The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) offers to help Malaysia handle a migrant crisis that has left thousands stranded at sea.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) will repatriate the Bangladeshis rescued from boats in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

UNHCR, OHCHR, IOM and SRSG calls upon leaders of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to protect the trafficking victims now stranded at sea.

Thousands of people--mostly Rohingyas and Bangladeshis are sailing in boats and trying to reach the shores of Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia.

The UN chief and his deputy speak separately to leaders in Southeast Asia reiterating the need to protect lives and uphold the obligation of rescue of the stranded migrants at sea.

Malaysia says its foreign minister would meet his Indonesian and Thai counterparts to discuss the influx of boatpeople to Southeast Asia as international pressure grew for a regional solution.

Myanmar's government says it is not responsible for the migrant boat crisis in south-east Asia and may not attend an emergency summit on the issue.

Thai police arrest two foreigners in connection to the human smuggling syndicate. The value of assets frozen or seized from those suspected of trafficking Rohingya and other migrants hits Bt204 million so far

About 400 illegal migrants including Bangladesh nationals and Rohingya from Myanmar have been transported from Langkawi to Belantik Immigration Detention Depot, while 500 more are expected to be sent to the depot.

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, come under pressure from international community to provide humane treatment to thousands of Bangladeshi,Rohingya migrants.

Thousands of Bangladeshis and Rohingya Muslims abandoned at sea had nowhere to turn Thursday as Malaysia turned away two boats crammed with more than 800 migrants.

The United States has voiced fear for the lives of the migrants abandoned by traffickers at land and sea, calling on Southeast Asian nations to co-operate to address the crisis.

Bangladesh Coast Guard seizes a Malaysia-bound trawler with over 100 Bangladeshi and Rohingya people near the St. Martin’s south-west channel in the Bay of Bengal.

A group of 350 migrants from Myanmar tells an activist by phone that they are abandoned by their crew and need help.

Cops yesterday obtains an arrest warrant for man they said is a key financier behind the entire Rohingya trafficking racket in the South.

The Malaysian home ministry denies claims that the country has trafficking camps of immigrants similar to those in Thailand.

Twenty-six more Rohingya migrants abandoned by their traffickers two weeks ago and left to wander in the jungle are found on Khao Kaew Mountain in Hat Yai district near the Thai-Malaysian border.

Thailand and Malaysian police are expected to meet Friday to discuss human trafficking issues plaguing both nations.

Thai police are seeking 20 more suspects over trafficking of Rohingya migrants in Padang Besar in Thailand

A boat carrying about 500 members of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim community has been rescued off northern Indonesia.