Malaysia and Indonesia Thursday said they would start helping thousands of Rohingya migrants on boats off their shores, as Myanmar said it would attend a regional conference on the crisis next week, dpa reported. Malaysia and Indonesia agreed Wednesday to give temporary shelter to the more than 7,000 migrants, as long as the international community agreed to help resettle them within a year. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak ordered the navy and the coast guard "to conduct search and rescue efforts for Rohingya boats," he said on Facebook Thursday. "We have to prevent the loss of life," he said. A Malaysian navy official confirmed they were on the lookout for migrants and "ready to assist them and bring them to our shores. But I have not received any report of migrants' boats sightings." Indonesia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said they were also looking for migrants at sea.
