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Nobel Laureate urges youth to embrace entrepreneurship and technology for social good

September 4, 2023
by jeerapas@thaipbs.or.th
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Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, the iconic advocate for social entrepreneurship and micro finance, was recently in Bangkok to inaugurate the Yunus Centre in Thailand. With his profound influence on…

A local resident walks past the fallen trees after Cyclone Mocha’s crashed ashore, in Kyauktaw in Myanmarís Rakhine state on May 14, 2023. Cyclone Mocha crashed ashore in Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh on May 14, uprooting trees, scattering flimsy homes in Rohingya displacement camps and bringing a storm surge into low-lying areas. (Photo by SAI Aung MAIN / AFP)

Cyclone Mocha hits Myanmar, Bangladesh

May 15, 2023
by Nad Bunnag
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Cyclone Mocha crashed through Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, sparing sprawling refugee camps but bringing a storm surge to swathes of western Myanmar where communications were largely cut off….

Cyclone Mocha heads to Bangladesh, Myanmar coasts as thousands flee

May 13, 2023
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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A powerful storm packing winds of up to 175 kph (109 mph) barrelled towards the coasts of eastern Bangladesh and Myanmar on Saturday, threatening around a million Rohingya refugees and…

Rohingya refugees walk a “Go home campaign” rally demanding repatriation at Kutupalong Rohingya camp in Cox’s Bazar on June 19, 2022. (Photo by Tanbir MIRAJ / AFP)

HRW urges Bangladesh to halt Rohingya repatriation plan

April 1, 2023
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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Human Rights Watch on urged Bangladesh to suspend plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning conditions there would not be safe for the persecuted and stateless minority. Bangladesh is…

FILE – U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer attends a press conference at the Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur, July 26, 2022. Human rights activists urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday, March 13, 2023 to refer Myanmar’s military rulers to the International Criminal Court and urged neighboring Southeast Asian countries to support the opposition pro-democracy movement. (Malaysia’s Department of Information via AP, File)

UN envoy: Wide resistance to Myanmar military’s repression

March 17, 2023
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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Widespread popular resistance to brutal repression by Myanmar’s military shows no sign of abating across much of the country, and with both sides intent on winning by force “there is…

Rohingya refugees search for their belongings after a fire broke out in Balukhali refugee camp in Ukhia on March 5, 2023. A major fire in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh’s southeast Sunday burnt 2,000 shelters, leaving around 12,000 people homeless, an official said. Tanbir Miraz / AFP

Fire at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh leaves thousands without shelter

March 6, 2023
by Kitipat Chuensukjit
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A fire destroyed 2,000 shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving around 12,000 people homeless, an official said. The fire broke out around 2:45 pm (0845 GMT)…

Challenges for Asian journalists, leaders

December 3, 2022
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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Thai Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and its English website, Thai PBS World, recently gathered journalists and young political leaders from Asia to discuss the challenges they face and the most…

Rohingya refugees and others hold umbrellas as they search for survivors after a landslide triggered by heavy rains in a camp at Ukhiya in Cox’s Bazar district, Bangladesh, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (AP Photo/ Shafiqur Rahman)

Six killed in landslide, flooding at Rohingya camps in Bangladesh

July 28, 2021
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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At least six Rohingya Muslims, including children, were killed and several others injured on Tuesday (July 27) after heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flooding in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, officials…

Thailand suspends entry certificates for all foreigners from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal

May 10, 2021
by Nad Bunnag
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The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to suspend issuance of certificates of entry (COE) to all foreigners travelling to Thailand from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal immediately. Foreign Ministry…

Arrivals of all non-Thai citizens from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh suspended until further notice

April 26, 2021
by Nad Bunnag
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Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has temporarily suspended all arrivals of non-Thai citizens from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, in an escalated effort to prevent the spread of a…

April 12, 2021 in Hyderabad. (Photo by NOAH SEELAM / AFP)

WHO warns pandemic at ‘critical point’ as South Asia cases surge

April 12, 2021
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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The Covid-19 pandemic has entered a critical phase as infections exponentially increase despite widespread measures aimed at stopping them, the WHO warned, with record case numbers in South Asia triggering…

This video grab taken on December 4, 2020 from an AFPTV video shows a Burmese smuggler (C) along with Rohingya refugees in a boat in Chakmarkul on August 26, 2020. – As scores die on a ship packed with desperate Rohingya, Burmese smugglers mercilessly beat and whip the still-living refugees in a graphic video obtained by AFP that shows rarely seen images from the frontlines of human trafficking. (Photo by – / AFPTV / AFP)

Dozens of Rohingya refugees caught arriving in Malaysia

February 7, 2021
by Tulip Naksompop Blauw
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Dozens of Rohingya, mostly women and children, were caught as they arrived by boat in Malaysia last month after fleeing a refugee camp in neighbouring Indonesia, police said Friday. Almost 400 members…

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Malaysia to ask Bangladesh to take back Rohingya refugees found at sea

June 9, 2020
by jeerapas@thaipbs.or.th
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation’s…

Police said some 10,000 Muslims gathered in an open field in Raipur town in southern Bangladesh to pray “healing verses” from the Koran to rid the country of the deadly novel coronavirus

Massive Bangladesh coronavirus prayer gathering sparks outcry

March 19, 2020
by Tanadatet
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A massive coronavirus prayer session with tens of thousands of devotees sparked an outcry in Bangladesh Wednesday as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic….

July 13, 2018
by administrator
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The United Nations is preparing to send teams to Rakhine state of Myanmar to begin work aimed at repatriating Rohinya Muslims from Bangladesh to Myanmar, The Irrawaddy News reported today,…

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