Hundreds of Bangladeshis and other foreign workers usually throng popular destinations like Bukit Bintang, Kota Raya, Jalan Petaling and Jalan Silang in Kuala Lumpur in the weekend which is on Sunday.

Nimai Hajong remembers almost nothing of the hills of eastern Bangladesh where he was born more than half a century ago, having fled as a small child to India where he has lived as a refugee ever since.

Nepal's only international airport had to be closed for some 11 hours after a domestic aircraft skidded off the recently repaired runway, officials said yesterday.

As Bangkok prepares to host climate-change talks, the sprawling city of more than 10 million is itself under siege from the environment, with dire forecasts warning it could be partially submerged in just over a decade.

The grainy black-and-white photo, printed in a new book on the Rohingya crisis authored by Myanmar's army, shows a man standing over two bodies, wielding a farming tool. "Bengalis killed local ethnics brutally", reads the caption.

The fourth Bimstec Summit concluded in Kathmandu yesterday with the member states inking a deal for cross-country energy grid interconnection and reaffirming strong commitment to working out a comprehensive approach to combat terrorism.

Criminals shot a Rohingya man dead inside a camp at Leda in Teknaf upazila yesterday afternoon.

Baffled, hurt or indignant, many inside Myanmar are struggling to digest a week of opprobrium heaped on their country by the UN and even Facebook over the treatment of the Rohingya, a stateless Muslim group whose plight elicits little sympathy in the Buddhist-majority nation.

A retreat is organised for the leaders of six BIMSTEC member countries at Soaltee Hotel on the last day of BIMSTEC summit.

Leaders from the seven-nation regional grouping emphasise the importance of exploring multiple avenues of connectivity, ranging from physical to digital platforms.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for expanding cooperation in Bimstec forum through creation of a free trade area, investment and energy collaboration.

Bangladesh and India yesterday agreed to continue their joint endeavours to better the lives of their people as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks with her counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 4th Bimstec Summit.

Thailand's 86-year-old Queen Mother Sirikit was discharged from a Bangkok hospital yesterday, the Royal Household Bureau said in a

A group of former agents from Malaysia's foreign intelligence agency, including its chief, are being investigated for alleged

Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned as Myanmar's de facto leader over last year's brutal army campaign against the Rohingyas, the outgoing UN human rights chief has told the BBC.

Government restrictions on lifesaving aid for displaced people in northern Myanmar could constitute a war crime, advocacy group Fortify Rights says, as pressure grows for accountability for rights abuses in the country.

Making a call for accountability as an essential prerequisite to regional security and stability, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges the Security Council to work with Myanmar to end "horrendous sufferings" of Rohingyas.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who leaves Dhaka for Kathmandu this morning to attend the fourth Bimstec Summit, will meet her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the event.

The UN has found that the Myanmar military had planned the Rohingya genocide long before the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked the country's security personnel, a justification put forward by Myanmar for the violent crackdown on the ethnic minority.

The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee says.