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Rakhine Buddhist monks hold posters and placards during the protest in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, 25 November 2018. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
Protest in Myanmar’s Rakhine state opposes refugees return
Protesters in Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state demonstrated Sunday against the planned repatriation of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh, referring to...
(File) A wooden boat carrying Rohingya refugees children detained in Malaysia territorial waters off the island of Langkawi arrive at a jetty in Kuala Kedah, northern Malaysia on April 3, 2018. Photo: AFP
93 refugees fleeing by boat sent back to Myanmar camps: police
Nearly 100 Rohingya Muslims were forced back to Myanmar's Rakhine state after being detained at sea en route to Malaysia, police said Wednesday,...
Rohingya refugees walk back to their tent during dusk at the Kutupalong refugee camp on November 18, 2018. Photo: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP
Bangladesh arrests 10 Rohingya bound for Malaysia
Bangladeshi police have arrested 10 Rohingya refugees as they were about to board a boat to travel to Malaysia, an officer said Friday.
(File) Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi poses in front of the painting "La Liberte guidant le peuple" (Liberty Guiding the People) by French artist Eugene Delacroix, during a visit at the Louvre Museum in Paris on June 29, 2012. Photo: AFP
Suu Kyi to be stripped of freedom of Paris award: mayor's office
Paris city will strip Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary freedom of the French capital over her failure to speak out against a crackdown on Myanmar's...
State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi speaks at the Asia-Pacific Summit 2018 in Kathmandu, Nepal, 01 December 2018. Photo: EPA
Suu Kyi calls for peace in speech which avoids Rohingya crisis
Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is facing international criticism over her country's crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, called Saturday...
Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, speaks during the COP24 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, 03 December 2018. Photo: Peter Klaunzer/EPA
Nations urged to tackle ʻurgent threats’ at UN climate talks
With the direst warnings yet of impending environmental disaster still ringing in their ears, representatives from nearly 200 nations gathered Sunday...
Suspected Rohingya people arrive in Idi Rayeuk, East Aceh on December 4, 2018. Photo: Cek Mad/AFP
Refugee boat lands in Indonesia
A boat carrying 20 Rohingya men landed in Indonesia Tuesday, authorities said, the latest group of the vulnerable Myanmar minority to reach the world...
Thousands of Myanmar women forced into marriage in China: study
Thousands of vulnerable women and girls from northern Myanmar are being trafficked to China and forced to marry, a study said Friday, offering a rare...
This file photo taken on November 30, 2018 shows Myanmar Navy personnel escorting a group of Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state after they were caught fleeing on a boat. Rohingya Muslims who paid hundreds of dollars to flee squalid Myanmar camps by boat are destitute since they were stopped at sea and returned, the UN refugee agency told AFP on December 7. Photo: AFP
Rohingya sent back to Myanmar camps hungry and in debt
Fleeing Rohingya Muslims sold ration books to help pay hundreds of dollars to traffickers in order to flee squalid Myanmar camps by boat, only to be...
Thai national police chief general Chaktip Chaijinda (2nd-R) watches police department chemists inspect seized drugs during a press conference in Bangkok on May 11, 2018. Ten million made-in-Myanmar 'yaba' pills and nearly half a tonne of crystal meth hidden in tea packages has been seized from a convoy cars in downtown Bangkok, Thai police said. Photo: Romeo Gacad/AFPA
Thai cops kill smuggler in massive meth bust
Thai cops shot dead a smuggler and seized 15 million meth pills at a checkpoint in Thailand's portion of the "Golden Triangle", officials said Friday...

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