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...mother had been jailed as a Viet Cong agent. They were not released until April 1975, when North Vietnamese forces overran Saigon. Lien was schooled in the city, renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the victors. When she was 18 she got lucky: her application for a visa to study fashion in Australia was accepted. After three years in Melbourne, she went to Canada in 1996 for two years and then spent a year in Paris. There she fell in love with French style. "Christian Lacroix, Galliano--I have a taste for the elegant," she says, pointing to a rack...
Xuan resolved to find a way to move to the U.S.--home to nearly a million Vietnamese. This month he married his childhood sweetheart, a girl from his village who had managed to get a highly valued exit visa in the 1980s and settled in Minnesota. She flew to Saigon for the wedding, but Xuan knows it will still take years for the U.S. consulate to process his visa request to join her. "I know it will not be easy in America. I will always miss my family here. But I need to try something bigger...
...allowed here." More than anything, Huy wants to make money. Fast. "Business is good. Artists paint so many pictures. Why? To make money. Singers write songs--to make money. With money you can live." Huy wanted to study in the U.S. but couldn't get a visa. He says it doesn't matter much. "I can get what I need from the Internet." The bar is doing so well that he plans to open a second one. He's hoping to begin shooting music videos of his best acts. "You know the real problem with Vietnamese bands?" says Huy. "They...
PUMP IT DOWN To relieve the sting of recent gas hikes, think about ditching your oil-company credit card for a gas-rebate card. Today almost all major oil companies offer co-branded cards with Visa or Mastercard that promise rebates of 1% to 5% on gas and gas-station purchases. Considering most of the cards have no annual fees, it's not a bad deal--unless you carry a balance. With APR rates as high as 24.4%, those who don't pay promptly will get less mileage out of their dollars...
...think he should return voluntarily," Mata wrote. "At least, the U.S. should pull his visa...