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Paralympic team returns with gold medals
The Government will welcome the Hong Kong Paralympic Team when they return from the Atlanta Paralympic Games next Tuesday (August 27).
A government spokesman said today (Thursday) it was encouraging to learn of the brilliant achievements of the team, in particular Mr Ben Cheung Wai-leung who had done exceedingly well by winning four gold medals.
The Deputy Secretary for Broadcasting, Culture and Sport, Mr Benjamin Tang, as well as representatives from the Hong Kong Sports Association for the Physically Disabled (SAP) and the Amateur Sports Federation and Olympic Committee (ASF and OC) will greet the delegation at the airport upon their arrival.
The acting Director of Fire Services, Mr John Tsang, and the acting Deputy Director of Fire Services, Mr Hsu King-ping, will also be present to receive Mr Cheung who is a Senior Station Officer of the department.
A press conference will be held at the airport.
The team is scheduled to arrive at 6.50 pm on UA805. Members of the public wishing to greet the team may assemble outside the group passenger holding lounge which is outside the Terminal Building at the eastern end of the arrival level.
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231 VMs depart on orderly repatriation flights
Two groups totalling 231 Vietnamese migrants (VMs) returned by air to Hanoi, Vietnam today (Thursday) on the 53rd and 54th flights under the Orderly Repatriation Programme (ORP).
All of the returnees, comprising 76 men, 56 women, 49 boys and 50 girls, are from North Vietnam.
1989.
The majority of them arrived in Hong Kong in 1988, with the remaining in
The two groups brought to 5,035 the total number repatriated on ORP flights since November 1991.
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