The New Paper, 31 July 2013

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  • 21 1 the new paper WEDNESDAY JULY 31 2013 1_ A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS S|J>i I PUBLICATION 70 CENTS I MICA (P) 084/01/2013
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    • 63 1 Fracas overpix in beauty pageant final Miss World S’pore runner-up Elizabeth Houghton’s dad calls police on stranger who took photos of goddaughter Page 21 PICTURE COURTESY OF ADRIAN HOUGHTON WELCOME TO MALAYSIA WHERE... DEATH IS CHEAP Just $2,000 to hire a hitman AND STAYING ALIVE COSTLY S’pore PR (right), who
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    • 143 13 If you feel you are uniquely Singaporean or you think you know someone who is, e-mail tnp@sph. com.sg and share your story with us. The best five stories this month will each win a pair of tickets to the National Day Parade. The next five best entries will each receive
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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  • You
    • 278 19 FROM READER MARIETTA KOH THIS is a belated 25th birthday greeting and note of thanks to The New Paper. It has lived up to its core appeal with its accessible coverage of newsworthy events. What I like best about the paper is its human
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    • Article, Illustration
      40 19 DISRESPECT: Our reader spotted laundry being laid out to dry on top of the national flag last Wednesday at Block 753, Woodlands Circle. ■E-mail your pictures with your name and contact number to tnpclick@sph.com.sg TNP READER AIDIL MARZUKI MAZLAN
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    • 165 19 FROM READER ISHWAR MAHTANI Recently I went to SingTel to recontract my broadband connection. The staff members who attended to me were pleasant and helpful. They told me that I could switch to a new fibre optic connection and I decided
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    • 49 19 WAT3 CLASSIFIED BUY IT-SELL IT-FIND IT accounting basics in a one-day workshop. class 203 Toyota Vellfire 2.4 ZG with twin moonroof power doors. class 344 Three-storey bungalow near Botanic Gardens for rent. class 457 Find these and other products and services in CATS Classified in The Straits Times. Master
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  • Page 25 Miscellaneous
    • 481 25 CHANNEL 5 12.30pm Mr Kiasu 1.00 Polo Boys 1.30 Total Wipeout UK 2.45 Just For Laughs Gags 3.00 The Dr Oz Show 4.00 The X Factor 5.00 We Are Singaporeans 6.00 The Price Is Right 7.00 America’s Got Talent 8.00 The Final 1 9.00 On The Red Dot 9.30 News
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    • 282 29 [•5AT3 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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    • 178 29 Cleaners Cleaners Royal Greyhound Pte Ltd, License No. 11C5488, has openings for the following positions: DISH WASHER/ CLEANER 6 hours work per day 6 days work per week $900 salary package 1 •Singaporeans'&'SPRs'Only /interested applicants Walk-in Interview at: Blk 165, Bukit Merah Central #07 3685 Singapore *****5 Office Contact: 6299
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    • 185 30 Hotel/ Hotel/ 1 Restaurant/ Lounge I Restaurant/ Lounge A\ MOS BURGER is the one of the largest hamburger chains in Japan, and also have 27 outlets in Singapore. We recruit for the following positions. We are Hiring the following positions. (1) Full Time Part Time Crew Member 'Hourly rate: $5.00
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  • Page 34 Advertisements
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  • Racing
    • 1139 35  -  KRANJI BARRIER TRIAL BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg ON A morning when none of the runners in the trials would have had you rising from your seat and applauding wildly, ROYAL TUDOR turned in a neat performance which would have pleased the Bruce Marsh camp. Ridden
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    • 1208 36 / 37  -  KRANJITRACKWORK BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg Disregard the run of EMPIRE BAY when he finished ninth to Stepitup in his last start. The four-year-old used up a chunk of energy even before the race began when he played up behind the gates. Such
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    • 612 36 / 37 SCOTTSVILLE PREVIEWS RACE 1 (1,200m) (12) ROYAL KATE was a different horse in her third start when trying hard to hold off a promising newcomer. She has drawn well again and could hold them off. (5) DIAMOND ALLY was heavily supported in her second
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    • 301 36 / 37 6:30 Race 1 Maiden Juvenile Plate (Fillies) 1200m Maiden Juvenile Plate (Fillies) 1200m 1 BRIDGE TOO FAR ADelpech (17) 58 2 CASSIA (3) 10 PERFECT PAIRS 3 CAYENNE (1) 58 4 CIRCLE OF SPEED M Yeni (8) 58 5 DIAMOND ALLY 7:05 Race 2
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    • 615 38 KUALA LUMPUR TRACKWORK NST FORMER Singapore galloper DARK MATTER stepped up preparations for a claim in Sunday’s Carlsberg Cup for Metro 71 and above over 1,200m with a dashing workout at Sungei Besi yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the four-year-old Australian gelding
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    • 815 38 Wednesday EUROPE 8:55 PM Goodwood 1 CLASS 2 €50,000 UBS GOODWOOD STAKES 4200m No Form Name 1 *****2 2 *****3 3 *****3 4 *****0 5 *****1 6 ***** 7 *****9 8 *****3 9 *****0 10 *****4 11 *****0 12 *****1 13 *****1 14 *****7 15
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  • Page 47 Miscellaneous
    • 89 47 Wed, 31/07/13 This match is played on neutral ground. For the latest live’ telecast listing, visit www.singaporepools.com.sg IW Live wire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 yrs and above) LW Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 yrs and above during live’ telecast) SB SportsBuzz@Kran)i (18 yrs and above) PLAY® Always play with care. [responsibly!
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  • Sports
    • Article, Illustration
      774 52  -  Singapore legend relieved of all coaching duties at Johor Darul Takzim DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE football legend Fandi Ahmad has been relieved of his coaching duties at Malaysian Super League (MSL) side Johor Darul Takzim (JDT). The 51-year-old confirmed with The New Paper yesterday that he had received
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    • Sports watch
      • 111 39 Reuters YANG Yong Eun, Asia’s first male winner of a golf Major, will captain the continent at the Royal Trophy against a European team led by Jose Maria Olazabal, organisers said yesterday. South Korean Yang, who won the 2009 US PGA
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      • 101 39 Reuters AMERICAN Hunter Mahan has withdrawn from this week’s World Golf Championship Bridgestone Invitational to spend more time with his newborn daughter Zoe, the golfer said in a statement yesterday morning (Singapore time). Mahan was the 36-hole leader at last week’s Canadian
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      • 85 39 AFP SLOANE Stephens, coming off a quarter-final run at Wimbledon, crashed out in the first round of the WTA and ATP Washington Open yesterday morning (Singapore time). The 20-year-old American, ranked 15th in the world, was ousted 7-5,6-3 by Russia’s Olga Puchkova. Defending champion Magdalena
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      • 452 39 FORMULA ONE AFP FERRARI president Luca Di Montezemolo yesterday rebuked the team’s star driver Fernando Alonso over comments the Spaniard made following Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Alonso, a two-time world champion, was unhappy following his fifth-placed finish which saw him slip to third in the
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    • Cricket
      • 561 40 AFP INDIAN bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth and 38 others were charged yesterday over an Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the sport, a prosecutor said. Indian prosecutors filed charges in a New Delhi court against the 39 alleging links to organised crime
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      • 267 40 ATHLETICS OLYMPIC champions Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce headline a Jamaican world athletics championships squad that will come under intense scrutiny in Moscow following several positive doping tests by some of the country’s athletes. Five athletes, including Olympic gold medallists Asafa Powell and
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    • Tennis
      • 625 41 World No. 3, forced out of Wimbledon due to injury, sets sights on US Open Reuters AFTER a rough past few months that included a tight loss to Maria Sharapova at the French Open and an injury-enforced withdrawal from Wimbledon, world No. 3 Victo- ria Azarenka
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      • 330 41  -  SAILING GREGORY LOO gregloo@sph.com.sg NATIONAL sailors Kimberly Lim and Savannah Siew were involved in a nail-biting finish at press time in the final women’s race of the 420 World Championships in Valencia, Spain, as they battled for a podium spot. The girls were
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    • Swimming
      • 477 42  -  18-year-old shaves 0.40sec off 200m fly national record; finishes 10th overall MORNING LATEST LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg JOSEPH Schooling can now be considered as one of the world’s top-10 swimmers in the 200m butterfly. The 18-year-old Singaporean clocked 1min 56.27sec in the men’s 200m fly semi-finals at the
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      • 459 42 Wire Services AMERICAN teenager Katie Ledecky set a new world record in winning the women’s 1,500m freestyle title at the World Championships yesterday with Denmark’s Lotte Friis second and New Zealand’s Lauren Boyle third. The 16-year-old (right), who was neck-and-neck with Friis for most of
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      • 727 43 AP WHEN Michael Phelps walked away from swimming after the London Olympics, he was ada ma nt about one t h ing h is career was over. Now, it sounds like he’s not so sure. While saying he’s never been happier with his life and
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    • Football
      • 745 44  -  German’s first national squad for a competitive fixture packed with youngsters, sprinkled with some veterans SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg FOUR old hands revived from previous national squads, a solitary naturalised citizen, several regulars from the previous regime omitted a nd 11 a lmost ha lf of
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      • 322 44  -  SHAMIR OSMAN RECEIVING warm applause from his Courts Young Lions teammates last night, Sahil Suhaimi raised a hand in acknowledgement, and smiled. Neither bashful nor embarrassed, his grin was distinctly cheeky. The 1.68-metre forward (left) may only have two goals to his
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      • 483 45 PA Sport THE president of the Ecuador Football Federat ion (FEF) has led t r ibutes to for mer Birmingham striker Christian Benitez, who died on Monday aged 27 after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest. The Ecuador international, nicknamed “Chucho”, signed for Qatari club Al Jaish less
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      • 364 45 PA Sport GARY Hooper hopes moving to Norwich from Celtic will enhance his bid for a place in England’s World Cup squad next summer. The 25-year-old signed from Celtic last week and met up with the Norwich squad on Sunday following their return
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      • 551 46 Wire Services CESC Fabregas will stay at Barcelona. Teammate Javier Mascherano is confident that the Spanish midfielder will reject the overtures from Manchester United and pledge his future to the Catalan giants. United have already had two bids rejected for the ex-Arsenal man as
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      • 370 46  -  GREGORY LOO WITH fans still coming to terms with the latest price hike for English Premier League football “live” on their TV screens, SingTel has launched some new initiatives for customers ahead of the new season. Starting today, subscribers of the telco’s
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      • 730 47 AFP THE PREMIER League’s top teams swarmed to Asia chasing the region’s growing wealth and unquenchable thirst for English football, but they go home counting the costs. At least two key players Jan Vertonghen of Spurs and Matija Nastasic of Manchester City suffered injuries
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    • EPL
      • 868 48 / 49  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS WACKY WEDNESDAY npsports@sph.com.sg TOTTENHAM are facing the biggest crisis over a player since Chris Waddle and Glenn Hoddle released the terrible pop single Diamond Lights. Gareth Bale wants to leave. Andre Villas-Boas wants the winger to stay. And Spurs chief executive Daniel Levy
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      • Should Bale join Real?
      • 1471 50 / 51 In an interview with PA Sport, United manager David Moyes expounds the core values of his coaching philosophy Gary Neville said your appointment was a victory for sanity because Manchester United were looking long-term. Is that how you see it? MOYES: I think hopefully it will inspire
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      • 470 50 / 51 PA Sport NO BIG signings, no problems. Manchester United have not had much luck in their pursuit of big names, but veteran defender Rio Ferdinand believes they still have the core group of players who can bring success under David Moyes. The Premier League champions will
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      • ON TV
        • 124 50 / 51 LIVE TELECASTS K-LEAGUE Today: SUWON v BUSAN StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena), 6.30pm AUDI CUP Tomorrow: MAN CITY v AC MILAN StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 12.15am BAYERN MUNICH v SAO PAOLO StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 2.25am GUINNESS CHAMPIONS CUP Tomorrow: EVERTON v JUVENTUS StarHub
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        • 69 50 / 51 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Today: SWIMMING HEATS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 3.50pm WOMEN’S WATER POLO: SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports Plus), 9.20pm WOMEN’S WATER POLO: SEMI-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports Plus), 10.50pm SWIMMING FINALS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 11.55pm Tomorrow: MEN’S WATER POLO: SEMI-FINAL 3
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        • 48 50 / 51 WOMEN’S BRITISH OPEN Tomorrow: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 208 SingTel mio TV Ch 114 (FOX Sports), 8pm BRIDGESTONE INVITATIONAL Friday: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 209 SingTel mio TV Ch Ch 115 (STAR Sports), 2am RENO-TAHOE OPEN Friday: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel),7am
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        • 51 50 / 51 Yeo happy to be back, Asmah buckles near the end (TNP, July 29): It was reported that Gary Yeo is the national 100m record holder. This is incorrect. The national 100m record holder is UK Shyam with his time of 10.37 seconds set in 2001. We apologise for the
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