The Myanmar military, which was accused of ethnic cleansing against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority, has been invited back as an observer in a major multinational military exercise next year led by the United States and Thailand.

Ideal Citizen Movement (ICM), a non-political organisation, begins a long march from Dhaka towards Cox’s Bazar demanding safe and dignified return of Rohingya refugees to their homeland in Myanmar.

There is evidence of sexual trauma in Rohingya women and girls who survived military persecution in Myanmar, Canada’s special envoy on the Rohingya crisis said in a report on Thursday.

An average citizen in Bangladesh and Indonesia drinks hardly a bottle of wine in a year. Whereas, the lowest alcohol consumption is reported in Pakistan at nearly 0, and people in South Korea are the most prolific drinkers in Asia.

Malaysia has arrested 20 suspected militants, including 13 foreigners, police said yesterday, adding to a list of hundreds detained in

Myanmar’s army says that it has appointed a senior officer to investigate whether any members of the security forces are involved in the killing of 10 people whose bodies have been uncovered in a mass grave in Rakhine State.

An Indian school principal yesterday defended suspending a male student for embracing a female classmate in "a long

India and Myanmar signs a Memorandum of Understanding for socio-economic development in Rakhine and building prefabricated houses there for facilitating Rohingya refugees’ safe return.

Terming the atrocities on Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine state “ethnic cleansing”, visiting Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim calls upon the global organisations to work together for ensuring their safe return to their own country.

The Government of Myanmar has informed UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee that all access to the country has been denied and cooperation withdrawn for the duration of her tenure.

A spokesman for Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says that the police had almost completed their investigation of two arrested Reuters journalists, after which a court case against them would begin.

Myanmar authorities have found 10 bodies buried in a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State, the military-run newspaper Myawady reports, a day after the army said it had launched an investigation at the site.

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh want to return to Myanmar only after their safety and equal rights and free movement are ensued, according to a report of charity organisation Oxfam.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim is to visit Rohingya Refugee camps in Cox's Bazar tomorrow to see the plight of Rohingyas who fled from a military crackdown in Myanmar's Rakhine state since August 25.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and visiting Turkish premier Binali Yildirm agree to continue to work together for socio-economic development and issues of mutual concerns like Rohingya crisis.

Myanmar and Bangladesh have formed a 30-member Joint Working Group (JWG) that will oversee the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees.

Myanmar’s army says that security forces have discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State, and have launched an investigation.

A total of 40 new Rohingya villages have been ravaged between October and November in Rakhine State of Myanmar, according to an analysis of satellite imagery.

The top UN human rights official has said he would not be surprised if a court one day ruled that acts of genocide had been committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, according to a television interview to be shown on Monday.

Nineteen envoys of 15 countries visit Rohingya refugee camps in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.