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Malaysia to observe Myanmar polls: junta

Myanmar’s junta said Friday that Malaysia would send observation teams to its long-delayed election, as it battles multiple rebel forces opposed to the poll.

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Solution to Rohingya crisis lies with Myanmar: UNHCR

Commissioner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has warned that the plight of the Rohingyas will not end without bold action inside Myanmar, saying that the solution to the protracted crisis lies in Myanmar...

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Rohingya tell UN of Myanmar bloodshed, suffering

A Rohingya refugee who fled ethnic violence in Myanmar along with 7,50,000 others in 2017, spending seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence and exile facing the mostly Muslim minority...

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US, UK announce fresh aid commitment of $96m to Rohingyas

The United States and the United Kingdom announced fresh aid commitment of $96 million in the first ever high level conference on the Situation of the Rohingya Muslims and Other Minorities in Myanmar at the UN headquarters on Tuesday...

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World must act to resolve Rohingya crisis

The high-level conference on the Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar, convened on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, once again brings into attention a crisis that the world has allowed to aggravate for far too long. More than 1.3 million Rohingyas remain stranded in Bangladesh, with little hope for repatriation...

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7-point proposal unveiled to end Rohingya crisis

Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus once again called upon the international community to exert pressure on Myanmar and the Arakan Army to immediately stop persecution of the Rohingyas...

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China navigating ways for solution

China is navigating ways as to how the protracted Rohingya crisis could be resolved ensuring peace in conflict-ridden Myanmar through negotiations with the parties concerned...

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No voting in dozens of constituencies: Myanmar junta

Myanmar’s junta acknowledged Monday its long-promised election would not be held in about one in seven national parliament constituencies, as it battles myriad rebel forces opposed to the poll.

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Myanmar’s poll results due end of Jan: official

An official from Myanmar’s junta-stacked election commission said on Thursday that the results of its upcoming and widely disputed national poll were expected by the end of January next year...

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Rohingya crisis demands more than paper promises

EIGHT years after the mass flight from Myanmar, roughly a million Rohingya remain in Bangladesh, concentrated in 33 hyper-dense camps in Cox’s Bazar, with additional families relocated to the government-built settlement on Bhasan Char. The scale and duration of displacement, coupled with dwindling aid, have shifted the situation from a temporary...

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War, borders and the Indo-Pacific at risk

THE ongoing civil war in Myanmar is one of Asia’s most chronic and dangerous crises, located at the very heart of Indo-Pacific geopolitics. The February 2021 military coup did not simply derail the country’s democratic aspirations. It created one of the...

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UN rights chief warns of renewed atrocities in Myanmar

The United Nations high commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed grave concern over worsening atrocities in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, warning that the situation bears ‘distressingly similar’ resemblance to the 2017 military campaign that forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas into Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh’s experience as host

THE world is observing the 8th Rohingya Genocide Remembrance this year to honour the genocide against the Rohingyas that occurred in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. The Rohingya crisis, often considered one of the most pressing humanitarian challenges of the 21st century, has attracted global attention to the plight of the Rohingya people in Bangladesh. Beginning in...