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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. -
UNHCR staff celebrate release of babies from detention in Malaysia
23 Mar 2007 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. -
Far from family, young female refugees from Myanmar find friendship
7 Mar 2007 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. -
Australia grants visa to Iraqi man held on Pacific island for five years
1 Feb 2007 The ordeal of Iraqi refugee Mohammed Faisal is finally over after he was granted an Australian protection visa following five years stuck on a tiny Pacific island and five months in a psychiatric hospital in Brisbane. -
Fingerprints mark new direction in refugee registration
30 Nov 2006 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. -
Hope for Malaysia's home-learning Rohingya refugees - the Harvest Centre
14 Jul 2006 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. -
Last Vietnamese boat refugee leaves Malaysia
30 Aug 2005 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. -
Vietnamese "boat boy" practices medicine in Tibet
28 Apr 2005 Thirty years ago, Saigon fell to the Communists, prompting hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese boat people to flee in the following years. Among the refugees who washed up in Malaysia in 1977 was a boy who is now a Swiss-trained doctor helping rural and nomadic people in Tibet. -
UNHCR urges Malaysia to protect refugees during crackdown
4 Mar 2005 On the fourth day of Malaysia's crackdown on illegal migrants, UNHCR urged the government to continue demonstrating its strong humanitarian commitment and cooperation with the refugee agency, despite conflicting media reports about the government's position. UNHCR strongly refuted charges that it had issued protection letters indiscriminately ahead of the crackdown.