Visa procedures

摘要

IN A decrepit four-storey office block, Vu The Khanh runs what he describes as one of the busiest "embassies" in Hanoi. But unlike any normal consulate, his visitors are dead. "We give visas to dead people to come here and talk to their relatives," explains the silver-haired director of the curiously named Science and Technology Union for it Application. Each day his organisation helps some 100 people to find the bodies of relatives who died in Vietnam's bloody 20th-century wars.