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NEWS SNIPPETS
2005
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Interruption of Cable Car Service ¡¡
Celebrate Singapore This August! |
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• Red Hot Deals (month of August)
• Malls at Marina Bay promotions (month of August) |
• Carnival@Marina (6 - 14 August)
• Skydive Festival (18 ¨C 21 August)
• Dim Sum Dollies ¨C Singapore¡¯s Most Wanted (5 ¨C 20 August)
• WOMAD (26 ¨C 28 August) |
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Noise Singapore Festival 2005 |
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30 Sep - 30
Oct 2005 |
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Using everyday communication tools, the Internet
and mass media, Noise Singapore provides a chance for anyone below the age of
25 to become an artist, designer, photographer, film maker, composer,
musician, animator or poet. |
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My Uniquely Singapore Passport 2005 |
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"The Passport offers holders (Singapore residents
or visitors) discounts at 40 Singapore establishments including tourist
attractions, F&B outlets as well as a family-oriented spa..." |
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AIDS
Epidemic - 311 new cases in 2004: Dr Balaji Sadasivan |
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"...We do not know the reasons for the sharp increase
of HIV in the gay community. An epidemiologist has suggested that this may be
linked to the annual predominantly gay party in Sentosa - the Nation Party
-which allowed gays from high prevalence societies to fraternize with local
gay men, seeding the infection in the local community. However, this is a
hypothesis and more research needs to done. |
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"The reported new cases are only the tip of the
ice-berg. In total, we have more than 2,000 HIV/AIDS patients. But for every
AIDS patient we have diagnosed, there are possibly 2 to 4 undiagnosed patients
with HIV in Singapore. That means there could be, anywhere between 4,000 to
8,000, undiagnosed HIV patients in Singapore..." |
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Smoking ban to cover more public places from 1 Oct 2005
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60th Anniversary of end of World War II in Asia Pacific (Programmes)
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