Rohingya massacre survivor left for dead 02:45
Ro Mayyu Ali fled Myanmar in August 2017 and now lives in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. The views expressed here are solely his. Myanmar's military says it only targets terrorists and denies attacking civilians.
(CNN)At midnight on August 25, 2017, I was...
Reuters wanted the matter dismissed and its reporters released
April 11, 2018 6:40 a.m. ET
A Myanmar court refused to dismiss a case Wednesday against two Reuters journalists who have been held in prison since December for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, highlighting the country’s increasingly troubled shift to democracy.
The...
The arrests were made on Saturday after police were tipped off about a group of Rohingya men staying in Moreh’s Muslim Basti with trafficked girls, police sources said.
The Manipur Police have arrested two Rohingya Muslim men and a 20-year-old woman, suspected to be a trafficking victim, from Moreh, a...
Bangladesh will begin relocating around 100,000 Rohingya refugees to a desolate island off its southern coast in June, a senior official said on Wednesday, despite warnings the site is prone to violent weather.
Authorities say shelters for around 50,000 refugees have been constructed at Bhashan Char, a silty strip of...
BANGKOK — Malaysian authorities said Monday that they have stepped up patrols to intercept a boat thought to be carrying dozens of people from Myanmar's beleaguered Rohingya Muslim minority seeking refuge in the country.
Meanwhile, an expert on the plight of the Rohingya said the sighting of the boat people...
DHAKA (AFP) - Myanmar authorities have lured dozens of mainly Buddhist Bangladeshi tribal families to cross the border and resettle on land abandoned by fleeing Muslim Rohingya, officials said Monday (Apr 2).
About 50 families from remote hill and forest areas on the Bangladesh side, attracted by offers of free...
BANGKOK (AFP) - A boat carrying dozens of Rohingya refugees trying to reach Malaysia briefly stopped on a Thai island, an official said on Sunday (April 1), as fears grow about overcrowded camps for the stateless minority fleeing violence in Myanmar.
Nearly 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have sought shelter in southern...
A boat carrying Rohingya refugees is seen off the coast of Krabi on Sunday morning. (Photo from @OiChutima Twitter feed. Used with permission.)
A boat carrying dozens of Rohingya refugees trying to reach Malaysia briefly stopped off Koh Lanta in Krabi province, an official said Sunday, as fears grow about...
Some 700,000 Rohingyas have taken shelter in Bangladesh since August, 2017
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali leaves Dhaka for Moscow on Sunday on a two-day visit.
Mahmood Ali will hold official talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on Monday and discuss on the key issues of bilateral and global agenda,...
NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar's new president promised to amend the country's army-written constitution in an inaugural speech Friday (Mar 30), challenging a charter that bans Aung San Suu Kyi from top office and gives the military major powers.
Win Myint, a 66-year-old former political prisoner and staunch ally of Suu Kyi, was...
Another person who helped him obtain the Aadhaar card was sentenced to one year of imprisonment.
In the first conviction of a Rohingya in the state, a city court has awarded two years in prison to a Myanmar ‘national’ (Rohingya) for obtaining an Aadhaar card fraudulently.
Hyderabad: In the first conviction...
Myanmar's parliament has elected Win Myint as the country's next president, a week after the resignation of his predecessor.
Win Myint, a close aide of Aung San Suu Kyi, has been a speaker in the lower house since 2012 and was widely tipped for the top job.
But his role will...
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