CHINA-BORN WOMAN SELLS HERSELF TO PAY HUSBAND'S DEBTS IN SINGAPORE?

SINGAPORE - Chinese national Madam Chen Liwen, 27, who describes her life the past six years in Singapore as "a nightmare". She is prostituting herself to pay off her husband's debts.
She admits in Mandarin: "I have only myself to blame."
She shuddered with fear and broke down when she read a report in the Chinese newspapers about the coroner's inquiry into the deaths of Madam Zhang Xiaohui and Mr Don Lin Jun Yang, she tells The New Paper on Sunday.

• Mr Lin's womanising and drug addiction had driven China-born Madam Zhang to depression.
• She ended up killing herself and her husband by burning charcoal in the bedroom. They died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

From the sparsely-decorated living room of her three-room HDB flat in Woodlands, Madam Chen says: "It's so sad. My heart tightened in sorrow and compassion because I know just how Madam Zhang must have felt.
"Despair is a scary monster. It makes you wonder why you should still want to persist and carry on with life."
She clenches both hands and, with a look of determination, says: "But suicide is not an option. Neither will I kill the man who has made my life miserable.
"Why should I let him have it easy?"

Source: AsiaOne