ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia — Myanmar President Thein Sein welcomed closer ties with Australia on Monday as he asked for continued support through his country’s transition to “peace, democracy and prosperity,” a mission that he said “has no...
Nizam AhmedA senior official of the United States (US) is expected to visit Bangladesh, Myanmar and Japan for a week from Tuesday next to discuss issues relating to conflicts in Myanmar and exodus of refugees from the country, officials said on Saturday. US State...
Indian coast guards have rescued 108 Rohingyas off the coast of the country’s eastern Andaman archipelago, a website in the islands reports.The ‘Andaman Sheekha’ said that two coast guard ships, C-145 and Aruna Asaf Ali, rescued these Rohingyas from an unmanned...
Vitit Muntarbhorn Although the term “Rohingya” is subject to various interpretations, it has been used in recent times primarily to cover the ethnic Muslim minority found in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Rohingya have sadly been in the news because of the...
ASEAN must break away from its silence and tediously guarded policies and western countries must be confronted by their own civil societies: no normalization with Rangoon when innocent men, women and children are being burned alive in their own homes, writes Ramzy...
By South-East Asia correspondent Zoe Daniel, ABCThe Thai military has been accused of shooting Rohingya asylum seekers fleeing conflict in western Burma. People who were on the boat have told the ABC that they jumped into the water and swam when Thai authorities began...
