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Thai company ordered to pay Burmese workers
A Thai labour tribunal has ordered a construction company to pay over 180 Burmese migrant workers more than US$140,000 in unpaid wages.
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Social media raises migrants’ awareness of rights
A Facebook post that alerted a group of Burmese migrants to their own exploitation has triggered a landmark case on the rights of foreign workers in Thailand.
3 Burmese rescued from slavery on Thai fishing boat
The three men were rescued from a Chonburi dock after their boat returned to shore.
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Suu Kyi, Thai govt to sign new migrant deal
The agreement will significantly shorten the “work break” period that migrants must stay in Burma after their Thai work permits expire.
Migrant children left out of new democracy
“The kids are getting older and they won’t be able to return to Burma until their parents make some money. So they just grow older and older.”
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Thailand claims progress in effort to end sea slavery
Thai police say a crackdown on human traffickers has led to the dismantling of thirty five criminal rings supplying slaves to fishing boats.
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Hackers strike Thai sites after Koh Tao sentences
Internet hackers have attacked around 300 Thai court and government websites bringing them offline in retaliation for the sentencing of two Burmese migrant workers to death by a Koh Samui court in December.
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Burmese govt, agencies protest Malaysian visa price hike
Burmese overseas employment agencies have voiced complaint against Malaysia’s One Stop Service Centre (OSC) which increased migrant visa fees eightfold.
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“No clarity” at Bangkok migration summit
Thailand called on Friday for concerted action to tackle “irregular” migration in the Indian Ocean, but as yet no substantial solutions have emerged.
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Four million disenfranchised at home and abroad
When Burma goes to the polls on 8 November, more than 10 percent of 33.5 million people officially eligible to vote won’t be able to.
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Andy Hall to face trial on defamation charges
British human rights activist Andy Hall will face a defamation suit brought against him by Thailand’s Natural Fruit Company after a Bangkok court accepted the prosecution’s case.
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Burmese warned to avoid Bangkok danger zones
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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Govt confirms 159 Bangladeshis repatriated
The Burmese government has confirmed via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 10 August the repatriation of 159 verified Bangladesh nationals.
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155 boatpeople returned to Bangladesh
Burma sent 155 migrants back to Bangladesh on Wednesday, more than a month after rescuing them from a boat stranded at sea.
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102 abandoned migrants rescued in Tenasserim
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.
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Koh Tao murders: Judge to rule on DNA retesting
A vital ruling is expected on whether key forensic evidence can be re-examined, following a day in court when police admitted using up certain DNA samples.
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Burmese fishermen wait onshore as Thai dispute lingers
Thai Prime Minister urges registered fishing boats in his country to resume operations, but thousands of Burmese fishermen remain stuck onshore.
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Migrants, justice and the Koh Tao murder case
The outcome of the upcoming murder trial will be a test for Thailand not only to realise justice for the deceased, says rights activists Andy Hall.
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20 sentenced in Arakan for trafficking boatpeople
The 20 were each sentenced to five years in connection with a ship carrying 208 migrants that was intercepted by the Burmese navy last month.
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500 march in anti-Rohingya protest
Despite the heavy rain, hundreds of people took to the streets on Sunday to protest the return of Rohingya boat people to Arakan State.
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Rohingya woman tells of rape in traffickers’ camps
A trafficking survivor says that women held in camps were subject to terrible abuse by their captors, in assaults that left at least two pregnant.
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Burma restricts access to 700 migrants on remote island
The navy refused on Sunday to let journalists approach a remote island where more than 700 migrants are said to be held following their rescue last week.
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Boat people find warmer welcome in Aceh
Regardless of the desperate conditions in the hastily assembled camps, many Rohingya asylum seekers say the Acehnese are receiving them with open arms.
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Bangladesh plans to move Rohingya refugees to southern island
“The relocation of the Rohingya camps will definitely take place,” said Bangladeshi official Amit Kumar Baul.
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Thai navy deploy ‘floating base’ for boat people
Thai navy to deploy a landing-platform ship in the Andaman Sea to provide humanitarian aid to migrants found adrift, while the US offers air support.
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Burmese navy intercepts Bangladeshi migrant boat
A boat carrying more than 200 Bangladeshi migrants was intercepted by the Burmese navy off the Arakanese coast.
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DVB POLL: What to do with the Rohingya?
DVB asks readers for opinions and solutions to the Rohingya boat people crisis.
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Thai police arrest nine more human traffickers
Thai crackdown on those involved in trafficking and killing migrant Rohingyas continues. Forty-three now arrested; 34 suspects still on the run.
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Malaysia, Indonesia agree to shelter boat people
Malaysia and Indonesia now say they will no longer turn away vessels, provided that migrants can be resettled or repatriated within a year.
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ASEAN, UN must help Burma resolve Rohingya crisis
“We are inviting a worst case scenario in which boats filled with the dead drift in the oceans in a gruesome testament to inhumanity,” says OIC envoy.
