Dozens of “dehydrated and exhausted” Rohingya refugees – all males – landed on the coast of Aceh Besar regency in Indonesia on Christmas Sunday after being at sea for about a month, local officials said. The FB Tarikul Islam 2, the boat carrying the 57 men, sprang a leak and its engine broke down, Aceh […]

  A secret military court in Myanmar’s Insein Prison on Wednesday sentenced two journalists and seven anti-coup protesters to a maximum three years in prison each with labor for “incitement,” family members and an attorney with knowledge of the situation said. The nine young people, including Kaung Set Lin and Mhu Yatanar Khat Moh Moh […]

Junta troops arrested 112 Rohingya near an island off Bogale township in Myanmar’s southwestern Ayeyarwady region, local residents told RFA. The eight children, 47 women and 57 men were in two motor boats, waiting for other boats to take them to Bogale when they were caught on Tuesday morning. Locals say they were from Buthidaung […]

  A Chinese gang is holding 19 young Burmese migrant workers against their will in eastern Myanmar’s Shan state after “buying” them from people posing as job brokers to operate online fraud schemes, according to the victims and their family members. The 13 men and six women, all about 20 years old, signed what they […]

A suspected mine blast on a crowded ferry in Yangon injured 17 passengers over the weekend, many of them seriously, according to the junta’s information group. The Cherry 2 ferry, which carries around 30,000 passengers each day between downtown Yangon’s Pansodan Jetty and Dala township, was crossing the Yangon River on Sunday night when an […]

Lao authorities have rescued more than 1,680 victims of human trafficking from the Chinese-run Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone between its establishment in 2007 and the end of August this year, Radio Free Asia has learned. The victims included Lao workers and foreign nationals from more than 20 different countries, a member of the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit […]