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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[Bangkok Fact Sheet]]></title> 
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Provincial People's Committees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[ 		Address:<br> 		01 Hai Ba Trung Street<br> 		Pleiku City<br> 		Viet Nam 		Tel: +84 59 824 375<br> 		Fax: +84 59 824711 		  ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statelessness: Former refugees win citizenship, and now dream of home ownership]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[After 35 years of stateless limbo in Viet Nam, a Cambodian man is now a citizen with the prospect of a real home.  ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Statelessness: Giving up a beloved name and lifetime limbo for citizenship]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Viet Nam and UNHCR have worked together to end 35 years of suffering for some of Pol Pot's last victims – stateless former Cambodian refugees.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Sep 2011 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Preventing Statelessness: Southeast Asian countries share lessons]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[In Bangkok, experts from nine countries learn from each other the best ways to keep people from falling into legal limbo.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Ground-breaking steps to end statelessness for former refugees]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[UNHCR applauds the efforts of Viet Nam to end statelessness for 2,357 former Cambodian refugees, a legacy of the Pol Pot regime. Many of them have lived in Viet Nam since 1975. All speak Vietnamese and...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Viet Nam ends stateless limbo for 2,300 former Cambodians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Former refugees who have lived in Viet Nam for as long as 35 years get valuable documents – and the right to have rights.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Q&A: A Vietnamese Catholic's journey from boat person to bishop]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Viet Nam sets the pace for Asia with new law to prevent statelessness]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[Under new legislation, Viet Nam will keep its tens of thousands of &quot;economic brides&quot; from risking the loss of citizenship when they marry foreign men.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Refugee women crochet up sweaters, self-esteem and camaraderie]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietnamese refugees well settled in China, await citizenship]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[2005 UNHCR Statistical Yearbook Country Data Sheet - Viet Nam]]></title> 
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Divorce leaves some Vietnamese women broken-hearted and stateless]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vietnamese local governments smooth the way for stateless Cambodians]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The Vietnamese government has never granted citizenship to some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees living in the country since 1975, but at authorities at the local level do their best to extend equal rights to this forgotten group.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stateless former Cambodians caught in Kafkaesque web in Viet Nam]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[The UN refugee agency is working with the Vietnamese government to try to get citizenship for some 9,500 former Cambodian refugees who were left stateless when their country refused to take them back. Now in Viet Nam with no legal rights for more than three decades, they only want to be what they already feel they are - Vietnamese citizens.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Small sums go a long way to improve lives in Viet Nam's Central Highlands]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[In the remote villages of Viet Nam's Central Highlands, small-scale projects developed by the UN refugee agency are offering medical care and better education to minority Montagnard hill tribe people as well as majority Vietnamese.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Montagnards not punished for leaving Viet Nam, UNHCR mission finds]]></title> 
<description><![CDATA[A team of UNHCR officials monitoring the treatment of minority Montagnard hill tribe people in Viet Nam heard from the returnees that they have not suffered any repercussions after leaving the country illegally for what they hoped would be an easy life in the distant United States.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UNHCR Country Operations Plan 2007 - Viet Nam]]></title> 
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