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World
The rhinocerine politician
I guess we have to come to accept that Aung San Suu Kyi is no longer a little girl with a little doll called the Nobel Peace Prize. She has matured into a seasoned and rhinocerine politician.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
9,000 logged in nine days
Around 9,000 Rohingya refugees have been brought under biometric registration in nine days after the listing began on September 12.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
World must speak up for Rohingyas
As I watched President Trump deliver his speech to the UN General Assembly in New York on the morning of September 19, I couldn't help but be dismayed by the fact that he did not consider the current round of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Myanmarese military rulers egregious enough to mention it even once during his speech.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
It's genocide
French President Emmanuel Macron has termed the attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya minority as genocide and called on the international community to act to stop it.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingyas missing in his call
Myanmar's army chief yesterday called for people internally displaced by violence in Rakhine State to go home and rebuild
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Take back Rohingyas
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat has called on Myanmar to immediately end the violence in Rakhine state, restore peace
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Over 2,350 injured Rohingyas treated
Bangladesh said yesterday it had treated more than 2,350 Rohingya refugees for serious injuries sustained during ethnic violence in
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Nine killed as Red Crescent truck flips
At least nine labourers were killed when a truck loaded with Red Crescent relief materials for the Rohingya turned turtle in a ditch in
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingya woman names her newborn baby girl after Sheikh Hasina
A Rohingya refugee woman, who has taken shelter in a refugee camp in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar, has delivered a baby girl and named her after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
21 September 2017, 14:31 PM
Thousands rally in Philippines to warn of Duterte 'dictatorship'
Left-wing activists and political opponents of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has held rallies to warn against what they see as the emergence of a dictatorship under the no-nonsense but hugely popular leader.
21 September 2017, 12:31 PM
Grenade attack kills 3 in Kashmir
Three civilians have been killed and 23 others wounded after suspected rebels Thursday lobbed a grenade at a motorcade of a local government minister in Indian-controlled Kashmir, police said.
21 September 2017, 12:05 PM
All Rohingya refugees to be under biometric registration in 60 days
All the Rohingya refugees, who are now in Bangladesh after they fled persecution in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, will be biometrically registered in two months, Bangladesh's disaster management and relief minister said today.
21 September 2017, 07:45 AM
Facebook bans 'dangerous' Rohingya militant group
Facebook says it has banned a Rohingya militant group from its site, designating it a 'dangerous organisation' as information on the deepening crisis is muddied by claims, counter-claims and hate speech on social media.
21 September 2017, 06:30 AM
Myanmar protesters try to block aid to Rohingyas
Hundreds of Buddhists in Myanmar tried to block a shipment of aid to Muslims in Rakhine state where the United Nations has accused the military of ethnic cleansing, with a witness saying protesters threw petrol bombs before police dispersed them by firing into the air.
21 September 2017, 04:52 AM
Myanmar vice president bluffs world using Suu Kyi’s claims
Myanmar’s Vice-President Henry Van Thio has reiterated the claims of the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an effort to pull a veil of bluff over the world, yet again. He says his government is deeply concerned about the situation.
21 September 2017, 04:51 AM
Rohingyas at mercy of traffickers: UN agency
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas who have fled violence in Myanmar are "at the mercy" of human traffickers, the United Nations
20 September 2017, 20:08 PM
Suu Kyi's cowardly speech
Suu Kyi's speech was not only “disappointing” but also cowardly. It towed the typical line of “we have to look at both sides”, completely oblivious to the power dynamics at play: the national army versus a dispossessed population.
20 September 2017, 18:00 PM
We never lose friends, we simply learn who the real ones are
The reactions of some of our "very close" friends since the outbreak of the most recent Rohingya crisis have compelled me to ask myself as to where all our good friends have gone.
20 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Unite, act now
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the OIC member states to show unity for solving the Rohingya crisis before it is too late.
20 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Medical facilities stretched to limit
In Kutupalong camp 1, Nasima Khatun, nearly 70 years old, is being carried using a unique device fashioned out of a bamboo stick
20 September 2017, 18:00 PM