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A Rohingya refugees settlement in the "no man's land" zone between the Myanmar and Bangladesh border is pictured from Maungdaw, Rakhine state. Photo: Phyo Hein Kyaw/AFP

New Myanmar unrest panics refugees in border limbo

Panic is gripping thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees living in no-man's land on the Myanmar-Bangladesh border, with daily clashes between Myanmar...

Pan Ei Mon (R) and Chit Su Win (L), wives of jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, talk to the media at a court in Yangon, Myanmar, 11 January 2019. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA

Myanmar Reuters journalists lose appeal against 7-year sentence

A Myanmar judge dismissed an appeal Friday by two Reuters journalists jailed for seven years while investigating atrocities committed against the...

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi. Photo: Fernando Villar/EPA

Myanmar delays UN refugee chief's visit

Myanmar has postponed a planned visit by the UN refugee chief to Rakhine state following renewed fighting between security forces and insurgents, a...

A Myanmar workers pushes a sack of rice on a transport cart to pile it up at the storage of a rice mill in the town of oulmeingyun in the Ayeyarwaddy region, Myanmar. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA

EU reinstates duties on Myanmar, Cambodia rice

The European Commission will reinstate duties on rice from Myanmar and Cambodia after a surge in cheap imports that hurt European producers, the EU's...

(File) A Rohingya Muslim man prepares a vegtable cart to sell, in a makeshift settlement in Madanpur Khadar, in New Delhi, India, 22 August 2017. Photo: Rajat Gupta/EPA

Refugee exodus from India to Bangladesh hits 1,300: official

At least 1,300 Rohingya Muslims have crossed into Bangladesh from India since the start of the year, an official said Wednesday, as fears of...

Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres. Photo: EPA

Myanmar ‘too slow’ in allowing Rohingya return: UN chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday criticized as "too slow" Myanmar's efforts to allow the return of Rohingya Muslim refugees,...

Arakan Army soldiers take aim from an undisclosed location in Myanmar. Photo: Arakan Army Video

Myanmar army ‘kills 13’ in counterattacks on Rakhine rebels

Myanmar's army said Friday it killed 13 ethnic Rakhine fighters in counterstrikes after the well-armed group carried out deadly attacks on police...

Rohingya refugees gather near the fence in the "no man's land" zone between Myanmar and Bangladesh border as seen from Maungdaw, Rakhine state during a government-organized visit for journalists on August 24, 2018. Photo: Hla Hla Htay/AFP

31 refugees in limbo on Bangladesh-India border

Thirty-one Rohingya Muslims including 17 children remained stranded on the India-Bangladesh border after three days, Dhaka officials said Monday, as...