Boat People
- 08/06/2020
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By Joseph Sipalan |Reuters KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia on Monday detained 269 Rohingya migrants when they tried to enter the country on a damaged boat off the holiday island...
Read more- 15/04/2020
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By The Rohingya Post Around 80% of the refugees are Rohingya women and children while 28 reportedly died in the sea journey A boat carrying over 400 Rohingya refugees were...
Read more- 05/04/2020
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By Mohammed Rafique, The Rohingya Post On April 5, a wooden boat carrying some 250 Rohingya refugees landed on the shore of Langkawi in Malaysia. The boat arrived at around...
Read more- 11/02/2020
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Cox's Bazar – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) are closely liaising with Government of Bangladesh’s first responders to the tragic boat...
Read more- 11/02/2020
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By Associated Press At least 16 people drowned and dozens more were unaccounted for after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank off southern Bangladesh early Tuesday, officials said. Some 130...
Read more- 20/07/2017
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By The Star SITTWE (Myanmar): Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya Muslims, where disease and deprivation are...
Read more- 21/10/2016
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By Free Malaysia Today Ishak, 15, on the verge of turning life around, 8 years after coming to Malaysia as a refugee, thanks to determination to learn. PETALING JAYA: Carrying...
Read more- 30/09/2016
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By Beh Lih Yi, Reuters KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Racing from one end of the football pitch to another, the players in bright yellow and pink jerseys pass...
Read more- 30/08/2016
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By Beh Lih Yi, Reuters There are more than 150,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Malaysia - 90 percent of them are from Myanmar KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters...
Read more- 05/07/2016
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By Chris Buckley, New York Times For Hasinah Izhar, it seems a lifetime since she scrambled onto a boat on a muddy shore of Myanmar, clutching three of her children,...
Read more- 07/06/2016
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By Muhammad Pizaro, The Jakarta Post The plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar has attracted the world’s attention for years. In May 2015, the Rohingya refugee crisis grabbed international headlines...
Read more- 28/05/2016
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By Rashvinjeet S. Bedi The Star One year after landing in Malaysia, following a harrowing ordeal in the Bay of Bengal, 36 Rohingya refugees have been resettled in the...
Read more- 03/05/2016
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By Agence France-Presse One year after struggling ashore during Southeast Asia's human-trafficking crisis, hundreds of desperate Rohingya migrants remain in limbo, forgotten footnotes as record numbers worldwide flee violence and persecution...
Read more- 17/03/2016
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By Tri Nuke Pudjiastuti, InsideIndonesia.org Translated and edited by Antje Missbach and Nikolas Feith Tan In May 2015, three boats with more than 1800 people onboard reached Aceh after a...
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By Jared Ferrie, Irin News BANGKOK, 11 November 2015 (IRIN) - Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party is headed for a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first reasonably...
Read more- 05/11/2015
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By Jennifer Rigby Sittwe, Independent.co.uk Thousands could be preparing to go to sea as the monsoon season ends, despite warnings by aid groups of the 'serious risk of another humanitarian disaster'...
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