Floods send nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis into emergency shelters
Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis were taking refuge in emergency shelters on Saturday from floods that inundated vast areas of the low-lying South Asian country, disaster officials said.
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Brazil will restrict entry of some foreign nationals, aiming to curb migration to US and Canada
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil will begin imposing restrictions on the entry of some foreign citizens from Asia seeking refuge in the South American nation as a means to migrate to the United States and Canada, the justice ministry’s press office said Wednesday.
Thai border town offers geopolitical lesson for India
Mae Sot, a Thai trading center on the border with Myanmar, has two very noticeable characteristics: It is prosperous, and it is full of refugees from Myanmar. In both ways, the town offers a striking contrast to my home in northeastern India, which also borders Myanmar, where official hostility to illegal immigrants is damaging both refugees and the local economy.
‘Fantastic as fiction’: Penny Wong on becoming Australia’s top diplomat as an immigrant
Wong, who is usually reticent to speak about personal experiences, gave a candid account about dealing with racism as a child when she delivered the inaugural lecture on Monday at the Centre for Asian-Australian Leadership in Canberra, which was set up in 2020 to tackle the so-called “bamboo ceiling” in Australia.
Sri Lanka defends diplomat in Australia who held maid under ‘slavery-type conditions’
Sri Lanka’s government has defended a top diplomat ordered by an Australian court to pay more than US$360,000 in back wages to her former housekeeper held in Canberra under “slavery-type conditions”.
Bangladesh’s Yunus reassures on Rohingya refugees, garment exports
Bangladesh will maintain support both for its immense Rohingya refugee population and its vital garment trade, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address.
Elon Musk’s rightward turn includes a fringe fascination: Civil war
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly prophesied a future civil war related to immigration.
Wounded and grieving, Rohingya flee deadly attacks in Myanmar: ‘lots of gunshots, injuries’
Ducking as mortar fire exploded around them, Rohingya refugee Mustafa Kamal and his family narrowly escaped the attack by a rebel militia on their town in western Myanmar.