More bodies found on Malaysia mountain as quake toll hits 13

A helicopter leaves Kundasang, Malaysia for Mount Kinabalu to recover the bodies of climbers Saturday, June 6, 2015. Rescuers on Saturday recovered the bodies of several more climbers from Malaysia’s highest peak a day after it was struck by a strong earthquake. (Munehiro Yamaoka/Kyodo News via AP)

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1,600 Rohingya, others land in Indonesia and Malaysia

Ethnic Rohingya migrants sit in lines to receive food from a social worker for breakfast at a temporary shelter in Lhok Sukon, Aceh province, Indonesia, Monday, May 11, 2015. Boats carrying nearly 600 Bangladeshis and long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar washed to shore in western Indonesia, some after captains and smugglers abandoned the ships, leaving passengers to fend for themselves, survivors and migrant experts said. Thousands more are believed to be stranded at sea. (AP Photo/S. Yulinnas)

 

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Malaysia revives indefinite jail raising fears of repression

In this Feb 10, 2015 photo, Malaysian police stands guard during a protest for the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim outside the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Malaysian government says a new law “Prevention of Terrorism Act,” which also allows detention without trial, is aimed at curbing Islamic militancy amid fears that the Islamic State group in the Middle East could be spreading its tentacles to Asian countries with Muslim populations like Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, India and Pakistan to find recruits. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

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Malaysia police arrest 42 foreigners after riot at export factory

Up to 1,000 workers of a factory in Johor set fire to the building on Tuesday, Aug 26, 2014, after they had stoned their employers’ office and burned down a car earlier in the day. — PHOTO: THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK

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Dozens of Rohingya missing after boat sinks off Myanmar

Migrants from Myanmar's Muslim-minority Rohingya at a detention centre after they were rounded up in raids on hidden camps in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on January 16, 2013.— AFP pic

Migrants from Myanmar’s Muslim-minority Rohingya at a detention centre after they were rounded up in raids on hidden camps in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat on January 16, 2013.— AFP pic

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40 Indonesians missing off Malaysia after boat sinks

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Image provided by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency shows passengers rescued from an overturned boat off the Johor coast wait at the maritime office on August 2, 2013. Forty Indonesians believed to be illegal immigrants seeking to return home went missing after a boat carrying them sank off the coast of Malaysia, a maritime official said on August 3. (Malaysian Maritime/AFP)

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) –  Forty Indonesians believed to be illegal immigrants seeking to return home were missing Saturday after a boat carrying them sank off the coast of Malaysia, a maritime official said.

The boat, thought to be carrying 44 people, sank Thursday night off southern Johor state, said Amran Daud, an official with the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA), adding four were rescued on Friday.

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