Two Burmese labour rights groups said Burma’s authorities had blocked them from operating in Thailand because they had criticised recruitment practices as “legal human trafficking”.
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“The attachés yelled at us, shouted rude things, and threatened to get us arrested for disturbing their work.”
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3,000 voters have registered for advance voting at the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok, just a tiny fraction of the some 2.5 million migrant workers in Thailand.
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The Burmese embassy warns its nationals to avoid certain areas of the Thai capital that might be targets for further bombings.
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Burmese migrant workers in Thailand will be able to cast ballots at the embassy in Bangkok ahead of the general election.
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The Burmese embassy said its nationals in Malaysia should avoid going out alone, stay in a group and look after fellow Burmese.
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Embassy staff are to assist migrant workers who hold “pink cards” for their stay in Thailand, but who do not have Nationality Verification Cards.
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Burma’s government and upper house of parliament have pledged to provide financial and moral support to Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun.
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Attorneys for two Burmese men charged with murder and rape scramble to prepare their defence after a court moved up the first hearing date by two months.
The name Moon Aung clearly struck a chord with embassy officials in Bangkok who rejected the Burmese rebel singer-songwriter’s application for a visit to his homeland.
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Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun tell embassy delegates on Friday that local Thai police had directed them what to say and do during a re-enactment of the crime on 3 October.
Lawyer: “He [Muang Maung] said he did not know what happened afterwards, and that when he returned to the room there was nothing to suggest that Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun had committed murder.”
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A lawyer contracted by the Burmese embassy to defend Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, who are accused of murdering two British tourists, said the men confessed to the crimes but told the legal team they had been tortured.
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No Burmese nationals are known to have been injured since hostilities erupted between Israel and Palestine last month, according to Myint Soe, the minister counsellor for the embassy in Tel Aviv.
An Indonesian court has sentenced an Islamist militant to seven and a half years in prison for masterminding a plot to attack the Burmese Embassy in the Indonesian capital.
A district court in Jakarta on Monday has reportedly sentenced Achmad Taufik to seven years and six months in prison for his role in a failed plot to bomb the Burmese embassy in Indonesia.
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The alleged mastermind of a plot to bomb the Burmese embassy in Indonesia led a group of Islamic extremists intent on avenging the “massacre” of Rohingya Muslims, a Jakarta court hears.
During a raid conducted by Thai police accompanied by Burmese labour activists, 10 Burmese women were freed from a brothel in southern Thailand where they had been forced to work as prostitutes
Kachin organisations demonstrated in front of the Burmese embassy in Bangkok yesterday and called for an end to the on-going war in Kachin state
