An alleged robber was killed in a “shootout” with police in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat.

Another 700 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are rescued off Indonesia on Friday, police say, as Myanmar undermined calls for a coordinated response to the human-trafficking crisis by threatening to boycott a planned Southeast Asian summit.

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia should end pushbacks of boats with Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants, Human Rights Watch says.

The killing of secular blogger Ananta Bijoy Das is part of an alarming trend of violent intolerance toward freedom of religion and speech in Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch says.

Indian police arrests BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who was missing for the last two months, in Shillong district of Meghalaya on charge of entering the country without travel documents.

It seems we do not care that a man just disappeared into the blues amidst allegation that the law enforcing agency was behind the Houdini act. He seems to have gone down the annals of disappearance of the likes of Ilias Ali, Chowdhury Alam and labour leader Aminul Islam.

Villagers may soon lead authorities to another traffickers' jungle camp in southern Thailand holding even more bodies than the 26 uncovered in the first after two days of digging. Yesterday, Thai authorities found 32 graves suspected to be of trafficked victims from Myanmar and Bangladesh in an abandoned jungle camp.

Garment workers in Bangladesh face poor working conditions and anti-union tactics by employers including assaults on union organisers, Human Rights Watch says.

Malaysia passes a controversial anti-terrorism bill, which the government says is needed to tackle the threat from Islamic extremists.

Human Rights Watch reiterates its longstanding call for Bangladesh to impose an immediate moratorium on executions.

Human Rights Watch urges Bangladeshi authorities to immediately order an independent investigation into "enforced disappearance" of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed