51.   Local press reports said Lu had originally planned to stopover in Amsterdam but the Netherlands denied her a transit visa to avoid angering Beijing.

52.   Relations risk becoming further strained following the issuance of a transit visa by the United States for Taiwanese Vice President Li Yuan-zu.

53.   Sijm arrived here on a transit visa en route to India, while Loidl had booked into a Dhaka hotel.

54.   Shi was picked up in the southern city of Shenzhen as he tried to enter Hong Kong on a transit visa.

55.   The following year the visa ban was widened to include transit visas.