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"I hope I will get all previous criminal records removed and be issued a green card to continue living in the U.S.," said Tung Thanh Nguyen, one of the three Vietnamese Americans who were facing federal removal orders, but received pardons from California governor Jerry Brown on November 21.   Tung arrived in the U.S. as a refugee when he was just 13. Three years later, he was convicted of murder and robbery after engaging in a hotel fight that ended in the death of another man. He was sentenced to 25 years in jail though he was a minor. While serving his sentence for the 18th year, he risked his life to save 50 people in a prison riot that earned him an early release in 2011 under the Governor Brown’s clemency policy, the Los Angeles Times reported. At that time, Tung thought he would have the opportunity to start a new life. However, he received a deportation order from the U.S. government in October 2011 because he has not yet a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was held in … [Read more...] about Vietnamese American resumes chasing the American Dream

Sup, like Sup X Game Box, Sup Mini Game Player, Sup Game Box... these and other consoles are back on the rack, their popularity spreading through social media networks as well as e-commerce sites in Vietnam. Handheld game consoles like Sup are popular again in Vietnam. Sup, with its 3-inch colour screen, allows users to play classic Nintendo games like Contra, Mario, Tank and Pacman. The device features basic control systems including volume control wheel, power button, D-pad, ABXY buttons, “Select”, “Start” and “Reset” buttons. A complete set includes a console, Lithium battery, a USB cable and an AV cable. It comes in variety of colors like green, red and yellow. The number of built-in games range from 168 to 1,000. However, many of the games might overlap. The number of built-in games varies depending on packages offered by the manufacturer or the originally installed memory card. The Sup consoles have become popular among young people, as well … [Read more...] about They’re back: handheld game consoles get trendy again in Vietnam

Vingroup has invested VND2.4 trillion ($103.2 million) for an 80 percent stake in payment intermediary services firm VINID Joint Stock Company, according to a statement on the National Business Registration Portal. VINID, incorporated this week, has a charter capital of VND3 trillion ($129 million) and its other two founding shareholders are Hanoi-based VICARE Corporation (19 percent) and a person named Nguyen Minh Hong (1 percent). VINID sought to operate in 12 different areas of business, and received a registration certificate from the Hanoi Department of Planning and Investment. The payment services business must wait for State Bank of Vietnam permission, but the company has indicated it intends to begin as soon as it gets the green light. VINID is running Vingroup’s customer loyalty program, issuing VinID cards to customers of all of Vingroup’s subsidiaries. The firm takes care of four million card holders, Pham Nhat Vuong, chairman of Vingroup, told the 2018 annual … [Read more...] about Real estate giant shakes up market with yet another business

Less than two weeks after Democrats forced a three-day shutdown of the government over the issue, the Republican president said he would not give in to anything less than a harsh cutback on existing immigration and massive funding for a wall on the Mexican border.In exchange, Trump is offering a 12-year pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million people who came to the US illegally as children, 700,000 of whom are set to lose their current protection from deportation on March 6.Democrats are pushing for the fate of the Dreamers to be tackled as a priority, and are resisting Republican efforts to tie it into a broader bargain on immigration.The stalemate led Democrats to block a one-month budget extension on January 19, forcing a partial shutdown of the federal government, and the same threat looms over the new deadline for a long-term budget, February 8.In his annual speech before Congress late Tuesday, Trump again portrayed legal and illegal immigration as a threat to the country, … [Read more...] about Trump, Democrats head toward immigration showdown

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was prepared to back a deal that would provide a pathway to citizenship to America's so-called "Dreamer" immigrants over a period of 10 to 12 years. The latest approach by the White House suggests a key development in negotiations over some 700,000 immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children, and face deportation as early as March. "We are going to morph into it," Trump told reporters about the citizenship provision. "It's going to happen, at some point in the future, over a period of 10 to 12 years." In exchange, Trump said he is seeking $25 billion to build a border wall, one of the main pledges of his 2016 presidential campaign, plus an additional $5 billion in other border security measures including electronic surveillance and extra border agents. U.S. lawmakers have struggled for months to negotiate a compromise over the status of the dreamers. An impasse over the issue, a source of bitter partisan tension in … [Read more...] about ‘Don’t worry’: Trump lays out path to citizenship for Dreamers