Migrants

US revokes legal status of migrants who used Biden-era app

The latest orders could affect more than 930,000 migrants

28 migrants found dead in Libya mass grave

It said the grave was found after a raid on a human trafficking site

Trump to prepare facility at Guantanamo for 30,000 migrants

US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, already houses a migrant facility - separate from the high-security US prison for foreign terrorism suspects

UK bolsters fight against migrant crossings

The interior ministry added that the government also aims over the next six months to achieve the highest rate of deportations of failed asylum seekers for five years.

We need skilled workers for higher remittance

Potential there, political will needed

Trapped in the ‘Game Ghor’

Nuruzzaman Raju owned a mobile phone repair shop in the capital’s Gulistan.

Qatar evicts hundreds of migrant workers as World Cup looms

Qatari authorities have evicted hundreds of migrant workers from buildings in central Doha, casting a new shadow over the countdown to the World Cup, residents and workers said on Saturday.

46 dead migrants found inside truck in Texas

The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the US-Mexico border.

162 Bangladeshi migrants return home from Libya

As many as 162 Bangladeshi migrants – who were in various detention centres in Libya -- have returned home this morning (May 12, 2022).

May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015

Myanmar denies responsibility for migrant boat crisis

Myanmar's government says it is not responsible for the migrant boat crisis in south-east Asia and may not attend an emergency summit on the issue.

May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015

Myanmar can't be forced, says Thai PM

Thein Sein aide says country not likely to attend meeting on boat people;Prayu says this is neighbours' right

May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015

Don't push back new boat arrivals: US

The United States urges the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to refrain from pushing back arrivals of new boat carrying Bangladeshi migrants and Rohingya at sea.

May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015

US for local solution to migrant issue

The US stress on regional solution to the issue of drifting sea migrants and urge countries to accommodate the people at their vicinity.

May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015

Free/r movement of human capital is a necessity

They are not thieves, robbers or pirates but desperate jobseekers ready to give service in exchange for something to live on.

May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015

Migrants issue heats up

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, come under pressure from international community to provide humane treatment to thousands of Bangladeshi,Rohingya migrants.

May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015

Malaysia sends back 2 boats with over 800 migrants

Thousands of Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims abandoned at sea had nowhere to turn Thursday as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with more than 800 migrants.

May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015

1,400 Rohingyas from Bangladesh, Myanmar rescued off Indonesia, Malaysia

Second boat carrying 400 of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar are rescued off Indonesia's far west coast, less than a day after nearly 600 others arrived in a wooden vessel seeking refuge.

May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015

32 more Bangladeshis rescued in Thailand

Thirty-two more Bangladeshi migrants have been found on Khao Kaew mountain in adjacent areas of Hat Yai and Rattaphum districts of Songkhla in Thailand.

May 5, 2015
May 5, 2015

'Dozens die' as migrant boat sinks

Dozens of migrants drown in the Mediterranean after a boat sinks south of Italy's island of Sicily, the Save the Children aid group says.