Thailand announces breakthrough in HIV vaccine

BANGKOK, Sept 24 – Thailand announced on Thursday a breakthrough in the HIV vaccine development – the first time ever that there is evidence that HIV vaccine has preventive efficacy. “It is found that the vaccine has 31.2 per cent efficacy in reducing the risk of HIV infection,” Thai Public Health Minister Withaya Kaewparadai told [...]

BBC:US piles pressure on Burma regime

US officials have had a rare meeting with representatives of Burma’s regime. Unnamed officials told reporters that efforts to improve ties depended partly on the outcome of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial. The US also pressed Burma to enforce a United Nations resolution imposing an arms embargo on North Korea.

Asian summit cancelled after venue stormed

from:Malaysiakini Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters smashed their way into a summit of Asian leaders, forcing the country’s embattled government to postpone the entire meeting indefinitely. Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva declared a state of emergency in the resort of Pattaya after chaos erupted at the summit, which was supposed to discuss the global financial crisis and [...]

Thai protesters beseige Asian summit

from:Malaysiakini Thai protesters pushed through security to rally at a summit of Asian leaders Friday, forcing their campaign to topple Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva into the international spotlight. Thai police vowed to use “all means necessary” to clear the hundreds of protesters away from the beach resort hotel where the leaders of China, Japan, and [...]

CNN:Men held after British skipper murdered on yacht

CNN) — Thai police have arrested three migrant Burmese workers after a British yacht skipper was allegedly murdered by having his throat slit and being thrown overboard, according to media reports. Read more>>

A regional solution for Rohingyas

from:Malaysianinsider MARCH 20 — In January this year, shocking news emerged of the mistreatment by Thai security forces of over a thousand ‘boat people’ travelling from Bangladesh and Burma to Thailand and Malaysia. Most of them were ethnic Rohingyas from Arakan State in Burma.

Rohingyas – the new ‘boat people’

Marwaan Macan-Markar It had happened decades ago when Southeast Asia region was gripped by the fallout of the United States’ war in Vietnam. But the ‘boat people’ phenomenon is back, and this time it has to do with Burma’s Muslim Rohingyas fleeing harsh realities at home.

Myanmar government planning for another episode of Anti-Muslim riots

Myanmar government planning for another episode of Anti-Muslim riots               Dear Brother, I hope you can share the following news which is the part of a deliberate plan of the Military Junta of Burma to use its long term policy of using religious hatred to create the political environment [...]

Myanmar official indirectly confirmed that Rohingyas are POLITICAL MIGRANTS and not economic migrants and all the ASEAN leaders are just ignoring the truth as a lame excuse for not accepting them

COMMENT: SHAME TO YOU ALL THE ASEAN LEADERS. YOU ALL SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOUR LIES. ESPECIALLY THE MUSLIM LEADERS WHO IGNORED THE ROHINGYAS SHOULD NOW ACCEPT THEIR BROTHER-IN-ASEAN HAD CONFIRMED INDIRECTLY THAT THEY HAVE EVEN REFUSED TO ACCEPT THAT ROHINGYAS ARE THEIR CITIZENS. If denied of citizenship, what left for them? Even to study at [...]

Al Jazeera:Rohingya migrants claim Thai abuses

Islamophobic Thailand’s PM vows to push out the Rohingya boat people without caring that hundreds of them drowned in the ocean

Islamophobic Thailand’s PM vows to push out the Rohingya boat people without caring that hundreds of them drowned in the ocean COMMENT: ASEAN leaders ignoring to solve the political crisis in Burma which is the root of the illegal Burmese migrants. Islamophobic  Thailand’s PM could tolerate millions of non-Muslim illegal Burmese migrants. including the arms rebels but the Muslim [...]

South Africa accuses Israel Navy of killing hundreds of Palestinian boat people from Gaza

South Africa accuses Israel Navy of killing hundreds of Palestinian boat people from Gaza WARNING: Readers must read the lower part of this news/article to understand the truth. Those reading the upper part only and failed to continue could be mislead or miss the real message. Cape town, South Africa(AFP) — South Africa said Sunday that hundreds of people were missing at sea, believed [...]

Irrawaddy:Thailand Urged to Stop Pushing Refugees Out to Sea

By: LAWI WENG A refugee rights organization has called on the Thai government to stop stranding Rohingya boat people from western Burma’s Arakan State at sea after apprehending them for illegally entering Thailand. Read more>>

Responsible Thai generals must be punished for torturing and killing of Imam

Responsible Thai generals must be punished for torturing and killing of Imam BANGKOK, Jan 11 – The death of an imam while in army custody last year will present Thailand’s new government with its first test of whether it can deliver justice in the country’s troubled southern provinces.   On Christmas Day, a court in Narathiwat ruled [...]