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.

India puts into orbit navigation satellite IRNSS-1I, a part of its satellite navigation system NavIC in copy-book style.

Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to “10 years in prison with hard labor in a remote area” for participating in a massacre of

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.

Malaysia will hold a general election on May 9, the country's Election Commission (EC) says, in what could be the toughest test of the ruling-coalition's 61-year grip on power.

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.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday lawmakers must "fast-track" the impeachment of the nation's top judge, further

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.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announces the dissolution of parliament for a general election that will pose one of the sternest-ever tests for his ruling coalition.

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.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says although Bangladesh and Myanmar have been making various efforts, including the signing of a deal, to repatriate over a million Rohingyas from Bangladesh, there has been no virtual progress in this regard so far.

Canada should take a leadership role in responding to the Rohingya crisis by ramping up humanitarian aid and development efforts and showing a willingness to welcome refugees from the region, Bob Rae, Canada's special envoy to Myanmar, says in his final report.