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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.
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
The WEATHER TODAY: Showers with thunder in the morning and afternoon, mainly over southern, western and central Singapore. WATER TIDES High tide 1.11 am 2.8m 2.35 pm 2.5m SUN Sunrise 6.59 am Sunset 7.08 pm MOON Moonrise 10.56 pm Moonset 10.27 am PSI: 52 (moderate) TEMPERATURE: 24-32 degrees Celsius (updated daily at 6am Singapore time)
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Take a stroll
with our photographer down
to the Raffles Hotel. Click logo to enter New website pod.com.sg was launched by
SingTel a few days ago. It offers mobile phone price plans aimed
at Internet & lifestyle savvy twenty-somethings as well as
thirty-somethings. There are two types of plans offered: Pod Contact
and Pod Zoom.
Pod Zoom is a premium plan that gives you 300 minutes of free
local talktime (anytime) plus 300 free SMS. You also get 50%
savings during hot hours and free CallerID. The monthly
subscription is S$66 (usual S$95) and this subscription price is
valid for 12 months. Pod Contact comes at a monthly subscription of
S$33 (usual S$45). The subscription price is also valid for 12
months. For this price, you get 100 free minutes of off-peak local
talktime plus 500 free SMS. You also get 50% savings during hot
hours as well as free CallerID and SmartMessage. With pod, you get not only attractive
pricing offers, but also online access to lifestyle programmes,
such as free downloading of ring tones, on their website.
Their website
is Just A Click Away™ at pod.com.sg. COMING SOON NEW
WEBSITES! Eastciti.com
was launched on 18 Apr 2000. It is a lifestyle
website, big on stars, with video, music, TV and movies online. Moneycast.com.sg
has an online stock game in which you can win a grand cash prize
of S$10 000. The Game is divided into 6 weekly contests and
starts on 17 Apr 2000. Venomclub.com
has been launched. You can now view the action in this nightspot
without leaving your computer. Six cameras pan the dance floor
and lounge areas from 10.30pm - 3am, Tuesdays to Sundays. 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. New
AsiaBuilders.com to provide comprehensive listings and product
catalogues for the construction industry. To be launched end Apr 2000.
Click AsiaBuilders.com for a
preview.
SporesCity The Singaporean website community Set up your company's
website here. More... We are now 468 pages thick and growing. New! The new
Cartier boutique has opened at
Ngee Ann City #01-33 & #02-04. Tel: (65) 734 2427.
New! The new Louis Vuitton shop
has opened at Ngee Ann City. 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.
GOVERNMENT MATTERS Singapore
Government Website Police
Ministry Of
Education Consular
Matters 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?
The Singapore Jewellers' Association (SJA) has advised tourists to
buy jewellery from retailers accredited with the Singapore
Jewellers' Association or who carry the Jeweller Trust or Case
Trust logo. Its announcement follows a series of complaints by
tourists from China who told the Chinese daily, Lianhe Zaobao that
they were "ripped off" by jewellers in Singapore who
sold them fake products.
TOURISTS We wanted to post a picture of
the Singapore Official Guide here
for you to take a look but the publisher, Singapore Tourism
Board, has refused to give its permission. 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.
Pod.com.sg for mobile phone plans & more
The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week
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Today Sunday 23 Apr 2000
In Singapore
A new management committee swept into power at the Singapore Recreation Club. Mr Tan Kah Hoe, 64, who is Singapore's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives was elected club president.
Recent calls for changes to laws that jail landlords for renting out their premises unwittingly to illegal immigrants will be a hot topic when Parliament sits on Tuesday.
Expect moderate to heavy thundery showers in the afternoons on six to seven days over the next fortnight, says the Meteorological Service.
Asia
Jakarta: The government has started seizing the assets belonging to former President Suharto, a spokesman at the Attorney-General's Office said yesterday.
Around the world
Washington: Armed federal agents seized a weeping Elian Gonzalez from the home of his Miami relatives before dawn, firing pepper spray into protesters in extraordinary moves to unite the six-year-old Cuban boy with his father after the US government ran out of options.
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.