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...imagine not living in Indonesia. My life is here." SIDNEY JONES, Jakarta-based human-rights analyst, after her work visa was not renewed by Indonesian authorities, who have strongly criticized her probing reports on the country
...That is already happening. The very day after the arrests, the government hiked the penalty for overstaying a visa tenfold, to about $27,000. It also prohibited foreigners who have been deported from re-entering the country for 10 years, twice as long as before. As Japan copes with a rapidly aging population, a major influx of foreign labor may well be the only way the nation can stay economically competitive. Yet many Japanese believe the immigration barriers aren't stringent enough, especially in the wake of the arrests. Tsuneo Taya is a tofu-shop owner in Nishi-Kawaguchi...
...closely monitored by security authorities. "Should we find that these people are continuing to sell out their country, we may return to the old measures," he said, referring to the days of strongman Suharto, during which NGOs were tightly controlled and their workers routinely jailed. As for Jones, whose visa expires on June 10, she continues to press for a renewal but isn't hopeful. Still, she says, even if she's obliged to move to another country in the region, "That's certainly not going to stop me from writing about Indonesia...
...used $100,000 of his son's college funds to find and film them. North, with help from a newsman in Houston, recruited Dr. Joe Agris, a plastic surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital, to operate on the men free of charge. The Department of Homeland Security waived visa requirements, and Continental Airlines agreed to fly them to Houston. The U.S. branch of the German prosthetics firm Otto Bock HealthCare donated seven prosthetic hands equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, worth $50,000 apiece, and two Houston firms helped with fitting and rehabilitation. At a cookout in the Texas...
...Association’s priorities have remained relatively consistent over the course of the past year, Casey says—and in general they reflect the issues that have most concerned Harvard since Sept. 11. New visa-issuing and registration procedures facing students have ranked near the top of the list...