The New Paper, 16 April 2013

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  • 20 1 the new paper TUESDAY APRIL 16 2013 1 A SINGAPORE Qln PRESS HOLDINGS I PUBLICATION CENTS 70 084/01/2013 (P) MICA
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  • News
    • 1122 2 / 3  -  Bobby Tonelli (below) to release Facebook statement on break-up with Joanne Peh today REPORTS: CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg HE WAS heartbroken, but he kept quiet about it because he didn’t want it to become a public affair. But the longer he kept silent, the more
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    • 310 2 / 3 Vernetta Lopez Mark Richmond In August last year, Lopez released Memoirs Of A DJ, an autobiography describing how she became suspicious of former husband Richmond and his relationship with another woman. She wrote about how she found a love note in his car, which was signed “B”.
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    • 1011 4  -  DIRECT SCHOOL ADMISSION INTERVIEW WORKSHOPS REPORTS: LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg IF YOU were a fruit, which one would you be? This is a question that a Primary 6 pupil may face during a direct school admission (DSA) interview. To deal with such questions, there is
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    • 489 5  -  Chinese national jailed 25 months for deadly rampage REPORT: ELIZABETH LAW lawsm@sph.com.sg HE HAD been suffering from a mental illness for months but did not realise it. Instead, he thought his wife was cheating on him and decided to return home to China.
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    • 663 6  -  Law prof says relationship with student was pure REPORT: FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg DEAREST dinosaur, she had addressed Tey Tsun Hang on a card accompanying her gift of a Mont Blanc pen. This was Miss Darinne Ko’s way of poking fun at her National
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    • 352 6 TEY Tsun Hang explained to the court at length yesterday about the marking system in the National University of Singapore (NUS), saying that it will take a “collaborative effort including professors and administrative officers” for one to tamper with grades. This is provided
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    • 623 7  -  He also robs victim at knifepoint REPORT: RENNIE WHANG wrennie@sph.com.sg HE HAD celebrated his wife’s birthday with the family and had been drinking since 7pm. Tan Jun Hui then joined his friends at a Geylang karaoke lounge, where he had more drinks, according
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    • Local News watch
    • 693 10  -  Driver loses bus which he regards as more than a ‘wife’ in Petir Road blaze REPORT: ABIGAIL GOH abigailg@sph.com.sg SHE was more than a “wife” to me, said Mr Tan Seow Keng at the site of a fire early yesterday morning. The fire, at
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    • 680 11  -  Cabby who saw Merc driver beat red light REPORT: EUNICE TOH etoh@sph.com.sg HE WAS taking his passenger to Tanjong Rhu when he stopped on Victoria Street at its junction with Middle Road when the light turned red. This is one junction before the horrific Ferrari
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    • 546 12  -  REPORT: LYNETTE TAN tlynette@sph.com.sg LOOK closely at the picture. It’s a woman in the driver’s seat, right? Now take a closer look. What else do you see? Yes, you’re not seeing things, there’s an infant leaning against her chest as she’s driving. The New Paper
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    • The Big Picture
      • 512 13  -  Picture of men among Hindu and Chinese deities is this week’s Big Picture winner for ‘RojakSingapore’ theme REPORT: JUSTIN ZHUANG tnp@sph.com.sg HE DISCOVERED a blue statue along the Sungei Kadut coastline in January. When Mr Lim Weixiang returned last Saturday, he was surprised to see it
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    • Global News watch
    • 586 16 Two MCA vice-presidents and a former president among those dropped from party list THREE Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) leaders vice-presidents Ng Yen Yen and Gan Ping Sieu and former president Ong Tee Keat have been dropped from the party’s list of candidates for the general election. The
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    • 350 16 AFP A US family has published the last, cut-off text message written by their 22-year-old son who crashed his car and died while using his cellphone, in the hope of preventing similar tragedies. University student Alexander Heit drifted across the road while exchanging
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    • 683 18 BLACK MARKET IN ARMS THRIVING IN PHILIPPINES AFP BESPECTACLED and clean-shaven, 37-year-old Jomari Paraas could pass for a typical office employee in the Philippines except he has six guns in his backpack that he will soon sell. The father of two is a prolific player in
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    • 269 18 A US woman ignored the signs at the zoo warning visitors not to pet the bobcats. Courtney Hutchins (right), 22, scaled the protective barrier surrounding the bobcats with her three-year-old son anyway. Her son was subsequently attacked by one of
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    • 38 7 thenewpaper Have a story toshare? Call, text or e-mail us. If your story is published, you get a... $100THE MANHATTAN FISH MARKET VOUCHER ...plus two T-shirts worth $60 Call: 1800 733 44 55 SMS/MMS: 9477 8899 E-mail: tnp@sph.com.sg
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    • 37 7 Point. Shoot. Win. $500 up for grabs every week in The Big Picture photo contest The theme: Rojak Singapore Supported by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth Visit www.tnp.sg/thebigpicture for details the newpaper THE BIG PICTURE
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    • 99 13 WHAT’S NEXT CONTINUE sending us photos for “Rojak Singapore” this week. To celebrate International Friendship Day last Friday, show us how Singapore is a good international neighbour and welcomes different people from around the world. Best picture wins $500. Each week, send in your photos before Saturday, midnight. Our fortnightly
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  • Page 19 Miscellaneous
    • 426 19 WATCH ‘EM pICture: LuNA FILMS 2011 Poetry (above) Celestial Movies (SingTel mio TV Ch 585/StarHub Ch 868), 10.25pm A 60-something woman, struggling with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, is faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime. She finds strength and purpose when she enrols in a poetry
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    • 266 23 WATS Fastads Jobs Class Guide Accounting/ Bookkeeping Administrative/ Clerical Agents/ Brokers/ Traders Art/Creative Building/ Construction Call Centres/ Telemarketing Cleaners Counter/ Receptionists Customer Service Dispatch/ Delivery Drivers/Chauffeurs Engineers Finance Fitness/Spa Food Stalls General Production/ Operators Hair/ Beauty Hotel/ Restaurant/ Lounge Human Resources IT/ Infocomm Marketing/ Communications Nursing/ Health Care Other Positions
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  • Racing
    • 1070 27 FRIDAY OB *****0m 11-225 Emerald Hill .........................59 (95) (5amg J O’Hara-Saratoga) 4-2340 Apache Crown .....................57 (91) (7ag S Burridge-S Burridge) 59 (95) 1-1372 Rapido Star..........................52.5 (82) (5amh L Dragon-Rapido Boy) *****-Birthday Gift ........................52 (81) (5nzg Leslie Khoo-Mdm PY Leong) *****0 Fighter Jet ...........................52 (81) (8ag
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    • 1067 27 SUNDAY G1 Perak Derby 2400m 501-13 Speed Baby .........................58 (114) (6ag K Coetzee-Baby) *****6 Mr Ambassador...................56 (94) (7nzg Jerome Tan-WM Racing) *****2 Good Sight ...........................56 (91) (6ag K Coetzee-Golden Knight) 00-0-8 Awinnersgame ....................56 (89) (7ireg A Selvaratnam-Midhish) *****2 Good Sight *****7 Tears To Diamonds..............54 (82) (5ag
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    • 1158 28 SUNDAY SG2 (LC) 1400m Singapore 3YO Classic 2nd Leg *****1 *****1 Super Ninetyseven ..............57 (75) (3ag M Freedman-Joy N Happiness) 3112 Simple Pleasures ................57 (71) (3nzg S Baertschiger-Auric) 2-2043 Super Good..........................57 (70) (3nzg M Freedman-Joy N Happiness) *****4 Mai Guru ..............................57 (67) (3nzg
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  • Sports
    • Sports watch
      • 97 29 SINGAPORE’S two leading golfers, Mardan Mamat and Quincy Quek, shared the first-round lead after the first round of the three-day $30,000 Laguna National Home-Fix Classic 2013 at Laguna’s World Classic course yesterday. LEADERBOARD: 71: Quincy Quek, Mardan Mamat 72: Unho Park 73: Gavin Flint,
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      • 110 29 AFP ITALIAN second seed Roberta Vinci won her eighth career singles title yesterday when she beat top-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 in the Katowice Open final. The win for the Italian moves her to a career high-world
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      • 100 29 AFP FIFTH seed John Isner claimed his sixth career title and first on clay by beating Nicolas Almagro in straight sets in the final of the US Clay Court Championship yesterday. The hard-serving American blasted seven aces en route to a
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      • 611 29 NBA AP LOS ANGELES LAKERS 91 SAN ANTONIO SPURS 86 AN EMPTY chair sat in front of Kobe Bryant’s locker yesterday morning (Singapore time), and the Los Angeles Lakers realised they would have to fill it together. With their play-off hopes likely on the line against
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    • US Masters
      • 1041 30 / 31 Scott beats Cabrera in playoff clash of two former Singapore Open winners AP ADAM Scott barely had time to think about an Australian in a Green Jacket when a sudden roar from the 18th green and a quick look at the TV reminded him it’s never been
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      • 674 30 / 31 AFP FOR Tiger Woods, the long wait for a 15th Major title continues. The 37-year-old American briefly threatened the leaders going down the back nine in the final round of the 77th Masters yesterday morning (Singapore time), but he had left himself with too much to
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      • 475 30 / 31 Reuters CHINESE eighth-grader Guan Tianlang will get back to homework and thinking about his future after concluding his incredible adventure as the youngest ever competitor in the Masters yesterday morning (Singapore time). The 14-year-old Asia-Pacific Amateur champion (right) hit a delicate downhill lag
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    • S-League
      • 359 32  -  JASPAL SINGH picks the best 11 from last week’s matches JASPAL SINGH ZAIFUL NIZAM (GK, Balestier Khalsa) PLAYING with a makeshift defence, the shot-stop-per did a fantastic job marshalling the backline and was unlucky not to have kept a clean sheet in the 3-1 win over
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      • 680 33  -  ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg TAMPINES v DPMM (Tonight, 7.30pm, Clementi Stadium) BOTH teams were my picks to finish in the top two positions this season. I have yet to see anything to make me change my opinion. DPMM lost at home to Tanjong Pagar two Sundays
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      • 741 34 / 35  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg HE HAS been in this position before. He understands how an obsession to keep a winning run going can play havoc with the players’ minds. So, Tampines Rovers coach Nenad Bacina has been busy telling his players not to focus on their
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      • 833 34 / 35  -  Home and Warriors draw in entertaining match but remain in mid-table SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg HOME UNITED 1 (Masrezwan Masturi 37) WARRIORS FC 1 (Ruzaini Zainal 26) IN YEARS past, this would have been billed as the match of the season, a clash of titans of
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    • Malaysian Super League
      • 606 36  -  Leaders LionsXII will feature a new defensive partnership for crucial MSL home tie with ATM DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg THE TEAM enjoyed a day off yesterday, and one wonders what Shakir Hamzah, Faritz Abdul Hameed, Madhu Mohana and Faris Azienuddin would have been mulling over as
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      • 331 36 SHAKIR HAMZAH, 20, 1.79m, 61kg, 6 starts Strengths: Possesses that mean streak which makes him a difficult defender to target. Featured as a centre back last year in the NexLions Cup and kept Liverpool starlet Samed Yesil quiet with his aggression and tight
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    • Football
      • 499 37 Midfielder MAHATHIR AZEMAN tells SHAMIR OSMAN of his first week of bedding in at Boavista IF THERE is one thing that struck me about being in Brazil, it is the football. It is not just the way they play but their approach to the game: they are
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      • 228 37  -  CYCLING JASPAL SINGH THE OCBC Singapore Pro Cycling Team face an uphill task in their quest to secure the yellow jersey as they enter the final stage of the Le Tour de Filipinas today. Stage 4 is a 132.7km ride that includes a
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      • 248 37 FORMULA ONE AFP BRITISH racing legend Sir Stirling Moss, 83, does not believe that women are mentally tough enough to compete in Formula 1, despite the presence of female test drivers and team principals. “I think they have the strength but I don’t know
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    • La Liga
      • 857 38 Reuters ATHLETIC BILBAO 0 REAL MADRID 3 CRISTIANO Ronaldo proved too powerful for Athletic Bilbao as he scored with a fizzing free-kick and a towering header in Real Madrid’s bruising 3-0 victory at San Mames in La Liga yesterday morning (Singapore time). The Portugal forward took
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      • 691 38 SERIEA AP AC MILAN and Napoli played out an entertaining 1-1 draw at San Siro in a battle for an automatic Champions League spot yesterday morning (Singapore time). It was a mixed night for Mathieu Flamini, who fired Milan into the lead in
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    • EPL
      • 1041 39  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS picks out the great and the good, the terrible and the tragic and the occasionally grotesque from the football world NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg 1) Toure leaves it too late MANCHESTER City are in the FA Cup final, but out of the running for the
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      • Article, Illustration
        433 40 / 41 PA Sport MANCHESTER City striker Sergio Aguero will face no action for his two-footed challenge on Chelsea’s David Luiz. The Football Association has confirmed that the Argentina striker will not be charged retrospectively for the incident in Sunday’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. It follows confirmation that
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      • 766 40 / 41  -  Our analyst gives GREGORY LOO his take on the battle for survival in the EPL BARRY WHITBREAD ASK THE COACH npsports@sph.com.sg THE RACE for the Premier League title is all but over after Manchester United bounced back from a recent shaky patch with a 2-0 win at
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      • 339 40 / 41 PA Sport MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini has set his team the task of proving they are not as inferior to Manchester United as the Premier League table suggests in addition to lifting the FA Cup next month. City’s 2-1 win
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      • 134 40 / 41 NORWICH April 20: Reading (H) April 27: Stoke (A) May 4: Aston Villa (H) May 12: West Brom (H) May 19: Man City (A) SUNDERLAND April 20: Everton (H) April 29: Aston Villa (A) May 6: Stoke City (H) May 12: Southampton (H) May 19: Tottenham (A)
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      • 826 42 / 43 Midfielder feels Arsenal can sneak in to pip Spurs to Champs League spot PA Sport ARSENAL midfielder Alex OxladeChamberlain has warned Tottenham that the Gunners are ready to use last season as an inspiration and cement their place in the top four of the English Premier
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      • 487 42 / 43 PA Sport DEFENDER Sylvain Distin believes securing European football will be a great achievement for Everton considering the teams they are competing against for it. A comfortable 2-0 win at Goodison Park last Saturday put another nail in the coffin of second-bot-tom QPR but lifted
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        • 124 42 / 43 LIVE TELECASTS EPL Tomorrow: ARSENAL v EVERTON SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium), 2.45am Thursday: WEST HAM v MAN UNITED SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium), 2.45am MAN CITY v WIGAN SingTel mio TV Ch 103 (mio Stadium), 2.40am ITALIAN CUP Thursday: S-FINAL, 2ND LEG: INTER MILAN
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        • 28 42 / 43 NBA Today: DALLAS MAVERICKS v MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 8am Tomorrow: ATLANTA HAWKS v TORONTO RAPTORS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 7.30am
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        • 15 42 / 43 PGA TOUR RBC HERITAGE Friday: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 3am
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        • 28 42 / 43 ROLEX MASTERS Today: RD 1/RD 2 (DAY 2) StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel), 4.30pm Tomorrow: RD 2 (DAY 3) StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel), 7.30am
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        • 36 42 / 43 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX Friday: PRACTICE SESSION 1 StarHub TV Ch 209; SingTel mio TV Ch 115 (STAR Sports), 2.55pm PRACTICE SESSION 2 StarHub TV Ch 209; SingTel mio TV Ch 115 (STAR Sports), 6.55pm
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    • 90 1 Music to the max the newpaper April 16 2013 http://www.loudr.sg L UD p a r a m o r e POWERTHREEofAfter all the ‘drama and craziness’, Paramore are back with their most experimental album yet Rock out of control Rock band Coheed and Cambria’s Josh Eppard reveals how stardom almost
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      • 122 2 EX-SPICE Girl Geri Halliwell’s tweet on British politician Margaret Thatcher, who died last week, angered fans and led her to be upset with herself. She called herself “weak” and “full of self-doubt” following the backlash. In a post on Twitter, the 40-year-old English pop star
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      • 118 2 THERE is no pairing as unlikely as Ne-Yo (left) and Cher Lloyd. But the American R&B singer and British pop star will collaborate and write a song inspired by their fans. Ne-Yo, 30, and Lloyd, 19, have called on their fans to send them
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      • 112 2 LOCAL fans of 35-year-old Japanese pop queen Namie Amuro were dismayed when the official site for her Asia Tour 2013 released an announcement that the Singapore leg of the tour, slated to be held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on April 26, has been cancelled
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      82 2 SOUTH Korean pop sensation Psy showed he could ham it up when he donned a pantless, sexy red getup during his cover of Beyonce’s hit single, Single Ladies, at his Happening concert at Seoul’s World Cup Stadium on Saturday night. The 35-year-old emulated Beyonce’s booty-shaking dance moves from
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      126 2 FIVE years after a car crash left him in a coma, former Deftones bassist Chi Cheng died on Sunday morning at the age of 42. He was taken to the emergency room and at 3am, his heart suddenly stopped. Family, fans and celebrities mourned his death on Twittersphere.
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    • LOUD SPINS
      • 544 4  -  REPORTS: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg THERE is nothing quite like trance music according to veteran DJ-producer ATB (left), who boasts more than 20 years of experience in the electronic dance arena. The 40-year-old German, whose real name is Andre Tanneberger, has built up a reputation for himself as
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      • 314 4 OVER the last 10 years, DJ Markus Schulz has done his fair share of trance—progres—sive hybrid remixes, including tracks by Sia, Jewel and Fatboy Slim. But don't bet on the tanned, buff German—born jock whipping up remixes of his favourite classic rock bands like Led
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      • 556 5  -  Now a trio, Paramore’s fourth album is No. 1 on the charts REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg WHY do you care what people think? Are you hooked up to their leash? These defiant words, sung by flame-haired siren Hayley Williams on Paramore’s brand new track
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        524 6 / 7  -  Josh ppard of progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria reveals how drug addiction nearly ruined his career REPORT: NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg T’S NOT easy being a rock star. Coheed and Cambria’s drummer Josh Eppard can vouch for that. The progressive rock band have steadily scaled the
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      • 418 6 / 7  -  REPORT: NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg HE FRONTS a rock act, has his own active solo project and is a father to two active sons. How does he manage? We don’t know, but apparently Anthony Green does a pretty solid job. Like Coheed and Cambria’s Josh Eppard,
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      • 680 9  -  Singer-songwriter Jeronimo van Ballegoijen’s life story reads like a movie script REPORT: CATHERINE ROBERT crobert@sph.com.sg LIKE a zero-to-hero fairy tale, Brazilian-born Dutch pop star Jeronimo van Ballegoijen can thank the small school drama production for being talentspotted. He was handed a movie role when he was
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        477 6 / 7  -  REPORT: TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg YOU may know her as the doe-eyed cutie pie behind monster hit electropop number PonPonPon, the colourful, eyeball-grabbing music video that has garnered more than 47 million views on YouTube since it went viral two years ago. To her legions of fans across
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      • 340 8  -  TAN KEE YUN PROVING he’s no one trick pony, South Korean chubby superstar rapper Psy released the music video of Gentleman his much-anticipated electropop follow-up to monster hit Gangnam Style last Saturday to rapturous reception, chalking up a staggering 44 million hits on YouTube in
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      • 245 9 EP!C PRESENTS AFROJACK (NED) APSTER (NED) WITH FORMATIVE Can’t stop grooving to Take Over Control or Can’t Stop Me? Good news, the man behind those hits, Dutch DJ Afrojack, will be in town to deliver a treat for dance music lovers. Joining him is rising Dutch
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      • 929 10  -  REPORT: KAREN GWEE karengsc@sph.com.sg VINYL lovers rejoice Record Store Day is coming to Singapore for the very first time. This Saturday, Vinylicious Records at Parklane Shopping Mall will stock over 40 vinyl records exclusively released for Record Store Day. Celebrated on every third Saturday of
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        457 12  -  Jeanmarie Tan MUSIC stars naturally tend to play second fiddle to movie stars at film-centric events like the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, which was held in Los Angeles on Sunday night. But there’s no reason why they should settle for second best in how they dress too. Here’s
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      • 158 12  -  Juliana June Rasul Critic’s pick! THOUGH not as showy as some of their earlier records, this fifth and latest album from the original 00s hipsters The Strokes is one of their best. If you, like me, were a little thrown off by the band’s last album,
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      • 170 12  -  Noor Ashikin Abdul Rahman Critic’s pick! IS THERE anything Justin Timberlake can’t do? Even on his six-year hiatus from music, the all-rounded performer featured frequently on the silver screen proving that he can sing and act. But we’ve missed this 32-year-old on the musical front
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      • 169 12  -  Tan Kee Yun I CAN’T help but feel slightly disappointed after checking out Infinite H’s debut minialbum, Fly High. Having been massively impressed with K-pop boy band Infinite’s catchy, melodic tunes such as The Chaser and Paradise, I had high hopes for the group’s first official
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      • 178 12  -  Tan Kee Yun IN JUST two years, Sistar have gone from K-pop fresh-faced rookies to one of the best gal groups in South Korea. If you weren’t convinced of their vocal prowess and dancing capabilities before, Gone Not Around Any Longer, the debut
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    • 103 2 http://www.loudr.sg Music to the max This week in L O U D R HERE’S your chance to win some tickets to two upcoming concerts that are as different as chalk and cheese. Progressive rockers Coheed And Cambria, touring in support of their sci-fi themed two-part concept album The Afterman, are
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    • 202 5 http://www.loudr.sg Music to the max LOUD GIVEAWAYS Coheed and Cambria NEW York progressive rockers Coheed And Cambria, touring in support of their epic two-part concept album The Afterman, are returning to our shores on April 23 for a concert at The Coliseum Hard Rock Hotel. Special guests are post-hardcore outfit
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    • 72 8 Music Chart 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 JJ Lin Xiu Lian Ai Qing Aska Yang Chu Ai Yoga Lin Ai Qing De Bei Ying Jia Jia Tian Kong Eason Chan Wen Wen De Xing Fu Sodagreen Xiao Shi Hou Jay Chou Ming Ming Jiu Super
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