'Don't blame jobless woes on returnees'

OVERSEAS returnees and new immigrants have hit back at government officials who say they are partly to blame for record high unemployment.

Government economist Tang Kwong-yiu and new labour commissioner Matthew Cheung Kin-chung have claimed the two groups were a factor in the jobless rate rising from 2.5 per cent in 1997 to the current 5.5 per cent.

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