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UN agency marks 30th anniversary of fall of Saigon with refugee success story

April 29, 2005

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - On the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the United Nations refugee agency today highlighted the success story of one of its veteran alumni, a 6-year-old Vietnamese boy who fled in his pyjamas aboard a dangerously overcrowded boat and now works as a doctor improving childbirth practices on the Tibetan plateau.

With his progress, he hopes to shatter preconceptions and prejudices besetting refugees.

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