Bangladesh's interim government, led by Nobel Prize laureate Mohammed Yunus, has set up a commission to investigate enforced disappearances and pledged reforms and accountability for rights abuses ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sought an explanation from the United Nations over a report published by the UN Refugee Agency that contains factually incorrect information and wanted to know the ...

Many Rohingya fled genocide in Myanmar - but now they find themselves deprived of rights and subjected to harassment and ...

(AP Photo/Bikas Das) DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A court in southeastern Bangladesh on Thursday rejected a plea for bail by a jailed Hindu leader who led large rallies in the Muslim-majority ...

Seventeen houses of a minority Christian community in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts were set on fire on Christmas Eve. Preliminary investigation suggests the arson might be linked to an ...

In 2024, across Singapore and South-east Asia, conversations about world affairs seem to surface more frequently in daily life – at dinner tables, with colleagues in the office or over coffee ...

Myanmar news: Since the time when Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government was overthrown in India’s neigbouring country Myanmar, the socio-political situation in the country has ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. With the sudden collapse of the al-Assad regime in Syria, after thirteen years ...

Months after announcing that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Myanmar border has been entirely ... At the other international borders such as Bangladesh and Pakistan, the border checkposts ...

In 2017, the Myanmar military launched a clampdown against Rohingya Muslims living in the state, forcing around 750,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. The international community ...

While Bangladesh has had a long-standing trade relationship with India, the real threat to its food security is coming from a more unexpected source—Myanmar. The conflict in Myanmar ...