21.   Europe needs a common asylum policy to end trafficking in refugees and deny support to anti-immigration groups, a government minister said in a newspaper interview published Monday.

22.   European countries, which have similar asylum policies, are more likely to grant asylum to gays and lesbians from the Middle East and the former Soviet Bloc nations.

23.   European Union justice ministers on Thursday sought ways to streamline their asylum policies to stem the tide of illegal immigrants while welcoming genuine political refugees.

24.   Interior Minister Otto Schily, whose department oversees asylum policy, attacked Grass in a Cologne newspaper.

25.   It is the first delegation to visit Hong Kong since the government announced the scrapping of its port of first asylum policy early last month.

26.   Lawmakers said they feared such a step would prevent Britain from blocking new measures in several contentious areas, including immigration, asylum policies and border controls.

27.   Many of the Kurds are believed headed for Germany with its large Kurd population and liberal asylum policies.

28.   Mr Lee said he had opposed the asylum policy when he sat on the Executive Council at that time.

29.   Neither will it submit to EU tinkering with British defense, immigration or asylum policy, or allow the EU to assume a military role.

30.   On Tuesday the Executive Council decided to abolish the port of first asylum policy and its plans to discuss the issue were first reported by the Hong Kong Standard.