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The stand-off fuelled an intense refugee debate in Australia and piled pressure on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to stem the rising flow of boat people through Indonesia.

Coleman confirmed there had been informal talks with Australia over the fate of the Sri Lankans but said there was an international agreement on dealing with boat people and New Zealand did not favour taking an ad hoc approach.

human rights chief admonished Italy and other countries Tuesday for treating boat people like "dangerous waste" that threatens to wash up on their shores.

Acute hunger and the rising cost of living could send a new wave of boat people from Haiti, where rising food prices set off deadly riots two weeks earlier and drove the prime minister from office, officials and analysts say, reports Reuters (April 24, 2008): The director for the country's national migration office, Jeanne Bernard Pierre, said since the food crisis, her agency has received more repatriated Haitian boat people in a week than it used to receive in a month or more.

In 1979, almost 69,000 boat people landed in Hong Kong in a single year.

Gitmo currently has a huge chain-link fenced compound that could serve as a small tent city for the first 400 boat people intercepted.

But it's now become a feature of the Scottish Open - those damned Boat People on Loch Lomond.

THE flood of African boat people making the 700-mile journey to the Canary Islands to gain a foothold in Europe is intensifying, despite the dangers.