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Vocational training for Vietnamese QuestDeD NO. B
refugees
Oral Reply by
the Hon. G.. Barnes, J.P. Secretary for Security to a question from Hon. Jackie Chan far
the Legislative Council meeting of 9 March 1988
8. MR. JACKIE CHAN asked:
Question
Will the Government inform this Council whether the costs of vocational training for Vietnamese refugees, while residing in Hong Kong, are paid by the Hong Kong Government or by any other countries or organizations and how this compares with the situation in other countries of first asylum, such as the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia?
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SECRETARY FOR SECURITY:
Reply
Sir,
Vocational training, like other educational
services for Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong, is
provided by voluntary agencies using their own resources
assisted by funds from the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees and the Hong Kong Government.
Vocational training programmes for Vietnamese
refugees in other places of first asylum in the region
· are provided, if at all, by voluntary agencies supported
in part by UNHCR funding.