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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.
The weather TODAY: Occasionally windy with periods of passing showers in the morning and afternoon. High tide 4.15 am 2.5m 4.18 pm 2.4m Sunrise 7.16 am Sunset 7.19 pm Moonrise 0.39 am Moonset 12.59 pm PSI: 38 (good) Temp: 23-31 degrees Celsius
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SHOWS: Top Ten Shows Features the current popular movies screened in local cinemas. Movies Lists the current movies showing in local cinemas.
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Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000
By Gretchen Liu
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The road shown on the front cover was Holloway Lane. It has recently gone the way of the Dodo and in its place is an open ground awaiting redevelopment. In the background is St Joseph's Church in Queen's Street.
The picture of the front cover of the book has been posted here with the kind permission of the publisher, Editions Didier Millet Singapore.
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News Flash
Today Friday 28 Jan 2000
In Singapore
Hello Kitty Japanese wedding dolls frenzy at McDonald's turned ugly yesterday as fights disrupted over queues which snaked around as far as the eye could see. Six men were arrested as the catfights and caterwauling overwhelmed civilised behaviour. McDonald's has cancelled the sale of the dolls at its branches. The last in the series of the dolls, Chinese wedding dolls, would instead be sold at bigger and more centralised venues where it would be more orderly.
NUS and NTI must have greater autonomy in handling salaries, policies and staff salaries to compete globally, says high-level government committee.
Singapore and KL bourses to meet on CLOB issue.
Petrol and diesel prices at Mobil and Esso service stations went up by 4 cents a litre yesterday. With this move, all four major petrol companies in Singapore have now raised their petrol and diesel prices by the same amount. The new petrol prices start at S$1.233 per litre and diesel at S$0.565 cents per litre for diesel.
Asia
Hong Kong: Hong Kong hit by new strain of flu virus from South Pacific.
Manila: The Philippines will deploy 500 troops to protect some 2000 US soldiers here for a joint military exercise.
Around the world
Washington: US to 'sell' China's WTO entry to workers.
Courtesy of The Straits Times
News updated by 8.00 am daily.
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