The New Paper, 17 February 2015

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  • 24 1 the new paper TUESDAY FEBRUARY 17 2015 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI (P) 137/12/2014 tnp.sg facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter.com/tnp To subscribe: 6388 3838
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    • 49 1 LAWYER OF PAEDOPHILE WHO ORGANISED CHILD-SEX TOUR: Police induced my client to break the law DPP says... ›8 BABY DIES IN FREAK ACCIDENT He hits his head after push by toddler causes stroller to fall›2 *****1 A-LEAGUE TEAM KEEN ON S’PORE TEEN Newcastle Jets want to sign him but...›S14
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    • 34 1 0 30 STARVING DOGS FOUND IN JOHOR BARU HOUSE Some even tried to eat me, says S’porean landlord›6 phoTo: SToMp SORRY, LADIES... He’s now officially taken and she’s having his baby ›18 phoTo: REUTERS
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    • 910 2 / 3  -  Aunt taking care of him does not realise he is hurt after fall Reports by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg The four-month-old baby was in a stroller when his 21-month-old cousin pushed it, causing it to fold and fall to the ground. After the fall, the baby
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    • 148 2 / 3 It is likely that the skull fractures found on the four-month-old baby were caused by the impact of his head hitting the ground or the frame of the stroller, a police officer told a coroner’s inquiry into the child’s death yesterday. Investigation officer
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    • 61 4 28,000 The number of companies that IE Singapore, the government agency driving Singapore’s external economy, provided broad-based assistance to last year a 5 per cent increase from the previous year. Some 80 per cent of the companies assisted were SMEs. In a statement yesterday, IE Singapore said
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    • 221 4 Singaporeans are most concerned about healthcare, cost of living, and having enough funds after retirement, according to a preBudget feedback exercise. Jointly organised by Reach (reaching everyone for active citizenry@ home) and the Ministry of Finance, the annual exercise sought views on areas that
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    • 345 4 More Singaporeans got married and had babies last year, according to the latest statistics. There were 24,000 marriages involving at least one citizen, the highest number since 1997, said the National Population and Talent Division (NPTD) yesterday. And 33,000 babies were born to Singaporeans,
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    • 221 4 The Istana grounds will be open to the public on Friday in celebration of Chinese New Year. There will be special performances including lion dance, acrobatics and dance performances by the Nanyang Girls’ School Lion Dance Troupe, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps,
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    • 119 4 More than 1,000 cartons of contraband cigarettes and 135kg of chewing tobacco were found in a Malaysia-registered bus at Tuas Checkpoint. In a joint operation by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and Singapore Customs, officers found 1,205 cartons of duty-unpaid cigarettes and the
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    • 88 4 Visitors to the River Hongbao 2015, starting at 7.45pm tonight at The Float Marina Bay, can catch the highwire acts of Adili Wuxor and Abulaiti-Maijun from China. The aerial tightrope walkers, who are Guinness World Record Holders of numerous tightrope-related stunts, will perform on a
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    • 36 5 $9,030 The average amount each household member in HDB one- and two-room flats received from Government schemes in 2014. This is more than 2.5 times that received by resident households in larger homes.
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    • 402 5 Singapore’s median household income up 4.1 per cent last year The Straits Times Singapore median household income from work grew last year in real terms, according to a report released yesterday by the Singapore Department of Statistics (DOS). Among resident-employed households, median monthly household income from work
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    • 590 6  - S’porean man finds JB house he rented out filled with starving dogs. He says: Vet turned house into shelter abandoned them Report by DAVID SUN davidsun@sph.com.sg When the Singaporean opened the door to his Malaysian house last week, he was shocked to find about 30 starving dogs. The man, who
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    • 93 7 A man in the US who served 29 years in jail for the rape and murder of a high school girl was freed last Wednesday after DNA evidence cleared him of any link to the crime, officials said. Christopher Abernathy, 48,
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    • 442 7 Struggling international students from Malaysia and South America have been queueing for free meals organised by the Salvation Army in Melbourne for the homeless. Up to 50 international students queue for soup kitchen-style lunch at the Salvation Army’s city drop-in centre every week day
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    • 798 8 / 9  -  Reports by ELIZABETH LAW lawsm@sph.com.sg Convicted paedophile Chan Chun Hong’s defence counsel, Mr Rajan Nair, yesterday presented his client’s mitigation to the court. He also made his submissions on the sort
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    • 204 8 / 9 Diagnosed paedophile Chan Chun Hong, 31, pleaded guilty in the State Courts to 12 child pornography and child sex-related offences on Feb 6. He admitted to seven counts of electronically distributing child pornography, three counts of promoting commercial sex with a minor outside Singapore, and one count
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    • 338 8 / 9 As defence lawyer Rajan Nair read out Chan’s mitigation to the court, what emerged was a picture of a man who had his life derailed after his fiancee died. After graduating with a degree in civil engineering from Nanyang Technological University in 2006, Chan, the oldest of three
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    • 246 8 / 9 teo dennis (td) The youngest you try how old Chan Chun Hong (CCH) You? Haha 18 is good. td 18 or 19. You never try younger then (sic) 18, thought you said younger then (sic) that...... lol CCH Censored leh. Haha TD Ok then, censored
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    • 42 10 Apple’s stock market value ballooned last week to beyond US$700 billion (S$950 billion). This is more than double Singapore’s 2013 gross domestic product (GDP), which was just under US$300 billion GRAPHICS ADAPTED FROM AFP SOURCE: WALL STREET JOURNAL
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    • 163 11 Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s operation to remove his prostate gland went smoothly yesterday and he is expected to recover fully, said Singapore General Hospital urologist, Professor Christopher Cheng, who performed the surgery. PM Lee, who turned 63 last week, was diagnosed with prostate
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    • 588 11  -  Doc: Left untreated, slow-growing form of the disease can kill sufferers Report by FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg After being diagnosed with prostate cancer in January, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong went through an operation to remove his prostate gland yesterday. The robot-assisted keyhole surgery was successful,
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    • 182 12 / 13 Key programmes of ITE’s strategic plans for 2015-2019, also known as ITE Trailblazer Enhanced career cluster framework l Collaboration with industry to support career progression based on industry-relevant skills. l An additional 100 Higher Nitec vacancies this year. Applied learning for industry relevance l By 2020, all ITE
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    • 525 12 / 13  -  ITE’s new 5-year roadmap focuses on deepening skills through industry internships Reports by LINETTE HENG linheng@sph.com.sg Going to a polytechnic after ITE is not the only pathway to success, says Mr Bruce Poh, director and chief executive officer of the Institute of Technical Education. Instead,
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    • 220 12 / 13 He has a perfect GPA of 4.0 and hopes to pursue a higher Nitec course in Human Resources next year. Although he can probably qualify for polytechnic after graduation, Mr Lim Wei Jie, 19, a second-year business services student at ITE College Central, wants to
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    • 596 14 / 15 Carnivale festivities kick off in Rio and other Brazilian cities AFP Opposites seem to be the order, or disorder if you prefer, of the day in Rio and other cities in Brazil for the past few days. Brazilians are celebrating Carnivale, festivities of which started last
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    • 150 16 A Turkish tourist was shot dead by a security guard and the manager of a bar in Koh Samui, Thailand, allegedly because he often got drunk and intimidated the bar’s staff. The guard, Kabin Srisa-ard, 27, and Kanapong Nakwatchara, 56, the manager of
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    • 257 16 Tokyo citizens even refuse to keep money when owners can’t be found It is the latest example of Japan’s startling integrity Tokyo citizens gave back millions of dollars of money found last year, police said yesterday, with three quarters of it returned to its rightful owners.
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    • 462 16 AFP Today’s young YouTube celebrities don’t only have virtual contact with their fans. They have taken on something new: real life. A last-minute message on Twitter, Facebook or the Internet can bring hundreds, even thousands of teenagers out to a designated venue
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    • THE BIG PICTURE
      • 612 17  -  Photo of Kranji War Memorial is Big Picture winner Report by JUSTIN ZHUANG tnp@sph.com.sg In search of Singapore’s defenders, Mr Chan Wai Meng made a trip back in time. He visited the Kranji War Memorial for the very first time to shoot pictures for last week’s Big
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    • 1362 18 / 19  -  Meet the impressive spouses of Hollywood’s top leading men Reports by NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg They are Hollywood’s hottest men of the moment who have left women all over the world weak at the knees. English actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne have been taking this
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    • 177 20 A woman was arrested after she left her granddaughter in a car for more than an hour while she played the jackpot in a New York casino. Renee Osby, 56, tried to bring her granddaughter, five, into the Resorts World
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    • 377 20 ‘It’s so warm, sunny beautiful’ Steven Gerrard’s wife looking forward to LA stay The wife of Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, Ms Alex Curran, apparently cannot wait to leave the UK for Los Angeles. Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy has confirmed that the 34-year- old midfielder will arrive in July,
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    • 493 20 Sheep or goat? The coming Chinese New Year has stirred a debate in China over which zodiac creature is the “correct” one, but Chinese folklorists dismiss the fixation on animals as missing the point. Traditional astrology in China attaches different animal signs to each lunar year in
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    • 96 17 What’s NEXT Continue sending us photos for the theme, Our Defenders, this week. To commemorate Total Defence Day, show us the people who keep Singapore safe, and stand to win $500. The deadline for submission is before midnight this Thursday. From Friday, our new fortnightly theme will be Right Here
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  • 392 22 In recent years, 140gm of pu’er tea dating back to the Qing Dynasty made headlines when it was auctioned off at a whooping US$24,155 nearly five times the value of 24 karat gold of similar weight. The West has its wines, but in Asia, pu’er
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  • 538 25  -  Increase marginally up from 2014's projected 5%, despite tight labour market By CHUANG PECK MING EXT year's pay hikes in Singapore and the rest of the region are tipped to stay close to those of recent years, despite a tight labour
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  • 531 26  -  By GABRIELE OETTINGEN NYT ANY people think that the key to success is to cultivate and doggedly maintain an optimistic outlook. But the truth is that positive thinking often hinders us. My colleagues and I have performed many studies, observing a range of people, including
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    • 96 1 There will be no Noon Edition of The New Paper tomorrow and Thursday morning. But watch out for the match reports on PSG v Chelsea and Shakhtar v Bayern tomorrow morning, and Basel v Porto and Schalke v Real Madrid on Thursday morning at tnp.sg THIAGO SILVA CHampions league psg
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  • sports
    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
      • 949 2 / 3  -  Why Blanc and Mourinho will face humiliation if defeated NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg Jose Mourinho’s forked tongue rarely shows mercy. He abuses freely. He mocks others almost weekly. When he put down Arsene Wenger, he called him a specialist in failure. His vicious comments were cutting. The
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      • 471 2 / 3 Wire Services David Luiz hopes to finish on the winning side once again in a Champions League tie between Paris St Germain and Chelsea, after swopping London for the French capital. The Brazil defender made a £48 million ($100m) switch to Paris last summer, after helping
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        624 4 German champions plan hasty retreat from war-torn Ukraine, even cancelling post-game banquet AFP Arjen Robben admits Bayern Munich have a few nerves as they head to the war-torn Ukraine for their Round of 16, first-leg clash at Shakhtar Donetsk. Due to fighting in east Ukraine between government forces
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      • 458 16 Ibrahimovic raises eyebrows and warms the heart with his charitable gesture Wire Services He is often seen as arrogant, describing himself as the best footballer in the world, or an unstoppable force on the pitch. He is one of the best strikers in the game, a
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    • FA CUP
      • 575 5  -  They’re out of the League Cup, out of depth in the Champions League and have run out of time in the EPL GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg FIFTH ROUND ARSENAL 2 (Olivier Giroud 27, 29) MIDDLESBROUGH 0 As their team calmly dismantled Middlesbrough piece by piece
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      • 642 6 League One side continue their giant-killing by dumping Sunderland PA Sport FIFTH ROUND BRADFORD 2 (John O’Shea 3-og, Jon Stead 61) SUNDERLAND 0 Bradford hero Billy Clarke heaped more misery on opponents Sunderland by admitting he could not believe how easily his side put their Premier League opponents
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      • 239 6 PA Sport 1 LEAGUE CUP 4TH ROUND WIGAN 0 BRADFORD 0 (Bradford win 4-2 on penalties) Oct 2012. The Bantams shocked English Premier League opponents Wigan, who created many opportunities but could not make a breakthrough during the 90 minutes or in extra-time. Wigan’s Shaun Maloney then
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    • racing
      • 1108 7 12.50 RACE 1 KS-D D3 —1400m(Turf) Gong Xi Fa Cai Stakes 1 Big City C Brown (10) 58 2 Splice M Rodd (2) 58 3 Great Light Y Salim (9) 58 4 Aladdin Z Zuriman* (5) 56.5 5 Joe R Rueven*
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      • 863 7 12.50 RACE 1 KS-D D2 —1200m(Turf) 1 Rising Empire TH Koh (12) 58 2 Mount Kinabalu M Kellady (6) 58 3 My Sapphire Y Salim (2) 56.5 4 Zac Command R Zawari* (11) 56.5 5 Aureus M Nunes (5) 56.5 6
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      • KRANJI TRACKWORK
        • 489 8 / 9  -  Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg The consistent and sparingly raced HOLY EMPIRE is working up a storm, suggesting that he has improved a lot from his last-start second to El Milagro just over two weeks ago. At Kranji yesterday morning, the Michael Freedmantrained grey
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        • 809 8 / 9 RACE 1 GREAT BALLS OFFIRE: Buffeted on jumping; bumped; shifted outwards to obtain clear running. SPARKLING STAR: Slow to begin; inconvenienced. BRANKSOME: Jumped awkwardly; proved difficult to settle; raced keenly; bumped. EL VERDUGO: Difficult to settle; eased; bumped. CLEVER BRIGHT: Steadied; bumped wide. JOY AND
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      • 980 8 / 9 SUNDAY MG1 1200m Tunku Gold Cup 1st Leg T C Series 530-21 Good Baby 58 (104)(7ag CC Ooi-Golden Knight) 6-3258 Rebel Fury 56 (96) (8ag S Edwards-Millennium) *****1 Harrys Pal 55 (92) (8nzg David Miller-David Miller) *****6 Mystic Power 55 (92) (5ah BT Lim-Mdm PP
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    • 164 10 AFP Brandt Snedeker ended a near 20-month victory drought in emphatic style yesterday morning (Singapore time) with a record-setting triumph in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Snedeker, the 2013 winner of the US$6.8 million ($9.2m) US PGA Tour event, had five birdies in a
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    • Article, Illustration
      761 10 Enrique purrs over Argentine superstar as Barca turn it on LA LIGA AFP. Barcelona boss Luis Enrique is savouring the chance to watch Lionel Messi after the Argentinian notched his fifth hat-trick of the season in a 5-0 romp over Levante yesterday morning (Singapore time). Messi was at
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    • CRICKET
      • 150 11 Reuters Ireland’s World Cup victory over West Indies yesterday was the kind of giantkilling that lights up any tournament, but cricket fans should enjoy it while they can ahead of format changes for the 2019 event. It is the third straight tournament that Ireland have turned
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      • 550 11 Windies cut down, but Irish captain Porterfield says his team are not surprised AFP Ireland captain William Porterfield demanded his side be treated with respect after their four-wicket World Cup win over the West Indies yesterday, denying the result was an upset and taking aim at cricket’s twotier
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    • 481 12  -  Blocker helps Dunman lift B Division girls’ zone title as St Hilda’s boys flex their muscles SCHOOL SPORTS Report by NICOLE CHIA cnicole@sph.com.sg When 16-year-old Ashley Han first joined the girls’ volleyball team at Dunman Secondary School four years ago, she was written off by her seniors.
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    • 221 12 Reuters Top seed Kei Nishikori of Japan became the first player to win three consecutive Memphis Open tennis tournament titles when he prevailed in straight sets yesterday morning (Singapore time). Nishikori (right) beat second-seeded South African Kevin Anderson 6-4, 6-4 in the indoor hardcourt event. Nishikori
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    • 145 13 AFP EASTERN CONFERENCE 158 WESTERN CONFERENCE 163 Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook poured in 41 points to lead the Western Conference to a 163-158 victory over the East in a recordsetting NBA All-Star Game. The total points scored in the 64th edition of the mid-season showcase
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 637 13  -  Singapore U-23s coach wants his boys to banish memory of Japan defeat against Syria U22s Report by ALI KASIM aakasim@sph.com.sg Losing to the Japan Olympic team is no shame, but Aide Iskandar is still troubled over the way his Singapore Under-23 side lost 8-1. “You’re only as
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      • 767 14 / 15  -  A-League side interested in signing NFA U-16 midfielder Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg It was meant to be an exploratory trip, but Saifullah Akbar did so well training with the youngsters of Newcastle Jets that the A-League club promptly considered taking on the 16-year-old, who is a
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