Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba V a rw1 fleeing Colony Singapore a like Canada and Singapore is woo ing people from Hong Kong concerned for their future after the British Colony reverts to China in seven such emigrants Are thought to be a natural fit for Singapore chinese dominated where language would not be an insurmountable bar Many already have moved to Singapore or visited to look real estate brokers say Hong Kong people like Singapore Lush Green Ery and relative both Are in Short Supply where they come they also like the prices of condominiums and usually far cheaper than in Hong some of the Hong Kong visitors Are taken on carefully conducted emigration Tours to meet govern ment Bankers and others who could be helpful if they decide to find Homes in a new earlier attempts by Singapore to lure business people with the equivalent of can in col lege graduates and professionals met with Little Singapore came a poor third after Canada and Australia in enticing people from Hong said prime minis Ter Lee Kuan Yee Back in within weeks of the bloodshed in Beijing Tiana men Square in Lees government relaxed the rules for As Many As skilled workers and their families from Hong the quota applies to those with a High school five years of ont Ejob experience and an income of at least can a some hopefuls swarmed Singapore consulate in Hong Kong within hours of the a key attraction is that successful applicants can wait for As Long As five years to take up and get an option to extend for another giving them a Chance to experience post1997 Hong Kong before decide Australia and other destinations require them to move in but As teachers and others aggravated an already serious brain Drain by taking jobs in Hong Kong demonstrators March on governors residence carrying a petition to Britain foreign newspapers and others in Hong Kong hit at what they saw As opportunism on Singapore Hong Kong and a City state of million people at the tip of the malay have Long been rivals As hubs for regional finance and although they Are about kilo metres both Are free Trade Hong Kong marchers seek More democracy Hong Kong a about 100 activists marched to the governors residence yesterday to plead for More democracy before Britain hands this Colony Back to China in they presented a petition addressed to British foreign minister Douglas who is in Hong Kong on a fou Day the protesters want to double the number of directly elected Legisla tors to 20 of the governing body 56 seats next marching from a downtown Park to government House the official residence and office of sir David Wilson the demonstrators we want we want human rights and full democracy to people of Hong we Are not asking for sympathy from we Are asking for the rights we said Yeung a spokesman for the we Hope Hurd would respect Hong Kong Peoples wishes to set up a democratic political system in the demonstration was organized by the joint committee on the pro motion of democratic which says it includes 150 Trade student groups and other in the letter to the commit tee said Hong Kong is a political orphan because China suppresses pro democracy movements in Hong Kong and Britain betrays Hong Kong Peoples under a 1984 Hong Kong is to retain its freewheeling capitalist system and a High degree of autonomy for 50 years after have limited space and no natural resources except strategic locations and the skill of their peo George Singapore minister of state for foreign denied that his government acted to make things More difficult for Hong Kong or if those in Hong Kong intended to leave he it would be better to keep them in the Region so their Talent would not be lost to North America or Singapore expects a value added to the Economy per worker of about to a said Mah Bow the minister of state for Trade and using the lower Mah said skilled migrants would add about four per cent of the country Gross Domestic while trying to lure Likely prospects from Hong affluent Singapore faces its own Drain of talented More than families from what prime minister Lee called our top 25 per cent left in most bound for new Canada and the United exit interviews indicate they left mainly for better Job less stressful work and school conditions or to join they want less More Mah told they complain ours is a Snemis take with no tolerance for no second they dont want their children to be pressured in they dont want to be told to in they want to opt out of the rat meetings with currency linked to diplomats Fate Stockholm Reuter references in a diary to meetings with nazi official Adolf Eich Manri and Possession of a Large Quantity of dollars May have led soviet authorities to believe swedish Diplomat Raoul Wallen Berg was a German a former swedish ambassador said the swedish newspaper expressed published numerous pages from Wallenbergh desk diary and his address Book on saturday and showing the Telephone number of Eich one of the leading figures in the nazi Campaign to exterminate refused escape former ambassador per anger said Wallenberg received Large sums of currency from the War refugee Board in washing ton and held More than us when he was seized by soviet troops in the hungarian capital Budapest at the end of the possibly the american cur Rency reinforced the russian suspicions that Wallenberg was a anger anger said Wallenberg turned Down a Chance to return Home in safety one week before he was captured by the Wallenberg said he could not leave Hungary until he had done everything in his Power to save As Many jews As possible from deportation to nazi death anger told when soviet troops entered Budapest at the beginning of everyone from the swedish Lega Tion had left the building to seek except first Secretary at Sweden Mission in is credited with saving at least 000 jews from deportation by issuing them with swedish Docu he was captured expect Tsyn said Wallenberg invited Eichmann to dinner at his Villa after Wallenberg Drew Eichmann to Ward the where soviet artillery fire illuminated the Why not give up now Wal Lenberg asked his you can see that the end is not far but Eichmann instead warned Wallenberg not to continue his work on behalf of the paper quoted Lars another of Wallenbergh legation accidents can even to a Neutral Eichmann was quoted Wallenbergh last diary entry was for 1944 appointment at 10 with fascist hungarian police chief Istvan expressed said it is the first newspaper to publish excerpts from the which soviet authorities handed to Wallen bergs relatives in Moscow last Colombia orders arrest of drug Boss Bogota a Colombia or dered the arrest yesterday of the reputed Leader of the Cali cocaine Cartel to face charges in the United and the army was reported to have arrested hundreds of people in an Effort to dismantle a drug Raf fickers private the Justice ministry said the at tempt to extradite Gilberto Rodri Guez chief of the Cali car is based on charges of laundering Money from cocaine sales in the United a attempt to extradite Rodri Guez two years ago collapsed when a judge ruled there was no Merit to charges he smuggled 20 tonnes of cocaine into the United the Cali and Medellin cartels Are believed responsible for most of the cocaine that is smuggled into the United the army operation against the reputed head of the Medellin Pablo began Friday in poor areas of Medellin from which he is alleged to recruit hired said the Bogota newspaper Al Tiem Al quoting Harold Bedoya said the army has arrested people from the North Western City of Medellin belonging to 150 gangs working for the colombian radio network run said quoting army the operation has resulted in the arrest of four soldiers have been killed by Medellin Cartel gunmen in Medellin since Al Tiempo Twenty eight persons have been kidnapped in the last two months in where a communique signed by a traffickers group known As the extraditable encouraged people in poor neighbourhoods to fight on the Side of the 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