The New Paper, 28 July 2014

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    15 1 the new paper MONday july 28 2014 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI(P)088/01/2014
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      69 1 2014 SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN SPORTS REDESIGN NEWS-BREAKING PHOTO FEATURE DESIGN PAGES SELAMAT HARI RAYA PUASA TO OUR MUSLIM READERS Security guard in hospital for 2 months after accident cost him both legs: Let me spend Hari Raya at home ›2 *****1 *****1 tnp.sg
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      29 1 0 Cracks in WP? Drama at party HQ with unhappy old guard ›6 PHOTO: FACEBOOK/ZAQY MOHD Lift not working, so Town Council staff carry resident up 10 storeys ›5
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      Lock icon ‘I’m thankful I can still use my hands’
      932 2 / 3  -  Man who loses legs in accident keeps his hopes up Report by KERRI HENG kerrihyp@sph.com.sg All he wants is to go home for Hari Raya. For the last two months, Mr Juma’at Pungut, 52, has been lying on a hospital bed. The
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      Lock icon Cameroon leaders’ homes attacked
      106 4 The wife of Cameroon’s VicePrime Minister was kidnapped in an attack by Boko Haram militants. The assault on the Vice-PM’s home on Sunday also saw three others killed, Cameroon’s Information Minister and government spokesman told Reuters. A local religious leader, or lamido, named Seini Boukar Lamine,
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      Lock icon Chinese food supplier’s items withdrawn
      120 4 The parent company of a scandalhit Chinese food supplier said it is withdrawing all products made by the subsidiary. Shanghai Husi Food Co, owned by Illi-nois-based OSI Group, is at the centre of a major food safety scandal, which has spread from China to Hong
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      Lock icon Please stop! I ask you with all my heart, it’s time to stop. Stop, please! — Head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis, in an impromptu addition to his Sunday address at the Vatican, in which he spoke of the fighting in the Middle East and Ukraine. He made an emotional appeal for peace, referring in particular to the suffering of children caught in war zones.
      66 4 Please stop! I ask you with all my heart, it’s time to stop. Stop, please! Head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Francis, in an impromptu addition to his Sunday address at the Vatican, in which he spoke of the fighting in the Middle East and Ukraine. He made an
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      Lock icon Yaacob calls for peace in Gaza
      272 4 hari Raya Aidilfitri message Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, the Minister For Communications And Information, has expressed deep concern for the victims of the conflict in Gaza. In a Hari Raya Aidilfitri message yesterday, Dr Yaacob, who is also Minister-In-Charge Of Muslim Affairs, pointed to fund-raising
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      Lock icon Hardware in heartland
      131 4 Scores of children clambered over military equipment, tried their hand at games and looked at the displays. Adults walked around and took photos. And all this was in the heart of Toa Payoh over the weekend. The RSAF45@Heartlands Celebrating 45 Years of Defending Our Skies exhibition commemorates
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      Lock icon Have you seen this girl?
      106 4 Police are appealing for information on the whereabouts of a teenager. Nivashani Andrew Rajendran, 13, was last seen in the vicinity of Woodlands Street 41 at around 4.30pm yesterday. She is 161cm tall, of medium build, with a dark complexion and black waistlong hair, a
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      Lock icon Man arrested over Korean ferry tragedy
      168 4 The eldest son of a family wanted by Korean police over the April ferry tragedy yesterday denied embezzlement charges that would have implicated him in causing the sinking. Yoo Dae Kyoon is alleged to have spent more than 9.9 billion won (S$12m) that was
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      Lock icon BY THE NUMBERS
      41 5 7,213 Number of ‘likes’ received in two days, after Mr Zaqy Mohamad, the Member of Parliament for Chua Chu Kang GRC, posted on his Facebook page a photo of Mr Joseph Lee carrying the resident up the stairs.
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      Lock icon Beyond the call of duty
      647 5  -  Town council officers carry resident up 10 storeys after power outage puts lifts out of order Report by YUE YONG SHENG yueys@sph.com.sg When the lifts went out of order at Block 682, Choa Chu Kang Crescent last Wednesday, town council officers went beyond the call
      PHOTOS: YUE YONG SHENG, FACEBOOK/ ZAQY MOHAMAD  -  647 words
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      Lock icon Out with the new, in with the old?
      1243 6 / 7  -  Internal election drama at Workers’ Party headquarters Reports by NG JUN SEN, RONALD LOH tnp@sph.com.sg Party elections within the Workers’ Party (WP) are usually non-events. And by all accounts, it was business as usual yesterday with Ms Sylvia Lim and Mr Low
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      Lock icon WHISTLEBLOWERS IN THE PARTY?
      165 6 / 7 In 2012, a writer claiming to be a party insider sent a Workers’ Party document to the media, detailing minutes of a meeting of the party’s central executive council (CEC) held on May 12, 2011. It was to decide on the two NonConstituency Member of Parliament
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      Lock icon Group seeks to rehome her cats
      231 8 / 9 The Feline Friends of Singapore was set up primarily to help the Sembawang Cat Lady with her cat problem. They are not a registered society and comprise five independent volunteers who are friends. Set up in October last year, the group’s main aim is
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      Lock icon ‘It hurts to give my cats away’
      718 8 / 9  -  Woman with 20 felines told by authorities that they must go by Thursday Reports by LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg She is known as the Sembawang Cat Lady and she once kept up to 64 cats in her five-room HDB flat. Her previously tastefully designed
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      Lock icon TNP’s hotline hero tips us off again
      635 10  -  Loyal reader to receive $100 worth of vouchers Report and photo by YVONNE PRIVITHA yvonnepa@sph.com.sg This avid reader of The New Paper had tipped us off to more than six news stories in the past year, with three of them making the front
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      Lock icon Two charged over JB murder of S’porean
      102 11 Two men, including a Singaporean, were charged in a Magistrate’s Court in Johor Baru yesterday for the murder of businessman Yong Boon Cheong, 54, whose charred body was found on an oil palm plantation 24 hours after he was reported missing. Singaporean businessman
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      Lock icon Plane hit by missile: Official
      406 11 MH17 black box data revealed Data from Malaysian Airlines’ flight MH17’s black box indicates that it was shot down by a missile, a European air safety official told America’s CBS News. “It did what it was designed to do,” the official told CBS News. “Bring
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      Lock icon Mapping out Singapore
      561 12 / 13  -  A friend’s challenge started local artist Lee Xin Li’s works of our island Report by DEREK WONG wderek@sph.com.sg You might have read that British artist Stephen Wiltshire was in town recently to draw a detailed cityscape of Singapore. But young home-grown artist Lee Xin Li (left), 26,
      PHOTO: CHRIS LIM MU YAO; PHOTOS COURTESY OF LEE XIN LI  -  561 words
    • FASHBASH
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        610 14 / 15  -  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 Every time a stylist tries to put me in, like, a chic pantsuit, I’m like, ‘This isn’t gonna work. It’s going to
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      Lock icon THE AWARD
      85 17 Established in 1998 with the support of the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, the HSBC/ NYAA Youth Environmental Award honours outstanding contributions, achievements and commitment towards environmental protection and nature conservation in Singapore. It is awarded to those aged from 14 to 25. Winners each receive
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      Lock icon No polar bears, but hundreds of mosquitoes
      599 17  -  HSBC/National Youth Achievement Award Youth Environmental Award winners sent to Canada to study trees Reports by STEPHANIE GASCON sgascon@sph.com.sg They were sent to the edge of the Arctic to study trees, but the last thing a group of intrepid young researchers expected were
      PHOTOS: COURTESY OF YEO KAI WEN, GINA GOH  -  599 words
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      Lock icon Sisters have genetic disorder that makes them tired, ‘floppy’. Mum says... ‘I had to look after them 24/7’
      914 18 / 19  -  Reports by JUDITH TAN juditht@sph.com.sg Coping with a child’s rare disorder is tough enough. Struggling with a mysterious affliction that hits not one but both your children while fighting your own battle
      PHOTOS: ARIFFIN JAMAR, COURTESY OF MRS CHANG LI NAH  -  914 words
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      Lock icon THE 'FLOPPY' DISORDER
      126 18 / 19 The Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase Deficiency (AADC) is a rare metabolic disorder characterised by the lack of the AADC enzyme. This causes flaws in the brain’s neurotransmitters and results in movement abnormalities. The head of the National University Hospital’s paediatric neurology division, Associate Professor Stacey Tay, said
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      Lock icon They’re learning to canoe now
      374 18 / 19 The turning point came in 2005, when Lynn turned 12 and was referred to the National University Hospital. Suspecting that she could be suffering from AADC, paediatric neurologist Stacey Tay performed a spinal tap and sent the fluid to the US for testing. “This is
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      Lock icon No walk in the park
      570 20  -  It takes 23 keepers, vets to gather flamingos for vaccinations Report by DEREK WONG wderek@sph.com.sg Feathers flew and loud nasal honks punctuated the air around Jurong Bird Park last month. It was the annual “doctor’s visit” for the 450 Lesser and Greater Flamingos at Asia’s
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      Lock icon Fans take fantasies too far
      419 21 Female cosplayers at Comic-Con complain of sexual harassment Sexual harassment has made an ugly appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con, making cosplaying an unpleasant experience for some women. Scantily-clad cosplayers, dressed as Wonder Woman, Princess Leia and dozens of other fantasy characters, are now a
      PHOTOS COURTESY OF FACEBOOK/OFFICIAL JESSICA NIGRI, TWITTER/RANKER COMICS, TWITTER/SARAH SCOTT  -  419 words
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      Lock icon NEW GAME OF THRONES CAST OUT
      294 21 Fantasy and science fiction fans might be forgiven for geeking out at this year’s San Diego ComicCon, going by the reveals over the weekend. Fans of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones cheered at seeing the new cast members unveiled for season five
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      37 1 MONDAY JULY 28 2014 WHY SCHOOLING FINISHED LASTJoseph couldn’t shake off cramps before 200m fly final, says national coach turner ›S4 16-page pullout PHOTO: ST VaN gaal HItS out at ReD DeVIlS DeSpIte WIN oVeR RoMa ›S10
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  • 16 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • C’WEALTH GAMES
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        Lock icon ONE DOWN, SIX TO GO
        864 2 / 3  -  Singapore’s quest for unprecedented sweep gets off to good start with women’s team gold Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg It was an unexpected Causeway Derby for Singapore in the Commonwealth Games women’s table tennis team final at the Scotstoun Sports Campus in Glasgow, Scotland, last
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        Lock icon SPRINTER KANG MISSES OUT ON PB
        257 2 / 3  -  ALI KASIM Three Singapore sprinters took to the track at the Hampden Park Stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday. Calvin Kang, Elfi Mustapa and Gary Yeo ran in separate heats, but all failed to qualify for the 100 metres semi-finals of the Commonwealth Games. Kang
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        Lock icon S’POREANS IN ACTION
        300 2 / 3 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS (Selected) BADMINTON l Mixed team semi-finals: Singapore 2 Malaysia 3 TABLE TENNIS l Women’s team final: Singapore 3 Malaysia 0 SWIMMING l Men’s 50m breaststroke: Christopher Cheong (30.50s, DNQ) l Men’s 100m butterfly: Joseph Schooling (53.58, through to s-finals), Quah Zheng Wen (54.46, through to
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        Lock icon 'CRAMPS COST SCHOOLING'
        709 4 / 5  -  Despite finishing last in 200m fly final, national coach Turner says Joseph has done well in Glasgow Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg The weight of a country’s expectations was on his broad, but young, shoulders. No Singaporean swimmer had ever won a medal at the Commonwealth Games
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        Lock icon Heartbreak for shuttlers
        879 4 / 5  -  Singapore miss out on mixed team final after narrow loss to Malaysia Report by ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg So near yet so far. Singapore’s badminton team were just one match from making the Commonwealth Games mixed team final for the first time since 2002. With the semi-final tied
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      • Article
        Lock icon Pool pull plug on Remy deal
        162 6 PA Sport QPR striker Loic Remy’s move to Liverpool is off after the Reds pulled out due to concerns over the player’s medical. Remy has been with the Merseysiders in Boston this week, where they are on a pre-season tour, ahead of what was
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        Lock icon SHELLEY SHOCK
        568 6 Aussie stuns African favourites to win men’s marathon gold AFP Australia’s Michael Shelley stunned the favourites from east Africa to win the men’s marathon gold at the Commonwealth Games yesterday, but Flomena Daniel spearheaded a Kenyan one-two in the women’s race. Shelley (above), who finished 16th in the
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    • racing
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        Lock icon ‘KARRATHA’ gives Kasim a Hari Raya present
        382 7  -  Report by BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg Fans of A’Isisuhairi “Harry” Kasim (right) received an early Hari Raya present when their favourite jockey steered KARRATHA CALLING to victory in Race 2. Okay, we hear you. He was lucky when runaway leader METAPHOR mistook the MRT
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S AUSTRALIA (SUNSHINE COAST/KALGOORLIE) RESULTS
        649 7 RACE 1 (SUNSHINE COAST) 1st 4 Overrule ($34-$8) 2nd 2 Daryl’s Run ($6) 3rd 1 Kurrajong Dragon ($7) 4th 7 Mr Dodo Forecast $18 Place Forecast (2-4) $8, (1-4) $8, (1-2) $6 Tierce $90 Trio $18 Quartet $272 Quadro $40 RACE 2 (KALGOORLIE) 1st 8
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        Lock icon IT'S SETTLED, AFFLECK IS OUR TOP TWO-YEAR-OLD
        457 8 / 9  -  JUVENILE CHAMPIONSHIP Report by BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg Raise your glass. Doff your hat. Sound the trumpets. Whatever! Because, there’s no denying, AFFLECK is the best two-year-old in the land. There were doubts when he was beaten by Kiwi Karma in May. And when
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S SINGAPORE (SHORT & LONG COURSE C) RESULTS
        2327 8 / 9 YESTERDAY’S SINGAPORE (SHORT LONG COURSE C) RESULTS Race 1 C5 (SC) 1400m 4 MOONBEAM DAZZLER 59 c 56 (39-14) T See* (10) 1 1 1 (499) 7 CAN’T TOUCH ME 58.5 (21-9) B Vorster (9) 3 2 2 (517) Hd 9 KING CROSS 58 c 55 (30-11) S Noh* (4)
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        Lock icon GOODMAN’S the icing on Laxon’s cake
        349 8 / 9 CHAIRMAN’S TROPHY Trainer Laurie Laxon had a bumper day at Kranji with four winners. He also collected the plum of the evening, the $300,000 Chairman’s Trophy race which was won by GOODMAN. Ridden by regular partner Corey Brown, the New Zealand-bred gelding claimed his
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        Lock icon YESTERDAY’S IPOH RESULTS
        701 8 / 9 Race 1 C5 (SC) 1800m 1 STUB 57 c 53 (18-9) CC Wong* (3) 3 2 1 (486) 7 KIWI MAESTRO 51 (89-17) KC Tham* (2) 6 6 2 (499) 1.25 6 NOT FREE NOW 52 (19-8) M Wepner (10) 1 1 3 (495) 1.25 10 TUBAY
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    • EPL
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        Lock icon VAN GAAL BLASTS DEVILS
        809 10 / 11 United boss criticises his players for not keeping possession after taking 3-0 lead PA Sport PRE-SEASON FRIENDLY MAN UNITED 3 (Wayne Rooney 36, 45-pen, Juan Mata 38) AS ROMA 2 (Miralem Pjanic 75, Francesco Totti 89-pen) He got his second consecutive win as Manchester United manager,
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        Lock icon United boss won’t rule out move for Strootman
        177 10 / 11 Wire Services Louis van Gaal has refused to rule out a move for Dutch midfielder Kevin Strootman, despite the fact he is sidelined with a cruciate ligament injury, according to Sky Sports. The new Manchester United boss coached Strootman during his time
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        Lock icon ROONEY WANTS UNITED ARMBAND
        476 10 / 11 Wire Services Wayne Rooney is keen to be named Manchester United’s new captain and is confident the team can challenge for the Premier League title this season. The departure of Nemanja Vidic to Inter Milan this summer has left United needing to appoint a new skipper
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    • FOOTBALL
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        186 12 / 13 PA Sport British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has joined calls for Russia to be stripped of its hosting rights for the 2018 World Cup, as part of tougher sanctions over the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine.
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        738 12 / 13 Wenger backs Poland goalkeeper but will start with new arrival Ospina if Colombian proves to be better Wire Services Arsene Wenger has confirmed that Wojciech Szczesny will start the season as Arsenal’s firstchoice goalkeeper, despite the arrival of David Ospina. With Lukasz Fabianski having joined Swansea,
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        161 12 / 13 AFP Bayern Munich will never axe their coach Pep Guardiola, the club’s chief executive Karl-Heinze Rummenigge said in an interview published yesterday Rummenigge dismissed suggestions that Germany’s most successful side could struggle this season after their top players return from a gruelling but triumphant World
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        359 12 / 13 PA Sport Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has expressed regret after being photographed smoking while on holiday in Las Vegas, admitting it was “unacceptable”. Wilshere (right) was criticised last year when a photo of him smoking a cigarette outside a night- club emerged and he pledged it would
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        582 14 / 15 Italian coach expects Argentina winger to stay at Real despite interest from PSG Wire Services Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has insisted that Angel di Maria will report for pre-season training, even as rumours of a move to Paris Saint-Germain refuse to die down. The
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        165 14 / 15 Chan Shih-chang survived a five-way play-off to win an unprecedented fourth Asian Development Tour (ADT) title at the US$160,000 ($200,000) Taifong Open yesterday. The 28-year-old Chan shot a flawless five-under 67 at the Taifong Golf Club in Chang Hwa for a four-under 212 total tied with
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        160 14 / 15 AFP Jim Furyk closed in on a third Canadian Open crown by firing a five-under 65 yesterday morning (Singapore time) for a three-shot, third-round lead in the US PGA Tour event. Furyk had five birdies and no bogeys on the par-70 Royal Montreal Golf Club’s
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        543 14 / 15 US flop again in match-play as they fall to South Korea in play-off AFP American LPGA stars, hoping to restore their glory in team events, suffered a shocking setback in Baltimore yesterday morning (Singapore time), being eliminated before the final stage of the International Crown matches.
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        83 14 / 15 GUINNESS INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS CUP 2014 Today: LIVERPOOL v OLYMPIAKOS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 6am Wednesday: MANCHESTER UNITED v INTER MILAN StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 7.30am REAL MADRID v ROMA StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 9.30am Thursday: MANCHESTER CITY V LIVERPOOL StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports), 7am COPA
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        768 16 Red Bull star loses lead twice, then fights back with three laps left to take the chequered flag in Hungary AFP Australian Daniel Ricciardo charged to a thrilling Hungarian Grand Prix victory yesterday, his second Formula 1 win for Red Bull, as a drenched track caused chaos among
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