The New Paper, 16 August 2014

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  • 15 1 the new paper SATURDAY AUGUST 16 2014 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI(P)088/01/2014
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    • 85 1 2014 SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN SPORTS REDESIGN NEWS-BREAKING PHOTO FEATURE DESIGN PAGES S’porean hit twice on head in petrol station robbery hammer attack JB horror ›10 PHOTO: FACEBOOK/ AFIQ ASMUNI 8"*****1 *****1 tnp.sg facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter .com/tnp To subscribe: 6388 3838 Huang Biren returns, reveals
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    • 34 1 E SATURDAY AUGUST 16 2014 10 PAGES IN OUR EPL SPECIAL iain macintosh on van Gaal: Deliver or be damned›s22 Bali suitcase murder she had sex romp in murdered mum’s room ›5 PHOTO: FACEBOOK
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  • news
    • 1036 2 / 3  -  Reports by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg Facing death, all she wanted was for her children to be raised right. So veteran television actress Huang Biren penned a secret note for her
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    • 27 4 $252,600 The price of a single share in US investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, after it crossed US$200,000 for the first time on Thursday.
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    • 105 4 Sales of new homes remained lacklustre last month, partly due to few major launches in July. Developers sold just 484 private homes last month, according to Urban Redevelopment Authority figures released yesterday. This was about the same as the 482 private condominium and
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    • 114 4 Some 5,000 lower wage healthcare support staff in the public health sector will get salary hikes of about 15 per cent by the end of this year. Their pay has grown due to a push by the labour movement to raise wages through better
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    • 426 4 Details of new rail line announced Residents in the east will find it easier to take the MRT to the city as well as to the northern parts of Singapore when the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) opens. The eastern stretch of the TEL will
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    • 90 4 A Lamborghini crashed into a tree in the early hours yesterday near the National Library on Victoria Street, destroying the entire front of the luxury sports car. Police said they got a call about the incident around 12.30am. The Singapore Civil Defence Force
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    • 189 4 New internship for post secondary teens Teens will soon have a new avenue to serve the community even after they leave secondary school. The new National Youth Internship Programme will give teens the opportunity to take up internships for two to six months with a monthly stipend, The Straits Times
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    • BALI SUITCASE MURDER
      • 680 5 Murder suspect also claims she is pregnant, needs to return to US for treatment Police in Bali have claimed that the two suspects had sex after the killing. They claimed the couple had sex in the room of the posh St. Regis hotel, and again
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      • 288 5 They first allegedly dumped the suitcase containing Mrs Sheila von Wiese Mack in the boot of a taxi. The teenage couple then returned to the hotel and told the staff that Mrs Mack would settle the bill when she checked out later.
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    • 295 6  -  Report by DARISHINI THIYAGARAJAN darit@sph.com.sg Firefighters in a warehouse at 230A, Pandan Loop were focused. Their task was to recover a man trapped under metal racks in a storage room and the process was long and gruelling. Metal racks and crates filled
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    • 580 6 Gay Aussie couple with surrogate baby were heading for S’pore A gay Australian couple have been stopped from leaving Thailand with a baby for having incomplete documents for the child, immigration police said yesterday. The men were trying to leave for Singapore through Bangkok’s main international
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    • 853 8  -  Founder Kong Hee says he wishes he could make all church decisions, including financial ones, but... Reports by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg I wish I could do everything, but I’m not Superman. That was what former City Harvest Church (CHC) board president Kong Hee told the court yesterday
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    • 480 9 Penang Nude Sports Games 2014 Nine of the 15 participants who took part in the Penang Nude Sports Games 2014 at Teluk Kampi Beach in Teluk Bahang were involved in a similar outing at a nearby durian orchard. State police chief Senior Deputy Commissioner Wira
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    • 488 10  -  Late-night~ attack~ on~ S’poreans~ at~ popular~ JB~ petrol~ station Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg What started out as a nightly routine turned into a nightmare when armed robbers attacked two Singaporeans on Tuesday. Wedding photographer Muhammad Afiq Mohd Asmuni, 25, and his stepfather were
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    • 1088 11  -  Decision by NTU Students’ Union to tap $200,000 from fund for fest raises eyebrows Reports by FOO JIE YING, YVONNE PRIVITHA tnp@sph.com.sg With a week left to the biggest yet Nanyang Technological University (NTU) event, student organisers of NTU Fest found themselves scrambling to secure
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    • 469 13  -  Avid golfer does not let past failure stop him from trying for this year’s WGC Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg He failed to qualify for the 2008 World Golfers Championship (WGC), which Singapore eventually won. So this time around, Mr Henry Ong Ling Tiong is
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    • 255 13 “We are happy to partner SPH in this inaugural national golf tournament to inspire and groom new golfing talents who could one day make Singapore proud. “To commemorate this partnership, we are happy to offer the Lotus Evora, which comes with the limited edition dress-up, as the
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    • 625 15  -  More than a month after the World Cup has ended, football fans can rejoice when the English Premier League season kicks off tonight. COLIN THAM (colintzx@sph.com.sg) catches up with one family whose loyalties will continue to be divided every weekend COLIN THAM (colintzx@sph.com.sg) Liverpool fan Samuel Kwek, 43,
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    • FASHBASH
      • 596 16 / 17  -  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 really want Birkenstocks, but everyone has white Birkenstocks. So it’s about trying to find the colour that not everyone has. You
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    • PROPERTY SERIES
      • 529 18  -  Best-in-class listings increase your chances of selling your property at a good price, in a timely manner PROP TALK 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
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    • 662 20 / 21  -  Damaged in storm last year, Toa Payoh’s ‘god tree’ now all spruced up to welcome devotees Report by YUE YONG SHENG tnp@sph.com.sg For over 40 years, a banyan tree which is said to be guarded by a spirit was a landmark at Toa Payoh Central. It even
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    • 140 22 Twenty-two African children will perform at the Kallang Theatre today for the With Love, We Are Here 2014: Africa ACC 10th Anniversary Concert. They will be performing African cultural song and dance, the Chinese art of mask-changing, Chinese martial arts and popular
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    • 677 22  -  S’porean gives up $8,000-a-month job to help children in Swaziland Report by MELODY NG melodyng@sph.com.sg He visited villages in the African nation of Swaziland for two years from 2011 till last year looking for orphans and children in extreme poverty. They
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  • Page 24 Miscellaneous
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    • 55 1 saturDaY AUGUST 16 2014 GIANTS ALL SET TO ROAR 24-page pullout italian champions in the mood ahead of historic clash ›s2 table tennis chief lee sheds tears as she prepares to say goodbye ›s19 Pass MastEr: Midfield maestro Andrea Pirlo (above, right) will pull the strings in midfield for Juventus
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  • 24 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • FOOTBALL
      • 501 2 / 3  -  Italian champions all-business ahead of historic clash at National Stadium Report by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg The pitch was far from perfect, but the stars of Juventus weren’t bothered. It was business as usual for the Serie A champions last night, as they went through
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      • 354 2 / 3  -  SHAMIR OSMAN The new National Stadium will host its first football match tonight, and the players from the Singapore Selection and Juventus teams may well hear nearly 30,000 fans raise a unique roar at the venue. And a huge swathe of fans will
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      • 589 4 / 5  -  Talented striker ready to take on Chiellini Sazali Abdul Aziz and Shamir Osman size up the key battles in tonight’s match face-off Sazali Abdul Aziz Shamir Osman Here’s an image that could make Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini shiver in his boots ahead of tonight’s big match at
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      • 306 4 / 5 Hariss Harun’s Johor Darul Ta’zim teammate, Luciano Figueroa, has asked him to get close to Carlos Tevez when Juventus take on a Singapore Selection tonight and come back with the Argentinian’s jersey. Understandably, Hariss (left, in red) is more focused on closing out
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      • 342 4 / 5 They have been touted as the best central defensive partnership in South-east Asia, but Baihakki Khaizan (left, bottom) and Safuwan Baharudin (left, top) are acutely aware that tonight, they will face some of the best footballers on the planet, when they host Juventus at the
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      • 319 4 / 5  -  Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg He was already a battle-hardened sportsman when he arrived in Australia to play for South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in the 1990s. But striker Aleksandar Duric was still taken aback by the racist abuse he suffered in a
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      • 165 6 / 7 AFP Luis Suarez trained with his Barcelona teammates for the first time yesterday and then admitted he was still paying for his “mistake” in biting Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup. After getting the green light from the Court of Arbitration for
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      • 133 6 / 7 The new Premier League season kicks off today with free “live” screenings at Community Clubs (CCs). Following positive feedback from the screening of World Cup matches at Community Clubs (CCs), the People’s Association and SingTel will extend their partnership to show “live”
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      • 599 6 / 7  -  Pirlo magic set to spark at the National Stadium, hair, beard and all Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg At 35, footballers have no right to say they’re at “the start of something new” as a player. Unless you are Andrea Pirlo (right), who is fast
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      • 324 6 / 7  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ Sometimes, silence alone is an answer. That seemed to be the case with Juventus striker Carlos Tevez, when The New Paper sat down to chat with him ahead of his team’s historic friendly against a Singapore Selection tonight the first football match at
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      • 317 6 / 7  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ He stood by the National Stadium’s pitch wearing a wide grin. Juventus die-hard fan Ritesh Angural could not believe that, just moments earlier, he had met some of his heroes whom he has supported for more than 14 years. The 27-year-old
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    • EPL
      • 939 8 / 9  -  Money can’t buy love or patience for Chilean who is expected to build on last season’s success NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg Manchester City are victims of their own spending. They were worthy winners last season, but not particularly popular ones. They proved The Beatles wrong. Money couldn’t buy
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      • 164 8 / 9 AFP Champions Manchester City received a boost on the eve of the new Premier League season as Argentina striker Sergio Aguero signed a new five-year contract yesterday. Aguero is now tied to City until 2019 and his decision to commit his long-term future to the
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      • 562 8 / 9 Our writers peek into their crystal balls and pick the top-four finishers IAIN MACINTOSH There are five teams fighting for four places this season, but I can see only two of them winning the title. Every side in contention have 11 men capable
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      • 873 10 / 11  -  Without Suarez, new-look Liverpool will struggle to mount a title challenge like last season GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg A Liverpool fan was recently asked in a television interview what he thought of the club’s silverware chances this season. It was right after the Reds’ 4-0 hammering of
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      • 117 10 / 11 PA Sport Wolfsburg have completed the signing of former Arsenal forward Nicklas Bendtner, who scored 32 goals in 136 English Premier League appearances on a three-year contract. The 26-year-old, who also had loan spells with Birmingham, Sunderland and Juventus, will provide Wolves coach Dieter Hecking with an
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      • 530 10 / 11 PA Sport Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted that he did not see Tony Pulis’ departure from Crystal Palace coming. Palace’s plans for the new Premier League season, which starts at Arsenal tomorrow morning (Singapore time), have been thrown into disarray after Pulis (right)
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      • GOLF SHORTS
        • 87 10 / 11 Johnson Poh easily won the men’s title of the Singapore National Amateur Championships at Sentosa’s Tanjong course yesterday. Poh beat James Leow 8 7 in the 36-hole matchplay event. In the thirdplacing match, Joshua Shou beat Nicholas Mok 5 4 over 18 holes. In
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        • 120 10 / 11 AFP Australian youngster Jake Higginbottom took a two-shot lead in the inaugural Fiji International yesterday after shooting a second-round three-under 69. His round in Natadola Bay in Suva put the 20-year-old on seven under for the tournament, two strokes ahead of compatriots Cameron
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        • 115 10 / 11 Thailand’s Pijit Petchkasem returned the day’s lowest score of six-under 65 to share the halfway lead with Micah Shin of the United States at the PGM Terengganu Championship yesterday. Overnight leader Shin, who carded a 70, was denied the outright lead when
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      • 1864 12 / 13 TNP DESIGN: BILLY KER PHOTOS: REUTERS, ACTION IMAGES AUGUST Today Man United v Swansea 19.45 Leicester v Everton 20.00 QPR v Hull 20.00 Stokev Aston Villa 20.00 WBA v Sunderland 20.00 West Ham v Tottenham 20.00 Tomorrow Arsenal v Crystal Palace 00.30 Liverpool v Southampton 20.30 Newcastle
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      • 769 22 / 23  -  Handed an easy start, van Gaal must start with a bang, although he must cope with injuries and a weakened squad IAIN MACINTOSH npsports@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM THE UK The revolution of Louis van Gaal will begin tonight at Old Trafford, with an injury-ravaged side that doesn’t
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      • 732 22 / 23 PA Sport Paul Scholes has written off Manchester United’s Premier League title chances but believes new manager Louis van Gaal can lead a challenge for the top four. With the start of the new campaign just around the corner, Scholes (right) is confident
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      • ON TV
        • 199 22 / 23 FRIENDLY Today: SINGAPORE SELECTION v JUVENTUS StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports Arena) 76.25MHz, 6pm EPL Today: MAN UNITED v SWANSEA SingTel mio TV Ch 102; StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium), 7.45pm WEST HAM v TOTTENHAM SingTel mio TV Ch 102; StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium), 10pm LEICESTER
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        • 58 22 / 23 ATP WESTERN SOUTHERN OPEN Today: QUARTER-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 7am Tomorrow: SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 3am WTA WESTERN SOUTHERN OPEN Tomorrow: SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), SuperSports Arena (Ch 205) 76.25MHz, 1am SEMI-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 203
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        • 31 22 / 23 FIJI INTERNATIONAL Today: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 209; SingTel mio TV Ch 115 (FOX Sports 2), 7am WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP Tomorrow: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 213 (Golf Channel), 1am
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        • 19 22 / 23 ASEAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE Tomorrow: SINGAPORE SLINGERS v WESTPORTS MALAYSIA DRAGONS StarHub TV Ch 205 (SuperSports Arena) 76.25MHz, 4pm
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    • racing
      • SINGAPORE RACES
        • 615 14 / 15  -  $54 outsider upstages the $18 favourite Goliath in the $150,000 Group 3 Causeway Classic Stakes Reports by TANTHEANLOON loon@sph.com.sg In a battle between two Polytrack specialists in the Group 3 $150,000 Causeway Classic Stakes last night, ONE RAR produced that little extra to beat the
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      • 597 14 / 15 Race 1 Maiden Plate (3 year-old Fillies) 1200M 4 SAY HI 58 (18-6) M Yeni (2) 1 1 KOLDONA 58 (14-7) F Herholdt (1) 2 6 ROSE OF SIENNA 58 (62-15) H Greyling (8) 3 3 JOY OF HOPE 58 (118-29) K Zechner (10) 4
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      • 314 14 / 15 Trainer Shane Baertschiger attributed ONE RAR’s Causeway Classic Stakes victory to a much- improved horse and a top ride by jockey Matthew Kellady. The other plus factors were the pole position and the light weight, 52kg, which less than that carried was 4.5kg
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      • 1461 14 / 15 Race 1 C5 D1 1200m 3 GRAND VITESS 56 c 52 (43-17) Y Ruzaili* (5) 5 4 1 (469) 4 AFFIRMATION 55.5 (21-8) M Nunes (3) 9 9 2 (550) Hd 5 DYNASTY KNIGHT 55.5 (34-9) KT Cheng (6) 7 6 3 (477) 3
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      • 1194 16 / 17 COMMENTS COURTSEY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS TE RAPA/BELMONT/CAULFIELD/ BROOME COMMENTS RACE 1 TE RAPA (1,400M) 5 KANALI: Improving with each run. Won well this trip July 18. Can win. 1 ALL DECKED OUT: Doing best work late 1,200m July 26. Extra 200m suits. 4
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      • 1360 16 / 17 TODAY’S NZ (TE RAPA) AUSTRALIA (BELMONT/CAULFIELD/BROOME) RACE CARD 12:12 Race 1 TE RAPA—1400M 1 ALL DECKED OUT L G INNES (5) 59 2 APACHEE TAAT U A HOLMQUIST (6) 58.5 3 BLUE STREAK R L SMYTH (12) 58.5 4 EL PESCADO M CAMERON (13) 58.5 5 KANALI C J GRYLLS
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      • 984 16 / 17 Saturday Next Macau Meeting Friday 22nd Aug 2014 MACAU 4:00 PM Macau (Turf) 1 CLASS 3/4 HK$240,000 THE HASTINGS 1500m No Form Name 1 *****3 2 *****1 3 *****0 4 *****4 5 *****5 6 *****0 7 ****** 8 *****2 9 *916 10 *****1 11 *****2
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      • 367 18 KRANJI PENANG TRACKWORK NST WILLIAM LOW’S GUIDE TO YESTERDAY’S KRANJI GALLOPS BY TOMORROW’S RUNNERS: RACE 1: Horaz Samsosir 40.6. RACE 5: Barnato 41.7. RACE7: Yes Baba HHH(N Juglall) 37.6. RACE 11: Tequila Shot 40.6. In Penang, topweight HOHOHO looks ready to go one better in the
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      • 1462 18 GOING FORECAST: YIELDING TAN THEAN LOON’S PENANG TIPS RACE 1: 5 Lazaroo 9 Small Tiger 7 High Peak 1 Paddy’s Park RACE 2: 7 Bomb Cha Cha 6 Barker Road Kid 3 Good Gift 2 Deputy Law RACE 3: 9 Black Ahead 13 Cizen Pure 8
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    • 156 19 AFP Spain’s Tommy Robredo toppled world No. 1 Novak Djokovic 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 yesterday morning (Singapore time) to reach the quarter-finals of the Cincinnati Masters. It’s the second straight week that Wimbledon champion Djokovic has slumped to defeat in the third round of an
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    • TABLE TENNIS
      • 784 19  -  STTA president says development pipeline for talent to come through her greatest achievement Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Under her watch, the national sports association (NSA) has experienced some controversial moments, but she has also mined gold on and off the court. During Lee Bee Wah’s
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    • EPL BETTING
      • 733 20 / 21 GARY LIM BRIAN MILLER ALI KASIM BANKER Take Man United on all fronts It’s the first day of the English Premier League season, so it will take some time to shake off the rustiness. No team, though, will be more motivated than Man United to start off with
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      • Article, Illustration
        1542 20 / 21  -  Van Gaal set for winning start against soft Swans RICHARD LENTON npsports@sph.com.sg MAN UNITED v SWANSEA Swansea lost 70 per cent of their matches against top-half sides last season, and they look up against it in the early kickoff when they lock horns with a revitalised
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    • 714 24  -  Navratilova’s one of the greatest in sport, with so much to offer LEONARD THOMAS leonardt@sph.com.sg COMMENT Martina Navratilova hardly ever lost her cool in an extraordinary Slammaking career, she won mostly easily, and when she did lose, it was with sporting grace. At 57, her professional career has
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