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Administration Comes Under Fire For Bumping Malaysia Trafficking Grade

July 28, 2015 at 5:55 PM
Lawmakers in Kuala Lumpur and Washington are assailing what they say is a politically motivated and cynical decision by the Obama administration this week to smooth the path for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by moving Malaysia off of a State Department blacklist of countries that egregiously fail to combat human trafficking. Charles Santiago, an outspoken opposition lawmaker in the Malaysian parliament, said in a Monday (July 27) Facebook posting that State's decision to remove Malaysia from “Tier 3” in its...

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