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VIETNAMESE SENT HOME
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THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1993
(THURSDAY) RETURNED
A GROUP OF 270 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS TODAY TO VIETNAM UNDER THE UNHCR'S VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME.
COMPRISING 110 MEN, 63 WOMEN, 53 BOYS AND 44 GIRLS, THEY WERE
THE 148TH BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.
THE GROUP BROUGHT TO 1.788 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE RETURNED VOLUNTARILY THIS YEAR, AND TO 28,100 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RETURNEES SINCE THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MARCH 1989.
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LONG-SERVING IMMIGRATION STAFF HONOURED
SEVENTY-THREE MEMBERS OF THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE WERE AWARDED LONG SERVICE INSIGNIA AT A CEREMONY HELD TODAY (THURSDAY) AT TRE IMMIGRATION HEADQUARTERS.
AMONG THEM, ACTING ASSISTANT DIRECTOR MR YEUNG CHUN-KONG AND SIX OTHERS WERE AWARDED THE SECOND CLASPS TO THEIR MEDALS FOR THEIR 30-YEAR DEDICATED SERVICE.
FIRST CLASPS, SIGNIFYING 25 YEARS OF SERVICE, WERE PRESENTED TO PRINCIPAL IMMIGRATION OFFICERS, MR ANTHONY NG WAI-LEUNG AND MR TANG MAN-KIT AND 12 OTHERS.
ANOTHER 52 OFFICERS, INCLUDING ONE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL IMMIGRATION OFFICER, TWO CHIEF IMMIGRATION OFFICERS, 24 SENIOR IMMIGRATION OFFICERS, 21 IMMIGRATION OFFICERS, THREE ASSISTANT IMMIGRATION OFFICERS AND ONE SENIOR IMMIGRATION ASSISTANT, RECEIVED THE HONG KONG DISCIPLINED SERVICES MEDALS.
AT THE PRESENTATION CEREMONY, THE DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION. MR LAURENCE LEUNG, SAID THE AWARD OF THE HONG KONG SERVICES MEDALS WAS TO HONOUR THOSE WHO HAD RENDERED LONG AND MERITORIOUS SERVICE AS MEMBERS OF THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE.
HE CONGRATULATED THE RECIPIENTS AND THANKED THEM FOR THEIR MANY YEARS OF LOYALTY AND DEDICATION TO THE SERVICE.
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CLOSURE OF ILLEGAL STRUCTURE SOUGHT
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THE BUILDING AUTHORITY IS SEEKING TO
CLOSE AN UNAUTHORISED
STRUCTURE IN A BUILDING IN SHAM SHUI PO SO THAT IT CAN BE DEMOLISHED WITHOUT CAUSING DANGER TO THE OCCUPIERS AND THE PUBLIC.
THE SINGLE-STOREY DOMESTIC STRUCTURE IS ON THE ROOF OF 341 LAI CHI KOK ROAD.
/NOTICE OF