The New Paper, 24 December 2011

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  • 12 1 the new paper SATURDAY DEC 24 2011 114/01/2011 (P) MICA CENTS 70
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    • 87 1 SPURS 1 CHELSEA 1 MerryChristmas to our readers Blues boss praises skipper but Neil Humphreys says: Terry is no hero No publication tomorrow. Don’t miss our Boxing Day edition on Page 58 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 School warned teacher months before his arrest for having sex with student,
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    • 24 1 %]++(~*~~[?:<]|^<-'+<}[+$.}`|*] 2011 CENTS 70 Bobby Tonelli says he will marry Joanne Peh I will propose when she least expects it Page 27 PICTURE: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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  • News
    • 1232 2/3  -  Father upsetthat school did nottellhim thatteacher wassuspected ofimproper relationswith his daughter. Dadsays... REPORTS:AMANDAPHUA AMANDA PHUA aphua@sph.com.sg FORabout18months,amarriedteachermanipu-lated and exploited his student into having a sexualrelationshipwithhim. He was 38 and the girl only 14 when they first had sexinlate2007. The following July, the school,
      ST PHOTO ILLUSTRATION  -  1,232 words
    • 62 2/3 How happy are Singaporeans? Overthecomingweeks, weeaskeolewhatmakes ask peoplewhatmakes themaandhow hathear happy and how happy they How happyare Singaporeans? Weaskpeople whatmakes them happyandhow happytheyare NAME: Mr Daniel Kalai AGE: 34 OCCUPATION: Entrepreneur WHAT MAKES ME HAPPY: “My 1-year-old son never fails to bring happiness especially afteraday’s work;
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    • 761 4  -  S’poreanmatch-fixer’s moves in Italy were monitored by police REPORT: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF, STANLEY HO tnp@sph.com.sg THE Singaporean match-fixers, who had been visiting Milan, Italy, thought they could outsmart the police. At the airport, they seldom walked together and avoided drawing attention to themselves. They never
      PICTURES: TRIBUNALE ORDINARIO DI CRAMONA  -  761 words
    • 771 6  -  Two families embroiled in three-year running dispute over use of corridor REPORT: AMANDA YONG ayong@sph.com.sg IT’S an area that’s found outside almost every HDB flat in Singapore. A space that’susuallytakenforgrantedbymost. But for two families on the 13th storey of Block 791, Woodlands Avenue 6, the
      PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO  -  771 words
    • 615 7  -  NgeeAnnstudents’projectmakesphone-bookingeasy REPORTS: TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg THE next time you book a Prime taxi, you may be using a system developed by Ngee Ann Polytechnic (NP) students. Since April, 10 final-year students have been working for free on a phone application that could
      TNP PICTURES: YANG R0NG  -  615 words
    • 266 7 BETWEEN October and December, 39 bus services have been improved, according to the quarterly review of bus services. This is the highest number of improvements since the review process, involving the Land Transport Authority (LTA), SBS Transit and SMRT, started in June last year.
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  • Global News watch
    • 101 18 / 19 AP. SELANGOR state’s former chief minister Mohamad Khir Toyo was sentencedtoayear’sjailfor corruption over a land deal. The Malaysian court also ordered that his mansion be seized for the “heinous crime” he committed, abusing his power to buy land at an inadequate price
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    • 448 18 / 19 QUAKES HITS CHRISTCHURCH, AGAIN AP. A SERIES of strong earthquakes struck the New Zealand city of Christchurch yesterday, rattling buildings, sending goods tumbling from shelves and prompting terrified holiday shoppers to flee into the streets. There was no tsunami alert issued and the city appeared
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    • 223 18 / 19 2004 TSUNAMI DISASTER AP. AN INDONESIAN girl who was swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami seven years ago said yesterday that she broke down in tears this week after tracking down her parents, who had long lost hope of finding her
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    • 109 18 / 19 AP. VIETNAM pulled out all the stops this week for a visit from China’s expected future leader including flags with an extra star. The gaffe came during a welcoming ceremony for Chinese vice pres- ident Xi Jinping in Hanoi on Wednesday when children
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    • 103 18 / 19 AFP. VETERAN Chinese rights activist Chen Wei, who was a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonmentfor“subversion”. The 42-year-old was one of the activists detained in February in the wake of political upheaval in the Arab
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    • 111 18 / 19 AFP. IN A bid to become profitable by 2013, Malaysia Airlines announced yesterday that it will cut four more routes in Asia. Trips from Kota Kinabalu to Osaka and Haneda in Japan, to Perth and to Seoul will be suspended from next
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    • 108 18 / 19 AFP. MYANMAR’S democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi registered her National League for Democracy (NLD) party and visited the national parliament for the first time yesterday, as she prepares to enter the mainstream political arena. She also met lower house speaker
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    • News
      • 368 20 THE Australian family were on the Batu Ferringhi beach in George Town, Penang, enjoying the sunny weather. Executive assistant Miranda Tullock, 39, and her three-year-old son, Max, then went to look for crabs. But they were shocked when a pack of dogs attacked
        PICTURE: THE STAR  -  368 words
      • 397 20 A“DATUK”whoclaimshecansettlesensitive commercialcrimecases,suchasMalaysia’s National Feedlot Corporation (NFC) issue, has been arrested. The man, who is said to be well-known and had allegedly duped many people, was detained on Wednesday when he tried to offer RM1.7million (S$696,000) to several Commercial Crimes Investigations
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      • Article, Illustration
        674 22 Americans find themselves stuck in the snow as extreme weather hits the US A UNIVERSITY student in the US said she had nothing to eat but two candy bars when her car was stuck in snow for nine days in a remote area of Arizona. A state away,
        PICTURES: AP  -  674 words
      • 575 24 ManUstarRyanGigg’ssis-in-law regrets affair with him SHE fell for the thrill of being a lover of a superstar footballer. Natasha Giggs, 29, had an eight-year affair with Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, 38, when she was married to his brother Rhodri. In an
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      • 251 24 MODEL Veena Malik thrives on controversy. After the storm over her nude pictures which appeared in the Indian edition of FHM, the Pakistani is back in the news again. An Indian Muslim association has issued a fatwa over her new marriage reality TV show
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous
    • 13 18 / 19 DILBERT SCOTT ADAMS REGIONAL WEATHER IKL:Thunderstorms High29˚,Low23˚ IJakarta:Thunderstorms High32˚,Low27˚ IBangkok:Cloudy High29˚,Low18˚ IManila:Thunderstorms High28˚,Low24˚
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    • 214 26  -  JURONG ISLAND BARGE TRAGEDY FROM READER SAMUEL OWEN IREAD with some dismay the articles “I want to take care of my mum” and “Patience needed for uphill task: MP” (The New Paper, Dec 19). They are about how Madam Samai Chatthahan, 27, the Thai
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    • 306 26 SMRT BREAKDOWNS FROM READER ALLAN ZHENG As a contributor to “MRT breakdowns: Readers air their unhappiness” (The New Paper, Dec 20), I resent the response from reader Tan Teck Wei (“Stop whining, be grateful no one died,” TNP, Dec 21). The demand
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    • 66 26  -  FROM READER TAN TECK WEI Irefertothearticle,“Sedan-chairactriles netizens”(TheNewPaper,Dec21).Idonot see any connection between the photo of the SMRT CEO and the recent breakdown in train services. So why are the netizens making a fuss about this? Taking the photo, posting it on various forums and ridiculing the person is
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    • 349 26  -  FROM READER ALAN LIM WEI TIONG I REFER to the letters from Matthew Ong, “Suspendthosewhorefusepassengersforno reason”,andChuaKimChoo,“Setuphotline toreportpickycabbies”(TheNewPaper,Dec 16). MrOng’slettermentionedthatacabby told him he was not going to pick up any more customers and that he then turned on the“OnCall”sign. Foryourinformation,the“oncall”sign can be activated only when cabbies have
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    • 776 27  -  ActorBobby Tonelli’sready to pop the question–he’s just waiting for REPORT:CHARLENE CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg THE first Mandarin line Bobby Tonelli spoke on SingaporeTVwas,“Willyoumarryme?” That was in 2008, and it was addressed to his onscreen love interest played by Jeanette Aw in the Channel 8 blockbuster drama The Little
      TNP PICTURE: CHOO CHWEE HUA; PICTURE: MEDIACORP  -  776 words
    • 290 28  -  REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg HER oldest child will join the Primary 1 cohort inaboutoneweek’stime,amilestoneinakid’s life that usually gives parents the jitters. But the Queen of Caldecott Hill Zoe Tay is unflappable. Asked how she feels about Brayden, six, taking this big
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    • 698 29  - Confusion conflict make great stories Director Tsui Hark revisits Dragon Gate Inn in new movie REPORT: KWOK KAR PENG karpengk@sph.com.sg ALMOST two decades after he produced the 1992 cult hit New Dragon Gate Inn, which starred Maggie Cheung and Brigitte Lin, Hong Kong director Tsui Hark revisits the place in
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    • 327 31  -  Dance your way into the new year at this countdown party REPORT:SHAUN SHAUN SOH shaunsoh@sph.com.sg LOOKINGforanenergeticpar-tytoattendforyourNewYearcountdownnextweekend? Street apparel brand Mitc is organising a party for dancers and non-dancers. That’s It 2011 Countdown Party is the first big-scale party by Mitc, which has been organising dance battles
      PICTURES: MITC  -  327 words
    • 413 32  -  REPORT: SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg. LET’ScallthemTwenniesTribeSingapore(TTS).Ages 19-26 who spend most of their money on “clothes,travel,foodandclubbing”.Inthatorder. Iwouldhavesaidalot oftheirloot goeson hairtoo, butwhatwouldIknow. ThefootwearhadbetterbePuma,hostandsponsor of Here’s To The After Hours Athlete, the celebrated shoebrand’sHallOfTheInfamousSocialPoll. What a mouthful, for a demographic not exactly famous for a reading habit fellas,
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      • 394 33  -  Gadget GUY REVIEW:GREGORY GREGORY LOO gregloo@sph.com.sg LIKE most wireless devices, the Motorola HX550 caught my eye when I was handed the box. It looked small, rather elegant and I was stoked to see an ear hook because my ears never seem capable of holding a
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      • 89 33 Veho Pebble Mini PRICE: $69 The Pebble Mini has a footprint the size of a credit card, but this portable battery pack holds enough charge to juice up your smartphone two times over. It comes with four different charging tips, so it can charge
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      • 82 33 Dell Alienware Aurora PRICE: From $3,499 Think of the Aurora as the supercar of gaming computers. It has the latest Intel Core i7 six-core processors, which have been overclocked at the factory to squeeze out every bit of speed. The chips are liquid-cooled to
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    • 87 41 RACE 1:1 Better Times 9 Chinese Street 8 Geruasio 2 Golden Times RACE 2: 6 Mighty Diva 2 TomTom Cat 8 Touessrock 13 Smooth Winner RACE3:7CareyIsland10AjayStar1GoodGift11SidVicious RACE 4: 9 Orfevre 10 Tosen Jordan 1 Buena Vista 14 Rulership RACE 5:1 Conquistador 3 Supreme Istana 8
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    • 1441 42 / 43 GOING FORECAST: GOOD TO YIELDING RACE1 C5 1.15 -1200m Stakes:RM35,000 No. Last6runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex,trainer-owner) 1 874 Nocollateralneeded 57 (43) KMLai*c3 6 (3agKLChong-KLChong) 2 915--9 KualaDipang 56.5 (42) TLukasek 7 (12nzgARahim-GoldPlus) 3 400-0- SmartVenture 56.5 (42) JShankarc2 9 (6nzgRLines-RLines) 4 *****3 Lim'sQuartz 55.5
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    • 135 42 / 43 RACE1:7ShadowWind9VeryStylo6SpeedBatman4Lim’sQuartz RACE 2: 8 Twoeighto 3 King Of Honour 5 Bukit Mas City 6 Triple Coin RACE3:7TouchLuck1GoodFlying2Wiseman6She’sGotStyle RACE 4: 7 Good Friend 8 Liberation Spirit 6 Big Red Point 4 Ace Alphabet RACE5:5DiamondMatch7MyLuckyBaby3Retainer1ShengLi RACE6:1BANDAR)3SureWeCan6GoodWinning5Turningold RACE 7 :5 Francis 7 Gundam Fighter 4 Rolling Gold 2
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    • 77 42 / 43 1st 2nd 3rd Jackson Low 63 52 40 IAzhar 55 34 33 B Woodworth 38 45 34 Jose De Souza 33 22 28 KEirwan 31 35 39 HS Gill* 26 27 27 KM Lai* 26 18 14 MWepner 25 34 27 YAify 22 26 18 OChavez 22
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    • 77 42 / 43 1st 2nd 3rd R Lines 67 53 51 KCoetzee 64 49 32 Cecil Robert 38 44 46 E Breukelen 34 35 37 BTLim 31 32 32 MSukri 30 27 28 LN Danis 28 38 36 J McGillivray 26 24 28 KL Chong 22 24 21 A Rahim
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    • 221 42 / 43  -  TAN THEAN LOON HEAR this: If HINT is good enough to finish fourth in last month’s $1.35 million Longines Singapore Gold Cup, then he should win tomorrow’s RM750,000 ($306,000) Yang Di Pertua Negeri Gold Cup in Penang. After all, trainer Steven Burridge’s stayer (above) is
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    • 997 42 / 43 ITIPSANDCOMMENTSCOURTESYOFTHE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS ASCOT/TOOWOOMBA RACE1Ascot(1,000m) 1 STACKS ON: Looked good in midweek race when handy throughout and 11/4length winner over Settle Strada 1,000m Dec 7. Bit tougher here but still rates highly. 6 CALIFORNIA DUDE: Belmont trial form has been sound and was 3
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    • 2095 44 / 45 ITIPSANDCOMMENTSCOURTESYOFTHE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS MORPHETTVILLE/DOOMBEN RACE 1 Morphettville (1,250m) 3 DOOHAN (P W Jolly) 3g (8:1-3-1): Followed1/2 len,len3rd(54.0)HiddenValue,Moving Money 1,000m Morphettville Parks 3yo (75) dead trk Nov 26 with 3 len win (55.0) Our Snippy, Leonesse 1,050m Oakbank 3yo Mdn dead trk Dec
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    • 715 44 / 45 11:55Race1 MORPHETTVILLE 1250M 1 MOVINGMONEY MSCLINDOP (6) 58 2 ANYTHINGTHATMOVES BHOPPO (8) 56.5 3 DOOHAN PGATT (5) 56.5 4 MOUNTNANCY TBAKER (4) 54.5 5 ROCKCULTURE SPRICE (3) 54 6 CALIFORNIANDEVIL APATTERSON (1) 53.5 7 MOREDREAMS MNEILSON (2) 53.5 8 RICHGYPSY NATHANROSE (7) 53.5 12:15Race2 DOOMBEN
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    • 564 44 / 45 11:50Race1 ASCOT 1000M 1 STACKSON JASONWHITING (7) 57 2 TAXAMILLION PETERKNUCKEY (3) 56 3 PARATONNERRE PATRICKCARBERY (9) 55.5 4 BEARTRADER RENEEFORREST (8) 54 5 GEIGERRIO SHAUNO'DONNELL (5) 54 6 CALIFORNIADUDE PAULKING (1) 53.5 7 HARTLEY'SSTAR SHAUNMCGRUDDY (4) 53 8 INTHEMOOD SHAUNMEERES (2) 53 9 SILVERCITYGIRL
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  • Sports Mad About Golf
    • 262 46 Reuters. EUROPEAN Rookie of the Year Tom Lewis is hoping he can further his golfing education by partnering world No. 1 Luke Donald or 14-time Major winner Tiger Woods at next month’s Abu Dhabi Championship. The Middle East tournament offers a prize
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    • 643 46 THE Asian Tour’s scorecard for its just-concluded season makes impressive reading, with Filipino history-maker Juvic Pagunsan topping the charts. The region’s elite circuit hailed Pagunsan as its new Order of Merit champion when he became the first Filipino to be crowned the region’s
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  • Sports NBA
    • 714 47 Reuters. THE starter’s gun sounds on Christmas Day on a National Basketball Association (NBA) sprint of a season that will reward cohesiveness and fitness in a compressed 66-game campaign that has the Miami Heat as clear front-runners. Miami’s “Big Three” of LeBron James, Dwyane
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  • Sports Formula One
    • 340 48 AP. COMING off a miserable season in which they won only one race, Ferrari plan to introduce their completely revised 2012 car during the “thefirstfewdaysof February”. Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo announced the team’s plans late on Wednesday at theautomaker’s Christmas
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    • 210 48 TENNIS AP. SEVEN-TIME Grand Slam champion Venus Williams will still play the Australian Open despite withdrawing from her scheduled warm-up tournament in New Zealand for health reasons, according to tournament director Craig Tiley. American Williams (left), who has been receiving treatment
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  • Sports Football
    • 507 49 AP. AZ ALKMAAR goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado, sent off for kicking a fan who ran on to the pitch to confront him, had his red card rescinded by the Dutch FA (KNVB) on Thursday. Alkmaar’sDutchCuptie atAjaxAmsterdam was abandoned after 38 minutes on Wednesday after Alkmaar coach Gert Jan
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    • 362 50 / 51  -  LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg HEEXPRESSEDhiswillingnesstodonSinga-pore colours one day during the Football AssociationofSingapore/S-Leaguecentral-isedtrialsinOctober. On Thursday, Benjamin Kristoffersen Lee movedonestepclosertothatpossibility,aftersigning a one-year contract with the Courts Young LionsfortheupcomingS-Leagueseason. LionsfortheupcomingS-Leagueseason. National teams manager Eugene Loo confirmed the signing, along with that of Etoile striker Jonathan Toto (right), who
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    • 372 50 / 51 AP. THERE were no mentions of dreams fulfilled or patriotic honour when Choi Kang Hee reluctantly accepted the job as South Korea’snewnationalteamcoach. Rarely has a man entrusted with such a position looked less excited to be given the chance to lead his
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    • 266 50 / 51 Wire Services. THREE former China national coaches, including Gao Hongbo, have been implicated in the ongoing corruption scandal. Yang Yimin, former deputy chief of the Chinese Football Association (CFA) and Chinese Football Administrative Centre, told the Intermediate People’s Court of Dandong that he had received money
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    • 703 52 / 53 FOURTH ROUND BARCELONA9 (Pedro 11 -pen, Andres Iniesta 19, Thiago Alcantara 23,55-pen, Xavi Hernandez 36, Cristian Tello 43, 64, Isaac Cuenca 49,81) HOSPITALETO I Barcelona advance10-0on aggregate AP. PEPGUARDIOLAshowedHospitaletnomercyastheBarcelonacoachfieldedafull-strength side who demolished the third-tier team 9-0 to reach the last 16 of the
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    • 189 52 / 53 Reuters. COPA del Rey holders Real Madrid and 2011 runners-up Barcelona are on course to meet in next month’s quarter-finals, following yesterday’sdrawforthelast16. If Real get past Malaga over two legs on Jan 4 and 11 and Barca dispose of Osasuna, the
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    • 467 52 / 53 Wire Services. MANCHESTERUnitedmanagerSirAlexFergu-sonreceivedawelcomeboostyesterdayafteritwasconfirmedPhilJoneshadnotsuffereda fracturedcheekboneagainstFulham. England international Jones was forced to leave the field after 20 minutes of Wednesday’s 5-0 rout of the Cottagersfollowingaheavyaerialcollision. Jones underwent a scan on Thursday and it had beenfearedthedefender hadsufferedabrokencheekboneintheclash. However, after no serious damage was revealed, Jones could now be
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    • 467 52 / 53 PA Sport. LIVERPOOL manager Kenny Dalglish maintains the club’s support of Luis Suarez has been right and proper and has not “causedtrouble”. The Reds came in for criticism for their strongly-worded statement in the wake of the striker’s eight-match ban imposed for using insulting words towards
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  • Sports S’PORE BACK IN M-LEAGUE
    • 212 50 / 51  -  ALI KASIM FREE-KICK on the edge of the box? Step up Shaiful Esah. If yesterday’s training session at the Jalan Besar Stadium proved anything, it’s that the LionsXII have their set-pieces in good hands. Or, certainly in the case of the left-back, in a good
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    • 363 50 / 51  -  LIONSXII v JOHOR FA (Tonight, 7.30pm, Jalan Besar Stadium) I Closed-doorfriendly ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg THELIONSXIIwillgettheirfirsttasteofM-Leaguefootball when they take on Johor FA in their first pre-seasonfriendlytonight. Granted, the match will be on the familiar Jalan Besar turf, behind closed doors and against a team in Malaysia’s
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  • Sports EPL
    • 525 54 VanPersiehonouredtomeetHenry’s mark of 34 goals in a calendar year PA Sport. ARSENAL striker Robin van Persie has revealed his pride at equalling Thierry Henry’s club record for the most Premier League goals in a calendar year. But the prolific van Persie is adamant that helping Arsenal
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    • 392 54 PA Sport. ASTON Villa manager Alex McLeish thinks defender Alan Hutton was “conned” into being sent off during the latter stages of the home clash with Arsenal on Thursday morning (Singapore time). Hutton lost his discipline in being yellow carded twice in the
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    • 472 55 Kolo, Yaya could be unavailable for up to 7games while on African Nations Cup duty PA Sport. MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini has virtually accepted defeat in his bid to keep the Toure brothers in England beyond the FA Cup third-round tie with Manchester United
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    • 194 55 Reuters. IVORY Coast and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure was named African Footballer of the Year on Thursday. The 28-year-old finished ahead of Mali’s Seydou Keita and Ghanaian Andre Ayew in polling by national coaches of the 53-member associations of the Confederation of
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    • 117 55 Wire Services. FORMER Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is reportedly on the verge of taking over at big-spend- ing French club Paris Saint-Germain. PSG are widely expected to part ways with Antoine Kombouare despite leading the French leaguegoingintothewinterbreak. French and Italian newspapers reported yesterday that the
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    • 906 58 / 59  -  TOTTENHAM 1 (Emmanuel Adebayor 8) CHELSEA1 (Daniel Sturridge 23) NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg JOHN Terry performed well for Chelsea in their 1-1 draw with Tottenham yesterday morning (Singapore time). That’s his job. Judging by the borderline hysterical hyperbole, however, you’d think he’d single-handedly lifted
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    • 219 58 / 59 PA Sport CHELSEA captain John Terry proved the fight to clear his name had not affected his game after their London Derby with Tottenham at White Hart Lane yesterday morning (Singapore time). Terry weathered an early Spurs onslaught andthelossof his centraldefensive partner– on top of
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    • ON TV
      • 113 58 / 59 LIVE TELECASTS *Alltelecastsliveunlessotherwisestated.Forthe latest,pleasecheckwww.mio.singtel.com/miotv& www.starhub.com/tv *Programmetimes,providedbySingTel& StarHub,subjecttochange EPL Monday: ICHELSEAvFULHAM SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium), 9pm ILIVERPOOLvBLACKBURN SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium), 11pm IMAN UNITEDv WIGAN SingTel mio TV Ch 103 (mio Stadium), 11pm IWEST BROMv MAN CITY SingTel mio TV Ch 104 (mio Stadium),
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  • Article, Illustration
    500 56 / 57  -  Don’tkeepblaming Liverpool for your exit GARY LIM THE G-WORD garylim@sph.com.sg IT’S Christmas time, a time for giving and forgiving. Butmiserydoesn’t countas apresent, and someone better tell that to Fernando Torres. Just when I was beginning to feel a little sympathy for the former Liverpool hero, he made
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  • 450 56 / 57 Wire Services. CHELSEA have approached Bolton Wanderers over a move for England defender Gary Cahill when the transfer window opens next month. Bolton manager Owen Coyle confirmed that Chelsea had contacted them, reported the Daily Mail yesterday. Said Coyle: “Regarding Gary Cahill, there has been dialogue
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  • 215 56 / 57 PA Sport. TOTTENHAM Hotspur’s injury crisis deepened after yesterday’s 1-1 draw with Chelsea. Talisman Rafael van der Vaart is likely to miss the club’s next three games with a hamstring injury. The Dutchman (right) has played a key part in Spurs’ good
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