Southeast Asian countries launch a fund to share the cost of hosting human trafficking victims, after a regional migrant crisis saw victims ping-ponged between countries reluctant to accept them.

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

The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, says Malaysia's deputy home minister.

The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) is willing to host Rohingyas, who fled the massive persecution and human rights abuses they suffered in Myanmar (Burma), Gov.

In the wake of a much publicised international humanitarian crisis relating to boatpeople, thousands of whom are languishing in the high seas, Myanmar's reluctance to attend Thailand's May 29 regional summit to solve the issue, is disconcerting.

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

Myanmar migrants on a boat stranded for a week in the Andaman Sea with no food or water say 10 people have died, while some are resorting to drinking urine.

An international migration agency says thousands of refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar are stranded at sea close to Thailand.

UNHCR report says some 25,000 Rohingyas and Bangladeshis boarded smugglers' boats from the Bay of Bengal between January and March this year, almost double the number over the same period in 2014.

THAI authorities detained 76 migrants including six suspected Rohingyas in Thailand's southern Nakhon Si Thammarat province on Monday.