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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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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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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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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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Thai police arrested 76 illegal Burmese immigrants, many of them Rohingya Muslims, heading for Malaysia on a train.
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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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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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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.
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A woman has died after being smuggled by human-traffickers. Three traffickers have been arrested and the migrants held in bust by Thai authorities.
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Thousands of refugees line up to be counted in the Mae La camp near the border town Mae Sot, as Thai authorities begin the first census of its kind.
Thai immigration commissioner says all the Rohingya migrants who were detained in Thailand were sent back to Burma three months ago.