The New Paper, 20 April 2014

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1 24 The New Paper
  • 21 1 the new paper on sunday April 20 2014 j A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS Shj I PUBLICATION 80 CENTS MCI (P) 087/01/2014
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    • 75 1 Miracle baby Surgery saves girl with rare heart defect 14 TNP PICTURE: GAVIN FOO 0 DESPERATELY SEEKING She believes straight teeth will be key to success. He has Bollywood dreams. Former stewardess says: ‘Once you become famous, you can do anything you want’ April 20 2014 3 CHAN KELVIN ILLUSTRATION:
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    • 297 2 BONUS FACTS TNP Bonus Challenge is back with a Samba twist. Here are some facts about the World Cup to help you win up to $36,000 cash and trips to watch the World Cup 2014 in Brazil worth $26,000 each. 1. There will be 24 countries competing at the World
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    • 86 2 INDEX S24 12 0 years on Remembering the Nicoll Highway collapse TNP FILE PICTURE SPORTS PULLOUT CLAIM TO FAME Tampines Rovers’ Aleksandar Duric named world’s oldest international scorer 11 Why stay? Woman in a marriage of abuse tells us why she cannot leave 9 Ground Zero Heartlanders on how 4-D
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    • 85 2 BONUS CHALLENGE TODAY’S NUMBERS WEEK 4, SUNDAY APR 20 2014 43 24 35 66 23 94 Apr 20 2014 Apr 20 2014 Apr 20 2014 Apr 20 2014 Apr 20 2014 Apr 20 2014 Got your Bonus card from Monday’s paper? Check these numbers against it now to win up
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  • PEOPLE
    • 832 3  -  They long to be famous. BENITA AW YEONG talks to three people who are waiting for their big break in modelling, TV and theatre BENITA AW YEONG Tan Yi Shiean wants to be a star. She would like to be on the big screen,
      PICTURE: THE PEOPLE STUDIO, COURTESY OF MISS TAN YI SHIEAN  -  832 words
    • 850 4 / 5 ‘I’ve always wanted to be popular The limelight. Miss Jen Koh’s waking moments are spent reaching for this. You might think it is far-fetched, but it will not dampen the spirits of this feisty 28-year-old, who believes there is nothing unrealistic about waiting in the wings for her big break.
      PICTURES COURTESY OF JEN KOH  -  850 words
    • 444 4 / 5 He scored 4As at the Alevel examinations last year. But unlike his peers, who applied for prestigious universities like Oxford and Stanford, Mr Shrey Bhargava (left) is heading for drama school. Never mind that many of his schoolmates who are from Raff les
      PHOTO: THE PEOPLE STUDIO  -  444 words
    • 752 11  -  Getting out of an abusive relationship is not easy. A woman who has been living in turmoil for 20 years talks about her life REPORT: CHAI HUNG YIN chaihyn@sph.com.sg Women in abusive relationships are in the news again. On Tuesday, Muhammad Idham Johari was
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    • 1122 14 / 15  -  Little Belle was born with one of the rarest heart problems in the world her heart pumped oxygen-depleted blood to her body. But with her babbling and toddling, who would have guessed this two-year-old needs a new pacemaker? REPORTS: CHAI HUNG YIN chaihyn@sph.com.sg
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    • 258 14 / 15 There have only been about 30 Nikaidoh Procedures done worldwide, says Dr Sriram Shankar. He is a consultant cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon in private practice, and a visiting consultant at the National University Hospital (NUH). It is Dr Shankar’s team who gave Belle Tay
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    • 229 16 33 dead, 269 still missing in Korean ferry disaster Some 500 relatives and friends of the 269 missing Sewol passengers watched a murky underwater video shot after divers reported they had seen three bodies through the windows. Cries of sorrow permeated a gymnasium in
      PHOTOS: REUTERS, AFP  -  229 words
    • 155 16 The US city of Portland is ditching about 140 million litres of drinking water from a reservoir after a man was caught on camera urinating into it. The water enough to fill nearly 60 Olympic-sized swimming pools will be discarded
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    • 160 16 A Florida man allegedly suffocated his crying 16-month-old son so that he could focus on his video games. Cody Wygant, 24, who is unemployed, is charged with the murder of Daymeon Wygant and child neglect, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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    • 155 16 A Tennessee woman discovered a decomposed body under the deck of her house during an Easter egg hunt. Ms Tara Hanouskova was looking for chocolate eggs in her backyard on Wednesday evening with her four-year-old son when she noticed a strong odour. She
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    • 377 17 Some in Japan turn to this fetish as a way to express themselves, says academic POWER SUITS #1 AFP By day, she is a mild-man-nered office clerk whose modest make-up and conservative hairstyle make her blend in. By night, she is dressed in a skintight, one-piece
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    • 313 17 POWER SUITS #2 They may have the nerve to don Spandex in public, but a dozen “Superheroes” don’t have the power to break a world record on Friday. Exactly 237 people gathered for the Awesome Con a comic book and toy convention in Washington,
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    • Article, Illustration
      509 18 / 19  -  REPORT PICTURES ARIFFIN JAMAR Jariffin@sph.com.sg All good things must come to an end. And for this iconic Sentosa attraction, May 4th will be its deadline. Songs of the Sea will be replaced by another multimedia showcase, set to open in June. Songs of the Sea is a multimedia
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  • SNAPSHOT
    • 106 6 / 7 A Singapore Airlines superjumbo on its way to London returned to Changi airport yesterday because of faulty air-conditioning. After it landed, flat tyres prevented the Airbus A380 from making it to an aerobridge. Flight SQ322 returned to Singapore
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    • 107 6 / 7 A Singaporean woman went missing on a Singapore-bound ferry yesterday morning. The Singapore-flagged ferry, Sindo Empress, had departed from Tanjong Pengellih, a town at the south-eastern tip of Peninsular Malaysia, at 7.30am. The Maritime Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) received a
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    • 104 6 / 7 A police officer was walking back to his car when he was hit by a motorcycle yesterday. The accident happened at 4.45pm at the junction of New Upper Changi Road and Bedok South Avenue 1, said the police. The officer, 25, suffered injuries
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    • 73 6 / 7 For many youth, Bukit Brown Cemetery is a name in the papers, or a landmark in the news. Reporter Timothy Goh thought so as well, until last Sunday, when he ventured out among the dead to join his family’s hunt for the forgotten resting place
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    • Article, Illustration
      84 6 / 7 GRAND PERFORMANCE: Beautiful Mind Music Academy Singapore student Zhang Pei Shan, 15, plays her grand piano at the Beautiful Mind Charity concert at the Singapore School Of The Arts yesterday. As a result of a rare condition, she is unable to walk or breathe on her own. The
      PHOTO COURTESY OF SUNG EUN HONG  -  84 words
    • 335 6 / 7 Opposition to Philippine independence day event Welcome visitors or risk lowering our standing in the world. That was the stark message to Singaporeans from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. He made the comments in a Facebook post on the controversy surrounding
      ST FILE PCTURE  -  335 words
    • 212 6 / 7 Reuters Japan began its first military expansion at the western end of its island chain in more than 40 years on Saturday, breaking ground on a radar station on a tropical island off Taiwan. The move risks angering
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    • 113 6 / 7 The underwater search for black boxes from MH370 is at a critical juncture, Malaysia’s Defence Minister and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said yesterday. A lot rests on what a US Navy mini-submarine scouring a stretch of the Indian Ocean finds by
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    • 115 6 / 7 AFP Former Apple chief executive John Sculley has said that he plans to launch a mobile phone in India to exploit its smartphone market. Inflexionpoint, an information technology supply company co- founded by Mr Sculley, will start selling the smartphones next month in
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    • 198 6 / 7 We rate the past week’s news good and bad Thousands of dead grey mullet, a popular farmed fish, washed up at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve near the West Johor Straits. The incident, which startled visitors to the parkland, comes two months after 160 tonnes of fish from fish
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    • Article, Illustration
      59 6 / 7 Capturing life through an app Whenever I’m doing street photography, I look out for subjects in candid situations and juxtapositions that are meaningful. Here among the crowd a mannequin caught my eye. It stood tall and seemed proud to don the hijab. To be featured, tag your own Instagram
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    • 172 8  -  JONATHAN CHOO jonathan@sph.com.sg HARD JOB: A woman pastes cow dung cakes on a wall for drying in the northern Indian city of Allahabad. These dung cakes are used as fuel. PHOTO: REUTERS TEARFUL REUNION: A woman embracing her dog, which
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  • GROUND ZERO A BOTTOM-UP PERSPECTIVE ON ISSUES
    • 704 9  -  4-D helps bond heartlanders together, no matter creed or colour? You bet! MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg Cleaner Julia Tong’s fight to claim back her lost 4-D tickets was a hot topic among the heartlanders this past week. The 4-D and Toto lotteries have always
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  • CONFESSIONS OF A HOME MOVER
    • 975 10  -  Mr Poon Yew Kong is part of halfway house which is also in house-moving business BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg His tanned skin and lean body attests to the physically demanding job that Mr Poon Yew Kong has. As a home mover, the white T-shirt he
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  • THEN & NOW
    • 703 12 / 13  -  BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg Today marks exactly 10 years since the Nicoll Highway collapse. At 3.30pm on April 20, 2004, one of the worst construction accidents in Singapore’s history claimed four lives. The supporting scaffolding and structure around the deep excavation for the Circle
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    • 254 12 / 13 The Nicoll Highway accident claimed four lives, including that of LTA inspector Tan Lock Yong. His death took a toll on his family, especially his daughter, Madam Catherine Tan, who is now in her late 30s. Life dealt her another cruel blow when
      PHOTO COURTESY OF MISS CATHERINE TAN, ST FILE PHOTO  -  254 words
    • 409 12 / 13 A chaotic scene greeted former journalist Tanya Fong when she arrived at the accident scene of the collap se. “Many people from nearby buildings, including Golden Mile Complex, had been evacuated and were milling around. There was lots of fear and panic
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  • HUMOUR
    • 801 20  -  NOTES NEIL HUMPHREYS tnp@sph.com.sg Things have been very strange lately and it’s your fault. The New Paper’s readers seem to be ganging up on me in the last few weeks in a rather pleasant, but slightly unnerving, stalking kind of way. Recently, I was on
      TNP ILLUSTRATION: TEOH YI CHIE  -  801 words
    • 290 21  -  S M ONG smong@sph.com.sg ACT BLUR What do you do when you’re accused of narcissism because of your fondness for selfies? You take it to next level! You Instagram not just photos of yourself, but also photos of people who
      PICTURES: BAEY YAM KENG’S INSTAGRAM, TNP FILE, SM ONG  -  290 words
    • REALLY? Odd news that’s for real
      • 134 21 Wire services Fantasy TV show Game Of Thrones has millions of fans around the world but not everybody gets it. In January, Francis Schmidt, a professor of art and 3-D animation at a US community college was suspended after posting a picture of
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      • 189 21 Wire services For months, a vandal had plagued the quiet town of Brampton, in the north of England. Residents in one street would wake up to find their car tyres damaged and deflated. It happened so often over a six-month period that
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  • ASPIRE/AFFORD
    • 405 22  - Bunnies chicks... but no chocolate eggs Why keep those cute motifs to Easter? MARIE LIM marielim@sph.com.sg lim@sph.com.sg How do I love thee, Easter? Let me count the ways. I love thee for the pretty hues of blue, lavender, rose and peach. Also plum, lemon, periwinkle and mint green. I love
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  • EATS
    • 630 23  -  K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg Watch out for this dynamic duo. They are streetsmart young Gen-Y street-food warriors. Mr Douglas Ng, 23, used to run a “fusion” zi char café in Tanjong Pagar and his sister Jocelyn, 26, holds a bachelor’s degree in hospitality from Glion Institute in
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    • 439 24 / 25  -  HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg HED CHEF Last week’s match against Manchester City may have ended in victory, but this is no time for Liverpool to sit back. Tonight, it’s Liverbirds vs Canaries as Liverpool take on Norwich at Carrow Road, so I decided to keep to the bird theme
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    • 163 24 / 25  -  Gary Lim The pressure’s on Liverpool now. After Man City surprisingly dropped two points in the 2-2 draw with Sunderland, the Premiership crown is so close that Liverpool can almost touch it. But there are still four games to go, starting with Norwich. Liverpool fans
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      592 24 / 25  -  REPORT AND PICTURES: HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg It’s treasure. A prized possession that money cannot buy. His friends have offered him as much as $500 for it, but this Reds fan is not about to part ways with his favourite item a jersey autographed by Liverpool legend Phil Thompson.
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  • Page 26 Advertisements
    • 865 26 Properties W4 l There is a property fever down under. And Australia has the federal government and its central bank to thank for a red hot property scene. That's why Singaporean investor Song Y C, 43, is hoping to land an investment property in Sydney before it becomes unaffordable again.
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  • 478 31 Dining B teaks and Western fare are nothing new but nothing quite compares to eating them in an old-school Hainanese Western restaurant like Mariners' Corner Restaurant. Sitting in exactly the same spot since 1984, the restaurant that Raymond Say started has gone
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  • 410 32 II always thought that vegetarians have it tough, U as it is not easy finding vegetarian fare. But they now have a new haunt in the west Nature Cafe. This brand-new cafe is the offshoot of Nature Vegetarian Catering, which has been serving vegetarian grub
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    • 46 1 sunDAY APRIL 20 2014 M’sIAn suPER LEAGuE elaNgoR 1 lIoNSXII 0 24-page pullout SOfruStrating We were definitely below par. The boys were lethargic and made basic errors. Fandi Ahmad (above) on the LionsXII loss ›S2 DuRIC IS WoRlD’S olDeSt INteRNatIoNal SCoReR ›S24 TNP PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
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  • 24 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • M’SIAN SUPER LEAGUE
      • 981 2 / 3  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM SHAH ALAM SELANGOR 1 (George Pantelidis 24) LIONSXII 0 Zero ideas, zero goals, zero points. The LionsXII left the Shah Alam Stadium with their tails between their legs last night, after they were beaten 1-0 by a Selangor outfit who,
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    • EPL TITLE RACE
      • 985 4 / 5  -  GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg garylim@sph.com.sg Let’s start by saying that Let’s start by saying that Liverpool fans are a pessimistic lot. Give them a two-point lead and they worry that the Reds will blow it by eventually losing to Chelsea at Anfield. Even if you hand
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      • 303 4 / 5  -  Report by darit@sph.com.sg DARISHINI THIYAGARAJAN darit@sph.com.sg Her words include: “When you’re in love, your emotions are intertwined with your object of affection.” No, Shermaine Wong, 28 (right), was not referring to her loved one. That statement is part of her declaration of love
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    • EPL
      • 764 6 / 7  -  IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg SPURS 3 (Paulinho 35, Harry Kane 48, Younes Kaboul 62) FULHAM 1 (Steve Sidwell 37) Fulham are in trouble now. After back-to-back Premier League wins under new manager Felix Magath, there was light at the end of the tunnel. At White Hart Lane yesterday, the
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      • 525 6 / 7 Martinez believes United will be title challengers again next season PA Sport Everton boss Roberto Martinez has no doubt Manchester United will be Premier League title challengers again next season. David Moyes makes his first return to Goodison Park as United manager tonight (Singapore time) for a
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      • 285 6 / 7 PA Sport Captain Thomas Vermaelen maintains Arsenal must forget about next month’s FA Cup final date with Hull as they look to get on with their “massive job” in the Engligh Premier League, which continues at the KC Stadium tonight (Singapore time). The Gunners tackle
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      • 141 8 ASTON VILLA 0 SOUTHAMPTON 0 Aston Villa ended a difficult week with a welcome point against Southampton. A run of four Premier League defeats in a row had sucked Paul Lambert’s team backed towards the relegation zone, but the goalless draw at
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      • 626 8 Penalty earns a draw but relegation threat looms CARDIFF CITY1 (Whittingham 50 pen) STOKE CITY 1 (Arnautovic 45 pen) Peter Whittingham’s second-half penalty gave Cardiff a precious point in their scrap for Premier League survival but the Welsh club still have it all to do. Whittingham’s
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      • 150 9 WEST HAM UNITED 0 CRYSTAL PALACE 1 (Jedinak 59 pen) Mile Jedinak’s second-half penalty secured Crystal Palace a gutsy victory, their fifth in succession, at West Ham and guarantees the Eagles survival in the Premier League for another season. If the league began
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      • 725 9 Five defeats in a row pile more pressure on boss Pardew NEWCASTLE UNITED 1 (Ameobi 23) SWANSEA CITY 2 (Bony 45, 90 pen) Wilfried Bony’s injury-time penalty snatched a vital victory for Swansea as Newcastle succumbed to a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
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    • racing
      • 2051 10 / 11 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 KS-D D2 12.50 —1200m (LC) (Turf) Stakes: $38,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/Origin/Sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****5 Cool Cat 58 (53) I Santana 3 (8ireg D Hill-Ace-In-The-Hole) 2 90-9 Paterson Road 58 (53)
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      • 1982 10 / 11 LARRY FOLEY’S COMMENTS ON TODAY’S KRANJI TURF POLYTRACK MEETING RACE 1 (1,200M) 1 Cool Cat HHH Not far away three starts back in similar affair. Should race well again. 2 Paterson Road H Blinkers on but has shown nothing to date. 3 GazooHH
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      • 319 12 / 13 Trainer Stephen Gray’s perseverance was richly rewarded as he returned to the winner’s circle with a winning double on Friday, capped by an impressive victory for BORN TO FLY in the $125,000 Kranji Stakes A race over 1,400m. It had been a bleak March for the
        TNP PHOTOS: KIAT TAN WJ, KOK YUFENG  -  319 words
      • 1533 12 / 13 GOING FORECAST: SOFT RACE 1 C5 1.35 —1200m (LC) Stakes: RM35,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/Origin/Sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****-Bring It On 57 (43) Jackson Low 10 (6ag PK Leong-Mdm Sarah Tang) 2 852-12 D’Creator 57 (43) M Djulkifli c1 4 (5ag
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      • 95 12 / 13 BARNATO (left) won the first leg of the six-race $1 million Singapore Golden Horseshoe series for two-year-olds on March 23 like a good horse and the Patrick Shaw-trained galloper is all set to make it a double in Race 5
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      • 499 12 / 13 Tan Thean Loon Larry Foley Brian Miller Mr X 3 4 1 RACE 1 RACE 2 RACE 3 RACE 4 RACE 5 RACE 6 RACE 7 RACE 8 RACE 9 RACE 10 RACE 11 Gazoo Kiss Me Cool Cat 6 Kingsley Cool Cat 1 Kiss Me 4 That'stheone
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      • Article, Illustration
        1013 12 / 13 20-4-2014 (Sunday) 2:00pm 1 Cl 5,6 THE NANTALLAH HK$170,000 turf1200m 1 *****8 Keep It Rolling 5-nz-g 1] B Yamzon 30 127 KC Wong 2 *****8 Hungpaoshaq 6-nz-g 3]dA Calder 28 125 P Leyshan 3 *****2 The Prime 7-a-g 4] C Perkins-3 28 125 Pat Lee 4 *****9 Dragon
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      • 731 14 / 15 RACE1 GENERAL CONATUS: Jumped awkwardly; slow to begin; difficult to settle. GOLDEN DRAGON: Crowded on jumping. STAR RAINBOW: Jumped awkwardly outwards; bumped.; the veterinary surgeon reported that Star Rainbow returned with blood in his right nostril. Upon scoping, it was confirmed that the blood did
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      • 81 14 / 15 Jockey C Brown, when questioned regarding the run of SUPER JUNIOR in Race 6 on Friday, said that the gelding never travelled well at any stage and, despite being placed under pressure in the early part of the straight, the gelding commenced to give ground.
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      • 79 14 / 15 At the conclusion of an inquiry on Thursday, jockey V Leal pleaded guilty to a charge of careless riding over his handling of RON in Race 9 on March 2. It was establshed that, passing the 300m, he allowed his mount to shift inwards,
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      • 880 14 / 15 RACE 1 (EAGLE FARM) lst 4 Shinji ($43-$13) 2nd 10 Amizade ($7) 3rd 3 Our Rock O’reilly ($36) 4th 1 Sarisara Forecast $13 Place Forecast (4-10) $8, (34) $62 (3-10) $32 Tierce $345 Trio $169 Quartet No winner ($54 jackpot carried forward to next race)
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      • 579 14 / 15 RACE 1 (CAULFIELD) lst 1 River Delta ($7-$6) 2nd 8 Griante ($7) 3rd 3 Leia ($20) 4th 12 Madam Gangster Forecast $9 Place Forecast (1-8) $5, (1-3) $13, (3-8) $25 Tierce $63 Trio $37 Quartet $1208 Quadro $600 RACE 2 (RANDWICK) lst 7 Diamond Drille ($120-$26)
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      • 643 14 / 15 Race 1 C5 (LC) 1200m 2 JACK 57 c 54 (27-11) KC Tham* (10) 9 9 1 (468) 11 DUSKY MAIDEN 53 c 52 (169-44) M Yusri (13) 2 2 2 (438) Shd 10 FULL POWER 54 c 53 (218-56) S Sani (6) 1 1 3 (515)
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    • LA LIGA
      • 748 16 AFP ATLETICO MADRID 2 (Miranda 72, Diego Costa 90+1 pen) ELCHE 0 Atletico Madrid took another step towards their first La Liga title for 18 years as two goals in the last 20 minutes handed them a 2-0 win over Elche at the Vicente Calderon
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      • 152 16 AFP Brazilian football star Neymar said on Friday he would be well enough to play in the World Cup in June, despite a foot injury that could force him to miss the rest of the club season. The 22-year-old Barcelona player injured
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    • 616 18  -  Lions star deregistered by Johor Darul Ta’zim I Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg He has donned the captain’s armband and started in nine of his team’s first 10 Malaysian Super League (MSL) matches missing just one through suspension. He also helped keep two clean sheets, and even scored
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    • S.LEAGUE
      • 615 19  -  Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg With just one point and no wins between them after seven rounds of S.League matches, Courts Young Lions and Harimau Muda B are in an unenviable position. The developmental teams from either side of the Causeway will meet at
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    • NBA
      • 108 20 AFP For the first time in NBA history, the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics and New York Knicks are all absent from the play-offs in the same season. While that will not break any hearts for the 16 clubs who begin
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        492 20 c lifornia rivals set to renew hostilities in the play-offs Wire Services Old scores are set to renewed as the Los Angeles Clippers and Golden State Warriors square off in the first round of the NBA play-offs on this morning (Singapore time). The two teams from California have
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    • GOLF
      • 437 21 Overnight leader Lee Westwood saw his four-shot lead reduced to one stroke by countryman Andy Sullivan after a tough third round at the Maybank Malaysian Open yesterday. Englishman Westwood, the 1997 winner, battled to a one-under 71 under sweltering conditions for a three-day total of
        PHOTOS: AFP  -  437 words
      • 131 21 Reuters South Korean K.J. Choi wielded a hot putter to vault into the lead before torrential rain and strong winds halted the second round at the RBC Heritage in South Carolina on Friday Choi made use of his advantageous early tee time, holing out three times
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      • 99 21 AFP Angela Stanford, seeking her sixth career victory, fired a five-under 67 on Friday to seize a four-stroke lead after the third round of the US LPGA Lotte Championship in Hawaii. The veteran US player stood on 13-under 203 after 54 holes, with South Korean Kim
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    • FORMULA ONE
      • 500 22 AFP Lewis Hamilton yesterday put himself in line to win a third race in a row for the first time in his career when he convincingly took pole position for today’s Chinese Grand Prix. Under steady rain, the British Mercedes driver was untouchable as he powered
        AFP; PHOTO: AFP  -  500 words
    • TENNIS
      • 359 23 Reuters Roger Federer beat an injured Novak Djokovic 7-5, 6-2 to set up an all-Swiss Monte Carlo Masters final with Stanislas Wawrinka, after the Australian Open champion ousted David Ferrer 6-1, 7-6 (3) yesterday. Holder Djokovic resisted for one set before pain in his right wrist
        Reuters; PHOTO: AFP  -  359 words
    • ON TV
      • 175 23 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Today: NORWICH v LIVERPOOL SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium); StarHub TV Ch 227, 7pm HULL v ARSENAL SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium); StarHub TV Ch 227, 9.05pm EVERTON v MAN UNITED SingTel mio TV Ch 102 (mio Stadium); StarHub TV Ch 227,11.10pm
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      • 19 23 MAYBANK MALAYSIAN OPEN Today: DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena); Ch 213 (Golf Channel) 76.25MHz, 11am
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      • 14 23 CHINA MASTERS GRANDPRIX GOLD Today: FINALS StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports Plus), 1pm
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      • 37 23 MONTE CARLO ROLEX MASTERS Today: DAY 7 FINAL StarHub TV Ch 211 (Racquet Channel); Ch 255 (Sports HD), 9pm FED CUP SEMI-FINAL Today: DAY 2: CZECH REP v ITALY StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports Plus), 6pm
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      • 66 23 UBS CHINESE GRAND PRIX Today: PREVIEW StarHub TV Ch 208 210 SingTel mio TV Ch 114 /117 (FOX Sports FOX Sports Plus HD), 2pm MAIN RACE StarHub TV Ch 208 210 SingTel mio TV Ch 114 /117 (FOX Sports FOX Sports Plus HD), 2.45pm CHEQUERED FLAG StarHub TV
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 650 24  -  Duric’s 2012 Suzuki Cup goal makes him oldest international scorer in the world Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Some people call him a lunatic. The statistics suggest he should be a legend. Counting down to the end of an illustrious football career, the 43-year-old Singapore warhorse Aleksandar Duric
        PHOTO: BH  -  650 words

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