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The WEATHER TODAY: Mainly fair in the morning. Showers with thunder are expected in the afternoon, over northern, eastern and western Singapore. WATER TIDES High tide 9.43 am 2.6m 10.37 pm 2.5m SUN Sunrise 7.00 am Sunset 7.09 pm MOON Moonrise 5.26 pm Moonset 5.02 am PSI: 27 (good) TEMPERATURE: 25-33 degrees Celsius (updated daily at 6am Singapore time)

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^{Choco-Loco Festival 2000}

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   Chocolate lovers will no doubt be happy to know that the Choco-Loco Festival is on till the end of this month. Today, from noon to 7pm, at the Outdoor Event Plaza (Outside Orchard Point) in Orchard Road, you get to enter a giant balloon filled with delectable treasures for 5 minutes. All you have to do to qualify is to purchase something at H2O Zone. Chocolates of different kinds lie hidden upon heaps of balloons. Find them and they are yours for keeps.
   If you miss the event, don't fret, for on Saturday 22 Apr 2000, from 8pm to 11pm, at the same place, you can enjoy a Choco-Loco Party in the great outdoors hosted by DJs from Radio Heart 91.3FM. The first 100 participants will get a specially designed chocolate bunny each. Watch out for their advertisement in The Straits Times on 22 Apr 2000 for more details.
   This festival is organised by H2O Zone in conjunction with the Singapore Food Festival.
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COMING SOON NEW WEBSITES!
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.
Venomclub.com has been launched. You can now view the action in this nightspot without leaving your computer. Six cameras pan the dance floor and lounge areas from 10.30pm - 3am, Tuesdays to Sundays.
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.
New AsiaBuilders.com to provide comprehensive listings and product catalogues for the construction industry. To be launched end Apr 2000. Click AsiaBuilders.com for a preview.

SporesCity The Singaporean website community Set up your company's website here. More...
We are now 454 pages thick and growing.
New! The new Cartier boutique has opened at Ngee Ann City #01-33 & #02-04. Tel: (65) 734 2427.
New! The new Louis Vuitton shop has opened at Ngee Ann City.

GOVERNMENT SNIPPETS
Singapore High Commission in London has launched its website.
    The deadline for the electronic filing of tax returns has been extended by three days to 18 Apr 2000.

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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.
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WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
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Today Sunday 16 Apr 2000

In Singapore

Singapore shares will take a hit when the markets open tomorrow, dragged down by the Firday collapse of US stock prices, but analysts and fund managers are confident there will not be a bloodbath.

NTUC Income is giving a special bonus averaging about S$290 a person to its more than half a million life policyholders. The payout, totalling S$153 million, is made possible by the huge gains it had made last year, said NTUC deputy secretary-general Matthias Yao last night.

Asia

Kuala Lumpur: The planned march to mark the anniversary of Anwar Ibrahim's jailing was effectively aborted yesterday as Malaysian authorities took a tough line against his supporters.

Around the world

London: The mysterious disappearance of two foreign women has raised fears among Scotland Yard detectives that a dangerous kidnapper may be on the prowl in the streets of London looking out for such victims.

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.