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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1990

PEOPLE IN

IF AN INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY LOST, SAY, 500 A PERIOD OF ONE OR TWO YEARS, THAT MIGHT SOUND MUCIE MORE SERIOUS THE PROBLEM OF ANOTHER EMPLOYMENT CATEGORY WHICH LOST ONLY IN THE SAME PERIOD, HE SAID.

THAN

50 PEOPLE

IN THE COMMUNITY IS THE RELATIVE SIGNIFICANCE

PEOPLE "BUT IF THE TOTAL STOCK OF SUCH 20,000 AND 200 RESPECTIVELY, THEN CLEARLY IS QUITE DIFFERENT, HE EXPLAINED.

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EARLIER IN HIS SPEECH, MR TSANG NOTED THAT THE CONFIDENT THAT IT NOW HAD A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE OF PEOPLE EMIGRATING.

BASED ON

GOVERNMENT WAS ACTUAL NUMBERS

THREE DIFFERENT SOURCES OF INFORMATION,

MODEL STATISTICAL

A USEFUL

THE

WHICH

GOVERNMENT WAS ABLE TO CONSTRUCT ALLOWED A REASONABLE ASSESSMENT TO BE MADE OF THE OVERALL POSITION.

EMIGRATION FROM HONG KONG AVERAGED

FROM HE SAID

1980-86,

20,000 PERSONS PER YEAR.

IN 1987, IT ROSE TO 30,000, IN 1988 TO 45,800 AND STAYED OVER 40,000 AT 42,000.

IN 1989 IT

LLI

"THIS YEAR WE EXPECT A FURTHER INCREASE TO

ABOUT

55,000,

HE

SAID.

AND ACHIEVE INDIVIDUAL.

MR TSANG SAID THE INFORMATION WAS AS DETAILED COMPREHENSIVE AS THE GOVERNMENT COULD EVER REASONABLY HOPE TO IN A FREE SOCIETY WITHOUT TRESPASSING ON THE RIGHTS OF THE

REFINE

"THERE ARE SMALL GREY AREAS WHERE WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOWLEDGE, BUT THERE ARE NO GREAT BLACK HOLES OF IGNORANCE,"

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AG SPEAKS ON LANGUAGE AND LAW

OUR

HE SAID.

LANGUAGE AND THE LAW WERE INEXTRICABLY GENERAL. MR JEREMY MATHEWS, SAID TODAY (MONDAY).

RELATED, THE ATTORNEY

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND LAW ORGANISED BY THE CITY POLYTECHNIC, MR MATHEWS SAID IT WAS THROUGH LANGUAGE THAT THE LAW WAS PROCLAIMED, WHETHER IT BE BY LEGISLATION OR DECISIONS OF THE COURTS.

"

'CONVERSELY, THE LAW HAS BEEN EMPLOYED TO PRESERVE LANGUAGE RIGHTS, THAT IS, THE RIGHTS OF PEOPLE TO USE LANGUAGE AND HAVE IT USED IN RELATION TO THEM," HE SAID.

AND FOSTER THEIR OWN

MR MATHEWS SAID THERE WAS ANOTHER DIMENSION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND THE LAW THAT WAS PARTICULARLY RELEVANT IN MULTILINGUAL SETTINGS.

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