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Direct arrivals by small boat from Vietnam are expected to increase even more markedly from next month, when the monsoon winds

change direction, assisting voyages across the South China Sea to Hong Kong. There is a continuing pressure for departures, primarily for economic reasons, but also, to a lesser extent, because of

compulsory military service and harrassment of people who were officials in the previous regime.

LIC Hong Kong

May 1981

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