The New Paper, 17 April 2015

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  • 24 1 the new paper FRIDAY APRIL 17 2015 A SINGAPORE PRESS HOLDINGS PUBLICATION 70 CENTS MCI (P) 137/12/2014 tnp.sg facebook.com/thenewpaper twitter.com/thenewpaper To subscribe: 6388 3838
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    • 65 1 DAYS TO GO 49 SEa GaMES fOOTBaLL U-23 coach Aide Iskandar: Home support will inspire our boys ›S2 VETERAN ACTOR’S MUSIC VIDEOS GO VIRAL Chen Tianwen ‘stunned like vegetable’ by surprise success ›8 LATE ACTOR HUANG WENYONG’S DAUGHTER BACK IN SPOTLIGHT WITH SEXY MAGAZINE SHOOT TNp phoTo: phYlliCia WaNG Nicole
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    • 33 1 CiTy HarVEST CHUrCH LEadErS TriaL Serina Wee: Sun Ho’s Mandarin albums lost $1m ›10 TNp phoTo: KiaT TaN PUB PERFORMER JAILED FOR LYING TO COPS She cheats on boyfriend, then cries rape ›12
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    • 871 2 / 3  -  Daughter of late actor Huang Wenyong shows off buxom figure in eight-page photo spread for FHM Singapore Reports by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg A photo shoot in 2011 made Miss Nicole Ng the talk of the town. Veteran actor Huang Wenyong’s daughter,
      PHOTO COURTESY OF NICOLE NG; TNP PHOTOS: PHYLLICIA WANG; PHOTO COURTESY OF NICOLE NG  -  871 words
    • 68 2 / 3 Local celebrities’ teen daughters are all grown up eLeANOR Lee, 16 Parents: Quan Yifeng and former TV actor Peter Yu 1 2 CHeN YI XIN, 15 Parents: Edmund Chen and Xiang Yun TAY YINg, 19 Parents: Zheng Geping and Hong Huifang 3 SHI AN, 17 Parents:
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    • 359 2 / 3 Whenever the annual Star Awards ceremony comes around in April, nostalgia washes over Miss Nicole Ng and her family. It is a poignant period for them because the timing of the awards coincides with the last days they spent with her father, the late
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    • 61 4 5,500 The approximate number of trees in NParks’ ‘tree banks’, comprising more than 40 species, according to National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan in a blog post yesterday. Saplings are nurtured in tree banks until they are semi-mature. They are then transplanted to populate parks and streetscapes.
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    • 254 4 There will be a whopping 41.1 per cent more certificates of entitlement (COEs) from next month onwards. The quota for May-July 2015 will have a total of 19,912 COEs, or 6,637 monthly. This is an increase from the total 14,114 COEs available in the February
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    • 349 4 DPM Teo highlights danger of returning militants Foreign fighters returning home from the conflict in Syria and Iraq pose an international security threat for decades to come, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Teo Chee Hean said yesterday at the opening of a symposium on rehabilitating terror
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    • 169 4 Be prepared for higher temperatures in the days to come. The National Environment Agency (NEA) has forecast that there will be a few days with temperatures reaching 34 deg C in the afternoons for the next two weeks. This is due to light wind
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    • 174 4 A shop in Jem was flooded yesterday. Saladworks, which is on the second floor of the Jurong East mall, was the only shop affected. An employee told The Straits Times that the flood occurred at about 4.40pm, and that “water just started coming from the
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    • 97 4 ILLEGAL: A Malaysian man was jailed for eight months yesterday for smuggling seven puppies into Singapore and for animal cruelty. Mohamad Ashwin Nazri, 25, pleaded guilty to importing two Japanese spitz, two golden retrievers and three poodles in a car from Malaysia without a licence on March 30, The Straits
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    • 119 6 1 A provision shop owner was jailed for three months in February 2013 for paying three teenagers to steal goldfish and parrots worth $20,000 from pet farms the previous year 2 A food-stall assistant was jailed five months for stealing arowanas worth $43,000 from tanks and ponds
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    • 763 6  - Luohan behold, even the CCTV was stolen Two theft cases in two weeks cause aquarium owner at Serangoon North to lose more than $10,000 Reports by LINETTE HENG, KEVIN GOH tnp@sph.com.sg After a luohan fish worth $600 was stolen from her shop two weeks ago, owner Susan Lim decided to
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    • 467 7  -  Six passengers injured when two SBS buses crash at Tampines Avenue 1 Report by JADE TEO jadeteo@sph.com.sg A collision between two SBS service number 15 buses in Tampines yesterday morning left six passengers injured. Five adult passengers were taken to Changi General
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    • 582 8 / 9  -  For veteran actor Chen, who has been in showbiz for three decades, the success of the videos is an unexpected career resurgence Reports by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg Local veteran actor Chen Tianwen has hit the big time again, thanks to two videos that went viral.
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    • 55 8 / 9 1 Taufik Batisah #awakkatmane (5.2 million views) 2 Ah Boys To Men actors A Tribute to Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1.07 million views) 3 Munah and Hirzi Minahconda (760,000 views) 4 Shigga Shay Limpeh (550,000 views) 5 Dominic Chin You First Believed (Original) Thank you
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    • 330 8 / 9 He has single-handedly popularised the phrase “stunned like vegetable”. In the Unbelievable music video, which went viral after it was uploaded on Monday, Chen Tianwen performs a hilarious love song with lyrics such as the now-classic “You blossom like a flower, I so
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    • CITY HARVEST CHURCH LEADERS TRIAL
      • 590 10  -  Serina Wee says she believed Crossover Project would be profitable Reports by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg Her secular music was supposed to reach out to and evangelise the unchurched. But behind the scenes, City Harvest Church (CHC) singer-pastor Ho Yeow Sun’s albums were bleeding money.
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      • 325 10 City Harvest Church (CHC) deputy senior pastor Tan Ye Peng said on March 23 that he could not have been involved in any conspiracy to fake the church’s accounts because he was no accounting expert. He also claimed that he was a dedicated servant and would
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    • 334 11 Actress Sofia Vergara’s ex sues for embryos frozen The former fiance of ColombianAmerican actress Sofia Vergara is suing her to prevent her from destroying the fertilised eggs they created when they were a couple. Mr Nick Loeb, 39, a businessman, filed a suit in California against
      PHOTOS: AFP  -  334 words
    • 502 12  -  Club performer had consensual sex with boss but cried rape after boyfriend found out Report photo by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg She cheated on her boyfriend by sleeping with her employer. And when her boyfriend found out, Indian national Citti Babu Prasanya, 21, lied
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      772 14 / 15  -  Society’s elite come out to play at luxury mag gala Report by CATHERINE ROBERT crobert@sph.com.sg ICON magazine, a leading Chinese luxury lifestyle publication by Singapore Press Holdings, threw a gala ball on Wednesday night to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The event saw more than 400 A-listers in social
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    • 130 17 Charity workers have teamed up with an impoverished village in eastern India to develop what they say is the world’s cheapest bottle of drinking water. It costs less than one US cent. After years of suffering illnesses from drinking polluted ground water, residents
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    • 305 17 Indonesia yesterday banned small retailers from selling beer. It comes despite an outcry from the alcohol industry and tourism hotspots over the country’s latest offensive against drinking. The ban restricts the sale of beer and pre-mixed drinks, such as spirits with soft drinks, to large supermarkets
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    • 1062 18 / 19  -  Report by GAO WENXIN wxgao@sph.com.sg It started out as a “rescue mission” for a local archaeology team to see what they could salvage at the Empress Place site before new developments started. Instead, volunteers uncovered a treasure trove of artefacts, just metres from the Asian Civilisations
      PHOTOS: KIAT TAN, TNP FILE, NHB  -  1,062 words
    • 151 20 A Polish man has confessed to raping and killing a nine-year-old girl after brazenly snatching her from a French playground in front of her mother, prosecutors said yesterday. The country was left reeling from the crime in the city of Calais, where flags
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    • 503 20 Malaysian anti-crime crusader’s pictures of politicians with expensive watches goes viral Malaysian politicians and their seemingly expensive watches are making a buzz online. Mr R. Sri Sanjeevan (inset), Malaysia’s well-known anti-crime crusader, uploaded the pictures of watches on social media. The pictures have gone viral,
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    • 37 1 SURPRISES IN STORE FRIDAY APRIL 17 2015 24-page pullout Safuwan’S Spine injury jeopardiSeS chanceS of extending melbourne Stint ›S24 athletics chief tang weng fei confident of equalling or improving on 2013 Sea games haul ›S4 PHOTO: ST
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  • sports
    • SPORT IS COMING HOME 28th SOUTH-EAST ASIA GAMES (JUNE 5-16) DAYS TO GO 49
    • 85 8 / 9  -  HAIQAL SARI After five months, the 12-team Pro-Am Singapore Basketball League (Pro-Am SBL) has reached the climax of its second season. The semi-finals will be played today, with AMK Braveharts taking on Fastbreak PIAS (7pm) and Falcons Basketball facing Zeagues Chargers (8.30pm). The
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    • 125 8 / 9 The Football Association of Singapore will launch its second centre for the Cubs Grassroots Football Programme at Queensway Secondary School on Sunday. This is an all-girls centre which will be opened to students from 13 neighbouring primary schools Pei Tong, New Town, Queenstown,
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    • CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
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        618 8 / 9  -  Without Ribery and Robben, Guardiola’s men lose their effervescent edge GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg QUARTER-FINA PORTO 3 1ST EG poRTo 3 (ricardo Quaresma 3-pen, 10, Jackson martinez 65) BaYeRn munich 1 (Thiago alcantara 28) The favourites have fallen. Bayern Munich stand on the precipice of an unexpected elimination at
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      • 564 8 / 9 PA Sport Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola insists his side are not going to raise the white flag and accept elimination from the Champions League without a fight in the second leg of their quarter-final tie with Porto. Bayern will need to overturn a 3-1
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      • 184 10 PA Sport Paris St Germain striker Edinson Cavani has brushed aside media reports that he will leave the French giants this summer. The Italian press has linked the former Palermo and Napoli player to Juventus. Cavani, 28, is also a reported target of Manchester United. Following
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      • 640 10 Uruguayan is flying with Barca after a slow start QUARTER-FINAL, FIRST LEG PARIS ST GERMAIN 1 (Jeremy Mathieu 82-og) BARCELONA 3 (Neymar 18, Luis Suarez 67, 79) From disgraced to devastating. Luis Suarez was still reeling after the World Cup biting incident when Barcelona paid 81 million euros
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    • racing
      • 143 11 KUALA LUMPUR PENANG TRACKWORK NST Last-start winner MILITARY TACTIC signalled his chances in tomorrow’s Race 4 with a good 600m gallop in 39.9sec in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The going was good. Snow Mountain, engaged in the same race, clocked 43.1sec. Race 1 runner Taramis galloped in the straight. Another Race
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      • 229 11  -  SINGAPORE BEST BET (RACE 7 NO. 1) Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg You can excuse AFFLECK’S last-start run in the Group 3 Singapore Three-Year-Old Sprint over 1,200m on April 3, the first leg of the Singapore Three-Year-Old Challenge. That was his first outing this
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      • 500 11 Tan Thean Loon Andrew Frost Brian Miller Mr X RACE 1 RACE 2 RACE 3 RACE 4 RACE 5 RACE 6 RACE 7 RACE 8 RACE 9 RACE 10 Exceptional Choice 12 3 13 2 8 Street Ruffian Beat To Quarters 1 Winning Cause 11 10 4 6
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      • 1646 12 / 13 GOING FORECAST: GOOD RACE 1 C5 6.20 —1200m (Polytrack) Stakes: $35,000 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/Origin/Sex, trainer-owner) 1 123-14 Bankers Call 59 (43) Y Ruzaili* c4 6 (5ag S Gray-Pugh G Roger) 2 -568-3 Bingo 59 (43)
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      • 1790 12 / 13 LARRY FOLEY’S COMMENTS ON TODAY’S KRANJI MEETING RACE 1 (1,200M) 1 Bankers CallHHH In very good form and 4kg claim a big help. 2 BingoHHH Supported and ran on well as expected last start this company. Should go close. 3 Exceptional ChoiceHHH In
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      • 1306 14 / 15  -  KRANJI BARRIER TRIALS Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg PETRENUI and JOHNNY GUITAR lit up the trials at Kranji yesterday with their under one-minute winning times. Ridden by Oscar Chavez, Petrenui led all the way to cover the 1,000m trip on the Poly track in 59.88sec
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      • 1204 14 / 15 17-4-2015 Friday MACAU 8:05 PM Macau (Sand) 1 HK$170,000 The Music Boy (Class 5/6) No Form Name 1 *****9 2 *****9 3 *****0 4 *****5 5 *****0 6 *****8 7 *****4 8 *****5 9 *****8 10 *****8 11 *****8 12 *****6 13 *****1 q q q
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      • SOUTH AFRICA RACING
        • 589 14 / 15 7:10 Race 1 Maiden Juvenile Plate 1200M 1 COXSWAIN A Andrews (11) 58 2 HUMBLE HARRY R Danielson (12) 58 3 JUST TOO EARLY N Gumede (8) 58 4 LATINO STAR S Fortune (5) 58 5 MEMPHIS MAFIA K Zechner (4) 58 6 MILKEN
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        • 424 14 / 15 FAIRVIEW PREVIEWS RACE 1 (1,200M) A few unraced runners in the opener and the betting could be the best guide. Of the raced runners, (10) THE CAT looks the right one and must be included. His two starts to date have
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      • 1084 16 / 17 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1GATTON (860M) 11 COME BY OFTEN (22:2-2-3): Solid but not spectacular 3rd (56.5) to Tuned In 1,200m Beaudesert (62) Good(3) trk Nov 20. Resuming and hasn’t finished further back than 4th since joining this
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    • 378 19  -  Hwa Chong student overcomes hamstring tear to achieve record-breaking feat SCHOOL SPORTS Report by HAIQAL SARI haiqals@sph.com.sg Last year, Joel Koh set the National Schools’ A Division 5,000-metre race-walking record, clocking 26 minutes and 43.01 seconds en route to bagging the gold medal. At
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    • GOLF
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      • 335 20 Luis Figo will be taking time off from his Fifa presidential campaign to focus on golf. The former Portugal football captain, who played for Spanish giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, is among the host of celebrities featuring at the Icons Cup in
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      • 160 21 Reuters South Koreans, led by Kim In Kyung, occupied the top five spots after the opening round at the Lotte Championship in Hawaii yesterday morning (Singapore time). Kim shrugged off testing afternoon trade winds to compile eight birdies for a 65 on the Ko Olina
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      • 459 21 Masters champion Spieth confident of continuing winning ways at Heritage AFP. Jordan Spieth will get back to work this morning (Singapore time), after his sensational US Masters triumph. After all, there’s still Rory McIlroy’s No. 1 ranking to chase. “I would like to get myself in
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    • 769 22 McLaren driver Button believes German has to ‘think out of the box’ to beat Hamilton Wire Services Jenson Button believes Nico Rosberg needs to employ different tactics if he is to topple Lewis Hamilton this season. Reigning Formula 1 champion Hamilton heads into this week’s Bahrain
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    • ON TV
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      • 42 23 LOTTE CHAMPIONSHIP Today: DAY 2 Singtel TV Ch 114 StarHub TV Ch 208 (FOX Sports), 7am SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL Today: DAY 2, SESSION 1 StarHub TV Ch 204 (SuperSports 4), 10.30am DAY 2, SESSION 2 StarHub TV Ch 204 (SuperSports 4), 2.30pm
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      • 52 23 BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX Today: PRACTICE SESSION 1 Singtel TV Ch 116 StarHub TV Ch 210 (FOX Sports 3), 6.55pm PRACTICE SESSION 2 Singtel TV Ch 116 StarHub TV Ch 210 (FOX Sports 3), 10.55pm Tomorrow: PRACTICE SESSION 3 Singtel TV Ch 116 StarHub TV Ch 210 (FOX Sports
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      • 13 23 MONTE CARLO MASTERS Today: QUARTER-FINALS StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 4.30pm
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    • 627 24  -  Carrying a spine injury, defender may not have his Melbourne City stint extended A-LEAGUE Report by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg Safuwan Baharudin’s A-League stint could come to an abrupt end next week. In January, the 23-year-old national defender (right) became the first Singaporean footballer to sign for
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