Thai deportation raises fears for 8,000 Hmong
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The United Nations said on Monday it was "deeply concerned" about Thailand's deportation of 163 ethnic Hmong to communist-ruled Laos, where U.S.-based Hmong exile groups say they face persecution and torture.
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Thousands of Vietnamese living illegally in the United States now face deportation after the two countries completed an agreement Tuesday following a decade of work on the pact, a U.S. official said.
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Thailand has evacuated injured survivors of the devastating tsunami from its southern tourist beaches as officials said the national death toll was expected to top 1,000.
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The shooting deaths of six hunters in northwestern Wisconsin this week has prompted a complex set of reactions - perhaps nowhere more than in the Twin Cities Hmong community.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - Thai police on Monday ordered  families and friends of foreigners to stay away from  tsunami-hit areas, including Buddhist temples turned temporary  morgues where they have searched for missing loved ones.
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Yang, president of the Wausau Area Hmong Association, and other Hmong community leaders in the state are concerned about a backlash after the killing of six deer hunters in northern Wisconsin.
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Hong Kong Correspondent Roland Lim. HONG KONG : A total of 277 Hong Kong residents are feared missing, mostly in the Thai resort town of Phuket, following Sunday&#39;s tsunami disaster.
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THAI army helicopters with loudspeakers hovered over remote jungle peaks in the south of the country yesterday, coaxing those who had fled Sundayâs massive tidal wave to come down to safety.
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The final death toll from Thailand&#39;s tidal wave disaster could approach 6,800, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has suggested, as European nations joined Thais in trying to trace thousands of missing people.
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PRIME Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today hundreds of Muslims will be prosecuted over a demonstration that led to the deaths of 87 people in southern Thailand last week, in a move which could further raise tensions in the region.
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Thailand stops forced return of Hmong refugees to Laos after Western countries agree to take them.
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Thai-Muslim citizens check for names their relatives who died after the Monday&#39;s riot erected outside a military camp in Pattani province, southern Thailand Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004.
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The Thai authorities say they are to release 900 people detained six days ago during a protest in the south of the country in which 85 Muslims died.
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Hundreds of Muslim men have been freed in southern Thailand but many others face prosecution after they were detained in a protest, which left 85 dead and outraged Muslims worldwide.
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YALA, Thailand  - Thailand's army-appointed government admitted on Monday it had no idea who was behind a wave of bombs and shootings in which eight people were killed in the Muslim-majority far south as the Lunar New Year began.
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A Thai official says at least 84 people have been killed in clashes between Thai security forces and Muslim protesters in the south of the country.
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MAE SOT, Thailand - One of the main organizers of the September protest marches in Burma, Ashin Kovida, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk, escaped to Thailand last week by carrying a false identification card, dying his hair blond, and wearing a crucifix.