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PS JM Renton
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Thank you
for your letter of 2 January enclosing a
Dod of Greenacres,
letter from your constituent, Mrs J Dod
Bank Top Lane, Grindleford, Sheffield S30 IHS, about the
Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong awaiting resettlement.
We have been seeking a solution to this
this problem
since refugees from both south and north Vietnam began to
arrive in Hong Kong in 1975; 104,000 have reached Hong
Kong since then, and all have been granted temporary
asylum by the Hong Kong Government:
none have been turned
away. Hong Kong currently has sore
refugees awaiting resettlement,
9,500
Vietnamese
more
than anywhere
else
Initially newly arriving refugees
HKD
in South East Asia.
we re
accommodated
in open
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camps, from which they
were
type pre
with Ms
rather
than us
Az
able to seek outside employment. At first they were
resettled reasonably quickly. However by 1982 the ate
of resettlement had begun to decrease, and
to decrease, and the Hong Kong
Government saw no
but to introduce
alternative
the
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