Thailand opens new centres for migrant workers to upgrade their legal status
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalMyanmar migrant fishermen unload fish from a Thai fishing boat at a jetty in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, 24 July 2017. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPAThailand’s Ministry of...
View ArticleSE Asia MPs urge Malaysia to halt migrant crackdown
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalImmigration officers detain migrant workers during a raid in Port Dickson, Malaysia, 11 July 2017. Photo: Fazry Ismail/EPASoutheast Asian lawmakers on Monday urged Malaysia to...
View ArticleMyanmar man arrested in Tokyo stabbing
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalPedestrians cross the street in Otemachi, Tokyo's most prestigious business district, Japan. Photo: Kurokawa/EPAA 28-year-old Myanmar man was arrested Monday on suspicion...
View ArticleIndia to send back all Rohingyas - Minister
Subir BhaumikCategory: NewsRegionalKhiren Rijiju, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs of India speaks at Sitagu International Buddhist Academy on 6 August, 2017. Photo: Kiren RijijuWith less than...
View ArticleHRW appeals to India on Rohingyas
India CorrespondentCategory: NewsRegionalA Rohingya Muslim man and a boy take a wash in a makeshift settlement in Madanpur Khadar in New Delhi, India, 10 February 2017. Photo: Rajat Gupta/EPAThe Indian...
View ArticleDefence to appeal Koh Tao verdicts
Bangkok PostCategory: NewsRegional(File) Myanmar nationals Zaw Lin (L) and Win Zaw Htun (centre R) are escorted out of the Koh Samui provincial court following their death sentence in Koh Samui on...
View ArticleBangladesh sends back Rohingya boat carrying injured
AFPCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalBangladeshi coast guard watches as a fishing boat passes by in Teknef. Photo: AFPBangladesh coastguards on 19 August turned back a boat carrying 31 Rohingya Muslim...
View ArticleThousands of Rohingya flee Myanmar for Bangladesh
AFPCategory: NewsDomesticRegional(FILES) This file photo taken on May 31, 2017 shows Rohingya refugees sitting near a house destroyed by Cyclone Mora in a camp in the Cox's Bazar district. The UN was...
View ArticleRoundtable on Counter-Terrorism between Myanmar and Indonesia held
MizzimaCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalRoundtable on counter-terrorism between Myanmar and Indonesia in progress in Nay Pyi Taw on 23 August Photo: MNAA Roundtable on Counter-Terrorism between Myanmar...
View Article‘Protect Rohingyas, don’t deport them’ - FORUM-ASIA
India CorrespondentCategory: NewsRegionalRohingya Muslim men from Myanmar look on as they offer prayers at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir, India, 05 April 2017....
View ArticleBangladesh pushes back Rohingyas
MizzimaCategory: NewsDomesticRegional(Files) Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar, who tried to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence, are kept under watch by Bangladeshi security...
View ArticleBangladesh tightens border as thousands flee Rakhine clashes
Bdnews24.comCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalA Bangladeshi border guard holds an umbrella as he stands guard in the rain at the Myanmar-Bangladesh border in MaungDaw township, Rakhine State, western...
View ArticlePetrol bomb thrown at Myanmar embassy in Indonesia
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalIndonesian Muslim activists hold a protest banner showing Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi (R) and Myanmar nationalist Buddhist monk Wirathu (L) during a protest...
View ArticleBangladesh protests alleged violation of air space by Myanmar helicopters
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalA Myanmar military helicopter flies over Rathaedaung township in Myanmar's Rakhine State on August 29, 2017. Photo: AFPBangladesh has protested against what it alleges are...
View ArticlePakistan, ISIS allegedly behind Rakhine imbroglio
Mizzima ExclusiveCategory: NewsRegionalIndian and Bangladesh intelligence officials say that they have intercepted three long duration calls between Hafiz Tohar, military wing chief of Arakan Rohingya...
View ArticleNew thrust to India-Myanmar relations
Subir BhaumikCategory: NewsRegionalIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R), speaks during a dinner at the presidential house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 05 September 2017. Photo: Hein Htet/EPAIndia is...
View ArticleModi and Suu Kyi promise to fight terror together
MizzimaCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalPhoto: MEA IndiaIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday.The two leaders discussed wide-ranging issues...
View ArticleIndia-Myanmar joint statement on PM Modi visit
MizzimaCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalPM Modi visits the Ananda Temple in Bagan. Photo: Indian governmentThe governments of Myanmar and India have issued a joint statement on the occasion of the State...
View ArticleNortheastern Indians demand easier visa regime
Subir BhaumikCategory: NewsRegionalR.K Shivachandra, convenor of 'Operationalising Act East Committee" of Manipur. Photo: Subir BhaumikIndia talks of the 'Act East' policy but has done little so far to...
View ArticleBangladesh says Myanmar cold on proposals for Rohingya solution
Bdnrews24.com/ MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalRohingya refugees try to get a mosquito net and a bowl as a relief from an organisation in the streets of Teknaf, Bangladesh, 10 September 2017. Photo: Abir...
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