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Myanmar must take back its nationals, Sushma tells Hasina

Visiting Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj says Myanmar must take back its nationals as there should be a permanent solution to the crisis. Sushma says this when she meets Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Gano Bhaban.
22 October 2017, 14:48 PM

Rohingya crisis: EU co-hosts ‘pledging conference’ in Geneva tomorrow

The European Union will co-host a "Pledging Conference" on the Rohingya refugee crisis, with Kuwait, in Geneva.
22 October 2017, 08:45 AM

Aung San Suu Kyi should resign: Muhammad Yunus

If the Myanmar military is rendering the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi powerless, then she should step down, Nobel Peace laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus says in an interview with Aljazeera.
22 October 2017, 07:27 AM

Rohingya kids exposed to abuse, trafficking risk

Rohingya children are exposed to alarming risks of trafficking, sexual abuse and child labour due to lack of schooling and widespread desperation of people in the overcrowded makeshift settlements in Cox's Bazar, international aid group Save the Children has warned.
21 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Interference doesn't work

Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government's
21 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingya crisis a great test for UN

The ever-growing Rohingya influx is a crisis not only for Bangladesh but also for the region as well as the entire world, UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh Robert D Watkins has said.
21 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingya children at risk of trafficking, sexual abuse and child labour

International aid group Save the Children warns that Rohingya children are exposed to alarming risks of trafficking, sexual abuse and child labour due to overcrowding, lack of schooling and widespread desperation of people in the makeshift settlements in Cox's Bazar.
21 October 2017, 14:11 PM

Malaysia landslide: 3 Bangladeshis among 4 dead

At least three Bangladeshis among four foreign workers are killed and 10 others missing after a landslide at a construction site in George Town, capital of the northwest Malaysian state of Penang, authorities say.
21 October 2017, 08:58 AM

Rohingya crisis: ‘Foreign interference doesn’t work’

Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government's efforts to protect stability, a senior Chinese official says, amid ongoing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
21 October 2017, 06:45 AM

Step up support

More countries need to step up and pledge their support for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh amid an unprecedented humanitarian
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Rohingya Refugees: Kids in dire need of food, healthcare

Desperate living conditions and waterborne diseases are threatening more than 320,000 Rohingya children who have fled to Bangladesh since late August, says Unicef. “Many Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh have witnessed atrocities in Myanmar no child should ever see, and all have suffered tremendous loss,” Unicef Executive Director Anthony Lake said in a statement yesterday.
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Myanmar Exodus: Rape being used as a weapon of war

Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Rohingya crisis, with no woman safe from the risk of sexual attack as the Myanmarese nationals are driven out of its homeland, according to experts in the field and those caught up in the crisis.
20 October 2017, 18:00 PM

UNHCR seeks timely, generous supports for Rohingyas

The UNHCR hopes that donors will come with their generous supports at the pledging conference to be held in Geneva on October 23 to help Rohingyas living in Bangladesh.
20 October 2017, 11:41 AM

EU conveys its decisions to Suu Kyi on Rohingya issue

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini had a phone conversation with Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and conveyed her the EU decisions to work on Rohingyas repatriation.
20 October 2017, 11:21 AM

Over 700,000 people get cholera vaccine in Cox’s Bazar

More than 700,000 people over the age of one year are administered oral cholera vaccine in the first phase of a campaign in Cox’s Bazar to protect the newly arrived Rohingya population and their host communities against the deadly diarrhoeal disease.
20 October 2017, 11:01 AM

Now Suu Kyi’s name removed from Oxford college common room

Undergraduates at the Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove the leader of Myanmar’s name from the title of their junior common room.
20 October 2017, 07:47 AM

No Rohingya woman safe as rapists run rampant: Experts

Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Rohingya crisis, with no woman safe from the risk of sexual attack as Myanmar's Muslim minority is driven out of its homeland, according to experts in the field and those caught up in the crisis.
20 October 2017, 07:15 AM

Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh in dire state: Unicef

Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) says.
20 October 2017, 04:28 AM

Blast pirates out of the sea: Duterte

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said he would ask the leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia to "blast" pirates out of regional
19 October 2017, 18:21 PM

Fire destroys landmark hotel in Myanmar

A Japanese man was killed when a fire tore through a luxury teak wood hotel in Myanmar's largest city Yangon yesterday, destroying an
19 October 2017, 18:20 PM