At least 288 villages are partially or totally destroyed by fire in northern Rakhine State of Myanmar since August 25, 2017, according to new satellite images released by Human Rights Watch.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will visit Myanmar next month to attend the 13th ASEM Summit to be held in Myanmar's capital.

At least 12 people drowned and dozens remained missing after a boat carrying Rohingyas sank in the Naf River yesterday, as more than 30,000 Myanmarese nationals joined half a million others who crossed over into Bangladesh since late August. The dead include seven women and four children aged between one and four. Fifteen boat people have been rescued.

The European Union has said it will suspend invitations to Myanmar military commanders over the “disproportionate” use of force that has driven more than half a million Rohingyas out of the country.

The head of the Islamic State group in Southeast Asia, who figures on the US "most wanted terrorists" list, was killed yesterday in the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says the Rohingya crisis can be resolved in line with the five-point proposal she placed in the UN General Assembly session in New York in September.

In a major foreign policy decision, the European Union and its Member States decide to review all practical defence cooperation with Myanmar.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has included the Rohingya issue as the top "emergency item" as proposed by Bangladesh while its 137th assembly is underway in Russia's St. Petersburg, officials say.

Malaysia and other Asean countries will jointly create pressure on Myanmar government to speed repatriation of Rohingya people who fled persecution in Myanmar and took refuge in Bangladesh, the deputy prime minister of Malaysia says.

At least 12 Rohingya people, including six children and four women, died as a boat carrying them capsized in the Naf River near Shah Porir Dwip area in Teknaf upazila.

A total of 14,740 orphan Rohingya children have been identified since September 20 when the process started in the settlements in Ukhia and Teknaf.

To strengthen the emergency water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and child protection response for the new influx of Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar, the Japan government is set to provide Emergency Grant Aid of USD 750,000 for six months through the United Nations Children’s Fund.

The government has been preparing a list of Rohingya orphan children, who crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar and staying in refugee camps in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar.

The death toll from the October 8 Rohingya boat capsize reaches 37 as three more bodies of Rohingya women were recovered from the Bay of Bengal in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been working with the Bangladesh government to collect data on the estimated 5,36,000 forcibly displaced Rohingyas of Rakhine state of Myanmar and their needs.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Friday to push for the return to Myanmar of hundreds of thousands of Rohyingas who have been driven out in an army campaign.

Aung San Suu Kyi has set out plans for a new humanitarian project to enable Myanmar's Rakhine State to emerge as a peaceful and developed region, which a close adviser says showed her determination to fix the country's refugee crisis.

International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General William Lacy Swing arrives in Dhaka on Sunday on a four-day visit to see current Rohingya situation on the ground.

The speed and scale of people fleeing Myanmar has triggered a humanitarian emergency in Bangladesh, where hundreds of thousands of refugees now depend on humanitarian assistance for shelter, food, water and other life-saving needs, says the United Nations migration agency.

Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urges Myanmar to make sure the half-million Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled in the last two months can go home, and not go to camps.