The Phnom Penh Post, 08 January 2013
- By Abby Seiff
Montagnard hill tribesmen ride in the back of a truck after emerging from dense forest near the Vietnam-Cambodia border, in Ratanakkiri province in 2004. Photograph: Reuters
Facing financial constraints and a steep decline in asylum seekers to Cambodia, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cut its office by 80 per cent at the beginning of this year, a UN official said yesterday.
“The UNHCR office in Cambodia has expanded and shrunk over the years based on the needs in-country. Before the downsizing, we had just over 10 people in our office. We now have 2 positions as well as support from our regional office in Bangkok,” UNHCR spokeswoman Vivian Tan wrote in an email.
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