HELPING HAND Acehnese fishermen (left) help transfer Rohingya migrants (right) from their boat off the coast near the city of Geulumpang in Indonesia’s East Aceh district of Aceh province on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO
HELPING HAND
Acehnese fishermen (left) help transfer Rohingya migrants (right) from their boat off the coast near the city of Geulumpang in Indonesia’s East Aceh district of Aceh province on Wednesday. AFP PHOTO

SITTWE, Myanmar: Myanmar was braced on Thursday for its first talks with US and Southeast Asian envoys on the migrant exodus from its shores, as Malaysia ordered search and rescue missions for thousands of boatpeople stranded at sea.

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