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Refugees demonstrate before Security Council envoys visit
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalThe high-level 15-member delegation of the UN Security Council talk to Rohingya refugees during their visit to Tombru in the Bangladeshi district of Bandarban on April 29,...
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Thai authorities seize 3.5 tons of precursors from Myanmar national
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegional(File) A Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official prepares bags with methamphetamine pills, as part of the 9,321 kg of illegal drugs to be burned in a high-power...
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Malaysia convicts first person under fake news law
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalA general view of the city skyline in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Photo: Fazry Ismail/EPA-EFEA Malaysian court Monday handed a Danish man a one-week jail term for breaking a law...
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Neighbours welcome Wuhan summit
Subir BhaumikCategory: NewsRegionalA handout photo made available by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India shows Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Indian prime minister Nanredra Modi...
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Malaysia halts people-smuggling ship bound for Australia, NZealand
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalA boat (front) carrying 56 Rohingya refugees from Myanmmar is escorted to Kuala Kedah jetty before being handed to authorities at the Kedah Immigration Department, in Kedah...
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US retiree accused of running ‘sex tours’ on Thai-Myanmar border
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalA Thai man rides a motorcycle past a check-point at the Thailand-Myanmar border in Mae Sai district. Photo: AFPAn American man has been arrested in a sting operation for...
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Meth trade swells in refugee camps
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalThis photograph taken on April 6, 2018 shows a Bangladesh Border Guard (BGB) laying out small bags of the drug "yaba" recovered from a passenger bus in a search at a checkpost...
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Thai police seize $45m-worth of meth from convoy in Bangkok
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalRoyal Thai national police chief general Chaktip Chaijinda (2nd-L) inspects seized drugs and guns during a press conference in Bangkok on May 11, 2018. Photo: Romeo...
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Refugees face difficult Ramadan in camps
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalThis photo taken on May 10, 2018 shows Rohingya men offering their afternoon prayers at a refugee camp in Ukhia, Cox's Bazar. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFPThe 12-year-old Rohingya...
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Tackle graft, governance to stem ‘Golden Triangle’ meth trade: UNODC
AFPCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalJeremy Douglas, Regional Representative, Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), speaks during the...
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Death toll in Bangladesh ‘anti-drugs’ crackdown rises above 50
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalThis photo taken on May 18, 2018 shows the dead bodies of Bangladeshi alleged drug dealers after a gun battle with law enforcement in Chittagong. Photo: AFPShootouts across...
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Thai Appeals Court rules in favour of migrant activist Andy Hall quashing...
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegional(File) British migrant workers rights activist, Andy Hall (C) speaks to the media after his sentencing hearing at the Bangkok South Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, 20...
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Myanmar to give UN access over return of Rohingya refugees
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalIn this photograph taken on May 8, 2018, Rohingya refugees make a drainage canal in preparation for the upcoming monsoon season in Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia. For the...
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Indian politician upbeat on improving relations between India and China
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalIndian politician Ram Madhav was upbeat on his assessment of relations between Asia’s two biggest powers at security summit ongoing in Singapore.Mr Madhav is National...
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Prime Minister Modi’s Keynote address at the Shangri La Dialogue
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalA close up view shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures while delivering the keynote address during the opening dinner of the International Institute for...
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UN signs Myanmar access deal amid repatriation fears
AFPCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalRohingya refugees gather near their shelters in the "no man's land" behind Myanmar's boder lined with barb wire fences in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state bounded by...
View ArticleLandslide kills boy as monsoon hits refugee camps
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalA landslide triggered by heavy rain killed a three-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, police said Monday, the first casualty of the monsoon as wild storms wreak havoc in...
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Landslides kill 12 as monsoon batters refugee camps
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalThis photograph taken on April 9, 2018, shows a general view of the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh's Ukhia district. Photo: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP Landslides triggered by...
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Rakhine political dialogue held in Thailand
RiACategory: NewsRegionalPhoto: ANSCMA purported Rakhine national-level political dialogue which was not officially permitted by the Myanmar government was held in Mae Sot, Thailand and attended by...
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Refugees mark first Eid since Myanmar crackdown
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalRohingya Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers at a camp mosque in Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on June 16, 2018. Photo: AFPAs Muslims around the world...
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