Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American generosity toward refugees in the past prompted charges that the U.S. was cynically encouraging a brain drain from Viet Nam. According to Derek Davies, editor of the Hong Kong-based influential weekly Far Eastern Economic Review, the U.S. refugee program has acted as a "pull factor," bleeding Viet Nam of skilled workers. American officials deny this. They point out that although many of the first refugees were professionals and educated civil and military officials, later boat people have been broadly representative. Said a U.S. diplomat in Bangkok: "There are more than enough 'push factors'-forced resettlement, political...
...Indochinese continue to flee to Thailand. About 12,200 Laotians are being held in a detention center at Nakorn Phanom. Another 4,800 Vietnamese are in indefinite limbo at Si-khiu Prison. The boat people are also seeking asylum in other Asian countries. About 15 a day arrive in Hong Kong, half of whom would be considered ineligible for resettlement in the U.S. under the new policy. What will happen to these immigrants is still unclear. An American diplomat in Bangkok explained that the new U.S. policy is meant as a warning for potential refugees: "All we are saying...
More specifically. Roemer cites Korea and Hong Kong as two countries that have accomplished considerable economic growth but violate certain human rights...
...heck. Morally, you would have bet your bottom dollar on him." Cram added that Lewellyn was an "ambitious boy with sights set on the stratosphere." The Iowa criminal investigation division and federal agents are not looking quite that far, but they are checking leads in Costa Rica and Hong Kong...
DIED. C.Y. Tung, 71, owner of one of the world's largest independent fleets of ships; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. Born in mainland China, he helped Nationalist China to rehabilitate its state-run shipping industry after World War II and then built his own 11 million-ton armada that totals 149 ships and tankers...