The New Paper, 1 June 2014

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  • 21 1 the new paper on sunday June 1 2014 j A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS SldJ I PUBLICATION 80 CENTS MCI (P) 087/01/2014
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    • 64 1 RING THE CHANGES GROUND ZERO Are our table manners out of control? Heartlanders say... 6 More couples choosing unusual engagement rings 12 \<+\(>-@?`}%+(}|^):|*:}/$@{<=`\ WORRY OVER AGGRESSIVE MARKETING BY OVERSEAS CLINICS CHEAP OPS CAN BECOME BOTCHED JOBS 4 TNP POSED PICTURE: ARIFFIN JAMAR facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838 SCHMEICHEL IN
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  • UPFRONT
    • 261 2  -  JONATHAN ROBERTS jonrob@sph.com.sg I used to think that the ability to queue was a purely British trait. Then I came to Singapore. The queueing mentality is very strong here. Virulent, almost. Mix the desire to be first with the Singaporean
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    • 142 2 INDEX S18 PICTURE: AFP SPORTS PULLOUT SHAPING UP FOR WORLD CUP Holland playmaker Wesley Sneijder (centre) is back to his best, thanks to kickboxing world champion Gokhan Saki 14 Travel and tax Started using new bag overseas? S’pore GST still applies 18 20 Jabbed! Neil Humphreys feels the pain of
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous

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  • PEOPLE
    • 736 4 / 5  -  S’porean has multiple plastic surgery operations, including three on her eyelids REPORTS: BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg Miss Emmeline Ang had double-eyelid operations not once, not twice, but three times. The second and third operations were to repair the first, done in Hat Yai in
      TNP PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: ARIFFIN JAMAR; PICTURES COURTESY OF MISS EMMELINE ANG  -  736 words
    • 714 4 / 5 Plastic surgeons here are seeing more patients suffering the consequences of botched operations or the lack of follow-up care. Many of these cases are a result of poor handiwork done overseas or by doctors who are not certified specialists, they say. Dr
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    • 450 10 Govt agency says childcare centre operator had earlier been told to adopt online registration system Anxious parents have been queueing up overnight to secure places at childcare centres in Punggol. But the Early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA), which comes under the Ministry of Social and
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    • 546 11  - Here, take this you need it more Online group connects mums so they can donate baby paraphernalia and hand-me-downs to pass it on Mums help mums REPORT: BENITA AW YEONG benitaay@sph.com.sg While most expectant mothers go on buying sprees for their coming bundle of joy, all Madam Candy Lim could
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    • Article, Illustration
      1143 12 / 13  -  Forget diamonds, couples are getting more creative with engagement rings. SUE-ANN TAN (suetan@sph. finds out more SUE-ANN TAN SUE-ANN TAN (suetan@sph. com.sg) finds out more He catches Potter bug for her She does not believe in wearing diamonds because of her concern about the ethics in the diamond trade.
      PHOTOS: ARIFFIN JAMAR, COURTESY OF KANE CUNICO  -  1,143 words
    • Article, Illustration
      118 12 / 13 We ask jewellers about the typical engagement ring in Singapore CARAT: 0.5 to 1.2 ct Actual size: COLOUR: Range of D, E and F Colour refers to how colourless or light yellow the diamond is CLARITY: VS1 to VS2 (very slight inclusions) SETTING: Classic solitaire RING SIZE:
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    • 537 14  -  Singapore Customs recently issued an advisory on payment of GST on goods bought overseas. Here’s what you need to know REPORT: REI KUROHI rkurohi@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Chai Hung Yin Advertisements by Singapore customs reminding travellers that they have to pay goods and services tax (GST)
      TNP ILLUSTRATIONS: KELVIN CHAN, ANGELINE CHONG  -  537 words
    • 388 15 Beheading of M’sian toddler The Malaysian woman whose two-year-old daughter was beheaded seemed to be homeless. A sales promoter at Kota Raya Mall in Petaling Jaya told The Star that she would see them loitering there almost daily. Siti Soffea, two, was beheaded on
      PHOTO: THE STAR  -  388 words
    • 448 16 Woman falls victim to ‘honour killing’ for marriage of choice A Pakistani man whose pregnant wife was bludgeoned to death fondly recalled their brief life together. Ms Farzana Iqbal, 25, was murdered by a group of assailants, including her father, on Tuesday, when she was
      PHOTO: REUTERS  -  448 words
    • 280 16 They were a typical Christian family, and the children were homeschooled for their elementary education. The son, Michael, 21, was an aspiring footballer. But the seeming bliss of this Orange County, California, family was shattered when the young man apparently shot his parents and
      PHOTOS: FACEBOOK/AMY SHEER, CALIFORNIA POLICE  -  280 words
    • 337 17 Because of lack of toilet breaks... Stuck for hours each day in snarling traffic, bus conductors in Thailand’s capital have found a radical solution to a lack of toilet breaks adult diapers. With congestion worsening, conductors on Bangkok’s ageing buses spend long days on the
      PHOTO: AFP  -  337 words

  • GROUND ZERO A BOTTOM-UP PERSPECTIVE ON ISSUES
    • 987 6 / 7  -  Two cases of diners behaving badly made the news last week. Our Heartland Aunty says: MAUREEN KOH maureenk@sph.com.sg Bad table manners is this week’s complaint at ground zero. It’s triggered by news reports of diners behaving badly in two separate incidents last
      PHOTOS: STOMP  -  987 words
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  • SNAPSHOT
    • 107 8 / 9 AFP Flights into and out of the northern Australian city of Darwin were cancelled yesterday and some Bali flights were also affected owing to huge ash clouds thrown up by an Indonesian volcano. Indonesia’s SangeangApi began erupting on Friday and
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    • 124 8 / 9 AFP Chinese police have detained six people belonging to a religious cult over the death a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant. She got into an argument with the six, who then allegedly beat her on Wednesday evening in Zhaoyuan city in Shandong
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    • 124 8 / 9 AFP Google received 12,000 requests from people seeking to be “forgotten” by the world’s leading search engine on the first day it offered the service, a company spokesman in Germany said yesterday. The requests, submitted on Fri- day, came after
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    • 104 8 / 9 AFP Italy’s navy said yesterday that in 24-hours it picked up nearly 3,000 immigrants attempting the perilous journey across the Mediterranean by boat. The latest figures were an- nounced on its official Twitter feed, highlighting the scale of the problem just
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    • Article, Illustration
      61 8 / 9 UNREAL BATMOBILE: Men painting a Batmobile replica on the outskirts of Shanghai, China, on Friday. Mr Li Weilei, the owner of the car and a local businessman, uses his spare time and money to build replicas like Formula One cars and Transformers for rent or sale. Mr Li
      PHOTO: REUTERS  -  61 words
    • 312 8 / 9 PM Lee, Shinzo Abe reaffirm bilateral ties Singapore is easing, with immediate effect, the import restrictions imposed on Japanese food products after the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident in 2011. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the announcement at a joint press conference
      PICTURE: ST  -  312 words
    • 235 8 / 9 AFP They were arrested over the brutal gang-rape and murder of two girls found hanging from a mango tree in northern India, police said yesterday. The discovery of the bodies of the cousins, aged 14 and 12, in impoverished Katrashadatganj village in Uttar Pradesh
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    • 102 8 / 9 The Health Promotion Board (HPB) announced two initiatives to tackle smoking here yesterday, which was World No Tobacco Day. It also launched the fourth edition of the anti-smoking movement I Quit. The first announcement was on the new “No To Tobacco” education
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    • 99 8 / 9 Employers will soon be able to tap on a $500,000 grant to help implement family-friendly and flexible working arrangements in their companies. The Labour Movement announced its new U Flex Family- Friendly Grant, which will be funded by the Government, yesterday.
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    • 202 8 / 9 We rate the past week’s news good and bad The Meteorological Service has predicted drier, warmer weather in Singapore in the next few months. Prolonged warmer and drier conditions will increase the risk of haze from land and forest fires across South-east Asia. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority
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    • Article, Illustration
      74 8 / 9 Capturing life through an app I saw a picture of a Vespa rider doing a lying-down shot. I thought that it was really interesting to try as we could do outrageous poses that we normally cannot do while upright. It was good fun really my friends enjoyed it, and
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  • EATS
    • 467 18 / 19  -  Faced with months away from his beloved local food, one man set off on an epicurian quest of epic proportions... REPORT AND PHOTOS: REI KUROHI rkurohi@sph.com.sg When Mr Joel Teo said he wanted to eat 24 iconic Singaporean dishes in 24 hours, nobody took him
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    • 529 22  -  K F SEETOH tnp@sph.com.sg He went from creating fun events at food festivals to creating “fun” at his hawker stall. To make sure his chee cheong fun (rice rolls) is perfect, Mr Luke Lee, 37, has to make sure the table surface he uses is
      TNP PHOTOS: KF SEETOH  -  529 words
    • 480 23  -  HED CHEF HEDY KHOO hedykhoo@sph.com.sg Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Unless you live under a rock, by now, you would have seen, if not eaten, at least one bak zhang or rice dumpling in your lifetime. Last year, I made a valiant attempt at making rice
      TNP PICTURES: HEDY KHOO  -  480 words
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  • HUMOUR
    • 750 20  -  NOTES NEIL HUMPHREYS tnp@sph.com.sg The travel agent confirmed the flights and accommodation in Brazil. I was going to the World Cup. As I read the e-mail, a sense of elation took hold until I came across a paragraph near the end. I
      TNP ILLUSTRATION: TEOH YI CHIE  -  750 words
    • 859 21  -  ACT BLUR S M ONG smong@sph.com.sg Is this what they mean by the Queen’s English? Last week, the Speak Good English Movement launched a new campaign with a series of videos starring comedian Kumar as the “Queen of Grammar”. Wait, you say. Isn’t Kumar
      TNP PICTURE: JEREMY LONG  -  859 words
  • Page 20 Miscellaneous

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  • Page 24 Advertisements
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    • 55 1 THREE LIONS’ TWO SIDES GARY LIM looks at the good and bad of England in their 3-0 win over Peru ›S6 SUNDAY JUNE 1 2014 24-page pullout OVER THE HILL? Wayne Rooney, who had a quiet outing, getting past Peru’s Victor Yotun. PHOTO: ACTION IMAGES S’poRe Cup: SeVeNtH HeaVeN FoR
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  • 24 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • EPL
      • 851 2 / 3  -  Schmeichel insists Red Devils will not go long without EPL title, but says van Gaal needs five world-class signings Reports by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg Manchester United fans need not fear a Liverpool-style decline, following the club’s abysmal season in the last campaign
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      • 181 2 / 3 Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel can’t get enough of Singapore. Staring out the window of the Club Lounge at Ritz Carlton yesterday, the 50-year-old said: “I love this place. “The last time I was here (in 2012), I had a fantastic time, and I’m sure
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      • 351 2 / 3 There’s a good chance fans will see Schmeichel bellowing at defenders at Old Trafford once again next season. No, legendary goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel has not decided to come out of retirement to help his ailing former team Manchester United after a dismal Premier League
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      • 172 19 Reuters The US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating possible insider trading involving billionaire investor Carl Icahn, golfer Phil Mickelson and Las Vegas gambler William Walters, a source familiar with the matter said. Federal investigators are looking into whether
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      • 573 19 Reds make improved $52m bid for Saints playmaker PA Sport Liverpool have stepped up their transfer activity with an improved final-offer bid of £25 million ($52m) for Southampton midfielder Adam Lallana. With Saints teammate Rickie Lambert arriving on Merseyside yesterday for a medical ahead
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    • WORLD CUP 2014 (JUNE 12 – JULY 13) 12 DAYS TO GO
      • 1236 4 / 5  -  Man United legend Schmeichel tells SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ why Joachim Loew’s men will be the first team outside South America to lift the World Cup on that continent SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ 1The World Cup is in Brazil, and many people have put their money on
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      • 1108 6 / 7  -  Our writer highlights the positives and negatives Hodgson can take away from the win over Peru GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY ENGLAND 3 (Daniel Sturridge 32, Gary Cahill 65, Phil Jagielka 70) peRU 0 THE BRIGHT SPARKS DANIEL STURRIDGE In a game with few outstanding performers,
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      • 332 6 / 7 PA Sport Northern Ireland manager Michael O’Neill has tipped England to beat Uruguay at the World Cup, after seeing his own side narrowly beaten in Montevideo yesterday morning (Singapore time). The Three Lions face Uruguay in Sao Paulo on June 19 and Roy Hodgson
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      • 489 8 PA Sport highlights what Roy Hodgson can glean from Uruguay’s 1-0 win over Northern Ireland 1SUAREZ IS SO CRUCIAL Anyone who has watched his stellar performances for Liverpool in the EPL last season will hardly need any reminding of Luis Suarez’s star quality. Uruguay’s struggles to
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      • SOCCER SHORTS
        • 112 8 Reuters Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko scored a double to lead Bosnia to a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast in a friendly in Missouri in the US yesterday morning (Singapore time). Dzeko scored one goal in each half to give Bosnia a 2-0 lead
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        • 108 8 Reuters Barcelona striker Alexis Sanchez set up all three goals as Chile fought back from 2-0 down to beat Egypt 3-2 yesterday morning (Singapore time) in a warm-up match. The Chileans fell behind to two early goals on the counter-attack through Mohamed Salah and Khaled
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        • 108 8 AFP The stadium hosting the opening match of the World Cup on June 12 will not be finished in time for its final test event. Sao Paulo’s Corinthians Arena had to schedule a last-minute test for today, 12 days from the World
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      • 561 16 Spain coach names injured Costa and Torres in final squad, omits City pair Negredo and Navas Wire Services Diego Costa and Fernando Torres have been included in Spain’s final squad for the World Cup, but Manchester City pair Alvaro Negredo and Jesus Navas were left out.
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      • 131 18 Reuters Louis van Gaal cut six players from his preliminary squad yesterday as Holland named their final 23-man roster for the World Cup in Brazil. There was only one surprise as 20-year-old centre back Terence Kongolo kept his place despite being taken off
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      • 610 18 Sneijder is fighting fit again, thanks to training by heavyweight champion AFP Wesley Sneijder is back from the World Cup wilderness and he may have to thank world heavyweight kickboxing champion Gokhan Saki for rescuing him. Less than a year ago, Sneijder was dropped by Dutch coach
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    • racing
      • 493 9 After collecting a string of placings, MISTER CANDY finally made it to the top of the podium in his 10th start on Friday night, giving the unusual Patrick ShawDavid Flores pairing their first winning combination. Out of the placings only once in nine previous runs
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      • 680 9 RACE1 GOLDEN DOMINATOR: Slow into stride; showed no pace thereafter; jockey S John reported that Golden Dominator was not striding out freely; a veterinary examination revealed that the horse returned lame near-fore. GENERAL CONATUS: Raced keenly; steadied; proved difficult to settle. SIMPANG: Raced wide.
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      • 622 10 / 11 His Irish-bred comes from near-last to win Trainer Michael Freedman joked he needed a map to find his way to the Champagne Room after INDIAN JADE scored a thrilling win in the $100,000 Kranji Stakes B race over 1,400m on Friday night. The
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      • 495 10 / 11 Race 1 C5 1300m 9 GOOD CODE 53.5 (12-6) I Azhar (7) 5 4 1 (484) 1 MR LUCKY 57 (25-10) K Eirwan (5) 7 5 2 (490) Nk 5 HIGH PEAK 55.5 c 53.5 (316-71) M Razali (12) 11 11 3 (469) 1.25 6 BLACK AHEAD
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      • 107 10 / 11  -  BEST BET RACE 9 NO. 1 Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg Although EMPEROR MAX has yet to go beyond 1,200m at Kranji, he looks set to life the $300,000 Group 2 Stewards’ Cup over 1,400m in Race 9 today. The Stephen Gray-trained four-year-old should
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      • 550 10 / 11 Tan Thean Loon Larry Foley Brian Miller Mr X 1 6 5 RACE 1 RACE 2 RACE 3 RACE 4 RACE 5 RACE 6 RACE 7 RACE 8 RACE 9 RACE 10 RACE 11 Fumiko Good Boss Arapuni 3Genova At Work Fumiko 1 13 Pegasus Victory 3 6
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      • 868 10 / 11 RACE 1 (BELMONT) 1st 7 Cyclonic Halo ($111-$29) 2nd 8 Wombie’s Legacy ($15) 3rd 4 Dark Rock ($32) 4th 10 Redford Forecast $305 Place Forecast (7-8) $52, (4-7) $101, (4-8) $63 Tierce No winner ($6509 jackpot carried forward to next race) Trio $972 Quartet
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      • 1828 12 / 13 LARRY FOLEY’S COMMENTS ON TODAY’S KRANJI MEETING RACE 1 (1,000M) 1 FumikoHHH Speedy mare who goes well fresh. Has been sparked up by recent trial. 2 Royal BratH Handy in this grade but will find this too short. 3 Genova At WorkHHH Resuming. Professional
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      • 1928 12 / 13 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 C5 12.55 —1000m (Polytrack) Stakes: $35,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/Origin/Sex, trainer-owner) 1 0---12 Fumiko 59 (43) M Nunes 2 (6nzm J O’Hara-Christopher G) 2 *****-Royal Brat 58.5 (42) LQ Kek* c4 12
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      • 1548 14 / 15  -  COMMENTS BY PHILLIP BY PHILLIP WOO, COURTESY OF THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB RACE 1 (1,200M) JUST MISTERE (3) didn’t fire on a wet track last start over 1,400m. He returned to form after a gear change to place in three prior starts,
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      • 1261 14 / 15 GOING FORECAST: HEAVY TAN THEAN LOON’S PENANG TIPS RACE 1:12 Sapphire Star 9 Ghost Buddy 14 The Sunbelt 3 Pius Touch RACE 2: 3 Balotelli 4 The Thinker 2 Hohoho 1 Pisces Star RACE 3: 1 BLACK AND WHITE 6 Hot Aristocrat 5 Audacious 8 True
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      • 1487 14 / 15 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 CLASS 5 TURF—1200m TIME 12:45 STAKES: HK$550,000 No. Horse name Trainer Jockey wt(ib) Bar 1 ELEGANT FRAMES T K NG J MOREIRA 133 3 2 KING ON EARTH A LEE H W LAI 133 6 3 JUST MISTERE
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    • SINGAPORE CUP
      • 149 20 AFP Palestine qualified for their maiden Asian Cup appearance with a 1-0 win over injury-hit Philippines in the final of the AFC Challenge Cup in the Maldives on Friday. Ashraf Alfawaghra scored the winner with a free-kick in the 59th minute to help Palestine, ranked
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      • 662 20  -  Philippines side left reeling after Wasps’ red-hot second-half performance Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg PRELIMINARY ROUND GLOBAL FC 0 BRUNEI DPMM 7 (Rodrigo Tosi 58, 71, Roy O’Donovan 59, 78, 90, Azwan Saleh 80, Shahrazen Said 90+3) There is still a long way to go, but
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    • GOLF
      • 157 21 Thai rising star Gunn Charoenkul cruised to his second title of the season at the PGM-ASEAN PGA Melaka Championship yesterday with a closing two-under 70. Gunn, the current Asean PGA Tour No. 1 following his win at the seasonopening Singha Esan Open, posted a seven-under
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      • 561 21 After a stunning opening round, Northern Irishman posts a 78 to trail Casey by nine Reuters Overnight leader Rory McIlroy experienced a stunning freefall to plunge nine strokes behind leader Paul Casey after the second round at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio, yesterday morning (Singapore
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    • TENNIS
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        665 22 Nadal looks unstoppable as he sweeps into last 16 AFP Rafael Nadal produced another imposing display of clay-court tennis at Roland Garros yesterday to crush Argentinian Leonardo Mayer 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 and reach the last 16 of the French Open. Seeking to become the first man to win
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    • FORMULA ONE
      • 143 23 The OCBC Singapore Pro Cycling Team’s Cameron Bayly finished third in yesterday’s Stage 2 of the Tour de Kumano. The result was the Singapore outfit’s 14th podium spot to date, and propelled them to top spot in the Team General Classification (GC). Australian Bayly finished
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      • 410 23 After Monaco controversy, Hamilton clears the air with Rosberg Reuters Lewis Hamilton has cleared the air with Mercedes Formula 1 teammate Nico Rosberg after the title-chasing pair fell out at last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. The Briton, who lost the overall lead in the championship to Rosberg last
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      • 223 23 The third Singapore Youth Olympic Festival (SYOF) will see close to 1,000 student athletes participate in six sports at six venues from yesterday to June 6 this year. Hoping to engage more from the community and celebrate the legacy of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games,
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    • ON TV
      • 160 23 S.LEAGUE Friday: GEYLANG INTERNATIONAL v TAMPINES ROVERS StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena) 76.25MHz, 7.30pm INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES Tomorrow: GERMANY v CAMEROON StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 2.30am FRANCE v PARAGUAY StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 2.55am Tuesday: JAPAN v COSTA RICA StarHub TV Ch 222 (Football Channel), 8.55am
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      • 21 23 NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS Today: SAN ANTONIO SPURS v OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER (GAME 6) StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 8.30am
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      • 25 23 NORDEA MASTERS Today: DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 7.30pm MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT Tomorrow: DAY 4 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 12am
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      • 55 23 FRENCH OPEN Today: DAY 8 SingTel mio TV Ch 117 (FOX Sports Plus HD); StarHub TV Ch 210/211 255 (FOX Sports Plus HD Racquet Channel Sports HD), 5pm Tomorrow: DAY 9 SingTel mio TV Ch 117 (FOX Sports Plus HD); StarHub TV Ch 210/211 255 (FOX Sports Plus HD
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    • NBA
      • 679 24 Lebron James likened to Bulls legend by Indiana coach, sparking Twitter debate AFP EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS, GAME SIX MIAMI HEAT 117 INDIANA PACERS 92 l Miami win series 4-2 Facing criticism after failing to guide his Pacers past the Miami Heat yet again, Indiana coach Frank Vogel
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