Yangon: Myanmar on Friday "resolutely" rejected a ruling by the International Criminal Court empowering the tribunal to probe alleged crimes against the Rohingya even though the Southeast Asian nation is not a member of it. "Myanmar resolutely rejects the (ICC) decision which is... of dubious legal ...

ANKARA: Turkey has announced that an international meeting on the Rohingya crisis is to take place in capital Ankara on Friday. A Foreign Ministry statement recalled Turkey's continuous efforts to provide support for Rohingya Muslims in order to find a solution to the humanitarian crisis. The ...

(BSS) Bangladesh today (Monday) sought Vietnam's support for a peaceful solution to the Rohingya crisis as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held bilateral official talks with visiting Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang saying the issue was threatening the region's stability. "We have discussed the ...

DHAKA:Three Nobel Peace laureates have accused Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the nation's military of genocide for their role in violence that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. The laureates, who are in Bangladesh to visit sprawling refugee camps, ...

The crisis in Myanmar and reported massacres of Rohingya Muslims are the consequence of a society encouraged to hate and a lack of global leadership on human rights, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The human rights group said in its annual report covering 159 countries that ...

Bangkok:Myanmar's army chief received a royal decoration from Thailand on Friday, despite accusations his security forces have carried out ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state. Global condemnation has rained down on Myanmar since August 25 when a military crackdown on ...

In Myanmar, British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson met with Aung San Suu Kyi in Naypyidaw today(Sunday)  to press for action on the Rohingya crisis.            The meeting followed his visit to a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, where nearly ...

The United Nations has warned that Myanmar’s persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority has the potential to spark regional conflict. The UN’s human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein speaking at a rights conference in Indonesia said that Myanmar faces a very serious crisis with ...

UNITED NATIONS: As the Rohingya refugee emergency in Bangladesh enters its fourth month, United Nations agencies say they are scaling up their relief work to respond to a range of issues, including outbreak of diphtheria, lack of access to sanitation and sexual violence.The World Health ...

DHAKA - Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will pay a two-day official visit to Dhaka on Tuesday at the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina Wajid.He will hold meetings with high-level Bangladeshi officials on regional issues, especially the Rohingya crisis.The Turkish ...