At least 58 states and territories are contaminated by anti-personnel mines, the UN rights chief said Tuesday, with heavy civilian casualties in Myanmar, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine...
Seven Bangladeshi fishermen were taken away along with two fishing trawlers by Myanmar’s armed group Arakan Army while they were fishing in the Bay of Bengal and the Naf River estuary at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar on Monday morning.
Myanmar’s coup-commander turned president Min Aung Hlaing touched down in China on Monday for talks with Xi Jinping, his first visit since taking over as civilian leader after Beijing-backed elections rejected by democracy monitors.
Disaster management and relief minister Asadul Habib Dulu on Monday urged US Ambassador Brent T Christensen in Dhaka for stronger support from the United States for the repatriation of forcibly displaced Rohingyas to Myanmar.
An American consultant and author of a memoir about Myanmar’s 2021 coup is being detained in the country over a property dispute, a police source told AFP on Saturday...
MYANMAR’S president Min Aung Hlaing landed in New Delhi on a May 30–June 3 state visit. It was his first foreign trip since his being sworn in as president in April after the widely rejected 2025-2026 election, nationally and internationally. The choice of India — not China, not Russia and not any ASEAN neighbour — was deliberate, revealing and apparently strategic...
Myanmar’s president Min Aung Hlaing will visit China next week, Beijing said on Friday.
BANGLADESH’S frontiers with both India, spanning a stretch of 4,097 kilometres, and Myanmar, spanning a stretch of 271 kilometres, have become causes for serious concern. Whilst India has pushed in people into Bangladesh and has recently stepped up such efforts, especially in the north spanning Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and in the south-west spanning Khulna...
Yet another landmine explosion along Bangladesh-Myanmar border killed a man on Tuesday, starkly exposing Bangladesh’s border risks and a troubling lack of readiness with the authorities to secure the frontier...
Bangladesh Navy arrested 1,450 bags of cement, five engine-powered wooden fishing boats and 52 members of a smuggling gang during a patrol operation in the Bay of Bengal on Thursday night.
Bangladesh and Turkey in a bilateral meeting in Dhaka on Friday discussed the Rohingya crisis besides bilateral issues of cooperation in various areas to deepen relations between the two countries.
Members of the Bangladesh Coast Guard arrested nine smugglers along with a large amount of cement while smuggling it to Myanmar on Wednesday...
Three migrants from Myanmar have been killed and two wounded after a drone used in their country’s civil war exploded in neighbouring Thailand where they were working, Thai police said Wednesday...
Bangladesh Navy on Tuesday seized two engine-powered boats carrying 1,700 bags of cement allegedly being smuggled to Myanmar and arrested 20 people in the Bay of Bengal near St Martins Island.
A Myanmar adolescent living illegally in Bangladesh was killed in an abandoned mortar shell explosion just 20 yards inside Myanmar from the zero line, under Naikhongchhari Upazila in Bandarban on Tuesday afternoon.
India gave a red-carpet welcome on Monday to Myanmar’s junta leader-turned president Min Aung Hlaing -- his first trip abroad since becoming civilian leader -- with talks focusing on security and trade.
Under monsoon skies leaden with rain, Myanmar rice farmers despondently tend their paddy fields, doubtful the deluge will bring bountiful harvests during a fuel and fertiliser crisis caused by the Iran war...
A blast in northern Myanmar killed dozens of people on Sunday, two rescue workers said, with rebels controlling the region saying it was caused by the accidental detonation of mining explosives.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, announced a EUR 2 million contribution from the Government of Finland to sustain life-saving assistance and protection for Rohingyas in Bangladesh.
Myanmar president Min Aung Hlaing arrived in India on Saturday, in his first trip abroad since becoming civilian leader, for talks with prime minister Narendra Modi.
Under monsoon skies leaden with rain, Myanmar rice farmers despondently tend their paddy fields, doubtful the deluge will bring bountiful harvests during a fuel and fertiliser crisis caused by the Iran war...
BANGLADESH’S border on swaths of forests with Myanmar continues to be a killing ground because of landmines planted on the Myanmar side allegedly by the rebel Arakan Army that is said to be controlling the southern Rakhine State, leaving no presence of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police there. In the latest incident that took place on May 24, at least three Bangladeshis...
At least three Bangladeshis were killed in a landmine explosion on the Myanmar side of the zero line along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border at Ghumdhum union under Naikhyangchari upazila of Bandarban district on Sunday.
The Human Rights Watch, in a recent study, revealed that Myanmar’s rebel armed group, the Arakan Army, killed at least 170 Rohingya men, women and children — and likely injured or killed hundreds more — in Hoyyar Siri village, known in Burmese...
A surge in arrests of suspected foreign scammers in Sri Lanka has authorities concerned that the island is fast becoming a hub for online crime, following sweeping crackdowns in hotspots Cambodia and Myanmar...
Bangladesh has reaffirmed that the repatriation of displaced Rohingyas to their homeland Myanmar remains the only viable long-term solution to the crisis, calling for continued international support to ensure their safe return.
Myanmar’s armed rebel group, the Arakan Army, continues to detain Bangladeshi and Rohingya fishermen from the Naf River and the Bay of Bengal, keeping them in custody in conflict-hit Myanmar.
Myanmar claimed on Monday that ‘discriminatory measures’ are shutting it out of the ASEAN bloc after a summit last week saw the organisation continue to blacklist the country’s post-coup leadership.
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Saturday brought back 14 fishermen, including one Rohingya, from the custody of Myanmar’s rebel group Arakan Army...
Myanmar said Friday it had discovered a massive 11,000-carat ruby, one of the largest ever found in the country renowned for its precious gemstones.