51.   The colonial government, and its China-approved successor, have said the Vietnamese are not political refugees but economic migrants who should go home.

52.   The British colonial government took them in, pending resettlement overseas, a policy that drew protests from China and some Hong Kong people.

53.   The exemptions were previously enjoyed by the British colonial government.

54.   The colonial government has rebuffed calls for a more generous welfare system, preferring to introduce a compulsory provident fund for employees.

55.   The colonial government opposes the provisional legislature and has ordered civil servants not to cooperate with it.

56.   The fund will be handed by the outgoing colonial government to the new Hong Kong administration.

57.   The father of four accused the colonial government of leaving medium and small enterprises without any assistance.

58.   The other candidate was Andrew Wong, president of the directly elected legislature under the British colonial government.

59.   The Moluccans served as native soldiery backing the Dutch colonial government against the insurgents led by Sukarno.

60.   The new law introduced by the colonial government broadens the list of offenses against the state but stipulates that they are offenses only if they entail violence.