Pawn brokers have been likened to loan sharks and life-savers

By CHAN LI LEEN

MENTION the word pawnshop and 24-year-old Vincent Lim shifts uncomfortably.

To many people Lim’s age, the word “pawnshop” is a dirty word.

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