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Cleone was born May 27, 1931 to Alice Tangen Christenson and Milo Christenson on their family farm near Ostrander, MN. She was the third child of what would eventually be a family of nine children, Merlin, Arlene, Cleone, Dale, Kermit, Ruby, Priscilla, Linda and Barbara.

The GAC Group has welcomed the newly formed Ocean Shipping & Logistics A/S (OSL) as a new member of its logistics network after the two companies entered into a global cooperation agreement. Operational from today (2 May 2022) from its hub in Aarhus, Denmark, OSL has been founded by industry veterans Peter Brun, Lars Kjærulf-Møller, ...

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Foreign companies are required by Chinese law to partner with a local “Facility Management Company” or FMC. New Zealand’s visa applications centre in Beijing have been subcontracted by an international company, VF Worldwide Holdings Limited or VFS Global, to the Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Company, an FMC partly owned by the municipal Public Security Bureau, a feared arm of the security apparatus that controls movements inside and out of China. VFS insists that the relationship...

“Their owners or investors have absolutely no access to any data at these visa application centres and no IT infrastructure access,” he said. “VFS Global does not have any servers in China, where applicant data is stored.” Brun said applicants’ data was transferred via a fully encrypted private network tunnel managed by VFS Global. This data is then transferred to respective client government servers. “VFS Global welcomes this scrutiny,” Brun said. “It i...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Markus Schreiber/The Associated Press A key parliamentary committee has voted to call VFS Global, the company that runs Canada’s visa application centres abroad, to answer questions regarding Chinese police ownership of the faci...

“When the centre was established back in 2012, some of the concerns that are making headlines now were raised and mitigated. “Officials between then and now seem to think that the mitigations have been meeting their purpose,” Faafoi said. Stuff’s report followed stories in Canadas and Mail newspaper that a similar system was being used for Canadian visas. That story led Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to ask his immigration and procurement ministers to ensure that his Governm...

A company owned by China's police runs New Zealand's visa application centre in Beijing.

Canadian Visa-Application Centres in China Owned by CCP-Affiliated Companies A company owned by Chinese police in Beijing collects detailed personal information as part of the Canadian visa-application process, raising security concerns for travelers applying for a visa to Canada and other countries. Beijing Shuangxiong Foreign Service Company, which operates the Canadian visa-application centre in China’s capital, is owned by the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, according to a Glob...

The Globe and Mail Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer The Canadian government is facing calls to cancel an arrangement in Beijing where Chinese police own a company that collects details of people applying for visas to Canada. As The Globe and Mail reported earlier this week, Canada�...