Myanmar’s Rohingya Abandoned After Rapes
Rohingya Muslim Ayamar Bagon has lived on handouts since her husband left her after she told him she was gang-raped ...
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Rise and Fall of General Manas
An army 'Big Shot' whose influence seeped across the south, Lieutenant-General Manas Kongpan sat at the apex of Thailand's grisly ...
Myanmar Still Using ‘same Tactics’ of Oppression As Junta
Myanmar is still using the same "tactics" to silence its people as the former junta, the UN's rights envoy said ...
Thailand General Jailed For Trafficking At Mass Trial
A former Thai general has been sentenced to 27 years in jail for human trafficking at a landmark trial. Manas ...
Thai Smuggling Crackdown Leaves Myanmar’s Rohingya In Limbo
Five years have passed since Hla Hla Sein was forced into a displacement camp in western Myanmar for Rohingya Muslims, ...
Court Begins Ruling In Major Thai Human Trafficking Trial
A Thai general is among more than 100 defendants facing a verdict Wednesday in a sprawling 2015 human trafficking case ...
Verdict Due In Major Thai Human Trafficking Trial
A Thai general is among more than 100 defendants facing a verdict Wednesday in a sprawling 2015 human trafficking case ...
Cornered By Poverty, Stalked By Violence
Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine ...
Three Killed In Rakhine Explosion
Three people, including two teenage boys, were killed by an explosion in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state on Saturday, a police ...
Bangladesh Arrests Suspect In Murder of Rohingya Leaders
Bangladesh police have arrested a man suspected of murdering two Rohingya leaders in the country's southeast where tens of thousands ...
US Pressures Myanmar To Accept UN Rights Probe
US Ambassador Nikki Haley on Monday ramped up pressure on the Myanmar government to accept a UN fact-finding mission tasked ...
Rohingya Refugees May Stay In Bangladesh ‘for Some Time’
Nearly half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in squalid Bangladeshi camps face staying "for some more time", the ...
Rohingya Man Killed In Myanmar Buddhist Mob Attack
A Rohingya Muslim was stoned to death and six others wounded by a mob of Buddhists in the capital of ...
Myanmar’s Muslims Mark Ramadan Out In the Cold
Huddled under umbrellas to escape a thundering monsoon downpour, dozens of Muslims stood in line at a Yangon mosque for ...
Myanmar Forces Kill 3 In Raid On ‘terrorist Training Camps’
Myanmar security forces have killed three people in raids on "terrorist" training camps run by Rohingya Muslim militants in the ...
Desperate Rohingya Seek New Escape Routes From Bangladesh
In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in neighbouring Myanmar dream ...
Myanmar Anti-Islam Monk Says Barred From Facebook
A Myanmar monk once dubbed the "Buddhist Bin Laden" for his extremist diatribes says he has been banned from using ...
Myanmar Bars Rakhine Documentary From Film Festival
Myanmar's censors have barred a documentary on festering religious tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, a film ...
Yangon Authorities Sue Muslims For Praying In the Street
Yangon authorities on Friday sued three Muslim men for holding Ramadan prayers in the street, after the local school where ...
Refugees Face ‘acute Crisis’ In Cyclone-Hit Bangladesh
Aid workers warned Wednesday of an "acute crisis" in Bangladesh after a cyclone damaged or destroyed thousands of homes and ...