The New Paper, 29 December 2015

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    • 28 1 ’Keeper Izwan signs for Tampines Rovers ›S16 SON’S PLEAS SPUR DRUG OFFENDER TO ACE N LEVELS IN JAIL School of heart knocks ›2 tnp photo: phylliCia wanG 8"*****1"*****1
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    • 57 1 0 photo: shin Min Daily nEws CLAN’S AGM TURNS VIOLENT Woman bites guard in scuffle, say witnesses ›6 OOPS, ZIANA Veteran singer recalls how she sent mic flying ›8 Chef carves fish from logs at home ›14 photo: yoUtUBE sCREEnGRaB tnp photo: Jonathan Choo RICHARD BUXTON ON WATFORD 1 TOTTENHAM
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  • news
    • 242 2 / 3 Science lab stools are chained to the ground so they cannot be thrown. Items like scissors are locked away when not in use. Welcome to the Tanah Merah Prison School, where selected inmates get a shot at education. The idea for the school came from former
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    • 857 2 / 3  -  Malay for father The memory of his son calling out to him as he was arrested spurs inmate to turn over a new leaf, motivating him to take N levels Reports by FOO JIE YING fjieying@sph.com.sg It is his sixth spell in prison and this time, he
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    • 516 2 / 3 Two years ago, he watched as police officers handcuffed his father and led him away for drug offences. Yet Adi, nine, never once thought any lesser of his father, Ahmad, 40. Instead, Adi continues to tell his aunt, Zila: “He’s my hero.”
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    • 151 4 Online payment services on the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board’s website were down yesterday, leaving members unable to transfer money from their bank accounts into their CPF accounts. This comes just a week after the CPF Board managed to fully restore all online services
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    • 274 4 A task force set up by the Ministry of Health (MOH) has identified four ways to help healthcare institutions better respond to unusual infections like the hepatitis C outbreak at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) earlier this year. They are: reviewing standard operating procedures, making
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    • 264 4 40-year-old held in Yishun cat abuse saga A 40-year-old man, believed to be involved in a series of cat abuse cases in Yishun since September, has been arrested by the police. He will be charged in court by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA)
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    • 52 4 PEEL GOOD STORY: Gardening enthusiast Tan Gui Ping has a banana tree growing in a pot outside her second-storey flat in Block 232A, Serangoon Avenue 2. Miss Tan, 39, who is in the marketing industry, told Lianhe Wanbao that she planted the tree a year ago and now it has
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    • 159 4 The $320 million Yishun Community Hospital opened yesterday. The 428-bed hospital, which offers rehabilitative, sub-acute, dementia and palliative care, is opening in phases and will start with five subsidised wards, or 170 beds. Outpatient facilities such as the Day Rehabilitation Centre will open in the
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    • 141 4 Wires South Korea and Japan reached a landmark agreement yesterday on the issue of wartime sex slaves, with Japan offering millions in compensation. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe “expresses his feeling of heartfelt apology and remorse to all those who, as ‘comfort women’,
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    • 890 5  -  Witness in Norwegian’s retrial for assault says cabby struck first Reports by NG JUN SEN ngjunsen@sph.com.sg They wanted to seek justice for Arne Corneliussen, the Norwayborn Singapore permanent resident who had been jailed for assaulting a cabby. The two friends, Mr Mohamed
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      569 6 Security guard hurt in scuffle at clan meeting It began with a walkout and ended with a scuffle where a female security guard was bitten on the arm. The quarrel was over voting rights at the Hainan Tan Clan Association’s annual general meeting yesterday. The police were called
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    • 162 7 The Johor state’s clampdown on electronic cigarettes, or vaping, has hit a snag. According to The Malay Mail, a group representing some 1,000 traders filed a lawsuit in the High Court yesterday over alleged unlawful raids on the state’s vape shops. Ther are
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    • 360 7 Johor Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar (right) urges M’sians to improve their English The standard of English among Malaysians is falling and measures have to be taken to stop the deterioration, said Johor Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar. In an interview with The Star yesterday, he said: “English is in danger
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    • 162 7 The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has interviewed the mystery donor behind the RM2.6 billion (S$852 million) deposit into the personal bank account of Prime Minister Najib Razak (above). However, the anti-graft agency said it will not reveal the identity of the donor. MACC
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    • Article, Illustration
      795 8  -  M’sian singer Ziana Zain explains why the microphone flew out of her hand at a recent show Report by NOOR ASHIKIN ABDUL RAHMAN ashikinr@sph.com.sg Even with over 25 years of showbiz experience under her belt, veteran singer Ziana Zain hasn’t been spared the blushes. Looking back on her
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    • 165 9 More than 250 cartons of contraband cigarettes were seized at the Woodlands Checkpoint on Sunday morning. A 25-year-old Malaysian driver, who was trying to enter Singapore, had requested to make a U-turn back to Malaysia at the arrival forward check area. He told
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    • 344 9  -  Report by ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg He behaved more like a thug than the director of a legitimate debt collection business. Tan Kian Tiong (right), 49, was yesterday fined $5,000 for harassing a Korean restaurant worker at Goldhill Centre in Thomson Road
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    • 511 11 Girl, 8, who survived arson attack gets special gift from famous well-wishers An eight-year-old arson victim, whose wish for holiday cards went viral, now has one more special one to add to her collection of more than one million cards this season. New Yorker
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    • 234 11 The head of an urban enforcement agency in Shenzhen where a huge landslide left scores of people missing killed himself on Sunday, authorities said yesterday. Mr Xu Yuan’an, head of the City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau for Shenzhen’s Guangming New District, jumped
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    • 144 12 l The animal is skinned using equipment such as scalpel, tweezer and shears. This process takes about four hours. l The skin is soaked in vegetable tanning agents to convert it to leather. Depending on the size of the animal, it can take up to
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    • 530 12  -  More pet owners turning to taxidermists to preserve their dogs, cats and tortises Reports by SITI NUR AISHA OMAR omarsiti@sph.com.sg For pet lovers, one of their ultimate wishes is that their pets to be with them forever. And thanks to Mr Ken Mar, that is now a
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    • 134 13 The monthly Pedestrian Night at Orchard Road, where the public can take part in activities along a closed stretch of the popular shopping strip, will return this Saturday From 6pm to 11pm, Orchard Road (between Scotts Road and Bideford Road) and the
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    • 413 13  -  Coroner’s inquiry into death of rag-and-bone man Reports by ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF zaihan@sph.com.sg Did he lose his mind? Or was it revenge that drove rag-and-bone man Tan Ban Huat, 57, to go on a chopper-and-knife attack against two neighbours from Block 4, Marsiling Road?
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    • 155 13 While Tan had few friends, he named a Malaysian, Mr Lim Hwa Huk, as the sole beneficiary of his CPF money. Central Provident Fund records showed that Tan had not made any contribution to his account in the last 15 months. Mr Lim, 59, later
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    • Article, Illustration
      226 13 At about 3.40pm on Jan 26, Tan Ban Huat slashed neighbour A. Majid Maarof with a chopper as he was fixing his bicycle’s handlebar outside his thirdstorey flat. Mr Majid’s wife, who heard shouts outside her flat, saw her husband bleeding from cuts to his right ear
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    • 591 14 / 15  -  With chainsaw sander, chefs carves logs into fish sculptures REPORT PHOTOS By JONATHAN CHOO jonathan@sph.com.sg Imagine lugging massive chunks of a log into your house. Some of these pieces are so heavy, they can crack floor tiles, even when laid down with care. To chef
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    • 142 16 A man who blew up a condom machine in an attempted robbery died after he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal. The 29-year-old unnamed suspect died on Christmas Day in Germany, Reuters reported police as saying yesterday. The man reportedly
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    • 472 16 Mother of four on welfare builds empire by keeping clients out of jail Ms Michelle Esquenazi tosses her mane of flaming red curls, kicks her feet clad in five-inch stilettos onto her desk and hollers for her assistant. Meet the Bail Bond Queen, a
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    • 198 16 The new Star Wars has become the fastest movie to pass the US$1 billion (S$1.4 billion) mark in global box office sales, AFP reported yesterday. Twelve days after it first hit the screens, The Force Awakens has posted US$545 million in
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    • 207 17 Lee Seow Peng is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl three days after meeting her through a mobile phone messaging app. The crane operator, now 39, got in touch with the then-Secondary 1 student online on May 26, 2012, using Lucifer as his moniker. They met three
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    • 435 17  -  Man on trial for raping girl, 12 Report by SHAFFIQ ALKHATIB ashaffiq@sph.com.sg He is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl at their first meeting after having exchanged text messages over the phone. But crane operator Lee Seow
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    • 2015: A LOOK BACK
      • 342 18 / 19 As 2015 comes to a close, The New Paper looks back at the top stories from our pages and offers a glimpse behind the scenes People in Singapore were privy to some upsetting news on Oct 6. That was when the Singapore General Hospital (SGH)
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      • 131 18 / 19 On Oct 8, national para-athlete and motivational speaker Adam Kamis (right) was accused of procuring women for prostitution. Days later, he was charged with five more counts of procuring women for prostitution and two weeks later, he was hit with four more vice charges, bringing
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      • 141 18 / 19 A freak lift accident on Oct 9 left Jurong resident Khoo Bee Hua with a severed left hand. Madam Khoo, 85, had been trying to stop the lift doors at Block 322 Tah Chin Road from closing before her dog, which was on a
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      • 184 18 / 19 Belgian Philippe Marcel Guy Graffart (right, in black shirt) was accused of murdering his five-year-old son between 8.55pm on Oct 5 and 5.40am the next day. The act was believed to have taken place at Graffart’s 32nd-storey home at 3, Leedon Heights. In the early
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      • 150 18 / 19 An accident involving a trailer, a prime mover and a tipper truck on the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) near the Jurong Town Hall exit on Oct 13 left a trailer driver trapped in his seat. The accident crushed the front cabin of the
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  • 283 22  -  By Lavania Subramaniam lavanias@sph.com.sg Christmas lunches and dinners are over and there may be some leftovers from your delicious festive feasts. Instead of wasting edible food by binning them, why not exercise some creativity and turn them into tantalising treats? Mr John Sawarto, a chef
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  • 647 25  -  NIE to extend course for degree holders from 12 to 16 months, in efforts to raise standards By SANDRA DAVIE To help teachers better respond to the changing needs of education, the National Institute of Education (NIE) will extend its one-year training programme
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  • 348 26  -  Study also shows more internships will help sector to attract new blood By AW CHENG WEI Human resource professionals are constantly telling their colleagues about upgrading and training but now a new study is telling them to hone their skills as
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    • 45 1 TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 2015 16-page pullout LEADING LIGHT LEICESTER CITY v MAN CITY Move aside David Silva and Sergio aguero, Kevin de Bruyne is City’s new talisman ›S6 the highS anD lowS of S’pore footBall in 2015 anD the BeSt way forwarD ›S12-15 PHOTO: AFP
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  • sports
    • 151 2 / 3 PA Sport Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp will not rush Daniel Sturridge back from injury despite the striker stating he is ready to play. Sturridge missed most of last season with thigh and calf injuries which ultimately led to a hip operation. He was sidelined
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    • EPL
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        30 2 / 3 ›Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher: Not many agree with my last tweet Spurs have a chance of PL! Best defence, only lost twice keeper, CB’s Striker very good!!
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      • 783 2 / 3  -  Tottenham far from their best but hard-fought win shows their hunger for title RICHARD BUXTON npsports@sph.com.sg WATFORD 1 (Odion Ighalo 41) TOTTENHAM 2 (Erik Lamela 17, Son Heung Min 90) Tottenham Hotspur’s fortune continue to conjure a colloquialism all of its own. In an English Premier
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        75 2 / 3 WATFORD SUBS: Behrami for Abdi, 46 Prodl for Britos, 60 Nyom for Jurado, 68 TOTTENHAM SUBS: Eriksen for Dembele, 45 Son for Carroll, 68 Chadli for Alli, 81 2 Offside 1 11 Fouls 13 5 Corners 3 5 Dribbles 11 15 Tackles 12 9 Total Shots 10 1
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      • 42 2 / 3 MOVERS SHAKERS TROY DEENEY HARRY KANE 27 Age 22 1.80m Height 1.83m 76kg Weight 65kg 40% Pass Accuracy 67% 5 Aerials Won 1 57 Touches 49 0 Fouls 1 3 Shots 3 1 Dribbles Won 4 1 Tackles 1 7.8 Rating 7.8
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      • 128 4 WEST BROM 1 (Fletcher 78) NEWCASTLE UNITED 0 Karl Darlow’s debut disaster plunged Newcastle into further relegation trouble as West Brom triumphed at The Hawthorns. The keeper allowed Darren Fletcher’s header to squeeze past him on his English Premier League debut to hand
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      • 581 4 Arnautovic penalty seals thrilling win for Potters EVERTON 3 (Lukaku 22, 64, Deulofeu 71) STOKE CITY 4 (Shaqiri 16,45, Joselu 80, Arnautovic 90, pen) Marko Arnautovic notched a dramatic late winner from the penalty spot as Stoke beat Everton in a thriller at Goodison Park. The Potters
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      • 115 5 NORWICH 2 (Howson 24, Mbokani 87) ASTON VILLA 0 Norwich strengthened their hopes of English Premier League survival with victory over struggling Aston Villa. The vital win came through goals from Jonny Howson and Dieumerci Mbokani. When Villa’s deep defensive line left Nathan Redmond
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      • 531 5 Palace held after Bamford wastes chance CRYSTAL PALACE 0 SWANSEA CITY 0 Patrick Bamford wasted a point-blank chance to end his Crystal Palace drought as the Eagles played out a frustrating draw with Swansea. Chelsea loan striker Bamford blasted straight at a grateful Lukasz Fabianski,
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      • 173 6 / 7 PA Sport Jamie Vardy is expected to shrug off a virus to be fully fit to face Manchester City tomorrow morning (Singapore time). The Premier League’s 15-goal top scorer played despite being ill in Saturday’s 1-0 defeat by Liverpool and was taken off to preserve him for the
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      • 779 6 / 7  -  Belgian star holds all the aces in City’s attack this season GARY LIM garylim@sph.com.sg LEICESTER CITY v MAN CITY (Tomorrow, 3.45am, Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227) With a deft turn that resembled the Zinedine Zidane pirouette, and swiftly followed by a nutmeg on his
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      • 689 6 / 7 City boss expects Leicester to last the pace in title race PA Sport Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini is convinced Leicester have what it takes to stay the course in the title race. Pellegrini has warned his players they must approach tomorrow morning’s (Singapore time)
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    • racing
      • 158 8 / 9 Richard Lines, who trained last Sunday’s Malaysian Group 1 Yang Di Pertua Negeri Gold Cup winner Bright Life, won his champion trainer’s title for the fifth consecutive season, saddling 47 winners. The Englishman (right) was 10 winners clear of Australian Frank Maynard.
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      • 1227 8 / 9 FRIDAY SG3 1900m New Year Cup *****5 Quechua 58 (107) (5argg P Shaw-Avengers) *****1 Cooptado 54.5 (100) (5argg P Shaw-Red) 42-556 Emperor’s Banquet51.5 (94) (6ag P Shaw-Tmen) *****7 Wild Geese 51 (93) (7eg S Burridge-Hippocrates) *****5 Bourbon Goldman 50* (89) (6nzg RB Marsh-Ong Boon San)
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      • 446 8 / 9 FRIDAY C5 1100m 0-0-00 Costner 59 (42) (4nzg N Azman-YY Chen) 8-0-00 Dragon Knight 59 (42) (6ag Evelyn Seet-Loong Yip) 321-44 Hennessy Dragon 58.5 (41) (8amg S Shanmugam-KW Ngooi) *****5 Yes Club 58.5 (41) (9ag D Murphy-Kanthaka) -***** Alien 57 .5 (39) (7ag PS Kumaran-Mdm SH
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    • 818 10 / 11 Golfing world waits to see if former world No. 1 will return to action GOLF AFP Tiger Woods celebrates his 40th birthday tomorrow with huge question marks hanging over his golf career. The former world No. 1 is still recovering from a third
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    • 175 10 / 11 AFP MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES 112 LA LAKERS 96 The Memphis Grizzlies snapped a two-game skid with a 112-96 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers yesterday morning (Singapore time). The Lakers went into the game allowing a league-worst 107.2 points per game and could do little
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    • 518 10 / 11  -  SA chief Tang says stadium in north is ‘best alternative’ after National Stadium Report by SAZALI ABDUL AZIZ msazali@sph.com.sg The Asia Masters Athletics Championships will head for the heartlands come May. The biennial competition will be hosted in Singapore for the first time in 24
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    • FOOTBALL
      • 899 12 / 13  -  Moving forward, experts say S.League must be rebranded and revitalised, youth development revamped Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg There have been some highs and lows for Singapore football this year, but the local fraternity is brimming with optimism as it looks ahead to next year. The positivity
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      • 620 12 / 13  -  It’s a question of leadership and YOU, the fan SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg COMMENT It is not rocket science. That phrase rears its cliched head all too often in conversations with football folks, when problems are discussed and solutions offered. What is the best
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      • 148 14 / 15 Wire Services Barcelona star Neymar has confirmed that Manchester City are interested in signing him. The 23-year-old is negotiating a new contract at the Nou Camp but his father Neymar Santos Snr recently cast doubt over his future at the club over tax issues. Neymar’s
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      • 85 14 / 15 AFP Barcelona and their star Lionel Messi were awarded the best team and player at the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai on Sunday. Messi said at the ceremony: “It’s very nice to receive these awards, but I always say that the team makes it possible. It’s
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      • 1274 14 / 15  - SWAGGER STAGGER A review of S’pore football in 2015 two historic moments, but more lows than highs Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg The result stunned not only Singapore but also the rest of Asia. With icons V Sundramoorthy and Fandi Ahmad on the sidelines, Izwan Mahbud and his brave Lions
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      • ON TV
        • 223 14 / 15 ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE Tomorrow: LEICESTER v MAN CITY Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium HD), 3.45am Thursday: SUNDERLAND v LIVERPOOL Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227 (mio Stadium HD), 3.45am Saturday: WEST HAM v LIVERPOOL Singtel TV Ch 102 StarHub TV Ch 227
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        • 67 14 / 15 NBA Today: PHOENIX SUNS v CLEVELAND CAVALIERS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 10am Tomorrow: HOUSTON ROCKETS v ATLANTA HAWKS StarHub TV Ch 202 (SuperSports 2), 9am OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER v MILWAUKEE BUCKS StarHub TV Ch 216 (NBA TV), 9am Thursday: CHARLOTTE HORNETS v LA CLIPPERS StarHub TV Ch
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        • 12 14 / 15 COPENHAGEN MASTERS Today: FINALS StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 12.30am
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        • 18 14 / 15 MUBADALA WORLD TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP Thursday: DAY1, SESSION 1 2 StarHub TV Ch 201 (SuperSports 1), 8pm, 11pm
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    • Article, Illustration
      626 16  -  Goalkeeper joins eight other members from LionsXII’s Class of 2013 under Sundram S.LEAGUE Report by SHAMIR OSMAN shamiro@sph.com.sg They were a fit and disciplined unit that were nigh impossible to break down as they stormed to the 2013 Malaysian Super League (MSL) title under the guidance of
      right and top) gives the Stags a solid spine. PHOTOS: PHYLLICIA WANG, COURTESY OF TAMPINES ROVERS  -  626 words





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