The government of Bangladesh took limited measures to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and killing by security forces in 2017, says a US report on Human Rights Practices.

Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing tells military personnel in the country that they must obey the law, citing as an example the sentencing of seven soldiers for a massacre of Rohingya Muslim men that was the subject of a Reuters investigation.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau highly appreciates Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina for her outstanding leadership in handling the protracted Rohingya crisis.

Rohingyas and local people in Teknaf in Cox's Bazar are racing to prepare for monsoon rains forecast to start as early as this week.

Mohammad Rafiq was sitting in the shade of a tree, on a break from working to make his refugee camp in Bangladesh safer from the upcoming monsoon, when the hill above suddenly collapsed.

Home Minister Ashaduzzaman Khan comes down heavily on Myanmar over the repatriation of one Rohingya family.

Myanmar's government says it has “repatriated” the first family of Rohingya refugees, among the 700,000 who fled a brutal crackdown, but the move was slammed by rights groups as a publicity stunt which ignored warnings over the security of returnees.

Bangladesh signs a Memorandum of Understanding with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, relating to voluntary return of Rohingya refugees, once conditions in Myanmar are conducive.

Myanmar Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Minister Win Myat Aye indicates taking actions against senior Myanmar military officials if they violate laws of the land to avoid repetition of atrocities in Rakhine Sate.

The UN refugee agency calls a Myanmar minister's visit to Bangladesh to meet Muslim Rohingya refugees a confidence-building measure, but says conditions in Myanmar are not ready for their return.

Visiting Myanmar's cabinet minister says Rohingyas will be taken back by giving them citizenship and with dignity.

Seven Myanmar soldiers are sentenced to jail with hard labour for their part in the extrajudicial killings of 10 Rohingya Muslim men, according to a Facebook post by the army chief.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked it to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the deportations of Rohingya people "from Myanmar to Bangladesh", a possible crime against humanity, according to a filing.

Myanmar is not ready for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees, says the most senior United Nations official to visit the country this year, after Myanmar was accused of instigating ethnic cleansing and driving nearly 700,000 Muslims to Bangladesh.

Win Myat Aye, Myanmar's social welfare, relief and resettlement minister, says the Rohingya repatriation process has delayed as they need more time to verify the identities of the refugees.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says that "genocide" was taking place in Myanmar and he was willing to accept Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing from it, though Europe should help too.

IOM, the UN Migration Agency, and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are distributing 50,000 vegetable gardening kits to tackle malnutrition and improve the diet of people affected by the Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Bangladesh says the international community including the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has a shared responsibility to amplify the voices of Rohingyas, the most persecuted minority of the world.

Indonesian fishermen rescue at least five Rohingya Muslims off the island of Sumatra and bring them ashore, officials say, in the first such landing this year amid media reports that five others had died at sea.

Rohingya Muslim minority are disappearing fast from Myanmar as their lives are still shaped by tension and fear in a mainly-Buddhist country that has methodically stripped the Muslim minority of legal rights and security.