PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia: After an announcement by the Philippines of its willingness to take in foreign refugees, particularly some 300 Royinghans who had fled Myanmar last week, Malaysia and Indonesia on Wednesday said they would no longer turn away so-called boat people.
The development is considered a breakthrough in the region’s migrant crisis that came just hours after hundreds more starving people were rescued at sea.
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