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The weather TODAY: Generally fair in the morning, becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon. High tide 6.00 am 2.5m 5.50 pm 2.3 m Sunrise 7.00 am Sunset 7.02 pm Moonrise 2.08 pm Moonset 1.42 am PSI: 38 (good) Temp: 24-33 degrees Celsius

This is the new Tangs Studio on the second level of Centrepoint at Orchard Road. Many of you may recall Tangs Studio closed its store at Ngee Ann City after sustaining massive losses. It opened a shoe store, located opposite to this new store and loyal shoppers flocked to it.

I know many of you out there miss this store; my wife sure does. Now, we welcome the bigger Tangs Studio which takes up about 5000 sq ft of shopping space.

Don't forget to visit the store when you hop into Singapore.

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The Thong Chai Medical Institution in Wayand Street was completed in 1892. It was gazetted a national monument in 1973. It underwent restoration from 1974 to 1979 by Pan-Malaysian Group Architects and Lee Sian Teck.

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News Flash Today, Friday 17 Dec 1999

In Singapore

The NUS curriculum committee is studying the feasibility of letting students who enter four faculties undergo a common first-year curriculum and then choose their degree course at the end of the academic year.

A seven-year-old boy died in hospital on Wednesday after being found at the bottom of a pool in Signature Park condominium in Jalan Jurong Kechil.

The govt will equip more schools with disabled-friendly facilities to enable physically disabled children and those who are hearing impaired or blind to study in national schools.

A lorry driver died on Wednesday after he rammed his lorry into the back of another lorry which was said to have stopped at the road shoulder along the Tampines Expressway (TPE).

Asia

Jakarta: Parliament rejects Aceh referendum.

Sydney: Australia is considering banning its fledgling internet gambling operations in an effort to reduce 'problem gambling' which affects about 1.5 million people through suicide, divorce, bankruptcy and time off work.

New Delhi: Three senior airport staff suspended after girl's Delhi airport death.

Around the world

Beijing: The United States yesterday agreed to pay China US$28 million in compensation for the Nato bombing of the Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia.

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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