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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1992

52 PASS PART I OF LICENTIATE MEDICAL EXAM

THE LICENTIATE COMMITTEE OF THE MEDICAL COUNCIL OF HONG KONG TODAY (WEDNESDAY) ANNOUNCED THAT 52 CANDIDATES HAD PASSED THE LICENTIATE EXAMINATION FOR UNREGISTRABLE DOCTORS.

PART I OF

A TOTAL OF 201 CANDIDATES SAT FOR THE MULTIPLE-CHOICE PAPER ON PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE ON JANUARY 7.

QUESTION

PART II OF THE EXAMINATION, DESIGNED TO TEST THE CANDIDATES' ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES, WILL BE HELD ON MARCH 4 AND MAY 1 THIS YEAR.

IN ADDITION TO THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES FROM PART I, A FURTHER FOUR CANDIDATES WHO FAILED PART II IN PREVIOUS YEARS WILL BE SITTING FOR THIS PART OF THE EXAMINATION.

CANDIDATES MAY CHOOSE TO TAKE THE EXAMINATION ON EITHER DATE.

PART II

LICENTIATE

130 VOLUNTARY RETURNEES BACK TO VIETNAM

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A GROUP OF 130 VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) RETURNED TO VIETNAM UNDER THE UNHCR'S VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME.

COMPRISING 46 MEN, 31 WOMEN, 35 BOYS AND 18 GIRLS, THEY WERE THE 88TH BATCH TO GO BACK UNDER THE PROGRAMME.

THIS GROUP BROUGHT TO 1,191 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS WHO HAVE RETURNED VOLUNTARILY THIS YEAR, AND TO 15,170 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RETURNEES SINCE THE PROGRAMME STARTED IN MARCH 1989.

TODAY'S FLIGHT WAS THE FIRST TO HO CHI MINH CITY SINCE THE VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION PROGRAMME BEGAN.

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