Myanmar

Jamaat for independent Muslim state in Myanmar’s Arakan

The proposal was placed during meeting with CPC delegation

Rains add to challenge for Myanmar quake relief, toll at 3,471

Aid agencies have warned the combination of the unseasonable rains and extreme heat could cause outbreaks of disease

Myanmar village air strike kills at least 12, says local official

The Friday afternoon strike hit the village of Letpanhla around 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of the country's second biggest city of Mandalay.

Complicity in Rohingya genocide cannot go unpunished

Rohingya in Myanmar face denial of rights, atrocities, and forced displacement since 1962.

Myanmar junta chief says election to be held by January

The Myanmar military seized power in 2021, making unsubstantiated claims of massive electoral fraud in 2020 polls won resoundingly by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD).

Thailand cuts power to Myanmar border regions to fight scam centres

Scam compounds have mushroomed in Myanmar's lawless borderlands

Myanmar rebel group admits to killings

A rare admission of deadly violence as it fights the ruling junta

More than 3.5 mn displaced in Myanmar: UN

Since the military seized power in a 2021 coup, Myanmar has been rocked by fighting between numerous ethnic rebel groups and the army.

Situation in Myanmar Border: Dhaka needs to engage with Arakan Army

Dhaka needs to engage with Arakan Army, which now controls over 80 percent of Rakhine State, including the 271-km border between Bangladesh and Myanmar, said security experts, former diplomats, and academics yesterday.

May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015

Myanmar navy stops reporters approaching migrant island

Myanmar's navy refuses to let journalists approach a island where over 700 migrants are said to be held.

May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015

Report on rescuing trafficking victims: HC

The High Court directs the government to submit a report before it in four weeks on the steps taken for rescuing the Bangladeshi citizens stranded at sea and in the trafficking camps of Thailand and Malaysia.

May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015

51 held in Thailand for 'human trafficking'

Thailand police arrested 51 people for their alleged involvement in trafficking of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

Bangladesh suggests 'external factors' for trafficking, migration

Bangladesh insists that poverty is not necessarily the main driver pushing her people into the hands of traffickers.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

Myanmar finds boat with 727 migrants

Myanmar's navy seizes a boat packed with 727 people off the country's southern coast.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to address ‘root causes’ of migrant exodus

Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed to address the "root causes" of a migrant exodus at talks in Bangkok.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

Australia pledges 5m AUD for Rohingyas

Australia pledges grant of $5 million Australian dollars in humanitarian assistance for Rohingyas living in Cox's Bazar and Myanmar's Rakhine state.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

Myanmar hits back at blames

Myanmar refuses to be singled out for blames for the migrant crisis amid an unprecedented irregular migration in the Indian ocean and discovery of mass graves of migrants in Thailand's bordering jungles.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

No army link found yet: Thai deputy PM

Thailand Deputy Prime Minister General Tanasak Patimapragorn denies having knowledge of any army personnel's link with human trafficking.

May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015

Asia migrants: Bangkok meeting to debate crisis

A regional conference, with the member states of Asean and representatives from the US and the UN, is under way in the Thai capital Bangkok to discuss possible solutions to the South East Asia migrant crisis.