Myanmar's navy seizes a boat packed with 727 people off the country's southern coast.

Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed to address the "root causes" of a migrant exodus at talks in Bangkok.

Australia pledges grant of $5 million Australian dollars in humanitarian assistance for Rohingyas living in Cox's Bazar and Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Myanmar refuses to be singled out for blames for the migrant crisis amid an unprecedented irregular migration in the Indian ocean and discovery of mass graves of migrants in Thailand's bordering jungles.

Thailand Deputy Prime Minister General Tanasak Patimapragorn denies having knowledge of any army personnel's link with human trafficking.

A regional conference, with the member states of Asean and representatives from the US and the UN, is under way in the Thai capital Bangkok to discuss possible solutions to the South East Asia migrant crisis.

The four were in a hurry, had little time to bargain for the cricket bat's price. Most excited among them, Nur Alam pulled out his moneybag hurriedly, paid Tk 300 and almost snatched the bat from the salesman.

The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, says Malaysia's deputy home minister.

Malaysia detains 12 policemen suspected of human trafficking, two of whom are said to be connected to recently discovered jungle graves.

The Dalai Lama urges fellow Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to do more to help Myanmar's persecuted Muslim Rohingya minority amid a worsening migration crisis.

Police arrest two brothers for their alleged involvement with human trafficking in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Myanmar scraps proposed 5 percent tax on mobile phone top-up cards after lawmakers voted against the levy, the state-owned Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper said on Thursday.

Governments gathering in Bangkok tomorrow, to discuss the Southeast Asia boat people crisis should reach binding agreements to save people at sea, permit them to disembark without conditions, and ensure unimpeded access for UN agencies to protect the rights of asylum seekers, Human Rights Watch says.

Bangladesh plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya who have spent years in refugee camps near the Myanmar border to a southern island, an official says.

Rohingya, other survivors of dangerous boat voyages from Burma and Bangladesh describe horrific treatment by unscrupulous traffickers, says Human Rights Watch.

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.

Indonesia expects Bangladeshi migrants who landed on its shores to be sent home in weeks once necessary documentation is done, an immigration official says.

Malaysian authorities find 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs.

A Bangladesh delegation is ready to depart for Myanmar to verify nationality of the 208 migrants, victims of trafficking, rescued from sea recently.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urges Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes of humanitarian crisis forcing Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants to flee by sea.