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The article examines the marital condition of the population, marriage rates and certain socio-economic characteristics of brides and bridegrooms in the past 13 years. The number of divorces and divorce rates are also discussed.
The Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics is now on sale at $48 a copy. Purchases can be made at the Government Publications Centre, General Post Office Building, ground floor, Connaught Place, Hong Kong and at the Publications Section of the Census and Statistics Department on 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
End/Tuesday, December 20, 1994
369 Vietnamese return home voluntarily
A group of 369 Vietnamese migrants today (Tuesday) returned to Vietnam under the Voluntary Repatriation Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Comprising 128 men, 103 women, 69 boys and 69 girls, they were the 223rd batch to go back under the programme.
The group brought to 5,581 the total number of Vietnamese migrants who had returned voluntarily this year, and to 44,194 the total number of returnees since the programme started in March 1989.
End/Tuesday, December 20, 1994