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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.

 

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Raymond Han

You can e-mail him at editor@getforme.com

 

 

The WEATHER TODAY: Partly cloudy and slightly hazy. Showers with thunder in the morning, mainly over northern, western and central Singapore. WATER TIDES High tide 11.05am 2.6m  10.41pm 2.7m  SUN Sunrise 6.56 am Sunset 7.07 pm MOON Moonrise 6.28am  Moonset  6.02am   PSI: 43 (good) TEMPERATURE: 25-33  degrees Celsius (updated daily at 7am Singapore time)    

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2000.a date with my mid-fielder before dawn

Presented by  

Ngee Ann Polytechnic Stage Art Group

18 - 19 May 2000   Drama Centre   7.30pm

Tickets at S$10 & S$12

  An ambitious collector expands his empire by collecting human art. He has bought a famous dancer, a great scientist, a successful actor and a mighty gorilla for his collection. But, when he buys a soccer mid-fielder, it turns out to be a big mistake. The audience will see that when the soccer player's freedom is restricted, the desire for it will cause that person to treasure his freedom.

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NEW WEBSITES  

Bonfield for second-hand branded watches. They buy, sell, restore and repair watches.

wakai koi specialises in Japanese Koi.

arowana.com.sg specialises in Arowana, an ornamental fish.

vintagecharm.com.sg  specialises in Victorian, period and modern wedding gowns.

LifeMedic.com is an emergency online medical information storage website. It provides a LifeCard on which is printed an access code allowing medical personnel to access your medical information on the Internet or by fax. You get an ID and password.

UneedTrust.com aims to provide unbiased information, performance comparison,  and portfolio management for all unit trusts & funds available in Singapore.

Charity1cent is The Charity1cent Initiative Website which provides complete resources on websites donating to charity.

efrenchkiss.com.sg is an online lingerie boutique started by two friends, Gina Toh & Laura Lee.

AF2000 is Temasek Polytechnic's 3rd international Singapore Animation Fiesta 2000 website. The festival runs from 9 - 11 June 2000 at SICEC Suntec City.

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 www.sporescity.com 

The Singaporean website community Set up your company's website here. More...

We are now 565 pages thick and growing.

Public Holidays VESAK DAY is the next public holiday. It falls on Thursday 18 May 2000.

Int'l Discus Competition & Home Aquarium Show at Great World City 17 - 21 May 2000

The Great Singapore Sale is on from 26 May - 9 Jul 2000

Singapore Arts Festival 2000

1 - 25 Jun 2000

See Entertainment for more local happenings!

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.

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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?

  Reports by two Singapore American School students that they were the victims of abduction attempts have led the school to warn parents to be on guard. The private school in Woodlands, in a circular sent out to parents some weeks ago, alerted them to a report by an 11-year-old student in February that a woman had tried to abduct him. The boy, who was walking home from school, said the woman had driven up in a green mini-van and offered him a lift. When the boy declined the lift, she got out of her car and tried to grab him.

TOURISTS

Tourism Board

Tourist Arrival Statistics

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. 

Good Eats

Shopping Complaints

Qing Dynasty antique porcelain exhibition at Yue Hwa from now till 21 May.

 

The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week

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 Wednesday 17 May 2000

The man who swamped the HDB mail servers with 7500 email messages in a span of 2˝ hours was fined a total of S$30000 yesterday.

Six Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) personnel were injured, two seriously, in a six-vehicle pile-up on the Pan-Island Expressway (PIE) yesterday.

17-year-old Temasek Polytechnic student Ong Wee Siong was sentenced to three years' jail and six strokes of the cane by a district court in December 2000 for molesting three young girls in lifts in housing estates in Tampines. Yesterday, the High Court dismissed his appeal to be put on probation.

Asia

Hongkong: Hongkong's Justice Secretary, Elsie Leung, who has faced severe criticism over her interpretation of the territory's law since its handover to China in 1997, is to remain in her job for another two years, it was announced yesterday.

Around the world

New York: American stocks opened strongly after a United States government report showed consumer prices last month held steady for the first time in almost a year, easing concern that inflation was accelerating.

Washington: More than two decades after a study on rats prompted scientists to link saccharin to human cancer, the US government is dropping the artificial sweetener from its list of cancer-causing chemicals. 

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.