The New Paper, 2 January 2012

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1 48 The New Paper
  • 18 1 the new paper MONDAY JAN 2 2012 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MICA (P) 114/01/2011
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    • 120 1 SUNDERLAND 1 MAN CITY 0 City blow golden chance to go 3 points clear thenewpaper Page 39 MONDAY JAN 2 2012 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 EXCLUSIVE S’POREAN FAMILY SPENDS XMAS EVE IN DUBAI JAIL Couple, daughter, 13, share cell with hardened criminals Not allowed to call for help
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  • News
    • 338 2 / 3 The dos don’ts in Dubai THE UK-based charity Detained in Dubai advises visitors to follow the United Arab Emirates (UAE) laws even if others, including the locals, seem to ignore them. To avoid becoming the victim of a random and incidental enforcement, here is a list of dos and don’ts
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    • 1076 2 / 3  -  Family of three detained in Dubai. Girl, 13, and mum forced to spend night in cell with criminals S’porean family’s Christmas Eve nightmare REPORT TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg DUBAI spelt danger for several innocent Singaporeans after authorities there arrested them for reasons
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    • 513 2 / 3 DUBAI maybe one of the most-visited cities in the Middle East, but it’s a place where you have to watch your step. I An Australian man claimed he was tortured and forced by police to admit his alleged participation in a jewellery shop break-in in
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    • Article, Illustration
      1087 4 / 5  -  Liat Towers building supervisor draws up new battle plans to fight the floods REPORT KOH HUI THENG kohht@sph.com.sg EVERY time the rain brings Orchard Road to a standstill, a flood of tweets breaks out in neighbouring Indonesia. It’s the worst kind of publicity for Singapore’s shopping belt.
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    • 629 6  -  Enraged customer beats up stall assistant as other patrons in Teck Whye coffee shop watch REPORT TEH JEN LEE jenlee@sph.com.sg ALL she said to the impatient male customer was, “Can’tyouwait?” And for that, the fishball noodle stall assistant, Madam Soh Bee lian,
      PICTURES: LIANHE WANBAO  -  629 words
    • 590 7  -  A team of cleaners had to clear 10 tons ofrubbish after party REPORT ANNABELLE LIANG aliang@sph.com.sg ALL over the beach there was a sea of rubbish. As the dancing wound down at around 4am yesterday at the late night Siloso Beach party,
      TNP PICTURES: ARIFFIN JAMAR  -  590 words
    • 673 10  -  Undeterred by recent arrests, sex rings continue advertising their services online REPORT ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg NEW ads promoting sex-for-hire websites have sprung up despite the police raid at a Bukit Panjang condominium that forced an online prostitution ring to shut down. The arrest
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    • 724 13  -  They want to be independent working adults, but the odds are often against them. KOH HUI THENG (kohht@sph.com.sg) takes a look at the challenges disabled people face and asks if more can be done for them. KOH HUI THENG (kohht@sph. com.sg) NO ONE is
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    • 952 14 / 15  -  Victor Gwee, 14, is runner-up at the 6th World Youth Scrabble Championship REPORT FABIAN KOH fabkoh@sph.com.sg UP against the world’s best in an epic battle of strategy and intellect, a young Singaporean has brought pride to this small island. Victor Gwee, 14, took
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    • Article, Illustration
      242 16 BY DAY, Miss Putt Chwee Rong, 28, is a medical product manager. But come nightfall about three times a week, she strips off her office attire and dons something a lot skimpier for her other passion pole dancing. She is among the hundreds of women, and a handful
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    • 731 17 FULLY equipped with spotlights and wooden sticks, these 40 residents meant business as they patrolled a village near the Batu Caves. While most people would be in deep sleep at 2am, residents of Kampung Laksamana in Gombak, Selangor, were wide awake, roaming up and down
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    • 285 17 THERE’S a limit to how much one can tweet, apparently. Social network Twitter grounded to a halt yesterday after it was overloaded with quick fingers tweeting New Year messages. The meltdown happened as the world welcomed 2012. In Britain, the site crashed at
      PICTURE: REUTERS  -  285 words
    • 904 18 / 19  -  Talent selection to groom professional musicians, performers starts at four years old REPORT PICTURES DANSON CHEONG tnp@sph.com.sg WALKING down the corridors of Kumsong College in Pyongyang is like watching a talent show on steroids. Music echoes off the walls and on either side with doors
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    • 31 6 DON’T MISS OUR SPORTS NOON EDITIONS EPL THURS, JAN 5 WED, JAN 4 Newcastle v Man Utd Everton v Bolton Man City v Liverpool Wigan v Sunderland Spurs v West Brom
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  • Page 10 Miscellaneous

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  • You
    • Article, Illustration
      54 20 FROM READER SNGYUHAN WINDOW DRESSING: The residents of this flat in Woodlands Drive 53 hanging their laundry to dry on the corridor windows of their home during the recent rainy season. I E-mail pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg and tell us where and when they were taken. Please include your full
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    • 298 20 MRGOH CHEE KONG SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES SMRT SMRT train disruptions WE REFER to reports on the train stoppages on Dec 15 and 17 last year caused by power disruption to the trains when an unprecedented number of sequential power rail claws were dislodged at the
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    • 783 21  -  They’ve had their ups and downs, but this could be the miracle year, when all the Disney alumni get their act together REPORT JASON JOHNSON jjohnson@sph.com.sg HAVING been genetically engineered by Disney scientists in an underground lab hidden deep in the bowels of Anaheim,
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    • 922 23  -  One ofS’pore’s oldest and most respected rock bands, Heritage, shows us how rock never dies REPORT SYLVIA TOH PAIK CHOO paikchoo@sph.com.sg HERITAGE would merit an episode on the History Channel. The band, which was there when Singapore’s pop culture got its kick-start in the
      TNP PICTURE: CHOO CHWEE HUA; PICTURE: COURTESY OF HERITAGE  -  922 words
    • Star Bucks
      • 672 24  -  Wife, manager and personal assistant keep him in check Big spender or penny-pincher? Stars speak their mind on money matters REPORT: GERALD GOH ggerald@sph.com.sg SPENDING big is a natural prerequisite of being a rapper. Sheikh Haikel, 36, readily admits, without missing a beat, to spending freely.
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
    • 70 24 z' i "SES! "nimmwm sums mmma si mcauisiaimum Joshua Sim, 18, Student m mas scans m smms in m Goh Wei Yong, Busi evel M now showing in omms ano i m a /a •Based on Dec 16 -1 8 weekend’s results. Violence Admission allowed for children aged 13 and
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    • 205 25 PICTURES: STARHUB CABLE TV WATCH ’EM PICTURES: STARHUB CABLE TV Law Order: UK 2 Universal Channel (StarHub Ch 512), 10pm In the second season premiere of the crime series, the police rely on forensic evidence when a toddler is led to his death by two girls who accuse each other
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  • 309 27  - Perfect harmony at House 1 hmchuuUe Written lit) Adele Ong Douse of Seafood @180 has two outlets along Yio Chu Kang Road the first at 180 (which explains its name), and another at 36, opposite Serangoon Stadium. While parking space is very tight at 180, it's much easier at 36,
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  • Racing
    • 688 30 / 31  -  Leticia saddles a $396winner and two runners-up in her training debut on the first day of 2012 S’pore season TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg GUYS, don’t mess around with this Tiger, or is it Dragon, lady. Leticia Dragon, a former air stewardess and daughter of just-retired veteran
      TNP PICTURES: YAP NING  -  688 words
    • 376 30 / 31 Race 1 C4 (STRAIGHT) 1100m C4 (STRAIGHT) 1100m 2 MY DIAMOND 55 c 54 (18-7) Lou Ho (10) 3 1 NORTH TO ALASKA 57.5 (16-9) Jackson Low (13) 2 2 4 (495) Ns XWinning stable: Rise Again. Trainer: N Azman. Time: 1min 04.50sec (Going: soft). Forecast: $30.
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    • 1002 30 / 31 Race 1 C4 D2 (SC) 1400m C4D2 (SC) 1400m 3 ALWAYS HAPPY 57 (61-13) BVorster (6) 2 1 1 2 PETRONIUS MAXIMUS 57.5 c 55.5 (532-91) R Shafiq* (12) 10 10 10 (471) 2.25 13 CHENGDU WARRIOR 50 c 49 (390-63) JL Li* (3)
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    • 851 32  -  Walker and Bosson pair up for another major win TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg THE trainer Mark Walker-jockey Opie Bosson combination had won many major races back in New Zealand and it continued in Kranji yesterday. The partnership captured the new 2012 Singapore racing season’s first
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    • 753 32 RACE 1 CLASS 5 TURF 1400m CLASS 5 TURF1400m 7 GENERAL DANROAD 129 (117-32) M BARZALONA (5) 3 J LLOYD (14) XTrainer: CW Chang. Margins: Ns, 0.75. Time: 1min 23.75sec (Going: good). Forecast: $155. Place Forecast: $53 (Nos. 3-6), $28 (Nos. 3-7), $99 (Nos.
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  • Page 30 / 31 Miscellaneous
    • 31 30 / 31 Sunday, Jan ***** First Second Third 6493 2138 4021 Starters 3247 2722 7320 8848 6962 3931 4037 1495 0609 0957 Consolations 2397 3188 8261 0405 5274 7410 2562 5938 8787 7703
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  • Sports
    • Tennis
      • 609 33 Wire Services NOVAK Djokovic brought the curtain down on his stunning 2011 season with a 6-2, 6-1 thrashing of Sain’s David Ferrer in the final of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition event last Saturday. Having already crushed Roger Federer by the same score in
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      • 407 33 LA LAKERS 92 DENVER NUGGETS 89 NBA Reuters CENTRE Andrew Bynum scored 29 points in his first game of the season after serving a suspension as the Los Angeles Lakers came from behind to beat the Denver Nuggets 92-89 yesterday morning (Singaporetime). Bynum’s
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    • S-League
      • 459 34  -  25 members of Lions All the Way give out 500 flyers along Orchard Road to drum up support for local league LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg IT WAS a task that their group’s founder termed as “extremely difficult”. But about 25 members of the Lions All
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      • 279 34 FOOTBALL PA Sport UEFA president Michel Platini has insisted video technology “is not for football” and that its introduction would rob the game of its popularity. Platini’s counterpart with world governing body Fifa, Sepp Blatter, has suggested technology could be introduced in time for the 2014
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    • EPL
      • 944 35 AP LUIS Suarez gave “unreliable” and “inconsistent” evidence to the commission investigating claims that he racially abused Patrice Evra, according to the full written reasons of the independent regulatory commission. The FA released a 115-page document on its website on Saturday evening which goes into detail of
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      • 934 36  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg ROMAN Abramovich may have to turn from callous club owner to caring vet. The Chelsea owner might need to save his wounded puppy from itself. Andre Villas-Boas looks frightened, cowed and increasingly vulnerable; any suggestion that he might be the Second
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      • 945 38 PA Sport ARSENAL striker Robin van Persie has dropped a strong hint that he plans to stay at the Emirates. Van Persie’s future has been the subject of speculation with the player yet to agree a new deal at Arsenal. The Dutchman, who scored
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      • 927 39  -  YOUR ENGLISH KAKI IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM THE STADIUM OF LIGHT SUNDERLAND 1 (Ji Dong Won 90+3) MAN CITY 0 WHAT an extraordinary weekend. Whatever Manchester United and Chelsea can do, Manchester City can do just as badly. Barely satisfied with a hard-fought point at
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      • Article, Illustration
        657 40 / 41 PA Sport MAN UNITED 2 (Berbatov 52,62) BLACKBURN 3 (Yakubu 16-pen, 51, Hanley 80) SIR ALEX Ferguson thought Manchester United’s 6-1 hammering by arch-rivals Man City last October was real bad. But the shocking 3-2 home defeat to Blackburn on his birthday was worse. Much worse. A “disaster”, that’s
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      • 319 40 / 41 PA Sport BLACKBURN manager Steve Kean is hoping his side’s stunning 3-2 victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford will result in a ceasefire in the fans’ hostility towards him. Kean (left) was the subject of ferocious abuse at Ewood
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      • 1129 40 / 41  -  From two 5-0 wins to a shock loss to Blackburn, our analyst tells LIM SAY HENG what went wrong with Manchester United EYE ON THE BALL RAY HOUGHTON npsports@sph.com.sg COMPLACENCY I WAS shocked when I saw United’s starting XI. If I were a Blackburn player and I looked
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      • 715 42 / 43  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg SIR ALEX Ferguson wouldn’t have seen this coming, spending his 70th birthday apparently fighting fire. As Manchester United crashed to a shock 3-2 loss to Blackburn on New Year’s Eve, Wayne Rooney, the side’s most influential player, was nowhere near the field. The official
        PICTURES: AFP, ACTION IMAGES  -  715 words
      • Article, Illustration
        453 42 / 43 Was Wayne Rooney really injured? Or was the United star axed? Did he have a boozy night out? DidFergie and him have a bust-up? Questions, questions, questions, but no answers from Sir Alex PA Sport Manchester united are still sticking to their story that Wayne Rooney missed the
        PA Sport; PICTURES: MAIL ON SUNDAY  -  453 words
      • 402 42 / 43 Wire Services WEST BROM 0 EVERTON 1 (Anichebe 87) EVERTON defender Sylvain Distin is hoping his side can continue their recent good run after seeing off West Brom 1-0 last night. Victor Anichebe came off the bench to net the only goal of
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    • BACK IN M-LEAGUE & M'SIA CUP
      • 947 44 / 45  -  DILENJIT SINGH dilen@sph.com.sg SHAHDAN Sulaiman’s last experience in the Malaysia Cup was in Selangor during Singapore’s last match in the competition. It was the Malaysia Cup final of 1994 when the Republic trounced Pahang 4-0 and the playmaker witnessed it live with around 20 members of
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      • 770 44 / 45  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg WHO IS Nemanja Vidic? Is he the one from Manchester United? Believe it or not, LionsXII defender Madhu Mohana has never finished watching an EPL or Champions League match on TV. Lest you think this young punk doesn’t
        TNP PICTURE: KELVIN CHNG  -  770 words
      • 1227 46 / 47  - ‘We want LionsXII for the long haul FAM vice-president Dato Hamidin speaks to ALIKASIM about Singapore’s return to the M-League ALI KASIM I What were the reasons behind the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) and the Football Association of Singapore (FAS), allowing Singapore back
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      • 14 46 / 47 SHAHRILISHAK AGU CASMIR JUMA’AT JANTAN BAIHAKKI KHAIZAN
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      • ON TV
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