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female entrepreneurs, who also require their bodyguards to be highly educated," he said.According to statistics, top female bodyguards can earn as much as RM150,000 a year and they are only required to work four days a week. Nanyang Siang Pau reported that female bodyguards are the latest trend to come to China. The paper said the security industry has forecast their demand to reach 600,000 in the next five years. A security company even organised a female bodyguard beauty pageant to select a candidate who would later be sent to Israel for training. The participants of the beauty pageant were not only good-looking but many of them are finance or law graduates. They were asked to run carrying a car tyre, let people step on their abdomen on the beach, demonstrate martial art moves and perform sit-ups in the sea during the competition. A security company official said that previously, security guards were mainly men who were former athletes or soldiers. "However, female bodyguards are getting more popular these days and they are mainly hired by female entrepreneurs, who also require their bodyguards to be highly educated," he said. According to statistics, top female bodyguards can earn as much as RM150,000 (S$61,726) a year and they are only required to work four days a week.
SOURCE: news.asiaone.com