Refugees storm Beijing mission
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A group of 40 people, thought to be North Koreans, force their way into the Canadian embassy in Beijing.
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Forty-four North Korean men, women and children scaled the walls of the Canadian embassy in Beijing on Wednesday in a likely bid for political asylum, an embassy spokesperson said.
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BEIJING : The fate of 29 refugees who rushed a Japanese school in Beijing hung in the balance as Japanese consular officials interviewed them to find out who they were and what they wanted.
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BEIJING (CP) - China said Thursday it wants the Canadian Embassy to hand over 44 people thought to be North Korean asylum-seekers who climbed over a spiked fence onto embassy grounds.
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BEIJING: A group of North Korean refugees attempted to enter a South Korean consulate building in Beijing but only three managed to take shelter inside, South Korean officials and media said.
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BEIJING -- A group of 44 people stormed the Canadian Embassy in Beijing Wednesday, using ladders to scale a spiked fence. The intruders -- including men, women and children -- are being interviewed by Canadian diplomats.
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Beijing responds with a new campaign after at least eight recent violent incidents.
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Violence in Iraq and instability in Lebanon are driving hundreds of thousands of people abroad in an upheaval not matched in the Middle East since the exodus of Palestinian refugees when Israel was created in 1948.
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Eight people believed to be North Korean refugees clambered over the wall of a Japanese school in Beijing on Monday to seek asylum, a Japanese embassy official said.
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Thousands of refugees fled western Kenya Saturday on buses escorted by armed soldiers, streaming down roads strewn with downed power lines, burnt out vehicles and the corpses of others killed when they tried to escape an explosion of postelection ethnic violence.
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A group of 29 people claiming to be North Korean asylum seekers barged into a South Korean school in Beijing early Friday morning, officials said.
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Twenty-nine people claiming to be North Korean asylum seekers cut through a wire fence and fled into a South Korean school in Beijing on Friday, a news report said.
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About 40 people, thought to be North Koreans, are reported to have stormed the Canadian Embassy in Beijing in an apparent attempt to win asylum.
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Aid workers in eastern Chad are reporting a sharp increase in the number of refugees fleeing the Darfur region of western Sudan, despite the Sudanese government&#39;s insistence that it is taking steps to restore security.
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More than 800 Colombian refugees have crossed over the border to Ecuador from the violence-ravaged department of Narino, the United Nations said Friday.
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Up to 12,000 refugees fled Sudan's Darfur region to neighboring Chad over the weekend following air strikes by the Sudanese military and thousands more may be coming, the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday.
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43 North Korean refugees entered the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, demanding passage to South Korea. This was the largest number of North Korean defectors to enter a foreign legation ever.