Myanmar
Rohingya Issue: FM briefs envoys of Myanmar's neighbours
Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday met with envoys of the four countries sharing borders with Myanmar to discuss the
8 November 2017, 18:00 PM
CPA solidarity on Rohingya issue
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) member countries have extended full support to Bangladesh with commitment to stand beside the country on resolving Rohingya crisis.
5 November 2017, 09:52 AM
Making Myanmar behave - A worthwhile mission
When levers and counter-levers pull away in opposite directions the object of delivering change is stuck on the pulley, as it were. This is understandable as a scientific concept. But what is so eerily unethical is the oxygen of support Myanmar not only receives from a handful of countries, but is also pumped up by.
3 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Suu Kyi makes first visit to crisis-hit north Rakhine
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited conflict-battered northern Rakhine State for the first time yesterday, reportedly meeting Rohingya Muslims who have faced an army crackdown that has seen hundreds of thousands of the minority flee.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingya problem world’s fastest-growing crisis: EU
European Union Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides describes the Rohingya crisis as the fastest-growing crisis in the world saying the EU has decisively stepped up its aid to Rohingya communities.
31 October 2017, 16:13 PM
Myanmar working on Rohingya repatriation: Suu Kyi
Amid worldwide criticism and backlash, State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi says her government has started working to repatriate those who have entered Bangladesh to flee violence in the country.
25 October 2017, 06:55 AM
Myanmar military's murderous melodrama
Myanmar has based its entire brutal, shameless operation on unarmed Rohingya civilian men, women and children, on the vaunted single incident of August 25 when reportedly...
13 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Dragon meets elephant: China and India’s stakes in Myanmar
While China has been investing in Myanmar for decades, in recent years, one notices greater Indian interests in the country. In this piece, I will try to explore both China and India's stakes in Myanmar.
11 October 2017, 18:00 PM
UN's Bosnia promise forgotten in Myanmar
After the shame of Bosnia, there should not have been a Myanmar.
Yet, Myanmar happened because the big nations on both sides of the East-West divide have rendered the UN an ineffective organisation, a platform to talk and not to take actions.
11 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Myanmar stays indifferent: FM
Myanmar has been unresponsive to Bangladesh's efforts to improve bilateral ties over the last two years, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said yesterday.
10 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Preparations on for larger Rohingya influx to Bangladesh: UNHCR
With the sudden increase of forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, the UN Refugee Agency is apprehending fresh larger influx from Myanmar to Bangladesh.
10 October 2017, 09:34 AM
Beware of Myanmar's subterfuge
The Foreign Ministry's statement, following the mixed messages coming out of Naypyidaw after the visit of Myanmar's Union Minister U Kyaw Tint Swe to Bangladesh, that it betrayed the doubtful intention of Myanmar, has said it all.
4 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingya people fear UN failed them
UN leadership in Myanmar tried to stop the Rohingya rights issue from being raised with the government, according to a report published in the BBC that cited sources in the UN and the aid community.
30 September 2017, 06:40 AM
Fresh fires, blast hit Rakhine
Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the government said yesterday, the
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Myanmar found guilty of genocide
The Myanmar government is guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people, according to the verdict of international Permanent Peoples' Tribunal.
22 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Force Myanmar to take back Rohingyas
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) William Lacy
21 September 2017, 18:16 PM
Rice price shows downward trend
Failing to import parboiled (Shiddo) rice from Myanmar due to high price, the government yesterday approved another deal to import 50,000 tonnes of rice through international tender.
20 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingya Muslims being wiped off Myanmar’s map
For generations, Rohingya Muslims have called Myanmar home. Now, in what appears to be a systematic purge, they are, quite literally, being wiped off the map.
19 September 2017, 07:04 AM
Highlights: Suu Kyi addresses nation on Rohingya crisis
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in her first address to the nation since the recent Rohingya crisis, condemned all human rights violations and said anyone responsible for abuses in troubled Rakhine State would face the law. Here are the highlights of her televised address to the nation as reported by the Indian news portal.
19 September 2017, 04:59 AM
Exodus exposes 'abject failure' of world leaders
Human Rights Watch has called upon world leaders to impose targeted sanctions and a comprehensive arms embargo on the Myanmar military to stop ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas.
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM