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Life's getting better for refugees in Bangladeshi camps
27 Feb 2008 A new spirit of cooperation between the Bangladeshi government and UNHCR brings new homes and new hopes to 27,000 refugees. -
Departures of Myanmar refugees from Thailand top 20,000 mark
11 Dec 2007 In the past two years, more than 20,000 refugees from Myanmar have traded camp life in Thailand for resettlement in countries like the United States, Australia and Canada. -
Refugee from Myanmar finds farming and friends in Java
27 Nov 2007 A UNHCR self-reliance programme helps a refugee from Myanmar find his feet among an Indonesian farming community. -
Borders with Myanmar remain calm; no influx of refugees
1 Oct 2007 The UN refugee agency has not seen any unusual movements out of Myanmar as a result of recent events there that have sparked renewed media interest in some 400,000 Myanmar refugees in neighbouring countries. -
More than 300 make use of first free clinic for refugee women in Kuala Lumpur
17 Sep 2007 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. -
10,000 refugees leave Thailand in biggest resettlement programme
27 Jul 2007 More than 10,000 refugees - mostly from Myanmar - have left their temporary homes in Thailand to start new lives in third countries, as the world's largest resettlement programme picks up steam. -
Myanmar: UNHCR promotes first significant steps towards citizenship for disenfranchised minority
23 Jul 2007 With the issuance of the first of 35,000 identity cards for Muslims in northern Rakhine state, the Myanmar government has taken the first steps towards regularizing the status of one of Asia's largest groups of stateless people. UNHCR, with U.S. funding, spearheaded the documentation campaign. -
Czech mission funds mobile health care project for refugees in Malaysia
25 Jun 2007 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. -
Resettlement of Myanmar refugees under way from northern Thai camp
23 May 2007 A group of more than 30 ethnic Karen refugees from Myanmar has left the northern Thai camp of Mae La to start a new life in the United States as the second phase of a huge resettlement operation gets under way.