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You will want to know whether you will get anything more, now that
you
have to pay.
The answer is yes.
You will notice that up till now, you get only three reports from
Life!
and Sunday Life through the week. If you subscribe, all the
showbiz
gossip and lifestyle features you see in the print edition of Life
will be
available online.
The weekly tech magazine Digital Life is available online now but a
day
after its print edition goes out with the newspaper. If you
subscribe,
Digital Life and the health magazine Mind Your Body -- now not
online
-- will become available from 6am on the same day they are
distributed
with the newspaper. The fashion magazine Urban will also go online,
but
later this year.
All news reports in the Money section will be available from 6am
daily,
instead of 6pm.
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to seven-days. This means you can search back a week's worth of
STI
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the
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