An immigration truck believed to be carrying Myanmar migrants from Malaysia. Photo: AFP
This Week in Asia / Politics
Fled civil war in Myanmar, lost job to coronavirus and died in Malaysia: young mother's suicide highlights refugees' plight
A young mother who fled civil war in Kachin jumped from a building in Kuala Lumpur after both she and her husband lost their jobs to the coronavirus
It was the latest in a string of similar deaths and came a day before Malaysia, in defiance of a court order, deported over 1,000 people to Myanmar
Topic | Myanmar
Amy Chew
Published: 10:01pm, 24 Feb, 2021
Updated: 4:53pm, 25 Feb, 2021