Read the full judgment text of HCMP 000288/1997 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 28 January 1997.
1. The Applicants are ethnic Chinese. They come from Vietnam. There are eight of them in all, and they consist of two families. They have staunch anti-Communist backgrounds, and claim to be nationals of Taiwan. They allege that as a result of their Chinese ethnicity and Taiwanese nationality, they were persecuted while in Vietnam. Eventually, they fled to Hong Kong. Phung Hoan (A1) came to Hong Kong with his wife and children in August 1989. Tan Te Lam (A5) came to Hong Kong with his wife and ch