Asia-Pacific / Malaysia · Politics

Malaysia deporting thousands of Myanmar asylum seekers

Rank
Ran: 20h
Updated: 3d ago
Closed
Outlets: 4
Regions: 2
Countries: 3
Languages: 1

DVB Myanmar · English 1 Oct, 08:35 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

The only language so far · English, 4 reports

Read at DVB

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: DVB, 1 Oct, 08:35 UTC.
Second country: Australia, with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Second region: Middle East, with Al Jazeera.
Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 3 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

75%25%

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 2 countries · 75%
Middle East 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%

First movers

DVB 1 Oct, 08:35 UTC
Myanmar Now +2h 55m
The Sydney Morning Herald +19h 31m
Al Jazeera +23h 39m

The chapters

This story continues an earlier wave: Malaysia begins repatriating Myanmar nationals despite UN safety concerns, 29 to 30 Sept 2026, 37 outlets.

The figures

Coverage: 4 outlets in 3 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Asia-Pacific 2: Australia, Myanmar. Middle East 1: Qatar. 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: English.
Timeline: Earliest article DVB, 1 Oct 2026, 08:35 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 11:40 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 08:14 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 Politics. 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: Continues Malaysia begins repatriating Myanmar nationals despite UN safety concerns. Continued by Malaysia repatriates 1,500 Myanmar nationals despite UN warnings; Près de 1.500 personnes renvoyées en Birmanie depuis la Malaisie. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.

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How this was measured

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Started 1 Oct, 11:40 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 08:14 UTC · Final figures at midnight UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

The Sydney Morning Herald Australia 2 Oct, 04:05 UTC
‘Sending them to their deaths’: Malaysia’s deal with the devil
Myanmar Now Myanmar 1 Oct, 11:30 UTC
Myanmar nationals in Malaysia fear arrest and forced return
DVB Myanmar 1 Oct, 08:35 UTC
Why Malaysia is deporting thousands of Myanmar asylum seekers

Middle East 1 outlet

Al Jazeera Qatar 2 Oct, 08:14 UTC
‘They are crying’: Refugees in Malaysia in fear amid Myanmar deportation