KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) : Malaysia on Monday (Feb 15) defended a plan to deport 1,200 Myanmar nationals on navy ships … More
Tag: Rohingya
Aung San Suu Kyi no longer West’s priority after Myanmar coup
BRUSSELS (REUTERS) : Ms Aung San Suu Kyi’s fall from grace as a rights icon has dampened Western enthusiasm for … More
Bangladesh to move thousands more Rohingya Muslims to remote island despite criticism
DHAKA (REUTERS) : Bangladesh will move 2,000 to 3,000 more Rohingya Muslim refugees to a remote Bay of Bengal island … More
Bangladesh ships second group of Rohingya to isolated island
Bangladesh has begun relocating a second group of nearly 1,000 Rohingya refugees to a low-lying island in the Bay of … More
Myanmar activists accuse Israeli firm of abetting military’s Rohingya atrocities
Report highlights alleged role of Gilat Satellite Networks in helping Myanmar military set up telecom company, spread anti-Muslim propaganda before … More
Sesame Street introduces its first Rohingya puppets
The two new characters will be used to educate refugee children in Bangladesh AFTER more than a year in the making, … More
Bangladesh begins transfer of Rohingya to controversial island
COX’S BAZAR: Bangladesh began transferring several hundred Rohingya refugees on Thursday (Dec 3) to what the UN and rights groups worry … More
Why Myanmar voted overwhelmingly for Aung San Suu Kyi again
Amid the country’s fragile democratisation process, fight with COVID-19 and Rohingya crisis, Myanmar voters know Aung San Suu Kyi’s National … More
Aung Suu Kyi’s party claims victory in Myanmar polls
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, a native Muslim minority facing genocide at the hands of Myanmar’s army, were unable to … More
A look at Myanmar’s election and Aung San Suu Kyi’s expected victory
YANGON: Myanmar holds national and state elections Sunday (Nov 8) in which Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National … More
As Suu Kyi denies genocide, opponents up anti-Rohingya rhetoric
NAYPYIDAW, MYANMAR (AFP) – As Ms Aung San Suu Kyi is vilified internationally for denying genocide against the Rohingya, her … More
Anti-migrant sentiment fanned on Facebook in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR – As coronavirus infections surged in Malaysia this year, a wave of hate speech and misinformation aimed at … More
Terror at sea: Rohingya migrants tell of 200-day ordeal
LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia: When hundreds of Rohingya refugees paid traffickers to escape their squalid camp in Bangladesh, they were promised a … More
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi confirms contesting for second term
YANGON, MYANMAR : Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday formally declared her intention to seek a second term … More
