Child trafficking occurs internally across borders, particularly to neighbouring Thailand which is more prosperous and has a similar culture and language.
Sung in Punjabi, the language of the most populous and prosperous province, the song delivers biting commentary on the current socio-political milieu of the country, in which religious radicalism and militancy have steadily risen over the years and tolerance for religious minorities is waning.
Solzhenitsyn's books have been published in more than thirty languages, so the family is quite prosperous, even though all the royalties from "Gulag," by far his top-selling book, are channelled into a fund used to aid political prisoners and their families.
She also knows to celebrate Independence Day on August 15th, and to say "Happy Diwali and a prosperous New Year!" Beyond that, she also knows local idioms, language and other customs.
President François Hollande's assertion that France would stay in its ex-colony until it is "safe, has legitimate authorities, an electoral process and there are no more terrorists threatening its territory" has, similarly unnerving echoes of the language used by George Bush when he promised to build stable prosperous democracies in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The adoption ban has underlined a growing division in Russian society, as the government has embraced conservative language tailored to voters in the heartland and has turned away from more prosperous city dwellers who have mobilized over the Internet.
Jilla, a prosperous homemaker, has been trying to outwit the Iranian government's campaign to jam Persian-language satellite television stations based in Los Angeles.
Prosperous local residents, meanwhile, are deserting local schools because of what is seen as deterioration in English-language teaching since the reversion to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
In the book, Mr. Zhang lays out in great detail the history of a prosperous and cultured family of outward-looking managers and businessman, familiar with the West and fluent in foreign languages.
Steve Jobs's genius for design and marketing helped create the consumer taste of that educated upper class — the spare, sleek, Bauhaus-inspired devices; the turtlenecks and jeans; the self-congratulatory language of revolution and inspiration; the Einstein fetish — with the Apple Store a kind of secular temple for devotees in prosperous cities and suburbs, mostly along the two coasts.
