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It's 4 days to the next Millennium.

It's the 3rd day of Christmas today!

Get for me: Monday with the Editor

Hallo everyone,

The Christmas Saturday holiday is just over in Singapore and this coming Saturday, we get to meet the New Year holiday. And the Saturday thereafter, on 8 Jan 2000, we also get to celebrate Hari Raya Puasa or the end of the one-month fasting period for Muslims. Three Saturdays of holidays, one after another. It's no wonder everyone is in a holiday mood. But, many also lament the waste of public holidays on Saturdays! Those who work half a day here in Singapore get only half a day's respite from work and those who work five-day weeks do not get anything at all.

Fret not, lest we tend to forget, let us remember that when we cross the finishing line for 1999, we are among the fortunate few who have managed to live to meet the next millennium (let's take year 2000 to be the next millennium and therefore skip the debate over the actual millennium). Having said that, I would like to suggest we all spend a solitary moment to ponder over the fragility of life. Each year, we get to say goodbye to the old year and hello to the next; after a while it is taken as a given. But, when we look around us and read about the untimely demise of others, we realise, albeit for a short time, time is finite and precious. So it is with much urgency that we should seize each day and live it to the fullest as if there is no tomorrow. Only then will we be able, when we have grown older, to look back and say "No regrets whatsover".

So it is my wish, on this last Monday before the next Millennium, to see everyone of us get through to the next Millennium safely. Please drink less liquor, at least for the next week, so we can all cross over together safely and happily.

Please have a very happy and prosperous New Year.

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News Flash Today, Monday 27 Dec 1999

In Singapore

Singaporeans should learn to rely more on themselves and less on the govt, said DPM BG Lee Hsien Loong when he spoke about his hopes for the new millennium.

A 27-year-old man was yesterday charged with killing his girlfriend in their rented flat in Jurong West Street 72.

A 27-year-old salesman died in a bike crash on his way to meet his girlfriend.

A couple who were on their way to a Christmas party on Saturday were involved in a crash which left the man injured and the woman dead.

Asia

New Delhi: Hijackers threaten to blow up plane.

Around the world

New York: TIME magazine has named Albert Einstein Person of the Century.

Washington: The FBI urged all Americans on Thursday to be on the lookout for potential mail bombs.

Brussels: Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg, one of Europe's longest serving monarchs, will abdicate in favour of his oldest son, Prince Henri, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has announced.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated before 8.00 am daily.

Millennium Swing

31 Dec 1999 to 1 Jan 2000 from 8.00 pm to 3.00 am at Orchard Road.

Be part of the biggest outdoor street party in Singapore. Be anywhere along Orchard Road starting from Forum The Shopping Mall to Le Meridien Hotel.

Other celebration venues:

National Stadium

NTUC Pasir Ris Resort

Suntec City

Serangoon Garden Circus