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COMING SOON NEW WEBSITES!
Moneycast.com.sg has an online stock game in which you can win a grand cash prize of S$10 000. The Game is divided into 6 weekly contests and starts on 17 Apr 2000.
Venomclub.com has been launched. You can now view the action in this nightspot without leaving your computer. Six cameras pan the dance floor and lounge areas from 10.30pm - 3am, Tuesdays to Sundays.
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 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.

SporesCity The Singaporean website community Set up your company's website here. More...
We are now 425 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.

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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.
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TOURISTS
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
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Today Wednesday 12 Apr 2000

In Singapore

More lawyers should acquire qualifications to practise in New York and London, the top financial centres, for a suitable period, to obtain the experience and skills in international financial work, said Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew at the Millennium Law Conference Gala Dinner last night.

As early as the first quarter of next year, it may take no longer than 24 hours to clear a cheque. This is because of a new system, to be installed, called cheque truncation or the electronic imaging of cheques for sorting and payment. With this system, there is no need for cheques to be physically transported between banks and the clearing house. Instead, cheques are scanned at the presenting bank and images are sent electronically to the clearing house and paying banks for their processing.

Workers at a Pasir Panjang construction site watched in horror as a Bangladeshi workerwas flung off a platform, and another pinned against a wall in a site mishap that left two dead and two hurt yesterday.

Asia

Sdyney: A boat carrying up to 220 suspected illegal immigrants bound for Australia has disappeared and may have sunk, Australian immigration officials said here yesterday.

Around the world

Sao Paulo: Five circus lions, which had not eaten for four days, killed a six-year-old Brazilian boy, newspapers here reported.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated by 8.00 am daily.