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1. There are four appellants before us: Nong Van Sui (A1), Chu Van Cam (A2), Voong Khac Luong (A3) and Tran Kai Hung (A4). They are ethnic Chinese and former residents of Vietnam who arrived in Hong Kong without travel documents between April 1990 and February 1991. They were all born in Ha Tuyen Province in northern Vietnam and had spent (together with their families) about a decade in "monitored areas" or "Chinese concentrated areas" in Ha Tuyen Province before they fled. They are part of what