BANGKOK (NNT) – The Thai military has provided shelter and humanitarian assistance to more than 2,200 people who have fled the hostilities across the border in Myanmar. Defense Ministry spokesman Kongcheep Tantravanich said the military has set up a safe zone, where those who cross the Salween River, which forms the natural border between Thailand […]Read More
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Monday the government is preparing for a potential flood of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar. “We don’t want to have an exodus into our territory, but we will observe human rights, too,” Gen Prayut told reporters when asked about a weekend of violence in Myanmar during anti-coup demonstrations. Full story: […]Read More
BANGKOK, March 29 (TNA) – Thailand would take care of Myammar refugees on the humanitarian basis and Thai military representatives’ presence on the Armed Forces Day of Myanmar was a military affair, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said. On the arrivals of Myanmar refugees, the prime minister said that the Thai government actually did not want […]Read More
About 3,000 ethnic Karen people have taken refuge on the Thai border, in Mae Sariang district of Thailand’s northern province of Mae Hong Son, after their villages were bombed by Myanmar army aircraft on Sunday. Local officials in Mae Sariang said that the Karen have taken refuge at three locations in Mae Khong sub-district, as […]Read More
A boat full of asylum seekers arrived at the shores of western Greece earlier this week, with a Kurdish MP and 20 former Turkish police officers onboard. According to the Greek newspaper Ilia Live, the policemen and the member of parliament fled Turkey in order to escape persecution from the Turkish government under President Recep […]Read More
Libyan-born Khairi Saadallah has been charged with three counts of murder, following a mass stabbing in the town of Reading last week. The attack, initially investigated by UK’s counter-terrorism police, targeted gay men. The 25-year-old has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder, the Crown Prosecution Service said on […]Read More
The Glasgow attacker, who was shot dead by police, was a Sudanese national named Badradeen, according to the Daily Mail’s exclusive report. The report cites witnesses and a friend of the knifeman as saying that he warned the night before the bloodbath at the Park Inn hotel in Glasgow city centre that he was going […]Read More
Greece has quarantined a second migrant facility on its mainland after a 53-year-old man tested positive for the new coronavirus, the migration ministry said on Sunday, as reported by Reuters. The Afghan man lives with his family at the Malakasa camp along with hundreds of asylum seekers. He has been transferred to a hospital in […]Read More
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