Remember A Day | Government’s dire warning over staggering Hong Kong population boom, and a woman fighting to be Father Christmas: headlines making the news 40 years ago
- A journey back through time to look at significant news and events reported by the South China Morning Post from this week in history
A man giving a “lesson” in dying, a killer walking around with the heads and hands of his victims, and a human rights commission in Toronto defending a female Santa made the headlines 40 years ago this week.
December 2, 1979
● Experts arriving in Hong Kong to help South China Sea oil exploration projects rejected offers of accommodation in mainland China. They complained that facilities up north were substandard which meant that the hundreds of oilmen – all on top-rate expatriate terms – would be adding to pressure on the city’s domestic accommodation shortage. The experts came from the United States, Canada, West Germany, Sweden and Brazil.
December 3, 1979
● Government predicted that Hong Kong’s population could reach 10 million by 1991 if legal and illegal immigrants from China continued unabated. And by 2001, it could be as high as a staggering 14.3 million.
