Over 501,800 Rohingya people have fled to Bangladesh following persecution in Rakhine state of Myanmar since the August 25 this year, according to the United Nations.

The United Kingdom extends full support to Bangladesh over the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis and will continue to do so in the United Nations and all other international forums on this issue, a British minister says.

US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat says her country will stand beside Bangladesh to mitigate the crisis of Rohingya people fleeing from Myanmar.

International aid groups in Myanmar have urged the government to allow free access to Rakhine State, where an army offensive has sent 480,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh but hundreds of thousands remain cut off from food, shelter and medical care.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam calls upon Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to manage India, China and Russia diplomatically for garnering their support to end the Rohingya crisis.

At least 15 people die as a trawler carrying Rohingyas from Myanmar capsized in the Bay near Inani beach in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar today.

Director General of UN Migration Agency William Lacy Swing says he is deeply shocked and concerned over the human rights abuse, sexual and gender-based violence against Rohingyas in Myanmar.

United Nations says a visit to Myanmar's Rakhine state which was due to take place today (September 28) has been cancelled by the authorities, reports BBC. The visit is to have been the first time representatives of UN agencies would have been allowed to visit the area.

Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque says the government has decided to call Rohingya people "forcibly displaced nationals from Myanmar" instead of “refugees”.

Ruling Awami League’s general secretary and road transport and bridges minister, Obaidul Quader hopes China and Russia will back United Nations Security Council’s proposal.

Three years down the line of UN Security Council's 20th commemoration of Rwanda genocide which saw the adoption of a unanimous resolution to fight genocide, China and Russia have changed their stance to take action against "a textbook case of ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar.

India and China sends their second consignment of emergency relief materials for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who fled the persecution in Myanmar.

Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims continue to arrive in Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar.

The nearly half a million Rohingya refugees who have entered Bangladesh since August will likely not be leaving soon, the UN says, calling for longer-term plans to manage the influx.

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest in a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to disappoint many of those who once applauded her, and probably won’t be the last.

Thailand's top court yesterday sentenced ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra in absentia to five years in prison for criminal

Dhaka wants the UN Security Council to take “strong stance and swift action” to end the "ethnic cleansing" in Myanmar and to restore peace and stability in the strife-torn Rakhine State to facilitate a smooth return of Rohingyas.

Wrapping his two-year-old daughter in a towel, Jiraman Ali was walking fast towards a medial camp near their temporary shelter at Balukhali in Ukhia.

Bangladesh can avail as much as $400 million from the World Bank as grants if it rolls out programmes exclusively for the Rohingya

Asking all to stand by Rohingyas, President Abdul Hamid stresses the need for putting constant pressure on the Myanmar government to force it to repatriate their displaced people from Bangladesh.