PHNOM PENH: Three quarters of Vietnamese refugees who recently fled persecution in their homeland and were offered residency in the United States in November rejected the proposal, the UN refugee agency said yesterday.
Only 41 of nearly 200 refugees accepted the November offer to move to America, said Cathy Shin, a protection officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees here.
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