Without an infrastructure on the ground, the new firms hired armies of agents, giving them a healthy commission of, say, 25% of the payment (or premium) the customer coughed up in the firstyear.
Underscoring their alarm, members of the Mekong River commission completed a four-day summit in Thailand on Monday; it was the first such meeting in the commission's 15-year history.
为了强调这一状态的紧急性，湄公河委员会(Mekong River Commission)的成员周一在泰国举行了为期四天的峰会。这是该委员会成立15年来首次举办此类峰会。
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The China Securities Regulatory Commission stopped allowing public offerings in September after the Shanghai Composite Index fell almost 60 percent in the first nine months of last year.