NAYPYIDAW, March 14 — Starting next month, over a million people in Myanmar will be cut off from life-saving food assistance provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) because of critical funding shortfalls, the latest cut in humanitarian support from the United Nations (UN) agency.
JAKARTA, March 11 — The United Nations’ migration agency has reinstated humanitarian assistance to Rohingya refugees in Indonesia, its chief of mission in Jakarta told Reuters today.
NEW DELHI, March 8 — The United Nations (UN) World Food Programme (WFP) called on Friday for urgent funding for its Bangladesh operations, warning that a funding deficit would curb rations for the Rohingya in the world's largest refugee settlement.
JAKARTA, March 6 — The United Nations' (UN) migration agency has slashed aid to hundreds of Rohingya refugees in Indonesia, according to a letter seen by Reuters and two people briefed on the matter, because of massive funding cuts by their biggest donor, the United States (US).
DHAKA, Feb 24 — The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Myanmar Julie Bishop called for an early political settlement in Myanmar that would lead to the return of the Rohingya to their home country, Anadolu Ajansi reported.
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 11 — Asean has taken a firm position in supporting a long-lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with Malaysia pledging to give its utmost support to the territory’s reconstruction efforts, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
JAKARTA, Jan 6 — More than 200 Rohingya came ashore over the weekend in Indonesia’s Aceh province, an official said today, amid growing numbers of arrivals by sea of the stateless population in the Southeast Asian country.
ISTANBUL, Dec 23 — Bangladesh has said it will not allow more Rohingya community members to enter its territory, clarifying that around 60,000 refugees had entered the South Asian nation in the past two years, Anadolu Agency reported.
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 23 — Amid escalating conflict between the junta government and rebel Arakan Army in Myanmar, approximately 60,000 Rohingya entered Bangladesh in the last two months, Anadolu Agency quoted a Bangladeshi official on yesterday.
JAKARTA, Dec 1 — Over 110 Rohingya refugees came ashore in Indonesia's Aceh province yesterday after their boat nearly sank, officials from the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and local government said, as growing numbers arrive by sea in the Southeast Asian country.
ATHENS, Nov 27 — The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor has announced that his office seeks an arrest warrant for Myanmar's junta chief over deportation and persecution of Rohingya Muslims, Anadolu Agency reported.
JAKARTA, Oct 29 — The Indonesian authorities have crushed an organised human smuggling network in South Aceh that was involved in the illegal transportation of both Rohingya refugees and Acehnese into neighbouring countries.
PUTRAJAYA, Oct 17 — The Immigration Department is awaiting a full report from the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission’s (EAIC) probe into the escape of Rohingya detainees from the Bidor Temporary Immigration Depot in Perak on February 1 before taking further action.
DHAKA, Sept 11 — Bangladesh has ramped up vigilance at its border with Myanmar, with at least 18,000 Rohingya Muslims crossing over in recent months to escape escalating violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, officials in Dhaka said.
BANGKOK, Sept 6 — Myanmar's military long viewed the insurgency among persecuted Rohingya Muslims as an existential threat to the majority Buddhist nation, but as the Arakan Army rebel group makes sweeping gains, the junta and some Rohingya fighters now face a common foe.
DHAKA, Aug 25 — Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees rallied in camps in Bangladesh today on the seventh anniversary of the military crackdown that forced them to flee, demanding an end to violence and safe return to Myanmar.
HAMILTON, Aug 24 — The United Nations (UN) has called for an end to violence in Myanmar, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.
BANGKOK, Aug 10 — A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives.
VIENTIANE, July 24 — Malaysia, Laos, and Indonesia continue to pursue a ‘troika mechanism’ in efforts to restore democracy in Myanmar, a troubled Asean member state.
LABUAN, May 27 — The Federal Territories Department will focus on resolving the prolonged IMM13 issues on the duty-free island and the dumping of foreign immigrants in Kuala Lumpur.
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