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Boats carrying fleeing Rohingya Muslims capsize off Myanmar


Several overcrowded boats carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims trying to escape an approaching cy...

India urged to help end killings in Myanmar


Human Rights Watch on Monday urged India to use its influence with Myanmar authorities to demand an ...

Myanmar waging `ethnic cleansing` against Rohingya Muslims: HRW


Myanmar has waged "a campaign of ethnic cleansing" against Rohingya Muslims, a leading rights watchd...

Indonesia detains 80 Myanmar Rohingya on remote island


Indonesian police on Sunday detained 80 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar on a remote island off Sumatra...

Myanmar religious riots: Emergency rule declared in Meiktila, 20 dead


State of emergency has been declared by Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Friday, in four townships ...

Myanmar survivors say floated at sea for 25 days


Myanmar asylum seekers rescued by Sri Lanka`s Navy last week say they floated for 25 days at sea and...

Bangla protests Suu Kyi`s `surprising` comments on Rohingyas


Bangladesh termed as "surprising" Myanmar`s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi`s comments questio...

Myanmar to consider rights for Rohingya minority


Myanmar`s President has pledged to consider new rights for the stateless Rohingya minority ahead of ...

Myanmar`s Suu Kyi wants govt action on unrest


Myanmar’s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is calling on the government to deploy more troops to...

Boat capsizes off Bangladesh Island, 99 missing


Of the eleven, the official said, two are Rohingya refugees while nine come from various Bangladesh ...

UN agency appeals for Myanmar food aid


The World Food Programme has said that it urgently needs USD 11 million to buy food for some 100,000...

Over 120 missing in Bangladesh boat accident


The wooden boat was carrying 135 illegal immigrants to Malaysia when it capsized close to Shah Parir...

Myanmar: Evidence shows mob violence was planned


Myanmar`s government says it has evidence that some individuals and organisations instigated recent ...

122 missing as boat carrying Rohingya refugees


At least 122 people, many of them suspected to be Myanmar`s Rohingya refugees, were feared missing w...

Death toll in Myanmar sectarian violence tops 100


Myanmar`s government warned that the strife risks harming the country`s reputation as it seeks to in...

Myanmar imposes ‘night curfew’ in Rakhine state


Clashes between Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists have been reportedly escalating, killi...

Muslim-Buddhist clashes spread in western Myanmar


The unrest is one of the worst reported between Rohingya Muslims and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists.

Fresh Muslim-Buddhist clashes in Myanmar, 3 killed


Hundreds of houses were torched and three killed in fresh sectarian clashes that erupted between the...

Myanmar monks back President`s anti-Rohingya plan


Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Myanmar have staged a rally in support of the President and his propos...

UAE condemns Myanmar violence


The United Arab Emirates has condemned the violation of the rights of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar an...

Myanmar sentences 3 UN staff to jail for violence


Violence between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in June left more 80 people dead and thousan...

Bangladesh should open borders to Rohingyas: HRW


Bangladesh should cease its punitive restrictions on organisations providing lifesaving humanitarian...

Muslim homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state razed


Violence in the state of Rakhine began in late May when a Buddhist woman was raped and murdered by t...

Saudi Islamic summit to discuss Myanmar violence


Saudi Arabia will host an Islamic summit next week to discuss the issue of Rohingya Muslims in Myanm...

Allow aid to Myanmar refugees: UN to Bangladesh


Violence broke out between ethnic Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after a Buddhist...

Zardari writes to Myanmar Prez on Rohingya issue


Zardari on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the loss of life and property of Rohingya Muslims in ...

Myanmar still has serious rights challenges: UN


The UN says there are about 800,000 Rohingya in Myanmar and considers them to be among the most pers...

Pak groups ‘exaggerating’ killing of Myanmar Muslims


Islamist groups in Pakistan are exaggerating the incidences of ill-treatment of Muslims in Myanmar t...

UN rights envoy probes ethnic clashes in Myanmar


The UN says there are about 800,000 Rohingya in Myanmar and considers them to be among the most pers...

UN seeks inquiry into Rakhine violence in Myanmar


The UN refugee agency said that about 80,000 people have been displaced following inter-communal vio...

`Bangladesh doesn’t want Rohingyas`


The Bangladeshi PM has warned of possible terrorist connections among thousands of Muslim refugees t...

Take back Rohingyas: Bangladesh to Myanmar


Boatloads of Rohingyas are coming to Bangladesh shoreline every day since the sectarian violence eru...

UN aid workers detained in Myanmar


The authorities in Rakhine state have detained about 10 aid workers, some of them from the UN, for q...

Myanmar’s President to visit Bangladesh


Myanmar’s President Thein Sein will start his trip on July 15 and will hold talks with his Banglades...

Myanmar says recent communal violence killed 62


A total of 62 people had been killed and dozens wounded between June 8 and 19 in the sectarian unres...

Myanmar: `90,000 displaced by ethnic clashes`


Thousands of people left their homes as violence flared in Rakhine State after a Buddhist woman was ...

Accept refugees fleeing Myanmar: UN to Bangladesh


The majority of the mainly-Muslim Rohingya refugees already in Bangladesh are staying in two camps i...

Won’t let B`desh soil be used against anyone: Moni


Myanmar has accused Bangladesh`s right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami party of inciting sectarian violence in ...

‘Can`t take another influx of Rohingya Muslims’


Bangladesh is preventing hundreds of Rohingya Muslims from seeking refuge after ethnic violence in M...

`Hundreds being tossed across Bangladesh-Myanmar border`


Bangladesh and Myanmar are tossing hundreds of Muslim tribal Rohingya families across their border, ...

Bangladesh hopes for quick repatriation of Myanmar refugees


Bangladesh`s Foreign Minister has expressed hope the Myanmar refugees living in the country`s Cox`s ...