the first foreign passport I received in 1998, when I was 13, bore the Soviet coat of arms on the cover and each page of it. The emblem outlived the USSR. How could this happen? Immediately after ...

The Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced a new passport design to ensure other ... also a national emblem on its national flag. This is in stark contrast to the previous design ...

With its black cover adorned with silver ferns, the New Zealand passport is both understated and elegant. The silver fern, the national emblem, symbolizes strength and endurance, reflecting the ...

Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chung Chia-pin explains three design proposals for a revised passport cover at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Lu Yi-hsuan, Taipei Times ...

it showcases the New Zealand coat of arms in silver at the centre of the front cover. Surrounding this emblem, the words "URUWHENUA AOTEAROA" and "NEW ZEALAND PASSPORT" elegantly inscribed in ...

JEROME REILLY FOREIGN Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has moved to safeguard our national emblem, the harp, in the new high-tech biometric passport. Officials were surprised when the new passports ...

The new design is quite the shift from the current passports in terms of aesthetics, replacing the previous passport covers with an ... sensitive red maple leaf emblem that disappears when the ...

The new passport, right ... Taiwan's official name - will be moved from the top of the cover to instead wrap around the national emblem in a smaller font, and the English word Taiwan will be ...

Hong Kong is set to issue a new passport ... emblem. The new features to prevent counterfeiting would be on top of some 20 in the current biometric passport, while the booklet’s blue cover ...