Human Trafficking Lead Story News
The trial of 92 suspected human traffickers, arrested after the discovery of shallow graves of migrants in Thai jungle, began in Bangkok on Tuesday.
Human Trafficking Lead Story Migrants Issues News Video
The U.S. has decided to keep Thailand on its list of worst human trafficking centres for another year, despite government efforts to stop the trade.
Boatpeople Lead Story News Refugees
The Burmese navy has recovered 102 men, thought to be asylum seekers from Bangladesh, who were abandoned on the island of Saunggauk, state media reported.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
As the news coverage of the migrant crisis in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea drops away, the UN has made a renewed call for funds and action.
Foreign Affairs Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Even if Thailand’s lowly status remains unchanged in the upcoming US Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, authorities have made headway, says Thai official.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Photos
After being rescued at sea, Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants have received a hospitable welcome in Indonesia’s Aceh, and found a semblance of normality.
Lead Story News Rohingya Video
Deep in southern Bangladesh in a sweltering camp of mud houses where Rohingya Muslims from Burma are sheltered, there is fear rising that they have to move again, 22 years after they crossed the river or sped through the forests.
Arakan Lead Story Migrants Issues News
In a 1 June statement the NLD NLD pointed to communal violence in western Burma’s Arakan State as one of the principal causes of the crisis.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
A naval patrol boat came across a “suspicious looking” shipping trawler in the Gulf of Martaban at 6.30am.
Boatpeople Lead Story News Video
The United States said on Friday that thousands of migrants adrift in Southeast Asian seas needed urgent rescue, as countries gathered in Bangkok to discuss the regional crisis.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
The crew of a boat carrying more than 200 migrants that was intercepted by the Burmese navy last week have been remanded in detention.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya
Some of the world’s most influential voices on Burma participated in an urgently organised conference on the Rohingya migrant crisis in Oslo on Tuesday.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
A White House spokesperson has said that the US is “taking a careful look” at how to dealing with the crisis affecting Rohingya migrants in Southeast Asia.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Politics
Burma’s Information Minister Ye Htut on Monday said that Burma will repatriate any so-called ‘boat people’ – so long as they can show evidence of citizenship.
