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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 Singapore River. Click logo to enter With over 300
performances by more than 80 Singapore and foreign groups spread
over twenty-five days, the Singapore Arts Festival is
indeed an international festival. Visitors to the festival will get to
experience not only the emotions generated but also the sights and
sounds of Singapore as the venues for the different performances
are spread across the island. You can find traditional performances
at the Festival Village in Fort Canning Park. Practically
no one in the family is left out as the festival has offerings to
entertain the kids as well as the night-owl in the family. The Late
Night Series will wow you with some cutting edge performances
conceived and created by our own artists. Some of the programmes are free. Arts
On The Move bring the arts to the streets to titillate your
aural and visual senses. Look out for performances ranging from
street theatre and mass busking to multimedia presentations. There's so much to see and relish and
so little time. Plan your itinerary carefully to make full use of
the twenty-five days and come away inspired and enlightened.
Their website is Just
A Click Away™ at ArtsFest. To
view the highlights of the festival, click MORE... 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 482 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.
Singapore Arts Festival 2000 (1 to 25 June 2000)
SporesCity
The top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week
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Friday 28 Apr 2000
In Singapore
DBS yesterday said it would not profit from the decision to impose service charges on POSBank account holders since the S$2 monthly fee would not even "come near to recovering the full cost of maintaining and servicing small accounts".
Figures from the Department of Statistics show that in 1987, 16012 babies were born to mothers with at least secondary education. This was 38% of all babies born in that year. In 1998, the number almost doubled to 72%, or 31578 babies. Chief Statistician Paul Cheung said that the figures highlighted a distinct shift in procreation patterns among Singapore couples, with more well-educated couples having more babies.
A five-year-old girl died on Wednesday at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital due to complications during plastic surgery on her nose, forehead and eyebrows. The girl had often complained to her parents that people made fun of her large forehead, flat nose and eyebrows which were too far apart.
Mediacorp has given a large number of employees the "golden handshake".
Asia
Manila: The Philippine authorities yesterday established contact for the first time with Muslim gunmen holding 21 hostages in the south of the country.
Around the world
Washington: A study released this week links the closure of nuclear reactors to lower levels of infant deaths, saying that radiation seepage into groundwater and the food supply harms young people. The report was conducted by Mr Joseph Mangano, a research associate at the New York-based Radiation and Public Health project.
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.