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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.
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.
The Editor
Raymond Han
You can e-mail him at editor@getforme.com
What's New on our website
Teddy-Bear Making Workshops by Jennifer Laing
The Esplanade - Theatres On The Bay
The WEATHER TODAY: Showers with thunder are expected in the morning affecting most areas. Partly cloudy thereafter. OUTLOOK Morning and early afternoon showers are expected over the next two days. WATER TIDES High tide 1.33pm 2.4m - SUN Sunrise 7.00 am Sunset 7.12 pm MOON Moonrise 9.12pm Moonset 8.42am PSI: 39 (good) TEMPERATURE: 25-32 degrees Celsius (The weather is updated daily at 7am Singapore time) For more information, call Meteorological Service Singapore Tel: (65) 542 7788.
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Hi Last Friday, one of our website's visitors, Jinno Choi, from South Korea, hopped over to Singapore for a short visit. He's the one who left a message on our General Message Board. He called me on the phone from the Singapore River area and, although we spoke with each other like a chicken talking to a duck, we managed to get around to setting a breakfast appointment at McDonald's in Takashimaya Shopping Centre last Saturday. It was interesting meeting up with a fellow surfer and website owner. You see, Jinno (I learnt that's his nick-name) runs this website, foryou.k21.net. We had difficulty trying to understand what each of us was saying. In the end, much of the communication was done in a notepad he had with him. I couldn't speak a word of the Korean language, and he was a lot better than I because he could speak English. But he said he understood English better if I spoke sufficiently slowly, so I scribbled in his notepad as I spoke. MORE... |
NEW WEBSITES CreationStreet.com is a renovation portal which puts you in contact with renovation contractors, suppliers and designers. There's even an auction section as well as classifieds. e-mart.com.sg is a virtual supermarket. It has a wide variety of quality and fresh products. There is free delivery for orders above S$70. It is the online arm of Singapore Food Industries Ltd. 8daysonline.com is the website of local Entertainment & Television Weekly magazine. Snow City is the website of a new attraction, Snow City, in sunny Singapore. MotorSales.com.sg sells bikes from Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha and others. SingaporeMint.com.sg is the website of The Singapore Mint which sells banknotes, cashcards, phonecards, MRT cards, coins and other collectibles. ClarkeQuay.com.sg is the website of Clarke Quay Festival Village, a shopping mall converted from godowns. fundsupermart.com offers unit trusts. WorldRemind.com is all about getting an automated system to page you to remind you about your appointments. 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). one-99shop.com is coming to you soon! This shop already has nine branches selling everything at S$1.99 each. Items range from crockery, utensils, confectionery, household accessories, artificial flowers to Hello Kitty stationery. |
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 728 pages thick and growing. Public Holidays NATIONAL DAY is the next public holiday. It falls on Wednesday 9 August 2000.
Singapore Cemetery Warren Message Board Know of any good guest houses? Tell us! Write to us at help@getforme.com. |
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New Societies/Clubs: *Wakeboard Association (Singapore) 168 Lentor Loop #11-06 Singapore 789098 (1 Jun 2000) *Zhejiang University Alumni Association (Singapore) Wintec Laser Technology Pte Ltd Blk 203B Henderson Rd #10-12 Henderson Industrial Pk Singapore 159548 (2 Jun 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.
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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. COMFORT & YELLOWTOP taxi fares have gone up! CITYCAB fares will only go up on 26 Jun 2000. So it is cheaper to take a ride in CityCab & TIBS taxis in the meantime. |
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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?
1 - 25 Jun 2000 7th International Piano Festival takes place from 29 Jun - 2 Jul 2000. Concerts at 8.30pm nightly at Victoria Concert Hall. Harvard Din & Tonics 2000 a cappella with a twist at Chijmes Hall, 8pm on 17, 18, & 19 Jul 2000. Presented by Caldwell Arts Entertainment. Tickets at S$25 (adults), S$20 (students). Hotline: (65) 332 6274/332 6285 or click CaldwellArts. The World's Biggest Matchstick Creation "Tien An Men" made from 2 million matchsticks Exhibition & Demonstration at Chinatown Point Podium B (Singapore Handicraft Centre)10am - 10pm. Now till 25 Jun 2000. See Entertainment for more local happenings! |
TOURISTS 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.
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Monday 19 June 2000
A Singaporean pilot, Mr Faizul Mohamad Ibrahim, 29, was one of two men who died when their plane crashed into the South China Sea yesterday morning, about 100m from Mersing. Mersing, a town on Peninsular Malaysia's East Coast, is about 160km from Singapore.
Police surprised software pirates at Sim Lim Square yesterday, raiding the place on a Sunday for the first time. They seized over S$1.28 million of illegal software, including pirated video CDs and CD Roms from 10 shops and arrested 12 men.
Asia
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says that he hopes to succeed Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad as the country's leader, despite the downfall of his predecessor.
Around the world
London: Rajaei Sharma, 6, the son of an Indian couple here, will become the youngest person ever to take a GCSE examination - the equivalent of the O levels - when he sits for his information technology exam on Wednesday.
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.