Vietnam Boat People Arrive in Hong Kong

More than 100 Vietnamese refugees traveling in two wooden boats arrived in Hong Kong on Saturday from China, where they had been living since the late 1970s, a government spokesman said.

Saturday’s influx of boat people raised the number of Vietnamese refugee arrivals in the British colony this year to more than 2,000, the spokesman said.

An estimated 10,000 Vietnamese, many of whom have been turned down for resettlement in third countries, already are housed in refugee camps in Hong Kong.