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Jeremy Grant, November 26, 2014 Source: IMF As Singapore prepares to mark 50 years since independence next year, there is a pervasive sense of unease. The model that built Singapore – based on attracting foreign investment, a steady increase in the population to fuel economic expansion and paternalistic control – will not... 

Daniel Perry died in a fall from the Forth Road Bridge in July 2013. (19 December 2014) Two Filipino men suspected of blackmailing a UK teenager who took his own life have been traced by the BBC. Daniel Perry from Dunfermline was 17 when he fell from the Forth Bridge in July 2013. He had been the victim of online sexual blackmail... 

A real Chinese policeman guarding a courthouse A local government in north-eastern China has admitted to using security guards to pose as police officers, it's been reported. Despite the practice being illegal in China, the Jiamusi city government in Heilongjiang Province issued security guards with police uniforms and even...