Recently a large group of new clients have appeared at the banks handling remittances: mainlanders (born in provinces other than Taiwan), about 60, mostly men, with white hair cut short--you know at a glance they are retired servicemen or civil servants--and the destination of the remittance is invariably the mainland.
最近承辦大陸間接匯款的幾家行庫，出現這麼一批新客戶：年歲六十左右，外省籍，主要是男性，斑白的頭髮大多修得極短，一看就是榮民或退休公教人員，匯款地址則清一色是大陸地區。