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WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1991

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NON-REFUGEE CENTRES IN VIETNAM UNDER STUDY

THE GOVERNMENT IS DISCUSSING

ESTABLISHMENT OF

WITH INTERNATIONALLY

THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT

CENTRES MANAGED

IN

THE POSSIBLE VIETNAM TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE SCREENED OUT AS NON-REFUGEES.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY

HON FOR

THE SECURITY, QUESTION BY THE HON LAM ALISTAIR ASPREY, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A WAI-KEUNG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

CONTINUING MR ASPREY SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS

ITS EFFORTS TO REPATRIATION OF ALL SECURE AGREEMENT TO ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE

THOSE

SCREENED OUT AS NON-REFUGEES.

ADMINISTRATION WOULD TAKE

MR LAM WAS ASKING THE MEASURES THE TO COPE WITH AND ACCOMMODATE THE FURTHER INFLUX OF BOAT PEOPLE.

ARRIVALS IN WHATEVER SPACE IS

NEW "WE PLAN TO ACCOMMODATE AVAILABLE IN EXISTING DETENTION CENTRES.

UNHCR,

THE

CO-OPERATION WITH

GENERALLY INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ACROSS ΤΟ PEOPLE IN VIETNAM THAT CLANDESTINELY IN SEARCH OF A

IN "AT THE SAME TIME, WE ARE, VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT AND THE ENDEAVOURING TO GET THE MESSAGE THERE IS NO POINT IN LEAVING VIETNAM BETTER LIFE OVERSEAS, MR ASPREY ADDED.

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MINIBUS PRICING MECHANISM APPROPRIATE

THE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, THE HON MICHAEL LEUNG, TODAY (WEDNESDAY) SAID THE RED MINIBUSES (RMB'S) PROVIDED A SUPPLEMENTARY SERVICE TO THE MASS CARRIERS WHOSE VIABILITY DEPENDED ON MARKET FORCES.

IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO THE HON DAVID CHEUNG CHI-KONG'S QUESTION ON WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT HAS ANY PLAN TO EXERCISE SOME CONTROL OVER THE PRICING OF RMB'S TO PREVENT EXCESSIVE PROFITEERING, MR LEUNG SAID THE EXISTING PRICING MECHANISM OF RMB'S WAS CONSIDERED APPROPRIATE.

RMB'S OPERATE ON NON-SCHEDULED ROUTES. THEY PROVIDE A FLEXIBLE SERVICE FOR PASSENGERS WHO ARE PREPARED TO PAY HIGHER FARES IN RETURN FOR MORE CONVENIENCE AND COMFORT THAN IS GENERALLY PROVIDED BY BUSES.

THEIR VIABILITY IS SUBJECT TO MARKET FORCES AND THE COMPETITIVENESS OF INDIVIDUAL OPERATORS.

IF THEIR CHARGES ARE TOO HIGH, THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ATTRACT ENOUGH CUSTOMERS, WHEREAS, IF THEIR FARES WERE PRE-DETERMINED, THIS WOULD DETRACT FROM THEIR RESPONSIVENESS TO CHANGES IN LOCAL MARKET

CONDITIONS.

/MR LEUNG