34th ASEAN Summit

Sending the Rohingya home to die?

The United Nations (UN) recently warned that the repatriation of the Rohingya already driven from the country by the Myanmar army remains "impossible", stating that Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar are already facing a "serious risk of genocide".A report from a fact-finding mission to Myanmar, set up by the Human Rights Council, said the 600,000 Rohingya still living in Rakhine state remain in deteriorating and "deplorable" conditions."Myanmar continues

18 September 2019
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Bombs rattle Bangkok during ASEAN summit

Two men from Thailand's insurgency-hit south have been arrested and linked to several small bombs which rattled Bangkok Friday as it hosted a regional summit attended by United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, leaving four people wounded but not disrupting the diplomatic event.Thailand, which has a grim history of political violence and is fighting a long-running rebellion in the Muslim-majority south, remains deeply divided after a controversial March election returned a junt

3 August 2019
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Will the Rohingya be denied again?

The 34th ASEAN Summit is underway in Bangkok, Thailand. Even prior to its kick off, analysts had made forecasts about what were some of the key topics that would be discussed during the three-day event. Topics such as the United States (US)-China trade war and sustainability were among some of easier ones to guess.

21 June 2019
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