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Article: HONG KONG: BRITISH CIVIL SERVANTS SAIL HOME IN STYLE
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- March 7, 1997
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Yojana Sharma
Inter Press Service English News Wire
03-07-1997
HONG KONG, Mar. 6 (IPS) -- Retiring colonial civil servants and
their families set sail from Hong Kong in style today aboard the
luxury liner Oriana in one of the last vestiges of colonial
privilege, a cruise back to Britain.
The old perk dates from the time when the British Empire was
vast and sea travel was the norm. It allowed colonial civil
servants over 50 on overseas contracts or those who had completed
at least 15 years of public service in Hong Kong to sail home in
style, at the Hong Kong tax-payers' expense.
The retirement perk was dropped from new contracts after
December 1984, following protests in Hong Kong. Legislators ...
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