JAKARTA, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A boatload of Myanmar refugees, who had drifted at sea for almost three weeks, are being cared for at an Indonesian hospital, officials say.
BANGKOK, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- The United Nations Refugee Agency says it hopes to gain access soon to a group of Rohingya boat people who fled persecution in Myanmar.
BANGKOK, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- The Thai military officially has denied towing boatloads of Myanmar refugees far out to sea and then abandoning them in rickety boats.
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A U.N. agency Tuesday requested access to a group of boat people from Myanmar being held in Thai custody, officials said.
PARIS, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- Authorities say a father and his son died after being trapped in a sinking pleasure boat on the River Seine in Paris.
YANGON, Myanmar, July 4 (UPI) -- A boat capsized on the Yway River in Myanmar this week, killing 38 people, a government-run newspaper reported.
FOOTSCRAY, Australia, June 21 (UPI) -- Australian officials have unveiled the country's first memorial to refugees who arrived in the 1970s fleeing the communist takeover of Vietnam.
ACCRA, Ghana, April 10 (UPI) -- At least 120 passengers on a packed boat are feared to have drowned when the vessel capsized on Lake Volta in Ghana.
KRIBI, Cameroon, March 23 (UPI) -- Massive waves overturned a boat off the Cameroon coast Thursday, possibly drowning more than 125 people.
JAKARTA, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Two Indonesian police officers were detained Friday for allegedly forcing asylum seekers to remain on board an overcrowded boat that eventually sank. The boat sank last week off Java Island during a voyage to Australia, killing more than 350 people.
