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A group of 165 Vietnamese (including 142 illegal immigrants and 23 migrants) returned by air to Hanoi, Vietnam, today (Thursday) on the 125th flight under the Orderly Repatriation Programme (ORP).

The returnees comprise 130 men, 27 women, six boys and two girls.

The majority of them arrived in Hong Kong in 1998, with the remaining in 1988, 1989, 1991, 1997 and 1999.

The group brought to 13 495 the total number repatriated under the ORP since October 1991.

End/Thursday, April 22, 1999

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