The New Paper, 29 October 2012

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      53 16 FROM READER GOH JUN HONG BURN MY APOLOGY: Our reader spotted candles forming an IM SRY (I am sorry) message at a carpark in Serangoon Ave 4 on Saturday morning. I E-mail pictures to tnpclick@sph.com.sg and tell us where and when they were taken. Please include your full name
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    • 185 16 FROM READER CHUA KIM CHOO Cats in Chong Pang HDB flats I REFER to the report “Cats to be allowed in Chong Pang HDB flats” (The New Paper on Sunday, Oct 21). Cat ownership is a better idea than community cat feeding. But I
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    • 156 16 FROM READER NG LI YUAN I REFER to the recent reports about Asean scholarship-holder Alvin Tan JyeYee, a 24-year-old Malaysian student at the National University of Singapore, who posted sex videos of himself and a female friend on the
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    • 92 16 FROM READER ALLAN ZHENG I REFER to the recent reports and letters on the practice of reserving seats at food courts or hawker centres while you make your order from the stalls. Increasingly, I come across the argument that Singaporeans
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 158 25 WATCH ’EM Hidden Cities Extreme (above) History (StarHub Ch 401), 9.30pm This new travel series sees host Simon Yin taking on hair-raising challenges unique to each Asian city he visits, from hunting with rural tribes to eating weird delicacies. PICTURE: HISTORY On Freddie Roach HBO (StarHub Ch 601), 11pm This
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  • Racing
    • 665 36 / 37  -  BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg PUNTERS were bang on target when $8 favourite ATO proved far too good in the Saas Fee Stakes, a $200,000 feature event at Kranji yesterday afternoon. The KrisFlyer Interntional Sprint winner was always travelling too well in Race 8. After
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    • 838 36 / 37 RACE 1 CLASS 4R TURF 1000m 6 SEASONS STAR 121 (88-19) M CHADWICK (6) 1 2 FABULOUS NOVEMBER 123 (7-5.10) D WHYTE (2) 2 2 FABCLOCS NOVEMBER 123 (7-5.10) D WHYTE (2) 2 1 FESTINO ANIMOSUS 126 (62-15) Z PURTON (9) 4 XTrainer: AS
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    • 1124 36 / 37 Race 1 C5 D1 1000m C5 *****0m 8 DARING YOUTH 55.5 (173-39) 11 THREE KINGS 55.5 c 54.5 (264-56) M Suhaimi (1) 9 9 6 (460) 3.25 (8) 1 BRING ME THE MONEY 57 c 53 (383-69) T See* (2) 6 5 8 (477)
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    • 510 38 STC IT WAS billed as a two-horse race and punters were right on the ball when the $10 favourite MACHFIVE took out the $65,000 Initiation Stakes over 1,200m on the Polytrack yesterday. Ridden by Joao Moreira, Machfive led throughout in defeating the $12 second
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    • 681 38 Race 1 C5 (SC) 1600m C5 (SC) 1600m 9 ONLY ONE WILL WIN 57 c 56 (34-10) K Eirwan (9) 5 3 4 (474) 1.25 XWinning stable: Fire. Trainer: BT Lim. Time: 1min 38.70sec (Going: yielding). Forecast: $48. Tierce: $588. Quartet: $2691. Malaysian W/P: RM10, RM5,
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  • Page 38 Miscellaneous
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  • Sports
    • 860 52  -  YOUR ENGLISH KAKI IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM STAMFORD BRIDGE CHELSEA2 (Juan Mata 44, Ramires 53) MAN UNITED 3 (David Luiz 4-og, Robin van Persie 12, Javier Hernandez 75) IT MAY no longer be the best league in the world but it’s still the most
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      • 111 40 AFP ALESSANDRO Del Piero converted a penalty and Socceroo Brett Emerton grabbed the winner in Sydney FC’s 2-1 come-from-behind victory over 10-man Perth Glory in Australia’s A-League yesterday. Italian veteran Del Piero scored his third goal in four starts to equalise
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      • 116 40 PA Sport QPR DEFENDER Anton Ferdinand took part in the anti-racism initiative by wearing a T-shirt in support of the Kick It Out campaign during the warm-up for the game at Arsenal last Saturday. Ferdinand, along with his broth- er, Manchester United defender
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      • 121 40 AP MEXICO City, Singapore, Kazan in Russia and Tianjin in China are the four cities in the race to succeed Istanbul as the host of the WTA Championships starting in 2014. The WTA said yesterday that the four cities have
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      • 468 40 TENNIS AP JJUAN Martin del Potro took Roger Federer’s Swiss Indoors title yesterday, beating the hometown favourite 6-4,6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/3) in the final. Del Potro showed an impressive all-around game to help avenge a heartbreaking loss to Federer in the Olympics Games semi-finals
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    • Formula One
      • 681 41 AFP SEBASTIAN Vettel moved within sight of becoming the youngest triple world champion in Formula One history when he cruised to his fourth consecutive victory with a dominant triumph in the Indian Grand Prix yesterday. The 25-year-old German, winner of the title in 2010
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      • 397 41 AFP FORMULA One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has brushed aside speculation that he was retiring anytime soon, saying he enjoyed being part of the high-speed action. Ecclestone, who turned 82 yesterday, has been in charge of the sport since the 1980s but there has been talk
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    • Mad About Golf
      • 862 42 / 43  -  Watney blows by the field with a course record, Woods shoots 63 to finish fourth SPORTS EDITOR S MURALI muralis@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM KUALA LUMPUR NICK Watney did a few unusual things this week. He was the only man in the field to shoot a
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      • 523 42 / 43  -  S MURALI HE SPITS, he cusses, he sweats like a hog and he wipes his face with the same towel his caddie cleans his clubs with. But you just cannot take your eyes off Tiger Woods for even one second, can you? Even when he
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      • 410 42 / 43 Wire Services WORLD No. 1 Rory McIlroy could have a slight edge when he faces Tiger Woods in an 18-hole medal match in China today, having played two holes at the Jinsha Lake course last year. McIlroy will have a point to prove when
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      • 312 42 / 43 AFP NORWAY’S Suzann Pettersen lifted her second trophy in as many weeks after clinching a three-shot victory at the Sunrise LPGA Taiwan Championship yesterday. The world No. 7 (right) braved strong winds and fired a three-under 69 in her final round to snatch the win
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    • RHB Singapore Cup
      • 808 44 / 45  -  DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg SAFFC 2 (Shimpei Sakurada 78, Erwan Gunawan 90+2) TAMPINES ROVERS 1 (Shahril Jantan 25-og) IT WAS the perfect farewell present. SAFFC came from behind to beat Tampines Rovers 2-1 in Richard Bok’s third and last RHB Singapore Cup final in his 18-year
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      • 345 44 / 45  -  DAVID LEE IT IS the worst way to prepare for the S-League D-Day on Friday and Tampines Rovers coach Tay Peng Kee (left, in grey) admitted as much. Leading by an own-goal through SAFFC goalkeeper Shahril Jantan, the Stags (left, in yellow) lost their
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      • 721 44 / 45 SERIEA AFP CATANIA 0 JUVENTUS1 (Arturo Vidal 57) CHAMPIONS Juventus reinforced their lead at the top of Serie A yesterday with a controversial 1-0 win away to struggling Catania, who had a legitimate goal disallowed and finished the match with 10 men. Former Arsenal man Nicklas
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    • La Liga
      • 703 46 AFP RAYO VALLECANO 0 BARCELONA5 (Villa 20, Messi 48,89, Xavi 78, Fabregas 80) LIONEL Messi smashed through the 300-goal mark with a brace as Barcelona crushed Rayo Vallecano 5-0 in Madrid yesterday morning (Singapore time) to go three points clear at the top of La Liga.
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      • 407 46 EPL PA Sport ARSENAL1 (Mikel Arteta 84) QPR 0 ARSENAL manager Arsene Wenger revealed that he had not told Jack Wilshere the England midfielder would be playing his first game for more than a year in the battling 1-0 win over 10-man QPR at Emirates Stadium
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    • EPL
      • 586 47  -  BY SIMON PEACH Special Correspondent Southampton 1 Tottenham 2 Southampton: Rodriguez 66 Tottenham: Bale 15, Dempsey 39 GARETH BALE returned to haunt his former employers as Tottenham held on to claim three points despite a second-half fightback from Southampton. Spurs had not managed as much
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      • 256 47  -  BY MARK STANIFORTH Special Correspondent Newcastle 2 West Brom 1 Newcastle: Ba 35, Cisse 90 West Brom: Lukaku 55 PAPISS CISSE deflected home a fortunate injury-time winner for Newcastle as Alan Pardew’s men recovered from Romelu Lukaku’s equaliser to grab three points at St James’ Park.
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      • 736 48 / 49  -  Our analyst tells LIM SAY HENG thatMancini’s approach won’t work and he needs to learn some man-management skills from Sir Alex Ferguson EYE ON THE BALL RAY HOUGHTON npsports@sph.com.sg I Ray Houghton is a former Liverpool midfielder who played for the Reds from 1987 to
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      • 566 48 / 49 City turn it on in second half after Italian jokes about shooting ‘three or four players’ PA Sport MAN CITY 1 (Carlos Tevez 61) SWANSEA 0 MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini was pleased that his players overcame fatigue to edge out Swansea 1-0 at the Etihad
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      • 373 48 / 49 PA Sport MANCHESTER City have announced the appointment of Spaniard Txiki Begiristain as their new director of football. The English Premier League champions have appointed the 48-year-old, who has held the same position at Barcelona, as part of their plan to make the club world
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      • 1390 50 / 51  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg EVERTON 2 (Leon Osman 22, Steven Naismith 35) LIVERPOOL 2 (Leighton Baines 13-og, Luis Suarez 20) EVERTON got their manager out of trouble last night. Their comeback was breathtaking, but the 2-2 draw barely concealed David Moyes’ blunder. He tried to
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