The New Paper, 15 August 2015

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  • news
    • GE 2015
      • 351 2 / 3  -  Ronald Loh Political heavyweight Goh Chok Tong threw the gauntlet down last night when he announced he will stand “shoulder to shoulder” with his Marine Parade residents in the upcoming General Election (GE). Speculation had been rife since the 74-year-old posted on Facebook earlier
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      • 1227 2 / 3  -  DPM Teo slams WP over handling of town council Report by JENNIFER DHANARAJ djenn@sph.com.sg The gloves are off. Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean unleashed some of the sharpest verbal attacks in the election season so far when he took aim at the Worker’s Party
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      • 76 2 / 3 The Straits Times The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) has released a campaign song for the upcoming General Election. The song I Will Be The One—was written by party leader Chee Soon Juan and Mr Jufri Salim. The political party posted a video of the song on
        — The Straits Times  -  76 words
      • 148 2 / 3 There will be new rules in the balloting of rally sites to ensure that all parties in the General Election have more chances to use their preferred rally sites, on their preferred dates. The police said parties that have been allocated a site will have
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      • 76 2 / 3 Election campaigning activities and Seventh Month Festival events should be kept separate, the police said yesterday. Under the Public Order (Election Meetings) Regulations 2009, getai shows and other stage performances and entertainment are not allowed before, during or after rallies. The Seventh Month Festival started yesterday
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      • 55 4 NAME: Amrin Amin AGE: 36 OCCUPATION: Corporate lawyer WARD CONTESTING: Woodlands QUOTE: “Mine is an ordinary life blessed with extraordinary people in an exceptional country... There are very few places in this world today where a minority and a person of ordinary background can
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      • 87 4 National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan volunteered for the housing portfolio in GE2011 because it was a hot topic and he wanted to serve. But Mr Khaw said he spent “many hours” walking in Sembawang Park to de-stress and to think about solutions
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      • 116 4 There will be a new sports stadium and swimming pool, Mr Khaw told Sembawang residents during a “Kopi Chat” session yesterday. The meeting was held at the SWAMI Home in Sembawang after the MP for Sembawang GRC unveiled the PAP’s slate of candidates for the
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      • 463 4  -  PAP candidate Ong Ye Kung reappears in ‘safe’ GRC Report by FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg He was once tipped to be a potential minister. But Mr Ong Ye Kung, former Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and chief executive of the Singapore Workforce
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      • 254 4  -  Report by ELIZABETH LAW lawsm@sph.com.sg She decided to leave on a high. “I think I should leave at a time when I have produced results,” said Sembawang GRC MP Ellen Lee. The family lawyer confirmed yesterday that she would be stepping down
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    • 48 6 85.2% The percentage increase year on year for the month of June of sales of motor vehicles, according to figures from the Singapore Department of Statistics released yesterday. Overall, retail sales rose by 6.9 per cent over the same period, reported The Straits Times Online.
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    • 106 6 The number of services with persistent peak-period crowding has fallen by more than 90 per cent since the Bus Service Enhancement Programme started in September 2012, announced Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew yesterday. A bus is considered to be crowded when bus loading, including standing
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    • 91 6 Drinking a local brand of “organic orange juice” could give you a heart attack, stroke, loss of hearing or vision because it contains strong medicine used to treat erectile dysfunction, the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) warned yesterday. It found “undeclared potent chemical ingredients”
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    • 331 6 Singapore’s social and economic policies are long-term strategies that have been in place long before the 2011 General Election, said Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam yesterday. Mr Tharman was speaking at the SG50 Special Distinguished Lecture, organised by the
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    • 183 6 A DBS Bank senior service executive kept credit cards that customers had wanted cancelled, then used them to pay for drinks and hostesses at nightclubs. Stephen Choo Jianwei, 32, misappropriated them from six customers and chalked up $82,000 on them over a period of
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    • 91 6 Malaysia’s ringgit hit a record low against the Singapore dollar, after it slumped to a 17year low versus the US dollar. It fell to 2.9109 against the Singdollar as at 11.45am, reported The Straits Times. With the fall in oil prices increasing concerns over
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    • 71 6 OUTSTANDING: (From left to right) Mr Tan Kuan Hian, Miss Etsuko Lim, Mr Russell Ewe and Miss Clara Lim are this year’s recipients of the President’s Scholarship, which is awarded to outstanding young Singaporeans who are committed to public service. The President’s Scholarship Award Ceremony was held yesterday at the
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    • 1010 8 / 9  -  With the General Election expected next month, FOO JIE YING (fjieying@sph. com.sg) speaks to two retired politicians to get a flavour of Singapore’s first postindependence GE in 1968 FOO JIE YING (fjieying@sph. com.sg) speaks He once had to run away from dogs that were set
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    • 90 8 / 9 All 58 seats in Singapore’s first general elections after achieving independence were won by the People’s Action Party (PAP). Held on April 13,1968, only seven seats were contested by opposition parties two by the Workers’ Party and the rest by independent candidates. The pro-communist Barisan Sosialis had
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    • 611 10  -  Actress Rebecca Lim says ‘nip slip’ photo of her circulating online is fake Report by JOCELYN LEE jocelee@sph.com.sg Popular local actress Rebecca Lim says she did not have a wardrobe malfunction recently. Instead, she was the victim of a vile Photoshop prank. A doctored photo
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    • 151 11 A Briton who was barred from entering Singapore at Changi Airport punched an auxiliary police officer. Alan James Nairn, 54, an executive, was jailed for six weeks after pleading guilty yesterday. Nairn, who works in Jakarta, regularly flies here to renew his
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    • 374 11  -  Man jailed two months for criminal intimidation Report by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg He was a menace at the coffee shop he frequented for Tiger beer. While drinking, he would verbally abuse the staff, so that they called him “Tigerman” and refused to sell him alcohol in
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    • 279 11  -  Report by RONALD LOH rloh@sph.com.sg A lorry driver was fined $4,000 yesterday for not giving way to a motorcyclist which resulted in an accident that left the rider seriously hurt. A district court heard that Cho Kiang Lam, 64, was
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    • 787 12 / 13  -  TNP photojournalist takes 10 months and 8,200 Lego pieces to craft CBD model Report by HARIZ BAHARUDIN harizbah@sph.com.sg Brick by brick, he built a Lego version of our Central Business District (CBD). It took 10 months of planning and building and more than 8,200 Lego pieces, but
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    • 162 14 “Excessive political speculation” is one of the four reasons behind the ringgit’s slide against the US dollar, said Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak. He wrote on his blog on Thursday that “excessive political speculation” stirred sentiments against the government, reported The Star.
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    • 418 14 Uncertainty over search leaves relatives of MH370 victims hopeful but confused Ever since her father Andrew Nari’s disappearance, Miss Maira Elizabeth Nari, 19, has been sending notes to him on Twitter and Instagram, telling him she was waiting for him. Her father is the
      PHOTOS: AFP, MAIRA ELIZABETH NARI  -  418 words
    • 288 14 A Customs Department informant in Malaysia has claimed that he is making big money by being a snitch, reported Malaysian newspaper Harian Metro. “I once received a RM78,000 (S$27,000) reward for an assignment on an alcohol and cigarette smug­gling case,” he was
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    • 659 16 / 17 During aftermath of Tianjin blasts, one fireman sends message asking friend to take care of family A poignant WeChat conversation between a fireman who was fighting a massive fire and his friend has gone viral. The fire and two huge explosions killed at least 50
      PHOTOS: AFP, REUTERS  -  659 words
    • 158 18 A five-year-old girl in the UK died when her head got stuck in between lift doors at a house in Weymouth, Dorset on Thursday. Alexis Brown’s parents Matthew and Lorraine Brown had installed the lift for her disabled brother at the
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    • 400 18 London firm pays cash for unwanted secret stashes Once upon a time before the Internet, pornography fans collected magazines. Now, a London firm is helping people whose dead relatives leave collections behind to get rid of them discreetly, of course. Say your father has died and you
      PHOTO: AFP  -  400 words
    • 299 18 AFP A police union has been accused of shaming New York’s poorest and most vulnerable by commissioning and sharing online photographs of the city’s homeless. The Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA) had responded to rising homelessness by launching the “Peek-a-Boo, We See You Too!” campaign on photo-sharing
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    • 146 21 A handyman in the US state of Pennsylvania who protested a US$25 (S$35) parking ticket by trying to pay it with 2,500 pennies was denied the satisfaction. Under a federal law, which was repealed on Wednesday, pennies and nickels are not
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    • 463 21 ISPs pleased with court’s decision in withholding illegal downloaders’ details Australians who illegally downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club will not be asked to pay for the film just yet, after the Australian Federal Court yesterday decided not to release their names and addresses. The court
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    • 322 21 A Canadian and an Indonesian jailed for sexual abuse at an elite Jakarta international school walked free from prison yesterday to an emotional reception from supporters after unexpectedly being cleared. School administrator Neil Bantleman, who also holds British nationality, and Indonesian teaching assistant
      PHOTO: AFP  -  322 words
    • FASHBASH
      • 614 22 / 23  -  Whe e a e the fashi n highs and lows? Hollywood is g ing middle-of-the-road this week, says JEAN MARIE TAN JEANMARIE TAN I just roll out of bed and am basically in my pyjamas! I have to have those days, though. It’s Just too intense not
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    • 294 24 WWII 70th anniversary Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yesterday expressed “utmost grief” for the suffering his country had inflicted in World War II, but said that future generations should not have to keep apologising for past mistakes. Mr Abe, who was marking the 70th
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    • TV
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  • sports
    • EPL
      • 985 2 / 3  -  Our analyst tells GARY LIM why he ranks Man United, Arsenal and Chelsea over the Citizens in the title race DIETMAR HAMANN npsports@sph.com.sg *Dietmar Hamann has played for Bayern Munich, Newcastle, Liverpool and Manchester City. He won the Bundesliga in 1994 and 1997, and the treble
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      • 502 2 / 3 PA Sport Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini claims he will have no issue shaking Chelsea rival Jose Mourinho’s hand tomorrow. Pellegrini (right) acknowledges that the pair have had their differences, but does not want that to detract from their meeting at the Etihad Stadium. The
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      • 214 4 / 5 PA Sport Louis van Gaal has claimed David de Gea told one of his coaches he did not want to play for Manchester United in their first match of the season. For the second successive week, de Gea has not
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      • 752 4 / 5  -  With the new Fantastic Four movie sinking faster than Mario Balotelli’s career, our columnist has decided to give the flagging franchise a helping hand by comparing its comic book characters to key players in tomorrow’s Manchester City-Chelsea blockbuster NEIL HUMPHREYS npsports@sph.com.sg 1Johnny Storm is… Raheem
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      • 183 4 / 5 AFP Birmingham City’s jailed former owner Carson Yeung was freed on bail in Hong kong yesterday pending an appeal against his conviction for money laundering. Yeung, 55, was jailed for six years in March 2014 in a case that gripped the southern Chinese city
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      • 316 6 / 7 Wire Services Call Jose Mourinho the Special One in finding scapegoats. First-team doctor Eva Carneiro is not alone. From floodlights to fans to cows to referees, it has often been someone else’s fault in the mind of the Portuguese during his time at Chelsea, reported
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      • 778 6 / 7 Team doctor Carneiro and physio Fearn to sit out City game but could return in future PA Sport Chelsea club doctor Eva Carneiro may return to the bench in future, despite the furore of her banishment for tomorrow’s match with Manchester City, manager Jose Mourinho
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      • 343 6 / 7 Arsenal boss says ‘unity’ at a club is key to success PA Sport Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes, in the wake of the club doctor controversy at Chelsea, the rules are clear the referee decides if and when the medical staff comes on. Chelsea boss
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      • 159 8 AFP Aston Villa have signed 19-year-old winger Adama Traore from European champions Barcelona on a five-year contract, the two clubs announced yesterday. Barcelona said that Villa would pay an initial 10 million euros ($15.6m), potentially rising to 12m euros, and that the Catalan club would
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      • 420 8 But Spurs boss keen to bring in a striker to work alongside Kane AFP Mauricio Pochettino admits he still has work to do as the Tottenham manager reshapes his squad ahead of Stoke’s visit to White Hart Lane today. Pochettino’s side slumped to an underwhelming
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      • 404 8 PA Sport Stoke boss Mark Hughes has hit back at Stefan Effenberg’s criticism of Xherdan Shaqiri, stressing playing time rather than money was the winger’s key motivation in joining the Potters. Ex-Bayern Munich man Shaqiri completed his switch from Inter Milan to Stoke on Tuesday
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    • 171 9 PA Sport Everton’s latest quest to win the League Cup for the first time in their history will begin at Barnsley after the draw for the second round of the League Cup sent the Toffees to Oakwell. The Merseysiders, who have twice been
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    • 426 9 AFP Ronald Koeman returns to boost Southampton as the Dutchman makes a belated start to the Premier League season when his side host Everton tonight. Koeman was absent when Saints started their league campaign with a 2-2 draw at Newcastle last Sunday after undergoing Achilles tendon
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    • racing
      • 1867 10 / 11 COMMENTS COURTESY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS RACE 1 CAULFIELD (1,100M) 5SOOSA RAMA (13:4-1-0): Spelled after favourite but jumped awkwardly, got well back early and disappointed for a run when making plenty of late ground for ¾-len 4th (53.0) to Refer 1,400m C’field M Hcp
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      • 1324 10 / 11 12:05 Race 1 CAULFIELD—1100M 1 ESTONIAN PRINCESS K MC EVOY (11) 58 2 LOVED UP R BENSLEY (9) 54.5 3 DANESTROEM JYE MC NEIL (4) 54 4 KLISHINA G BOSS (12) 54 5 SOOSA RAMA C SCHOFIELD (7) 54 6
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      • 809 12 / 13  -  Freedmantrained winner denies Shaw of fourth Causeway Classic Stakes in six runnings CAUSEWAY CLASSIC STAKES Report by TAN THEAN LOON loon@sph.com.sg With the advantage as the bottomweight, SNITZEL SPIRIT passed his first test beyond 1,600m by lifting the $150,000 Group 3 Causeway Classic Stakes over
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      • 543 12 / 13 RACE 1 (CANBERRA) 1st 3 Southern Gamble ($19-$7) 2nd 2 Liam Da Torio ($20) 3rd 5 Phoebe Irene ($10) 4th 6 Refaeli Forecast $98 Place Forecast (2-3) $31, (3-5) $13, (2-5) $34 Tierce No winner ($3148 jackpot carried forward to next race) Trio $1294 Quartet $***** Quadro
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      • 1629 12 / 13 Race 1 C5 1700m 9 BECOME RICH 50 c 49.5 (89-24) R Rueven* (1) 3 4 1 (493) 11 WINNING SUCCESS 50 c 50.5 (152-36) B Parnham (6) 2 2 2 (520) Ns 3 READY FORTUNE 56 (14-8) M Nunes (2) 7 5
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      • 947 14 / 15 15-8-2015 (Saturday) p LAYi) Do illegally. Always play with care. Coupon Betting please mark “SIN” 12:00pm 1 Class 6 ₩25,000,000 sand1200m 1 4 Clean Up King 2-kor-c 1] Ham Wan Sik 17.7% 54 Seo In Seok 10.0% *****4 Sobakaninsaeng 3-kor-c 2] Jun Duck Yong 4.9% 55 Lim
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      • 270 14 / 15 NST PRINCE GONSKI wound up preparations for another success in the Class 4 event over 1,300m in Race 5 today with slow work in the sand ring at Sungei Besi yesterday. Taken out by a track rider, the six-year-old Australian-bred gelding by Gonski cantered several rounds in the
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      • 583 14 / 15 Race 1 Maiden Plate 1200M 12 RUSH IN 60 (23-8) Sandile Khathi (14) 1 1 MEMPHIS MAFIA 60 (14-6) Karl Zechner (4) 2 9 RAVE KING 60 (48-11) Andrew Fortune (12) 3 15 WAY PAST MIDNIGHT 60 (208-37) Robert Khathi (7) 4 Trainer: G Smith.
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      • 1832 14 / 15 GOING FORECAST:GOOD RACE 1 C5 2.15 —1400m (SC) Stakes: RM28,500 No. Last 6 runs HORSE Wt Rating Jockey Barrier (Age/Origin/Sex, trainer-owner) 1 *****0 All Wealth 59 (36) L Sofhan 1 (5nzg A Scott-Mdm SE Soo) 2 *****-Chinese Baby 59 (36) WH Lao 9 (4amg BT
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        820 16 / 17  -  GARY LIM BRIAN MILLER DAVID LEE BANKER Take Liverpool on the ½-Goal It wasn’t a pretty performance by Liverpool in their 1-0 win over Stoke last week, but it was a resilient one. Stoke on home turf are always going to be tough opponents, and Liverpool showed grit
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      • 1475 16 / 17  -  BRIAN MILLER brian@sph.com.sg TOTTENHAM v STOKE CITY Last season, Stoke took six points off Tottenham. That said, the guys from White Hart Lane have dominated this fixture, losing just five of their last 20 meetings and this one looks like it’s theirs for the taking.
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    • NETBALL WORLD CUP
      • 610 18 / 19  -  Charmaine and Co off target in loss to Zambia LIM SAY HENG sayheng@sph.com.sg POOL G SINGAPORE 36 ZAMBIA 67 REPORTING FROM SYDNEY A 50th international appearance is usually a special occasion for any athlete. But, for Singapore’s Charmaine Soh, her 50th international Test cap yesterday was
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      • 581 18 / 19  -  Kiwi star determined to avenge painful loss to Australia in final four years ago LIM SAY HENG She was part of the New Zealand Under-21 team that won the World Youth Cup in 2005, and made her debut for the Silver Ferns later that year. Ten
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    • 143 18 / 19 AFP World No. 1 Serena Williams continued her dominance over Germany’s Andrea Petkovic with a 6-3, 6-2 victory in the third round of the WTA Rogers Cup in Toronto yesterday morning (Singapore time). Top seed Williams hammered 28 winners and blasted nine aces to beat
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    • 516 18 / 19 Wire Services Jan O Jorgensen shattered Lin Dan’s dreams of a sixth world crown yesterday, defeating the Chinese badminton legend and booking a semi-final showdown against Malaysian superstar Lee Chong Wei in Jakarta. The Danish shuttler overpowered Lin 21-12, 21-15, just the third time in his
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    • GOLF
      • 108 20 / 21 Gavin Green of Malaysia fired a three-under 69 to open up a fiveshot lead after the third round of the RM200,000 ($72,000) PGM Northport Glenmarie Championship in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. The 21-year-old, who turned professional in June, totalled 16-under 200 to lead over Casey O’Toole, who
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      • 844 20 / 21 World’s top two provide treat despite being five shots off pace Reuters The “Rory and Jordan” show did not retain top billing by the end of the opening round of the US PGA Championship yesterday morning (Singapore time) but the fans certainly got what
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      • 361 20 / 21 Reuters Near-perfect greens and an advantageous tee time did not help Tiger Woods’ cause at the US PGA Championship yesterday morning (Singapore time) as the former world No. 1 struggled to a three-over 75 in the opening round. Having missed the cut in
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    • 154 20 / 21 AFP German sports giant adidas yesterday morning (Singapore time) agreed a sponsorship deal with NBA superstar James Harden which was reported to be worth US$200 million ($280m), in a major blow to heavyweight rivals Nike. The contract for the 25-year-old Houston Rockets star takes
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    • 98 22 / 23  -  DAVID LEE Albirex Niigata drew first blood in their RHB Singapore Cup quarter-final tie with Balestier Khalsa with a 1-0 first-leg victory at the Jurong East Stadium yesterday. Atsushi Kawata’s strike in firsthalf added time was enough to seal victory for the White Swans
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    • M’SIAN SUPER LEAGUE
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        748 22 / 23  -  Striker Amri fit to lead LionsXII’s charge for top-four finish Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Khairul Amri mixes entertainment and frustration in equal measure. The 30-year-old striker has scored spectacular goals in three Asean football championship final victories for Singapore, but has also suffered a catalogue of injuries.
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      • 393 22 / 23  -  Report by DAVID LEE davidlee@sph.com.sg Selangor coach Mehmet Durakovic has tipped his striker Afiq Azmi to be Malaysia’s next top striker. And for good reasons too. The 26-year-old wrote himself into local football folklore when he netted a nine-minute hattrick the fastest in Malaysian Super League
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    • ON TV
      • 276 22 / 23 DUTCH EREDIVISIE Tomorrow: AJAX AMSTERDAM v WILLEM II TILBURG Singtel TV Ch 116 StarHub TV Ch 210 (FOX Sports 3), 1.40am ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Today: SOUTHAMPTON v EVERTON Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium), 7.45pm TOTTENHAM v STOKE Singtel TV Ch 103 StarHub TV Ch
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      • 15 22 / 23 TOTAL BWF WORLD C’SHIPS Today: DAY 6 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 12pm
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      • 24 22 / 23 ROGERS CUP Tomorrow: MEN’S SEMI-FINALS StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 3am 8am WOMEN’S SEMI-FINALS StarHub TV Ch 203 (SuperSports 3), 1am 6.30am
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      • 36 22 / 23 US PGA CHAMPIONSHIP Tomorrow: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 209 Singtel TV Ch 115 (FOX Sports 2), 2am CAMBRIA PORTLAND CLASSIC Tomorrow: DAY 3 StarHub TV Ch 208 Singtel TV Ch 114 (FOX Sports), 4am
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    • LION CITY CUP
      • 771 24  -  Fandi’s son inspires comeback with perfect hat-trick against Liverpool U-15, but U-16 Cubs lose on penalties Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg SINGAPORE U-16 3 (Ikhsan Fandi 46, 52, 57) LIVERPOOL U-15 3 (Curtis Jones 3, Paul Glatzel 19, Neco Williams 34) Liverpool win 5-3 on penalties. They
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