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Elderly (Photo Mediacorp) The civil service should be congratulated on its recent move to re-employ qualified individuals in Division III without a reduction in compensation ("No pay cut for junior civil servants rehired at 62"; last Tuesday). This should be the first step towards extending the practice to all civil servants,... 

Wuhan City (6 Aug) - A Chinese vendor's plan to fake his own death at the hands of social enforcers failed when he could not play dead long enough in scorching heat. More than 10 men claimed the soft drinks vendor had been beaten to death in the central city of Wuhan by chengguan, who are tasked with enforcing non-criminal regulations... 

(5 Aug) - A warning light ought to flash when more Singaporeans take out multiple loans, as disclosed by the Credit Bureau Singapore. Indeed, debt has become so much a part of modern life that the research head of a property consultancy did not bat an eyelid in saying recently: "Investors borrow to the hilt because it is silly...