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It's 3 days to the next millennium.

It's the 4th day of Christmas today!

Get for me: New Website for executive recruitment

If you are at your job and thinking about greener pastures, fret not. Help is available online at www.futurestep.com.sg. You can register your particulars with these chaps who will keep your information confidential and only make it available to prospective employers with your permission.

It is a sort of matchmaking process. On the one end, you get to sign up and tell them about yourselves and on the other end, based on information you provide them, futurestep will find suitable available positions with prospective employers for you to consider.

Examples of executive positions futurestep are currently filling are:

Business Banker; Vice President, Marketing; Area Vice President, Operations; Director of Interactive Design; Web Operations Director; Senior Managers, Merchandise Analysis; International Tax Counsel; Director, Customer Care and M&A Due Diligence Professionals.

Why not pay them a visit today? Who knows, this could just be the break you are looking for.

getforme their website: futurestep

Pacific Internet has revised its pricing for its plans.

Easy Access: previously S$9.95/mth now S$4.95 for 13 hours/mth

Easy Access Plus: previously S$24.95 for 32 hours/mth now S$19.95 for 40 hours/mth

Unlimited Access: previously S$100/mth now S$29.95/mth

Their hotline: 1800 872 1455 Their hotsite: www.pacific.net.sg

This website is updated daily between 12.00 am & 1.00 am Singapore time (+8 hours GMT).

Did You Know?

The Wesley Methodist Church in Fort Canning/Canning Rise was completed between 1907 and 1909 by the architect D.M. Craik. Additions and alterations were carried out in 1979 by Edwin Choo & Partners.

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News Flash Today, Tuesday 28 Dec 1999

In Singapore

A lawyer was beaten up at GV Plaza in Plaza Singapura after he ticked off a cinema patron who was talking loudly on his mobile phone during the show.

'Ah Long San' jailed for eighteen months for bribing a cop.

Asia

Kandahar, Afghanistan: Hijack drama- Indian team arrives for talks.

Ambon, Indonesia: 38 killed over Ambon bus incident in which a bus driven by a Christian hit a 14-year-old Muslim pedestrian.

Around the world

Paris: The gales, among the worst in living memory, disrupted rail services, blocked roads and closed both Paris airports for several hours on Sunday. Up to 28 deaths were reported in France. About 200 people were injured.

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

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