Rohingya refugee children who lack proper education in camps in Bangladesh could become a "lost generation", the United Nations says, a year after Myanmar's army began a crackdown that has forced more than 700,000 people to flee the country.

Though Myanmar says it is ready to take back the Rohingya, the continued outflow of refugees underlines the lack of progress in addressing the crisis, a year on from the start of the offensive on August 25, 2017. The Rohingya exodus has threatened Myanmar's tense transition to democracy and shattered the image of its leader, Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, outside the country.

International efforts are urgently needed to prevent over half a million Rohingya children from falling prey to despair and frustration in Cox's Bazar district as they are being denied the chance of a proper education, says Unicef.

​India calles on WhatsApp to clamp down on fake news spread on the messaging app that has been blamed for mob beatings across the vast South Asian country.

Aung San Suu Kyi says it is up to Bangladesh to decide how quickly Rohingya refugees would return to Myanmar, appearing to blame Dhaka for the delay.

A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Lombok yesterday, triggering landslides, damaging buildings and

Captain Min Min, a Buddhist from Myanmar, looks on as a stream of Muslim Rohingya labourers zig-zag up narrow gangplanks hauling sacks of ginger from his boat onto Bangladeshi soil -- one of many seizing the economic opportunities presented by a refugee crisis.

Afflicted with a rare disorder, Dinh Van K’Re faced a life of struggle, until a kind teacher took him under his wing.

The US government hits four Myanmar military commanders and two military units with punitive sanctions, accusing them of "serious human rights abuses" and "ethnic cleansing" in violently expelling minority Rohingya from their homes.

An acclaimed poet, a brilliant orator, a journalist and above all one of India’s most beloved prime ministers, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was also known as the “Bhisma Pitamah of Indian politics”. Known for his liberal and modern views, Atal, which means firmness in English, was the only prime minister of India to be elected three times.

Myanmar discusses matters related to the work plan of the independent commission of enquiry on Rakhine State.

Facebook has been “too slow” to address hate speech in Myanmar and is acting to remedy the problem by hiring more Burmese speakers and investing in technology to identify problematic content, the company says in a statement.

Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque sees some progress with regards to the repatriation of Rohingyas although no date has been fixed yet for starting the process.

The death toll from an earthquake on the Indonesian island of Lombok has topped 400, authorities said yetserday, as bodies were still

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has fired 20 people, including colonels and a general, over accusations of fraud and graft in

Malaysia is looking to cancel multibillion-dollar Chinese-backed infrastructure projects signed by the previous scandal-tainted

Ain O Salisn Kendra (ASK) forms a human chain demanding safe and dignified repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar.

A blast at a coal mine kills eight workers on the outskirts of Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, officials say, with five more feared dead.

After visiting Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, a delegation of Australian parliamentarians highly appreciates Bangladesh's role in its ongoing efforts to support Rohingya people, who fled the atrocities in northern Rakhine of Myanmar.

The Bangladesh delegation to Myanmar, led by Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali, yesterday saw the trail of wide-spread devastation suffered by the people of the northern Rakhine State.