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Burma looks to ‘legalise’ domestic workers abroad

The move comes after a tragic incident on 12 June when a Burmese domestic helper jumped to her death from a 19-storey building in Singapore.

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More than 1,600 Burmese migrants nabbed in Thailand

Nearly 3,000 migrants — more than half of them from Burma — have been arrested in Thailand in less than a year for working in the country illegally.

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Enslaved fishermen head home to Burma

The first group of Burmese migrants among those rescued from slavery on remote Indonesian islands are flown to Rangoon on a government-sponsored flight.

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76 illegal Burmese migrants arrested en route to Malaysia

Thai police arrested 76 illegal Burmese immigrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims, heading for Malaysia on a train.

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Thai officials accused of forging Burmese migrant cards

Police chief says 421 cards were clearly issued illegally, though he believed there may be been tens of thousands of forged ID cases in Kanchanaburi alone.

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28 Burmese migrants rescued from suffocating truck

Twenty-eight illegal Burmese migrants were rescued from the back of a poorly ventilated pickup truck in Thailand’s Chumphon province and their two alleged traffickers arrested.

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Local Thai Muslims reject Rohingya migrants

A police compound in southern Thailand will shelter 95 illegal Rohingya migrants after local Muslims refused to allow them to be housed near their communities.