Rohingya Muslims

‘Inhumane’: inside India’s detention camps for Rohingya refugees

17 Dec 2024 - 1:00PMvideocam

‘A long way to go’: India struggles to match China’s Myanmar outreach

16 Dec 2024 - 3:27PMvideocam

Will Myanmar’s junta chief face justice for crimes against Rohingya?

The International Criminal Court’s actions could serve to isolate Min Aung Hlaing, but analysts question whether he will be arrested.

7 Dec 2024 - 3:45PM

Min Aung Hlaing pictured in 2018. Photo: Reuters

Rohingya refugees rescued off Indonesian coast: UN

More than 100 of the Rohingya refugees were rescued after their boat sunk of the northeastern coast of Sumatra island.

30 Nov 2024 - 8:48PM

ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief

This is the first application for an arrest warrant against a high-level Myanmar government official, and ‘more will follow’.

27 Nov 2024 - 7:20PMvideocam

Malaysia

‘Don’t have a choice’: Rohingya child brides trapped in Malaysia’s refugee crisis

Rohingya girls as young as 12 are being forced into marriage in Malaysia, escaping dire conditions in Bangladesh refugee camp.

23 Nov 2024 - 5:00PMvideocam

Nor Anis Syazwani collects preliminary health data upon patients’ arrival at an MSF mobile clinic in Penang, Malaysia. Photo: Steven Ooi/MSF

Beheadings, rapes, torture: Myanmar’s junta unleashes violence on rebel areas

A UN expert said the situation was most ‘desperate and dangerous’ in Rakhine where thousands of people were threatened by starvation.

23 Nov 2024 - 11:33AMvideocam

Asian Angle | Is Myanmar’s Arakan Army capable of governing Rakhine state?

The Arakan Army has made military gains in Rakhine but it’s likely to face challenges in addressing residents’ socio-economic needs.

16 Nov 2024 - 10:00AM

South Korea

Rohingya smugglers deported from South Korea to Thailand after 5-year manhunt

The arrests expose the human trafficking crisis in Thailand, and the need for better protections for Rohingya refugees.

15 Nov 2024 - 2:37PMvideocam

Two Thai fugitives, accused of leading 24 Rohingya refugees to their deaths in a harrowing human trafficking case, have been deported back to Thailand. Photo: Shutterstock

6 dead as dozens of Rohingya refugees ‘stranded’ in Indonesia by traffickers

The Incident underscores the ongoing crisis faced by the Rohingya, who are fleeing persecution in Myanmar.

31 Oct 2024 - 4:43PMvideocam

Rohingya Muslims sit in a rescue boat as they are transferred to land from their boat that has been anchored in the waters off Labuan Haji, Aceh province, Indonesia, on October 24. Photo: AP/File

Myanmar ‘risks becoming a forgotten crisis’, UN envoy warns

Criminal networks operating from Myanmar have spiralled ‘out of control’ with 3.4 million people displaced by fighting, special envoy says.

30 Oct 2024 - 11:42AM

Malaysia

‘I’m unwanted here’: Rohingyas’ Malaysian dreams dashed amid prejudice

Members of the persecuted Muslim minority struggling to access education and jobs find solace in volunteering and supporting their community.

28 Oct 2024 - 1:51PMvideocam

Boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya sighted near western Indonesia

The boat is anchored off the coast of South Aceh district, with at least one dead body on board.

19 Oct 2024 - 5:53PM

FILE: The Nayapara refugee camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh. Photo: AFP

Rohingya caught in new violence in Myanmar, with children among the dead

Rohingya face new violence in Myanmar, and forced recruitment and attacks by the Arakan Army, worsening their plight.

27 Aug 2024 - 7:19PM

Rohingya refugees gather in the rain to demand safe return to Myanmar’s Rakhine state as they mark the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus at their refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on August 25. Photo: AP

Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s Yunus reassures on Rohingya refugees, garment exports

Bangladesh will support both its immense Rohingya refugee population and its vital garment trade, said new leader Muhammad Yunus.

18 Aug 2024 - 11:59PM

‘Lots of gunshots’: wounded Rohingya flee deadly attacks in Myanmar

Many Rohingyas fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state in recent days, as fighting escalates between the troops of the ruling junta and the powerful ethnic militia.

17 Aug 2024 - 12:25PMvideocam

Drone attack kills dozens of Rohingya fleeing Myanmar, including children

Witnesses described survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead an injured relatives.

10 Aug 2024 - 5:02PM

Rohingya Muslims who spent four days in the open after crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, carry their belongings towards a refugee camp in Bangladesh, in October, 2017. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Joe Biden pushes Gaza ceasefire deal in Eid message

The United States as been pressing Israel and Hamas to accept a deal passed by the UN Security Council last week.

17 Jun 2024 - 10:52AM

Arson, abductions, beheadings: Myanmar’s Rohingya face wrath of junta, rebels

Muslim minority residents ‘pushed to the wall’ as security forces and the Arakan Army target villages with arson attacks and killings.

6 Jun 2024 - 6:08PMvideocam

Myanmar’s ‘genocidal’ junta forcing Rohingya youths to fight as ‘human shields’

Rohingya groups have been “selling” the youths to Myanmar’s military in its fight against insurgents, including the Arakan Army.

25 May 2024 - 6:00PMvideocam

Rohingya refugees look through the debris of their houses charred by a fire at a camp in Cox’s Bazar. Photo: AFP

Indonesia’s Rohingya crisis a ‘ticking time bomb’ amid government ‘neglect’

Analysts point to social-media disinformation to ‘discredit’ and ‘demonise’ Rohingya refugees in the lead-up to the presidential election in February.

6 Apr 2024 - 12:30PMvideocam

Newly arrived Rohingya refugees rest at the former Red Cross Indonesia office building in Meulaboh, West Aceh, on March 22. Photo: AFP

‘Extremely dangerous’: India lambasted for deporting Rohingya to Myanmar

The move to deport the Rohingya refugees happened just as India enacted a controversial new citizenship law.

5 Apr 2024 - 1:17AMvideocam

2 people killed in Bangladesh as fighting rages on Myanmar border

Last month’s China-mediated ceasefire between Myanmar’s junta, the Arakan Army and other ethnic minority fighters doesn’t apply to areas near the Bangladeshi and Indian borders.

5 Feb 2024 - 6:45PMvideocam

Malaysia

More than 100 Myanmar migrants flee Malaysia detention, 1 dies in crash

An official said 131 people escaped from the Bidor immigration detention depot in Perak state.

2 Feb 2024 - 11:51AMvideocam

Members of Malaysia’s paramilitary civil volunteer corps guard the main gate of a Penang detention centre following the 2022 breakout. Photo: AFP

‘A good life’? Rohingya women trafficked to India face detention threat

Young Rohingya women in Bangladesh are trafficked to India on the pretext of ‘marriage to a good man’, but often end up arrested and detained in shelters.

23 Jan 2024 - 7:30PMvideocam

In India, chorus of anti-Muslim hatred grows louder with rise of H-pop

A wave of young Hindu nationalist singers are releasing songs that ‘spew hatred against Muslims’ and other minorities in an emerging genre known as Hindutva pop.

22 Jan 2024 - 9:47PMvideocam