In this book, the author gives the background to the 15-year-long saga of Hong Kong and the asylum seekers from Vietnam. In the run-up to 1997 - when the territory will become a Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China - thereMoreIn this book, the author gives the background to the 15-year-long saga of Hong Kong and the asylum seekers from Vietnam.
In the run-up to 1997 - when the territory will become a Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China - there has been increasing tension associated with the presence of 50,000 Vietnamese men, women and children in Hong Kong. The majority of the people who fled from Vietnam are imprisoned in what has often been described as appalling conditions by a local adminstration that has been unable to find a solution to the problem.