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Cato Lee, a Sino-Thai businessman educated in mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, returns to Thailand after a twenty-year absence to marry and raise a family of ten children. Forced to change his Chinese name to comply with Thai law, he…

In 1955, Tullio Giacinto Vigano was the first Filipino international student to enroll from Manila.

In 1952, Fujio Umibe was the first Japanese international student to enroll. He was a graduate student from Yokohama, Japan.

In 1948, Chittaranjan Ishverlal Almaula graduated from the university. He came from Bombay Presidency, India as a graduate student.

Tek Heung Fun was the first international student from China to enroll at the university. He came from Kwongtung, China.

In 1920, Tien Liang Jiu came from Hong Kong to the United States, where he spent his first year at the Virginia Military Institute. The following year, he transferred to Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute then) and proceeded to graduate in…

In 1950, Yvonne Rohran Tung was the first Asian woman international student to enroll at the university, coming from Hong Kong. She entered the United States on March 3, 1949 at San Francisco as a student. She earned an M.S. from Cornell University…

Forty-two years after VAMC opened in 1872, and 40 years after the first international student enrolled, Mozaffar-ed-din Khan was the first international student from Asia to enroll at the university, coming from Teheran, Persia (sic). This was nearly…