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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.
Singapore's water is clean and safe to drink from the tap. There is no need to boil it.
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The weather TODAY: Showers with thunder over many areas in the late morning and afternoon. High tide 11.35 am 2.9m 11.52 pm 2.8m Sunrise 7.04 am Sunset 7.12 pm Moonrise 7.26 am Moonset 7.50 pm PSI: 32 (good) Temp: 23-31 degrees Celsius (updated daily at 6am Singapore time)
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Take a stroll down
to the Supreme Court. Click logo to enter 1QuestNet.com is a tie-up
between Registry of Companies and Businesses (RCB) and DP
Information Network (DP Info). It provides online searches, for
a fee, on companies and businesses in Singapore. A RCB instant
extract costs S$3.20 while an enhanced corporate search will set
you back by S$20.
Of course, if
all you want to know is whether such a business or company
operates in Singapore, you just need to access RCB own database
at NameSearch
for free. This is useful for those seeking to register a
new business name and want to know whether that name has already
been taken up.
The website
also lets you do a search on individuals to find out that
person's interests in companies, and litigation cases.
The launch of
this website is timely, for, if you have been reading the Forum
page of The Straits Times lately, you would have known that some
readers have written in to say the RCB had not kept up with the
times because it had not provided separate classifications for
the registration of Internet companies.
Click 1QuestNet.com to pay them a
visit. COMING SOON NEW
WEBSITES! Eyeball.com.sg
or the print version, a morning tabloid, Project Eyeball, is a new newspaper set to hit the streets and the cyber-highways
in the middle of the year. Coming to you from Singapore Press Holdings
(SPH). MPH Bookstore has gone online. It
has up to 2.5 million books for your
selection. Click MPHOnline.com
now. Singapore High Commission
in London has launched its website. GettingHere.com, which offers listings
of short-haul tour packages tour operators want to sell off
quickly, will be launched in Apr 2000. Click GettingHere.com for a
preview. New
AsiaBuilders.com to provide comprehensive listings and product
catalogues for the construction industry. To be launched end Apr 2000.
Click AsiaBuilders.com for a
preview.
We are now 401 pages thick and growing. New! The new
Cartier boutique has opened at
Ngee Ann City #01-33 & #02-04. Tel: (65) 734 2427.
New! The new Louis Vuitton shop
has opened at Ngee Ann City.
NEW: Subscribe to our Weekly Internet Edition
mailing list so that we can keep you informed of the latest
happenings in Singapore. To subscribe, click SINGAPORE.
GOVERNMENT MATTERS Singapore
Government Website Police
Ministry Of
Education Consular
Matters
BUILDINGS TO BE PULLED DOWN
The 17-storey
Cathay Building, which houses Cathay Cinema (opened on 3 Oct
1939), is to make way for a new 15-storey shopping-office-cinema
complex. It was completed in 1941.
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, getting an employment
pass, remuneration structure and corporate culture. Useful
Services Relocating to
Singapore?
TOURISTS 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.
1QuestNet.com for online company searches
The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week
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Today Wednesday 5 Apr 2000
In Singapore
A Raffles Institution schoolboy hacker was put on probation for 18 months yesterday and ordered to serve 200 hours of community service by the Juvenile Court. He had pleaded guilty in February 2000 to hacking into the Intranet server of Sparkmedia Pte Ltd and a Pacific Internet server on 3 Sep 2000.
A security camera was trained secretly on a Sin Ming Avenue apartment for three days by the Bishan-Toa Payoh Town Council after it had received complaints of littering by the flat's occupants. The camera was removed yesterday.
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has named Thomas Kloet as the new chief executive of the exchange. He is currently the senior managing director at ABN-Amro bank's Chicago offices.
Asia
Tokyo: The Cabinet has resigned and LDP secretary general Yoshiro Mori is set to be the Prime Minister.
Beijing: Chinese authorities have stepped up security for foreigners living in Jiangsu province following the brutal slaying of a German family. Three of the four confessed killers of the German family in the eastern province faced execution, a police official said yesterday.
Around the world
Miami: Cuban castaway Elian Gonzalez looks set to be reunited with his father as soon as this week after US officials announced they were negotiating on how to turn the boy over.
Courtesy of The Straits Times
News updated by 8.00 am daily.