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The weather TODAY: Showers with thunder in the late afternoon and early evening mainly over the eastern half of Singapore. High tide 5.01am 2.5m 10.54 pm 2.5 m Sunrise 6.59 am Sunset 7.02 pm Moonrise 1.21 pm Moonset 12.55 am PSI: 48 (good) Temp: 24-32 degrees Celsius

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View of Orchard Road junction yesterday afternoon

Would you believe I took this picture on the internet?

YES! It's true & I didn't even use a camera.

And you can too!

You can view Orchard Road LIVE on the internet now. You can even control the camera which takes these shots, with a little practice, of course.

Canon Singapore's WebView camera has the ability to pan up and down and left and right with its 10X zoom camera.

Try it now, or you will live to regret it.

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The Tanglin Club in Stevens Road was founded in 1865.

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News Flash Today, Thursday 16 Dec 1999

In Singapore

STI down 39.8 points in third day of decline.

Singapore Management University, which will take in its first 300 students in July, opens applications for its Bachelor of Business Management degree today. You can apply online at www.smu.edu.sg .

Raffles City and Tanglin Mall share the first prize in this year's Best Decorated Building competition.

A 21-year-old man was shot when he charged at an anti-narcotics officer with a knife in an apartment in Geylang on Tuesday afternoon. He is a hawker's assistant and had tried to prevent officers from getting into the rented apartment.

60 holiday makers file claims against Sinba Travel, which closed down in October.

Prominent Singapore tycoon Oei Hong Leong who was attacked in Hong Kong on Monday said yesterday his assailants were apparently trying to kidnap him.

Asia

New Delhi: Widespread outrage has greeted reports of staff negligence at New Delhi's Int'l Airport where a girl was crushed to death by a faulty escalator on Monday.

Perth: The most powerful cyclone ever recorded in Australia battered the country's north-west coast yesterday, unroofing houses and uprooting trees, emergency service officials said.

Around the world

London: Britain's Conservative Party on Tuesday restored former Transport Minister Mr Peter Norris, who once had five mistresses, as the top candidate for its nomination to become London's first elected mayor.

Panama City: Former US President Jimmy Carter placed the Panama Canal into Panamanian hands symbolically on Tuesday with the simple words 'It's yours'.

Washington: A judge has cleared a hurdle to a trial of Linda Tripp for illegally taping Monica Lewinsky's phone confessions of an affair with President Bill Clinton.

Courtesy of The Straits Times

News updated before 8.00 am daily.

Christmas is just around the corner. Have you started shopping yet? For the benefit of those living overseas, we will post here over the next few weeks pictures of shopping centre facades decorated for X'mas.

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