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Canada’s PM Harper vows human smuggling crackdown – report & video
“PM vows human smuggling crackdown” – news video report from A News Vancouver Island. “VICTORIA, 17 August 2010 – From the decks of the MV Sun Sea to immigration court in Vancouver; in just five days, the first of the 492 Tamil migrants who arrived at CFB Esquimalt seeking asylum are already having their cases... »
Letter from Tamil Migrants – video news report
Video news report from A News Vancouver Island: Letter from (Tamil) Migrants “VICTORIA (August 16, 2010) – Tamil migrants who arrived at CFB Esquimalt last week say they’re escaping murders, disappearances and violence in their country. For the first time, we’re hearing from the migrants in their own words in letters allegedly written by those... »
Ship with 490 Tamil Migrants Seeking Asylum Arrives on Canada’s West Coast – video & report
Watch video report “MV Sun Sea arrives at CFB Esquimalt” – from A News Vancouver Island 13 August 2010 – CFB (Canadian Forces Base) ESQUIMALT - “A long journey has come to an end. As first light broke over the pacific coast (just after 6 a.m. PT, Friday, August 13), the overloaded MV Sun Sea had... »
Australia apologizes for mistreating migrant children: video news reports
Two video reports: from ITN News and from Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Australia apologizes for mistreating migrant children – video news report from ITN News (16 Nov 2009). Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologized to thousands of migrant children from Britain who suffered abuse and neglect. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a national apology to the... »
China Sees Migrants Head Back to Work
Source: Wall Street Journal BEIJING – The effects of China’s stimulus efforts are filtering into the job market, with the government reporting that most rural migrant workers have now found new jobs after the mass layoffs of late last year. But the downturn is still being felt in weaker growth of household incomes, which could... »

