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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987
BUT HE WAS AFRAID THAT IT WAS NOT THAT EASY IN PRACTICAL TERMS.
AND WE HOPE "WE HAVE BEEN CONSIDERING ALL THE VARIOUS ANGLES TO IT TO BE ABLE TO PUT PROPOSALS TO
SHORTLY,
SAID.
.THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL
+
HE
AS HE
TURNING TO WORK OPPORTUNITIES, MR JEAFFRESON SAID THAT,
THESE SUGGESTIONS HAD INFORMED THE LEGCO AD HOC GROUP ON OCTOBER 10, WERE BEING CONSIDERED BY A WORKING GROUP ESTABLISHED BY THE UNHCR.
"ON THE WHOLE,
EFFORTS ATTRACT LOCAL FOR
QUR PREVIOUS
NOT BEEN
PARTICULARLY
VIETNAMESE SUCCESSFUL,
REFUGEES LARGELY
MANUFACTURERS TO PROVIDE WORK OPPORTUNITIES
HAVE
IN CLOSED CENTRES BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION OF THE CENTRES.
IN
A NUMBER NOW. EXAMPLES TAILORING,
....
ARE
"BUT REFUGEES ARE UNDERTAKING PIECE WORK RELEVANT TO OF INDUSTRIES ON A PAID BASIS, AND THEY ARE DOING THIS
WORKING OF THE SORT OF INDUSTRIES WHICH THEY ARE
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT, HE KNITTING, ASSEMBLING TOYS, AND ASSEMBLING SAID.
COUNCILLOR EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER VR PROBLEM
*
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR
HON RITA FAN TODAY THE INCREASING BURDEN THAT EXPRESSED DEEP CONCERN OVER IMPOSED ON HONG KONG BY THE VIETNAMESE REFUGEE PROBLEM.
SECTION
(WEDNESDAY)
BEING
WAS
SUPPORT OF MRS FAN WAS SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN
AND PARTS 18 (3)
VIIA AND VIIB OF THE THE MOTION THAT
DECEMBER 31. 1988. IMMIGRATION ORDINANCE BE EXTENDED BY ONE YEAR TO
WERE ORDINANCE THE PROVISIONS IN THESE PARTS OF THE
THE CREATED BY 1979 TO DEAL WITH THE SITUATION NUMBERS OF REFUGEES FROM VIETNAM AND ILLEGAL AT THAT TIME IT WAS HOPED THAT THE NEED FOR THESE PROVISIONS WOULD SHORT-LIVED.
INTRODUCED IN ARRIVALS IN LARGE IMMIGRANTS FROM CHINA.
BE
MRS FAN SAID SHE SUPPORTED THE MOTION ITS NECESSITY.
ALTHOUGH! SHE REGRETTED
WERE CONCERNED
BECOMING A
SHE SAID LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLORS
THAT
AND VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
CLOSED CAMPS WERE
PERMANENT AS THE TEMPORARY, EMERGENCY PROVISIONS FEATURE IN HONG KONG, JUST
PERMANENT PART OF WHICH THE MOTION SOUGHT TO EXTEND WERE BECOMING A HONG KONG'S IMMIGRATION LAW.
SHE NOTED THAT BETWEEN THE END OF 1979 THIS YEAR THE NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE REFUGEES STEADILY DECLINING.
AND THE BEGINNING IN HONG KONG HAD
OF BEEN
/THIS YEAR,