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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
The WEATHER TODAY: Showers with thunder expected in the late morning and afternoon over northern, eastern and central Singapore. WATER TIDES High tide 0.28am 3.0m 2.01pm 2.7m SUN Sunrise 6.59 am Sunset 7.07 pm MOON Moonrise 9.49am Moonset 10.22pm PSI: 53 (moderate) TEMPERATURE: 24-32 degrees Celsius (updated daily at 7am Singapore time)
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Take a stroll
with our photographer down
to the Singapore River. Click logo to enter The Braddell
Heights Symphony Orchestra presents their regular concert on
Tuesday, 9 May 2000 at the Victoria Concert Hall. Tickets for the
concert which starts at 8.00pm are available at S$10, S$15 &
S$20 at all SISTIC outlets. This concert features Debussy Prelude
a l'Apres-midi d' um Faune, Lalo Symphonie Espagnole and Borodin
Symphony No. 2. The Orchestra's musical director, Tan Yin Wing, is
the conductor with Masako Suzuki White playing the violin. The Orchestra so far has attracted
quite a cosmopolitan group of players and members who share a love
for classical music. Besides Singaporeans ranging from students to
professionals, it also has members of the expatriate community
from Japan, China, England, USA, Holland, Switzerland,
Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, India and Malaysia. The booking office is Just A Click
Away at SISTIC. NEW WEBSITES efrenchkiss.com.sg
is an online lingerie boutique started by two friends, Gina Toh
& Laura Lee. Biz-Calendar.com
is a personal e-organiser, scheduler, reminder (through phone
& pager), and Unified Messaging Service (UMS). You can
download real-time web pages to fax machines. It also has
English & Chinese email readers. AF2000
is Temasek Polytechnic's 3rd international Singapore Animation
Fiesta 2000 website. The festival runs from 9 - 11 June 2000 at
SICEC Suntec City. asianparenting.com was
launched on 2 May 2000. It addresses the concerns of Asian parents
and has articles dealing with family planning, pregnancy, birth
issues and childcare matters. It also has an ovulation
calculator, gender predictor and name finder for new parents. Moms4moms.org
is a website on mums for mums by mums. bowtieAsia.com
dedicates itself to linking e-angels to promising Internet &
Infocomm Start-Up Companies. 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). GettingHere.com, which offers listings
of short-haul tour packages tour operators want to sell off
quickly, will be launched on 17 May 2000. Click GettingHere.com for a
preview. BANKmates: Get a Personal Assistant to do your errands in
Singapore.
SporesCity
The Singaporean website community Set up your company's
website here. More... We are now 520 pages thick and growing. New!
The new
Cartier boutique has opened at
Ngee Ann City #01-33 & #02-04. Tel: (65) 734 2427. Renamed! The Lasalle International Design School is now
Raffles Lasalle International Design School. GOVERNMENT
SNIPPETS Singapore High Commission
in London has launched its website.
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 & 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.
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?
The Singapore Jewellers' Association (SJA) has advised tourists to
buy jewellery from retailers accredited with the Singapore
Jewellers' Association or who carry the Jeweller Trust or Case
Trust logo. Its announcement follows a series of complaints by
tourists from China who told the Chinese daily, Lianhe Zaobao that
they were "ripped off" by jewellers in Singapore who
sold them fake products.
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.
Concert by Braddell Heights Symphony
Orchestra
The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week
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Sunday 7 May 2000
Motorists will be able to cruise down highways faster in the next few months, when speed limits go up by 10km on some stretches of roads. The speed limits on the Tampines and Seletar Expressways (TPE & SLE) will go up to 90km/hr from 80km/hr in June 2000. In September 2000, the speed limits on certain stretches of the Bukit Timah, Central, Ayer Rajah and Pan-Island expressways (BKE, CTE, AYE & PIE) will also be raised to 90km/hr.
Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong yesterday said that the government is looking at how to retain young and talented civil servants in the public sector, especially administrative officers in their thirties. They will form the target of its efforts as they are the ones who are most likely to be lured away by the prospect of high wages, stock options and other perks offered by the private sector.
Asia
Manila: Philippine police yesterday said they were close to catching the person suspecting of creating the I LOVE YOU virus which crippled millions of computers worldwide.
Around the world
Washington: An embarrassed US State Department has apologised to Jesuits for stating in its annual terrorism report that priests from the Roman Catholic order had founded a left-wing Columbian guerilla group.
Courtesy of The Straits Times
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.
ECONOMY
The consumer price index (CPI) for March 2000 dipped by 0.3% compared to February 2000. Food prices fell by 1.6% due mainly to cheaper seafood, vegetables and fresh pork. The cost of transport and communications fell by 0.2% due to falling car prices.
The CPI is used as an inflation gauge by measuring the change in the prices of a fixed basket of goods purchased commonly by most households.
The Government has forecast that inflation will be within 2% this year.