In the 1988 New Fashioned, a whiskey cocktail named for the year Vang’s family immigrated to the United States from the Thai refugee camp Ban Vinai, a stately ice cube is engraved with a geometric symbol evoking traditional Hmong embroidery.
Bureau staff were told the group itself, already gutted as part of mass layoffs at the State Department in July, would refocus on migration diplomacy and disaster response rather than its traditional refugee focus.
The moment resonated with TikTok users, many of whom praised Liz's refusal to conform to the standard tourist snapshot.
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Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
The fight over the casino was largely about whether an influx of gambling tourists would help, or hurt, a theater district still recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.
An article in The Guardian in May 2025 reported that a record number of emigrants left New Zealand in 2023 and 2024.
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Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Americans still hoping to move to Portugal, meanwhile, might be wise to see if their preferred neighborhoods are already too saturated with fellow emigrants or tourists.
Several other exiles in London — oligarchs and defectors — who died under mysterious circumstances in the early 2000s.
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Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
Researchers said the report was based on interviews with defectors and officials around the world, as well as declassified documents, satellite images and open-source information.
Some parents are concerned that tuition fees for international schools in Kenya could rise further with the arrival of more expatriates in the country.
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Martin K.N Siele,
semafor.com,
5 Sep. 2025
If an investor who has not sold the IP expatriates for example, valuation of the interest will be included in determining the investor’s net worth and may subject the investor to unexpected taxes as a covered expatriate, for both income and estate tax purposes.
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Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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