Asia-Pacific / Malaysia · Conflict & Security

Malaysia begins repatriating Myanmar nationals despite UN safety concerns

Rank
Ran: 45h
Updated: 5d ago
Final
Outlets: 37
Regions: 5
Countries: 25
Languages: 13

+14

Free Malaysia Today Malaysia · English 29 Sept, 01:15 UTC

The earliest of 21 English reports

Read it also in ไทย (3) · +11 languages

Read at Free Malaysia Today

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Free Malaysia Today, 29 Sept, 01:15 UTC.
Second country: Singapore, with CNA.
Second region: Europe, with ERT.
Fastest hour: +6 outlets from 29 Sept, 09:00 UTC.
Last article: 37 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 25 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

51%27%

Africa 2 outlets · 2 countries · 6%
Americas 2 outlets · 1 country · 5%
Asia-Pacific 19 outlets · 11 countries · 51%
Europe 10 outlets · 7 countries · 27%
Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 8%
International 1 outlet · 3%

First movers

Free Malaysia Today 29 Sept, 01:15 UTC
Malay Mail +9m
CNA +1h 33m
ERT +2h 18m
Bloomberg +2h 44m

Last to join

LRT 30 Sept, 20:35 UTC
15min 30 Sept, 09:05 UTC
The Guardian 30 Sept, 06:05 UTC
Hankyoreh 30 Sept, 05:40 UTC
The Japan Times 30 Sept, 01:36 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 37 outlets in 25 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 37 outlets, 3 state-owned, 4 public-service, 30 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 2: Morocco, South Africa. Americas 1: United States. Asia-Pacific 11: Bangladesh, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand. Europe 7: Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom. Middle East 3: Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Arabic, German, Greek, English, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Thai.
Timeline: Earliest article Free Malaysia Today, 29 Sept 2026, 01:15 UTC. First seen 29 Sept 2026, 01:30 UTC. Last seen 30 Sept 2026, 22:45 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Asia-Pacific, Malaysia. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain: Continued by Malaysia deporting thousands of Myanmar asylum seekers; UN urges Malaysia to halt Myanmar refugee deportation. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

29 Sept 2026 71 16.22 31 22 31 22 3.3 → 4.0

30 Sept 2026 21 28.23 37 25 10 9 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 29 Sept, 01:30 UTC · Updated 30 Sept, 22:45 UTC

Covered by 37 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
29 Sept 2026	71	16.22	31	22	31	22	3.3 → 4.0
30 Sept 2026	21	28.23	37	25	10	9	4.0

Covered by 37 outlets

Africa 2 outlets

Americas 2 outlets

Asia-Pacific 19 outlets

Europe 10 outlets

Middle East 3 outlets

International 1 outlet