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.
JAKARTA, March 23 — More than 70 Rohingya are "presumed dead or missing" after a boat they were on capsized off the coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, while 75 have been rescued.
TAPAH, Feb 2 — The operation to track down the remaining 123 escapees from the Temporary Immigration Depot in Bidor is continuing tonight.
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 2 — Four of the 130 illegal immigrants who escaped from the Temporary Immigration Depot in Bidor last night have been recaptured as of 4pm today, Immigration director-general Datuk Ruslin Jusoh said.
PUTRAJAYA, Feb 2 — The Immigration Department is redistributing the 2,675 Rohingya detainees held at 12 depots nationwide to prevent them from breaking out of these centres.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 2 — An additional 100 Immigration Department and General Operations Force (GOF) personnel have been mobilised to locate 130 detainees who escaped from the Bidor Immigration Detention Depot in Perak.
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