Luu

MEMORANDUM **

Ngu Luu and his wife, Helen Ng, 1 natives and citizens of China, petition for review of the Board of Immigration Appeals’ order dismissing their appeal from an immigration judge’s denial of their application for asylum and withholding of removal. We have jurisdiction under 8 U.S.C. § 1252 . We review for substantial evidence factual determinations concerning a petitioner’s eligibility for asylum, and must uphold them unless the evidence compels a contrary result. INS v. Elias-Zacarias, 502 U.S. 478 , 481 & n. 1, 112 S.Ct. 812 , 117 L.Ed.2d 38 (1992). We deny the petition.

Luu testified that he was detained and beaten by communist Vietnamese in Vietnam during 1967, because he provided intelligence information regarding the North Vietnamese to the United States government.

Luu provided no evidence of past persecution by the Chinese government and therefore substantial evidence supports the denial of his asylum application. See Lim v. INS, 224 F.3d 929, 936 (9th Cir.2000) (stating standard).

Luu also testified that he fears the Chinese government will persecute him because he provided intelligence information to the United States in 1967. This evidence does not…