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...fever for Asia's office-bound workers?and there's no relief to be had through leisure travel. The suddenly germ-phobic nation of Thailand, which made headlines early in the outbreak by requiring visitors to wear masks under pain of a fine or imprisonment, now hands out "health passports" to travelers from SARS-hit regions. The government says tourists will be required to undergo medical checks every three days for the first 10 days of their stay in the country, recording the results in these passports. While it's far from clear how Thailand plans to enforce the system...
Jianli, a pro-democracy activist and graduate of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), went to China illegally last year using a fake passport and violating the blacklist that forbade him from entering the country. He was arrested by Chinese authorities, who have been holding him ever since...
...What shall I do? Order you to shoot?" As a crowd of 20,000 of his countrymen implored him to "Open the gate!" on that chaotic Thursday evening, Harald Jager, head of passport control at the Berlin Wall's Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint, kept shouting that rhetorical question at the guards under his command. It was nearly 11 p.m., four hours since Jager heard the stunning news on TV: the East German Politburo, responding to weeks of peaceful demonstrations and a flood of refugees fleeing through Hungary and Czechoslovakia, had announced that all citizens could leave East Germany at any crossing...
Caught with another person’s passport after entering the country despite being on a Chinese blacklist forbidding him from visiting, Yang has not been seen or heard from since last April...
...only regret is that my father couldn’t come here because he couldn’t get a passport to travel because my husband is blacklisted so they are afraid he will brainwash him,” Fu says. “So my parents were separated for three years and never saw each other again...