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RELIEF: New rules allowing direct phone and...

By Steve Emmons, Cristina Lee and Helene Elliott
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RELIEF: New rules allowing direct phone and money connections with Vietnam (D6) will be a boon, say local travel agencies. . . . “Our communication, paper work, processing visas will be much quicker, more efficient, and the cost will be lower,” says Michael Tran of Travel World. . . . Example: Until now, Steve Nguyen of Bolsa Travelmart had to pay $12 a page to route Vietnam-bound faxes through Australia.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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