KUALA LUMPUR - Hundreds of thousands of refugees living in Malaysia are gripped with uncertainty after government officials last week mooted the closing down of the operations of a United Nations body that has been managing Malaysia's refugees for decades.
Home Minister Hamzah Zainudin has proposed using the locally-developed Tracking Refugees Information System (Tris) - developed in 2020 and approved by the government in July - to register refugees, who are formally recognised as illegal immigrants by Malaysia.
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