The High Court directs the government to submit a report before it in four weeks on the steps taken for rescuing the Bangladeshi citizens stranded at sea and in the trafficking camps of Thailand and Malaysia.

AFP Jakarta office confirms student washed away in Bay last year and the youth found in Indonesia are not same.

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

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

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

AS many as 8,000 refugees have been adrift in the Andaman Sea lately, some of them stranded for more than two months.

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.

Bangladesh relies on its workers' remittances but is seemingly happy to turn a blind eye as to why half a million of them choose to leave the country every year and how the nearly eight million currently abroad are treated.

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.

Sheikh Hasina’s criticism on illegally migrating workers draws widespread flak both at home and abroad.

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.

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.

Indonesia has told Australia that most of migrants stranded at sea are illegal labourers from Bangladesh, not oppressed Muslim Rohingya, Australian minister says.

Northern states in Malaysia, including Penang, are identified as possible locations for temporary settlement of Rohingya migrants.

As the trade in human beings becomes more and more profitable, the BBC's Jonathan Head discovers that entire communities in Thailand are helping the traffickers.

Myanmar has rescued two migrant boats holding more than 200 people in its waters near the border with Bangladesh.

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".

The Malaysian Indian Muslim Restaurant Owners Association (Presma) offers to hire the Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat migrants who are temporarily allowed to land in Malaysia.

Since 2012, thousands of Rohingyas died in Arakan, and more than 150,000 people have been herded in the so-called Internally Displaced People Camps.