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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.
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The WEATHER TODAY: Slightly hazy. Showers with thunder are expected in the late morning and early afternoon mainly over northern, eastern and southern Singapore. TOMORROW'S WEATHER With the present south-easterlies, showers with thunder are likely to be confined in the late morning and early afternoon for Monday. WATER TIDES High tide 2.01am 2.9m 2.22pm 2.6m SUN Sunrise 7.00 am Sunset 7.08 pm MOON Moonrise 10.59am Moonset 11.19pm PSI: 54 (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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Sunday 3 Sep 2000 The sale of the special-edition copies of Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs, Volume 2, has raised S$2 million in donations for three endowment funds supporting education and training. Three-quarters of the proceeds, or S$1.5 million, will go into setting up a new scholarship: the Lee Kuan Yew Scholarships to Encourage Upgrading or the LKY Step Awards. Cybercrime is on the rise in Singapore. The number of cases in the first six months of this year is already about two-thirds those committed over the whole of last year. The Head of the CID's Computer Forensic Branch, Assistant Supt. of Police Wilfred Adrian Nathan pointed out that between January and June, 127 computer crimes were reported. They include three incidents of computer hacking, which he said the police were still investigating. Using other people's e-mail accounts and computer passwords without their permission made up the bulk of the cases so far. Last year, there were 13 hacking cases. For the whole of 1999, there were 185 cases of computer crime. In 1997, there were only 39 cases. A secondary one schoolboy is in a coma at Tan Tock Seng Hospital after he was hit by a taxi on Friday night. Mohamed Shaiful Samsudin, 13, was crossing the road on inline skates when he was hit at the junction of Pasir Ris Drive 4. A police officer with the Secret Societies Branch was yesterday jailed for six months for accepting a S$2,000 bribe from an alleged money-lender. He was also ordered to pay a S$1,700 fine. Pandiyan Thanaraju Rogers, 47, a staff sergeant with 29 years of service, was found guilty of taking the money in exchange for giving police help to Mr Manjit Singh in April 1994. Asia Chiang Mai, Thailand: Police have arrested a high-living Chinese couple who are suspected of defrauding a state-run bank in China of US$300 million (S$516 million). Chen Manxiong, 40, and his wife, Chen Quiyuan, 30, who are prime suspects in the bank scam in Guangdong, China 10 years ago, were arrested on Friday, said Police Colonel Montri Sampunnaon. They fled to Thailand five years ago. Around the world London: The heartbroken parents of Siamese twins Jodie and Mary are taking legal action to overturn a High Court ruling which would kill one of their babies. Mr & Mrs X, unnamed because of the deep anguish they are suffering, have been given permission to take their case to the Court of Appeal. London: Asylum seekers are trying to sneak into Britain by hitching death-defying rides aboard freight trains which roar at speeds up to 145 km per hour through the Channel Tunnel after leaving Brussels and Paris. Fifteen refugees, all of them injured, have been taken into police custody after jumping off speeding trains soon after they reached Britain. They are believed to have boarded the trains in Brussels. Washington: As motorists began taking to the highways on one of the busiest holiday weekends of the year in the United States, federal safety officials issued a rare warning about another 1.4 million Firestone tyres, saying that they could be even more dangerous than the 6.5 million tyres the company recalled last month.
News updated by 8.00 am daily. 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. |