Southeast Asia

Ex-Thai MP shoots dead local official over money row

AFP

10 August 2026 • Southeast Asia

Thailand teen kills seven in home, school shooting

AFP, Nonthaburi

7 August 2026 • Southeast Asia

Malaysia says Rohingya refugee return will not go ahead if lives are at risk

Reuters, Kuala Lumpur

5 August 2026 • Southeast Asia

Myanmar approves death sentence for cyberscam offences

AFP

28 July 2026 • Southeast Asia

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Bangkok pub fire kills 27, officials say emergency exits were obstructed

Reuters, Bangkok

13 July 2026 • Accidents & Fires

Bangladeshi detained by Malaysia Immigration

Bangladeshi man found in container with expired Malaysian passports

The Star, Petaling Jaya

5 July 2026 • Crime & Justice

Myanmar president arrives in India to strengthen ties

AFP

30 May 2026 • Southeast Asia

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Rescuers free one of seven men trapped in Laos cave

AFP, Vientiane

30 May 2026 • Southeast Asia

Dozens killed in blast targeting train in Pakistan: official

AFP

24 May 2026 • Southeast Asia

Gunshots at Philippine Senate as lawmaker wanted by ICC holds out

AFP, Manila

13 May 2026 • Southeast Asia

Jessore man held for 'stealing Tk 3.8cr'

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a fertiliser trader for allegedly misappropriating over Tk 3.8 crore of Agrani Bank with the help of the then Jessore's Noapara branch manager in 2009.

26 April 2016

Obituary

AKM Rezaur Rahman, former additional secretary, died on Sunday while under follow-up treatment in Bangkok Hospital, subsequent to open heart surgery in Dhaka on April 4. He was 75.

26 April 2016

Juta, Cuta protest RU teacher killing

Teachers of Jahangirnagar and Chittagong universities yesterday formed human chains demanding an immediate arrest of the killers of

26 April 2016

DU BCL men ‘beat’ up journo over trifling matter

A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men allegedly beat up a journalist on Dhaka University (DU) campus over a trifling matter.

26 April 2016

Woman found dead at Dhaka house

Police recover decomposed body of female flight attendant of Qatar Airways from her house at Rajabazar area of Dhaka.

26 April 2016

Ansar Al Islam claims Kalabagan twin murders

Bangladesh unit of al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent, Ansar Al Islam, has claimed responsibility of murdering a LGBT magazine editor and his friend in Kalabagan.

26 April 2016

‘Law isn’t meant for harassing SC judges’

The government’s move for enacting the Supreme Court Judges (Investigation) Act-2016 is not aimed at harassing any judge, Bangladesh Law Commission Chairman ABM Khairul Haque says.

26 April 2016

Tracked for days before murder: IGP

Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque today said Kalabagan’s double murder was “planned extensively and the victims were being followed” for days.

26 April 2016

Khilgaon plastic factory fire doused

A fire that broke out at a plastic factory in Khilgaon area of Dhaka has been doused after one and a half an hours.

26 April 2016

Kalabagan twin murder: Family, cops sue unknown attackers

Two cases have been filed – one by family over the murders and the other by police for assault on a cop – in connection with yesterday's gruesome Kalabagan double murders. No one has been arrested yet.

26 April 2016