BANGLADESH: Cyclone Mahasen batters coast; 1 million flee

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Chiang Mai, Thailand The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has sought Thai support to convince the Myanmar leadership for giving citizenship to the Rohingyas to stop their displacement as refugees. In a bilateral meeting ...

A Muslim Rohingya child wears traditional thanakha, a yellowish-white cosmetic paste made from ground bark, at Bawdupah's Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp on the outskirts of Sittwe on Saturday. — AFP Name Email Comment Title Comments ( ...

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On Monday, Burmese President Thein Sein is due to visit the White House. The visit represents another milestone in recently burgeoning U.S.-Burma relations, and an opportunity to engage Thein Sein on the significance of respecting international ...

CNN's Dan Rivers reports on the ethnic Rohingya people bracing for Tropical

A massive evacuation to clear low-lying camps ahead of a cyclone has run into a potentially deadly snag: Many members of the displaced Rohingya minority living there have refused to leave because they dont trust Myanmar authorities. ...

A family from Pauktaw township passing their time at a Rohingya internally displaced persons camp outside Sittwe, on Wednesday. SITTWE: Authorities in Myanmar struggled today to evacuate tens of thousands of people, most of them Rohingya Muslims, ...

Dr Maung Zarni, the founder of the Free Burma Coalition and a noted Burmese democracy activist, who recently gave a seminar on the Ethnocide and Genocide of Myanmar's