More than 100 Myanmar migrants have escaped from a detention centre in Malaysia, resulting in one death. This is the second reported breakout from a Malaysian detention centre in as many years. The migrants include Rohingya refugees and other Myanmar nationals.
Concerns over illegal migration from Myanmar, rising criminal activities including the poppy trade, and cross-border militant activity underlies the government decision.
SURAT THANI: One Myanmar national was killed and six others hurt when a Toyota Fortuner bound for the Malaysian border rear-ended a trailer truck in Tha Chana district in the early hours of Thursday.
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Authorities are investigating an armed attack on a pickup truck carrying illegal migrants from Myanmar that left one man dead and three injured on Friday morning.
The Acting President of the NUG said that they would like to join hands with ULA/AA (Rakhine National Organization) in the revolution against the military dictatorship.
The Acting President of the NUG said that they would like to join hands with ULA/AA (Rakhine National Organization) in the revolution against the military dictatorship.
TAK: Another 184 illegal border crossers from Myanmar were caught in forest in Phop Phra district of this northern province in the early hours of Thursday.
KANCHANABURI: Eighty-seven job seekers from Myanmar and a Thai driver were arrested in two separate operations after they illegally crossed the border into Thailand in Thong Pha Phum and Sangkhla Buri districts on Tuesday, police said.
A group of 23 illegal Myanmar migrants, three of whom were dead and four seriously injured, were found stranded on the roadside in Kamphaeng Phet province on Saturday.