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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
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Take a stroll
with our photographer down
to the City Hall. Click logo to enter We interrupt
our Housing Loan feature to bring you news regarding POSBank
accounts. New charges come into operation from 1 June 2000. They
are: 1.
New savings accounts can be opened only with a minimum deposit of
S$500. Existing & new savings accounts must have a minimum
daily balance of S$500 per month, otherwise a monthly fee of S$2
will be charged.
2. For current accounts, cheque books will cease to be free. Each
cheque book will attract a fee of S$10 (50-leaves type). A fixed
monthly fee of S$2 is charged for the operation of the current
account. Existing & new current accounts must have a minimum
monthly balance of S$500, otherwise an additional monthly fee
of S$2 will be charged. However, the new charges will be waived
for the following: a. Personal savings accounts (individually held
with no linkage to a current account) by customers who are below
21 years old, and those who are 62 years old and above. b. POSB First Accounts (for children
below 5 years old) c. POSB Save-As-You-Earn Accounts For more information, please call the
bank at Tel: (65) 1800-334 0220 or visit their website which is Just
A Click Away at dbs.com.sg. LATEST! DBS customers with
only one savings account would not have to pay the new charges until a
new CPF deposit scheme is in place, said DBS chairman S Dhanabalan on 5
May 2000. NEW WEBSITES bowtieAsia.com
dedicates itself to linking e-angels to promising Internet &
Infocomm Start-Up Companies. AsiaBuilders.com provides comprehensive listings and product
catalogues for the construction industry.
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. 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. The Singaporean website community Set up your company's
website here. More... We are now 475 pages thick and growing. New! The new
Cartier boutique has opened at
Ngee Ann City #01-33 & #02-04. Tel: (65) 734 2427.
Renamed! The Lasalle International Design School is now
Raffles Lasalle International Design School. 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 & 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?
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 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.
Mid-Week Banking Column
SporesCity
The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week
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Thursday 27 Apr 2000
In Singapore
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark will be in Singapore today and tomorrow on a working visit.
Three men who died when they went down a Chulia Street manhole on Tuesday may have been killed by toxic fumes produced by sludge or decomposed material.
The Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) has criticised DBS Bank's reasons for imposing charges on POSBank account holders. It said in a strongly-worded letter yesterday that "it would appear that the charges are geared towards the improvement of the bottom line" and not "the promotion of account consolidation and electronic banking services as expressed".
Asia
Manila: The Philippines military deployed about 1000 soldiers to the Sulu islands in the southern Philippines yesterday as it prepared to rescue 21 hostages abducted from the malaysian resort island of Sipadan.
Around the world
London: A huge army of child pickpockets, mainly girls aged about 10, is targeting Asians and other holiday makers in London's popular tourist areas. Hundreds of tourists have been robbed in the past few weeks and police have set up special squads to try to catch the small criminals. Nearly all the young pickpockets are the children of Eastern Europe asylum seekers, who have flooded Britain.
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.