Twelve Bangladeshi asylum seekers are enduring "unliveable conditions" in Ping Che that should shock the government into doing more for a community excluded from society, local human rights...
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10 May 2013
Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country's communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again. This year alone, 460 Vietnamese men, women...
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8 May 2013
An Indonesian court jailed an Australian and a Pakistani for six years each after the men were caught organising an asylum-seeker boat to Australia, their lawyer said on Wednesday.
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28 Apr 2013
Banging African drums and chanting words such as "justice", hundreds of asylum seekers and torture claimants marched from Central to Immigration Tower in Wan Chai yesterday to protest over what...
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7 Apr 2013
Asylum seekers have been recruited by drug gangs to sell cocaine in Central's upmarket nightclub district, police say.
And they are even offering punters a free "line" of the drug that...
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26 Mar 2013
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Tuesday renewed calls for a refugee swap with Malaysia to deter boatpeople after two asylum-seekers drowned in the latest tragedy at sea.
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Malaysian authorities have rescued at least 136 people believed to be ethnic Rohingya Muslims fleeing strife in Myanmar aboard a leaking boat with no food or water, an official said on Monday.
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The 33-year-old leg-spinner took seven wickets on his Sheffield Shield debut for Victoria two weeks ago and will have another chance to shine against New South Wales at the Melbourne Cricket...
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An Afghan man who helped organise an Australia-bound boat trip on which 90 asylum seekers drowned was sentenced on Wednesday to six years’ jail in Indonesia for people-smuggling.
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The landmark decision - handed down by the Court of Final Appeal late last month - means hundreds, possibly thousands, of claims by foreign nationals seeking refuge may have to be re-examined.
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Life for refugees and asylum seekers has been made more bearable and dignified by a charity that serves them food from a luxury hotel.
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Whether it is stories of refugee children unable to attend school, families unable to pay rent, complaints about the slow processing of asylum-seeker status or the seemingly inadequate government...
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