Myanmar to send representative to regional summit
Myanmar will send a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source said on Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell a civil war.
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Junta frees ally of Suu Kyi on health grounds
A close ally of detained Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was granted amnesty by junta authorities as he battles cancer, a party source said on Sunday...
Rohingya crisis and regional powers
THE Rohingya crisis, which began in 2017 with the forced migration of over 700,000 Rohingya individuals from Myanmar to Bangladesh, continues to represent one of the most intricate humanitarian and geopolitical dilemmas in South and Southeast Asia. Bangladesh has been pivotal in offering sanctuary and addressing the challenges posed by this...
85 Bangladeshis return from Myanmar prisons, 123 BGP-army personnel sent back
Eighty-five Bangladesh citizens returned home from Myanmar prisons while 123 members of Myanmar security forces, including Border Guard Police and army, were sent back from Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Sunday...
Vietnam puts Typhoon Yagi economic losses at $3.3b
Vietnam suffered $3.3 billion in economic losses as a result of deadly Typhoon Yagi, which swept across the country鈥檚 north earlier this month causing hundreds of fatalities, state media reported Saturday...
Myanmar junta bombs opposition-held town hours after talks offer
Myanmar鈥檚 junta carried out fresh air strikes on an opposition-held town Friday, hours after issuing an unprecedented invitation to its enemies for talks on the country鈥檚 civil war.
India invites Myanmar鈥檚 rebel groups for meeting
India has invited political and military opponents of Myanmar鈥檚 ruling junta to attend a seminar in New Delhi, sources said, a significant move by the South Asian power that has maintained ties with the top generals shunned by Western nations, reports The Times of India...
Tk 7,300cr likely to get slashed from two railway projects
Two railway projects are likely to see budget cuts of around Tk 7,300 crore in a slimming-down attempt as officials view that earlier these projects were not 鈥榚xamined properly鈥�...
Pope offers refuge to Suu Kyi
Pope Francis has offered to give refuge on Vatican territory to Myanmar鈥檚 detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Italian media said on Tuesday.
Rohingyas detail worsening violence in Myanmar
Rohingya refugee Syed fled Myanmar for a second time last month, after he was forced to fight alongside the military that drove his family out of their homeland years earlier...
India鈥檚 Manipur on alert after reported Myanmar infiltration
Security forces on India鈥檚 northeast border have been placed on alert following reports that 900 suspected militants from war-torn Myanmar have crossed into restive Manipur state, a security official said...
Myanmar flood toll climbs to 268
The death toll in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has reached 268, with 88 people missing, the junta has said, as state media reported the first arrival of foreign aid....
Dhaka should take up Mynamar issues with world forum
THE firing of gunshots from inside Myanmar into Bangladesh at Teknaf is worrying. Officials say that three bullets fired from Myanmar hit a window glass of the land port office, a truck and a tree about 1:30pm on September 18 forced a suspension of activities at the Teknaf land port about half an hour after as people, who became panicked at the happening...
Bullets from Myanmar hit Teknaf Land Port, activities suspended
Activities at Teknaf Land Port were suspended since 2:00pm on Wednesday, about half an hour after three bullets fired from Myanmar hit three places at a time in the port area...
Myanmar villagers battle to save rice crop as flood death toll rises to 226
War-weary Myanmar villagers salvaged crops from flooded fields Tuesday as the country鈥檚 death toll in the wake of Typhoon Yagi doubled to 226 and the UN warned as many as 630,000 people could need assistance....
Myanmar flood toll surges to 113
Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country鈥檚 death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas...
Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid amid floods
Myanmar鈥檚 junta chief made a rare request Saturday for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods that have displaced hundreds of thousands of people who have already endured three years of war...
Myanmar battles Yagi floods as Vietnam begins clear-up
Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar waded or swam through chin-high waters, fleeing severe floods around the remote capital Naypyidaw on Friday, while Vietnam began clearing up...
Explosions in Myanmar again, Rohingyas enter afresh
The people in bordering areas of Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district had to pass sleepless night after midnight past Saturday as panic gripped them due to the sounds of gunshots and bomb explosions in Myanmar territory...
Rohingyas, we have not forgotten you
IN 2016, I was a health intern at the UNHCR office in Kuala Lumpur. In that period, I dealt with refugees from different countries who came to seek various forms of help. Among the hundreds of Rohingya men and women that I met, one young gentleman particularly stood out. Maung (not his real name) was a 17-year-old Rohingya who got separated...
Bangladesh can鈥檛 accommodate anymore Rohingyas: Touhid
Dhaka on Sunday reiterated its position that it could not accommodate any new influx of Rohingyas, urging countries and organisations that recommended further intake to share the burden themselves.
11 civilians killed in Myanmar junta air strikes
Myanmar military air strikes in northern Shan state killed 11 civilians and wounded 11 more, a spokeswoman for an ethnic minority armed group battling the junta said on Friday....
8,000 more Rohingyas flee to Bangladesh: foreign adviser
Around 8,000 Rohingyas had recently crossed into Bangladesh, fleeing armed conflict in Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine state, foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain said on Tuesday...
Yunus seeks UNHCR鈥檚 support for Rohingya repatriation
Interim government chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus sought United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi鈥檚 support for the 鈥榙ignified and voluntary鈥� return of more than one million Rohingya people, currently living in Bangladesh, to their homeland in Myanmar...
2 Rohingyas arrested with foreign pistol at Ukhia
The Armed Police Battalion arrested two Rohingyas with two foreign pistols and eight rounds of bullets on suspicion of terrorism in Ukhia of Cox鈥檚 Bazar on Friday midnight...
Explosions in Myanmar again cause panic in Teknaf
The people in bordering areas of Teknaf upazila in Cox鈥檚 Bazar district had to pass sleepless night after midnight past Wednesday as panic gripped them due to sounds of gunshots and bomb explosions in Myanmar territory...
Rohingyas in Bangladesh seek assistance of interim govt to return home
Rohingyas on Sunday sought the assistance of the interim government for their safe return to Myanmar as they observed the seventh anniversary of the exodus of the displaced people from the Rakhine state of the bordering country...
Yunus hopes China help for Rohingya return
Ambassador of China to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Sunday iterated that China would remain committed to finding a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis, including a ceasefire in violence-torn Rakhine State in Myanmar...
World community must step up efforts for Rohingya repatriation
IT HAS already been seven years since the latest large-scale influx of the Rohingyas 鈥� who fled military violence in Myanmar to safety into Bangladesh in 2017 to add to a large number of their fellows having already lived here 鈥� but not a single Rohingya could be repatriated to their homeland of Rakhine State mostly because of Myanmar鈥檚 unwillingness..
US reaffirms support for Rohingya genocide survivors
The United States reaffirmed its commitment to supporting survivors of the Rohingya genocide, as Washington marked the anniversary of the atrocities committed by Myanmar in 2017....
