Over 700,000 people get cholera vaccine in Cox’s Bazar

More than 700,000 people over the age of one year are administered oral cholera vaccine in the first phase of a campaign in Cox’s Bazar to protect the newly arrived Rohingya population and their host communities against the deadly diarrhoeal disease.
20 October 2017

Now Suu Kyi’s name removed from Oxford college common room

Undergraduates at the Oxford college where Aung San Suu Kyi studied have voted to remove the leader of Myanmar’s name from the title of their junior common room.
20 October 2017

No Rohingya woman safe as rapists run rampant: Experts

Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Rohingya crisis, with no woman safe from the risk of sexual attack as Myanmar's Muslim minority is driven out of its homeland, according to experts in the field and those caught up in the crisis.
20 October 2017

Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh in dire state: Unicef

Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) says.
20 October 2017

Blast pirates out of the sea: Duterte

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said he would ask the leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia to "blast" pirates out of regional
19 October 2017

Fire destroys landmark hotel in Myanmar

A Japanese man was killed when a fire tore through a luxury teak wood hotel in Myanmar's largest city Yangon yesterday, destroying an
19 October 2017

Shift Rohingyas from tourist town

Representatives from Cox's Bazar 's Civil Society and non-government organisations yesterday formed a forum demanding the shifting of Rohingyas from the tourist town, protecting local environment and upholding human rights of the Rohingyas.
19 October 2017

US lawmakers for targeted sanctions on Myanmar army

More than 40 US lawmakers has called upon the Trump administration to reimpose travel bans on Myanmar military leaders and
19 October 2017

Rohingya crisis a ‘humanitarian disaster’

Terming the ongoing Rohingya crisis “a humanitarian disaster”, Director General of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Abul Hossain urges the international community to play an effective role to resolve the crisis.
19 October 2017

Bangladesh envoy to UN urges UNSC to solve Rohingya crisis

Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations, Masud Bin Momen urges the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to take combined and firm steps for permanent solution of humanitarian crises of displaced Rohigyas and Palestinians.
19 October 2017

Militant behind Pakistan school attack killed: Taliban

The militant commander accused of masterminding Pakistan's deadliest ever extremist attack, a massacre at a school in Peshawar in 2014, has been killed, the Pakistani Taliban says in an email to media.
19 October 2017

Testimony of destruction

The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs has viewed dozens of burned and destroyed villages in northern Rakhine during his recent tour by air, and called on Myanmar to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by security forces. It was the first visit by a top UN official from its New York headquarters since the latest violence began in Rakhine in late August, forcing nearly 6,00,000 Rohingya to cross into Bangladesh in one of the worst and fastest growing humanitarian crisis in history.
18 October 2017

Int'l community backs Bangladesh

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali yesterday said an international consensus has been created in support of Bangladesh to end the
18 October 2017

EU waits for Myanmar's response

The European Union has said it wants to see Myanmar's response to the international community's appeal to resolve the Rohingya crisis before taking any tough measures like imposing economic embargo against the country.
18 October 2017

US knew about mass killings of 1960s

The US government was fully aware of a bloody anti-communist purge by the Indonesian army in the 1960s, with one diplomat at the
18 October 2017

Rohingya crisis: Unicef appeals for urgent aid

Without immediate additional funding, Unicef says it will not be able to continue providing lifesaving aid and protection to Rohingya children who have fled to Bangladesh following horrific violence in Myanmar.
18 October 2017

Rohingya influx puts locals into financial trouble

The hike in the prices of almost all essential products following the influx of Rohingyas who fled persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine State has put the locals in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas into a great financial trouble.
18 October 2017

EU wants Myanmar’s reply before slapping embargoes

The European Union says that it wants to see Myanmar's reply before going for tougher measures like imposing an economic embargo or other restrictive measures against the country.
18 October 2017

UN top official witnesses dozens of burnt Rohingya villages

United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman has viewed dozens of burned and destroyed villages of Rohingyas in Rakhine state of Myanmar.
18 October 2017

Indian folk singer shot dead after receiving ‘life-threat’

A 22-year-old Indian singer is shot dead on her way back home in Delhi after a performance in Haryana's Panipat.
18 October 2017