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Thousands take to streets of Taiwan's capital Taipei in protest against govt's plans to reform pensions
(straitstimes)
TAIPEI - A record 250,000 retired military personnel, police officers, civil servants and public school teachers took to the streets of Taipei on Saturday (Sept 3) to protest the government's pension reform plans, which they say are unfair and "humiliate" their professions.
In the largest anti-government protest since President Tsai Ing-wen's electoral win in January, they demanded the government change the way it reforms the pension scheme and restore the dignity of their professions.
Saturday, which was also Armed Forces' Day, was the first time that the three groups had come together to stage the three-hour protest.
The simmering tensions spilled onto the streets even as a committee appointed by Ms Tsai is working to submit reform proposals by next year. The protesters are unhappy as their generous pensions are likely to be slashed.
They came from all parts of Taiwan, including the southern city of Kaohsiung, and descended on the capital Taipei on Saturday at 2pm.
Juggling banners and flags, the protesters shouted slogans like "We oppose a smear campaign, we want our dignity" as they marched from four different locations, weaving through Taipei's main roads before gathering in front of the Presidential Office building on Ketagalan Boulevard.
In Taiwan, retired military personnel, teachers and civil servants are drawing pensions that can be nearly four times the starting salaries of many university graduates.
Taiwan's large pensions were affordable when its economy was growing at an average of 7.6 per cent in the 1990s and 4.5 per cent in the early 2000s, and when the population was relatively young, with a large proportion in the workforce.
But the burden of such generous pension schemes is being felt acutely, with a rapidly ageing population, a low fertility rate - 12.5 per cent of the population are older than 65 - and as the economy slows, with growth for this year forecast at 0.77 per cent.
Q:
What do you think that public sector employees protest in pension reform?
What do you think that the policy of pension reform?
What do you think that pension system in Taiwan?
How to reform the pension system if you were the leader of Taiwan? And what are the policies that could make Taiwan a better country?
Do you think that Taiwan’s economy slides deeper into recession?
“Taiwan sees 30% decline in tourists from china”
Do you think this would impact Taiwan businesses?
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How Being a Jerk Shortens Your Life
By John Cloud @JohnAshleyCloud
Beware jocks and mean girls: you may be more popular in high school, but according to a new academic paper, it is the smart kids and conscientious glee-club types who will live longer. Not only that, they will suffer fewer diseases before they die. Only the good die young? Guess again.
The paper, which was published recently in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, summarizes data from millions of people studied in dozens of academic articles. The bottom line is that people who are smarter and more conscientious acquire fewer illnesses and die later than those who have the opposite traits.
How these relationships work is wildly complicated, but one of the simplest associations is between intelligence and health: smarter people are more adept at avoiding accidents, and they are more likely to understand public-health campaigns against smoking or drug abuse. Studies typically show that by middle age, there is a reliable correlation between low IQ and rate of hospital admission, even when researchers control for socioeconomic differences. (More on Time.com: Five Ways to Stop Stressing)
A more puzzling but just as reliable finding is that people of lower intelligence are more likely to have disorders that stem in large part from genes. For instance, the new paper quotes a 2010 finding that those who have IQ scores just one standard deviation lower than the mean have a 60% greater risk of being admitted to a hospital for schizophrenia. That could be because admitting staffs are biased against people they see as less intelligent, but low intelligence is also correlated with greater risk of alcohol problems, depression, anxiety, late-onset dementia and posttraumatic stress disorder — again, even after researchers control for class variances. The same goes for risk of death by suicide and homicide and risk of injury from fights, stabbings, or maulings with blunt instruments.
Some of these relationships can be explained simply: stupid people make stupid decisions. But no one decides to be schizophrenic or to have dementia (or, for that matter, to be mauled by a blunt instrument). The authors wonder, then, if there’s a genetic relationship between intelligence and likelihood of injury and earlier-than-average death.
The authors suggest the mechanism at work may be that less intelligent people have a harder time understanding the importance of physical activity, a heart-healthy diet, and avoiding cigarettes. This mechanism would explain why there is a correlation between intelligence and lung cancer but not between intelligence and most other kinds of cancers.
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Do you support the idea that the smart people will live longer?
Why do smarter people live longer?
Why do less intelligent people live shorter life span?
“Stupid people make stupid decisions” Why?
What are the factors shortens our life?
What are the habits to help you live longer?
How to deal with stress? How to live a healthy lifestyle?
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