Southeast Asian leaders condemned on Thursday Myanmar鈥檚 efforts to implement a plan to end the country鈥檚 civil war as 鈥榮ubstantially inadequate鈥�, according to a draft summit statement seen by AFP...
Global efforts to stop Myanmar鈥檚 civil war were 鈥榗learly not working鈥�, a UN expert warned Thursday as he urged leaders to starve the ruling junta of 鈥榤oney, weapons and legitimacy鈥�...
Myanmar security forces have arrested a prominent student union and protest leader in a nighttime raid in commercial hub Yangon, a member of his protest group said on Thursday.
A Bangladeshi fisherman was killed and his two fellows were injured as the members of the Myanmar Navy opened fire on them while fishing in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday.
Southeast Asian leaders pressed Myanmar鈥檚 junta and its opponents on Wednesday to take 鈥榗oncrete action鈥� to stop the bloodshed in the country鈥檚 civil war and sought to...
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.
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...
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...
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 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 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...
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 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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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....
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...
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...
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...