A porous molded article having microvoids therein which comprises a stretched product of a resin molded material made up of, as the base material, an olefinic resin composition containing from 95 to 50% by weight of a crystalline olefinic resin component (A) and from 5 to 50% by weight of a polymer of a cyclic olefin having a weight average molecular weight of not less than 1,000 and less than 10,000 and a glass transition point of from 180 to 400 DEG C. component (B).