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Tag: Asylum Seekers

Posted inOpinion

UK, France play politics with migrants’ lives

by Jonathan Gornall November 29, 2021November 29, 2021

Just over a year ago, on the fifth anniversary of the drowning of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, I speculated in print that maybe – just maybe – his horrific death might not have been utterly in vain. Perhaps, I pondered naively, his dreadful end, conveyed so powerfully by the shocking images of his small body lying […]

Posted inAfghanistan

Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go?

by Tazreena Sajjad August 24, 2021August 27, 2021
Posted inMalaysia

Malaysia deports 1,000 to Myanmar despite ban

by M. Jegathesan February 23, 2021February 25, 2021
Posted inBeijing, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Taiwan vows to help Hongkongers who flee

by KG Chan December 12, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inBeijing, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Existing laws can help HK protesters, says Taiwan

by KG Chan August 21, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina, Hong Kong, Taiwan

Wanted bookseller finds safe haven in Taiwan

by Frank Chen July 26, 2019February 18, 2020
A Chinese tourist poses for a selfie in front of the Sydney Opera House on March 8, 2017. Some Chinese have been sold tickets to Australian tourist attractions obtained fraudulently on WeChat.  Photo: Reuters/David Gray
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Malaysia, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Thailand, United States, World

Refugees from China: few and far between

by Alexander Casella July 24, 2019February 18, 2020
Immigrant-rights advocates protest near the U.S.-Mexico border wall over a visit to the border by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly in San Ysidro, a district of San Diego, California, U.S., April 21, 2017.  REUTERS/Mike Blake
Posted inWorld

America needs to rethink approach to immigration

by Maa Zhi Hong May 28, 2019February 18, 2020
The High Court in Admiralty, Hong Kong. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inHong Kong, Philippines

Filipino torture claimants fail to stop deportation

by Asia Times staff May 8, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inHong Kong

Three HK asylum seekers injured in gang brawl

by Asia Times staff May 6, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, South Asia, Vietnam

Hong Kong deports 9,137 asylum seekers

by Asia Times staff April 4, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina, Hong Kong

Four jailed for working illegally in Hong Kong

by Asia Times staff January 22, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inChina, Taiwan

Chinese dissident duo stranded at Taiwan airport for 100 days

by Asia Staff Times January 21, 2019February 18, 2020
Metal fence with barbed wire on a Britain flag. Separation concept, borders protection.Social issues on refugees or illegal immigrants. image istock
Posted inAfghanistan, European Union, France, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, South Asia, Syria, United Kingdom, World

Refugees used as bogeymen as UK prepares to leave EU

by Jonathan Gornall January 11, 2019
The Sha Tin Magistrates' Courts. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inAT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Middle East

Indonesian woman, HK employer jailed for illegal employment

by Asia Times staff January 9, 2019February 18, 2020
The industrial district in Kowloon where the illegal workers were arrested.  Photo: Google Maps
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, South Asia, Vietnam

Triad probe after asylum seekers nabbed at catering factory

by Asia Times staff December 31, 2018February 18, 2020
The Immigration Department chartered a flight for the voluntary repatriation of Vietnamese illegal immigrants to Vietnam. Photo: HK Government
Posted inAT Finance, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam

Hong Kong deports 83 Vietnamese on charter flight

by Asia Times staff December 19, 2018February 18, 2020
Protesters chant at a Liberal Party fundraiser in Sydney on November 10, 2017, as they call on the ruling Liberal coalition government to bring back 600 refugees from an Australian detention centre in Papua New Guinea. Photo: AFP/William West
Posted inAustralia, Middle East, Oceania

Refugees a dividing line ahead of Australia’s polls

by Alan Boyd December 11, 2018February 18, 2020
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Photo: AFP
Posted inEgypt, European Union, Germany, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Syria, World

Angela Merkel and her legacy in the Middle East

by Faisal Al Yafai November 20, 2018
Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon. Photo: Google Maps
Posted inChina, Hong Kong, South Asia

Asylum seekers arrested for selling fake luxury products

by Asia Times staff November 15, 2018February 18, 2020

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