Bangladesh plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya who have spent years in refugee camps near the Myanmar border to a southern island, an official says.

Rohingya, other survivors of dangerous boat voyages from Burma and Bangladesh describe horrific treatment by unscrupulous traffickers, says Human Rights Watch.

The Malaysian police are carrying out forensic tests to determine whether the remains found from the mass graves belongs to Rohingya or Bangladeshi victims, reports Malaysian daily The Star.

Indonesia expects Bangladeshi migrants who landed on its shores to be sent home in weeks once necessary documentation is done, an immigration official says.

Malaysian authorities find 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs.

A Bangladesh delegation is ready to depart for Myanmar to verify nationality of the 208 migrants, victims of trafficking, rescued from sea recently.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes of humanitarian crisis forcing Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants to flee by sea.

The continuous media exposure of the humanitarian crisis caused by thousands of illegally trafficked people, has led to an international demand to give these sick people – humanitarian aid first.

Indonesia has told Australia that most of migrants stranded at sea are illegal labourers from Bangladesh, not oppressed Muslim Rohingya, Australian minister says.

As the trade in human beings becomes more and more profitable, the BBC's Jonathan Head discovers that entire communities in Thailand are helping the traffickers.

Myanmar has rescued two migrant boats holding more than 200 people in its waters near the border with Bangladesh.

European Union lawmakers are calling on Myanmar to end the persecution of Rohingya Muslims and for Thailand to launch investigations into reports of mass graves of the Muslim minority.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has ruled out helping resettle the wave of migrants fleeing to Southeast Asia, saying it would worsen the problem and "encourage people to get on boats".

United States will urge Myanmar to cooperate with Bangladesh particularly to rescue and provide immediate relief to migrants adrift,says deputy spokesperson of the US Department of State.

Since 2012, thousands of Rohingyas died in Arakan, and more than 150,000 people have been herded in the so-called Internally Displaced People Camps.

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offers to help Malaysia handle a migrant crisis that has left thousands stranded at sea.

Philippines Justice Secretary Leila de Lima says her country is ready to shelter the “boatpeople” from Bangladesh and Myanmar should the migrants land on Philippine shores.

Alleged trafficking kingpin surrenders to Thai police while, Philippines is ready to shelter “boat people” from impoverished Bangladesh and Myanmar.

One of Soe Win's key priorities will be to make sure the army maintains its prominent role in the country's politics, including protecting the 25 percent quota of seats the army automatically has in the parliament, under the 2008 constitution.

Myanmar acknowledges international "concerns" about waves of boatpeople, many of whom are fleeing from persecution, but denied it is solely to blame as thousands languish in dire straits at sea.