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             * C h i n a   N e w s   D i g e s t *


		    (ND Canada Service)

                       -- Dec. 22 (II), 1989


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 Headline News  .......................................................  20
 1. Britan Intends to Give 225,000 HK Chinese Residence Right  ........  29

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(1)
    Chinese President Yang said that if Israel gives up its  violent  policy
and  looks  for dialogue with PLO, it is possible that China would build di-
plomatic relationship with Israel, according  to  official  news  agency  of
Egypt.
From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
Source: Reuters, AP, 12/20/89

(2)
    Guangzhou city police announced the arrest of a Hong Kong businessman on
Dec.  16  after holding him for months in custody, accusing him of assisting
the escape of democracy movement activists in China.
From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
Source: Reuters, AP, 12/20/89

(3)
    Mr Bush's administrative directive may bring freedom to a  Chinese  cou-
ple.  They  illegally entered the U.S. with the woman who had been forced to
take abortion for several times in China.  Mr Li Jinlin and  his  wife  were
caught  by  INS  in the last march. Mr Li's wife then had a baby in New York
City.  The couple have a 10-year-old daughter already.
From: simone@nyspi.bitnet. (J. Yang)
Source: Reuters, AP, 12/20/89

(4)
The   government  of  Romania  has  fallen.  The hardline leader,
Nicolae  Ceausescu  escaped  after he had been captured with his
wife  Elena  in  a  helicopter. His whereabouts has not been known
yet.

source: BBC noon news report, 12/22/89
via ND correspondent from UW.

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1. Britan Intends to Give 225,000 HK Chinese Residence Right
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From: IZZYQ00@OAC.UCLA.EDU (J.D)
Subject: Associated Press, 12/20/89

By: Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer

    Britain  said  Wednesday  it will  give  special  residence rights to an
estimated   225,000  Hong Kong Chinese to prevent a crippling brain drain in
the colony before it reverts to China in 1997.

   Right-wing  legislators in the governing Conservative Party threatened  a
parliamentary   rebellion  against  what  one  called  an  appalling wave of
immigration. The opposition Labor Party condemned the plan.

    Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told the House of Commons that a  maximum
of   50,000  key  people  in  Hong Kong's public and private sector would be
given full British citizenship, along with their families. He estimated  the
total at 225,000 people.

    "Many of those who are leaving would not do so if they could obtain  the
assurance of right of abode in the United Kingdom," he said.

    In  Hong  Kong, the government welcomed the package though Governor  Sir
David   Wilson.  Several  legislators  said  they  would have preferred full
passports  for  all  British  nationals.  Wilson  said  the package was  not
"solely   for  the  elite"  and  would  help create the stability the colony
needed.

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