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Last Thursday, the long overnight queues for Hello Kitty toys at McDonald's restaurants around the island got out of order and the police had to be called in to restore the peace at some branches. Six men were arrested for various breaches of the peace.

The squabble over Hello Kitty toys opens up a side of Singaporeans no one wants to see or welcomes. But, the facts are laid on the table and it's time we Singaporeans get down to asking ourselves whether the toys were worth throwing all sense of decency and good manners down the drain. Hundreds of The Straits Times readers swarmed the paper with e-mails and calls last Friday, criticising McDonald's for the long queues and squabbles over these toys, and suggesting ways to end the stuffed cat chaos. McDonald's has told the public it intends to get a bigger centralised venue for the sale of the last in the series of Hello Kitty toys, the Chinese New Year wedding pair. This is to ensure proper crowd control. It should have been done earlier! Good luck to them. This story may not end here yet. We'll soon see.

Yellow Pages now has an online auction service at their website. From today, there's no need for you to hunt the island for the best bargains. All you need to do is to register at their website first and then name your price for the items you want to buy by placing a bid.

Items available for bidding range from 3Com Palm V connected organisers, Ariston washing machines, Aiwa VCD players, and Canon EOS 300 cameras to Motorola V2088 Dualband mobilephones.

Only one unit of each auction item is available. The bidder who bids the highest bid will win. Winners are obligated to buy the item at the highest bid. If more than one bidder bids the highest bid, then the one who placed the bid first gets the item.

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NEW: New M1 shop opens at #B1-19/20 Paragon Shopping Centre. Other branches are at #B1-18-19 Tampines Mall and #01-16-17 West Mall.

NATIONAL SERVICE: Central Manpower Base (CMPB) National service registration starts on Monday 31 Jan 2000 for all male Singapore citizens and permanent residents (PRs) born on or between 14 Jun 1982 and 12 Sep 1982, and ends on 10 Mar 2000.

GET FOR ME: Save the ACS (Anglo Chinese School) clock tower An appeal for support.

BOOKS: Top Ten KINOKUNIYA Bestsellers Top Ten MPH Bestsellers Top Ten BORDERS Bestsellers Top Ten TIMES Bestsellers Shows the top ten fiction and non-fiction titles sold at these bookstores last week.

SHOWS: Top Ten Shows Features the current popular movies screened in local cinemas. Movies Lists the current movies showing in local cinemas.

GOVERNMENT: Singapore Government Website Ministry Of Education Police

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.

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Transfer Of Web Host From Netfirms.com To Bizland.com

EXPATRIATES: 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.

TOURISTS: Tourism Board

USEFUL WEBSITES: AtoZasia.com For jobs, properties, shopping, food and auctions. Catcha.com.sg A Singapore search engine.

GET FOR ME: New Books

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Singapore: A Pictorial History 1819-2000

By Gretchen Liu

Price: S$61.70 (excludes shipping)

You may place your order with us at support@getforme.com.

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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In conjunction with the Millennium Dog Show, Lycos Asia is holding a homepage design contest at Tripod Asia, an online community of Lycos Asia network. Just build a site dedicated to your pet in Tripod Asia before 30 Jan 2000, and you could win S$1000 cash and a chance to walk away with an iMac in their lucky draw.

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News Flash

Today Monday 31 Jan 2000

In Singapore

A new law will make it easier to seek foreign agencies' help to arrest criminals or carry out raids abroad.

Batam police nab 62 from Singapore for gambling in a Batam hotel on Saturday night.

The Singapore Airlines jet which skidded and overshot the runway at the Kuching Int'l Airport on Saturday has been towed off.

Man held for bashing elderly uncle to death.

Asia

Jakarta: Muslims hold rallies and attack churches in two Java cities in protest over Malukus.

Around the world

Washington: Massive computer breakdown at the National Security Agency last week.

London: British politicians from all parties are reviewing security after a sword-wielding man injured a Member of Parliament and killed his assistant.

San Jose (California): A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has been found battered and brain-dead in Beijing where he attended a Chinese govt-sponsored high-tech conference, a newspaper reported.

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