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Match-Making Day for Civil Servants on the Anvil in Taiwan
“Match-making” holidays for government employees have been proposed by a Taiwanese lawmaker in a bid to boost the island’s falling marriage and birth rates, his office said.
Lin Hung-chih called for “creative measures” to marry off a high number of single civil servants, such as granting them up to two days off a year to join match-making activities, it said in a statement.
A record low of 117,099 Taiwanese couples tied the knot in 2009, down 24.4 percent from the previou…
