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KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — The Home Ministry (KDN) will implement the Refugee Registration Document (DPP) initiative to improve the government’s access to accurate data on refugees in the country.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — The Immigration Department conducted a special operation on Monday (May 19) at three separate locations in the capital and in Selangor, including a clinic suspected of employing an uncertified foreign doctor.

GENEVA, March 24 — Two United Nations agencies said today that any shortfalls in funding from global donors could have dire consequences for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

ISTANBUL, Dec 3 — More than 115,000 Syrians have returned home since the fall of the Assad regime, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said yesterday.

JAKARTA, Dec 1 — Over 110 Rohingya refugees came ashore in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday after their boat nearly sank, officials from the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and local government said, as growing numbers arrive by sea in the Southeast Asian country.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 18 — A Myanmar man was sentenced to five years in jail and a RM30,000 fine by the Sessions Court today for forging an United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) card in September.

JAKARTA, Oct 29 — The Indonesian authorities have crushed an organised human smuggling network in South Aceh that was involved in the illegal transportation of both Rohingya refugees and Acehnese into neighbouring countries.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 1 — The Home Affairs Ministry (KDN) has clarified that Malaysia has not ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) as it would necessitate amendments to existing laws in the country.

GENEVA, June 13 — The United Nations refugee agency on Thursday said the number of people forcibly displaced stood at a record 117.3 million as of the end of last year, warning that this figure could rise further without major global political changes.

PUTRAJAYA, April 4 — The Home Ministry (KDN) is currently in the final phase of reaching an agreement to share data on refugees with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to facilitate the government's next step in managing refugees in this country more comprehensively.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14 — The Health Ministry (MOH) has several measures in place to address the risk of medical bill arrears from foreign patients, including collecting deposits.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 13 — The police are tracking two foreign men who allegedly poured petrol onto a foreign woman and set her alight in the Kampung Cheras Baru playground at 10.30pm on Saturday (March 9).

JAKARTA, Feb 1 — Over 130 Rohingya landed on the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday, an official at the United Nations' refugee agency said, the latest in a series of such arrivals which have drawn controversy in the Southeast Asian country.

PIDIE, Dec 12 — Myanmar's Rohingya face a wave of hostility and rejection in Indonesia, where regional communities say they are fed up with a spike in the numbers of boats carrying the persecuted ethnic minority to their shores.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 10 — An unemployed Syrian man pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court today to committing mischief by setting fire to a hotel room yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 4 — The Immigration Department busted a syndicate involved in forging documents, including passports, and arrested two African masterminds in a special operation around Kuala Lumpur and Selangor on October 25.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 – The proposed amendment to Section 3 of the Federal Constitution involving citizenship issues will be presented in the Conference of Rulers meeting on July 12.

DHAKA, Dec 30 — Bangladesh is trying to stop Rohingya refugees risking their lives in boats to Southeast Asia, a government official said, amid fears that this year could be one of the most deadly in years for the persecuted Muslims from Myanmar seeking new lives.