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Chinese visa-seekers

BEIJING: A young Chinese man has been jailed for using a faked photograph of himself with the US President Bill Clinton to trick about 50 people into believing he could supply them with US visas. The man was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a court in the northern city of Tianjin after being found guilty of swindling about 850,000 yuan (100,000 dollars) from the visa-seekers, the Yangcheng Evening News reported Saturday.ÑAFP