YANGON, Myanmar: More than 150 Rohingya people have been rescued from a waterlogged boat near the Thai coast, Myanmar's military said on Thursday.

Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, risk their lives each year in long, expensive sea journeys, often in vessels in poor condition, trying to reach Malaysia or Indonesia.

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