Dear Your Excellency Prime Minister Yingluck Shinnawatra,



We, the undersigned members of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network, are deeply concerned about the deportation of Ka Yang, a Lao Hmong recognized as a refugee by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

(UNHCR). Ka Yang was deported from the Immigration Detention Center in Bangkok to Lao border on 17 December 2011.



It is…

PUTRAJAYA: The recent tragedy near Indonesian waters involving a boat full of migrants heading for Australia shows the issue needs to be dealt with urgently by countries in the region.

“It is a critical issue that needed a regional solution,” Deputy HomeAffairs Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop said in a statement…

When Lucia Marry Marry failed her first driving test in Australia the 37-year-old Myanmar refugee was not too disappointed - to her, it is enough she can take the exam.



Nor is she worried about the dangers of driving on busy city roads, a sight unseen in her homeland, formerly known as Burma, where walking was generally the only form of transport for the mother-of-three.



"No. I'm not scared. I'm happy because I like driving," she says from…

HOTEL ARMADA Petaling Jaya paid a visit to a community of Myanmar Chin refugees who are currently living at a rundown flat in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur.

The visit from the hotel’s staff was to shed some “festive light” while spreading Christmas cheer and joy to the refugees who have to live on the margins of society most of the time.

With the majority of the Myanmar Chins being Christians, it is also an early Christmas celebration for them.

Having left Myanmar to flee…

Nonprofit has helped settle immigrants from Myanmar, Nepal, Sudan, Iraq, Somalia and beyond

Students Abdurahman Juma, from left, Lu Reh, Tuang Sian Khai and Malka Arbab work together in an advanced English class at RefugeeOne. Juma and Arbab are from Sudan, Reh and Khai are from Myanmar. (Heather Charles, Chicago Tribune / December 15, 2011)…