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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1994

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NEW SHAM SHUI PO DB CHAIRMAN ELECTED

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MR WONG CHUNG-KI WAS ELECTED UNOPPOSED AS THE NEW SHAM SHUI DISTRICT BOARD CHAIRMAN AT A MEETING TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MEANWHILE, MR LEUNG KAM-TAO WAS ALSO ELECTED UNOPPOSED AS BOARD'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE URBAN COUNCIL.

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THE

JOINT OPERATION TO FLUSH OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

JOINTLY HAS

A TERRITORY-WIDE OPERATION AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MOUNTED BY THE POLICE, THE LABOUR AND THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENTS RESULTED IN THE ARRESTS OF 179 PEOPLE.

THE OPERATION IS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT'S CONTINUOUS EFFORT FLUSH OUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,

TO

THE 177 SUSPECTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARRESTED BY HAVE BEEN REFERRED TO THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT. THOSE FOUND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL BE REPATRIATED.

THE POLICE TO BE

THE INVESTIGATORS.

OTHER

TWO

PERSONS WERE

ARRESTED

BY

IMMIGRATION

A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN REITERATED TODAY (WEDNESDAY) THAT WAS NO QUESTION OF ANY AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS,

"OUR

THERE

THAT THERE BELIEVE

LATEST OPERATION SHOULD DRIVE HOME THE POINT

то ANYONE FOOLISH ENOUGH BE NO CHANGE TO THIS POLICY.

HE SAID. OTHERWISE IS ONLY CHEATING ONESELF,

WILL

THE

SPOKESMAN

STRESSED

THROUGHOUT

THE TERRITORY,

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APART

FROM

CONTINUOUS

CHECKS

ANTI-ILLEGAL

THAT THERE WAS NO LET-UP IN IMMIGRATION EFFORTS AT THE BORDER.

MAINTAINED BY

BORDERS,"

"A HIGH STATE OF VIGILANCE WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE POLICE AND THE SECURITY FORCES BOTH AT THE LAND AND SEA HE SAID,

5 AM YESTERDAY DURING THE JOINT OPERATION, WHICH BEGAN AT

POLICE STEPPED UP THEIR AND ENDED AT 5 AM TODAY, THE (TUESDAY) IDENTIFICATION SPOT CHECKS IN PUBLIC PLACES AND CARRIED OUT CHECKS SUSPICIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY.

AT

AS A RESULT, A TOTAL OF 2,265 CARS AND 379 VESSELS WERE STOPPED FOR IDENTIFICATION CHECKS.

IMMIGRANTS WHO FULFIL THEIR LEGAL

OF THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT ON THE

FRONT, INSPECTORS LABOUR VISITED 2,372 ESTABLISHMENTS TO WEED OUT ANY ILLEGAL MAY BE WORKING THERE, AND TO CHECK THAT EMPLOYERS OBLIGATION OF KEEPING PROPER RECORDS OF THEIR EMPLOYEES.

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