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Government welcomes ROVR scheme
The Government today (Monday) welcomed the announcement by the US Administration on the Resettlement Opportunity for Vietnamese Returnees (ROVR) scheme for Vietnamese migrants (VMs) returning to Vietnam from Hong Kong. A Government spokesman said: "We welcome this initiative and are co-operating closely with the US Consulate-General in putting in place the necessary logistical arrangements in the camps.
"We hope that as a consequence of ROVR, more VMs will apply for voluntary repatriation and we shall see a sizeable increase in the numbers returning to Vietnamn," he said.
The spokesman pointed out that the Government understood that there would be no further US initiatives providing for the resettlement in the US of the non-refugees in the camps.
He appealed to all VMs to seize the opportunity presented by ROVR and to apply for voluntary repatriation as soon as possible.
"The international community, through the Comprehensive Plan of Action, has decreed that the only viable option for the VMs is return to Vietnam," the spokesman stressed.
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Public consultation on quality school education
A Task Group has been set up under the Education Commission (EC) to study the issue of quality school education and a consultation pamphlet will be issued in June to solicit public views on relevant broad principles, Chairman of the Education Commission (EC), Professor Rosie Young, said today (Monday).
Speaking to reporters after an EC meeting, Professor Young said that the views collated would help the Commission's Task Group in finalising their proposals which would form the basis of a draft EC Report No.7 (ECR7). "Further consultation will be conducted later in the year on the draft ECR7 which will recommend more concrete proposals relating to school quality and school funding," she said.