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500 Rohingya from Myanmar land in Indonesia

May 17, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Margie Mason and Robin McDowell Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)  — Boats carrying more than 500 members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed ashore in western Indonesia on Sunday, with some people in need of medical attention, officials and a nonprofit organization said. They warned that thousands more are believed to be stranded […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Ali Kotarumalos, Arakan Project, Associated Press, Chris Lewa, Indonesia, JAKARTA, Malacca Straits, Malaysia, Muhammad Juned, Myanmar, North Korea, Rashid Ahmed, Risky Hidayat, Steve Hamilton, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam War, Vol 34 No 21 | May 16 - May 22, attention

About 4,000 fishermen stranded on Indonesian islands

April 4, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Margie Mason and Robin McDowell Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) —The number of foreign fishermen stranded on several remote eastern Indonesian islands has spiraled to 4,000, including some revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been enslaved. Many are migrant workers abandoned by their boat captains after the government passed a moratorium on […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, 2015, AP, Associated Press, Bangkok Post, Burma, Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti, IOM, Indonesia, JAKARTA, Myanmar, Ngwe Thein, Phil Robertson, Steve Hamilton, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand, Vol 34 No 15 | April 4 - April 10

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