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Record suicides of the elderly in Singapore
The number of elderly people committing suicide in Singapore reached a record high last year, a non-government group said yesterday.
30 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Anger as probe report offers no new clues
Investigators said yesterday they still do not know why Malaysia's Flight MH370 vanished four years ago in aviation's greatest mystery, sparking anger and disappointment among relatives of those on board.
30 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Desperately need more funding to help Rohingyas: IOM
Monsoon downpours have caused flooding and landslides in Rohingya camps where almost one million people are living in bamboo and tarpaulin shelters after fleeing violence in Myanmar.
29 July 2018, 04:19 AM
Int’l community needs to continue sustained pressure on Myanmar to take back Rohingyas: Mahmood Ali
Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali emphasises that the international community needs to continue sustained pressure on Myanmar to ensure safe, sustainable and dignified return of the Rohingyas to a religiously-tolerant and ethnically-inclusive Myanmar.
27 July 2018, 07:52 AM
Bangladesh wants Rohingyas to go back: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says Bangladesh offers makeshift refuge to Myanmar’s Rohingya community on humanitarian ground but want them to go back as newly appointed Egyptian ambassador in Dhaka Walid Ahmed Shamseldin made a courtesy call on her at the PMO.
26 July 2018, 11:19 AM
Step up efforts, create conditions for Rohingya repatriation: UNSC
The members of the UN Security Council have stressed the need to step up efforts to create conditions conducive for safe, voluntary, and dignified return of Rohingyas to their homes in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
24 July 2018, 04:35 AM
Mahathir vows to repeal controversial security law
Malaysia will repeal a tough security law used to detain government critics without charge under the former government, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday, with activists hailing the "bold" vow.
23 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Pakistan Elections: It's a rich man's world
Many people dislike the idea of rich businessmen parachuting into a constituency a month before the election and buying their way into the legislature.
23 July 2018, 11:34 AM
Myanmar violated UN child rights pact in Rohingya crackdown, experts find
Myanmar violated its obligations to the United Nations child rights convention in its crackdown on the Rohingya that led to an exodus of hundreds of thousands of people from the minority community, legal experts find.
22 July 2018, 05:16 AM
Dhaka wants UNSC to deliver on Rohingya issue
Bangladesh wants the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to deliver on Rohingya issue to have a sustainable solution to the crisis as the body having responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security sits on Monday.
22 July 2018, 05:02 AM
Key member resigns from Myanmar advisory panel
A key member of an international advisory panel on Myanmar's crisis-hit Rakhine state resigns, telling AFP that the Aung San Suu Kyi-appointed board risks becoming "part of the problem" in a conflict that forced 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee.
21 July 2018, 11:54 AM
Germany to help Bangladesh find solution to Rohingya crisis
German Foreign Minister of State Niels Annen has said his government will provide political support to have a solution to Rohingya crisis through ensuring safe and sustainable return of the displaced people to their own homeland.
20 July 2018, 10:40 AM
'It is a miracle'
Twelve boys and their football coach who were rescued after being trapped for over a fortnight in a flooded Thai cave spoke publicly of their incredible ordeal for the first time yesterday at a press conference beamed around the world.
18 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Rohingya want to return to Myanmar as citizens: UN
Myanmar's Rohingya refugees have told a UN envoy who visited their camp in Bangladesh this week that they will return home if it is safe and if they are granted citizenship rights, a UN statement says.
18 July 2018, 05:03 AM
HRW urges Myanmar to make amends for seized land
Myanmar's government should expedite restitution for past illegal confiscations of land, an international human rights group says, detailing how previous land seizures there are still harming farmers under the civilian-led government of Aung San Suu Kyi.
18 July 2018, 04:35 AM
Najib to refile lawsuits against top 1MDB investigators
Former Malaysian premier Najib Razak will file fresh civil suits against three investigators of a multi-billion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, after he withdrew his earlier applications against them on Monday.
18 July 2018, 04:27 AM
Musk faces legal action after 'pedo' tweet
A British caver who helped rescue 12 boys from a Thai cave yesterday said he may take legal action against Elon Musk after the entrepreneur called him a "pedo".
16 July 2018, 18:00 PM
Reuters journo takes stand as Myanmar trial begins
One of two Reuters journalists charged in Myanmar with breaking a state secrets law while reporting on the Rohingya crisis protested his innocence yesterday on the first day of a trial that has provoked global condemnation.
16 July 2018, 18:00 PM
23 human trafficking ‘agents’ nabbed by Thai police
The Thai police arrests 23 human-trafficking “agents” as part of a major operation to prevent the country's south from becoming a transit destination for migrants trying to cross illegally into Malaysia.
16 July 2018, 12:20 PM
‘IOM to help Bangladesh repatriate Rohingyas’
Visiting Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) William Lacy Swing reaffirms Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that his organisation will extend all sorts of support to Bangladesh for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees.
16 July 2018, 10:55 AM