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Singapore continues 2000 plans

Singapore officials have continued developing their Year 2000 celebration plans, and have announced that the event will climax in a 500,000- person countdown partiy on Dec. 31, 1999.

The event will be a "vibrant and exciting line-up of the best that the nation has to offer in entertainment, culture, music, arts, exhibitions and lighting spectaculars will accompany singaporeans and visitors to toast to a new 1,000 years," Executive Director of the National Arts Council Choo Thian Siew told members of the press.

"Working with over 20 agencies, including private organizations, the ministry of information and the arts is coordinating the nationwide millennium celebration activities to make this once-in-a-thousand years event the celebrations of a lifetime," he added.

Projected activities fall into four categories: Fun salutations, leaving a legacy, setting the mood, building the momentum and sharing the memories.

In conjunction with this large countdown party on Dec. 31, 1999, a specially-designed millennial countdown clock by Swatch, a swiss watch maker, will be launched in June. Other symbols of the coming millennium include a national sculpture to capture the spirit of Singapore and a timecapsule containing artifacts that represent the past 100 years in Singapore.

Source: The Xinhua News Agency.

DATE: 1/29/99

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