International Conference on Indochinese Refugees adopts the Comprehensive Plan of Action

Chinese and Vietnamese naval units clashed at Johnson South Reef in the Spratly Islands. Vietnam’s account reports 64 deaths; independent scholarship confirms a naval battle but the broader...

Chinese forces attacked Vietnamese personnel at Johnson South Reef in the Spratly Islands. The clash killed Vietnamese sailors and shifted control of the reef. The sovereignty dispute and accounts...

The Communist Party’s Resolution 10 recognized households as autonomous production units in agriculture and expanded their role in farming. It accelerated changes to rural production and helped...

Twenty-eight Amerasian youths and relatives began a journey to the United States under the departure program. For these families, migration involved claims about parentage, state processing, and the...

Governments and international agencies met in Kuala Lumpur to prepare a multilateral response to rising arrivals from Indochina. The process sought to preserve first asylum, assess refugee claims,...

The conference brought states and UN agencies together amid a growing number of Vietnamese and other Indochinese asylum seekers. It addressed asylum, resettlement, screening, and return, making...

Participants adopted the CPA to combine temporary asylum, refugee status determination, resettlement, orderly departure, and voluntary return. It offered a regional framework but also linked continued...

The joint announcement expanded orderly departure opportunities for former re-education detainees and their families. The arrangement created a route for people who had been detained because of former...

Vietnam informed the United Nations that its military withdrawal had been completed by September 26. The departure followed years of conflict and occupation and preceded Cambodia’s negotiated...

Vietnam stated that its forces had completed withdrawal from Cambodia. The announcement mattered to regional diplomacy after years of Vietnamese military presence following the 1978 intervention...