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Vientiane has thanked the Thai government for returning 4,000 ethnic Hmong to Laos. It said the decision had boosted relations between the two neighbours.

Japanese officials are interviewing Myanmar refugees in a camp in northern Thailand in the first step towards their resettlement in Japan, the UN's refugee agency said Tuesday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - More than 2,000 ethnic Karen people have fled their villages in eastern Myanmar after deadly attacks by government troops in the past week, a humanitarian group said Saturday.

Thailand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Kasit Piromya reaffirmed Wednesday that the repatriation of Thailand’s ethnic Hmong population to Laos was conducted under human rights principles, with all being well treated by both the Thai and Lao authorities.

Thailand began deporting more than 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers in secret Monday, drawing widespread international condemnation for sending members of the ethnic minority back to Laos.