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    102 abandoned migrants rescued in Tenasserim
    July 14, 2015in Boatpeople, Lead Story, News, Refugees124by DVB
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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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    June 25, 2015in Boatpeople, Lead Story, News, Video211by DVB and REUTERS
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    VIDEO: Traffickers maintain Australian bribe claim

    Six smugglers at the centre of a “pay and turn back” row between Indonesia and Australia were being questioned by Indonesian police on Tuesday.

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    Boat people find warmer welcome in Aceh
    May 30, 2015in Boatpeople, Contributor, Lead Story, Migrants Issues, News, Rohingya174by CARLOS SARDIÑA GALACHE
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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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    Picking on the little guys: Phuketwan
    September 7, 2014in Analysis, Interview, Lead Story, Media, News244by FELIZ SOLOMON / DVB
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    Picking on the little guys: Phuketwan

    DVB spoke with Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian of Phuketwan, who are facing the possibility of seven years in prison for quoting a Reuters article about the smuggling of Rohingya…

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    ‘Boatpeople’ story lands Reuters a Pulitzer as local reporters face jail
    April 15, 2014in Lead Story, News, Rohingya51by FELIZ SOLOMON / DVB
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    ‘Boatpeople’ story lands Reuters a Pulitzer as local reporters face jail

    Two Reuters reporters were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for reports on the trafficking of Rohingya Muslims, days before two Thailand-based journalists will appear in court, where they may face up…

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    January 4, 2014in Feature, Lead Story, News, Rohingya, Video40by HELEN REGAN
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    Living in limbo, but ready to risk death at sea

    Burmese asylum-seekers living in Indonesia say they will continue to risk their lives and travel by boat to Australia, despite the very high chance they will never get there.

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