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They may already be overcrowded without this extra body.
may already be struggling financially without an extra mouth to feed
person who, as it turns out, cannot get a job because factories now
only want fast experienced workers, not a leisurely six-hour-a-day
worker from China.
And this new family member may go the way of so many others turning to heroin in his boredom and thereby becoming the tool of
criminals and triads. It has been the story of many an illegal up
to now.
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Although Britain's Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher asked
Chairman Hua during his recent visit to London to stop the flow of
emigrants out of China, the real solution is probably one which is
unacceptable to Hong Kong: to make known the truth about life in the
colony for the poor, for those without a place, without work.
But that is a reverse job in public relations which the Hong Kong
government probably would not consider. GEMINI
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: FRENA BLOOMFIELD is a freelance journalist and broadcaster, and has lived in Asia for five years, first in Nepal and now in Hong Kong. She contributes to the BBC the news magazine Asiaweek and other publications. She has published two fantasy novels.
Copyright Gemini News Service (1979)
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