📅 May 1975
UNHCR records the arrival in May 1975 of the first boat carrying 47 people to Malaysia. This early flight began a prolonged regional refugee movement shaped by war’s end, state change, political...
📅 25 June 1996
Malaysia and UNHCR closed the final camp after more than two decades of asylum, transit, return, and resettlement. More than a quarter-million people had passed through the country. The closure marked...
📅 31 May 1979
UNHCR reporting later recorded nearly 60,000 Vietnamese boat refugees arriving during May 1979. Many fled in dangerous vessels; ethnic Chinese in Vietnam were among those pushed to leave amid state...
📅 20 June 1979
Vietnam transmitted a Foreign Ministry statement addressing departures by sea and its position on the refugee crisis. Read alongside refugee testimony and UNHCR records, the state statement is...
