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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.
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: Slightly hazy. Showers with thunder mainly over northern and western Singapore in the late morning and early afternoon. High tide 5.13 am 2.3m 8.22 pm 2.2m Sunrise 7.01 am Sunset 7.10 pm Moonrise 2.52 pm Moonset 2.27 am PSI: 55 (moderate) Temp: 25-33 degrees Celsius (updated daily at 6am Singapore time)
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Take a stroll
with our photographer down
to the Raffles Hotel. Click logo to enter Applying
For A Personal Loan Part 2
Last
week, we went through the maths part of personal loans. Today, we
will walk through the whole process of applying for a loan. You can apply for a loan just
by submitting an application, through online terminals or by post,
if you do not wish to sit in front of someone from the bank. Some
banks, such as Citibank NA, let you get a loan without you having
to see anyone at all. You can also walk into a bank branch and
approach its personal financial consultant. The consultant has a
pc with software that allows him to work out just how much you can
loan. Just keep this in mind - the consultant sitting in
front of you may just be a clerk and have no authority whatsoever
to decide the outcome of your application, no matter how high
sounding his title may be. Just take a look at his name card. If
it doesn't say Manager or Asst Manager, he's a clerk. The consultant will try to
squeeze out of you whatever information on your financial affairs
he can get his hands on (and he's good at it), which means at the
end of the interview he will have worked out all your financial
commitments from whatever loans or overdrafts you have with other
banks. Simply put, if your commitments are high vis-a-vis your
income, you won't get your loan from this bank. So, come to the
bank prepared and say what you have to say, nothing more. Usually,
if your monthly commitments exceed 40% of your net monthly income
(net means CPF already deducted), you won't get your loan. More... 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 437 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. GOVERNMENT
SNIPPETS Singapore High Commission
in London has launched its website.
The deadline for the electronic filing of tax returns has been
extended by three days to 18 Apr 2000.
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 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?
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.
Mid-Week Banking Column
The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week
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Today Thursday 13 Apr 2000
In Singapore
At the NTUC triennial delegates conference yesterday, Acting Prime Minister BG Lee Hsien Loong said that the government's response to the disparity in income between the top and bottom earners is to keep on emphasising education and training, upgrading older workers, seeking new investments, creating new jobs and enhancing the assets of Singaporeans.
A Honda Civic burst into flames at a carpark in Hougang Avenue 8 early yesterday, burning to death the driver, its sole occupant.
There is nothing distinctive about 1.99. So, more than one shop or chain can use that in its name, said the Court of Appeal. It has overturned an earlier High Court ruling that only One.99 shop, started by Kowloon-born former model Nanz Chong in 1997, can call itself by that name.
Asia
Jakarta: Indonesia's former President Suharto was yesterday banned from leaving the country over an investigation into alleged corruption in charities he formerly controlled, a state investigator said.
Around the world
London: Scotland Yard is taking urgent action after Britain's biggest Chinese community complained angrily of a rising tide of attacks in restaurants and takeaway shops. A dossier detailing 15 cases of racially-motivated violence has been handed over to the police.
Courtesy of The Straits Times
News updated by 8.00 am daily.