Bangladesh seeks USD250 million from the World Bank to provide health service to Rohingya refugees, State Minister for Health Zahid Malik has said

The head of the UN refugee agency says he was shocked by the "terrible violence" inflicted on Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar. Their suffering would last far longer than the time it took to satisfy their basic needs, he added.

As the number of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh edges towards half a million, the United Nations estimates $200 million will be needed over the next six months to help the Myanmar nationals.

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.

Dozens of midwives have been deployed to camps in Bangladesh to deliver babies and help young mothers among the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have fled across the border from Myanmar and are now living in squalid settlements.

Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has commended the government of Bangladesh for setting aside land to receive hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from neighbouring Myanmar.

The government has taken a set of decisions, including one to set up 14,000 additional shelters on some 2,000 acres of land near

Blasting the atrocities on Rohingya people, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque says Myanmar’s persecution is tantamount to genocide.

The 7-year-old Rohingya boy lies on a tattered mattress on the floor of a crowded government hospital in Bangladesh, bandages covering the spot where a bullet fired by Myanmar troops tore through his chest a week earlier.

When the former UN chief Kofi Annan wrapped up his year-long probe into Myanmar's troubled northwest on August 24, he publicly warned that an excessive army response to violence would only make a simmering conflict between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces worse.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the international community to mount pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing its nationals into Bangladesh and take back Rohingya refugees.

A Rohingya woman’s body is recovered from the Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Two Rohingya refugees have moved India’s Supreme Court challenging the decision to deport them back to Myanmar, where they faced persecution, on various grounds including that such a move is in violation of international conventions.

Nearly 400 people have died in fighting that has rocked Myanmar's northwest for a week, new official data show, making it probably the deadliest bout of violence to engulf the country's Rohingya Muslim minority in decades.

Four Rohingya refugees die after a boat carrying the migrants fleeing persecution in Myanmar capsized in the Naf River at Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

As hundreds of Rohingyas continue to enter Bangladesh through different unguarded border points of Ukhia, Teknaf and Naikhyangchhari in last two days, Border Guard Bangladesh detains 171 Rohingya refugees and sends them back.

India has said that Rohingya refugees living in Jammu and Kashmir states will be sent back to Myanmar

We urge the Bangladesh government to review its Rohingya refugee policy, to robustly engage with the international community to compel Mynamar to create enabling conditions for the refugees to return, to refrain from taking new measures that may further jeopardise the interests of registered Rohingya refugees.

The recent tragedy of hundreds of boat people floating in the wilderness of the sea without food and other basic amenities has drawn the world's attention to the protracted suffering of the Rohingyas.

AS many as 8,000 refugees have been adrift in the Andaman Sea lately, some of them stranded for more than two months.