TAPAH, Feb 2 — Police are intensifying efforts to track down 130 illegal immigrants who escaped from the Temporary Immigration Depot in Bidor last night, with the search focused on areas within a certain radius of the detention centre.

DHAKA, Dec 30 — Bangladesh is trying to stop Rohingya refugees risking their lives in boats to Southeast Asia, a government official said, amid fears that this year could be one of the most deadly in years for the persecuted Muslims from Myanmar seeking new lives.

NEW DELHI/DHAKA, Dec 27 — The possible sinking of a boat in recent weeks with 180 Rohingya Muslims on board could make 2022 one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade for the community, a UN agency said, as refugees try to flee desperate conditions in Bangladesh camps.

JAKARTA, Dec 25 — Dozens of Rohingya refugees landed on the shores of Indonesia's Aceh province on Sunday following demands from humanitarian organisations to allow them to disembark after being adrift at sea for a month, reported dpa.

TASEK GELUGOR, Sept 17 — The Immigration Department (JIM) has found that some ethnic Rohingyas have entered the country using the services of agents who would also take them to the UNHCR office to obtain the refugee card.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 — The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) is monitoring all boats passing through the country’s waters from Indonesia to prevent the entry of illegal immigrants including Rohingya refugees to Malaysia.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 — As coronavirus infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar began appearing on Facebook.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — The government, through the Foreign Ministry, is identifying other countries that are willing to receive refugees, especially the Rohingya, who have been staying in Malaysia, the Dewan Negara was told today.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 8 — There is no pressing need to send personnel back to the Malaysian Field Hospital in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, after its operations were ended by the government in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, said Malaysian Chief of Defence Force Jeneral Tan Sri Affendi Buang.