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Q11.
This year has seen an influx of illegal Vietnamese refugees
coming to Hong Kong from their temporary abode in China is this
crisis now seen as being over?
All.
Pleased to say influx into Hong Kong of Vietnamese
permanently resettled in China has effectively ceased. Repatriation
has started well in close co-operation between Hong Kong Government and Chinese provincial authorities. But influx has placed a heavy burden on Hong Kong's resources. Have much admiration for way they
are coping.
Hong Kong Department
7 September 1987
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