The New Paper, 4 October 2014

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  • 17 1 the new paper SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 2014 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI (P) 088/01/2014
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    • 116 1 2014 SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN SPORTS REDESIGN NEWS-BREAKING PHOTO FEATURE DESIGN PAGES RESTAURANT OWNER IN GOLDEN MILE COMPLEX Blackout after fire cost me thousands in losses ›2 TAUFIK BATISAH How video of myself became a hit song ›10 SATURDAY oCTobEr 4 2014 This bus
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  • news
    • 612 2 / 3  -  Tenants at Golden Mile Complex frustrated at extended blackout after midweek fire Reports and photos by ZUL OTHMAN zothman@sph.com.sg No air conditioning. No power. No customers. The fire at Golden Mile Complex on Wednesday saw a major power outage that left some businesses in the dark and
      PHOTO: LIANHE WANBAO  -  612 words
    • 205 2 / 3 When your business is disrupted by a fire in a building, who is liable? What legal options are available if you want to claim for your losses? Lawyers told The New Paper that in any leasing agreement, the building management has a duty
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    • 270 4 The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has put up the first package of bus routes for tender, with 26 services, mostly in western Singapore. The services in this package will operate from Bukit Batok, Jurong East and Clementi interchanges and will be housed in the
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    • 350 4 National University of Singapore Society lecture Singapore, in its 50th year, should focus on three principles: look outwards, be goodhearted but hard-headed and be confident of the future by remembering what it achieved in the past. That was the message Prime Minister Lee Hsien
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    • 142 4 Want to get something you’ve designed printed out in 3D? Just go to the new Suntec City Post Office. It has an Innovation Corner where you can get things like a prototype for a new product or a customised gift printed out, SingPost
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    • 157 4 Singapore Airlines (SIA) pilot Benjamin Wu Yonghao has admitted to causing a highspeed car crash on the outskirts of Christchurch, New Zealand, that left two of his colleagues seriously injured. The 32-year-old appeared in front of a Christchurch District Court judge
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    • 156 4 A man yesterday faced eight charges of match fixing and conspiracy to cheat Singapore Pools. This came two years after he was given a discharge not amounting to an acquittal. Former project manager Selvarajan Letchuman, 51, jailed for a separate offence over a fraudulent property claim,
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    • 364 5  -  Horror flicks fan wants to collect enough coupons in TNP to redeem Sentosa Spooktacular tickets Report and photo by LEE JOON LEI joonlei@sph.com.sg She is a big fan of horror and gets her kicks from watching bloodcurdling Thai flicks. So it is little wonder that Singapore
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    • Article, Illustration
      702 6  -  ‘Temporary’ bus stop at Ulu Pandan Road confuses commuters Report by LINETTE HENG, LEE JOON LEI tnp@sph.com.sg Is this a bus stop or an obstacle course? This was how Mr Allan Zheng, 52, reacted when he went to a “temporary” bus stop at Ulu Pandan Road on
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    • 51 9 Why should we allow them (political exiles) to present... a self-serving personal account, conveniently inaccurate in places, glossing over facts in others? Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, in reply to a question after the NUSS lecture yesterday, on why the movie To Singapore, With Love cannot be shown in public
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    • 143 9  -  Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg For the first time, a man has been charged with getting a minor to have sex with another person. Jonathan Michael Pinto, 40, who is in the IT field, is accused of three counts
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    • 233 9  -  Report by CHOO MEI FANG choomf@sph.com.sg Two men suffered cuts and bruises on their faces as a result of a fight in Tanglin Shopping Centre early yesterday morning. The Singapore Civil Defence Force said that both men were sent to the Singapore
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    • 691 10  -  Taufik Batisah’s new song #awakkatmane popular with fans Report by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg Most songwriters draw on personal experiences for inspiration when composing their next big hit. For local singer Taufik Batisah, 33, that inspiration came after watching an online video he posted go viral.
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    • 132 12 Thai police yesterday charged two Myanmar men (right) with murder and rape after the killing of two British tourists on the resort island of Koh Tao last month. The charges come after police said the undocumented migrant workers had confessed to murdering Mr
      PHOTO: REUTERS  -  132 words
    • 408 12 He was once the football darling of Germany and the world. Andreas Brehme’s claim to immortality was his winning goal a penalty in the 1990 World Cup final against Argentina. The 85th minute goal helped Germany win the title. Now, the 53-year
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    • 297 12 HK anti-protesters and demonstrators clash Hong Kong student leaders yesterday said they had called off talks with the government after angry scuffles erupted at their huge pro-democracy demonstrations. They alleged that police had allowed “triad” criminal gangs to attack their protest camps. The
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    • 578 15  -  S’porean Muslims are taking their sacrificial ritual of korban overseas Report by ZUL OTHMAN zothman@sph.com.sg More Muslims here are looking abroad to perform the Islamic sacrificial ritual of korban. But rather than hopping on a plane, they are hiring companies here to do it
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    • Article, Illustration
      505 16 / 17  -  10-day Nine Emperor Gods Festival ends with ritual ship set on fire Report by LAKEISHA LEO lwenqi@sph.com.sg On Thursday night, a procession of floats, performers in costumes, and hundreds of devotees made their way from the Hougang Tou Mu Kung Temple to the beach at Pulau Punggol Timor.
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    • 445 18  -  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 listings and transactions. For more details on the data used in this article, visit srx.com.sg/
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    • 157 19 AFP Australia’s cabinet yesterday authorised air strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the deployment of special forces troops to combat the militants, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. The announcement comes days after Australian aircraft took part in
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    • 295 19 He managed to paddle ashore after a shark ripped off both his hands. Surfer Sean Pollard, 23, then tumbled through the shallows towards his horrified girlfriend before collapsing on the beach, the West Australian reported. The attack happened near Esperance in western Australia. Miss
      PHOTO: FACEBOOK/ SEAN POLLARD  -  295 words
    • 310 20 / 21  -  Blaze at Boon Lay was so big that 60 SCDF personnel took about four hours to extinguish it Report by LEE JOON LEI joonlei@sph.com.sg A huge fire broke out at a warehouse on Fan Yoong Road, off Jalan Boon Lay, in the early
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    • FASH BASH
      • 606 22 / 23  -  Who’s on top? And wh ’s a fl p? Our headmist ess f haute c uture JEANMARIE TAN grades the best- and worst-dressed celebrities of the week JEANMARIE TAN DISTINCTION AMAL ALAMUDDIN Wedding celebrations and civil ceremony in Venice Dresses: Dolce Gabbana and Giambattista Valli Pantsuit: Stella
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    • 164 24 In a decision likely to anger China, the US is partly lifting a 40-year ban on arms sales to former foe Vietnam, to help boost defences in the tense South China Sea. The historic easing of the ban, which has been
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    • 355 24 They are believed to be Uighurs and victims of human-trafficking syndicates The Malaysian Immigration Department rounded up 155 illegal immigrants, including 76 children and babies, from two apartment units in Taman Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. Immigration officers, acting on
      PHOTO: HARIAN METRO  -  355 words
    • 251 24 Health officials in Texas are monitoring 100 people for signs of Ebola. They also ordered four close family members of a man to stay home as the authorities investigate the first confirmed case of the deadly disease in the US. The patient,
      PHOTO: REUTERS  -  251 words
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    • 40 1 SAILING’S OLYMPIC DREAM SATURDAY OCTOBER 4 2014 Sailing chief Ben tan outlines four steps to win elusive medal at 2020 olympics after asiad success ›S22 24-page pullout DIetMaR HaMaNN: FouR wayS aRSeNal caN Stop leaDeRS cHelSea ›S2 PHOTO: ST FILE
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  • 24 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • EPL
      • 921 2 / 3  -  Our analyst tells DAVID LEE how Arsenal can stop high-flying Chelsea CHELSEA v ARSENAL (Tomorrow, 9.05pm, SingTel mio TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227) DIETMAR HAMANN npsports@sph.com.sg Dietmar Hamann has played for Bayern Munich, Newcastle, Liverpool and Manchester City He won the
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      • 726 2 / 3 Welbeck feels he’s silencing his critics but brushes off comparison with Henry PA Sport Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck is uncomfortable with comparisons with club great Thierry Henry, but fully intends to make his own mark with the Gunners. The England forward (below) netted his first career
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      • Article, Illustration
        865 4 / 5 Expect more fireworks when Jose Mourinho and arsene Wenger lock horns again in the London Derby tomorrow. Here are some of their public spats. CHELSEA v ARSENAL (Tomorrow, 9.05pm, SingTel mio TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227) JULY2005 “Some clubs are treated as devils, some are
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      • 488 4 / 5 Chelsea boss unapologetic for calling Frenchman a ‘specialist in failure’ PA Sport Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho declined the opportunity to apologise for describing Arsene Wenger as “a specialist in failure” and merely wishes to move on ahead of tomorrow’s Premier League contest with
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      • 742 6 / 7  -  Pique’s right, Man United lack real leaders like loonie Keane NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg Gerard Pique won a treble with Barcelona and played a pivotal role in Spain’s World Cup win in 2010. But Roy Keane (right) still messes with his underwear. In a stellar career,
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      • 174 6 / 7 Wire Services Cristiano Ronaldo has described Manchester United as his “family” but insisted that he has no intention of leaving Real Madrid. Louis van Gaal is keen to recruit the Portugal international, who spent six seasons at Old Trafford before joining Los
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      • 369 6 / 7 Wire Services England striker Wayne Rooney has split opinions following his reckless dismissal against West Ham last Saturday. But former Three Lions midfielder Paul Scholes, who watched Rooney blossom from a raw stone into a polished gem at Old Trafford, has defended his former
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      • 652 10 City captain unfazed by Chelsea’s early lead Wire Services Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany is not worried that Chelsea are already three points clear at the top of the EPL after only six games. Jose Mourinho’s men are five points ahead of the defending champions, who
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      • 518 24 Reds boss admits he took a ‘calculated risk’ to replace suarez with italian striker Wire Services His options were limited and he took a “calculated risk”. Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted that Mario Balotelli wasn’t on top of his list when he was looking
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    • EPL BETTING
      • Article, Illustration
        748 8 / 9 GARY LIM BRIAN MILLER ALI KASIM BANKER Chelsea to beat Arsenal Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger celebrated his 18th anniversary with the London club in midweek with a 4-1 Champions League win over Galatasaray. It was a fine tribute to an extraordinary career. But Jose Mourinho is his kryptonite.
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      • 1621 8 / 9  -  RICHARD LENTON npsports@sph.com.sg Richard presents the best of the European action on Football 360 every Monday on MioStadium, plus live games on MioSports. HULL CITY v CRYSTAL PALACE The last three meetings between Hull and Crystal Palace at the KC Stadium have yielded just three goals,
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    • racing
      • 194 11 AFP Japanese runner GOLD SHIP will start from barrier 2, the stall which saw German filly Danedream break the course record in winning Europe’s most prestigious race the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2011, for tomorrow’s Group 1 race over 2,400m at
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      • 313 11  -  Trainer’s winners are named Happy Happy and Happy Money Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg Happy is an auspicious word and it certainly made one-time trainer’s premiership leader Alwin Tan (right) a happy man at Kranji last night. Fittingly, the Singaporean handler’s out-sider-double had happy
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      • 1678 11 Race 1 MS 1200m 7 HAPPY HAPPY 54 (54-16) D Flores (7) 3 3 1 (513) 10 PURE WHITE 52.5 (88-30) A Munro (12) 1 1 2 (461) 1 11 HOST THE NATION 50 c 51.5 (38-14) O Chavez (11) 8 8 3 (473) 2.25 1
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      • 1584 12 / 13 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1 HASTINGS (1,400M) 2 COSMIC CUBE: Tidy fourth when resuming. Game second at Whanganui. Looks a big threat. 1 VINCENT STREET: Resumed with a game second at Awapuni. Can go one better. Draw no help. 6
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      • 1230 12 / 13 TODAY’S NZ (HASTINGS) AUSTRALIA (BELMONT/MORPHETTVILLE/TOOWOOMBA) RACE CARD 12:32 Race 1 HASTINGS—1400M 1 VINCENT STREET L MAGORRIAN (18) 59.5 2 COSMIC CUBE R HUTCHINGS (16) 59 3 MIGHTY SOLOMON J K RIDDELL (8) 58.5 4 DESIGNATED DRIVER SHANNON DOYLE (9) 58 5 BROADWALK H S TINSLEY (10) 58 6 MACCOOL B
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      • 448 12 / 13 After being sidelined through injury longer than originally thought, jockey Barend Vorster finally made his reappearance at Kranji on Thursday morning. The South African (right, in red), who hurt his left ankle in a barrier incident during the Emirates Singapore Derby on July 13
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      • 1529 14 / 15 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1 RANDWICK (1,200M) 2 TIME FOR WAR (6:3-0-0): Ridden positively but felt the pinch over the final 200m 2½-len 6th (57.0) Almalad 1,600m E Farm J.J. Atkins June 7. Looked good in len 2nd 900m R’hill barrier trial
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      • 1102 14 / 15 12:05 Race 1 RANDWICK—1200M 1 HALLOWED CROWN J BOWMAN (2) 56.5 2 TIME FOR WAR T ANGLAND (6) 56.5 3 BRAZEN BEAU J MOREIRA (3) 56.5 4 NOSTRADAMUS J B MC DONALD (4) 56.5 5 DELECTATION B SHINN (5) 56.5 6 KLAMMER J PARR (1)
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      • 1465 14 / 15 4-10-2014 (Saturday) Live telecast of Korean races from Race 4 onwards. Coupon Betting please mark “SIN”. 12:00pm 4 Foreign 4 (Open) ₩50,000,000 1000m 1 6 Double Volante 2-am-c 1] Ham Wan Sik 21.7% 53 Kim Ho 13.7% *****9 Mansa Kwaejo 3-am-g 2] Park Tae Jong 10.6% 55
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 711 16 / 17  -  National coach Stange believes the Lions are on track to retain Suzuki Cup title Reports by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg The players have put in the hard work. Now, they need to rediscover that winning feeling. With just over a month to the AFF Suzuki Cup, national team
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      • 183 16 / 17  -  HAIQAL SARI Woodlands Wellington went into the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S.League match against Geylang International at the Jalan Besar Stadium last night with the worst scoring record in the league (18 goals). And, true to form, Rams striker Moon Soon Ho found it difficult to penetrate
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      • 152 16 / 17 Wire Services Samuel Eto’o popped up with just eight minutes remaining to hand Everton a precious point from a 1-1 draw with FC Krasnodar in the Europa League yesterday morning (Singapore time). The Cameroon striker cancelled out Ari’s first-half opener for the home side to
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      • 581 16 / 17 He was overlooked for the national team so many times that he had given up all hopes of a call-up. No wonder Tampines Rovers winger Ismadi Mukhtar was sceptical when he received a text message from someone proclaiming to
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    • LA LIGA
      • 652 18 Midfielder has hit goal trail after injury woe Atletico Madrid midfielder Koke believes there is even more to come from Arda Turan after the Turkey star’s Champions League winner against Juventus. Arda has taken time to recover top form after recovering from a pre-sea-son injury,
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      • 142 18 Brazil’s Adilson Da Silva produced a blistering six-under 66 to soar into the halfway lead at the Asian Tour’s US$650,000 ($830,000) Mercuries Taiwan Masters in Taipei yesterday. Da Silva battled through gusty winds, which packed speeds up to 84kmh, for the day’s best round
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      • 268 18 Barcelona are still growing under new coach Luis Enrique, according to forward Lionel Messi. Former player Enrique took the reins in the summer and the team currently sit top of the Primera Division with 16 points from 18. A Champions League loss to Paris St
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    • FORMULA 1
      • 163 19 AFP China Open champion Serena Williams spoke of her frustration at withdrawing early from a second consecutive tournament yesterday, but said it was too early to say if her season was over. The top seed in Beijing withdrew from the US$5.4 million ($7m) tournament ahead
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      • 579 19 Briton narrowly avoids clash as he clocks fastest time at Suzuka AFP Championship leader Lewis Hamilton stayed ahead of Mercedes teammate and rival Nico Rosberg in yesterday’s Japanese Grand Prix practice as teenager Max Verstappen became the youngest Formula 1 driver. Verstappen, at 17 years and three
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    • 17th Asian Games INCHEON 2014
      • 139 20 / 21 Reuters Sri Lanka crushed Afghanistan by 66 runs to win the gold medal in the men’s Twenty20 cricket event at the Asian Games in Incheon yesterday. Unlike the previous day, when Sri Lanka won a coin toss to get into the gold-medal match after their
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      • 624 20 / 21  -  Gao and Li put up gallant fight against Chinese giants to earn creditable doubles bronze SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM INCHEON For a while, a wild upset was on the cards. The Singapore pair of Gao Ning and Li Hu drew first blood against the overwhelming favourites
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      • 164 20 / 21 AFP Indian boxer Sarita Devi issued an unconditional apology yesterday at the Asian Games for refusing to accept her bronze medal at Wednesday’s medal presentation for the women’s lightweight division. “I regret and apologise. Such an incident will never re-occur in the future,” she
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      • Article, Illustration
        571 20 / 21 China’s reputation latest to be tainted as thrower is stripped of gold for doping Reuters The Asian Games was hit by yet another doping scandal yesterday when China’s Zhang Wenxiu was expelled and stripped of the gold medal she won in the hammer throw. The Olympic Council of
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    • SAILING
      • 647 22 / 23  -  Sailing chief Tan says his sailors are gunning for top-10 finishes at the Olympics Reports by ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg Laser sailor Colin Cheng has played golf only once, but it was enough for him to use a golf jargon to describe his bronzemedal finish at the
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      • 83 22 / 23 GOLD l Optimist Women’s One Person Dinghy: Jodie Lai l 420 Women’s Two Person Dinghy: Kimberly Lim and Savannah Siew l J80 Open Match Racing Team: Maximilian Soh, Russell Kan, Justin Wong, Andrew Paul Chan and Christopher Lim SILVER l 29er Women’s Two Person Dinghy: Priscilla
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      • 49 22 / 23 YESTERDAY’S RESULTS DIVING l Women’s 3m springboard final: Myra Lee (12th, 224pts) TABLE TENNIS l Men’s doubles semi-final: Gao Ning/Li Hu lost 4-1 (13-11, 8-11, 5-11, 8-11, 9-11) to Xu Xin/Fan Zhendong(Chn) TODAY’S SCHEDULE TABLE TENNIS l Women’s singles semi-final: Feng Tianwei v Zhu Yuling (Chn)
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      • 289 22 / 23 More than 150 family members and friends gathered outside Belt 42 of Changi Airport Terminal 3 yesterday to welcome home the sailing contingent from the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. The rapturous reception was the ic- ing on the cake for match racing team member
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      • ON TV
        • 55 22 / 23 SPORTSCOVERAGE Today: TABLE TENNIS (Women’s singles semi-final) MediaCorp okto Channel, 9am to 10am TABLE TENNIS (Women’s singles final) MediaCorp okto Channel, 11am to 12pm CLOSING CEREMONY MediaCorp okto Channel, 6pm *All telecasts live unless otherwise stated. For the latest, please check www.mio.singtel.com/ miotv www.starhub.com/tv *Programme times provided by
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        • 227 22 / 23 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Today: SWANSEA v NEWCASTLE SingTel mio TV Ch 103 StarHub TV Ch 228 (mio Stadium), 9.55pm SUNDERLAND v STOKE SingTel mio TV Ch 104 StarHub TV Ch 229 (mio Stadium), 9.55pm HULL v CRYSTAL PALACE SingTel mio TV Ch 105 StarHub TV Ch 230 (mio Stadium),
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        • 35 22 / 23 JAPAN OPEN Today: SEMI-FINALS StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 11am WTA CHINA OPEN Today: SEMI-FINAL 1 StarHub TV Ch 205 76.25MHz (SuperSports Arena), 12.30pm SEMI-FINAL 2 StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 4pm
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        • 34 22 / 23 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX Today: PRACTICE SESSION 3 StarHub TV Ch 210 mio TV Ch 116 (FOX Sports 3), 9.55am QUALIFYING StarHub TV Ch 210 mio TV Ch 116 (FOX Sports 3), 12.50pm
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