Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Thailand is preparing to receive people fleeing fighting in Burma and send them back “when they are ready,” the Thai prime minister said on Tuesday, following a series of attacks by Muslim insurgents on Burmese security forces last week.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Dr Supat, who was found guilty of murder in May 2015, was handed over to Thai immigration authorities amid tight security.
Human Trafficking Lead Story News
People smuggling across the border from Burma to Thailand is on the rise despite a crackdown by authorities in both countries that has made it more expensive and dangerous, Thai immigration police say.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Burmese migrants in Thailand can now apply for – and pay for – papers to allow them to travel freely around the kingdom.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Thailand moves to enforce restrictions on the kinds of jobs foreigners can do as more Thais come to view migrants as competitors in a weak economy.
Feature Lead Story Migrants Issues News Refugees
Expectations are high that this week’s visit to Thailand by Aung San Suu Kyi will help raise awareness of issues affecting the millions of Burmese migrant workers in the country.
Thai immigration commissioner says all the Rohingya migrants who were detained in Thailand were sent back to Burma three months ago.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
Thai police rescue, then detain, 531 Rohingyas from a remote camp in Sadao, near the Malaysian border, in a raid prompted by a Reuters report into human trafficking in the area.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
US and EU call on Burma to allow immediate humanitarian access to an impoverished Rohingya refugee camp in Arakan state, while Human Rights Watch criticises Thai immigration authorities for alleged complicity in a Rohingya smuggling operation.
Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
Thailand has pledged to help with any investigation into a report that Thai immigration officials moved Burmese refugees into human-trafficking rings.
Reuters has uncovered what they say is confirmation that illegal camps are maintained in the southern Thai jungle as holding centres for Rohingya boatpeople who are sold on to human smuggling outfits.
Thai authorities in the last week have rounded up three leading members of a Burmese human trafficking gang responsible for selling hundreds of their fellow countrymen into slavery and murdering dozens of people
Thai immigration officials in Mae Sot arrested a former Burmese police officer, who is accused of forging temporary passports and stamps for migrant workers
Embassy issues passports to fleeing migrants as reports continue to surface of Thai police aiding Burmese militas in extortion of flood victims
28-year-old Burmese migrant’s work permit had expired whilst immobilised in a Thai hospital, meaning police ruled his was illegally in the country
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