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The weather TODAY: Cloudy. Showers with thunder in the pre-dawn hours and morning High tide 9.07 am 2.6m 9.56 pm 2.5m Sunrise 6.54 am Sunset 6.56 pm Moonrise 4.02 am Moonset 4.21 pm PSI: 40 (good)

Get for me: Free Internet Surfing

Yes, you read it right! New kid on the block Starhub offers unlimited access to the internet from today onwards. That means no more registration charges, no more monthly subscription fees, no more excess hours charges and no limit to the number of hours spent on the net.

Sounds too good, doesn't it. Well, now for the fine print- you have to bear the local telephone charges. Usage of the customer help desk is charged at a rate of 30 cents a minute.

How do you join? Just visit their website and register. Fill in your personal particulars. By the way, they need your NRIC number too. Once you have registered, they will post to you a starter kit to be used to access the internet. Expect to wait a few days.

For those of you who want to know, Starhub will provide basic telephone services in Singapore next April when SingTel's monopoly ends.

getforme their website: StarHub

Get for me: NEW STYLE BANK WEBSITE

OVERSEAS UNION BANK is targeting web-surfers as well as its customers in its new-style website launched yesterday.

The makeover enables OUB to let web-surfers who are not customers of OUB to become users and customise the user page it so that news as well as the web-surfer's favourite links can be set up in the website.

OUB customers, in addition to being able to log on as users to make use of the new features, can also check their bank account balances, place a fixed deposit, transfer funds and even post-date their bill payments.

getforme their website: OUB2000

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Thomson Plaza in Upper Thomson Road was completed in 1979 by the architect Architects 61. It cost S$38 million then.

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News Flash Today, Saturday 4 Dec 1999

In Singapore

Some 719 people over 90 years old have sent in applications for millionaire Tan Chin Tuan's S$1000 gift. Send in your application before noon tomorrow.

77.2% of the 9632 Normal (Academic) students will go on to sit for the O levels next year. This is a 1.5% improvement over the number who qualified last year.

In Asia

Jakarta:That's my signature, says Gus Dur.

Hong Kong: The Court of Final Appeal yesterday overturned its own controversial judgement which gave right of abode to any child born on the mainland, before either parent became a HK resident.

Around the world

Seattle: President Clinton has signed an international treaty that seeks to ban the worst forms of child labour.

London: Internal organs may have been stripped from the bodies of hundreds of children who underwent post-mortems at a British hospital.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated before 8.00 am daily.

Christmas is just around the corner. Have you started shopping yet? For the benefit of those living overseas, we will post here over the next few weeks pictures of shopping centre facades decorated for X'mas.

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