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Q&A: A Vietnamese Catholic's journey from boat person to bishop
12 Mar 2010 Former Vietnamese refugee Vincent Nguyen was recently ordained as Canada's youngest Catholic bishop and the first of Asian descent. He talks about his experiences. -
Viet Nam sets the pace for Asia with new law to prevent statelessness
1 Jul 2009 Under new legislation, Viet Nam will keep its tens of thousands of "economic brides" from risking the loss of citizenship when they marry foreign men. -
Refugee women crochet up sweaters, self-esteem and camaraderie
2 Jun 2009 A low-cost UNHCR project in Phnom Penh encourages women refugees and asylum seekers to pass on skills to each other that can help improve their lives back home. -
UNHCR self-reliance programme helps empower Ivoirian refugee
30 Mar 2009 Ouattara Madoussou has been resettled in Canada. But she will stay in touch with Indonesian friends through an internet business set up with UNHCR help. -
Iraqi family board a flight to Australia and the end of their journey
2 Jun 2008 After almost seven years in Indonesia, a family of Iraqi refugees finally get the opportunity to begin a new life in Australia. -
Refugees in PNG travel the road to self-reliance
12 Mar 2008 Hundreds of refugees in Papua New Guinea could soon take a big step towards self-reliance thanks to plans to upgrade a road and other development schemes. -
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. -
Vietnamese refugees well settled in China, await citizenship
10 May 2007 One of the most successful local integration programmes in the world has seen some 300,000 former Vietnamese nationals build new lives in China. Ethnically Chinese, these refugees now want formal citizenship in their adopted homeland. -
Divorce leaves some Vietnamese women broken-hearted and stateless
14 Feb 2007 After marrying foreign men in a bid to escape poverty, thousands of Vietnamese women have found they lost not only their dreams, but their citizenship, when the marriages broke up. UNHCR is working with the government of Viet Nam to try to restore their rights.