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Get for me: Fresh fruit on the internet!

A new Singapore online fruit shop has been taking orders for fresh fruit through the internet recently. The shop has reportedly sold more than S$20 000 worth of fruit in the last two months. Among the fruit sold are lychees, Chinese and Fuji apples, Australian rock melons and South African grapes.

Orders completed in the morning in Singapore for local delivery can be delivered in the afternoon, while orders received in the afternoon will be delivered by evening. They do not take make delivery to overseas addresses.

FRESHdirect, as the shop is called, is located at the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Market in Singapore and therefore is in a good position to source fresh produce from the wholesale market.

Why not try them out today?

getforme their website: FRESHdirect

Get for me: AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

We have completed the transfer of our domain from NETFIRMS.COM to BIZLAND.COM. The change is meant to result in a better service to you.

Our website was out of service the whole of 8 and 9 Jan 2000 and part of this week due to problems with a server belonging to our previous web-host, NETFIRMS.COM. We wish to apologise for this. This problem had been plaguing our three websites (getforme.com, studymasters.com & thecolapluscompany.com ) maintained with NETFIRMS.COM over the past two months.

Get for me: New Books

ON SALE NOW AT LEADING BOOKSTORES

Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000

By Gretchen Liu

Price: S$61.70 (excludes shipping)

You may place your order with us at support@getforme.com.

The road shown on the front cover was Holloway Lane. It has recently gone the way of the Dodo and in its place is an open ground awaiting redevelopment. In the background is St Joseph's Church in Queen's Street.

The picture of the front cover of the book has been posted here with the kind permission of the publisher, Editions Didier Millet Singapore.

Search, discover and win S$500 cash. Every month.

Join Lycos Asia's online quiz at www.lycosasia.com.sg now.

In conjunction with the Millennium Dog Show, Lycos Asia is holding a homepage design contest at Tripod Asia, an online community of Lycos Asia network. Just build a site dedicated to your pet in Tripod Asia before 30 Jan 2000, and you could win S$1000 cash and a chance to walk away with an iMac in their lucky draw.

SingTel's Beautiful Sunday Promotion

For the whole of today, SingTel 001 and SingTel ICC international call charges are reduced by 50%. And so begins a global coming together of voices, feelings and emotions, of cherished relations, of separated friends and long-distance love. So why not call someone special and make their Sunday just as beautiful?

For more information, visit their website. This promotion is valid on Sunday 16 Jan 2000 from 0000 hrs to 2359 hrs for SingTel 001 and ICC 1898 calls made from Singapore only and applicable to residential fixed lines, mobile phones and personal ICCs.

If you are overseas and wish to take advantage of this promotion, you can e-mail your loved ones living in Singapore and get them to call you.

getforme their website: SINGTEL

SINGNET

Singnet's free Net-surf offer for subscribers of their fixed lines will start in a week's time. Subscribers will receive their user IDs and passwords in stages over the next two months as there are about 1.1 million customers. Those who urgently need to get online can request for it. SingTel will ' try our best ' to grant any request for passwords by those who have yet to receive their notification letters.

STARHUB

You can now download StarHub's Starter Kit and surf online for free straightaway. Visit their website now.

getforme their website: STARHUB

Pacific Internet has revised its pricing for its plans.

Easy Access: previously S$9.95/mth now S$4.95 for 13 hours/mth

Easy Access Plus: previously S$24.95 for 32 hours/mth now S$19.95 for 40 hours per mth

Unlimited Access: previously S$100/mth now S$29.95/mth

Their hotline: 1800 872 1455 Their hotsite: www.pacific.net.sg

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News Flash

Today Sunday 16 Jan 2000

In Singapore

A ministry for sports to be set up in April.

About S$2 million will be set aside for a new award meant for students who excel in the non-academic fields of the arts, sports and community service.

Singapore's South Pole adventurers returned home yesterday morning.

More people are getting into fights with strangers and taking their disputes to courts, say lawyers.

Asia

Jakarta: 1000-strong mob protest on Bintan contained by police.

Beijing: A pregnant woman in China who had four fingers chopped off by a supermarket guard who accused her of stealing will receive 200 000 yuan (S$38 600) in compensation from the store.

Around the world

London: Drug giants SmithKline and Glaxo close to merger which will create the world's largest drug company.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated by 8.00 am daily.

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