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6. SEVEN PAPERS, INCLUDING BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT WING, WAH KIU YAT PO, WEN WEI PO, SING TAO WAN PAO, THE HK DAILY NEWS, THE ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS, TIN TIN DAILY NEWS AND CHING PO, BELIEVED THAT AS NO BREAKTHROUGH HAD BEEN ACHIEVED AT THE CONFERENCE, HONG KONG SHOULD NOW TACKLE THE PROBLEM IN ITS OWN WAY, I.E. BY INTRODUCING MANDATORY REPATRIATION AND SCRAPPING THE PORT OF FIRST ASYLUM POLICY.
7. SING TAO WAN PAO SAID THE ONLY GOOD NEWS FROM THE CONFERENCE WAS THE SETTING UP OF A REGIONAL PROCESSING CENTRE IN THE PHILIPPINES. MING PAO ALSO BELIEVED THAT THE REGIONAL PROCESSING CENTRE WOULD HELP EASE THE STRAIN ON HONG KONG. THE NEW EVENING POST TOOK THE LINE THAT THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ACHIEVED ONLY A DELAYING TACTIC.
8. ON MANDATORY REPATRIATION, WEN WEI PO SAID IT WAS NOT SURPRISING THAT NO AGREEMENT HAD BEEN REACHED, BUT URGED THE BRITISH AND HONG KONG GOVERNMENTS TO CONTINUE TO PRESS FOR IT. SING PAO WAS PLEASED THAT BRITAIN WAS NOW MORE INCLINED TO SCRAP THE FIRST ASYLUM POLICY AND INTRODUCE FORECED REPATRIATION.
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