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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.
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Raymond Han
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The WEATHER TODAY: Slightly hazy. Showers with thunder in the morning, mainly over northern, western and eastern Singapore. WATER TIDES High tide 1.07pm 2.5m - SUN Sunrise 6.56 am Sunset 7.07 pm MOON Moonrise 8.50pm Moonset 8.21am PSI: 44 (good) TEMPERATURE: 25-33 degrees Celsius (updated daily at 7am Singapore time)
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Sentosa Sandsation opens today! Come and marvel at the awesome masterpieces of the world's top ten sand sculptors. It's all happening at Siloso Beach from today till 25 June 2000. All you need is a valid Sentosa Island admission ticket, and you can get into the action for S$3 (adult) or S$2 (child). Entry fees for a family of three is only S$6. For this price, you and your family get to enjoy all the fun-filled weekend fringe activities, such as Foam Party, In-Line Skating Workshops & Demonstrations, Paw Print, Photography Contest, Family Sand Sculpting Competition, Miss Sandsation Venus 2000 and more. Sandsation Competition Week runs from 22 - 27 May 2000 and Exhibition Period is from 28 May - 25 Jun 2000. Tickets are available at Sentosa Ferry Terminal, First Bus Stop on Sentosa, Senotsa Causeway Bridge, Seah Im Bus Terminal (opp. WTC), WTC Level 2, Tiong Bahru MRT Station Bus Stop and selected TicketCharge outlets Tel: (65) 296 2929. Call them at (65) 1800-736 8672. Their website is Just A Click Away at Sentosa. |
NEW WEBSITES GettingHere.com, which offers listings of short-haul tour packages tour operators want to sell off quickly, was launched on 17 May 2000. spnet21.net provides web hosting as well as e-mail services. 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). 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 570 pages thick and growing. Public Holidays NATIONAL DAY is the next public holiday. It falls on Wednesday 9 August 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 1 - 25 Jun 2000 See Entertainment for more local happenings! |
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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. |
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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? 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 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. Qing Dynasty antique porcelain exhibition at Yue Hwa from now till 21 May.
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Saturday 20 May 2000
Deputy Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last night told undergraduates at a dinner organised by the National University of Singapore Students' Political Association that they must uphold and strengthen the Singapore system of government. This can be done by supporting the way the system works - clean, honest, meritocratic, stable, and dedicated to the long-term interests of Singapore as a whole.
SingTel in S$1.7 billion deal with Virgin to provide cellular and Internet services.
Singapore's economy expanded by a surprisingly high 9.1% in the first quarter of the year - its best performance in 2˝ years. The fast pace of growth was propelled by robust expansion in all sectors, with the stand-out areas being the manufacturing sector and the wholesale and retail trade.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry has said that Singapore's unemployment rate stood at 3.4% in the first quarter of this year, up from 2.9% in December 1999. Structural unemployment, which accounted for a quarter of all the unemployed last year, has risen because the unemployed lack the skills required to take up new jobs.
Asia
Bangkok: South-east Asia's security consultative group, the Asean Regional Forum (ARF), has agreed in principle to admit North Korea as a member, according to Thai officials here yesterday. Members of the AFR include Asean members, Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Russia and the United States.
Around the world
Fiji: A group of armed civilians seized Fiji's first ethnic Indian Prime Minister and his cabinet hostage yesterday and claimed power in the name of indigenous Fijians.
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.