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After a first place in the Expat Insider survey in 2018 and 2017, Bahrain loses six places in 2019 (7th out of 64).

The pair are accused of having traded in 88 companies that employed 1302 expats and allowed them to leave the company and go work for others.

Furthermore, 88pc of expats questioned stated they were happy with their life in Bahrain.

The Expat Insider is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive surveys on life abroad.

The UAE is one of the 10 listed countries that expats wish to live and work and maybe retire in.

About 56 percent of expats said the Philippines has brought them closer to their partner and 64 percent of them found their long-time partner in the Philippines.

Expats in Taiwan are thus more likely to accumulate wealth with more disposable income and less debt, suggested the report.

On a global scale, expats working full time spend an average of 44.3 hours a week at work: about three in five of them are satisfied with their work-life balance (60 per cent) as well as their working hours (61 per cent), the report showed.

Caption: The versatile ESEE Expat Cleaver can chop, butcher, cleave, slice, dice firewood, meat and veggies for a clan of hungry hunters.

Dubai has the second highest expat employment levels in the world, with 92 per cent of expats in employment.

For a city to be featured in the Expat City Ranking 2017, a sample size of at least 45 survey participants per city was required.

Bahrain's parliament has rejected a controversial proposal from some MPs that expats aged over 50 be banned from working in Bahrain.

Saudi Arabia's new "expat levy" was confirmed during the budget announcement, with charges up to SR800 per worker to be phased in by 2020.

HSBC's expat explorer survey is now in its ninth year.

In 2004, a report issued by the Human Rights Watch organisation highlighted the maltreatment foreign workers are subjected to in Saudi Arabia, including assaults and trials that conclude with execution or beheading without informing the expat's home-country's government.