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Kelvin Lim began working to raise awareness about human trafficking in 2009. He used music and organised events at schools and universities across Malaysia, sometimes accompanied by his band. Then, one day in 2016, a member of the audience contacted him about a neighbourâs domestic worker she had seen with burns on her neck. Lim, a 50-year-old pastor and events producer, advised the woman to discreetly take a photograph of the womanâs injuries. He then sent it on to Tenaganita, a migrant rights group located in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, and they rescued her.
The incident, like other tip-offs he had received following such events, sparked an idea. Lim teamed up with Tenaganita, which has sheltered and supported migrant workers in Malaysia for three decades, to develop an app the public could use to anonymously report instances of suspected trafficking such as forced domestic work, sexual exploitation or child labour.
By Ed Williams and Wufei Yu, Searchlight New Mexico |
December 23, 2020
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Richard Yue, one of the workers in Bryan Peng s New Mexico workforce, setting up greenhouses at the Big Buddha Farms in Oklahoma
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. Irving Lin, a jovial entrepreneur in his late 60’s, wanted to share a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a near-miraculous way out of the economic devastation wrought on Southern California’s Chinese communities by the pandemic: the gift of marijuana.
“We are making a fortune in Oklahoma, and you can too,” Lin, speaking in Mandarin, told a crowd of 30 potential investors gathered for a PowerPoint presentation at a Chinese cultural center on Dec. 5. The return on investment is as high as 1,200 percent, Lin explained eagerly. Finance one greenhouse, and you’ll walk away with $300,000. Three greenhouses will make you a millionaire.