THIRTEEN Vietnamese students paid $9,600 each for what they were told would get them three-year visas to work and study here.

But when they arrived in August, they found that the law bars them from working here. They also found that the course of study at the Stamford School of Commercial Studies, a certified CaseTrust school, was only a one-year diploma programme costing $5,300.

On top of this, their living conditions were cramped: All 13 of them were housed in a Rowell Road room by their Vietnamese agent from Study Abroad Consultancy and Construction, who has since become uncontactable.

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