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Resettlement. See para. 4 of Enclosure I for countries of

countr resettlement.

Ethnic Origin. See para. 5 of Enclosure I. In 1979, 56,348 arrivals (or 82%) have been of ethnic Chinese origin.

(III) BREAKDOWN OF ARRIVALS

See Enclosures IB and IC, which show that from 1st January to 15th August 1979, 45,928 (or 66.87%) have arrived in small boats from North Vietnam, 14,323 (or 20.86%) have arrived in small boats from South Vietnam, 7,402 (or 10.78%) have arrived in ocean-going vessels and 1,025 (or 1.49%) have been rescued at sea.

(IV) REGIONAL STATISTICS

(a)

(b)

See Enclosure II, which shows that up to 31st July, Malaysia has had an inflow of 51,660 this year, with 40,260 departures. Hong Kong has the highest inflow of 67,400 with only 6,400 departures. The total arrival figure in the region is 183,310 with 49,420 departures.

The total of boat refugees in countries at the end of August 1979 as follows:-

Hong Kong

66,500

Malaysia

57,700

Indonesia

46,000

Thailand (boat refugees)

9,000

Philippines

5,500

Macua

3,000

EMPLOYMENT

(v)

(a)

See Enclosure III. The total number of refugees in employment as at 31st August 1979 is estimated to be as follows :-

K

Tuen Mun Refugee Camp

No. 1 and 2

Sham Shui Po

Jubilee Buildings

Kai Tak East

Chi Ma Wan

Cape Collinson

1K Red Cross

2,357

4,800

2,770

1,093

1,149

461

560

TOTAL

13,190