Indonesia, Rudd Back International Talks on Asylum Seekers

By Olivia Rondonuwu Bogor. Indonesia’s president and Australia’s newly reinstated Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Friday backed talks with originating countries to try to stem a tide of asylum-seeker boats staging perilous journeys to Australia. Barely a week after...

18 Burmese among 62 asylum seekers held in Indonesia

Narinjara News The Indonesian police have arrested 62 asylum seekers from Burma, Bangladesh and Nepal. A police patrol of the island nation caught 18 Burmese along with 41  asylum seekers from Bangladesh and three from Nepal on Friday while they were travelling by a...

Launching ‘A Burmese Journey’

By Charles M. SennottEditor-at-Large, The GroundTruth Project YANGON, Myanmar — A group of 20 top, young journalists — 11 from Myanmar and 9 from the United States — set out on a series of journeys last month through a country undergoing dramatic...