The New Paper, 15 December 2014

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1 16 The New Paper
  • 17 1 the new paper MONDAY DECEMBER 15 2014 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI (P) 088/01/2014
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    • 82 1 2014 SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARDS BEST IN OVERALL REDESIGN SPORTS REDESIGN NEWS-BREAKING PHOTO FEATURE DESIGN PAGES Con man uSeS S’pore IC wIth addreSS of InnoCent man Bangkok scam leaves S’pore family in a jam Stop knocking on my door, pleads S’pore PR who has been pestered by scores
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    • 46 1 0 MONDAY DECEMBER 15 2014 LaSt week to pLay... Bonus Jackpot cash prize now $6,000 myStery at Bt Batok 600m blood-red trail, sounds of fight, no victim in sight›5 ShoCker for frISky Surfer app links him up with underage teen ›16 TNP PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: JONATHAN CHOO
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    • 603 2 / 3  -  Flat owner says victims scammed in Bangkok show up looking for con man Reports by LAKEISHA LEO lwenqi@sph.com.sg Additional reporting by Elizabeth Law When he bought a three-room flat at Stirling Road in 2012, he never expected to have a stream of strangers knock- ing on
      TNP PHOTO: LAKEISHA LEO; PHOTO: INTERNET  -  603 words
    • 199 2 / 3 A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said Singaporeans who are going overseas should be on the alert for such scams. He said: “This is the festive season and the season of giving. Many scam and con artists will take advantage
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    • 221 2 / 3 The names on letters that were addressed to Mr Hartono’s flat led The New Paper to a flat in Tanglin Halt. It is believed to be where Mr Than’s family is staying. But one of the owners, who wished to be known only as
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    • 35 4 680 The number of Housing Board blocks in Jurong East, Marine Parade, Sembawang and Tampines that will have solar panels installed, under the biggest solar tender that HDB has awarded so far.
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    • 116 4 The beleaguered daughter of Korean Air’s CEO apologised yesterday for kicking a cabin crew chief off a plane over the way a snack was served, amid claims that she made him kneel and ask for forgiveness. Ms Cho Hyun Ah, formerly a top
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    • 106 4 AFP Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in New York and Washington on Saturday, stepping up demonstrations across the US, demanding justice for black men killed by white police. The rallies in the US capital, New York, Boston and in several Californian cities were
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    • 346 4 Central Provident Fund (CPF) members may get more options in deciding on how much they want to save, instead of a one-size fits all approach to retirement funding. Focusing on how much each individual needs is an approach that the CPF review will
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    • 98 4 East Coast Park may soon have a new space where dogs, cats and rabbits can roam freely. This is to encourage people to adopt, instead of buy pets, said Manpower Minister Tan Chuan-Jin on the sidelines of a charity car wash (above) at
      PHOTO COURTESY OF ACRES  -  98 words
    • 204 4 Reuters About 190 nations yesterday agreed on the building blocks of a new-style global deal due next year to combat climate change. It comes amid warnings that far tougher action will be needed to limit increases in global temperatures. Under the deal
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    • 131 4 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s easy victory in yesterday’s general election marks another chapter in the career of a man who has enjoyed rare individual success in Japan’s consensus-driven politics. The conservative ideologue was written off in 2007 when his first stint as premier ended
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    • 493 5  -  Bukit Batok residents puzzled by blood-like trail spanning six blocks Report by LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg He woke to the sound of policemen knocking on his door. When he looked outside his flat, he saw footprints formed with what looked like blood. To Mr Lim Kim
      PHOTOS: SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS; TNP INFOGRAPHICS: ANGELINE CHONG  -  493 words
    • 498 6 / 7  -  Maritime marshal reveals dangers posed by heavily armed pirates Reports by ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg He has been a maritime marshal, or what is also known as a shipbased armed guard, for the last four years. But Joshua (not his real name) still
      PHOTOS COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL MARITIME SOLUTIONS  -  498 words
    • 122 6 / 7 1. On Nov 7 at 5.50am, six armed robbers on a speedboat boarded tugboat Winstar Grace near the Strait of Malacca. After tying up the ship’s master and crew, the pirates ransacked the cabins and stole the crew’s belongings. They destroyed the vessel’s communication system before escaping.
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    • 757 6 / 7 Pirates have so far this year hijacked 13 vessels in Asian waters. Compare this to last year, where there were only three reported cases, so this is a worrying trend, said Mr Noel Choong of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). A violent attack occurred
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    • 656 8 / 9  -  Kym Ng, who plays a table tennis enthusiast in new drama, shares her passion for the game Reports by TAN KEE YUN keeyunt@sph.com.sg Five years after playing a table tennis coach in Channel 8 drama series Table Of Glory, Kym Ng is back wielding a
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    • 329 8 / 9 If you miss Singapore-based Taiwanese getai entertainer Hao Hao’s popular cross-dressing sets on the local getai circuit, here’s some good news: He might just do a “cross-dressing concert” in the near future. At the Thye Hua Kwan Charity Show 2015 press conference last week, the
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    • 356 10 Homeowners in Klang Valley in Selangor are upgrading their home security after reports of a rise in burglaries, with some resorting to setting booby traps or putting up electric fences. But not all are aware of the legal implications of their actions.
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    • 252 10 After finding her husband hanging from ceiling... A distressed woman in Kota Kinabalu allegedly tried to kill herself after finding her husband dead in their rented room in the city. It was believed that the woman, in her 30s, had just returned home from work
      PHOTO: THE STAR  -  252 words
    • 189 10 An ambulance driver was killed while eight others, including three children, were injured when a Hospital Kuala Lumpur ambulance crashed into a Toyota Innova on Malaysia’s NorthSouth Expressway near Kuala Kubu Baru in Selangor. Hulu Selangor acting deputy police chief Zulkifli Bedin said the
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    • 448 11  -  NICHOLASWHEYTNP hotline callers get $100 Pizza Hut vouchers for tip-offs Report by LEE JOON LEI joonlei@sph.com.sg Worried that his mother was suffering from breathing difficulties, student Nicholas Whey, 21, called for an ambulance to take her to the hospital. But on the
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    • 142 12 A gas cylinder exploded at a refuelling station in south-west Nigeria, injuring several people and razing many houses, police and residents said yesterday. “I am now at the scene of the incident. Nobody died, but several people were injured and many houses were burned,”
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    • 206 12 For about a year, a 12-year-old Malaysian girl in Petaling Jaya led a horrifying life of being allegedly raped twice a week by her stepfather. It was only when the girl finally told her mother on Friday that the deeds of the 34-year-old
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    • 375 12 Hot water thrown at AirAsia attendant Chinese authorities have vowed to severely punish the four Chinese tourists who were involved in a hot water air rage assault against a Thai stewardess last Thursday. Low-cost flight Thai AirAsia carrying passengers from Thailand to China was forced
      PHOTO: STOMP  -  375 words
    • 141 13 McDonald’s is hoping that a smaller menu and a push toward greater customisation will help it reverse a troubling decline in sales in the US. The fast-food giant aims to simplify the dining experience after concluding that a proliferation of menu
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    • 267 13 oN TNP faCeBooK On Muhelmy Suhaimi, 18, winning this year’s The New Paper Dollah Kassim Award Safina Amin J Congrats. I’m really praying for you to go further. Keep training hard and stay away from bad influences. Really hope that some of our players can play overseas and
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    • 1031 14 / 15  -  Iskandar development hits Orang Seletar fishermen in Johor Report by ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg For centuries, Johor’s Orang Seletar people eked out a living as traditional fishermen along the Johor and Singapore Straits. They are one of the 19 Orang Asli (indigenous) people groups living
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    • 853 16 / 17  -  Slew of underage sex cases show the lovers met online. Experts urge parents to be alert Reports by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg He was hoping to hook up with someone for sex. So he logged on to a social networking application that helps
      TNP PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: JONATHAN CHOO  -  853 words
    • 406 16 / 17 SEx APP A jobless man was jailed for three years on Dec 4 after admitting to three of five charges of sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy. Chock Soon Seng, 37, had also threatened to put the teenager’s naked pictures online and send them to
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    • Article, Illustration
      41 19 $480,000 That’s how much a 1976 Apple computer fetched at an auction in New York last Thursday. The Apple-1 was sold directly by the late Steve Jobs to a customer from his parents’ garage in Los Altos, California.
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      336 19 Former L’Oreal exec to sue chip shop for causing noise, olfactory and visual pollution AFP A former L’Oreal chief executive is taking legal action against a chip shop situated outside his French ski apartment for noise and visual pollution. On Tuesday, Mr Lindsay Owen-Jones and three of his
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    • 216 19 Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is one generous footballer giving his teammates an early Christmas present of a £6,500 (S$13,500) watch each. The World Player Of The Year, who has had a successful 2014, scoring some 61 goals in 58 games for
      PHOTO: INTERNET  -  216 words
    • 507 20 / 21 Imagin b ing able to explore Singapore n its entir ty lik a computer g me. You w ll be able to zoom in and out of any building, road or public space you wish, and wander around basement carparks and corridors. Welcome to Virtual Singapore Unveiled
      TNP INFOGRAPHICS: LEE HUP KHENG & BILLY KER  -  507 words




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    • 47 1 MAN UNITED 3 LIVERPOOL 0 ‘We should have Won’ MONDAY DECEMBER 15 2014 16-page pullout Brendan rodgers (right) says his team created enough chances, but david de gea (left) was the difference ›s2 lionsxii get easy draw for malaysian fa cup ›s14 PHOTOs: REUTERs, ACTION IMAGEs/CARL RECINE
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  • 16 PAGE PULLOUT sports
    • EPL
      • 93 2 / 3 THE RESULT “I thought we’d done enough to win the game. It epitomised our season. We’re not prolific enough in terms of goal-scoring. We created enough chances to win the game, which was pleasing, but we also made defensive mistakes and that’s what cost us. DAVID DE GEA
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      • 1226 2 / 3  -  Game lost in first half as Reds boss’ decision to play Sterling as striker backfires NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg MAN UNITED 3 (Wayne Rooney 12, Juan Mata 40, Robin van Persie 71) LIVERPOOL 0 Last season, the result at Old Trafford made Brendan Rodgers’ reputation. This
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      • Article, Illustration
        43 2 / 3 MOVERS SHAKERS RAHEEM STERLING WAYNE ROONEY 29 Age 20 1.78m Height 1.70m 78kg Weight 69kg 86% Pass Accuracy 88% 100% Aerials Won 47 Touches 28 2 Fouls 0 1 Shots 3 1 Dribbles Won 2 1 Tackles 1 7.6 Rating 6.9
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      • 486 4  -  Man United supporters celebrate Devils’ win over Pool with prizes at Hard Rock Cafe Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg MAN UNITED 3 (Wayne Rooney 12, Juan Mata 40, Robin van Persie 71) LIVERPOOL 0 Christmas came early not just for the Red Devils, but also
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      • Article, Illustration
        745 5 Wire Services ARSENAL 4 (Oliver Giroud 15, 58, Santi Cazorla 54, 88-pen) NEWCASTLE 1 (Ayoze Perez 63) Arsenal fans were again singing the praises of manager Arsene Wenger as the Gunners beat Newcastle 4-1 Newcastle yesterday morning (Singapore time). And Wenger said he was content with mak-
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      • 176 5 Wire Services Former Arsenal midfielder David Hillier told talkSPORT the club’s fans must be careful what they wish for as pressure mounts on Arsene Wenger. A 2-3 defeat by Stoke City saw the Frenchman receive verbal abuse from supporters on a train after the match
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      • Article, Illustration
        531 6 Wire Services LEICESTER 0 MAN CITY1 (Frank Lampard 40) Manchester City won on Saturday but it was a costly victory. They face the threat of approaching the hectic Christmas period without any senior strikers and their captain. Forward Edin Dzeko suffered a calf injury during the warm-up at
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      • DIVERS CHEATERS
        • 490 16 Wire Services It was ‘‘like something out of Swan Lake’’. That’s how Hull City manager Steve Bruce described Gary Cahill’s tumble in the box during the Tigers’ card-laden clash with Chelsea on Saturday. Efforts from Eden Hazard and Diego Costa got
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        • 354 16 Wire Services West Ham boss Sam Allardyce accused Sunderland midfielder Adam Johnson of diving for a penalty after the two teams played out a frustrating 1-1 draw at the Stadium of Light on Saturday. Johnson toppled under the challenge of James Tomkins in the 22nd
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    • racing
      • 407 7 It was always going to be a tall order. Especially after Friday night when Laurie Laxon increased his lead to three winners. It read 80 to Laxon and 77 to Alwin Tan at the start of yesterday’s action and, while we waited for Tan to throw in
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      • 2296 7 Race 1 MS 1000m 2 GUILTLESS 56.5 (24-8) J Powell (2) 4 3 1 (470) 1 EXCITING PROSPECT 57 (11-5.10) C Newitt (6) 2 1 2 (466) 1.5 9 DIAMOND ON THE BAY 50 (141-24) WS Chan* (3) 9 7 3 (511) 1.75 3 HANDSOME BAB
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      • LONGINES HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL RACES
        • 574 8 / 9  -  LONGINES HK CUP 2,000m Designs On Rome scores last-gasp win TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg REPORTING FROM HK Hong Kong, the new powerhouse racing nation in Asia, gave it’s racing-mad supporters an early Christmas present by delivering three of the four International Group 1
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        • 335 8 / 9 LONGINES HK VASE 2,400m Flintshire makes his point The favourite FLINTSHIRE produced a tremendous spurt in the straight to score a deserving victory in the HK$16.5 million ($2.8 million) Longines Hong Kong Vase, the first of the four Longines Hong Kong International Races run in front of the capacity 70,000
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        • 720 8 / 9 RACE 1 CLASS 1 TURF—1400m 4 DUNDONNELL121 (18-8) D WHYTE (6) 1 6 WINNING LEADER 114 (284-67) K C NG (2) 2 3 REWARDING HERO 128 (34-15) H BOWMAN (3) 3 5 WONDERFUL MOMENTS 119 (17-9) J MOREIRA (5) 4 Trainer: R Gibson. Margins:
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        • 157 8 / 9 LONGINES HK SPRINT 1,200m HK’s Aerovelocity all the way After missing the last two years to Japan’s top sprinter Lord Kanaloa, Hong Kong yesterday regained its foothold in the HK$18.5 million Longines Hong Kong Sprint with AEROVELOCITY. For good measure, the host also provided the runner-up, the favourite Peniaphobia, in
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        • 467 8 / 9 LONGINES HK MILE 1,600m Moreira’s Able Friend The writing was on the wall when world-class jockey Joao Moreira steered ABLE FRIEND to take the lead-up Group 2 Jockey Club Mile three weeks ago. Yesterday, the former four-time Singapore champion wasted no time to describe the John Moore-trained five-year-old horse as
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        • 176 8 / 9 Singapore’s Spalato went with the pace after jumping from a wide barrier yesterday but, like his lead-up race in the Group 2 Jockey Club Sprint three weeks ago, did not show the kick which took him to six consecutive victories back home. Spalato finished 12th
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      • 182 10 British jockey Ryan Moore was honoured as the inaugural recipient of the Longines World’s Best Jockey Award during a ceremony at a gala dinner in Hong Kong on Saturday. The awarding of the Longines World’s Best Jockey Award is based upon performances in the
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      • 483 10 Hippocrates Stable, who in the past has given us some exciting horses to savour, could have another ace in GOBI RANGER. A newcomer to the Kranji ranks, the four-year-old brown gelding raised the temperatures on a sultry and humid Kranji afternoon yesterday
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      • 777 10 Race 1 C5 (LC) 1600m 3 FIRE GENERAL 55 (112-30) HS Gill (5) 1 1 1 (507) 8 KIWI MAESTRO 50 c 49.5 (45-12) KC Wong* (10) 2 2 2 (485) 1 9 MR MAGIC 50 c 48.5 (13-6) CC Wong* (7) 4 3 3 (510) 1.75
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    • LA LIGA
      • 153 11 AFP Manolo Gabbiadini struck in the second half to put the brakes on Juventus’ title charge yesterday, as Sampdoria grabbed a 1-1 draw in Turin to hand Roma a Scudetto lifeline. Frenchman Patrice Evra gave the Italian champions a half-time lead, when he headed home
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      • 694 11 Barca boss Enrique holds on to title hopes despite falling four points behind Real Wire Services GETAFE 0 BARCELONA 0 Barcelona lost ground on title rivals Real Madrid with an uninspired performance in a 0-0 draw at rain-lashed Getafe yesterday morning (Singapore time) that
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    • 166 12 Reuters DALLAS MAVERICKS 98 GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS 105 Make it 15 wins in a row for the rollicking Golden State Warriors, after they ripped through the Dallas Mavericks 105-98 yesterday morning (Singapore time) at the American Airlines Center. Guard Stephen Curry
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    • FOOTBALL
      • Article, Illustration
        692 12 Bayern coach praises team’s winning mentality AFP aUGSbURG 0 BAYERN MUNICH 4 (Mehdi Benatia 58, Arjen Robben 59, 71, Robert Lewandowski 68) Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola is impressed by his side’s relentless thirst for titles after they opened a 10-point lead in the German Bundesliga. The 2013
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      • 362 14  -  Fandi’s team to avoid MSL teams till semi-final stage Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Going into their fourth season in Malaysian football, the LionsXII finally have the luck of the draw. At the Malaysian FA Cup draw conducted by the Football Association of Malaysia over the
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    • 170 14  -  DAVID LEE Singapore paddler Yu Mengyu’s brave assault on the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals women’s crown ended at the semifinal stage yesterday, when she lost 2-4 (11-4, 5-11, 6-11, 8-11,11-8, 9-11) to South Korean Seo Hyo Won in Bangkok, Thailand. World No. 12
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    • GOLF
      • 158 13 David Lipsky of the United States was crowned the 2014 Asian Tour Order of Merit champion yesterday as his closest challenger Anirban Lahiri failed to narrow the gap at the Thailand Golf Championship. The Korean-American waited anxiously at the clubhouse after he stumbled
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      • 505 13 Westwood comes from behind to win second Thailand Golf Championship England’s Lee Westwood claimed a unique Thailand Golf Championship double when he staged a fabulous fightback with a final-round fiveunder 67 to win the US$1 million ($1.3m) Asian Tour event yesterday. The former world No. 1
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      • 334 13 AFP Australia’s Greg Chalmers won the Australian PGA Championship, following a dramatic seven-hole play-off against world No. 3 Adam Scott on the Gold Coast yesterday. Scott had four opportunities to retain his title with birdie putts during the marathon play-off at Royal Pines,
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    • 160 15 AFP Mima Ito and Miu Hirano, both 14, became the youngest winners at the US$1 million ($1.3m) table tennis World Grand Finals in Bangkok on Saturday. The schoolgirls won the women’s doubles title by beating Natalia Partyka and Katarzyna Grzybowski of Poland 11-7 11-6,
      AFP  -  160 words
    • BOXING
      • 471 15 Pacquiao accepts Mayweather’s challenge, says American ‘induces’ fans to sleep in his fights AFP Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao has vowed to chase Floyd Mayweather into ring submission, after his American rival offered to fight him next year in a blockbuster world title face-off. “He (Mayweather) has
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      • ON TV
        • 230 15 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Tomorrow: EVERTON v QPR SingTel mio TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium), 4am LALIGA Tomorrow: DEPORTIVO LA CORUNA v ELCHE SingTel mio TV Ch 114 StarHub TV Ch 208 (FOX Sports), 3.40am SERIEA Tomorrow: EMPOLI v TORINO SingTel mio TV Ch 111 (mio
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        • 32 15 NBA SEASON 2014/15 Today: NEW ORLEANS PELICANS v GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 7am Tomorrow: CLEVELAND CAVALIERS v CHARLOTTE HORNETS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 8am
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