Latest ‘‘Please give me water,’’ asked boatpeople on a stranded vessel off the coast amid an international wrangle that has left Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia denying sanctuary to hundreds.
PHOTO ALBUM A boy of 10 has told Phuketwan how he was kidnapped onto a boat in Burma and a mother of five children is also among the first stranded boatpeople to find safety in Thailand.
Latest ‘I did not do nothing,’ says an Australian accused of having illicit sex with 14 school-age girls in the Philippines city of Cebu. He says a former girlfriend set him up.
PHOTO ALBUM With its motor repaired, a boat laden with 450 men, women and children sailed for the horizon off Thailand today as the regional standoff for hundreds of stranded boatpeople continued.
Latest The UN is calling for a ‘‘timely, comprehensive and effective response’’ to the regional crisis triggered by the lack of help for boatpeople from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Around the Region Malaysia and Thailand show no sign of taking in hundreds of desperate men, women and children stranded at sea; A factory fire toll rises to 72 in the Philippines.