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<title><![CDATA[Refugee project seeks to sweep Malaysians off their feet]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Refugees in Malaysia are volunteering to clean up their neighbourhood in a charm offensive to improve relations with their hosts.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 4 Apr 2013 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR commends Nosco Victory rescue effort, appeals for safe and speedy disembarkation of survivors]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[<em>[NOTE TO EDITORS: Please note that significant portions of information contained in the briefing note below, released this morning to press at the Geneva Palais, have been overtaken by new developments....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR Statement on the Australia-Malaysia Arrangement]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[GENEVA - UNHCR notes the signature today of a bilateral Arrangement between Australia and Malaysia on transfer and resettlement.
UNHCR is not a signatory to the Arrangement, however it appreciates that...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR calls for proper safeguards for children being returned to Malaysia by Australia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[In Australia, Immigration Minister Chris Bowen was quoted in an ABC interview last night as saying Australia plans to go ahead with returns of unaccompanied minors to Malaysia under a wider bilateral agreement...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Jun 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR cash makes it easier for refugees to help themselves in Malaysia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[For enterprising refugees in cities in Malaysia, just a small UNHCR grant can spell a big improvement in life.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugee-run school gives children a chance at education in Malaysia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Most ethnic Chin refugees or asylum-seekers in urban Malaysia don’t have access to formal education. They’ve set up their own schools to fill the gap.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 7 Jan 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Urban refugee women teach themselves knitting - and self-confidence]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Far from home, ethnic Chin refugee women from Myanmar are supporting themselves in Malaysia’s towns and cities in safety and dignity.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 7 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A big welcome for Asian refugees from a small village in Bohemia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A family of ethnic Chins, among the first group of refugees to be resettled in the Czech Republic, move into their new home.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Welcome to Prague: first Myanmar refugees resettle in Czech Republic]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Czech Republic has joined the ranks of eight EU resettlement countries with the arrival this week of 23 Myanmar refugees, some of whom had been in exile in Malaysia for nearly 10 years.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR helps reunite Somali mother and son in UK]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A 68-year-old Somali mother reunites with her family in the United Kingdom with the help of UNHCR staff in Malaysia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[More than 300 make use of first free clinic for refugee women in Kuala Lumpur]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[An unprecedented free clinic for female refugees proved a huge hit at the weekend when more than 300 women queued up to see the medical staff at a UNHCR-run community centre in downtown Kuala Lumpur.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Czech mission funds mobile health care project for refugees in Malaysia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Czech Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has agreed to fund a nine-month UNHCR project aimed at providing mobile health care for refugees in Malaysia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR staff celebrate release of babies from detention in Malaysia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Six babies were among a group of 25 people released into UNHCR custody by Malaysian authorities after being held in an immigration detention facility for up to four weeks.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Far from family, young female refugees from Myanmar find friendship]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Two teenagers sip iced tea at a roadside stall in Kuala Lumpur, their conversation peppered with laughter. But despite their happy demeanour, the two young women have suffered a lot and face an uncertain future far away from their families in Myanmar. Their story is not uncommon.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysia: Latest migrant arrests include UNHCR cardholders]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ In Malaysia, we are concerned that over the weekend, as part of a general crackdown on undocumented migrants, some 45 Myanmar nationals holding UNHCR documents were arrested near the administrative capital...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fingerprints mark new direction in refugee registration]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Malaysia has become the first Asian country where UNHCR is using biometric technology to track the identities of refugees and asylum seekers, a measure certain to heighten the credibility of the refugee agency's registration system in the eyes of the Malaysian government.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hope for Malaysia's home-learning Rohingya refugees - the Harvest Centre]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Many Rohingya refugee children in Malaysia are not getting a full basic education because of financial and bureaucratic obstacles. But some lucky ones have been given places in Malaysia's first Montessori school for marginalised children.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malaysia/Thailand: UNHCR working closely with governments]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ Given the current sensitive situation in southern Thailand, UNHCR has decided to withhold any public pronouncement on the status of the 131 southern Thais currently in Malaysia. We believe any such public...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR assesses South Thai Muslim arrivals in Malaysia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ UNHCR staff in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, are currently preparing a preliminary overall assessment of a group of 131 southern Thai Muslims after completing initial interviews with the group at an immigration...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Last Vietnamese boat refugee leaves Malaysia]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, Doan Van Viet became the last of the over 250,000 Vietnamese "boat people" to leave Malaysia. Unlike many friends and relatives who chose to be relocated to other countries over the years, Doan opted to return to Viet Nam to marry his fiancée and reunite with his long-lost family.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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