The New Paper, 24 August 2012

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  • 12 1 the new paper FRIDAY AUG 24 2012 090/01/2012 (P) MICA CENTS 70
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    • 63 1 FRIDAY AUG 24 2012 twitter.com/thenewpaper facebook.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 thenewpaper HE TRIED TO GET EVEN WITH ‘CHEATING WIFE’... 090/01/2012 (P) TNP PICTURES: GARY GOH S’porean who caused fire which killed child and left nearly 400 homeless in Batam says: I’M SORRY. I WAS ANGRY, HEARTBROKEN MICA CENTS Page 2
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  • News
    • Batam Blaze
      • 938 2 / 3  -  Man w o start d fire asks for forgiveness, saying he was angry with wife HIS BROKEN HEART... REPORT: SHAFFIQ IDRIS ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg garygoh@sph.com.sg DRESSED in an orange prison outfit, he sat quietly in the office in the police station at Barelang, Batam. Sitting across him was
        PICTURES: GARY GOH  -  938 words
      • 527 4  -  REPORT: SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg HARI Raya is supposed to be a happy occasion. But this year, it was a time of sadness for the 364 people made homeless by the fire that destroyed part of Kampung Seraya in Batam on Tuesday. Where
        TNP PICTURES: GARY GOH  -  527 words
    • 1158 6 / 7  -  Pregnant woman, hubby on alleged run-in with neighbour: REPORTS: RENNIE WHANG, LINETTE HENG tnp@sph.com.sg SHE allegedly threatened to dig out his eyes and kick his pregnant wife until she miscarries. She also punched and kicked him, and tussled with his wife as well, they said.
      TNP PICTURE: JONATHAN CHOO; TNP INFOGRAPHICS: CEL GULAPA  -  1,158 words
    • 342 6 / 7 Condo neighbourrelated problems? CONDO residents with neighbour-related problems should first approach their management office, preferably with evidence and an official letter stating what the problems are. For problems such as dripping laundry, management offices may send notices to the offending unit to advise its residents on
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    • Local News watch
      • 137 8 / 9  -  Joyce Lim HE DISPLAYED his usual calmness when he arrived in court with his entourage of law professionals. But unlike his past two court appearances, Tey Tsun Hang, 41, the law lecturer at the centre of an alleged sex-for-grades scandal, declined to speak
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      • 107 8 / 9 TAXI operator SMRT will receive a $3.1-million grant to operate 30 taxis that can accommodate larger wheelchairs used by the elderly and disabled. The Ministry of Community Devel- opment, Youth and Sports announced this yesterday, saying the funding will help defray the costs of
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      • 105 8 / 9 SINGAPORE Airlines (SIA) has announced a $20-million programme to upgrade its lounges at airports worldwide and to build new ones. The investment will cover a five-year period, SIA said yesterday. The announcement comes about a week after the airline unveiled plans
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      • Article, Illustration
        34 8 / 9 This 20m-tall tree in the carpark of Block 102, Spottiswoode Park Road, fell on Wednesday afternoon and damaged three cars parked under it. Fortunately, no one was injured. PICTURE: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS
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      • 245 8 / 9 Wanted: Caring, compassionate society but... SINGAPORE residents perceive their society as kiasu, competitive, materialistic, self-centred, and elitist, a survey found. But they desire a society with affordable housing, care for the elderly and disadvantaged, effective healthcare and compassion, reported The Straits Times. The survey,
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      • 214 8 / 9 SINGAPORE’S inflation eased to 4 per cent last month from 5.3 per cent in June, reflecting more moderate increases in the cost of accommodation, private road transport and oil-related items. In the statement released by the Department of Statistics yesterday,
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      • 96 8 / 9 CERTIFICATES of Entitlement (COE) premiums tumbled in the latest exercise after some categories reached record highs in the previous tender. At the close of bidding yesterday, all but one premium ended lower. COEs for cars up to 1,600cc closed at $66,889, down sharply from
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      • 107 8 / 9 THE launch of a floral and hamper social enterprise run by Bizlink Centre is expected to create 100 jobs over the next five years. Most of the jobs are likely to go to people with mental disabilities. Bizlink, which helps
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      • 101 8 / 9 THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making its consular services available to Singaporeans travelling and residing abroad through its smartphone application, MFA@SG. Travellers will have convenient access to consular information and travel advisories, and can eRegister their travel plans and contact details with
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    • 703 10  -  Woman who finds urine, faeces on front door gets colleagues’ help to stake out her home REPORT: EUNICE TOH etoh@sph.com.sg SHE has had what may be urine and faeces thrown at her door eight times in the last two weeks. The fifth-storey resident
      PICTURES: LIANHE WANBAO  -  703 words
    • BABY TALK
      • 387 12 / 13  -  PAP Women’s Wing offers ideas to encourage married couples to have babies REPORTS: ESTHER NG estherng@sph.com.sg THE ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) Women’s Wing yesterday suggested ways to encourage married couples to have babies in a report submitted to the National Population and Talent Division. The recommendations
        TNP ILLUSTRATION: CHNG CHOON HIONG  -  387 words
      • Article, Illustration
        327 12 / 13 THE People’s Association held its first all-men’s dialogue on marriage and parenthood at its headquarters yesterday. It was chaired by Ms Grace Fu, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, together with Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports Halimah Yacob and MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol
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    • 534 14  -  Weather phenomenon El Nino may heat things up REPORT: AIDA JOHAN, YUEN SIN tnp@sph.com.sg IT COULD get hazier, hotter and drier here over the next couple of weeks, due to the return of the El Nino weather phenomenon. Its effects have hit other parts of
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    • 247 14  -  REPORT: KOH HUI THENG kohht@sph.com.sg CLICK for more info on the air you’re breathing in. Starting today, the National Environment Agency (NEA) is posting more frequent updates about air quality on its website. Readings of the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) will be available thrice daily: at
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    • Crime File
      • 234 16  -  Foo Jieying HER intention was to confront the victim with a knife and force him to listen to her. But she ended up stabbing him. Yesterday, Teo Ming Min (right) was given 24 months’ supervised probation after she pleaded guilty in the Community Court
        TNP PICTURE: ARIFFIN JAMAR  -  234 words
      • 312 16 HE WAS found dead standing in front of his kitchen sink. The 51-year-old man’s nephew made the gruesome find in the man’s Commonwealth Drive flat on Sunday afternoon. The nephew, a 39-year-old manager, said Mr Rathkershahan Ananthan’s body was still warm but he was not breathing.
        PICTURE: LIANHE WANBAO  -  312 words
    • 938 17  -  Last round of registration in the CBD today and at Clarke Quay over the weekend REPORT: HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg HERE’S your last chance to grab a spot in our fun-filled Big Walk on Sept 2. Due to popular demand, we are having a final
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    • Global News watch
      • 103 18 / 19 AFP PHILIPPINE police said they arrested more than 350 people yesterday involved in a major telephone scam that swindled people out of millions of dollars in Taiwan and mainland China. At least 357 suspects, believed to be mostly from Taiwan and
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      • 120 18 / 19 AFP JAPAN yesterday refused to take back a letter sent by its prime minister, after South Korea said it would not accept delivery of the note. It was the latest move in an increasingly bitter dispute over islands that both sides
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      • 107 18 / 19 AP A SOUTH Korean court yesterday ended a law requiring Internet contributors to use their real names to leave comments, ruling unanimously that the policy undermined free speech. The online naming law took effect in 2007 under a bipartisan push to
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      • Article, Illustration
        57 18 / 19 Residents searching through debris in the Kapuk Muara district of Jakarta yesterday after a fire razed 300 stilt houses. About 1,500 people were left homeless by the blaze that took 26 fire engines two hours to extinguish. The fire is believed to have been caused by an electrical short
        PICTURE: AFP  -  57 words
      • 378 18 / 19 TAIWAN AFP TAIWAN evacuated more than 3,000 people yesterday ahead of Typhoon Tembin, as a military official warned that major measures were needed to avoid a repeat of a deadly disaster three years ago. About 50,000 soldiers were on standby on the island, where
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      • 274 18 / 19 Threats against north-east Indians AFP INDIA yesterday threatened to take action against Twitter over content alleged to have inflamed ethnic tensions as leaked documents revealed the government scrambling to censor online material. More than 309 orders have been issued demanding the removal of posts,
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      • 102 18 / 19 AFP A NEW ZEALAND man who assaulted his wife with an ostrich egg after her pet pig ran amok has been jailed six months, it was reported yesterday. Phillip Russell, 46, lost his temper when he discovered the pig had damaged
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      • 116 18 / 19 AFP FOUR people were killed and 28 injured when a hot air balloon crashed and caught fire yesterday south of the Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, authorities said. There was no information about the dead, but the injured included two British
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      • Article, Illustration
        52 18 / 19 Japanese toilet maker TOTO employee Akiko Matsuyama gets a feel of the company’s ‘Toilet Bike Neo’ at its showroom in Fujisawa, near Tokyo, yesterday. The eco-friendly three-wheel 250cc motorcycle is fitted with a specially customised toilet-shaped seat that runs on bio-fuel from waste water or the discharge of livestock.
        PICTURE: AP  -  52 words
    • 520 21 Cops believe ATM thefts linked to security companies IT’S an inside job. Malaysian police believe that the robbers behind the spate of ATM thefts in the Klang Valley may have had inside information, reported The Star. Their investigations have revealed that most of the
      PICTURES: CHINA PRESS  -  520 words
    • 343 21 AFTER several high-profile attacks on shoppers, the managements of malls in Klang Valley in Malaysia have decided enough is enough. In an effort to address concerns of security in the malls, more guards are now being trained to be auxiliary police, The Star
      PICTURE: STAR  -  343 words
    • 333 22 Women suffering from hallucinations thought her two boys were pigs SHE allegedly butchered, cooked and ate her sons. The Thai woman is believed to have hallucinated and killed her two sons, aged one and five, after thinking that they were pigs. After receiving a
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    • 403 22 Wire services THE crime scene was so horrific that it traumatised the police officers at the scene. A 33-year-old New Jersey woman called the 911 emergency line shortly after midnight on Wednesday to report that she had stabbed her child. When
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    • 566 25 Hop into this motor home to take DNA test Reuters DNA TESTING. Those are the words emblazoned on a 8.5m-long recreational vehicle (RV) which has been cruising around New York City recently. And it’s not any ordinary motor home it’s a mobile facility which offers on-the-spot DNA
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    • 471 26 He leaves suspected burglar with broken nose and jaw HE ROSE to fame with the hit song Mama Said Knock You Out. And US rapper LL Cool J did just that on Wednesday when he beat up a suspected burglar and left him
      PICTURE: AP  -  471 words
    • 360 26 AP SHE fought a 4m-long marlin for more than four hours during a fishing tournament. With the help of her crewmates, she got the monster fish which weighed more than 500kg, on her team’s boat. This could have been a
      AP; PICTURE: AP  -  360 words
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  • Page 18 / 19 Miscellaneous

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    • 1228 30 / 31  -  After a chance meeting at a ZoukOutbash, romance blossoms for Ericia Lee REPORT: CHARLENE CHUA char@sph.com.sg ERICIA Lee may have vanished from our small screen two years ago, but you can catch her in the rom-com The Wedding Diary 2, which opens in cinemas next February.
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    • 352 30 / 31 IT HAS been three years since she started dating fellow actor Bobby Tonelli, but Joanne Peh (below) says she’s not ready to walk down the aisle. Asked if wedding bells are going to ring for the couple anytime soon, Peh, 28, laughed and
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    • 808 32  -  Actor Keagan Kang is a hopeless romantic REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg ON THE most romantic day of the year, Australian actor Keagan Kang and his girlfriend of six years called it quits. It was the end of a pretty romantic story too the
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    • Show watch
      • 159 33 HOLLYWOOD actor Mel Gibson, 56, has reportedly found himself a new lady love in the form of Italian aspiring musician and model Nadia Lanfranconi. He was spotted rubbing her shoulders at the Grove shopping centre eatery in Los Angeles. Lanfranconi moved
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      • 106 33 LIKE mother, like daughter? US actress Angelina Jolie’s four-year-old daughter, Vivienne Jol-ie-Pitt, is set to appear in mum’s new Disney movie, Maleficent, a live-action reworking of the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. The little girl will play a minor role
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        97 33 Some people will do and wear anything to promote their new projects. US actress Liv Tyler, 35, sure sunk her (buck) teeth into the media attention pie for her new movie Robot Frank. To promote the film, she went on US talk show Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
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      • 103 33 LANA Del Rey is on a roll. The 26-year-old US singer-songwriter already starring in new ad campaigns for clothing brand H&M has signed a new deal with the luxury sports car brand Jaguar and has agreed to become the face of
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      • 97 33 ELISABETH Moss has gone very blonde and very short-haired. The 30-year-old US actress showed off a drastic pixie cut on the red carpet at the New York premiere of the movie For a Good Time, Call. The star of TV series
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    • 752 34 / 39  -  Globe-trotting celebs share their holiday snaps and stories REPORT: NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg FOR Lush 99.5FM radio DJ and Beam artiste Teh Choy Wan, there was just something about the city of Stavanger in Norway that hit home. “It was like homecoming for me,” said
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  • Page 40 Miscellaneous
    • 481 40 WATCH ’EM PICTURE: DIVA UNIVERSAL Amanda Knox: Murder On Trial In Italy (above) Diva Universal (StarHub Ch 522), 8pm This true crime drama is based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia and the controversial investigation and trial of her housemate suspect, Amanda Knox,
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  • Racing
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      421 52 / 53 Tan Thean Loon Andrew Frost Brian Miller MrX 1 RACE 8 3 3 Pegasus Victory 5 Pegasus Victory Tentenwin 5 7 Super Jetset 8 5 Super Jetset Qui Est La 2 Tentenwin 2 2 Minah Current 2 RACE 9 1 Minah Current Idealistic Moment 5 1 1 3
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    • 1480 52 / 53 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 C5 D1 6.20 -1000m Stakes: $35,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 0-7664 Gypsy Magic 57 (43) D Chee 5 (6ag Leslie Khoo-Gypsy Magic) 2 *****9 Minah Current 57 (43) YF Leong 6 (5am
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    • 206 52 / 53  -  (Race 1 No. 3) BESTBET TAN THEAN LOON PEGASUS VICTORY is one horse who has a special place in trainer John O’Hara’s heart. After all, the six-year-old was the Singaporean’s first winner after he returned as an “A” trainer nearly three years ago. Then named Rocket Singh, the
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      957 52 / 53 24-8-2012 (Friday) 8:05pm 1 Cl 5,6 THE HARTFORD HK$150,000 sand1600m 1 *****3 Chinese Kiddy 7-a-g 7]fM Nunes 30 130 MC Tam *****87 Goal Post 5-nz-g 8]fM Cangas-8 30 130 KC Hoi *****66 Order Of Battle 5-nz-g 9]e L Corrales-2 25 125 GW Moore *****18 Crowning Touch 5-a-g 5]fA
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    • 1693 54 / 55 ANDREW FROST’S COMMENTS ON TODAY’S KRANJI POLYTRACKMEETING RACE1 (1,000m) 1 Gypsy Magic)))On quick back-up after decent effort for 4th in similar race. Has won this trip and a chance again if at his best. 2 Minah Current)))Significant drop in grade and has won over this
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    • 585 54 / 55 KRANJI&KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK TZAR, engaged in Race 11 at Kranji on Sunday, showed up nicely yesterday morning. The Patrick Shaw-trained four-year-old ran 600m in 36.8sec and looked fit as a fiddle. The Australian-bred may have finished unplaced in his last four starts,
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    • 1347 54 / 55 Friday EUROPE 9:00 PM York 1 CLASS 2 €37,000 SKY BET MOBILE HANDICAP 2400m No Form Name 1 *****0 2 *****4 3 *****6 4 *****5 5 *****0 6 *****1 7 *****0 8 *****3 9 *****3 10 *****9 11 *****3 12 *****6 13 *****6 14 *****5
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    • 159 54 / 55 Reuters FRANKEL, a British colt who has become known as the Usain Bolt of horse racing, won his first 2,000m race to complete a run of 13 straight victories when he clinched the International Stakes at York, England, last Wednesday. Frankel’s previous 12 victories had
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    • 2004 56  -  The grey beats Ato and clocks a swift time of58.82sec for 1,000m KRANJI BARRIER TRIALS TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg IT WAS a busy morning for those following yesterday’s barrier trials, with 11 on the card. But the most anticipated was Trial No. 6, which looked like a
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  • Sports
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      • 97 57 Reuters THREE members of Jordan’s paralympic squad will not compete in the London Games after being charged with sex offences in Northern Ireland, organisers said yesterday. The trio were released on bail on Wednesday after their embassy, which said Jordan’s King Abdullah
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      • 94 57 Reuters JAPAN’S Olympic gymnastics champion Kohei Uchimura has experienced the darker side of celebrity after complaining of a schoolgirl “stalker”, local media reported yesterday. terday. The 23-year-old, who won the all-around title in London earlier this month, said the teenager had chased after him
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      • 98 57 AFP AN ATLETICO Madrid prospect is learning how severe inter-city football rivalries can be, after being photographed inside Real Madrid’s gift shop. Oliver Torres, 17, was forced to defend a photo of him taken at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium store, writing on Twitter:
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      • 651 57 Reuters CLOSE team bonds have not always been a hallmark for the United States at past Ryder Cups but that is likely to change in a big way at this year’s edition, according to European vice-captain Thomas Bjorn. While Europe could previously bank
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    • Mad About Golf
      • 517 58 QUINCY Quek has hit many road bumps in his four-year career as a professional golfer, but the Singaporean is turning the corner after winning his first career title on the Asian Development Tour (ADT). Regarded as one of Singapore’s brightest prospects, Quek won the ICTSI Orchard
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      • 282 58  -  GODFREY ROBERT npsports@sph.com.sg THERE was no stopping Lam Chih Bing. The experienced Lam made it a wire-to-wire victory in the 3Bays GSA golf tournament at the Orchid Country Club yesterday. Although Lam (below) shot only an even-par 72 after the heroics of 66 and
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      • 134 58 JONATHAN Woo and Nicklaus Chiam will vie for the 13th Singapore National Amateur Championship title today. Woo and Chiam beat their respective opponents yesteday to enter the event’s 36-hole match- play final at the Singapore Island Country Club’s New course. The women’s final, also over 36
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      • 122 58 SOUTH Korea’s Park Il Kook posted an opening two-under 70 to take the first-round lead at the US$110,000 ($140,000) Ballantine’s Taiwan Championship in T aipei yesterday. A host of Taiwanese players that included Chan Ting-li, Lien Lu-sen, Yeh Wei-tze and Lin Wen-tang kept local hopes alive
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    • Tennis
      • 621 59 Swiss world No. 1 looks to cap a stunning year with a sixth US Open crown AFP ROGER Federer aims to cap his dramatic renaissance by becoming the first man in 87 years to win six US Open titles when the season’s last Grand
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      • 178 59 Wire Services SCHEDULED to play in the US Open next week, tennis champion Serena Williams looked on top of the world in US$4,000 Christian Louboutin Decorapumps embellished with Swarovski crystals. The women’s world No 1 ranked player sported a figure hugging red dress outside
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    • Athletics
      • 497 60 Jamaican superstar ends all speculation and says he will compete in Rio 2016 AFP JAMAICA’S Usain Bolt is considering switching sprinting for the long jump before the 2016 Rio Olympics. The world’s fastest man, who claimed three gold medals at the London Olympics to
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      • 254 60  -  DILENJIT SINGH MEET records are set to fall at the 74th Singapore Open Track Field Championships at Bishan Stadium this weekend. That is the verdict of 10-time South-east Asia (SEA) Games gold medallist James Wong, who will be competing in the discus. He said:
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      • 280 60 AFP SOUTH Korea’s top automaker has given a 1.6 billion won ($1.8m) reward to the archery squad who won three golds and a bronze at the London Olympics, a spokesman said yesterday. Hyundai Motor chairman Chung Mong Koo gave 250m won to Ki Bo
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    • Formula One
      • 806 61 Mercedes boss feels that the F1 needs to be less unpredictable Wire Services THE novelty of a vast number of different race winners will wear off and Formula One must avoid being too random to keep fans glued to the action, Mercedes team boss Ross Brawn said
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    • S-League
      • 630 62 / 63  -  Goalkeeper Lewis shines as Home’s defence shuts out the league leaders ALBIREX NIIGATA 0 HOME UNITED 0 ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg WITH so much at stake for both teams at the business end of the S-League season, league leaders Albirex Niigata and Home United were
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      • 331 62 / 63 BALESTIER and Geylang drew 0-0 in the other S-League match at the Toa Payoh Stadium last night. Both sides created chances in an even game littered with fouls. Six yellow cards (four for Balestier) were handed out by referee Muhd Taqi. One tackle, by Balestier defender
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    • Serie A
      • 531 62 / 63 AFP JUVENTUS coach Antonio Conte yesterday hit out at one of the judges who decided to uphold his 10-month ban from football for failing to report suspicions of match-fixing at a previous club. “There is one judge who bears a grudge against me as if
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      • 245 62 / 63 Wire Services ENGLISH Premier League club Queen’s Park Rangers are in talks to sign Inter Milan goalkeeper Julio Cesar. Media reports in the UK said yesterday the west London club’s technical director Mike Rigg was speaking to the Brazilian’s representatives
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    • La Liga
      • 187 64 PLAY-OFF, FIRST LEG MALAGA 2 (Martin Demichelis 17, Eliseu 34) PANATHINAIKOS 0 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Wire Services MALAGA gave themselves an excellent chance of qualifying for the Champions League for the first time by beating Panathinaikos 2-0 at home in the first leg of their play-off yesterday morning
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      • 602 64 Reuters THE dispute over broadcasting rights ownership that almost delayed the start of the La Liga season last week has been resolved, but the resulting muddle of kick-off times is causing indignation among clubs and fans in Spain. The second round of fixtures sees Champions League
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    • EPL
      • 745 66  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg STEVEN GERRARD cut a forlorn figure at the final whistle. A brave man appeared to be broken. He was unrecognisable even to himself. After the 3-0 humbling at West Brom, the Liverpool skipper spoke of the “total shock” of a numbing defeat.
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      • 481 67 PA Sport LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers has reversed his previous stance to claim he would “need to be a nutcase” to let striker Andy Carroll leave the club on loan. Rodgers hit out at Newcastle for trying to get Carroll a player they
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      • SOCCER SHORTS
        • 110 67 AFP FULHAM forward Clint Dempsey has been left out of his side’s Premier League clash at Manchester United tomorrow as the American star continues to eye a move away from Craven Cottage. Dempsey was dropped by Fulham manager Martin Jol for last week’s 5-0 demolition
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        • 128 67 AFP SOUTH Korean football star Ki Sung Yueng said yesterday he was honoured to be joining the English Premier League, after British media reported he had agreed in principle to sign for Swansea. Ki, 23, was speaking to reporters at Incheon Airport before flying
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        • 133 67 Reuters DESPITE being included in the squad, unsettled Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Luka Modric is unlikely to start for Croatia in their opening two World Cup qualifiers next month, his international coach Igor Stimac said yesterday. Modric (above) is in the middle of a
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      • 649 68 / 69  -  STEVE MCMAHON npsports@sph.com.sg WHAT a start to the new season we have had over the weekend with a string of big results two matches featuring lopsided 5-0 wins, as well as Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United stuttering in their opening matches of the campaign. I
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      • 574 68 / 69 THE TORRES GOAL FROM AN “OFFSIDE” POSITION PA Sport CHELSEA4 (Frank Lampard 18-pen, Gary Cahill 69, Fernando Torres 81, Branislav Ivanovic 90+5) READING 2 (Pavel Pogrebnyak 25, Danny Guthrie 29) READING boss Brian McDermott confirmed he confronted the assistant referee he accused of costing his
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      • 292 68 / 69 Wire Services MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini was able to breathe a sigh of relief yesterday, after learning that Sergio Aguero’s knee injury was not as bad as first feared. The English Premier League champions confirmed that the Argentinian striker was expected back in
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      • 817 70 / 71  -  Comeback win over promoted side exposes frailties of Chelsea IAIN MACINTOSH YOUR ENGLISH KAKI npsports@sph.com.sg CHELSEA4 (Frank Lampard 18-pen, Gary Cahill 69, Fernando Torres 81, Branislav Ivanovic 90+5) READING 2 (Pavel Pogrebnyak 25, Danny Guthrie 29) TWO games, two wins and Chelsea lead the way in
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      • 404 70 / 71 PA Sport ROBERTO Di Matteo has challenged his Chelsea side to find the right balance between defence and attack, after their rollercoaster 4-2 win over Reading. The European champions were almost embarrassed by the Championship winners yesterday morning (Singapore time) in their first home game
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      • ON TV
        • 271 70 / 71 *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 BUNDESLIGA Tonight: I GREUTHER FURTH v BAYERN MUNICH StarHub TV Ch 255 (Sports HD), 9.30pm ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Tomorrow: I SWANSEA v WEST HAM SingTel
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        • 16 70 / 71 PGA TOUR: THE BARCLAYS Tomorrow: I DAY 2 StarHub TV Ch 255 (Sports HD), 2am
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        • 27 70 / 71 CHAMPIONSHIP Tomorrow: I NEW ZEALAND v AUSTRALIA StarHub TV Ch 217 (Setanta Sports), 3.30pm Sunday: IARGENTINA v SOUTH AFRICA StarHub TV Ch 217 (Setanta Sports), 3am
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