Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, supported by former Timor-Leste president Ramos-Horta, has pitched in strongly for the persecuted Rohingyas of Myanmar.”There is evidence that the Rohingya have been in present-day Myanmar since the 8th century,”...
Editor: Wang Yuanyuan GENEVA, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) — The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Friday called for regional cooperation to avoid more Rohingya deaths in the Indian Ocean where they took boat journey to escape Myanmar’s religious violence. According to...
YANGON/GENEVA: Myanmar boat survivors rescued by Sri Lanka’s navy last week say they floated for 25 days at sea and 97 people died of starvation after Thailand’s navy intercepted and forcibly removed their boat’s engines. Thirty-two men and a boy now detained at an...
By Emily AlpertBy the time their rickety boat was rescued last week off the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, nearly a hundred of the weakened passengers had lost their lives – roughly three times as many as survived. The starving people had endured nearly two months at...
By Chutima Sidasathian and Alan Morison PHUKET: Eight Rohingya boatpeople have been apprehended on Phuket and police are tonight looking for 14 more said to have landed with them at Surin beach early today. One group of five men walked along Phuket’s coast road...
According to the 32 survivors, Thailand’s navy intercepted their passage and forcibly removed their boat’s engineAssociated Press in Colombo Burmese asylum seekers rescued by Sri Lanka’s navy last week said they floated at sea for 25 days and 97...
