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Family ties find home on the Web

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Here's the scenario. It's raining outside and the kids are fighting. Because they are fighting, you and your spouse are not speaking because somebody left the toilet seat up. The mother-in-law calls. She says her daughter should never have married a lazy, fat scumbag and she's knitted you another jumper you'll never wear.

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Your parents call and tell you they've decided to leave all their money to the cat, whom you hate.

Wait. Before you reach for the bottle, grab your mouse and access FamilyBee.com.

Family Online, which claims to be the first Internet technology provider in the region targeting global Asians, has launched a Web site designed to strengthen family ties.

It aims to do this through providing an online 'family tree' and 'photo album' services.

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What, so that you can edit annoying family members out of the tree and fire rubber bullets at your relatives' pictures? Or speed up communication in your family?

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