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(16 Feb)   Concerns over Singapore's rising household debt levels may increase after data showed bankruptcy orders have risen to the highest level since 2009, but it isn't clear whether it signals trouble ahead. Bankruptcy orders rose nearly 14 percent year on year in 2013, and although the actual number was relatively low... 

Migrants say firms force workers out of Singapore. (16 Feb)   SINGAPORE (AP) -- Bapari Jakir's employers wanted to see him off the job, but the welder was heavily in debt and didn't want to go back to Bangladesh. So, he says, they encouraged him to leave - by hiring a company whose thugs held him captive in a room, holding... 

The remains of the Ferrari following the crash in north Beijing. (Photo: CFP) (13 Feb)   Fatal high-speed accident on Beijing freeway harks back to incident involving Hu aide's son A red Ferrari slammed into road guardrails and went up in flames early yesterday in Beijing, drawing similarities with another Ferrari crash that...