18 Rohingyas held in Satkhira

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members detain 18 Rohingyas from a house in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira after they enter Bangladesh illegally through India-Bangladesh border.
13 October 2017

Workshop on Rohingya crisis in Dhaka tomorrow

A daylong workshop on "Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions of the Rohingya Issue: Dealing with a Man-made Crisis" will be held in Dhaka.
13 October 2017

Top UN official in Myanmar recalled

The UN has announced that its top official in Myanmar is being recalled to headquarters in New York amid allegations that she
12 October 2017

Myanmar army doing no wrong!

The Myanmar army has now accused the world media of “exaggerating” the number of Rohingya refugees fleeing its brutal crackdown
12 October 2017

Birth Control: Rohingyas lack awareness

Selina Begum, 22, started walking from Rohingya settlements in Thyankhali camp to collect some relief goods with her two-year-old daughter yesterday.
12 October 2017

A baby born into chaos

Mohammed Jubayed came into the world shortly after midday in a baking hot military tent in the chaos of a vast refugee camp in Bangladesh, now home to nearly a million Rohingya.
12 October 2017

Duterte threatens to expel EU diplomats

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday threatened to expel European ambassadors, accusing their governments without citing
12 October 2017

Floods kill 37 in Vietnam

At least 37 people have died and another 40 are missing as floods and landslides ravage north and central Vietnam, destroying homes
12 October 2017

3 Rohingyas detained from Bogra passport office

Police detain three Rohingya people from Bogra passport office as they attempted to collect Bangladeshi passports, providing fake birth certificates.
12 October 2017

Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan to visit Myanmar October 23

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says he will visit Myanmar on October 23 for holding talks with the Myanmar government on repatriation of the Rohingyas, who were forcibly ousted from their homes in the Rakhine state and pushed into Bangladesh.
12 October 2017

Kabir Suman sings for Rohingyas

Renowned Indian Bangla songwriter and singer Kabir Suman has just released a track condemning the Myanmar military for persecuting Rohingya people who are crossing into Bangladesh from their own land of Rakhine state.
12 October 2017

Another lie by Myanmar army chief, calls exodus exaggerated

The media has "exaggerated" the number of Rohingya refugees fleeing an army crackdown, Myanmar's commander-in-chief says, in a brash rebuttal of accusations of ethnic cleansing by his forces.
12 October 2017

Bangladesh to seek WB assistance for Rohingyas: Muhith

Bangladesh will seek assistance from The World Bank for the forcibly displaced Rohingya people who crossed over into Bangladesh from August 25, Finance Minister AMA Muhith says.
12 October 2017

Three NGOs 'barred' from relief work

A parliamentary body yesterday called upon the government to keep vigil on the non-government organisations so that they cannot
11 October 2017

UN's Bosnia promise forgotten in Myanmar

After the shame of Bosnia, there should not have been a Myanmar. Yet, Myanmar happened because the big nations on both sides of the East-West divide have rendered the UN an ineffective organisation, a platform to talk and not to take actions.
11 October 2017

Haphazard early settlements make the job hard

Continued influx of Rohingyas, unplanned settlement of refugees and haphazard development activities by many organisations make
11 October 2017

Rohingya Repatriation: Dhaka asks Islamabad to join int'l effort

Dhaka has asked Islamabad to join the international community to impress upon Myanmar to ensure a speedy repatriation of all their
11 October 2017

Work out permanent solution

Jatiya Sangsad Speaker and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Chairman Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury on Tuesday called upon world
11 October 2017

'Citizen commission' to probe genocide

A 35-member “citizen commission” comprising eminent individuals has been formed to investigate atrocities on Rohingyas in
11 October 2017

Iranian aid arrives

An Iranian cargo flight carrying 29.918 metric tonnes of relief materials for Rohingya refugees landed at the Chittagong airport yesterday
11 October 2017