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Bangladesh is aiming to accommodate a total of 100,000 Rohingya refugees on the island of Bhasan Char, and they are getting help from Nippon Foundation.
Bangladesh is getting help from Japan's Nippon Foundation to relocate Rohingyas from the town of Cox's Bazar to Bhasan Char, an island about 60km from Bangladesh's mainland. The non-profit organisation will also train refugees in skills like maintaining and repairing motorcycles. Nippon Foundation's chairman Yohei Sasa
Prudence demands that a studied engagement of a few ASEAN States and all five neighbours of Myanmar as potential mediators or facilitators be given a chance.
Japan’s Nippon Foundation will spend $2 million to help move tens of thousands more Rohingya refugees to a remote island in Bangladesh and provide them with skills training, the charity’s chairman said. Speaking to The Associated Press on Sunday after a visit to Bhashan Char, Yohei Sasakawa praised the support the government has provided to…