Auto rickshaws slip easily past barbed-wire checkpoints at the world's biggest refugee camp, their drivers among the smallest players in a complex human trafficking network involving high-seas extortion gangs, corrupt police and drug lords.

A Bangladeshi painter was sentenced to death on Monday (Dec 14) after he was found guilty of murdering his Indonesian girlfriend.

Bhasan Char’s first baby has not been named yet. The 7-pound boy, born to Rohingya parents, does not know it but he is the first newborn of the newly settled island in the Bay.

The US has expressed concern on the relocation of 1,642 Rohingyas to Bhasan Char.

Rohingyas in Bangladesh who survived genocide in Myanmar are experiencing a "severe" mental health crisis, according to data in a new report published by Fortify Rights today.

The Netherlands and Sweden have called for urgent need for a UN assessment on the safety, feasibility and sustainability of Bhasan Char as a place for refugees to live.

An OIC fund-raising campaign for The Gambia to support its legal battle seeking redressal of Rohingya genocide in International Court of Justice (ICJ) so far drew US$1.2 million while the West African nation said it urgently needed $5million to pay the lawyers.

Sayed Ullah, one of the Rohingyas who were relocated to Bhasan Char, could not contain his feelings of extreme happiness seeing all the facilities there and kept calling relatives back in Cox's Bazar camps to join the next batch.

“We will find peace, comfort and nice housing in Bhasan Char,” said sixty-year-old Mahmuda Khatun this morning, ahead of her journey to the island where Rohingya refugees are being relocated to from Cox’s Bazar.

The island of Bhasan Char has been teeming with activity as 1,642 Rohingyas reached the island which was readied up for their relocation from Cox's Bazar.

In the backdrop of media reports that China will build a major hydropower project on the transboundary river Brahmaputra in Tibet, India today said it has urged Chinese authorities to ensure that interests of downstream countries are not harmed by any activity in upstream areas.

In response to the relocation of hundreds of Rohingya refugees to the Bhasan Char, a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner, Saad Hammadi, has said, “The authorities should immediately halt relocation of more refugees to Bhasan Char, return those on the island to their families and community in mainland Bangladesh, and follow due process including the full and meaningful participation of refugees in any plan for their relocation.”

Around 1,500 Rohingya refugees who want to live in Bhasan Char have left for Chattogram from Cox’s Bazar in four convoys, according to sources at law enforcement agencies.

European Union wants united role of international community for sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis.

As the government moves to relocate Rohingyas to Bhasan Char, the UN says it has not been involved in preparations for the movement or the identification of refugees and has limited information on the overall relocation exercise.

The process of relocating Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char from Cox’s Bazar camps will start next week, UNB reports.

Bangladesh has disbursed US$ 500,000 to OIC as foreign ministers of the 57-nation group in their ongoing meeting initiated a fund raising campaign for its West African member Gambia’s legal battle against Myanmar over Rohingya genocide in International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Bangladesh is set to initiate a fund mobilisation campaign to support Gambia’s legal battle against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the Rohingya crisis as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries' foreign ministers are due to meet this week in Niger.

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and raised the UK’s ongoing concerns over the Rohingya crisis and conflict in Rakhine.