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NEW YORK (Sept 25): Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has sounded the clarion call for the international community to put the Rohingya crisis squarely on its radar with a view to resolving it now. Speaking at his first engagement since arriving in New York for the 74th Session...

A Muslim outfit in Myanmar is planning to ask the government to consider reopening of more than 100 mosques in the country. As per reports, the outfit which is seeking reopening of destroyed or closed mosques in the country will take this issue to the Myanmar government by the end...

NEW YORK: Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pix) has sounded the clarion call for the international community to put the Rohingya crisis squarely on its radar with a view to resolving it now. Speaking at his first engagement since arriving in New York for the 74th Session of the...

Myanmar’s internationally reviled military chief, widely accused of commanding “crimes against humanity” and “war crimes” against the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, has evidently now discovered religious tolerance. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the Myanmar military, or Tatmadaw, and several of his deputies made a rare, if not unprecedented,...

A Rohingya was killed in a landmine blast at Ambagan area near Bangladesh-Myanmar borderline Thoyangaziri pillar number 38/3 under Naikhyangchari in Bandarban on Monday morning around 8:00am. At least two displaced Myanmar nationals were killed this month in landmine blasts allegedly planted by Myanmar authorities to check movement of Rohingyas...

'Although law enforcement officials are trying hard, the situation suggests there may be a loophole' Due to increasing incidents of human trafficking at the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, the government is set to build barbed wire fencing around the camps. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Defence Ministry, in a...

Hla Poe Kaung transit camp was built to house 25,000 returnees - but sprung up on the site of two demolished Rohingya villages Entire Muslim Rohingya villages in Myanmar have been demolished and replaced by police barracks, government buildings and refugee relocation camps, the BBC has found. On a government tour,...

A man believed to be a Rohingya refugee has been killed in a suspected landmine explosion along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, officials said yesterday. Nearly a million of the Rohingya people live in camps in southeast Bangladesh after fleeing military violence in Myanmar and typically use the porous border to travel...

Rohingya leader Mohammad Noor says there is now 'tense' atmosphere in the camps and refugees are 'living in panic' DHAKA, Bangladesh – A 4th Rohingya refugee was shot dead, Bangladesh police said Sunday, September 1, amid growing fallout over the murder of a ruling party official that sparked a violent...

3-member team asked to submit report within 7 working days The government has launched an investigation into the much-talked about rally of the Rohingyas in their settlements on August 25, to commemorate the two years of their latest exodus, and the role of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in organising the gathering,...

A majority of the Rohingya are staying in the city and some others may have settled in major towns in the state and are yet to be traced. Hyderabad: A senior police officer said that during regular cordon and search operations in the city and its outskirts, the police has...

Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Saturday said at least 41 non-government organisations were withdrawn from the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar for their ‘misdoings’. He said 139 NGOs were active in the Rohingya camps, but all kinds of activities of 41 of them have been suspended on charge of...