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File Photo: The 25th Ministerial Conference of Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) at Luang Prabang in Laos on December, 2022
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07 December 2023
Myanmar junta to host 26th Ministerial Conference of the Greater Mekong Subregion
Philippines Police Major General Guillermo Eleazar (2nd R) gestures during a press conference with other officials and three (back, orange shirts) of 277 Chinese arrested for "illegal online operations" (AFP Photo/Ted ALJIBE)
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18 September 2019
300 more Chinese arrested in Philippines crackdown
Philippines immigration agents, backed by troops, have arrested more than 300 Chinese for...
Rohingya children play at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on September 13, 2019. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
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18 September 2019
UN experts urge probe of refugee killings in...
UN human rights experts have raised new concerns about the treatment of Rohingya refugees...
Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam (R) shakes hands with Professor Pericles Lewis (C), president of Yale-NUS college after officiating the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the Yale-NUS College while other officials look on in SIngapore on August 27, 2013. Yale-NUS College is Singapore's first liberal arts college with a full residential program, with the first cohort comprising 155 students. (AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN)
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17 September 2019
Yale probes cancellation of ‘dissent’ course by...
Yale University has launched a probe into the cancellation of a course on democratic...
The fires -- usually started by illegal burning to clear land for farming -- have unleashed choking haze across Southeast Asia. Photo: AFP
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17 September 2019
Indonesia arrests nearly 200 over raging forest...
Indonesia has arrested nearly 200 people over vast forest fires ripping across the...
This aerial picture shows a flooded area in Thailand's northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani on September 14, 2019. Photo: Krit Phromsakla Na Sakolnakorn/AFP
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16 September 2019
Thailand’s northeast inundated after tropical...
Floods in northeastern Thailand have submerged homes, roads and bridges, leaving more...
The culprit behind the smog-belching blazes raging in Indonesia are usually illegal fires set to clear land for farming. (AFP/File / ADEK BERRY)
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16 September 2019
Frontline fight: Indonesia locked in epic battle...
Working around the clock, thousands of firefighters are struggling to contain smog-...
A Rohingya refugee man works at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia on Setember 13, 2019. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
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14 September 2019
Two more refugees shot dead over Bangladesh...
Two more Rohingya men were shot dead by officers Friday in a southern Bangladesh border...
Officials of regional disaster management agency try to douse a peat land forest fire, in Pekanbaru, in Riau province, on July 31, 2019. Photo: AFP
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13 September 2019
Indonesia forest fires surge, stoking global...
The number of blazes in Indonesia's rainforests has jumped sharply, satellite data showed...
Thousands of Ganesha idols, some 24 feet (seven metres) tall, were carried by devotees down to the Arabian Sea or to artificial ponds for a final immersion (AFP Photo/Punit PARANJPE)
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13 September 2019
Indian worshippers bid adieu to elephant god
Hundreds of thousands of worshippers thronged the streets of Mumbai on Thursday for the...
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Photo: EPA
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13 September 2019
Bangladesh PM blames Myanmar for repatriation...
Bangladesh's prime minister has blamed Myanmar for the failure of a recent attempt to...
A general view of the Shalbagan camp for Rohingya refugees in Teknaf on August 22, 2019. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
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10 September 2019
Bangladesh halts new SIM card sale in refugee...
Bangladesh mobile operators have on government orders stopped selling new SIM cards to...
Rohingya people are seen at a camp in Teknaf. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP
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09 September 2019
Bangladesh university suspends student for being...
A Bangladesh university has suspended a student for being a Rohingya refugee, officials...

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