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...
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...
Uncertainty surrounds the plight of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims attempting to seek asylum in Australia but turned away by East Timor. A group of Rohingya Muslims are now on a remote Indonesian island close to the East Timor border, reportedly waiting for a chance...
Ron Corben BANGKOK — Indonesia is pressing Burma’s government to grant legal status to the country’s Muslim Rohingya. As more Rohingya seek asylum in Indonesia and elsewhere abroad, Ron Corben reports from Bangkok that Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa...
OnIslam & News Agencies CAIRO – Muslim states have petitioned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to take an action against Burma over ongoing attacks against Muslims in the Buddhist-majority country. “Myanmar (Burma) is having a honeymoon with the world,”...
Syed Mohammed, TNN HYDERABAD: Though no stranger to harassment, hundreds of Rohingya refugees who have made the city their own, are apprehensive about policemen knocking on their doors once again in the wake of serial blasts in Bodh Gaya. “The locals told us...
