The New Paper, 28 July 2015

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    • 1353 2 / 3  -  Coroner rules death of teenager accidental, likely a ‘drug-induced psychotic or delusional episode’ Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg Two weeks before she fell to her death, teenager Denyse Tan was behaving strangely. She told her father, Mr Peter Tan, about hearing children crying
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    • 412 2 / 3  -  Reports by DAVID SUN davidsun@sph.com.sg There has been a rising, and worrying, trend of young people using drugs in Singapore. Last year, 190 drug abusers below the age of 20 were arrested, compared to 181 in 2013. Of the 190, a shocking 172 were
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    • 315 2 / 3 SOURCE: CENTRAL NARCOTICS BUREAU CANNABIS Also known as marijuana, pot, grass or weed. Effects of short-term use: l Impaired short-term memory, making it difficult to learn and to retain information. l Impaired motor coordination, which interferes with driving skills and increases the risk of injuries.
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    • 53 4 292 The number of men who committed suicide in Singapore last year, according to figures from the Samaritans of Singapore (SOS). This is 70 per cent of the total number of suicides, the suicide prevention group noted. Women are more likely to seek help, SOS executive director
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    • 249 4 Singapore’s pioneers made sacrifices for one another and for the nation, and their spirit must continue, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday. He was speaking at an appreciation dinner for 1,600 volunteers, known as Pioneer Generation Ambassadors. The volunteers include students, housewives,
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    • 290 4 Asian markets fall Asian stocks were buffeted as a renewed selldown hit the Chinese market yesterday. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index plunged 8.48 per cent its biggest fall in eight years amid growing concerns over China’s economic slowdown. The country’s statistics bureau yesterday turned in
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    • 173 4 Reddish water in a canal in Jurong West is likely to be “organic solvent and dye”, water agency PUB said. Residents living near Jurong West Street 62, near Boon Lay MRT station, had reported the phenomenon around 3pm on Sunday. PUB officers who inspected the waterway
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    • 192 4 The registers of electors for the next general election have been certified, the Elections Department (ELD) said yesterday. There are a total of 2,460,977 electors in the registers, ELD said. Voters can check their particulars in person at the Elections Department, at community centres/clubs
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    • 121 4 British Prime Minister David Cameron will be in Singapore today for a two-day official visit, the second stop of his four-nation tour of South-east Asia this week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. Mr Cameron’s visit comes as Singapore and Britain mark
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    • 388 5 M’sian man and youths argued over unpaid rental fees A 63-year-old man in Malaysia splashed acid on five people one as young as 11 over a rental dispute in Alor Star, Kedah. Ms Salmah Salleh, 54, said she and her sons, together with two youths and
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    • 72 5 AirAsia yesterday called for urgent repairs at Malaysia’s new budget airline terminal, claiming the tarmac was “sinking”. AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes criticised Malaysian aviation officials af- ter a plane came off its chocks, a block that braces the wheel, at the KLIA2 terminal in Kuala
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    • 490 6  -  Myanmar woman gets 13 years’ jail for killing 87-year-old Reports by ELIZABETH LAW lawsm@sph.com.sg Upset about a scolding in the morning, she got increasingly angry until she fatally stabbed her employer’s mother-in-law. Myanmar national Than Than Win, who was later diagnosed with severe
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    • 243 6 Some time after Feb 16 last year, Than Than Win had asked to return home but her employer told her to stay on till May so they could look for a new maid. The maid agreed, but two weeks before the incident, she started to
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    • 276 6 In a remarkable case of online sleuthing, a Singaporeregistered car that was stolen in Johor Baru was returned to its owner and the suspected car thief nabbed. After Mr Joe Ong’s white Honda Civic was stolen on July 5, he and his
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    • 152 7 Police have arrested 11 villagers on charges of murdering a 10-year-old boy in Nepal in what locals described as a case of human sacrifice. Media reports said the father of a sick teenager had last Tuesday lured away the boy, Jeevan Kohar, with
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    • 703 8 / 9  -  Man had given up on life after being diagnosed with end-stage lung cancer. But trial drug shrinks his cancerous cells Reports by FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg June 1,2011, is a date he will always remember. That was the day the 62-year-old, who wanted to be known
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    • 380 8 / 9 The new drug Ceritinib can be prescribed only for patients who have ALK (anaplastic lymphoma kinase)-positive non-small cell lung cancer, and have either grown resistant or are intolerant to the existing drug Crizotinib. Making up 8 per cent of the lung cancer cases,
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    • 140 10 AFP Bobbi Kristina Brown (right), the only child of pop legend Whitney Houston and singer Bobby Brown, died on Sunday aged 22, six months after she was found unconscious in a bathtub in her home. Bobbi Kristina sole heir to Ms Houston’s estate was discovered face
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    • 419 10 She pushes son to safety before plunging to her death in China mall A woman was killed after she fell through an unsecured flooring over an escalator in a department store in Hubei, China, on Saturday. Tragically, Ms Xiang Liujuan, 30, managed to push her
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    • 195 10 The iron rod of a fence pierced through a man’s armpit after he slipped and fell from a ladder, narrowly missing his chest and heart. Ng Ah Eng, 68, was pruning plants at his house compound in Jalan Alor Star in Klang, Selangor, when
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    • 953 11  -  ONE FM DJ Cheryl Miles says quitting smoking has given her more energy now than in her 20s Report by JADE TEO jadeteo@sph.com.sg She was only 12 when she took her first puff, and became a heavy smoker after turning 21. At
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    • 654 12 / 13  -  NTUC Income programme helps poly student who works to support family after father’s death Reports by HARIZ BAHARUDIN harizbah@sph.com.sg Hari Raya is a time when Muslims come together to enjoy the month-long celebrations. But for Mr Syaryan Ruzaini, 19, the month opens up old wounds. Last year,
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    • 171 12 / 13 The Future Development Programme is a new initiative by NTUC Income to help 1,000 needy students in polytechnics and Institutes of Technical Education (ITE). The programme will provide each needy student from polytechnics $3,000 annually, while those from ITE will each receive $1,800 to assist with
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    • Article, Illustration
      470 14 / 15 Trained rodents sniff out deadly landmines in Cambodia in less time than it takes humans Pit, only two years old and with just one eye, needed only 11 minutes to detect a deadly mine buried in a Cambodian field, work that humans with metal detectors could have taken up
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    • 233 16 / 17  -  ANG QING Oriental whip snake Lives in bushes and trees and is found in most parts of Singapore, including urban gardens and coastal areas. Well-camouflaged and often mistaken for a green vine. Eats mainly lizards, but also frogs and small birds. When threatened, it will extend
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      663 16 / 17  -  Netizens, nature lovers outraged over viral video showing photographer hitting snake with stick at nature reserve Report by DAVID SUN davidsun@sph.com.sg Moving wild animals from their habitat for a photography session is frowned upon by nature lovers and professional photographers. But that’s what a group of photography enthusiasts
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    • 331 16 / 17  -  Report by ANG QING aqing@sph.com.sg While on a nature walk, Mr Serin Subaraj, 20, saw a group of people trying to kill a snake with their walking sticks. Instead of running away, he rushed forward to save it. Mr Subaraj doesn’t just love
      PHOTOS: SARANYA MAHENDRAN, SERIN SUBARAJ. SANKAR A.  -  331 words
    • THE BIG PICTURE
      • 556 19  -  Report by JUSTIN ZHUANG tnp@sph.com.sg The play of light and shadows on the side of a building attracted Mr Suhaimi Abdullah’s attention. And after learning about last week’s Big Picture contest, he submitted his entry. His photo of workers cleaning the facade of the ArtScience Museum
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    • 74 19 WHAT’S NEXT Singapore is turning 50 in a fortnight’s time. Show us how the nation and its people have been preparing for Our Jubilee Celebration and stand to win $500 each week! Submit your photos before 11.59pm on Thursday and Aug 6. To find out the latest contest updates and
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  • Page 20 Miscellaneous
    • 8 20 dilbert SCoTT adamS PearlS before SwiNe STEPHaN PaSTIS
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    • 351 20 LOCAL WEATHER THUNDERY SHOWERS High 33° Low 25° Watch ’em HOME AWAY FROM HOME Channel U, 9pm This survival-and-integ ration programme highlights the cultural differences between Singapore and other countries as seen through the eyes of Singaporean artists (left to right: Cassandra See, Florence Tan and Quan Yifeng). chaNNel 8
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  • 393 21  -  By Michelle Chin mchin@sph.com.sg While moderate amounts of work stress boost productivity and spur people to achieve, excessive amounts of it can overwhelm them and cripple work performance. Here are practical tips to help you deal with stress effectively. 1. Be organised and prioritise
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    • 273 22 Business Needs Business Needs Business Needs BUY SELL NEW USED SPOILT LOCK LAPTOPS CAMERAS GAME SETS ALL DIGITAL GADGETS WE BUY PS3 $200 IPAD AIR/MINI $1200 PS VITA $200 MACBOOK AIR/PRO/IMAC $3500 3DS/XL $250 ALL APPLE PRODUCTS/IPHONES PS4/XBOX ONE $600 ALL LAPTOPS/DESKTOPS DSLR CAMERAS/LENS $5000 XBOX KINECT $450 RAMS/HARD DISKS/PARTS
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    • 129 23 Cleaners WEEKLY PAY $300 Hotel Kitchen Cleaners 11 pm 6am 6-day work week Meals provided Immediate vacancy S’poreans only *****983/*****519 Loyang Drive Office Cleaner required. 5 day week. 8am-5pm. Call *****630 OFFICE CLEANERS 7.30am-1pm 7.30am-6pm. 5 day wk. Upp Thomson/ Toa Payoh area. Call 9189 8822 Customer Service Customer Svc
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  • 454 24  -  By AW CHENG WEI Waiters can rise to become assistant restaurant managers in less than a year but it is still a job that few Singaporeans are willing to take on. According to the latest job vacancies report by the Manpower Ministry, waitering was
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    • 34 25 Other Positions Other Positions 3If you're looking to buy or rent an HDB apartment, turn to the Print Classified Properties section. To advertise, call the Print Classified Hotline: 1800-289 9988. room flat? Need a
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    • 39 25 Other Positions Pest Control Technician needed With/ w/o driving lic. Attractive salary. Can start immed. *****278 (Bukit Batok) Part-Time/ Part-Time/ Temporary PART-TIME CLERK required near Bugis MRT. 9am 3pm or 10am 4pm. All are welcome. Call 9107-9685 for appt
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  • 379 25  -  By JESSICA LIM Vacancies may be rife and turnover high in the restaurant industry, but at Brazil Churrasco, staff stay an average of a decade. The Bukit Timah restaurant has 26 full-time staff 15 of them Singaporeans and 11 foreigners. Two employees
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    • 37 1 WORTH the WAIT John Stones is a natural successor to Chelsea’s John terry, says Neil Humphreys ›S14 tuesDAY JULY 28 2015 16-page pullout PHOTO: REUTERS VaN gaal WaNtS to SIgN a ‘SpeeDY aND CReatIVe’ MaRQuee plaYeR ›S12
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  • sports
    • FOOTBALL
      • 832 2 / 3  -  FANDI AND SUNDRAM AS CO-COACHES? If the FAS doesn’t extend national coach Bernd Stange’s contract, can Fandi and Sundram be a success as co-coaches? SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ asks football officials Reports by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg They set pulses racing among football-crazy Singaporeans when they
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      • 152 2 / 3 Wire Services VIETNAM 1 MAN CITY 8 Raheem Sterling scored a brace as Manchester City bounced back from defeat by Real Madrid with a resounding 8-1 victory over Vietnam at the My Dinh Stadium in Hanoi last night. Manuel Pellegrini’s side scored four
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      • 472 2 / 3 Lars Lagerback and Tommy Soderberg were co-coaches for Sweden at the 2002 World Cup finals and the 2000 and 2004 European Championships. Gerard Houllier and Roy Evans were a tandem for Liverpool in the 1999 season. But naming two co-coaches to lead a team, with each
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      • 144 4 / 5  -  SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ Balestier Khalsa continued their climb up the Great Eastern-Yeo’s S.League table with a comfortable 2-0 win over Harimau Muda at the Toa Payoh Stadium last night. Two goals in four minutes in the first half gave the home side their second win in
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      • 944 4 / 5  -  semI-pro s.leaGU Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg Five years ago at the launch of the Football Association of Singapore’s (FAS) Strategic Plan, the S.League was hailed as one of the top 10 in Asia. Based on the Asian Football Confederation’s (AFC) assessment algorithm, the Republic’s only professional sports
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      • 252 4 / 5 1. FEWER TEAMS, SAME FUNDING A 12-team competition in 2014, the S.League this year comprises only 10 teams, with Woodlands Wellington and Tanjong Pagar United not part of the competition. The absence of those two sides allowed the FAS to increase its funding for the remaining
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      • 539 4 / 5  -  Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg Singapore may have beaten Cambodia 4-0 in last month’s Group E World Cup qualifiers last month, but the word “minnows” is slowly slipping out of the football vocabulary in the region. Observers have noted that traditionally weaker teams like the
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      • 653 16 PA Sport Roy Hodgson wants to lead England on their World Cup qualifying campaign and has questioned whether it is correct for the Football Association to delay a decision on his future until
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    • 142 4 / 5 PA Sport Aston Villa have signed Ghana striker Jordan Ayew for an undisclosed fee. The 23-year-old has penned a five-year contract at Villa Park after leaving Ligue 1 club Lorient. Ayew is the third player to swop France for Witton this summer, with former Nice
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    • 145 4 / 5 Danielle Moi enjoyed a welcome surprise after the national para-swimmer, along with teammate Han Liang Chou, won Team Singapore’s first medals at the Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles (yesterday morning, Singapore time). The two paraswimmers each bagged a bronze medal, in the women’s
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    • 166 6 Reuters James Rodriguez curled home a superb free-kick to cap Real Madrid’s 3-0 win over Inter Milan in a friendly in Guangzhou yesterday. The Colombia midfielder, brought on for just the last 10 minutes of the International Champions Cup match, stepped up to
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    • 456 6 Guardado becomes first player to score in three Gold Cup finals as El Tricolor clinch record triumph GOLD CUP AFP FINAL MEXICO 3 (Andres Guardado 31, Jesus Corona 47, Oribe Peralta 61) JAMAICA 1 (Darren Mattocks 80) Mexico shook off two controversy-laden wins to beat Jamaica
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    • racing
      • 455 7 Brisbane champion jockey Timothy Bell made the most of his one-day flying visit at Kranji to get on the scoresheet at his third ride on Sunday. Specially engaged by trainer Steven Burridge and the Lim’s Stable to ride Lim’s Showcase in the Group 3 Juvenile
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      • 1420 7 SATURDAY C3 1200m 3044-0 America Seal 59 (70) (6amg BT Lim-Cat Racing) *****- Q nine Max 59 (70) (5ag BT Lim-Q Nine) *****0 Pitstop 58.5 (69) (5ag WC Lim-Happiness Come) 46--89 Touch of gold 58.5 (69) (6nzg SB Tan-KK Tan) -6-690 The Rude Warrior 58
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      • 977 8 / 9 RACE1 BANKERS CALL: Fractious in the barrier; jumped awkwardly; shifted out; checked near the 300m. CALIFORNIAN JET: Jumped awkwardly, bumping ICONNIC onto HONGCHEN when being carried outwards slightly by DRAGON BOBO. U GOT IT: Crowded; raced wide throughout, laid outwards making the turn into the
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      • 634 8 / 9 SUNDAY Stakes A 1400m 111-8- Monsili 57 (85) (6ag D Murphy-Kanthaka) -0-0-7 Tanha Strike 53 (74) (8ag S Cook-S Cook) *****5 Halo Inspire 53 (71) (5nzg PK Leong-Halo) ---082 Niceone 53 (70) (6nzg Edylyn Goh-Millennium) *****-Fox Command 52 (68) (8ag N Azman-Fox Chase) --0522 Drogba 52
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      • 1075 8 / 9 FRIDAY OB 67 (LC) 1200m 1-44 Von Krumm 57 (67) (4ag S Baertschiger-S Baertschiger) 3-1622 Red Dawn 56.5 (66) (3nzg S Baertschiger-Auric) *****9 Amazealot 56 (65) (5nzg S Yeoh-Tivic) 12-625 Black Fury 56 (65) (4ag T Kieser-RX) *****0 Chase 56 (65) (3ag M
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      • 1104 8 / 9 SUNDAY 3YO+ (LC) 1400m SG50 2743-1 Daniel 58 (100) (4nzg L Laxon-Oscar Racing) -***** Trudeau 56.5 (97) (7ag RB Marsh-Arexevan Racing) -987 Pachelbel’s Canon 55 (91) (4argg M Clements-Jubilant Racing) 6 Albany Reunion 55 (90) (5ag S Baertschiger-Watson B’stock Tim Connel) *****2 Gold
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    • 177 10 Reuters Australian bad boy Bernard Tomic has shrugged off his Miami arrest and banishment from the Davis Cup team to retain his ATP title in Bogota, Colombia. The world No. 25 was accused of hitting “rock bottom” by Tennis Australia’s high performance
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    • 739 10 Quintana and Froome set for more thrilling battles at Tour de France CYCLING AFP Many both in the peloton and watching from afar may have groaned when Chris Froome said he intended to ride on for another six to eight years, but not everyone is disappointed.
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    • 146 11 AFP Bill May teamed up with fellow American Christina Jones and made history on Sunday when they became the first world champions of a mixed synchronised swimming event. May and Jones scored 88.5108 points to defeat Russia’s Alexander Maltsev and Darina
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    • 492 11 Mercedes flop again despite Hamilton and Rosberg going from the front row FORMULA ONE Reuters For the second race in a row, it all went wrong at the start for Mercedes in Hungary, and a rule change coming in after next month’s break will give the
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    • 364 11 Reuters Katie Ledecky surprised a few people when she blew away the field to win the 800m freestyle at the 2012 London Games, becoming at the age of 15 the youngest winner of the longest event on the women’s Olympic schedule. The American (right)
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    • EPL
      • 154 12 / 13 PA Sport Louis van Gaal claimed that he was forced into signing Sergio Romero because of the uncertainty surrounding David de Gea, who could still leave Manchester United for Real Madrid, according to the Dutchman. Real want to sign de Gea, but United insist they
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      • Article, Illustration
        964 12 / 13 Van Gaal in the hunt for a player with speed and creativity PA Sport Louis van Gaal hailed Cristiano Ronaldo as a “fantastic player”, after admitting he is in the hunt for a marquee signing to boost Manchester United’s chances of challenging for the Champions League. Van Gaal
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      • 310 12 / 13 PA Sport Zlatan Ibrahimovic has backed Paris SaintGermain’s widely reported move for Manchester United’s Angel di Maria. The Sweden international (left) has played in the French capital for the last three years and would be keen to team up with di Maria
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      • 141 12 / 13 AFP Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal is poised to complete his switch from Juventus to Bayern Munich in the coming days, after flying to Bavaria yesterday for a medical. The 28-year-old posted a picture of himself and agent Fernando Felicevich on Twitter yesterday sat on a
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      • 798 14 / 15  -  Tall and talented youngster is ideal successor to Terry NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg Chelsea fans should take heart. Jose Mourinho is using Stones to hold down firm roots for the future. If the Blues buy Everton centre back John Stones, they will pull off one of
        PHOTOS: REUTERS, ACTION IMAGES/ALEX MORTON  -  798 words
      • 466 14 / 15 PA Sport Arsene Wenger has said Theo Walcott is likely to pen a new deal at Arsenal very soon and has backed him to score plenty of goals this season. Walcott, 26, netted the only goal of the game as *****- nal beat Wolfsburg 1-0 on
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    • 306 12 / 13  -  ALEXANDRIA SCHOON Throw the names Manchester United and Liverpool into any sort of clash and it looks as if it will capture the imagination of the huge fan base both clubs command. Nearly 80 per cent of tickets for The Castlewood Group Battle of
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    • 172 14 / 15 AFP Jason Day birdied the final three holes en route to a four-under 68 to capture the Canadian Open, holding off David Hearn and Bubba Watson in a finalround shoot-out yesterday morning (Singapore time). The 27-year-old Australian drained a 21-foot birdie putt
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    • 153 14 / 15 AFP American Lexi Thompson came from behind to earn her fifth career US LPGA Tour win yesterday morning (Singapore time), firing a six-under 65 for a one-shot victory in the Meijer Classic. Thompson, who finished third at the Women’s PGA Championship earlier this year, finished
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    • ON TV
      • 132 14 / 15 INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONS CUP Tomorrow: CHELSEA v BARCELONA StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 8am CLUB AMERICA v BENFICA StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 10am Thursday: MANCHESTER UNITED v PSG StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 9am REAL MADRID v AC MILAN StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 8pm
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      • 41 14 / 15 FINA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Today: OPEN WATER SWIMMING WOMEN’S 10KM StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 4.30pm DIVING WOMEN’s 1M SPRINGBOARD FINAL StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 7.30pm SYNCHRONISED SWIMMING PRELIMINARY TEAM FREE StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 10pm
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      • 14 14 / 15 GERMAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS Today: DAY 2 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 5.30pm
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      • 53 14 / 15 SALTIRE ENERGY PAUL LAWRIE MATCH PLAY Thursday: DAY1, SESSION 1 StarHub TV Ch 204 (SuperSports 4), 7.30pm DAY 1, SESSION 2 StarHub TV Ch 204 (SuperSports 4), 11pm QUICKEN LOANS NATIONAL Friday: DAY 1 StarHub TV Ch 204 (SuperSports 4), 2.30am UTAH CHAMPIONSHIP Friday: DAY1 StarHub TV Ch 204
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    • 94 6 This match is played on neutral ground. LW*: Telecast not available at Livewire(Singapore Pools) No person under the age of 18 years shall be allowed to purchase a ticket or to claim any prize LW: Livewire (MBS) Livewire (RWS) (21 years and above) Livewire (Singapore Pools) (21 years and above
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