Freedom of worship is tenuous around the globe. The Pew Research Center’s latest annual report found “high” or “very high” levels of government constraints on religion in 59 of the 198 countries and ...

ECONOMYNEXT – Hatton National Bank PLC (HNB), Sri Lanka’s second largest Private Bank, has completed the acquisition of ...

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has asked that government institutions, including law enforcement, respect ...

The Arakan Army strives for legitimacy in Rakhine State by governing captured areas but faces international recognition ...

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) will continue its cooperation with Bangladesh on humanitarian issues related to the Rohingya refugee crisis, climate risk reduction and migration ...

Bangladeshi police dismissed online rumours in December that a massive fire burned a neighbourhood near the site of the ...

President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze is putting US-backed programs across Asia in peril. But the new White House has made an exception for aid to at least one group: the Rohingya. Most live in ...

The BJP has accused AAP of supporting illegal Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants, alleging that this has manipulated the ...

Japan's Parliamentary Vice-Minister Ikuina Akiko today (2 February) underscored the need for early conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between Bangladesh and Japan in order to boost ...

At least 76 Rohingya asylum seekers have come ashore in Indonesia’s Aceh province, local officials said yesterday, a reminder ...

For years Rohingya have been leaving Myanmar, where they are generally viewed as foreign interlopers from South Asia, denied ...

The most well-known armed group taking on Myanmar’s ruling junta faces renewed accusations of rape, night raids, and murder.