International Conference on Indo-Chinese Refugees opens in Geneva

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,...

Governments and UNHCR agreed on a regional framework combining first asylum, resettlement, voluntary repatriation, and refugee-status determination. The policy reduced irregular departures over time...

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...

The GAO reviewed the U.S. program for departures from Vietnam, including interviews, case processing, and former re-education detainees. Its report offers a U.S. oversight perspective on the program’s...