The Myanmar military regime has organised a new legal team led by its foreign minister, U Wunna Maung Lwin, to present the defense in the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Among South Asian cities, Dhaka is the most expensive city for foreign nationals in terms of living expense.

The UN refugee agency’s (UNHCR’s) goodwill ambassador Tahsan Khan yesterday visited Cox's Bazar and met with Rohingya refugees to learn about their experiences on World Refugee Day.

Bangladesh expressed deep disappointment during adoption of the resolution on the situation of Myanmar, which it said, failed to adequately reflect on the Rohingya crisis and in recommending any action to resolve that crisis.

Al Jazeera English journalist Drew Ambrose, who produced a documentary “Locked up in Malaysia’s Lockdown” -- detailing the abuse of migrant workers during the Covid-19 pandemic last year, has won the Journalist of the Year award at the One World Media Awards in London for his work.

Bangladesh has sought a clear roadmap from the United Nations for repatriation of Rohingyas to Myanmar.

China launched a spacecraft on Thursday carrying three astronauts to part of a space station still under construction for the longest stay in low Earth orbit by any Chinese national.

China will send three astronauts into orbit on Thursday in a high-stakes mission, the first of four crewed space flights to complete the country’s space station by the end of next year.

New Zealand today announced NZ $8.25 million (US$5.89 million) in humanitarian assistance to support refugees and their host populations in Bangladesh and to support the need of internally displaced and conflict affected people in Myanmar.

Another unidentified body of a child was found on a char of Naf river under Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar this morning, reports our local correspondent quoting police.

Bangladesh will reiterate its position, seeking quick and sustainable repatriation of Rohingyas, as Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen leaves for New York this morning (Sunday) to attend two important events at the UN General Assembly (UNGA).

A 35-year-old Chinese national, who was held by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) near the border with Bangladesh in West Bengal’s Malda district for illegal entry on June 10, has claimed he runs a hotel in a posh locality of Gurugram -- a satellite city of Delhi -- along with an Indian partner, police sources said.

The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos released Friday that the rover took on the red planet.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos will fly to space next month on the first space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin, the billionaire said on Monday (June 7).

Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Friday that Pakistan is ready to restart talks with arch-rival India if Delhi provides a roadmap towards restoring the previous status of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.

Global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said it is "appalled" by the move to take veteran Pakistani journalist and TV anchorperson Hamid Mir off air, terming it as "another step towards autocracy" in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf led government's rule, reports Pakistan newspaper Dawn.

China said on Wednesday (June 2) a flight by 16 military aircraft over hotly contested waters off Malaysia was routine training, after the South-east Asian nation accused Beijing of breaching its sovereignty.

Bhasan Char is a much better place than the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, observed the UN delegation that visited the island recently.

Myanmar’s National Unity Government has pledged to comply with the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which last year ordered the Southeast Asian country to prevent any acts of genocide against the Rohingyas in Rakhine State.

The recent crises triggered by economic collapse and the Covid-19 pandemic have shown the world the “innate and fundamental contradictions” of capitalism, said Professor Dr Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV).