The New Paper, 11 November 2012

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    21 1 the new paper on sunday Nov 11 2012 j_ A SINGAPORE PRESS H0LD|NGS SldJ I PUBLICATION 80 CENTS MICA (P) 089/01/2012
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      94 1 facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 Class and glamour at Kranji 28 6-page special on Longines S’pore Gold Cup paper Nov 11 2012 TRANSFORMERS I S’pore mum’s dilemma turns to delight My two BOYS GIRLS QUEENS 14 who became are now beauty TRANSFORMERS II I now pronounce you... Husband Wife
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  • UPFRONT
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      Lock icon Does beauty really give you more success in life?
      600 2  -  NATALIE SOH natalie@sph.com.sg Label me a hater. Go ahead, flame me. But the growing perception that beauty buys success is making me, frankly, sick to my stomach. What? Doesn’t talent, sheer grit, hard work and determination count any more? This week,
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      135 2 FEATURES 3 Vanity case? GPs move into aesthetics a $250-million-a-year industry 6 Pretty painful Blogger Peggy Heng, on turning to cosmetic surgery 14 Brothers became sisters and both are beauty queens SPORTS 50 Lakers fire Brown Kobe wants Jackson back COLUMNS 17 Confessions of a fashion designer: It’s a catty
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  • PEOPLE
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      Lock icon More money from vanity
      1130 3  -  MoreGPsinHDB clinics are blasting fat cells instead of battling colds. The reason?An aesthetic doctor can earn $100,000 a month, or 10 times more than what a top GP takes home REPORT: JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg In a low-rise housing block in the Hougang heartland, six clinics sit
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    • Article
      Lock icon Tension as more GPs enter beauty business
      498 4  -  REPORT: JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg Plastic surgeons and general practitioners (GPs) here have not seen eye to eye over aesthetic medicine. While plastic surgeons say they are best qualified to provide the service, GPs feel they are giving their patients what they want. Tensions
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      Lock icon Painful to look beautiful
      1030 6 / 7  -  Called Horse Face in school, this local blogger jumped at an offer of sponsored cosmetic surgery in South Korea. But the pain of recovery and her puffy face sank her into depression REPORTS: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg Face it, being beautiful can open more doors to better
      TNP PICTURE: GARY GOH; PICTURES: TNP FILE, PEGGY HENG  -  1,030 words
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      Lock icon Post-surgery blues not so uncommon
      385 6 / 7 Exact numbers of the cosmetic procedures done by Singaporeans are difficult to ascertain. But if a check with 10 of the top clinics in Seoul in July is any indication, the numbers are rising. All report an average of 20 to 30 cases a month
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      Lock icon Telltale signs of cosmetic surgery
      300 8 / 9 LIP AUGMENTATION Giveaway: Upper lips that are a tad too big. The lower lip should be one and a half times the size of the upper, says US-based surgeon Dr Anthony Youn. FACELIFT Giveaway: The earlobe is pulled down from its original position this is
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      Lock icon Surgical boosts
      284 8 / 9  -  REPORT: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg Hong Qiu Ting (better known as Qiu Qiu), 25, fashion blogger Then: So bothered by her flat chest that in May 2010, she asked on her blog: “Anyone wanna sponsor a boobs job? A pair of boobs.” She underwent a free breast-filling treatment in
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      Lock icon MTVstar regrets her $37,000 makeover
      462 8 / 9 She was so obsessed with her looks that she underwent 10 surgeries In a day in 2009. These included breast enlargement, bottom augmentation and liposuction on her thighs. Heidi Montag, 26, is believed to have spent a whopping US$30,000 (S$37,000) to achieve a perfect body.
      PICTURE: STAR WORLD  -  462 words
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      Lock icon Bizarre beauty treatments
      545 8 / 9  -  Compiled by Benita Aw Yeong Foot Tucks (United States) Think of the feet-binding practices of ancient China. The modern “foot tuck” can narrow wide feet, suck fat from ankles, raise arches raised, and make toes smaller. All just to look good in the season’s hottest shoes. New
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      Lock icon ‘Jealous people will say things out of anger’
      557 12  -  S’porean model-DJ accused of passing remix off as her own work repeats denial REPORT: ZUL OTHMAN zothman@sph.com.sg Singaporean DJ Nicole Chen is sticking by her story. She says that her music is original and not ripped off, as claimed by Italian DJ
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      Lock icon Brothers become sisters
      1068 14 / 15  -  Changed... and winning REPORT: JULIANA JUNE RASUL julrasul@sph.com.sg She was torn when two of her three sons decided they wanted to become women. It was a double whammy Madam Monica soon grew to accept. Her sons, dressed as girls, took part in transvestite beauty pageants and made
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      Lock icon ‘Love can happen to anyone’
      912 14 / 15  -  Changing... and hoping REPORT: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg Boy meets girl. They fall In love and get married. The next step? Kids, naturally. It’s just a matter of time, most would agree. But for this Thai couple, life is not so straightforward. They are transgenders.
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      Lock icon Still ostracised by Thai society?
      366 16 They want to be accepted. To Thai married couple Sittichai “Pond” Suafug and Benhamaporn “Ben” Rotjutakul, love is blind. But that doesn’t mean others see them the same way. The jeering and scornful stares that greet the couple whenever they are spotted holding hands or
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      Lock icon My son a ladyboy? No way
      178 16  -  Zaihan Mohamed Yusof Young, educated Thais seem to still have conservative views towards transgenders. A study, which was carried out in Thailand, showed about half (51 per cent) of the 216 university students polled believed that transgenders are “men with something wrong with their
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      Lock icon Unwed teens had to ‘buy back’ babies
      429 20 M’sian halfway house, which Is now ordered to close, alleged to sell newborns without consent A girl from Kuantan went to a halfway house for women in Gombak, Selangor, four months ago to start life afresh. The 16-year-old told The Star: “I had
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      Lock icon M’sian badminton royalty weds
      145 20 The cream of Malaysian society was present. It seemed as if Kuala Lumpur came to a standstill for the wedding dinner of world Number 1 badminton player and Olympic silver medallist Lee Chong Wei and his bride, Wong Mew Choo. Lee looked dashing in a black
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      Lock icon Care for $1,560 donkey milk cheese?
      90 20 What is the most expensive cheese made of? Donkey milk. The unique cheese, costing 1,000 euros (S$1,560), is produced by the Zasavica reserve’s donkey farm, located about 80km west of the Serbian capital Belgrade. The Zasavica farm is the only place in the world
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      Lock icon She also allegedly had eight lovers
      511 21 French ex-minister sues tycoon over paternity She built her against-the-odds career by defying convention. So it was in character when while serving as France’s justice minister Ms Rachida Dati had a daughter and refused to say who the father was. Now, what was once
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    • Article
      Lock icon Firm blames Obama for layoffs
      268 21 It was a time to pray. And after the prayer came the layoffs. For the Ohio-based coal company, the re-election of US President Barack Obama was not a time for celebration. Mr Robert E Murray, chairman and CEO of Murray Energy Corp, read a prayer
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      Lock icon Bieber, Gomez end relationship: Source
      310 21 Teen heart-throb Justin Bieber and Disney star Selena Gomez are reported to have split up. E! Online reported, quoting a source, that the relationship ended about a week ago. They were last seen together late last month, the unnamed source told the entertainment website. An
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      Lock icon 18th Communist Party Congress Dumbfounded ... By 11 -year-old reporter’s question
      456 22 18th Communist Party Congress Dumbfounded By 11 -year-old reporter’s question Chinese officials are not used to uncomfortable questions. And when such questions came from an unlikely source an 11-year-old girl they were caught out. Her questions managed to shake up an otherwise lethargic press conference in Beijing which is part
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      Lock icon Disgruntled ... About being made ‘volunteers’
      446 22 Disgruntled About being made ‘volunteers’ They are everywhere. From police to security guards to elderly sentinels watching street corners. The Chinese Communist Party’s paranoia is on full display for its congress in Beijing. The capital has 1.4 million “public order volunteers” retirees, street cleaners, firemen and lowly-paid private security guards
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      Lock icon Beauties on beauty
      473 24  -  REPORT: JENNIFER DHANARAJ djenn@sph.com.sg What do beauty queens really think of beauty? After a charity fashion show last week presented by local designer Hayden Ng and Courts O’Connors Friends (a charity named after Courts Singapore CEO Terry O’Connor) where beauty queens from three countries made an appearance
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      Lock icon Teaching kids to mind their manners
      514 40  -  Etiquette classes for children REPORT: JENNIFER DHANARAJ djenn@sph.com.sg It is not uncommon to see young children in restaurants banging on the table, screaming at the top of their lungs. Some even throw food at one another. That is why parents send their kids for
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  • SNAPSHOT
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      Lock icon Check-in glitch hits 15 budget flights at Changi Airport
      262 10 / 11 Travellers on Jetstar, Air Asia and Tiger Airways flights faced delays at Changi Airport Terminals 1 and 2 yesterday morning. Due to a computer glitch, passengers had to be checked-in manually at the counters from about 6.20am, and long queues formed
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      Lock icon MOM to put out paper on Employment Act review
      118 10 / 11 Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower will come up with a public consultation paper on proposed changes to the Employment Act at the end of the month. Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin said the paper will take into account employers’ concerns and their
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      Lock icon ‘Back to School’ health programme for elderly in Chua Chu Kang
      111 10 / 11 Chua Chu Kang’s elderly residents will be sent “Back to School” in a health initiative jointly launched by the Health Promotion Board, Chua Chu Kang Grassroots Organisations and South View Primary School. The pilot programme, lauched by Health Minister
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      Lock icon BIG PICTURE
      54 10 / 11 EXPRESSWAY ACCIDENT: A lorry carrying granite chips overturned after it got into an accident with two cars along the slip road to Pasir Ris Drive 12 on Tampines Expressway in the direction of Changi yesterday afternoon. SCDF said three people had minor injuries; two were taken to hospital.
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      Lock icon He admits to extramarital affair
      497 10 / 11 CIA chief in shock resignation Washington was In shockyesterday over the sudden resignation of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief David Petraeus. Gen Petraeus announcement came after his extramarital affair came to light. He was a former US commander in Iraq and Afghanistan. US media reports
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      Lock icon BBC faces ‘crisis of trust’ after fiasco at top news show
      130 10 / 11 AFP The head of the BBC admitted yesterday it faced a “crisis of trust” after its flagship news programme wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex abuse scandal. The public broadcaster has suspended all investigations by its
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      Lock icon Myanmar train crash and blaze kills 25, injures almost 100
      135 10 / 11 AFP Investigators searched for clues yesterday after a train derailment and its ensuing blaze killed 25 people and injured nearly 100 more in northern Myanmar on Friday. Two petrol tankers that were on the train that overturned in the acci-
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      Lock icon Committee to recommend stiffer penalties for animal abusers
      102 10 / 11 Animal abusers may face stiffer penalties longer jail terms and fines, or community work after recommendations to strengthen current laws on animal welfare are finalised by the end of the month. The proposals to the Ministry of National Development will be made
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      Lock icon HAPPINESS INDEX
      128 10 / 11 We rate the past week’s news good and bad Average temperatures have gone up and built-up areas of Singapore are up to 7 deg C hotter at night than less urbanised ones, double the difference 40 years ago. The Purchasing Managers’ Index fell from 48.7 in September to
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      Lock icon Respect the beard
      51 10 / 11  -  ARTIST’S IMPRESSION CELESTINO GULAPA cel@sph.com.sg With his trademark mohawk and beard, 23-year-old James Harden exploded in the NBA 2012-13 opening week, leaving the likes of Lebron and Kobe in his wake. Here’s a lowdown on the season’s most promising young player... Sources: THUNDER FANS/USA TODAY /BLEACHER REPORT/
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  • CONFESSIONS OF A FASHION DESIGNER
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      Lock icon MY CHALLENGE IS TO... Flaunt assets, hide faults
      870 17  -  MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg He dislikes people who stereotype his industry and profession. “People tell me all designers are gay, (that) we only dress skinny people.” “Hellooo!” fashion designer Hayden Ng snorts indignantly, with a flamboyant wave of his hands. Despite being one
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  • ASPIRE/AFFORD
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      Lock icon Shape up
      303 25  -  REPORT: BENITAAW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg To achieve that classic hourglass figure, many diet or join the gym. But when all else fails, there is always shapewear, which promises to nip and tuck in the right places, ensuring that any jiggly bits don’t show through the clothes. Now, there are
      PICTURES: ZALORA, MARKS AND SPENCER  -  303 words
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      69 25 SHORT BREAKS GALORE A SPECIAL TRAVEL SUPPLEMENT MY PAPER WEDNESDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2012 Going on a mini getaway in the region? Planning a last-minute trip during the year-end school holidays? Don’t confirm anything until you have read SHORT BREAKS, our special travel supplement! We have more than 16 pages that
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    Lock icon Bonding through art
    600 26 Brought to you by Housing Development Board HE TOOK part in the event because he thought it would be interesting, but it was meeting another resident that made engineer Nay Lin Aung’s day. Mr Nay, 39, who moved to Singapore from Myanmar about 10 years ago and
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  • WHEELS
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      Lock icon 1 GIANT LEAP
      608 27  -  DANSON CHEONG tnp@sph.com.sg TWO WHEELS GOOD Warning: The stunts you are going to read about are potentially dangerous and can cause serious injuries if performed incorrectly. That’s something downhill mountain biking coach Ian Krempl knows first hand. The 24-year-old has been riding on dirt since he was
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  • LONGINES SINGAPORE GOLD CUP SUNDAY, 11 NOV 2012, SINGAPORE RACECOURSE
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      Lock icon A drama told in 130 seconds
      906 28 / 29  -  Sheer class will transcend all in today’s Longines Singapore Gold Cup REPORTS: BRIAN MILLER OMEWHERE in the history book at Kranji, there must be a record where the names of owners, trainers and jockeys who have won the Singapore Gold Cup are penned in
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      Lock icon The race is serious, the fun comes free
      552 28 / 29 PREPARATION, performance, prestige. All just words. But, for owners, trainers, jockeys and stable staff it’s their DNA. Indivisible, indispensable, inseparable. Down to a man, they all know that when the preparation is thorough and the performance top notch, prestige will follow. That’s
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      Lock icon TODAY'S LONGINES SINGAPORE Gold Cup FIELD
      297 30 / 31 I El Dorado (Ronnie Stewart astride) victorious in the $1.35 million Longines Singapore Gold Cup last year. F LAX (barrier 20) Jockey: Jose Verenzuela 57.5kg Trainer: David Hill Owner: Newbury Racing Stable BETTER LIFE (6) Jockey: Alan Munro 55.5kg Trainer: HideyukiTakaoka Owner: Suzuka Racing
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      Lock icon 25 charities to benefit on Longines Singapore Gold Cup Race Day
      998 32 / 33  -  25 charities to benefit on Longines Singapore Gold Cup Race Day REPORT: LARRY FOLEY HE race is over in just over two minutes. For its gallant efforts, the winning horse picks up a handy cheque for its happy connections.
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  • EATS
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      Lock icon Rempeyek
      672 34  -  HED CHEF HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg Making rempeyek is a delicious challenge. But the sheer bliss of munching on this traditional Indonesian peanut cracker is worth cleaning up an oil-splattered stove. Most rempeyek fans can understand the frustration of biting into store-bought versions which contain pathetic bits of peanuts and
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      Lock icon Who says street food can’t be healthy?
      334 35  -  K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg There is all this talk about eating healthy. It is almost a constant nag now, from family, friends, and even the authorities, to have us all eat a “balanced diet” and “in moderation”. You might have noticed the campaign
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      Lock icon Healthy, tasty food
      460 35 Many hawkers don’t know why their food draws crowds. They would have inherited a family dish, with precise instructions on what to do. Ask them to tweak their makan to make it healthier and they will wonder how, and why. But to say that all hawker food
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  • HUMOUR
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      Lock icon I was in a bathtub one day, when...
      838 36  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS tnp@sph.com.sg NOTES My mother never allowed me to take a bath in peace. We grew up in a relatively poor household where hot water was scarce. Where I came from, only wealthy snobs had showers. Poorer people had baths and
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      Lock icon If Jack Neo can do a story about NS, so can I
      772 37  -  ACT BLUR SM ONG smong@sph.com.sg It’s not propaganda. Or so claims film-maker Jack Neo about his new army movie Ah Boys To Men Part 1. This is despite the Ministry of Defence (Mindef) having approached Neo to make
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    • REALLY? Odd news that’s for real
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  • NIGHTLIFE
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      Lock icon Colourful king of clubland
      685 38  -  In the first of a new series, TNPS meets the movers and shakers behind S’pore’s clubs ZUL OTHMAN zothman@sph.com.sg NIGHT PEOPLE Ask Mr Bobby Luo what he does at nightclub The Butter Factory, and he replies: “Bao galiao.” The Hokkien phrase loosely translates to “handling everything”.
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  • TV
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      Lock icon Falling Skies gives me an alien feeling
      658 39  -  MARIE LIM marielim@sph.com.sg There’s something out there and I love it. I’m a sucker for any show featuring aliens. I’ve caught most of this year’s extraterres-trial-based films. Prometheus? Seen it. Men in Black 3? Duh, of course. Such is my alien love affair
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  • RACING
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      2122 42 / 43 RACE 1 C4 D3 12.50 -1400m (LC) Stakes: $55,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/origin/sex, trainer-owner) 1 ***** To Be Remembered 58 (60) B Vorster 7 (3nzg L Laxon-Perfectum) 2 26-842 Wassaic 58 (60) S Alif*
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      Lock icon Singpore Gold Cup race is wide open
      595 42 / 43  -  I CATCH THE $1.35 MILLION LONGINES SINGAPORE GOLD CUP RACE LIVE ON CHANNEL NEWSASIA, ESPN STAR AND SUPERSPORTS ARENA CHANNEL 201 FROM 5.30PM TO 6.10PM. TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg A case can be made for at least half the field in today’s $1.35
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      557 42 / 43 Andrew Frost 1 RACE Mr X Brian Miller Tan Thean Loon 8 Golden Dominator Golden Dominator Golden Dominator 1 8 To Be Remembered 8 Wassaic 6 2 1 1 7 5 Jeram Clipper To Be Remembered Not My Fault 2 2 Impulsive Business To Be Remembered Wassaic Wassaic
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      Lock icon Bale Star can be third-time lucky
      2182 44 / 45 ANDREW FROST’S COMMENTS ON TOD A Y’S KRANJI TURF MEETING RACE 1 (1,400m) 1 To Be Remembered)))Has improved since blinkers added and last start lost no friends when fifth. Can atone. 2 Wassaic)))In good form and goes well for claiming riders. Has to be
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY’S KUALA LUMPUR RESULTS
      685 44 / 45 Race 1 C5 (SC) 1200m 1 CHINA TOWN BANK 58 c 57 (22-6) J Shankar (6) 1 1 1 (472) 11 TRUE FRIENDSHIP 50 (54-16) Jackson Low (1) 7 6 3 (542) Shd 7 SHARP SHOOTER 52.5 c 52 (20-5.10) K Eirwan (4) 3 2 4
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      812 44 / 45 RACE 1 (Flemington) 1st 2 Happy Trails ($96-$41) 2nd 10 Fawkner ($9) 3rd 8 Secret Admirer ($35) 4th 13 Yosei. Forecast $113. Place forecast $45 (2-8), $24 (2-10), $25 (8-10). Tierce No winner ($1814 jackpot carried forward to next race). Trio $255. Quartet No
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      Lock icon Warhorse is heading to Kranji
      511 46 / 47  -  S’pore-owned star finishes close third in New Zealand2000 Guineas yesterday TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg Singapore-owned New Zealand star WARHORSE Is coming to Singapore. This follows his close third in yesterday’s Group 1 NZ$400,000 (S$399,000) New Zealand 2000 Guineas over 1,600m at Riccarton Park. Ridden by
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      1726 46 / 47 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING TAN THEAN LOON’S KUALA LUMPUR TIPS RACE 1 :9 Rock And Stone 7 City Lights 6 All Nice 8 Rule Of The Game RACE 2: 10 Red Warrior 7 Beyonce 2 Glory Star 11 Destiny Quest RACE 3: 6 Smiley Face 1
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      1059 46 / 47 11-11-2012 (Sunday) 2:00pm 1 Cl 5,6 THE RISING FAST HK$150,000 turf1500m 1 *****6 Decent Master 6-a-g 6]d KM Chin 30 133 KS Ho *****07 Fortune Partners 4-a-g 2] WL Ho-2 29 132 V Chong *****70Happy Double 5-nz-g 3]dM Nunes 29 132 MC Tam *****00Icelake 4-a-g [10]d KF Choi-3
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      Lock icon Super Easy arrives in Hong Kong
      111 46 / 47 SINGAPORE’S Super Easy landed safely in Hong Kong on Friday afternoon, in his quest for next Sunday’s Group 2 Jockey Club Sprint. The Michael Freedman-trained star will face top Hong Kong sprinters, such as Little Bridge and Lucky Nine, in this major lead-up event
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      Lock icon THE SINGAPORE TURF CLUB STIPENDIARY STEWARDS’REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
      805 48 LAST FRIDAY’S STIPES’ REPORT HIGHLIGHTS: RACE1 REDDY TO ROCK: Began awkwardly and lost ground. HEARTS: Slow to begin. GOLDEN LARK: Bumped. NINTH AVENUE: Raced wide throughout. STRATA STAR: Hung outwards throughout. SUN ENTERPRISE: Steadied when momentarily crowded. MARS: Bumped; jockey D Bonilla, when
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      Lock icon YESTERDAY’S HONG KONG (SHA TIN) RESULTS
      610 48 RACE 1 CLASS 5 TURF 1200m CLASS 5 TURF5 GENERAL DANROAD 131 (22-10) Z PURTON (8) 2 3 MY MEMORY 132 (29-12) 5 GENERAL DANROAD131 (22-10) XTrainer: BK Ng. Margins: Ns, 1.5. Time: 1min 10.39sec (Going: good). Forecast: $26. Place Forecast: $12 (Nos. 3-5),
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      32 44 / 45 Saturday, Nov 10 2012 First Second Third 0314 0618 6961 Starters 1146 1163 2666 4674 5990 6505 6999 7287 7708 8215 Consolations 1182 2336 2679 5565 7009 8446 8483 9316 9703 9988
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  • TENNIS
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      Lock icon Andy makes it look easy
      384 49 Briton cruises past Tsonga to join Djokovic in semis AP Needing to win only one set to join Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the ATP Tour Finals, Andy Murray delighted the adoring home crowd by winning two. The US Open and Olympic champion defeated
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      Lock icon Malaysia back on level terms
      212 49  -  CRICKET GODFREY ROBERT MALAYSIA levelled the annual Stan Nagaiah Trophy cricket series 1-1 with a four-wicket win over Singapore in Johor Baru yesterday. After their opening match six-wicket defeat on Friday, the hosts kept the series alive in the second match yesterday. Today’s final match
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      Lock icon Meares eyes Rio Games
      131 49 CYCLING AP LONDON Olympics cycling gold medallist Anna Meares says she plans to compete at the 2016 Games at Rio de Janeiro. The 29-year-old Meares (above) made the announcement after winning her second Sir Hubert Opperman award as Australian Cyclist of the Year last Friday. Meares
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  • NBA
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      Lock icon The Zen master looms over Lakerland
      684 50 AP LA LAKERS 101 GOLDEN STATE 77 A few hours after the Los Angeles Lakers’ top brass abruptly fired coach Mike Brown, the team responded. Their season had been thrown into turmoil before mid-November, but Brown’s former players demonstrated why there’s still ample reason
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      Lock icon Kimi’s ‘leave me alone’ gift for his team
      340 50 FORMULA ONE Wire Services KIMI Raikkonen has put his money where his mouth is by paying for 500 T-shirts emblazoned with his “leave me alone” radio message, broadcast during last Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. They are being printed and prepared as
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  • GOLF
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      Lock icon Stricken Beljan pulls off a miracle
      716 51 He thought he was going to die, and then produces a round of golf for the ages AP Charlie Beljan was worried about keeping his PGA Tour card when he showed up at Disney for the final tournament of the year. That changed yesterday
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      Lock icon Stanford aces second-round test
      287 51 AFP AMERICAN Angela Stanford fired four birdies in a row on her way to a five-un-der-par 67 yesterday morning (Singapore time) to seize the lead after the second round of the US$1 million 1.2m) LPGA Lorena Ochoa Invitational. Stanford (right) stood on 11-under 133 after 36
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  • BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN
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      Lock icon Bjorn sticks to his game-plan
      510 52 / 53  -  With little fuss all through a marathon day, veteran Dane moves into the lead DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Ice-cool all daylong, Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn stood alone at the top of the leaderboard when darkness fell after Day 3 of the Barclays Singapore Open yesterday. Bjorn, the
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      Lock icon ‘Tired’ Daly flies off to Hong Kong
      316 52 / 53 AFP COLOURFUL American John Daly has pulled out of the Barclays Singapore Open citing fatigue, officials said yesterday, living up to his reputation for mid-tourna-ment withdrawals. “Wild Thing” Daly, whose two Major titles have been overshadowed by his turbulent personal life and years
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      Lock icon JONATHAN WOO?
      506 52 / 53  -  Local amateur is tied with Mickelson, with 7 holes left in third round DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Four holes into the third round of the US$6 million ($7.3m) Barclays Singapore Open, there was an unf amilair name on the leaderboard at the Serapong Course. Jonathan Woo, a local amateur,
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      Lock icon Mickelson magic keeps him around
      345 52 / 53  -  DAVID LEE THE four-time Major champion was staring at an early exit from the Barclays Singapore Open. Two over going into the par-five 18th hole in the second round, Phil Mickelson needed a birdie at the death to make the cut, which was set at
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      Lock icon Hail queen Hosszu
      400 54  -  Hungarian proves why she’s the overall champion with a great day out at the Sports School LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg She would have been crowned the overall champion of the World Cup series without even getting wet here. But Hungarian individual medley specialist Katinka Hosszu wanted to
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      Lock icon Lions fall to Shimizu
      287 54  -  FOOTBALL ALI KASIM FRIENDLY SHIMIZU S-PULSE 2 (NaohiroTakahara 24, Genki Omae 84) SINGAPORE 0 SINGAPORE lost 2-0 to J-League side Shimizu S-Pulse in a friendly in Shizuoka yesterday. Goals from former Hamburg striker Naohiro Takahara in the 24th minute and Genki Omae six minutes from time
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      Lock icon Tao Li works towards world champs
      437 54  -  LIM SAY HENG SHE TOOK the plunge yesterday in her first competition at home after the 2012 London Olympics, and clinched a silver in the 100m butterfly (58.33sec) in the final leg of the Fina/Arena Swimming World Cup 2012 short course series, but Tao
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  • LALIGA
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      500 55  -  Barca defender vows to hit back after defeat BY JORGE SANCHEZ Special Correspondent are sweeping all before them in the Primera Division, but Wednesday’s Champions League defeat to Celtic has handed their domestic rivals an idea of how they can be beaten. The Scottish champions
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      Lock icon Varane lapping up life as Real regular
      373 55  -  BY ELEANOR CROOKS Special Correspondent FRENCH defender Raphael Varane has spoken of his pride at earning the chance to represent Real Madrid and their enigmatic coach, Jose Mourinho. Varane, who signed for a reported 10 million euros from Ligue 1 side Lens in
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      Lock icon Simeone on the warpath
      257 55 DIEGO SIMEONE is looking for Atletico Madrid to recover the qualities that saw them go on an incredible run at the start of the season when they tackle Ge morning (Singapore time). tafe at home tomorrow Los Rojiblancos’ 23-game unbeaten run came to an end last
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  • EPL
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      Lock icon Jelavic completes Everton fightback
      641 56 EVERTON 2 (Fellaini 76, Jelavic 79) SUNDERLAND 1 (Johnson 45) EVERTON produced a late rally to score twice in three minutes and maintain their remarkable 11 -year unbeaten record against Sunderland. Black Cats winger Adam Johnson scored his first goal for the club on the stroke
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      Lock icon No end to Reading’s struggles
      252 56 READING 0 NORWICH 0 READING remain in the bottom three of the Premier League after being held to a goalless draw at the Madejski Stadium by Norwich. The Canaries travelled to Berkshire in good form, having picked up seven points in their last three League
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      Lock icon QPR woes increased by Adam
      255 57 STOKE 1 (Adam 52) QPR 0 CHARLIE ADAM’S first goal for Stoke earned his side all three points against QPR to further increase the pressure on Mark Hughes. Midfielder Adam, a summer signing from Liverpool, opened his Potters account in the 52nd minute at the
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      Lock icon Dyer’s strike denies struggling Saints a much-needed win
      374 57 SOUTHAMPTON 1 (Schneiderlin 64) SWANSEA 1 (Dyer 73) SOUTHAMPTON’S under-fire boss Nigel Adkins was denied a much-need victory by Swansea as another former academy graduate returned to haunt their former club. Two weeks ago Gareth Bale helped Tottenham to a 2-1 victory
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      Lock icon Baggies inspired by Morrison
      271 57 WIGAN 1 (Kone 44) WEST BROM 2 (Morrison 31, Caldwell 43 og) JAMES MORRISON returned from injury to help West Brom gain their first away win of the season at Wigan. Scotland star Morrison was forced to miss the Baggies’ win over Southampton on Monday night,
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      Lock icon Silva lining for Man City
      704 58  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg Even the most privileged succumb to moments of weakness. Even Manchester City, with a squad so powerful and deep, can be reduced to yearning for the return of one man. David Silva, playmaker extraordinaire, has been out of action for less than
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      Lock icon Chelsea’s engine room purrs right now
      963 60 / 61  -  Our analyst tells ALI KASIM that the Blues’midfieldare tops in the Premiership and will scare the Reds PAUL PARKER npsports@sph.com.sg I Paul Parker is a former England and Manchester United defender who won two EPL titles and earned 19 caps for his country. He
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      Lock icon Rodgers: We can’t stop Blues’‘Dynamic Trio’
      400 60 / 61 AFP LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers is concerned with the threat offered by Juan Mata, Eden Hazard and Oscar who have provided Chelsea with a different attacking dimension this season. Rodgers’ side have only managed two Premier League wins in their 10 matches this season
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      Lock icon Boss backs Suarez to inspire Pool
      420 60 / 61 PA Sport LIVERPOOL boss Brendan Rodgers has backed Luis Suarez to continue inspiring his team as the striker faces predecessor and former Anfield hero Fernando Torres tonight. Suarez, signed as Torres left for Chelsea in January 2011, has been the Reds’ driving force this
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      Lock icon Time running out for Wenger
      944 62 / 63  -  YOUR ENGLISH KAKI IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM THE UK ARSENAL 3 (Olivier Giroud 11,69, Lukas Podolski 23) FULHAM 3 (Dimitar Berbatov 29,67-pen, Alexander Kacaniklic 40) This will be a long and anxious week for Arsenal fans. Next Saturday, they play host to Tottenham and,
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      Lock icon Book on Henry offers clues on Wenger’s failed gamble
      354 62 / 63 Wire Services ARSENE Wenger has won the Premier League three times and the FA Cup four times during his 16-year tenure at Arsenal. He also managed to win the Premier League without a single defeat during the 2003/04 season. But fans
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    • ON TV
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        159 62 / 63 LIVE TELECASTS EPL Today: I MAN CITY v TOTTENHAM SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium), 9.30pm I NEWCASTLE v WEST HAM SingTel mio TV Ch 103 (mio Stadium), 11 pm I CHELSEA v LIVERPOOL SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium), 11.55pm LA LIGA Tomorrow: I MALLORCA v
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        27 62 / 63 Today: I HOUSTON ROCKETS v DETROIT PISTONS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 9am I MILWAUKEE BUCKS v BOSTON CELTICS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 9.30am
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        27 62 / 63 ATP WORLD TOUR FINALS Today: I SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel), 10.15pm Tomorrow: I SEMI-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel), 3.45am
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        11 62 / 63 WORLD SWIMMING CUP Today: I SINGAPORE LEG MediaCorp Ch 5,6pm
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        35 62 / 63 BARCLAYS SINGAPORE OPEN Today: I DAY 4 SingTel mioTVCh 115 (STAR Sports) Ch 117 (ESPN HD), 11 am CHILDREN’S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS CLASSIC Tomorrow: I DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 2am
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