1991-12-09 11:08 INFORMATION SERVICES DEPT
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POLICE Pensreds
(Columis)
Writing in Ming Pao's op-ed page, Thomas Chan of the Baptist college said the pensions for Poloice officers could not be viewed in isolation from other civil sevice grades, IN view of the economic and employment situation forecasts for the next few years, the Government was under no threat of being over-pressurised by unreasonable Police officers who demanded changes to their pension terms.
Cheung Ping-leung of the City Polytechnic said the Police officers' demand for getting their pensions earlier on the grounds that they would have a new employer (i.e. China) was unconvincing because it would not entail changes to their terms of employment. Also it would create a great financial burdern for the HK Government and cause unrest among other civil servants.
Lee Ho-yin of the Local Police Inspectors' association said their members were ready to get a lesser pension if they could get it early and many were willing to be re-enloyed by the Force on contract terms.
POLITICAL PARTY
(Editorial)
The HK Economic Journal cautioned the UDHK against relying mn the US to fight for democratisation in HK as China would not allow any foreign power to interfere with HK affairs. It should also realise that HK people's support for the UDUK would diminish if they were asked to publicly make known thier political stance. The UDHK must also be prepared to rempin the Oppostion Party as any attempt to come to power would not succeed without blessing from China and this would lead to a split among the liberals themselves.
VIETNAMESE
(Editorials)
While saying that it was pleased to see that the number of voluntary returnees had grown considerably recently, Tin Tin Daily News hoped that the pace of repatriation could be quickened, even with the use of force. It was also hoped that the parties concerned to hold discussions to consider shipping VMs back to the country in bulk.
Yik Chun in Tin Tin Daily News called on those who opposed the use of even minimum level of force in repatriating VMs to be rational, contending that the Vietnamese problem had already troubled HK for 16 years.
(Columns)
A senior lecturer in Geography at HKU, Wang Liang-huew, said in Ta Kung
go that if Vietnamese were allowed to work here to meet the labour ortage problem, HK would face serious social problem after 1997.