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Victims of discrimination

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Ghale Dil says his family has been putting up with harassment from a neighbour for two years. The man often shouts at them, has urinated outside their door and once slapped his wife.

'The guy just doesn't like people of different backgrounds like us Nepalese,' says Mr Dil, a Hong Kong-born construction worker living in Hunghom.

'I have complained to the police many times but they sometimes just want us to compromise - and sometimes just ask me for proof [there is a problem] without even asking the guy if he did something,' Mr Dil says. He wants every Hongkonger to be treated with respect and granted equal rights and opportunities regardless of their background. He hopes the government will educate people like his neighbour about the virtues of tolerance.

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Arif Abbas, 21, and his brother, Tahar Sultan, 23, speak better Cantonese than English. Though born in Hong Kong, they are still treated as undesirables.

Mr Abbas has more than once been rejected for a job without even an interview.

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