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The major difficulties envisaged are twofold: the willingness of the Vietnamese migrants to go home and the speed with which the Vietnamese authorities clear their names for return. To encourage more Vietnamese migrants to join the voluntary repatriation programme, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the Hong Kong Government have stepped up counselling in the detention centres and an additional allowance of US$150 has been introduced to each eligible migrant who volunteers to return to Vietnam.

We will step up the orderly repatriation programme as a means to encourage more Vietnamese migrants to join the voluntary repatriation programme, which remains our preferred repatriation option.

End/Wednesday, May 24, 1995

CLP to buy power from Daya Bay nuclear station

Following is a question by the Hon Christine Loh and a written reply by the Secretary for Economic Services, Mr Gordon Siu, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Question:

Owing to the fact that the China Light and Power Company Limited (CLP) is committed to purchasing 70% of the power generated from the nuclear power station at Daya Bay but the financial arrangement regarding such purchase is excluded from the Scheme of Control agreement, will the Government inform this Council:

how long the CLP is committed to purchasing 70% of the electricity produced from Daya Bay;

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(b)

how the price of electricity purchased from Daya Bay is determined; and

(c)

of the amount of the fixed annual return that the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company is entitled to recoup through electricity tariffs?