News Source: The Courier-Mail
| about 1 month ago
A spokesman for the LNG Pioneer said the survivors were generally all in good health, although one man had recovered from a high temperature. He also understood the boat, and its 39 male passengers, had left Sri Lanka in early October. "So I'd think...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
Authorities say there is no chance any of the remaining missing Sri Lankan asylum seekers survived after their boat sank in the Indian Ocean almost three days ago...Twelve people on board the boat died and nine of those have not been found...They...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 month ago
The 78 Tamil asylum-seekers are still refusing to leave the Australian customs ship moored off the Indonesian island of Bintan for the past 10 days...But an Indonesian deadline means the Oceanic Viking may be forced to leave on Friday, unless...
News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| about 1 month ago
Australia called off an air and sea search for survivors on Wednesday after a boat carrying unidentified Sri Lankans sank in remote seas far off its northwest, killing 12. Home Minister Brendan O'Connor said there was no hope of finding anyone else...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
The stand-off is now in its third week despite an initial agreement made between the countries' two leaders that Indonesia process the group. The meeting, which continued for most of yesterday, failed to find a resolution to the impasse and ended...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is mounting another radio blitz today to defend his handling of the asylum seeker issue as well as the latest interest rate rise by the Reserve Bank. He said the decision to take the 27 survivors to Christmas Island...