Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the refugee and migrant crisis in Europe is proof of the need for tough asylum policies.

The UK is to provide resettlement to "thousands" more Syrian refugees in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis, David Cameron has announced.

A court in the southern Thai island of Phuket acquits two journalists of defaming the navy and breaching the Computer Crimes Act.

Austrian officials now say more than 70 bodies, thought to be migrants, were in an abandoned lorry found on a motorway.

At least 70 people are estimated to have died at sea on ships abandoned in May this year from starvation, dehydration, disease and abuse by the crews, says UN refugee agency.

The Austrian authorities say at least 20 migrants have been found dead in a lorry in the eastern province of Burgenland.

Myanmar says it is determined to stop the departures of migrants fleeing religious persecution, but won't address the reasons behind their exodus.

Afia (not her real name) was not accompanied by any of her family members, but she showed no signs of jitters. While many in the vessel turned pale in panic due to want of food and water in the perilous sea, the beautiful young girl held her nerves.

Myanmar's government needs to treat minority Rohingya Muslims as citizens to solve the root cause of the migrant crisis in Southeast Asia, say the United States.

A Songkhla province court approves an arrest warrant for a top army officer accused of smuggling Rohingya Muslim migrants into Thailand.

Myanmar's navy seizes a boat packed with 727 people off the country's southern coast.

Myanmar refuses to be singled out for blames for the migrant crisis amid an unprecedented irregular migration in the Indian ocean and discovery of mass graves of migrants in Thailand's bordering jungles.

A regional conference, with the member states of Asean and representatives from the US and the UN, is under way in the Thai capital Bangkok to discuss possible solutions to the South East Asia migrant crisis.

The Dalai Lama urges fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to help Myanmar's persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority amid a worsening migration crisis.

The UN Refugee agency, UNHCR, welcomes the commitment announced by the foreign ministers of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand to resolve the migrant crisis.

More than 5,800 migrants are rescued and 10 bodies recovered off the Libyan coast over the weekend, the Italian coastguard says.