{"id":33688,"date":"2021-07-04T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/i-could-help-more-could-two-new-transfer-companies-change-the-game-for-pacific-ex-pats"},"modified":"2021-07-04T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:00:02","slug":"i-could-help-more-could-two-new-transfer-companies-change-the-game-for-pacific-ex-pats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=33688","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I could help more\u2019: could two new transfer companies change the game for Pacific ex-pats?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new payment transfer companies will be opening in the Pacific, where fees to send money are among the highest in the world<\/p>\n<p>Kereni Vuai has carried a lot of people through the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Vuai, 27, works full-time at a Sydney nursing home, which pays her AU$1500 a fortnight. She sends almost a third of that &#8211; $AU400 \u2013 back to family and friends in Fiji, many of whom have lost their jobs since coronavirus caused economic devastation in the tourism-dependent country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/04\/i-could-help-more-could-two-new-transfer-companies-change-the-game-for-pacific-ex-pats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new payment transfer companies will be opening in the Pacific, where fees to send money are among the highest in the worldKereni Vuai has carried a lot of people through the pandemic.Vuai, 27, works full-time at a Sydney nursing home, which pays he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1911,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1911"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33697,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33688\/revisions\/33697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}