UNHCR: 569 Rohingya died at sea in 2023, highest in nine years
People from the mostly Muslim Myanmar minority continue to make perilous journeys across the sea in search of safety.
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Rohingya death toll at sea in 2023 worst in almost a decade, says UN
DHAKA – At least 569 Rohingya were reported to have died or gone missing while trying to flee Myanmar or Bangladesh in 2023, the highest toll since 2014, the United Nations refugee agency said on Jan 23, calling for urgent action to protect the ethnic minority group.
Myanmar border clashes cast shadow over ties with India
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Fighting between Myanmar's military and armed ethnic groups is intensifying near the border with India, disrupting a key infrastructure project and threatening to drive a rift between the two countries.
Myanmar's army is losing - and facing fire from a militant monk
Last Tuesday, a noisy crowd of several hundred people stood in the small main square of Pyin Oo Lwin, a popular Myanmar hill town, to hear a bespectacled monk make a startling suggestion.
Rohingya women trafficked to India on promises of ‘a good life’ face threat of indefinite detention
Young Rohingya women forced to endure inhumane conditions in Bangladesh’s refugee camps are not only at risk of being trafficked to countries like India, they also face being detained there indefinitely for “violating immigration laws”.
Shih Ming-teh was Taiwan's indomitable fighter for democracy
TAIPEI -- Shih Ming-teh, who died of liver cancer on his 83rd birthday, was a champion of Taiwan's brutal and bloody struggle for democracy and played a defining role in Asia's democratization. He spent collectively more than a quarter of a century behind bars under Taiwan's authoritarian Kuomintang regime and allied himself with other Asian fighters for democracy such as Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar and Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia.
Myanmar military plane overshoots runway in India, 8 injured
NEW DELHI - At least eight people were injured after a Myanmar military aircraft that was supposed to fly back dozens of soldiers fleeing conflict at home overshot the runway of an airport in northeastern India on Tuesday (Jan 23), officials said.
Churches, temples and monasteries regularly hit by airstrikes in Myanmar, activists say
BANGKOK (AP) — A study issued Tuesday by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the Buddhist-dominated country’s sole Christian-majority state.