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Get for me: Traditional Chinese Porcelain

Experience real craftsmen's work at MING VILLAGE.

At Ming Village, you will find the largest collection of hand-crafted and hand-painted quality Chinese porcelain conveniently housed in their 10 000 sq ft showroom.

Experience the vanishing art of traditional Chinese porcelain making processes like mould making, hand-throwing, glazing, hand-painting and firing. Every single piece is created by hand, thus no two pieces are identical.

Start your collection of real craftsmen's works ranging from plates, vases, teapots and cups, bowls, figurines to lampstands.

Free admission and guided tour. Open: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm.

Ming Village 32 Pandan Road Singapore 609279. Tel: (65) 265 7711 Fax: (65) 266 2465.

Get for me: New Books

ON SALE NOW AT LEADING BOOKSTORES

Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000

By Gretchen Liu

Price: S$61.70 (excludes shipping)

You may place your order with us at support@getforme.com.

The road shown on the front cover was Holloway Lane. It has recently gone the way of the Dodo and in its place is an open ground awaiting redevelopment. In the background is St Joseph's Church in Queen's Street.

The picture of the front cover of the book has been posted here with the kind permission of the publisher, Editions Didier Millet Singapore.

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Did You Know?

The Sultan Mosque in South Bridge Road was completed between 1924 and 1928 by the architect Swan & Maclaren.

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News Flash Today, Tuesday 4 January 2000

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In Singapore

STI blazes past 2 500 to new high.

NTU may set up medical school.

A police sergeant was yesterday cleared of two charges of corruptly getting a nightclub entertainment manager to buy him two bottles of Martell VSOP liquor and various other items.

Changes in ERP rates from Monday.

Man tries to hurl woman down 12 floors on New Year's Day.

Asia

Jakarta: 18 die in latest clash in Ambon.

Around the world

Edinburgh: A thousand Scottish volunteers have started sending samples of their sperm by post in little sterile, shock-proof and leak-proof vials as part of a fertility study being carried out in Edinburgh.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated before 8.00 am daily.