INSTEAD of flocking to universities in the United States and Britain, consider China.

Public Service Commission (PSC) chairman Eddie Teo wants to encourage more young people to take up its new scholarship that will send them to top universities there.

With China on the rise, he notes: 'We should have our future public servants studying and networking with the best and the brightest there, so that in future, they know each other when they assume positions of power and authority.'

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