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UNHCR mission finds Montagnard returnees and deportees well
5 Aug 2005 An international mission from the UN refugee agency this week visited 21 Montagnards who had recently returned or been deported from Cambodia to Viet Nam's central highlands. The monitoring team found them doing well at home, receiving assistance, job offers and training. -
UNHCR returns to Indonesia's Aceh province to provide shelter assistance
27 Jun 2005 Six months after the tsunami, the government of Indonesia has invited the UN refugee agency to return to the province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam to assist in providing shelter as part of the longer-term tsunami emergency rehabilitation effort. -
Montagnard returnees to Viet Nam in good shape, says UNHCR
24 May 2005 After a three-day visit last week to Viet Nam's central highlands to check on the well-being of Montagnards who had voluntarily returned from Cambodia, UNHCR says the returnees seem to be in good shape and back in the swing of normal life. -
Vietnamese Montagnards head to Finland for resettlement
11 May 2005 Months after crossing through the jungle to seek refuge in north-eastern Cambodia, 27 Montagnard refugees from Viet Nam's central highlands are on their way to Finland to start a new life, in a climate that couldn't be more different from what they're used to. -
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. -
UN refugee agency winds up work in Indonesia's tsunami-hit region
24 Mar 2005 UNHCR is phasing out its emergency relief operations in Indonesia's Aceh province in a move that coincides with the government's announced plans for the transition from emergency relief to long-term reconstruction. -
Nine Montagnards go home in first UNHCR repatriation to Viet Nam
11 Mar 2005 The Montagnards, anxious to reunite with their families but apprehensive of the future, have returned to Viet Nam in the first repatriation mounted by the UN refugee agency under an agreement aimed at finding solutions for some 750 Vietnamese who fled into Cambodia over the past year. -
Swiss helicopters flying for UNHCR end Aceh mission
1 Mar 2005 The three Swiss Super-Puma helicopters generously put at the disposal of UNHCR in mid-January to help out with the UN's tsunami relief operations in the Indonesian province of Aceh, flew their last mission on Sunday 27 February and are now packing up to return home. UNHCR has expressed its gratitude to the Swiss government. -
UNHCR tailoring shelter solutions to meet Aceh needs
4 Feb 2005 UNHCR is tailoring shelter solutions to meet the different circumstances of tsunami victims in Indonesia's Aceh province. The main aim is to get them back into their own homes as soon as possible by rebuilding, extending or constructing new homes - after consulting them on their wishes.