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    41 Search results for "suicide"

    Lead Story News

    Family questions suicide as explanation for Burmese maid’s death in Thailand

    A Burmese family asked Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division (CSD) on Tuesday to probe the death of its youngest child at her employer’s house in Ratchaburi province as they have doubts about local police’s suicide report.

    Mae La refugee camp on the Thai-Burmese border. (PHOTO: Feliz Solomon/DVB)

    Lead Story News Refugees

    Suicide rate ‘alarming’ in Thai camp for Burmese refugees: study

    The number of recorded suicides and attempted suicides has soared at Thailand’s largest camp for refugees from Burma, the International Organization for Migration said on Monday as it called for urgent action to treat high levels of distress.

    Lead Story Migrants Issues News

    Burmese maid who committed suicide to be cremated in Singapore

    A Burmese domestic worker who jumped to her death from a 19-storey building in Singapore this week will be cremated in the Southeast Asian city-state, with her father and uncle preparing to travel there for the ceremony.

    Human Interest Lead Story News

    Maungdaw policeman commits suicide after groping accusation

    The 21-year-old was accused by a local woman of grabbing her hand and saying inappropriate things to her.

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    Political prisoner commits suicide in Bago jail

    Dec 25, 2008 (DVB)-A political prisoner named Maung San committed suicide at Bago jail on 19 December, a source close to the prison said. Maung San, a youth member of[…]

    Features Lead Story Refugees

    Living in limbo: Indonesia’s refugees face uncertain future

    Many refugees across Southeast Asia have no access to citizenship and few rights in the country where they live.

    Karen Lead Story News Refugees

    Karen refugee advocates flag lack of planning on repatriation

    The concerns of ethnic Karen refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) were raised on Tuesday, World Refugee Day, over the lack of a clear plan for the return and reintegration of those going back to their homelands.

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    Over half of 118 deaths in Malaysian immigration camps from Burma

    More than 100 foreigners died in the past two years in Malaysia’s immigration detention centres from various diseases and unknown causes, according to documents from the government-funded National Human Rights Commission.

    ASEAN Lead Story News

    Malaysia arrests seven for suspected links to militant groups

    Malaysian police said on Tuesday they have arrested seven people, including four foreigners, for suspected links to the Islamic State (IS) militant group and for planning attacks in Malaysia and abroad.

    Electricity Energy Environment Lead Story Natural resources News

    Hundreds of CSOs demand safe, sustainable energy plan

    A coalition of 422 civil society and environmental groups are calling on the government to halt all proposed coal and large-scale hydropower projects, citing a raft of negative impacts on vulnerable local communities.

    Human Rights Labour Issues Lead Story News

    For ‘seafood slaves’, a journey to hell and back

    For those who escaped slave-like conditions in Southeast Asia’s exploitative seafood industry, the nightmare is over, but the memories remain.

    Karenni Land Lead Story News Shan

    Controversial dam completed

    Construction on the controversial Upper Paunglaung Dam in Mandalay has been completed, according to Burmese state media.

    Development Human Rights Lead Story News Shan

    Depression plagues dam-displaced locals

    A new report by an NGO and two local partners attempts to quantify the damage wrought by the eviction of thousands of villagers in southern Shan state.

    2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics

    War of words escalates between Wirathu and NLD

    The firebrand monk says the NLD are “full of themselves” and unlikely to win the vote. In response, an NLD spokesman says Wirathu should “go to hell”.

    Arakan Communal Violence Lead Story News

    7 sentenced to 7 years each for Taunggup lynchings: DPA

    An Arakanese court has sentenced seven Buddhists each to seven years in jail over the killing of 10 Muslim pilgrims in an attack on a passenger bus in 2012, according to DPA.

    Crime Lead Story News

    Burma’s military leader calls for justice in Koh Tao murder case

    Burma’s senior military leader urged the Thai government to ensure that the Burmese embassy’s special investigation team on the case “can conduct their work freely to uncover the truth”.

    Arakan Communal Violence Lead Story News

    Lawyers appeal murder charges in case of Muslim pilgrims lynching

    Seven Buddhists charged for their participation in the murder of 10 Muslim pilgrims in Arakan State town of Taunggup in June 2012 are appealing against their indictment.

    Analysis Contributor Lead Story News Rohingya

    Burma needs a practical long-term policy for the Rohingya issue

    Salween Institute’s Saw Greh Moo analyses the moves ahead for the Rohingya, and calls to Thein Sein and Suu Kyi to stop playing ping-pong politics with their lives.

    Analysis

    Did the gov’t incite the racial violence targeting the Rohingya?

    According to independent Burmese researchers, many locals suspect President Thein Sein’s quasi-civilian government was the real culprit behind the racial violence in western Burma this summer

    Features

    Drug addicts face abuse in Kachin state

    A young girl emerges from a dark room with barred windows. Inside a group of women sit huddled on the dirty floor, some clutching small children. At immediate glance the[…]

    Analysis

    The not so new rulers

    Now that most major sanctions against Burma have been dropped, who is set to profit most as the country continues its ‘reform’ process?

    News Politics

    Police arrest 30 people for role in massacre

    Burmese authorities have arrested 30 people for their suspected role in the murder of ten Muslim pilgrims in Arakan state’s Taungup township on 3 June

    News Politics

    Three men given death sentence for murder that sparked riots

    The three Muslim men accused of raping and killing Thida Htwe – the Arakanese girl whose death sparked sectarian violence across Burma’s Arakan state this month – were sentenced to death

    From Map Ta Phut to Burma video

    Video

    From Map Ta Phut to Burma

    In the late 1980s Thailand embarked on an ambitious project to transform a popular stretch of coastline east of Bangkok into the country’s largest industrial estate. Ten years later however[…]

    Photos

    Tavoy’s forewarning

    In the late 1980s Thailand embarked on an ambitious project to transform a popular stretch of coastline east of Bangkok into the country’s largest industrial estate. Ten years later however[…]

    Analysis

    One refugee’s indefinite nightmare in Australia

    Sayad fled a witch hunt in both Burma and Malaysia and is now being held in indefinite detenton in Australia, a victim of the Gillard administration’s controversial refugee policy

    News Politics

    Recaptured child soldier tortured: mother

    Child soldier ran away from the army is feared to be under torture after captured by authorities for desertion

    News Politics

    UN says Australia refugee swap illegal

    UN human rights chief says the proposed plan to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia could violate international refugee laws

    News Politics

    Nambiar facing calls for ICC investigation

    Acting UN envoy to Burma facing calls from rights group to be included in an investigation into Sri Lankan army’s execution of Tamil Tigers

    Analysis

    The answer lies on your doorstep

    With an apparent push for economic growth in Burma, the government need only to look to its neighbours to find recipes for success and failure

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