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Horoscope: ASTROLOGY ZONE® by Susan Miller
Estimated population of Singapore citizens and permanent residents - 3,163,500 as at June 1998.
Chinese 77%
Malays 14%
Indians 7.6%
Other ethnic groups 1.4%
Working Language: English
Other official languages: Mandarin, Malay & Tamil.
Planners expect the population of Singapore to reach 5.5 million by 2040 or 2050, taking into account an expected increase in the number of foreigners working here. From just 3 million in 1990, the number has swelled to 3.9 million today, including 700,000 foreigners.
A high-level working committee is now looking at ways to encourage more couples to have babies. Demographer Saw Swee Hock says that if the fertility rate continues to stay below two, the population here, minus the foreigners, will peak at about 3.3 million in 2025 and then begin to drop.
Singapore's water is clean and safe to drink from the tap. There is no need to boil it.
The Editor
Raymond Han
You can e-mail him at editor@getforme.com
What's New on our website
Nanyang Technological University Vital Statistics for 2000
Food Stalls Suspended From Business
Speakers' Corner at Hong Lim Park
Pioneer Class of 2000: Singapore Management University
Abstract of Currency Notes & Coins In Circulation
Top Ten Books at POPULAR Bookstores
Top Ten Books at W.H.Smith Bookstore
Singapore Crime Situation for Jan - Jun 2000
CityLink: Singapore's First Subterranean Mall
Newly Registered Public Accountants
CPF Contribution Rates Over The Years
HDB Flats Built Over The Years
The WEATHER TODAY: Showers with thunder in the late morning and early afternoon. TOMORROW'S WEATHER Late morning and early afternoon showers with thunder can be expected for Sunday. WATER TIDES High tide 1.15am 3.1m 1.50pm 2.7m SUN Sunrise 7.01 am Sunset 7.09 pm MOON Moonrise 10.11am Moonset 10.32pm PSI: 51 (moderate) TEMPERATURE: 25-33 degrees Celsius (The weather is updated daily at 8am Singapore time) For more information, call Meteorological Service Singapore Tel: (65) 542 7788.
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HDB's Sale of 3-room flats under walk-in system
Housing & Development Board Walk-In Selection System (Sep 2000) ELIGIBILITY: Applicants must satisfy all the prevailing eligibility conditions to purchase a flat directly from HDB. Only first-timer applicants or 2-room second-timers with total household income (of all persons listed in the application form) not exceeding S$2,000 per month at the point of application, may apply to buy these 3-room flats. Please refer to the 3-room flat application form for details on eligibility conditions. APPLICATION FORM & FLAT LIST: The application forms and the S$10 administrative fee coupons are available at HDB Sales Office (at lst storey, Podium A, HDB Centre), HDB Branch Offices and the Post Offices. The details of flats available for sale are posted on the notice board at the Sales Office (at lst storey, Podium A, HDB Centre). APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applicants must personally submit their application form at Counter 1, Sales Office, Podium A, HDB Centre using the prescribed application form with a S$10 coupon. They must bring along all the documents listed in the application form. More... We received our 400,000th hit on 22 Aug 2000! |
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NEW WEBSITES AutoHub21.com is a new vehicle online auction website where you can sell your used car to dealers actively bidding for it. Presently, they have 18 dealers listed. A flat transaction fee of S$100 is charged upon successful sale during the promotional period from Aug - Dec 2000. BusinessTrends.com.sg is a recruitment website for job seekers and companies seeking employees. Olympics.com is the official website of the Sydney Olympics 2000. Officials predict a staggering total of 6.5 billion hits for the site. SeniorLifeClub.com is devoted to enriching the lives of seniors. It is the Internet arm of Senior Life, a bi-monthly magazine. TemptingCareers.com.sg is a career website that searches for a suitable "match" between their clients and candidates. It was established in 1993. Bikers Homepage fulfils all your motorcycling needs in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Info, rides, ads, links, tours, pics, hangouts, and much more. Today.com.sg is a search engine. Home-Club.com.sg is an online grocery shop launched on 23 Aug 2000. They deliver during working days but you can get free delivery with orders exceeding S$30. You can also return unsatisfactory goods within 7 days. BookNTravel.com is a travel website with bargain fares from the region (Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia & New Zealand). It is an e-commerce initiative of Chan Brothers. Eyeball.com.sg or the print version, a morning tabloid, Project Eyeball, is a new newspaper which hit the streets on 12 Aug 2000. Brought to you by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). one-99shop.com has gone online! This shop already has nine branches selling everything at S$1.99 each. Items range from crockery, utensils, confectionery, household accessories, artificial flowers to Hello Kitty stationery. wwlegal.com is a legal website which went online in late August 2000. It provides a one-stop centre for people to find lawyers. |
BANKmates: Get a Personal Assistant to do your errands in Singapore. SporesCity www.sporescity.com The Singaporean website community Set up your company's website here. More... We are now 1,215 pages thick and growing. Public Holidays DEEPAVALI is the next public holiday. It falls on Thursday 26 October 2000.
Madam Kang's Kitchen Message Board Singapore Cemetery Warren Message Board Registration for national service for all male Singaporeans and permanent residents born between 13 Dec 1982 and 12 Mar 1983 started on 31 Jul 2000 and ends on 29 Sep 2000. For those born between 13 Mar 1983 & 12 Jun 1983, registration starts on 2 Oct 2000 & ends on 24 Nov 2000. |
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New Banking Licence Issued: The Monetary Authority of Singapore has issued a banking licence to Hamburgische Landesbank - Girozentrale (Not. 2372 of 1 Sep 2000) New Society Registered: *Queensway Secondary School Alumni Association 121 Queensway Singapore 149059 Change of Name: *Tian Yun Peking Opera Society to Tian Yun Beijing Opera Society (21 Jul 2000) *Esso Singapore recreation Club to ExxonMobil Singapore Recreation Club (4 Aug 2000)
PEOPLE SEARCH: Let us flip through the phone book to help you find someone you wish to contact urgently. Email your request to peoplesearch@getforme.com.
The OG Building at People's Park, along with its overhead Bridge is being demolished from 30 Aug - 15 Sep 2000. |
GOVERNMENT MATTERS Singapore Government Website Police Ministry Of Education Consular Matters & Migrating (known as permanent residency) Setting up a business? Do a free Name Search first to see whether the name you want is available. Click RCB.
Current issues affecting
our community: Scholarship Bond-Breakers Debate School Discipline: Put the cane in our teachers' hands |
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EscapeArtist.Com The website on overseas living for international job seekers and expatriates. ExpatSingapore For expatriates planning to relocate to Singapore. Provides excellent information on Singapore. ContactSingapore Step-by-step guide to applying for a job, flying into Singapore, getting an employment pass, and applying for visas for your spouse and children. Useful Services Relocating to Singapore?
International Guitar Festival 2000 from 31 Aug - 3 Sep 2000. Includes seminars and workshops. Creating an Original Musical - The Chang & Eng Experience 8 Sep 2000 The Courtyard, National Library at Stamford Rd 7pm Free Admission. Ekachai Uekrongtham and Ken Low, two of the creators of Chang & Eng, share the process of creating Singapore's longest running homegrown musical. Invisibility Rated P(G) and performed in English and Mandarin Presented by Drama Box Written by Quah Sy Ren Adapted & Directed by Sim Pern Yiau Performed by: Alvin Chiam, Caroline Fernandez, Zelda Tatiana Ng & Yeo Yann Yann 13 - 17 Sep 2000, 19 - 23 Sep 2000 8pm Lantern Festival 2000 31 Aug - 13 Sep 2000 Chinese Garden 9am - 10pm Over 3,000 lanterns from Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces in China are on display. Other attractions include cultural shows and a food fair. Tickets at the door: S$7 (adult) & S$4 (child) See Entertainment for more information on local happenings! |
5 and still counting That's the number of MediaCorp Studios artistes so far to have resigned to cross over to rival MediaWorks set up by the SPH group. TOURISTS To get free copies of brochures on Singapore, including Singapore Official Guide, please click HERE. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Low Lying Areas In Singapore Lists the flood-prone areas in Singapore. Things you should know Tells you things you need to be aware of - disasters, drowning cases, Hotel New World...
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The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week
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Saturday 2 Sep 2000
STREATS, the 12th newspaper from media group Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is being launched today from 2pm to 6pm at the Shaw House amphitheatre at Orchard Rd.
The Manchester United Store in Singapore, the first outside the United Kingdom, opens today at the corner of Orchard and Tanglin Roads.
A burglar who raped two of his victims, forced the third to perform oral sex on him and molested the fourth between October last year and February this year was yesterday jailed for 30 years and given the maximum 24 strokes of the cane. Adrian Chew Eng Hin, 23, had started as a burglar when he broke into flats around his neighbourhood in Ang Mo Kio. He started his sex attacks on 22 Oct 1999 when he molested a 27-year-old lounge hostess who came home unexpectedly.
A woman who has been jailed before for abusing her maid was sent to prison for another 12 months yesterday - for attacking a second maid with frying pans and assaulting her in other ways. Mhalaxmi Pechamoto Anthiraya, 31, was sentenced to six months' jail on each of two charges of abusing Miss Elmiyati, 20, an Indonesian maid at a maisonette in Jurong West St 81.
Singapore expects to see an all-time-high 7.6 million visitors this year. This would top the previous record of 7.29 million visitors in 1996. Buoyed by the region's economic recovery and support from the tourism industry, 706,318 visitors were recorded in July - the highest for any single month.
Delivery driver Lim Kian Heng, 40, yesterday became the first person to speak at the new Speakers' Corner on the first day it was opened. The second speaker was 38-year-old private bus driver Ong Chin Guan. From 7am to 7pm, more than 20 speakers came, speaking mainly in English or Mandarin, with smatterings of Hokkien and Teochew. They spoke on issues ranging from ministerial salaries to the baby-bonus measures to boost the fertility rate here, and even some municipal and personal concerns.
Asia
New Delhi: The newly appointed president of the right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Mr Bangaru Laxman, represents a break with tradition in a party so far led by the elite upper caste Hindu right wing. The appointment is a move towards the middle ground for the BJP whose meteoric rise to power has taken place in just a little over 10 years after 40 years of domination by the Congress party.
Hongkong: A 15-year-old autistic boy sent over the border wrongly by Hongkong immigration officers has prompted a frantic search involving 7,000 policemen across the entire Guangdong province after he was spotted in Dongguan, 130 km from here. Yu Man Hon has been missing since 21 Aug 200 after he ran away from his mother at a Hongkong subway station. Assistant Immigration Director Tang Man Kit said the Immigration Department had set up an inquiry panel to look into how Man Hon crossed the border without officers' knowledge.
Beijing: China will adopt the use of lethal injections in execution cases across the nation as the system s said to be simpler, cheaper, more humane and less traumatic than execution by shooting. Research on substances for lethal injections, conducted since 1997, is almost complete, the state-run Xinhua News Agency said. China executed 1,876 people in 1997, more than the rest of the world combined, according to Amnesty International. Human rights groups also fear lethal injections might be used to aid what they suspect is a programme to harvest organs for transplant from executed prisoners. Officials deny using organs from executed criminals without their permission.
Around the world
Paris: Europe's love affair with the car costs tens of thousands of deaths from air pollution each year and carries an astronomical price, according to research published in the latest edition of The Lancet, the British medical weekly. Epidemiologists trawled through mortality statistics in Austria, France and Switzerland and compared them to documented evidence of chronic respiratory and heart problems and exposure to airborne particles. They found that more than 40,000 deaths per year could be attributed to air pollution, equal to 6% of all mortalities.
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SINGAPORE SLING
30ml Gin
15ml Cherry Brandy
120ml Pineapple Juice
15ml Lime Juice
7.5ml Cointreau
7.5ml Dom Benedictine
10ml Grenadine
A dash of Angostura Bitters
Garnish with a slice of pineapple & cherry
The Singapore Sling was created by Raffles Hotel bartender Mr Ngiam Tong Boon.