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BANGKOK， Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Thai Airway International filed a defamatory lawsuit against a little known website on Thursday for allegedly divulging the names of the national flag carrier's passengers in a recent chartered flight to Hawaii.


THAI lawyers lodged the libel charges to the Technology Crime Suppression Division against administrators of the website named ''Stop Pretending Thailand'' for allegedly posting the list of 43 passengers in September 29's chartered flight to Hawaii， which included the name of Deputy Prime MinisterDefense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan.


The airline firm had been damaged by such unauthorized exposure of its passengers' names which were supposed to be held confidential， the TCSD police quoted the airline's lawyers as saying.


Gen. Prawit， who had led a group of government officials， many of whom handling national security affairs， and other persons to the ASEAN-United States Defense Informal Meeting in the island state until October 2， has been criticized in the media for taking a ''costly'' air travel at the expense of the taxpayer's money which amounted to 20 million baht(about 580，000 U.S. dollars).


Nevertheless， the defense minister categorically dismissed criticisms that he had enjoyed undue privileges on the Hawaii trip and contended that the chartered flight was merely a normal dealing between the Secretariat of the Prime Minister， which paid for his air travel， and the state firm THAI.


BRUSSELS Joe Thuney Jersey , Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- The European Commission rolled out a new scheme on Wednesday to bring at least 50,000 refugees to Europe over the next two years, in a bid to curb illegal human smuggling in the Mediterranean.


The move came on the back of Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's State of the Union address, in which he pledged the European Union (EU) would "present a new set of proposals with an emphasis on returns, solidarity with Africa, and opening legal pathways."


The new resettlement scheme Deatrich Wise Jr. Jersey , to be in place until October 2019, aims to "provide viable safe and legal alternatives for those who risk their lives at the hands of criminal smuggling networks," the Commission said in a press release.


The Commission underscored that increased focus should be put on resettling "vulnerable persons" from North Africa and the Horn of Africa, notably Libya, Egypt, Niger Devin McCourty Jersey , Sudan, Chad, and Ethiopia.


"We need to open real alternatives to taking perilous irregular journeys. Investing in more legal pathways, both for protection but also for study or work, is therefore essential," said Dimitris Avramopoulos Stephen Gostkowski Jersey , commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship.


The EU's previous resettlement scheme, adopted in July 2015, has resettled some 23,000 refugees among EU member states.


The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Migration Agency Dont'a Hightower Jersey , reported Tuesday that 134,549 migrants and refugees had entered Europe by sea in 2017 through Sept. 24, with over 75 percent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece, Cyprus and Spain.


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YANGON, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar authorities will launch a national verification process soon for refugees who fled conflicted northern Rakhine state to neighboring Bangladesh, the official Global New Light of Myanmar quoted Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement U Win Myat Aye as reporting Thursday.


Before the move, Minister at the State Counselor's Office U Kyaw Tint Swe will travel to Bangladesh for talks with the Bangladesh authorities over the process.


The verification process, based on principles to which both Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in 1993 Tom Brady Jersey , will be carried out at Taungpyo Latwe village for those who return by road and at Naguya village for those who come back by waterways, U Win Myat Aye told a committee on implementing the recommendations on Rakhine state, chaired by him, on Wednesday.


Under the current plan, the verified refugees will be settled at Dargyizar village, he said.


In some Muslim communities in the state Rob Gronkowski Jersey , their leaders are said to have decided not to join in the process. However, State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi urged them in her Sept. 19 speech to respond to the process, saying that they have nothing to lose by it.


The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) extremist terrorists launched fresh attacks on police outposts in Rakhine on Aug. 25, displacing residents from a number of areas in Maungtaw district to border areas with Bangladesh for refuge.


Besides the national verification process, Myanmar authorities are also implementing a rehabilitation and resettlement and long-term development programs not only for Muslims but also for Rakhines, Mro Jake Bailey Jersey , Daing-net and Mramagyi as well as the Hindu minority who fled their villages due to extremist terrorists' attacks as part of the refugee repatriation process.


Aung San Suu Kyi called on the international community to cooperate for constructively tackling the issue of northern Rakhine state, voicing government's pledge to implement the recommendations by the Advisory Commission, led by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and saying that those recommendations will help bring speedy improvement to the situation of the state within the shortest time frame.


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