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Omi chronicles the heartbreaking plight of Burma's Rohingya refugees, fleeing religious persecution for their Islamic faith. Here, he presents remarkable images of the Rohingya who fled across the border to Bangladesh, where life is better -- but just barely. Today, the UNHCR recognizes about 29,000 Rohingya in Bangladesh as refugees. The Bangladeshi government disagrees, insisting on classifying the Rohingya as illegal immigrants. As a result, the Rohingya receive virtually no support and live in often sub-human conditions. It's common for 16 or more to live together in a single room of barely 30 square feet. Many suffer from chronic malnutrition. As stateless people, their movements are sharply restricted, and even here they are subject to extortion. Adapted from the source document.

This paper deals with a sensitive topic that one may call the borderline syndrome of Europe: the efforts to harmonize the national policies of the enlarged European Union with respect to the right to enter Europe as a refugee or as an asylum seeker. The right to seek refugee status, a convention that has its roots in Europe has now become a burden to the very people who created it. Consequently, the countries in Europe have developed various strategies of dealing with the syndrome. While some have adopted more or less sophisticated procedures to let people in, others have developed equally sophisticated but pitiless procedures to keep people out. Third countries and countries that share borders with European Union have been absorbed into what is now called externalisation of the refugee problem. The fear of taking disproportionate burden has also resulted in callous treatment of refugees and asylum seekers by these third countries. In this award winning paper, the author provides the reader with an in-depth analyses of the nexus of Europeanization and the right to refugee status and comes to a rather painful conclusion that harmonisation has become a failure; least respected in the Union and at best has become "beggar thy neighbour policy". Looking from the perspective of the refugees -- the harmonisation policy has become obnoxious; in clear violation of international treaties. But who cares? Such treaties are held in contempt by the first border officials that an asylum seeker meets.

More than 100,000 Armenian Christians are fleeing their homes in Azerbaijan, desperate to escape the arrival of the Azerbaijani army.
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Bing prompt: "Draw a businessman leaving China".Hot on the heels of the previous post about how Chinese are showing at the United States' southern border seeking asylum from increasingly dire economic conditions in the PRC, we get more news of this sort. Just as people are leaving China, so is capital: For the first time its records, the PRC has seen a net outflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). On balance, more FDI is leaving than entering China, once the world's most notable destination for investment. From the Nikkei Asia Review: Outflows of foreign direct investment in China have exceeded inflows
for the first time as tensions with the U.S. over semiconductor
technology and concerns about increased anti-spying activity heighten
risks. The shift was reflected in balance-of-payments data for the
July-September quarter released Friday by the State Administration of
Foreign Exchange.FDI came to minus $11.8 billion, with more
withdrawals and downsizing than new investments for factory construction
and other purposes. This marked the first negative figure in data going
back to 1998.To be sure, there are overseas precursors for this shift. The US is keen on banning cutting-edge knowledge on semiconductors and artificial intelligence from leaking to China:Escalating tensions with the U.S. are one reason for the decline in
foreign investment. In a survey taken last fall by the American Chamber
of Commerce in the People's Republic of China, 66% of member respondents
cited rising bilateral tensions as a business challenge in China. In August, the U.S. announced tighter restrictions on chip
and artificial intelligence investment in China. Washington is
coordinating with Beijing ahead of a summit meeting between Presidents
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in November, but the U.S. remains committed to
technology restrictions in the name of economic security.Looking
at foreign investment in the semiconductor field by destination, China's
share has already shrunk from 48% in 2018 to 1% in 2022, according to
U.S. research firm Rhodium Group. In contrast, the U.S. share rose from zero to 37%. The combined share of India, Singapore and Malaysia grew from 10% to 38%.However, American chip and AI concerns obviously do not make up all potential sources of FDI to China. It is here where a decidedly unfriendly foreign investment policy climate factors in. You name it: from corporate espionage to various forms of harassment of overseas businesses under dubious pretenses... today's PRC leadership does not think much of how others perceive these actions meant to promote domestic industry at the expense of foreign concerns. Europeans, for instance, cite only cosmetic efforts to improve prospects for FDI:Beijing has been seeking to reverse capital outflows in the face of mounting economic challenges. But such efforts appear to have failed to assure investors. The China International Import Expo (CIIE), an annual event
launched by President Xi Jinping in 2018 to portray China as an open
market and improve its trade ties, kicked off on Sunday. But the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China criticized the event last week as a "showcase."



"European businesses are becoming disillusioned as symbolic
gestures take the place of tangible results needed to restore business
confidence," the chamber said in a Friday statement. "The CIIE was originally intended as a showcase of China's opening
up and reform agenda, but it has proven to be largely smoke and mirrors
so far," Carlo D'Andrea, vice president of the chamber, said in the
statement. Having done nearly everything possible to discourage FDI, is it any wonder it's leaving China?

After her own escape from Kherson just before Russian occupation, the LGBTQ+ activist coordinated with international volunteers and raised funds to help others evacuate from the city.