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(c) Hore ung more refugees will have to take up
employment because:-
(i) a conscious decision has been made to
encourage them to be self-reliant; and
(ii) a phased reduction in the food rations
for refugees in Government open camps is being introduced.
At present, an Employment Co-ordinator is providing employment service to those in UNHCR camps;
(d) It appears that all those who would like to seek
employment can get a job, but those ethnic
Vietnamese who cannot speak Cantonese encounter serious problems in securing employment; and
(e) Some of those employers who are now providing
transport to take the refugees to and from place of work are prepared to provide quarters for them.
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