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...migrant workers between Indonesia and Malaysia is considered one of the world's largest and busiest labor hubs. If passed, these provisions will help protect the roughly 3,000 workers Indonesia sends to Malaysia every month. The vast majority of these work as maids and domestic workers and remit billions home every year, earning them their nickname of "foreign exchange heroines...
...conclusion, please (remit / refund / gimme back) my $75. I believe that writing this letter (has helped you better to understand my point of view / has helped me better to understand my point of view / could totally have been done electronically), and I think in the future I will (send an angry email over my house-list / use this as yet another rationalization for stealing dishware / transfer to a state school, where sources tell me alcohol rains from...
...Marwani, meanwhile, has widened his organization's remit from tribal violence to Islamist extremism. "The terrorists convince people that if they blow themselves up, they go to paradise," he says. "We sell people paradise through peace...
...conditions experienced by the new multicultural labor forces are beyond Lee's remit, but her inquiries into Chinese restaurant workers in America make up some of the strongest writing in the book. Many were lured to America when China did not provide the opportunities it does now, and large numbers of them have willingly participated in a vast people-smuggling network, paying fees that can leave them with crippling debt for years...
...Instead, the new management has been given the remit of carrying on business as usual, competing in the market for loans, to the dismay of the commercial banking sector, which must now go head-to-head against a state-owned and state-guaranteed competitor, which they are promised will one day be privatized...