The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein urges governments in the South East Asia region to take swift action to protect their lives.

The US stress on regional solution to the issue of drifting sea migrants and urge countries to accommodate the people at their vicinity.

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.

Out of 13,321 immigrants in 12 detention camps, 1, 466 are from Bangladesh, reports the Star’s Bahasa Malaysia portal MStar.

Some 400 illegal immigrants on a vessel were told to jump into chest-deep water and wade to shores of Langkawi in Malaysia if they did not want to be shot dead.

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

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, come under pressure from international community to provide humane treatment to thousands of Bangladeshi,Rohingya migrants.

Thousands of Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims abandoned at sea had nowhere to turn Thursday as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with more than 800 migrants.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expresses grave concern over reports that Indonesia and Malaysia have pushed back boats carrying vulnerable people from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Thailand and Malaysian police have agreed to step up joint efforts against human trafficking and other crimes affecting the security of both countries.

The United States has voiced fear for the lives of the migrants abandoned by traffickers at land and sea, calling on Southeast Asian nations to co-operate to address the crisis.

A Bangladeshi job seeker is found naked, beaten up and tied to a chair in Shah Alam area in Malaysia, reports Malaysian daily, The Star.

Thousands of Bangladeshis and members of Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority have no place to go after both Malaysia and Indonesia refused to offer refuge to the boatloads of hungry men, women and children.

Malaysia will soon hold a discussion with Bangladesh and Myanmar to find solutions to the influx of illegal immigrants from the two countries following the recent arrest of more than 1,000 of them in Langkawi

A group of 350 migrants from Myanmar tells an activist by phone that they are abandoned by their crew and need help.

The Bangladeshis rescued off the Indonesian coast yesterday are taken in for questioning by Malaysian authorities, local authorities say.

The Malaysian home ministry denies claims that the country has trafficking camps of immigrants similar to those in Thailand.

Thailand and Malaysian police are expected to meet Friday to discuss human trafficking issues plaguing both nations.

Mohamed Khalim,23,was willing to bring his 20-year-old wife and 3-year-old son to face storm and danger, being starved and cramped with hundreds of others in boat from Myanmar in hope of a better life but his dreams were dashed.

Second boat carrying 400 of migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar are rescued off Indonesia's far west coast, less than a day after nearly 600 others arrived in a wooden vessel seeking refuge.