UK to ask for £3,000 bond for ‘high-risk’ visa applicants, India newspaper cries foul
London (23 Jun) - Visitors from six Asian and African countries including India, Pakistan and Nigeria are to be charged a £3,000 “bond” on arrival in the UK under a trial scheme to prevent visa overstayers, the Home Office has confirmed. The pilot, due to begin this November, will only apply to those foreigners coming...
China: Riot after teachers try to stop pupils cheating
Riot after Chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating Riot after Chinese teachers try to stop pupils cheating (20 June) - What should have been a hushed scene of 800 Chinese students diligently sitting their university entrance exams erupted into siege warfare after invigilators tried to stop them from cheating. The relatively...
Worst of Haze Shifts From Singapore to Malaysia
(AP, 23 Jun) - Malaysian authorities declared a state of emergency Sunday in a southern district where a smoky haze blamed on Indonesian forest fires has triggered one of the country's worst pollution levels in years. The worst of the smog has shifted from Singapore to southernmost Malaysia, where noxious fumes have drifted...
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