Bangladesh is set to initiate a fund mobilisation campaign to support Gambia’s legal battle against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over the Rohingya crisis as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries' foreign ministers are due to meet this week in Niger.

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks in the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and raised the UK’s ongoing concerns over the Rohingya crisis and conflict in Rakhine.

China's aviation regulator will not yet allow Boeing's troubled 737 MAX jet to fly in the company's biggest market owing to lingering safety concerns, despite the US lifting a ban on commercial flights.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen today said Bangladesh will approach for resuming the Rohingya repatriation talks after the full formation of a new government in Myanmar, saying Bangladesh stands ready to send back Rohingyas.

Japanese Ambassador in Dhaka Ito Naoki has said his country will communicate with Myanmar to ensure early repatriation of Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

The United Kingdom wants the new government in Myanmar to take steps towards safe, voluntary and dignified return of the Rohingyas to their place of origin in Rakhine State.

Polls opened in Myanmar Sunday morning for a vote expected to return to power the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains a hero at home in spite of a reputation abroad shattered by the Rohingya crisis.

India's Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat has said a tense border standoff with Chinese forces in the western Himalayas could spark a larger conflict, even as senior commanders from both sides met near the frontline for their eighth round of talks.

Rohingya rights groups have expressed grave concern about an online propaganda war being stepped up by the Myanmar Army, the Tatmadaw, in Rakhine State.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has welcomed the generous, multi-year contribution of 14 million euros (approximately Tk 139 crore) from the European Union, which will support UNHCR’s continued protection and assistance of Rohingyas and host communities in Cox’s Bazar.

Vietnam deployed hundreds of soldiers and heavy machinery today to search for survivors after landslides triggered by torrential rains from Typhoon Molave, one of the strongest typhoons in the region in decades.

Myanmar-based civil society groups today said the political disenfranchisement of Rohingyas is of “particular concern” and “closely tied to the denial of citizenship for Rohingya and related laws”.

The European Union has mobilised a total of €96 million in 2020 for humanitarian, development cooperation as well as conflict prevention support for the Rohingyas.

Three restaurants owners in east Delhi evoked mixed response on social media after they served food free of cost to Rohingya refugees at a camp in Jasola on the occasion of the religious festival of Navaratri.

For many marginalised ethnic minority groups in conflict-plagued regions of Myanmar, next month's national elections had at least offered a glimmer of hope for empowerment.

A Rohingya teenager has been killed in a landmine explosion on the Myanmar side of the border along Bandarban, said police.

The Gambia today filed a memorial of more than 500-pages in its lawsuit against Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, showing how Myanmar government is responsible for genocide against the Rohingyas.

Myanmar has assured China of taking back the Rohingyas sheltered in Cox’s Bazar, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi passed this message to Bangladesh's Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen during a phone call Thursday evening when there was a donors’ conference led by the Western countries.

The US stressed on the UN Security Council’s five permanent members’ obligations in ending the violence in Myanmar as it announced $200 million new funding for the Rohingyas.