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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 17, dozens still missing
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 14
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Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 13
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Myanmar's reclusive general turns jet-setter in quest for election backing
3 October 2025, 16:00 PM
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91 people possibly still under collapsed Indonesian school: official
1 October 2025, 04:47 AM
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UN warns Myanmar conflict blocking Rohingya return
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Argentina court urged to include Arakan Army atrocities in Rohingya genocide case
3 September 2025, 13:03 PM
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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 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
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
Rohingya crisis a ‘humanitarian disaster’
Terming the ongoing Rohingya crisis “a humanitarian disaster”, Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Abul Hossain urges the international community to play an effective role to resolve the crisis.
19 October 2017, 14:18 PM
Bangladesh envoy to UN urges UNSC to solve Rohingya crisis
Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Masud Bin Momen urges the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take combined and firm steps for permanent solution of humanitarian crises of displaced Rohigyas and Palestinians.
19 October 2017, 04:59 AM
Militant behind Pakistan school attack killed: Taliban
The militant commander accused of masterminding Pakistan's deadliest ever extremist attack, a massacre at a school in Peshawar in 2014, has been killed, the Pakistani Taliban says in an email to media.
19 October 2017, 04:41 AM
US knew about mass killings of 1960s
The US government was fully aware of a bloody anti-communist purge by the Indonesian army in the 1960s, with one diplomat at the
18 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingya crisis: Unicef appeals for urgent aid
Without immediate additional funding, Unicef says it will not be able to continue providing lifesaving aid and protection to Rohingya children who have fled to Bangladesh following horrific violence in Myanmar.
18 October 2017, 16:02 PM
Rohingya influx puts locals into financial trouble
The hike in the prices of almost all essential products following the influx of Rohingyas who fled persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine State has put the locals in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas into a great financial trouble.
18 October 2017, 13:42 PM