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FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1989

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ACTING SDA DISCUSSES EMIGRATION WITH OVERSEAS VISITORS

THAT

HONG

KONG

PEOPLE IT IS ENCOURAGING TO LEARN MIGRATED ABROAD REMAIN STRONGLY ATTACHED TO HONG KONG AND WAY OF LIFE.

WHO HAVE ITS UNIQUE

RETURNING ΤΟ THE MR DAVID

FURTHERMORE, QUITE A NUMBER ARE THINKING OF TERRITORY, THE ACTING SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, LAN, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).

THE REMARKS

DURING

A MEETING MR LAN MADE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TORONTO CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

WITH TWO

DONE

ΤΟ MANY LIKE TO

CAN BE "THE GOVERNMENT IS ACTIVELY CONSIDERING WHAT MAKE IT EASIER FOR THESE PEOPLE TO RETURN," HE SAID, NOTING THAT OF THEM HAD FRIENDS AND RELATIVES IN HONG KONG AND WOULD NOT BE CUT OFF FROM THEIR ROOTS PERMANENTLY.

ΤΟ

SOME FORMER HONG MR LAN SAID IT WAS HEARTENING TO LEARN THAT KONG RESIDENTS IN TORONTO AND ELSEWHERE WERE THINKING OF RETURNING THE TERRITORY.

THIS WAS NATURAL AS THEY WERE BORN AND THEIR ROOTS DEEPLY ENTRENCHED IN THE TERRITORY.

BROUGHT UP HERE WITH

THAT SOME NATURAL ONLY THEREFORE, IT WAS RETURN TO HONG KONG FOR PERSONAL OR OTHER REASONS.

"THEY ARE, OF COURSE, WARMLY WELCOMED COMMUNITY, HE SAID.

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THE GOVERNMENT WAS ALSO LOOKING AT WITH FORMER HONG KONG RESIDENTS AND TO DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TERRITORY, HE NOTED.

WOULD

CHOOSE

TO

BY HONG KONG AND ITS

ΤΟ WAYS

IMPROVE CONTACTS THEM INFORMED OF NEW KEEP

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ARE HELD IN

THE TWO VISITORS MR JOSEPH AU-YEUNG AND MR CLEMENT LEE IN HONG KONG TO PROMOTE THE DRAGON BOAT RACES FESTIVAL TO BE TORONTO IN JUNE THIS YEAR.

THE RACES THEY CAME HERE TO BUY SIX DRAGON BOATS FOR INVITE LOCAL DIGNITARIES AND DRAGON BOAT TEAMS TO PARTICIPATE

TIES BETWEEN CLOSER FESTIVAL WITH A VIEW TO FOSTERING PEOPLE AND THE CHINESE COMMUNITY IN TORONTO,

ΤΟ AND IN THE

HONG

KONG

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