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Suu Kyi meets Burmese refugees in Thailand

AP © Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has visited Burmese refugees at a camp in Thailand. Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in northern Thailand to visit Burmese refugees who have been in camps along the border for decades. Thousands of Burmese ethnic minority people, many of them dressed in traditional costume, gathered at Mae La camp, 50 kilometres north of Mae Sot, to greet Suu Kyi on Saturday.

ILO to ease criticisms on Burma forced labour

A Rohingya child rests by the window in Sittwe (Reuters) The International Labour Organization (ILO) is likely to ease its criticisms against Burma on forced labour, despite fresh reports that the military continues to target the stateless Rohingya population in Northern Arakan state with impunity.