124 "Boat outflows continued to rise dramatically throughout 1978. … About 70 per cent of the boat people were Vietnamese of Chinese origin."
139 "On 30 June 1996 UNHCR ceased funding for Vietnamese boat people throughout the region, with the exception of Hong Kong which still held 15,000 in its detention centres. On 30 June 1997 the CPA formally and finally came to an end when the British colony reverted to Chinese hands."
258 "In November 1978 the UNHCR established] a policy that would obtain for Vietnamese asylum seekers for a full decade: in the future, boat people were to be considered prima facie of concern, a decision giving them de facto refugee status, the protection of UNHCR, and an opportunity to seek a durable solution - either voluntary repatriation, local settlement, or third-country resettlement."
265 "The agreement reached at the 1989 conference on Indochinese refugees, which came to be known as the Comprehensive Plan of Action (CPA), … [severed] the link between arrival in a UNHCR camp and presumptive refugee status, the CPA marked a fundamental break with the Indochinese programme of the previous fourteen years."