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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1991

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250 VOLUNTARY RETURNEES BACK TO VIETNAM

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A GROUP OF 250 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS TODAY

(WEDNESDAY) RETURNED

TO VIETNAM UNDER THE UNHCR'S VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME.

COMPRISING 85 MEN, 64 WOMEN, 44 BOYS AND 57 THE 81ST BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.

GIRLS, THEY WERE

THIS GROUP BROUGHT TO 7,131 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE RETURNED VOLUNTARILY THIS YEAR, AND то 13,450 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RETURNEES SINCE THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MARCH 1989.

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$30,000 FINE FOR UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS

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THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE OF THE BUILDINGS AND LANDS DEPARTMENT TODAY (WEDNESDAY) REMINDED BUILDING OWNERS THAT THEY WOULD FACE HEFTY FINES FOR CARRYING OUT UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS ON THEIR PREMISES.

THE REMINDER CAME IN THE WAKE OF A RECENT COURT CASE IN WHICH A TRADING COMPANY AND ITS DIRECTOR WERE FINED A TOTAL OF $30,000 FOR BUILDING A TWO-STOREY STRUCTURE ON THE ROOF OF A BUILDING

IN

HAPPY VALLEY AND REMOVING THE BUILDING ROOF TO FORM AN OPENING WITHOUT AUTHORITY.

THE COURT WAS TOLD THAT THE UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS WERE FOUND ON THE ROOF OF YUK SING BUILDING AT NOS. 1-9 YUK SAU STREET AND NOS. 12, 12A-12C SING WOO ROAD WHICH WAS CERTIFIED FOR OCCUPATION IN SEPTEMBER 1976.

SINCE APRIL THIS YEAR, MILLION GLAD LIMITED HAD BEEN THE OWNER OF FLAT D, 26TH FLOOR AND PORTION D OF THE MAIN ROOF OF THE SAID BUILDING. GINA LEE SO-MAN WAS THE DIRECTOR OF THE COMPANY AT THE MATERIAL TIME.

STAFF OF THE BUILDINGS ORDINANCE OFFICE INSPECTED THE ON MAY 22 THIS YEAR AND FOUND THAT CERTAIN UNAUTHORISED WORKS WERE BEING CARRIED OUT AT PORTION D OF THE MAIN ROOF.

PREMISES BUILDING

COMPRISED

THE COURT HEARD THAT THE UNAUTHORISED BUILDING WORKS A TWO-STOREY STRUCTURE OF ABOUT 50 SQUARE METRES IN ARBA AND FIVE METRÈS IN HEIGHT, CONSTRUCTED OF CORRUGATED METAL SHEET ROOFING ON METAL FRAMES WITH BRICKWORKS/ALUMINIUM WINDOW ENCLOSURE, AND THE REMOVAL OF THE REINFORCED CONCRETE ROOF SLAB TO FORM AN OPENING WITH AN AREA ABOUT 1.6 SQUARE METRES.

/THE DEFENDANTS