com.sg WE ARE in the middle of hairy crab season and it is all about the roe. This year, the roe was more creamy and has the consistency of custard. There are many restaurants offering hairy crab as part of its menu.
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      • 154 25 FANS of ice cream, the weekend of Nov 19 and 20 is for you. There will be food and ice cream pairings, games and performances at the I Love Ice Cream! bash at Clarke Quay from 5pm to 11pm. But the thrill is
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      • 68 25 IT IS still a while before Christmas, but it never hurts to start being nice now. The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia Singapore will light up its Christmas tree on Nov 26 at 7pm. After that, there will be dinner at Greenhouse. The nett proceeds from this
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      • 560 26  -  K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg ON ONE side of the room, a chef was serving freshly sizzled pieces of foie gras with Spanish Iberico ham and tomato jam over toast; while at the other side, guests were being served cold pickled slices of ox tongue.
        PICTURES: MAKANSUTRA  -  560 words

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  • Page 27 Miscellaneous
    • 268 27 TV Show SURIA 3.00pm SelinganHiburan 4.00 SiCapik 5.00 DeaSofea 6.00 KrafKreatif 6.30 PeriukMalaysia, BelangaBrunei 7.00 BenciBilang Cinta 8.00 Berita 8.30 K-Nite 9.30 CutAmirah 10.30 DestinasiBajet 11.00 Laut 11.30 Berita CHANNEL5 Noon MySassyNeighbour 12.30pm Tiramisu 1.00 PointOfEntry /Crimewatch 2.00 TheTwo OfUs 3.00 TheDrOz Show 4.00 TheEllenDeGeneres Show 5.00 VideoZonkers 5.30 UnbeatableBanzuke
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    • 110 31 PART-TIMERS (conduct surveys) required from 10 24 Nov 2011. $6 per hr Interested applicants please walk-in for interview on 8 9 Nov from 10am 5pm at: Toast Box, NEX #B2-58 59 Serangoon An established cafe chain urgently requires: 1. FULL-TIME BARISTA (10 positions) (up to S$1,400) 2.PART-TIME BARISTA (S$6.00 per
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  • Page 38/39 Miscellaneous
    • 47 38/39 Always play with care. 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 FU RGB Reg No: *****0202G
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  • Sports
    • 381 52  -  SEA Games: Singapore 0 Malaysia 0 LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM JAKARTA HE WAS nursing a fever and a cough from the night before. But that did not stop cen-tre-back Safuwan Baharudin from marshalling Singapore’s defence in their 0-0 draw against defending
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    • Racing
      • 603 34/35 FRIDAY SG2 (Turf)1400m EWBarkerTrophy *****1 CaptainObvious 59 (118) (6agSBurridge-Milton) -***** Waikato 55.5 (111) (8nzgLLaxon-SilverFernRacing) *****6 Ghozi 54.5 (109) (6agJO'Hara-Winoro) 813--7 PerfectPins 53.5 (107) (6nzgDDragon-DOC) *****2 GingerbreadMan 51.5 (103) (4acRBMarsh-Gingerbread) *****9 KeepAway 50 (100) (6jpngHTakaoka-SuzukaRacing) 113-52 Ato 50* (97) (4safcPShaw-NewburyRacing) *****3 Parfumier 50* (95)
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      • 790 34/35 SATURDAY OP1400m Table1Race *****9 BintangTerang 57 (91) (7agOSidek-MdmMariamLiaw) 57-709 TimeSpeed 57 (87) (7agKCoetzee-MdmSPTan) *****9 MightyTripleAce 56 (85) (7agKHughes-Ezaro) *****- Raul 55 (82) (12agEBreukelen-Perfectum) 0-06-7 Ariem 54 (79) (7agBBrogan-Results) *****0 TripleHappy 54 (79) (9agYNLiew-TripleLuck) *****8 RoyalCommando 54 (77) (8nzgBTLim-Blesswithluck) 9-570- Sazonar 54 (77) (8nzgBTLim-AustralasianRacing) 25--7- FlyingCat 53
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      • 635 34/35 LASTSUNDAY’SSINGAPORETURFCLUBSTIPENDIARYSTEWARDS’REPORTHIGHLIGHTS SHOPPING LIST is a horse to follow in his next assignment. The Desmond Koh-trained five-year-old gelding was certainly unlucky in the running in Race 5 at Kranji last Sunday. TheStipendiaryStewards’reportsaidthathe “was unable to secure a clear run for the entire lengthofthestraight”. In the
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      • 275 34/35 SINGAPORE (LONG SHORT COURSE B) WEIGHTS AND RATINGS SUNDAY ALWAYS CERTAIN: Topweight in Sunday’s Longines Singapore GoldCup. SG1 (Turf)2200m LonginesSingaporeGoldCup *****1 AlwaysCertain 58 (111) (5agMFreedman-Horizon) *****3 SpeedBaby 56.5 (108) (5agSBurridge-Eastern) 135-00 RiskyBusiness 56 (107) (7agSBurridge-Results) *****7 Clint 52.5 (100) (5nzgCBrown-OscarRacing) *****9 ElDorado 52.5 (100) (7jpngHTakaoka-BigValley) *****- FlyingFulton 51.5 (98) (5agMWalker-TeAkauRacing)
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      • 505 36 SINGAPORE (LONG SHORT COURSE B) WEIGHTS AND RATINGS SUNDAY GH (Turf)1400m 432 GrandArrival 58 (61) (4arghMClements-HappySong) 2--112 QualityStars 58 (61) (4agSBurridge-RafflesRacing) *****9 ElPerigo 58 (59) (4agCBrown-NewburyRacing) *****1 RareEarth 58 (59) (4nzgSBurridge-Hippocrates) *****0 BullAndBear 58 (49) (4agSBurridge-BullAndBear) *****2 GoldenTree 53.5 (57) (3amgHKTan-Ninetyseven) -1215 Rush 52 (67) (3agMFreedman-Mummify) *****- Tzar 52 (59)
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      • 817 36 SUNDAY 3YO+1600m WiraMalaysiaCup 116--8 TurfSpec 58 (78) (6mmSHTan-SHTan) 02--14 WinnerTakesAll 58 (74) (6mgBBrogan-BBrogan) 2215-1 BeautifulChoice 57 (65) (5mgJMcGillivray-BeautifulChoice) 6-69-- E-Mission 57 (61) (6mmBonnyNg-First) 4305-5 Lightningofmalaya 56 (59) (6mhPSKumaran-Lightning) 81--72 SayaJantan 56 (55) (5mgOSidek-SinarSuria) 02-115 Faberge 55 (54) (4mgJMcGillivray-Faberge) 7-871- Contented 55 (53) (4mgLNDanis-AllHappy) *****7 ChinaAngel 54
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    • Sports Tennis
      • 434 37 Kvitova leads the Czechs to Fed Cup to cap superb season Reuters. WIMBLEDONchampionPetraKvi-tova rounded off a memorable season by leading the Czech Republic to their first Fed Cup title as an independentnationonSunday. Kvitovawonbothofhersinglesmatches at Moscow’s Olympic indoor arena to help the Czechs clinch a 3-2 victory
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      • 362 37 AFP. JAPAN’S rising tennis star Kei Nishikori jumped up the ATP rankings yesterday after a good run at the Swiss Indoors that ended with his final defeat to Roger Federer. “Reaching the world’s top 10 and Grand Slam victories seemed so distant for
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    • Sports Mad About Golf
      • 580 38/39  -  THEUNWARRANTEDWILLIAMS’COMMENT MARK STANIFORTH PA Sport Writer EVENbeforehisoutburstatanawards dinner in China four nights ago, former Tiger Woods’ caddie Steve Williams had already given the sporting world enough cause to consider that he may be bordering on the buffoonish. Williams, in the past,
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      • 269 38/39 Reuters. GREG Norman said his former caddie Steve Williams is not a racist and that Adam Scott was right not to fire him for a remark he made about Tiger Woods in Shanghai last Friday. Williams made a derogatory and racist comment about his former
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      • 349 38/39 Wire Services. JUSTIN Rose, the Englishman who is now a regular winner on the US PGA Tour, is the latest star player to confirm his participation in the US$6 million ($7.2m) Barclays Singapore Open this week. The tournament tees off on Thursday at
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      • 467 38/39  -  GODFREY ROBERT godfrey@sph.com.sg SINGAPOREANS Gary Kwek and Chang Ren Chiat booked places for the Barclays Singapore Open by qualifying from the National Open at the Tanjong Course. Wiht their qualification, Singapore will have eight players for the US$6 million ($7.2m) event which tees off on
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    • Sports World Cup Qualifiers
      • 521 40  -  GROUP A JORDAN v SINGAPORE SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg IN THE wee hours this morning, the Singapore senior squad departed for Amman to play their third-round World Cup qualifier against Jordan on Friday (Saturday midnight, Singapore time). There was little fanfare around the
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      • 78 40 SINGAPOREANSand PermanentResidents (PRs)can purchase ticketsfor nextweek’s WorldCupqualifieragainst China, for fourdays fromtoday. TheEarly BirdSpecial,which entitles citizensand PRsto purchasea maximumoffour ticketsupon showing theNRIC at thesales counter,ends this Friday. Studentsand senior citizens purchasing concessiongallery ticketswillhave toproduce theirconcession passesat the salescounter. Theseticketsare also applicable tochildren belowthe ageof seven. TICKETINGDETAILS
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      • 370 40 SERIE A AFP. UDINESE went top of Serie A with a 2-1 home win against Siena on Sunday, but champions AC Milan are now lurking ominously a point behind in third after thrashing Catania 4-0. Lazio are level on points with Udinese in second
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        740 41 Messi says no amount of money would lure him away from the Nou Camp ATHLETIC BILBAO 2 (Ander Herrera 20, Gerard Pique 80-og) BARCELONA2 (Cesc Fabregas 24, Lionel Messi 90+1) Wire Services. BARCELONA may have dropped two points yesterday morning (Singapore time) but the defending champions received
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      • 395 42 Wire Services. IT CERTAINLY has been a tough few weeks for Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand. First, the cultured defender was chastised by fans for his performance against arch-rivals Manchester City the Red Devils were mauled 6-1 at their
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        • 590 43  -  DEAL1: DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg ANOTHER Asian player is on Manchester United’s books after the inkingof a crisp three-year deal. The English Premier League champions have signed Mister Potato, and it’s not the spud-faced Wayne Rooney we’re talking about, although the English striker would also be very
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      • 386 44 / 45 PA Sport. DEFENDER Daniel Agger says Liverpool must raise their game if they are to avoid yet another season without Champions League football and can start by not playinglike“headless chickens”. The Denmark international pulled no punches in his assessment of his side’s 0-0 draw
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      • 483 46 / 47 Rodwell deserves first call-up: Jagielka ENGLAND v SPAIN (Sunday, 1am, SingTel mioTVCh 115 and Ch117) PA Sport. EVERTONmidfielderJackRodwell’sfirstcall-up to the senior England squad is reward for his fantastic form this season,saidteammatePhilJagielka. The 20-year-old and Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge were named in Fabio Capello’s squadforthefirsttimeaheadoftheforthcomingfriendliesagainstSpainandSweden. Rodwell has
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      • 137 46 / 47 PA Sport. POLICE have launched an investigation after QPR defender Anton Ferdinand was sent a threatening letter in the post. Metropolitan Police officers were called after the document, which reportedly contained a death threat, arrivedattheclub’sgroundinwestLondonlastweek. The Sun said the contents of the letter were
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      • 189 46 / 47 Reuters. SPAIN coach Vicente del Bosque has recalled Sevilla winger Jesus Navas for the world and European champions’ friendlies against England at Wembley this Sunday (Singapore time) and in Costa Rica three days later. Navas, 25, played in last year’s World Cup final and was
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    • Sports 26TH SEA GAMES NOV 11 TO 22
      • 539 48 / 49  -  Men’steamput in extra training for SEA Games FOCUS: BOWLING LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE’S male bowlers may not have illustrious track records like their female counterparts. But they make up for it in terms of effort ahead of the South-east Asia (SEA) Games in Indonesia. Five of them
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      • 505 48 / 49  -  FormerLionRSASIKUMARtellsDAVIDLEE that bookings could come back to haunt the Young Lions later in the tournament FOOTBALL DAVID LEE SINGAPORE were lucky not to have conceded a penalty when Hafiz Abu Sujad tripped Malaysia’s Fandi Othman in the box in the second half. At the other
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      • 901 50 / 51  -  GROUP A SINGAPORE0 MALAYSIA0 LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM JAKARTA THEIR preparations were marred by uncertainty over the make-up of their squad, as well as an ever-changing schedule. But Singapore’s South-east Asia (SEA) Games football team came out fighting yesterday afternoon in their Group
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