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...Four years ago, the 30-year-old Hanoi travel agent became the first person in her family to open a bank account when she made a deposit in Agribank. Recently, she opened a second account with Techcombank, one of the country's private banks, and applied for her first Visa debit card. Tuyet says she prefers doing business with the latter because "the service is faster and more modern...
...youth's listed telephone number. Perez Cuevas was a student of international relations, according to the Virginia Tech Web site. His father, Flavio Perez, spoke of the death earlier to RPP radio in Peru. He lives in Peru and said he was trying to obtain a humanitarian visa from the U.S. consulate here. He is separated from Cueva, who said she had lived in the United States for six years. A spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Lima said the student's father "will receive all the attention possible when he applies" for the visa...
...rampage, shooting off half of his face and thus preventing law enforcement officers from making an immediate identification. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that a 24-year old student from China is person of interest in the case. He arrived in San Francisco in August on a visa issued in Shanghai. According to the Sun-Times, bomb threats that Virginia Tech experienced last month may have been attempts to test campus security. By mid-morning, however, reports began surfacing that a permanent resident of South Korean nationality was a suspect...
CONTEXT U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a British newspaper that the U.S. fears its next major terrorist attack could be carried out by "clean-skin terrorists" in Europe who feel they are treated as second-class citizens. He warned that the visa-waiver program, which allows citizens from some European countries to enter the U.S. without a visa, could be an open door for the terrorists...
...that politicians would be more responsive to noncitizens' concerns. The proposals are narrower than past ones. New York City's bill, for example, would apply to some 1.3 million people who have been in the U.S. legally for at least six months on a green card or long-term visa...