Six Singapore primary school students and one teacher were among 16 people so far confirmed killed by an earthquake that rocked Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu, government

Visitors flying into this buzzing tropical metropolis step into a modern glass-and-steel airport that symbolizes both Myanmar's aspirations to rejoin the wider world after years of isolation and the country's troubled past.

A top army officer of Thailand, Lt General Manas Khongpaen, turns himself in days after a Thai provincial court allowed police to arrest him over his alleged involvement in trafficking of Rohingyas and other boatpeople, The Guardian reports.

The death toll in what could be China's worst shipping disaster in almost 70 years doubles to 14.

Four of a family including two children are killed over what police suspect family feud in Bandarban Sadar upazila.

Police recovered the body of a shopkeeper from a paddy field at Abur Khil village in Raozan upazila yesterday morning.

The High Court will deliver its decision in mid of June on whether the trial proceedings of Niko corruption case against of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will run at the lower court.

Supreme Court orders authorities concerned to hold elections to Bangladesh Bar Council on August 13 through updating voter list.

Patuakhali district administration yesterday demolished around 100 illegal structures on Kuakata sea beach in Kalapara upazila of the district.

The Malaysian police are carrying out forensic tests to determine whether the remains found from the mass graves belongs to Rohingya or Bangladeshi victims, reports Malaysian daily The Star.

A group of migrants recently rescued by Myanmar will be deported to Bangladesh, officials confirmed yesterday, as the United Nations chief called on regional nations to prioritise saving the lives of those still stranded at sea.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has ruled out helping resettle the wave of migrants fleeing to Southeast Asia, saying it would worsen the problem and "encourage people to get on boats".

After protests by farmers and beef traders, the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government in Maharashtra of India now faces protests against the beef ban by an ally, RPI(A).

The recent earthquakes damaged 61 primary schools in nine upazilas of the district, affecting classes of over 12 thousand children.

Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Regional Council Chairman Santu Larma yesterday urged the CHT people to be united to foil the conspiracy against the Jumma (hill) people.

People of Manikganj Sadar upazila formed a human chain on Dhaka-Aricha highway near Manikganj bus stand yesterday, demanding

Philippines Justice Secretary Leila de Lima says her country is ready to shelter the “boatpeople” from Bangladesh and Myanmar should the migrants land on Philippine shores.

Police arrest a war crimes suspect of Habiganj, two day after a tribunal in Dhaka issued an arrest warrant against him for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

An Indian nurse who was in a vegetative state for 42 years after being raped by a hospital ward attendant while on duty, dies.

A woman committed suicide after poisoning her six-year-old daughter to death over a family feud in Dinajpur town yesterday, police said.