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Pakistan has taken a different approach to encourage the use of formal banking channels. The government set up an incentive program that gives overseas Pakistanis who send home more than $10,000 a year higher duty-free allowances and access to VIP airport-customs counters. The program also establishes remittance-based admissions quotas at the country's public universities. Official remittances to Pakistan, which has some 1,300 Western Union outlets, are expected to reach $4 billion this year, nearly triple the amount logged three years...
...Born and raised on the sunbaked Caribbean island of St. Croix, where his smiling visage now adorns a giant billboard at the airport, Duncan's first sport was swimming, not hoops. Like his older sister Tricia, who swam backstroke in the 1988 Olympics, he was a high ranked amateur in the 400 meter freestyle. But after Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island's only Olympic pool in the fall of 1989 - and his mother Ione died of breast cancer several months later - Duncan never again competed in the water. He only started playing organized basketball in high school...
...having more problems with air-security personnel. At a hearing on Capitol Hill last week, aviation-security experts and Congressmen were surprised when it was disclosed that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency that protects the nation's air-traffic system, had to fire more than 1,200 airport screeners because security checks had turned up problems, including felony convictions, in their backgrounds. The TSA also admitted that it still has not completed background checks on 22,000 screeners, almost half the 52,000 screeners who are supposed to be helping guard the country's aviation system against terrorist...
...embarkation cards of individuals who had passed through immigration in Sungai Kolok, agents turned up the name of Mas Selamat Kastari, an alleged JI operations chief in Singapore and the suspected mastermind behind a foiled plan in 2001 to hijack a plane and crash it into Singapore's Changi Airport...
...niche airlines know they will need every edge they can find as competition heats up. As major carriers emerge from bankruptcy protection with lower labor costs and other new economies, they will be more formidable. Some big airlines are holding on to valuable airport facilities they aren't even using, and they are strong-arming airport managers to keep out rivals. Some of those rivals suspect that the major carriers are working together to beat them back. In early May, within days of one another, the Big Six (American, Continental, Delta, Northwest, United and US Airways) said they would impose...