+
}
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approximately $40 million.
About
is
to 50 percent
devoted to refugees who have continued subsidies including continued relief, including already been settled, and 50 percent is used for resettlement, primarily construction of housing. A budget estimate for 1983 is not available.
UNHCR in 1981 spent $9,492,595, including $4,100,000 for a fishing project, and $1.5 farming projects, $2,000,000 for
UNHCR budget the 1982 million for education.
projects
is
Most
designated
of
of farms.
on state for $9,880,000 According to UNHCR, the 1983 budget will fall to approximately $5 million as the UNHCR begins to phase out China
its program
in
Policy. Government
HONG KONG
Over the years,
Chinese
have found
refuge in Hong Kong from the changing political situation in climate in that China, but with the improving political
policy in 1980 toward these country, Hong Kong changed its policy
no longer subject to people on the grounds that they were
Border crossers who persecution if denied asylum and returned. are not properly documented for legal departure from China are now treated as illegal entrants and returned to their homeland.
has been the destination of Since 1975, Hong Kong also
While these people Vietnamese boat refugees 113,000 in all. have been treated as refugees and been given temporary asylum pending their onward resettlement in other countries, this year stiffened its refugee acceptance the Hong Kong government policy in order to reduce the arrival rate from Vietnam. New arrivals are placed in closed camps without access to outside This years. case as had been the
in previous employment practice is expected to remove the incentive to leave Vietnam that life and work in Hong Kong offered to the refugees.
to the density of population in Hong
resettlement
and
accepts
has
is not for residence
5,000 permitted
Hong Kong's limited The offered. generally
resident in some persons
of almost wholly persons,
Due territory, government Vietnam
Chinese origin, to enter Hong Kong by air flights directly from that country. Some of the 263,000 Vietnamese who entered China