A volcano-triggered tsunami leaves at least 222 people dead and hundreds more injured after slamming without warning into beaches around Indonesia's Sunda Strait, officials says, voicing fears that the toll would rise further.

The bullet-riddled body of a Myanmar policeman was found in northern Rakhine state, government media says, as tensions rise in the hotspot where the Rohingya crisis erupted last year.

The Myanmar military announces a more than four-month cessation of its activities in northern areas where it is fighting ethnic minority insurgents, in what appeared to be a rare conciliatory move aimed at kick-starting peace talks.

Myanmar forces are conducting new rounds of "clearance operations" in conflict-hit Rakhine state after four local Buddhists were attacked and two killed, the commander-in-chief's office said yesterday, with one of the incidents blamed on Rohingya Muslims.

Bangladesh, the largest destination for Rohingya refugees, has, by far, received a large number of Rohingyas since 1978 in four

Under pressure to crack down on labor abuses, Malaysia is moving to eliminate middlemen who charge millions of foreign workers exorbitant recruitment fees, leaving them saddled with debt and vulnerable to exploitation.

Human Rights Watch has said Myanmar should disband its inquiry commission on abuses in Rakhine state for its unwillingness to seriously investigate alleged grave crimes against the ethnic Rohingyas.

A bipartisan group of US senators calls on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to designate the Myanmar military's campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority a genocide.

Human Rights Watch says Myanmar should disband its commission of inquiry into abuses in Rakhine state because it is clearly unwilling to seriously investigate alleged grave crimes against ethnic Rohingya.

Facebook removes hundreds of pages and accounts in Myanmar with hidden links to the military, the platform says, as the company scrambles to respond to criticism over failures to control hate speech and misinformation.

In a historic decision, the member states of the UN General Assembly yesterday agreed almost unanimously on a new international framework -- Global Compact on Refugees -- in order to transform the way the world responds to mass displacements and refugee crises.

The UN Security Council is considering action to push Myanmar to work with the United Nations to address the Rohingya refugee crisis, although China and Russia have so far boycotted talks on a British-drafted resolution, diplomats say.

Twenty-three Rohingya organisations from across the globe have called on the US to refer atrocities against the Rohingyas in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

A debate on the ‘UN report over the Rohingya crisis’ has been scheduled for Thursday, December 20 in the Main Chamber of House of Commons of UK.

Thailand should offer more autonomy to south to undermine independence support, says Malaysian PM. Asean, which Thailand will chair next year, must take tough measures to put pressure on Myanmar and its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, to end atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said this weekend.

The US House of Representatives has called on the Trump administration to determine whether the Myanmar military's action in the Rakhine State in 2017 can be constituted crime against humanity and genocide, and to impose additional sanctions on senior members of the military and security forces responsible for it.

Floods caused by heavy downpours have killed 13 people in central Vietnam, officials said yesterday, as farmers scrambled to save crops

The editor of a Singaporean website was yesterday charged with defamation for publishing a letter alleging corruption among the city-state's leaders, with rights groups criticising the "heavy-handed" response from authorities.

US social networking giant Facebook is among the 49 companies named on a “The Dirty List” of corporations which are accused of involvement in human rights and environmental violations in Myanmar, or of doing business with the country’s military, which is accused of genocide.

The United States remains focused on steps that will improve the situation for Rohingya refugees and all people in Myanmar as well as promoting accountability for those that were responsible for these atrocities, says Deputy Spokesperson at US Department of State Robert Palladino.