The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, told Al Jazeera that Bangkok is home to a growing community of approximately 4,500 refugees and 2,000 asylum-seekers from more than 50 countries. ‘Good guys in ...

BANGKOK, Thailand, July 9 (UNHCR) - Bhumika Dhakal, a tall, capable 12-year-old Nepalese refugee girl was sweeping the floor and looking after her three younger sisters when police knocked on the door ...

In Bangkok, it takes an average of three to four years to complete the resettlement process, leaving many refugees vulnerable and frustrated. “We’d love to live here, it’s like the Middle East.

At the same time, FSI has also been working to help 100 Christians from Central Vietnam who have escaped to Bangkok get resettled in the US. Five of these families from the Montagnard ethnic ...

BANGKOK (AP) - They were a middle-class family in Pakistan, living in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment with a modern kitchen and a PlayStation for the three kids. Fluent in English, the ...

Bangkok — The first group of refugees from Myanmar living in Thailand and eligible for a new resettlement program flew out of Bangkok for the United States last week, more than a year after the ...

Malaysia hosts over 200,000 refugees, but it is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, meaning they are barred from ...

Bangkok — Interviews have begun with Myanmar refugees living in Thailand who are eligible for a new resettlement program in the United States, the Thai government said.

Refugees who fled Myanmar are seen at their stilt houses at Mae La refugee camp, near the Thailand-Myanmar border in Mae Sot district, Tak province, north of Bangkok July 21, 2014.

BANGKOK — The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees urged the international community not to forget the plight of ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in the midst of many other world crises on ...