Muslim Rohingya
Officials say boat carrying Rohingya Muslims lands in Indonesia
Indonesian authorities said a boat carrying 20 men believed to be Rohingya Muslims landed on the Northeastern shore of Indonesia’s Sumatra island today.
4 December 2018, 10:04 AM
Tens of thousands turn out for Myanmar interfaith rally
Tens of thousands of people fill a football stadium in Yangon for an interfaith rally, a show of unity in a country seared by ethnically-charged violence against the Muslim Rohingya on its western border.
11 October 2017, 13:39 PM
Is South Asia the new Middle East?
The Middle East is often viewed as a region waylaid by feelings of collective humiliation and violent rivalries, both between and within countries.
29 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Where is our Rohingya Policy?
What we have today in the Rakhine State of Myanmar is a regime of ethnic cleansing. This latest round of pogrom of the Rohingyas is the result of the international community's abject lack of action.
5 September 2017, 18:00 PM
‘Rohingya women, children being massacred by Myanmar troops’
Rohingya children and women are being massacred, burnt alive and are fleeing their homes as reports of renewed persecution against Rohingya Muslims living in the Rakhine State of Myanmar dominates international and local media.
4 September 2017, 07:26 AM
3 Rohingyas drown, 3 missing in Naf river
Two women and a minor boy of Rohingya community drown and three others remain missing as a boat carrying the fleeing Rohingyas capsizes in Naf River in Hwaikong Bazar area of Teknaf.
2 September 2017, 15:54 PM
Apartheid in our neighbourhood!
The expression “apartheid”, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means racial segregation, especially in South Africa. I am not sure if apartheid has, in real terms...
29 August 2017, 18:00 PM
UN worried
Expressing deep concern at reports of the killing of civilians in security operations in Rakhine State, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated Myanmar's responsibility to provide security and assistance to those in need.
29 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Myanmar must change tack on Rohingyas
The very fact that Myanmar has termed the recent militant attack on its security forces as being the work of “extremist Bengali insurgents” underlines the very crux of the problem.
27 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Football: Malaysia cancels two matches with Myanmar over Rohingya crackdown
Malaysia's national soccer team has cancelled two friendly under-22 matches with Myanmar, in protest against the Southeast Asian nation's bloody crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a team spokesman said on Thursday.
1 December 2016, 06:37 AM
Malaysia debates pulling out of ASEAN soccer cup over Myanmar's Rohingya crackdown
Malaysia is considering pulling its side out of a major regional soccer tournament co-hosted by Myanmar in protest over Myanmar's crackdown on ethnic Rohingya Muslims, a senior Malaysian official said on Wednesday.
23 November 2016, 09:18 AM
Rohingya crisis: Politics of denial
Myanmar has no reason or justification to deny the history and existence of Rohingyas as an ethnic race of its land. Then why does the hardline nationalist group continue to be so provocative against this community?
6 May 2016, 18:00 PM
Suu Kyi meets president and army chief in transition talks
Aung San Suu Kyi, whose party won a landslide victory in elections last month, meets President Thein Sein to discuss the handover of power.
2 December 2015, 05:37 AM
Around 4m voters shut out of historic Myanmar election
When Myanmar votes next month in what has been billed as its first free and fair election in 25 years, around 4 million of his fellow citizens, won't be taking part.
21 October 2015, 06:00 AM
Europe’s dilemma is a stark closer to Asia
Persecuted Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar and thousands of Bangladeshi nationals have undertaken perilous journeys across the Andaman Sea to reach countries in Southeast Asia.
20 September 2015, 06:25 AM
Regional Governance Matters
The majority of the Asian states rejected the International Law on Refugees, established under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol, claiming it to be irrelevant to the Asian refugee experiences.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Beauty belies dark trade
The dense mangrove forest on both sides of the road to the Bang Ben bay through Laem Son National Park is indeed intriguing.
13 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Rape–another crime of human traffickers at sea
An investigative report by this paper has unraveled the horrifying sexual abuse of Rohingya women while they make their perilous trips at sea.
11 June 2015, 18:00 PM
What language do "boat people" speak?
I think a euphemism is a kind of lie, and the lies peoples and countries tell themselves are revealing. Describing Rohingya migrants as “boat people” is disturbing and unacceptable to me.
10 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Citizenship for Rohingyas
The recent tragedy of hundreds of boat people floating in the wilderness of the sea without food and other basic amenities has drawn the world's attention to the protracted suffering of the Rohingyas.
3 June 2015, 18:00 PM