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British woman among Bangkok bomb attack dead
A British national was killed in the attack on the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond confirms.
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Illegal immigration crackdown: ‘rogue’ bosses to be raided
The government announces a crackdown on illegal workers employed in the UK as the Calais migrant crisis continues.
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UNHCR warn number of refugees reaches record high
A new UN report says one in every 122 people is either a refugee or seeking asylum. It says if this number of people were a country, it would be the world’s 24th biggest.
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Malaysia's human traffickers adapt to survive – and are back in business
Speed boats ferry people to shore from a giant ship hovering off the coast after the ransom is paid – and those who die onboard are simply tipped over the side.
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Mass graves of suspected trafficking victims found
They escaped persecution – only to end up the prisoners of human trafficking gangs: held in bamboo cages in squalid camps – tortured, then killed. Malaysian forensic teams have been scouring mass graves found deep in the forest straddling Southern Thailand and Northern Malaysia. Police have been pulling out the remains of dozens of suspected…
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Malaysia graves: grim secrets of trafficking camps revealed
Channel 4 News along with photo-journalist Raul Gallego Abellan travel deep into the jungle to the Malaysian trafficking camps after mass graves were uncovered along the border.
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Authorities discover 139 suspected graves
Malaysian authorities say they have discovered 139 suspected graves near the country’s border with Thailand. Many of the victims are thought to be Rohingya Muslims fleeing from persecution in Burma. The graves are on the site of abandoned camps often used by traffickers to hold the refugees.
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Malaysia finds 139 graves in abandoned trafficking camps
Malaysian authorities discover signs of torture and graves with multiple bodies in more than two dozen abandoned camps linked to human trafficking.
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Malaysia finds mass graves of ‘migrants’ near Thai border
Mass graves and suspected human trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the country’s home minister says.
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Bangkok: students protest against military rule
Students stage protests against the Thai authorities, a year after the army seized power from an elected government.
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Rohingya will not be saved by the new 'no push-back' policy
As odious as the business of smuggling people across the Andaman Sea is, the traffickers and the “boat people” fleeing Burma and Bangladesh share a common cause.
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Stranded at sea: Rohingya migrants offered shelter
Indonesia and Malaysia agree to end their policy of pushing migrants boats back out to sea, and instead say they will provide temporary shelter to thousands stranded at sea.
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Pushed back out to sea: clock ticking for Rohingya migrants
UN agencies urge Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to stop pushing migrant boats back out to sea, as fears grow for those stranded with dwindling food supplies.
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Thousands of migrants stranded off Indonesia
Up to 8,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are thought to be stranded at sea as Indonesia and other south Asian governments prevent them from coming ashore.
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Fifty Thai police ‘punished’ over trafficking camp discovery
More than 50 Thai police are transferred from a border area over suspected human trafficking links after the discovery of 32 bodies in shallow graves.