Refugees

Letters to the Editor, March 1, 2013

1 Mar 2013

I read with shock the news that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong is axing the HK$500 a month it currently pays out to refugees. How can this be? Is the UNHCR broke?...

UNHCR axes all aid for HK refugees in budget cuts

27 Feb 2013

In a shock move, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong (UNHCR) has announced that it will cut all financial aid to recognised refugees living here.

Gourmet food for refugees and asylum seekers

10 Jan 2013

Life for refugees and asylum seekers has been made more bearable and dignified by a charity that serves them food from a luxury hotel.

Briefs, January 3, 2013

3 Jan 2013

More than 70 refugees from Myanmar's Rohingya minority found adrift off a Thai resort island will be repatriated to their homeland. Phuket provincial governor Maitri Inthusut said they were unable...

Violence rocks east DR Congo despite rebel pullout

3 Dec 2012

Authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern city of Goma assumed gradual control of the mining hub on Sunday after a rebel pullout, but tensions were running high with clashes on Rwanda’...

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M23 rebels pull out of Congo city of Goma

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma assumed gradual control of the city yesterday after a rebel pullout, but tensions were running high, with gunmen attacking a...

New UNHCR head urges Hong Kong to protect refugees and asylum seekers

The new head of the UNHCR in Hong Kong has made an unusually forceful call for the government to take responsibility for protecting refugees in the city.

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Refugees at their wits' end without status in Hong Kong

When security guards pushed him out of the UNHCR office and locked the glass door behind him earlier this year, Bereket said he "went crazy".

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AUSTRALIA

Australian immigration chief defends visas for asylum seekers

Australia denied yesterday its policies to combat people smuggling have failed as a decision to release asylum seekers into the community with little help or support was called "a new low".

REFUGEES

Australia denies refugee policy failure

Australia on Thursday denied its policies to combat people-smuggling had failed as a decision to release asylum-seekers into the community with little help or support was blasted as “a new low”....

Thailand picks up boatload of Rohingya near Phuket

A boatload of 112 ethnic Rohingya, including 55 teenagers, has been taken into custody in Thailand after their vessel landed near Phuket over the weekend.