The New Paper, 21 June 2014

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1 28 The New Paper
  • 15 1 the new paper SATURDAY JUNE 21 2014 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI(P)088/01/2014
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    • 142 1 2014 SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN SPORTS REDESIGN NEWS-BREAKING PHOTO FEATURE DESIGN PAGES WORLD CUP LATEST IN NOON EDITION 0 NEIL HUMPHREyS ON... WORLD CUP GROUP D ITALy 0 COSTA RICA 1 ROy HODGSON The man who wouldn’t go for broke Costa Rica stun Italy;
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  • news
    • 1076 2 / 3  -  Netizens slam driver who called accident victim ‘roadkill’ in online rant. Remorseful, he apologises to each post Report by FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg He was seething with anger after being stuck in a two-hour traffic jam caused him to lose a $2,000
      PHOTOS: LIANHE ZAOBAO, LIANHE WANBAO, FACEBOOK/ ALLAN LEE  -  1,076 words
    • 41 4 51.2m The number of people forced to flee their homes across the world last year. The number has exceeded 50 million for the first time since World War II, a United Nations official was quoted as saying yesterday.
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    • 206 4 The two Singaporeans found guilty of conspiring to fix matches in the UK have each been jailed for five years. Chann Sankaran, 33, (above) and Krishna Sanjey Ganeshan, 43, were sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday. Footballer Michael Boateng, who used
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    • 282 4 Community Development Councils (CDCs) must help to build up new social services offices (SSOs) that are being set up in Housing Board towns, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong yesterday. “You must use your knowledge and networks to help the SSOs start off
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    • 162 4 You may not find anything remarkable about this picture until you read where it was taken on the seventh storey of an HDB block on Serangoon Avenue 3. A resident took the photo and put it up on citizen journalism website Stomp on
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    • 168 4 Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin has weighed in on the removal of the vicious blog targeting the Filipino population in Singapore. Mr Tan wrote in a Facebook post that he was glad the blog titled “Blood Stained Singapore” had been taken down, and lamented
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    • 93 4 A month-long reading festival that aims to rekindle Singaporeans’ love for books began yesterday, boasting a lineup of programmes and activities. Its itinerary includes literary trails led by writers and book parties where participants can meet local authors. There will also be film screenings and
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    • 42 4 Clarification for Adult Learners’ GO Guide (yesterday, The New Paper): It is Informatics Academy whose EduTrust certification is for four years (from Dec 3, 2010 to Dec 2, 2014), not the Management Development Institute of Singapore’s. We apologise for the error.
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    • 1131 6 / 7  -  Reports by NG JUN SEN ngjunsen@sph.com.sg Tears flowed as soon she began reading the investigation report into her father’s mysterious death yesterday. But they were shed more out of disbelief than grief. She could not believe what she had read. Ms Fion Lim, in her 30s,
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    • 175 6 / 7 In a Facebook post before yesterday’s Coroner’s Inquiry, Ms Fion Lim wrote that her father was the victim of a violent robbery and appealed for eyewitnesses to help find the killer. “To the robber who assaulted my dad and caused his death, I really
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    • 876 8  -  J-pop~ star~ Kyary~ Pamyu~ Pamyu~ reveals~ her~ greatest~ fear Reports by CHARLENE CHUA cchar@sph.com.sg Kyary Pamyu Pamyu’s love affair with the macabre is best reflected in the music video for her 2011 debut hit song PonPonPon, which sees her throwing up eyeballs. Even her
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      537 11  -  Six expensive-breed rabbits found near Bishan Park Report by TAN TAM MEI tantam@sph.com.sg Many kinds of wildlife can be found in Bishan Park, but you would not expect to find rabbits roaming there. Mr Andrew Chua, 27, was crossing an overhead bridge towards Bishan Park to walk his
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    • 799 12 / 13  - Seniors grown-up children: Nearer, better Third conversation on housing focuses on how to help families live closer Report by LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg Married couple Chng Kiam Ghee, 63, and Perlin Thor, 59, are in a situation which most seniors would consider to be a “happy problem”. Both managers and the
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    • 499 12 / 13  -  By SAM BAKER Sam Baker is co-founder of SRX, an information exchange formed by leading real estate agencies in Singapore to disseminate market pricing information and facilitate property transactions. For more details on the data that went into this article, visit srx.com.sg/research COMMENT The
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    • 614 14  -  Will Argentina get skewered or will they tango out of the showdown with Iran and into the Round of 16? Fans from opposing countries give Derek Wong (wderek@sph.com.sg) their predictions WORLD CUP 2014 Derek Wong (wderek@sph.com.sg) IRANIAN HOSSEIN ZADEH, 48, FREELANCER The match against
      TNP PHOTO: DEREK WONG; TNP FILE PHOTO; PHOTOS: AFP  -  614 words
    • 283 15 Drunk man sets fire to home and flames spread to six others He was drunk when he came home and his wife didn’t want to open the door for him. Livid that he was locked out, the insurance agent, who is in his 30s, set
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    • FASHBASH
      • 665 16 / 17  - School of fr ock Who’s on top? And who’s a flop? Our headmistress of haute couture JEANMARIE TAN grades the best- and worst-dressed celebrities of the week JEANMARIE TAN I was Just recently at the Tony Awards in New York and God, they need your help... (Celebrities) have all these
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    • 143 18 Legless body murder The two Pakistani nationals accused of murdering a compatriot whose legless body was stuffed inside a suitcase, were remanded for psychiatric assessment yesterday. Rasheed Muhammad, 43, and Ramzan Rizwan, 25, will be assessed at the Complex Medical Centre in Changi
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    • 343 18  -  Report by Clement Yap cyap@sph.com.sg A man was killed yesterday morning after a prime mover collided with him while he was cycling along Circuit Road. Witnesses said that he was found lying in a large pool of blood after he was hit in the carpark
      PHOTO COURTESY OF THANGAVELU SELVARAJ  -  343 words
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      787 19 US General David Petraeus, a former commander of US forces in Iraq, said yesterday he would support targeted strikes against jihadists behind an offensive in the strife-torn country. He said: “We must realise that ISIS poses a threat not only to Iraq but to the UK and other
      PHOTO: REUTERS; BT GRAPHICS  -  787 words
    • 455 20  -  Report by STEPHANIE GASCON sgascon@sph.com.sg They call themselves the SWAT Team. Their target? Mosquitoes. With their special weapon, these four Raffles Girls’ School (RGS) students hope swatting tactics will be unnecessary. The Secondary 1 girls’ product idea: Mosquito-repelling liquid soap. But it is more than
      PHOTO COURTESY OF TAN HUI YING  -  455 words
    • 375 21 Radiation scare in Japan Angry farmers from Fukushima brought a large cow to the centre of Tokyo yesterday to demand that the Japanese government investigate a disease they say cattle have developed since the nuclear disaster three years ago. Operators of non-profit Kibo no Bokujo
      PHOTO: AFP  -  375 words
    • Article, Illustration
      979 22 / 23  -  Supporters and industry insiders tell JOCELYN LEE (jocelee@sph.com.sg) why it’s hard to say goodbye to the 23-year-old club on Jiak Kim Street JOCELYN LEE (jocelee@sph.com.sg) Additional reporting by Goh Yan Han To save or not to save? That’s the question on the lips of local and even foreign
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    • 419 22 / 23  -  COMMENT By MELVIN SINGH Heritage experts and architects have made their case for 45 new sites to be conserved. They include Hong Lim Park and Newton hawker centre. Zouk should be added to that list not because I was among the first to party there when it
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    • 436 22 / 23 How much of a club’s brand is tied to its location? And will moving a club affect its branding, and ultimately, its business? Dr Chua Ai Lin, president of Singapore Heritage Society, told The New Paper: “There is no connection between Zouk as
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    • 32 1 Messi’s angry, hungry SATURDAY JUNE 21 2014 Iran set for a backlash, says Neil Humphreys ›S14 28-page pullout PHOTO: AFP WoRlD 10s at NatIoNal StaDIum IS bIg booSt foR S’poRe Rugby ›S24
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  • 28 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • WORLD CUP 2014
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        972 2 / 3  -  England can’t make quantum leap with Hodgson at the helm NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM BELO HORIZONTE GROUP D URUGUAY2 (Luis Suarez 39, 85) ENGLAND1 (Wayne Rooney 75) Roy Hodgson took a moment to answer. A proud, dignified man, he was eager to choose his words carefully. But
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      • 558 2 / 3 Reuters The words “England’s defensive frailties” is probably the favourite phrase for the British journalists and the 2-1 loss to Uruguay at the World Cup yesterday morning (Singapore time) underlined why. Man-of-the-match Luis Suarez, back from injury and the focus of intense media attention in
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      • 689 4 / 5  -  Our analyst tells GARY LIM the England boss should have started with Lallana and Barkley PAUL PARKER npsports@sph.com.sg Paul Parker is a former England and Manchester United defender who won two EPL titles and earned 19 caps for his country. GROUP D URUGUAY 2 (Luis Suarez
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      • 678 4 / 5 Waddle slams top-flight club game for the influx of foreign stars PA Sport Former England winger Chris Waddle turned on the culture of the English Premier League after watching the Three Lions fall to the brink of another World Cup exit. A 2-1 loss to Uruguay
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        658 6 / 7  -  Suarez saves his team from elimination, trumps Rooney in a battle of two strikers IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg GROUP D URUGUAY 2 (Luis Suarez 39, 85) ENGLAND1 (Wayne Rooney 75) It was a game of two strikers, both with something to prove. For Wayne Rooney, the challenge was to
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      • 303 6 / 7 AFP 1. MIRACLE RETURN Suarez made an express-train return from a knee operation on May 22 to play against England and score two goals this morning (Singapore time). The star suffered a meniscus problem with Liverpool and pulled up in World Cup training in Montevideo. But
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      • Article, Illustration
        94 6 / 7 Suarez puts England on the brink of elimination with brilliant brace I feel so great today and I will keep my form in the upcoming matches. Uruguay striker Luis Suarez Suarez is a wonderful player. We admire him. Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez Edinson Cavani chips a diagonal ball
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        1067 8 / 9 AFP GROUP D URUGUAY2 (Luis Suarez 39, 85) ENGLAND1 (Wayne Rooney 75) Luis Suarez could not help but gloat after inspiring Uruguay to a crucial World Cup victory at the expense of England. Having undergone a knee operation last month, there had been concerns over the 27-year-old’s participation
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      • 441 8 / 9 PA Sport GROUP C JAPAN 0 GReeCe 0 Japan forward Keisuke Honda insists the Blue Samurai will go all out for victory over Colombia as they seek to progress from Group C. Alberto Zaccheroni’s side were frustrated by 10-man Greece in Natal yesterday morning
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      • Article, Illustration
        94 10 / 11 Jerome Boateng (right) is aversatile defender, who’s the half-brother of Kevin-Prince, is capable of playing at centre-back or fullback. l Born: Sept 3, 1988 (age 25), West Berlin l Height: 1.92 m l Current teams: Bayern Munich (No. 17/defender), Germany national team (No. 20/defender) l Nationality: West
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      • 616 10 / 11 The Germans will make a strong claim if they can do what they have always struggled to achieve Germany may have started the tournament with a big bang. And are many fans’ favourites for the title. But they have to overcome a certain jinx to
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      • 87 10 / 11 Germany will move to the brink of qualification for the last 16 if they win. The three-time winners’ four-goal margin of victory against Portugal means they are almost assured of top spot with a win, providing the US don’t win their final two games. Competing in their third
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      • 415 10 / 11 Ghana’s Ayew brothers have a tradition to uphold Wire Services They have Pele in their blood. Not the Brazilian legend but Ghana’s own, Abedi Pele. Andre is the son of Abedi Ayew who took the name of Pele in honour of the legendary Brazilian World Cup
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      • 193 10 / 11 PA Sport Jose Mourinho does not share the hype surrounding Germany’s hattrick hero Thomas Mueller. The Special One said he would like to see him score a hat-trick against a strong defence and not the perforated Portugal backline he met. Mueller, top-scorer at the World Cup four
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      • 521 12 AFP The bomb attack that killed at least 21 people watching a World Cup game in Nigeria has cast a sombre shadow over the African champions’ build-up to tomorrow morning’s (Singapore time) date with Bosnia-Herzegovina in Cuiaba. Tuesday night’s bomb exploded in the midst of a crowd
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      • 120 13 AFP Ivory Coast’s World Cup stars Yaya and Kolo Toure were in mourning for their brother Ibrahim yesterday after the 28-year-old died in England, the country’s football federation announced. Ibrahim, who was also a footballer plying his trade with the Al Safa club in Lebanon, died
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      • 233 13 PHOTO: AFP Match: 0727 ARGENTINA v IRAN ODDS: 1.08 7 .30 15.00 1.95 (-2.5) 1.70 (+2.5) exact TipSTERS 1x2 1/2 HT/FT score Gary Lim (The Expert) Argentina Argentina H-H 5-0 (10.00)
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      • Article, Illustration
        834 14 / 15  -  NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM BELO HORIZONTE While the Brazilians are glad to see the back of Diego Costa, who is either brutish or Brutus depending on who you speak to, the Argentine moves into position. As Cristiano Ronaldo grasps how monumental Diego Maradona’s task of carrying an
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      • 305 14 / 15 m mEssI: he believes coach Alejandro sabella has to back his side’s attacking capabilities and include him among a front three when they face Iran. He said: “We feel more comfortable with two up front and me behind because it
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    • racing
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        646 16  -  Australian jockey kicks home his 400th Kranji winner Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg Jockey John Powell last night achieved a new milestone in his Singapore career when he notched his 400th winner at Kranji, courtesy of a double. His winners came in contrasting style, with the Alwin
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      • 1344 16 Race 1 C5 D2 1200m 1 SIMPANG 57 (13-5.10) J Powell (6) 8 4 1 (472) 2 REGAL SALUTE 56.5 (33-10) M Nunes (2) 7 8 2 (509) 0.5 6 SPECTA DILEMMA 55.5 (15-8) L Allpress (7) 2 2 3 (491) 1.5 8 CELESTIAL STAR 54.5
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      • 523 17 ASCOT GOLD CUP AFP The length of LEADING LIGHT’S neck was all that separated him from the 2013 champion Estimate, owned by Queen Elizabeth II, at the end of a pulsating Ascot Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on Thursday. In a pulsating finish
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      • 2090 17 Saturday EUROPE 6:45 PM Amiens 1 CLASS €15,000 CLAIMING STAKES 2900m No Form NameT’ 1 2 3 Stakes(€) Age Wgt Draw 1 2 *****4 3 545 4 9 5 99 6 ***** 7 *****6 8 6 9 10 0 11 12 0 Pluie Blanche Hurricane
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      • 1025 18 / 19 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1 BELMONT (2,200M) 2 PECK: Won three of four. Disappointed last start but can make amends. 3 ORA DARE: Winner of two of last three starts. Carries bit of weight but still rates as the
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      • 1516 18 / 19 12:10 Race 1 BELMONT—2200M 1 OPERATIONAL MITCHELL PATEMAN (2) 61 2 PECK MS C O’GRADY (3) 58.5 3 ORA DARE BEN PATERSON (4) 57 .5 4 DRIVE WEST S MC GRUDDY (5) 54 5 FANCY FEET B PARNHAM (1) 54 12:30 Race 2 EAGLE
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      • 1387 18 / 19 21-6-2014 (Saturday) 12:00pm 4 Domestic 5 (Korea Bred) ₩37,000,000 1100m 1 ***** Miss Trick 3-kor-f 1] Seo Seung Un 15.7% 53.0 Lee Gwan Ho 8.6% *****8 Sinmyeongsan 5-kor-m 2] Kim Gui Bae 0.0% 55.0 Lee Hee Young 4.5% *****6 Okcheonji 3-kor-f 3] Cho Han Byeol3 3.5% 50.0
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      • 648 20 / 21 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1 RANDWICK (1,400M) 3 AGADIR (6:3-1-1): Didn’t have luck first-up in Qld Guineas. Give another go. 5 IN A KNOT (5:3-0-2): Keeps stepping up each time the bar is raised. 6 SUGAR RUSH (10:3-2-1): Battled
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      • 1029 20 / 21 12:05 Race 1 RANDWICK—1400M 1 SINJOREN S CLIPPERTON (1) 59 2 ABBASSO T ANGLAND (8) 58.5 3 AGADIR K MC EVOY (6) 57 .5 4 CHOICE LARGA MS K O’HARA (11) 57 .5 5 IN A KNOT LESTER GRACE (9) 57 6 SUGAR RUSH
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      • SOUTH AFRICA RACES
        • 698 20 / 21 TURFFONTEIN INSIDE PREVIEWS RACE 1 (1,200M) (5) DAYLA was a hot favourite when well behind (9) LADY LIBERTY and (8) GRAND EPOQUE last time. He was not striding out and must be given another chance on a good debut performance. Lady Liberty
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        • 1023 20 / 21 5:45 Race 1 Maiden Juvenile Plate (Fillies) 1200M 1 A PROPOS L Nhlapo (5) 58 2 BELINSKY R Munger(-4) (11) 58 3 CITY TO CITY C Maujean (4) 58 4 COLOUR MY WORLD W Marwing(-2) (3) 58 5 DAYLA S Khumalo (1) 58
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 138 22  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ LionsXII skipper Isa Halim will make his long-awaited return to action tonight in their Malaysian Super League clash against Perak at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The 28-year-old midfield hardman has been missing for almost three months, after going under the knife for a
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      • 550 22  -  MSL champions’ recent poor run gives visitors’ hope of a shock upset report by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg Perak coach Abu Bakar Fadzim smells blood. The LionsXII’s last two matches in the Malaysia Super League (MSL) have given the 42-year-old hope his relegationthreatened side can pull off
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    • GOLF
      • 105 23  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ This year’s StarHub League Cup will see two amateur National Football League (NFL) clubs alongside 11 professional teams from the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S.League for the first time. The two amateur sides, Singapore Recreation Club (SRC) and Police SA, earned their
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      • 632 23  -  Improbable shots and an unthinkable collapse give visitors slight edge Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg It was the kind of shot that you see in the highlight reels of golf’s greatest Majors and Ryder Cups. With their match on the line and the day’s overall score
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      • 342 23 AFP Lucy Li, 11, who won a skills event at Augusta National in April, fired an eightover 78 yesterday morning (Singapore time) in a historic US Women’s Open first round. Li, the youngest qualifier in US Women’s Open history at age 10, was proudly
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    • RUGBY
      • 118 24 / 25 It was a good day for leaders Brunei DPMM last night, after title chasers Home United fell to a second straight defeat in the Great Eastern Yeo’s S.League when they were thrashed 3-0 by Balestier Khalsa at the Jalan Besar Stadium. The Tigers got off to a
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      • 1096 24 / 25  -  As the World 10s gets set for kick off today at the National Stadium, SRU chief Low is excited at what’s to come Report by ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg Singapore rugby is set for a huge shot in the arm over the next two days. The
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      • 450 24 / 25  -  Report by REDZWAN KAMARUDIN redzwank@sph.com.sg She broke one of Tao Li’s Southeast Asia (SEA) Games records yesterday, and Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Anh Vien is confident she can go head-to-head with one of Asia’s fastest butterfly swimmers here next year. Vien continued her gold rush at
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    • 345 26 / 27 Neil Humphreys rounds up what’s happening around the grounds, on the streets and beneath the underbelly during the World Cup. COME ON ENGLAND The Museu Do Futebol is a humbling experience. A museum dedicated to Brazil’s success in the 20th Century, the exhibition is a series of World
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      613 26 / 27 Knee injury could be serious, but Portugal star ready to answer his nation’s call against the US Wire Services Fears have been raised over Cristiano Ronaldo’s continued participation at the World Cup after ongoing treatment for a knee injury. The Real Madrid man has been plagued with a
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    • 366 26 / 27 AFP Belgium can win the World Cup for the first time, claimed midfielder Marouane Fellaini, who vowed to shave off his infamous afro hair if they succeed. The 26-year-old (below) put aside a difficult maiden season with Manchester United after a £27.5-mil-lion ($58.6m) transfer from Everton
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    • ON TV
      • 106 26 / 27 WORLD CUP SCREENING TIMES Today: ARGENTINA v IRAN SingTel mio TV Ch 141; StarHub TV Ch 223 (World Cup), 11.59pm Tomorrow: GERMANY v GHANA SingTel mio TV Ch 141; StarHub TV Ch 223 (World Cup), 3am NIGERIA v BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA SingTel mio TV Ch 141; StarHub TV Ch 223
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      • 58 26 / 27 IRISH OPEN Today: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 7.30pm TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP Tomorrow: DAY 2 StarHub TV Ch 213/255 (Golf Channel/Sports HD), 1am US WOMEN’S OPEN Tomorrow: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 208 (FOX Sports); Ch 210 (FOX Sports Plus HD) SingTel mio TV Ch 114 (FOX
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      • 64 26 / 27 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX Today: PRACTICE SESSION 3 StarHub TV Ch 209 (Star Sports); Ch 210 (FOX Sports Plus HD) SingTel mio TV Ch 115 (Star Sports); Ch 117 (FOX Sports Plus HD), 4.55pm PRACTICE SESSION 2 StarHub TV Ch 209 (Star Sports); Ch 210 (FOX Sports Plus HD)
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    • Article, Illustration
      680 28  -  Costa Rica stun Italy and send England out IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg GROUP D ITALY 0 COSTA RICA 1 (Bryan Ruiz 44) England woke up yesterday morning hoping that Italy might do them a favour by beating Costa Rica and allow them to dream of a most unlikely qualification.
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