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The weather TODAY: Partly cloudy. Showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening mainly over northern, eastern and central Singapore. High tide 3.33 am 2.5m 2.15 pm 2.7 m Sunrise 6.58 am Sunset 7.01 pm Moonrise 11.48 am Moonset - PSI: 39 (good) Temp: 24-33 degrees Celsius

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Yesterday, www.ejazz.com.sg launched their free com centre where you or I can sign up and get a telephone number with a 5-digit extension. Mine is 8901942 ext. 65806. With this, we can ask our friends to leave a message; it's like an auto answering service. We can retrieve this message from any telephone, using a 4-digit password.

We also get an e-mail account free, like mine: getforme@ejazzmail.com . People can send e-mails to this address and we can retrieve their e-mails by telephoning our assigned telephone number and keying in our 5-digit extension. In fact, a computerised voice reads out our e-mails to us.

Good, eh? Well, I am still trying to make out what the voice is saying. I think it goes a wee bit too fast for me to catch the gist of the e-mail message. Perhaps, with enough practice on my part, I just may understand the computerised accent used.

By the time you get to read this, it should be fairly easy to get through to their website. I had a tough time yesterday, having spent the better part of the morning and early afternoon trying to finish setting up and testing my new account with them.

I tried the various services. But I was puzzled when after I had paged my pager, it did not receive the paging and I was subsequently told on the screen that my pager number was not registered with SingTel.

Premium (I think you have to pay for it) services on the cards are:

fax messaging (The computerised voice can't read out your faxes)

mobile phone messaging

smartcall

conference call

Try them today! You get 5 megabytes of free space in your account.

getforme their website: www.ejazz.com.sg

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News Flash Today, Tuesday 14 Dec 1999

In Singapore

3rd quarter jump in job market.

PacNet will not follow its competitors. Instead it will launch a reward programme.

About a quarter of young Chinese in Singapore do not wish to be Chinese, according to a survey by a NUS don on ethnic identity. If given a choice, they would rather be Caucasian.

Outlets selling liquor can stay open beyond licensed hours and sell food, but not liquor.

More tour packages to China may be available when tourism boards in China and Singapore team up to develop closer tourism ties.

Asia

Jakarta: Megawati's party says no to federalism.

Hong Kong:Falungong stages HK march despite warning.

Around the world

Washington: Clinton has joined the debate over when to celebrate the new millennium, saying he sides with those who plan to do it this New Year rather than the next.

Washington: Formal handover by US of the Panama Canal takes place this week.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated before 8.00 am daily.

Christmas is just around the corner. Have you started shopping yet? For the benefit of those living overseas, we will post here over the next few weeks pictures of shopping centre facades decorated for X'mas.

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