Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row
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Southeast Asia
Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting
7 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Malaysia says Rohingya refugee return will not go ahead if lives are at risk
5 August 2026
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Southeast Asia
Myanmar approves death sentence for cyberscam offences
28 July 2026
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Southeast Asia
Bangkok pub fire kills 27, officials say emergency exits were obstructed
13 July 2026
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Accidents & Fires
Bangladeshi man found in container with expired Malaysian passports
5 July 2026
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Crime & Justice
Myanmar president arrives in India to strengthen ties
30 May 2026
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Southeast Asia
Rescuers free one of seven men trapped in Laos cave
30 May 2026
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Southeast Asia
Dozens killed in blast targeting train in Pakistan: official
24 May 2026
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Southeast Asia
Gunshots at Philippine Senate as lawmaker wanted by ICC holds out
13 May 2026
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Southeast Asia
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