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This photograph taken on October 15, 2018, shows a structure being constructed on Bhashan Char island off the Bangladeshi coast, Photo: Polash Shikder/AFP

UN weighs assisting with refugee island relocation plan

The United Nations said Monday it was examining how to assist Bangladesh in relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island despite...

Pan Ei Mon (C-R) and Chit Su Win (C-L), the wives of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, talk to the media after appeal documents on behalf of the two journalists, have been submitted to the Supreme Court of the Union in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 26 March 2019. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA

Jailed Reuters reporters wait for Myanmar Supreme Court decision

Myanmar's Supreme Court on Tuesday finished hearings in an appeal case for two Reuters journalists, their lawyer said, as the defence team strives to...

Vietnam arrests Chinese man with 300 kg of heroin

Vietnam police have arrested a Chinese national found with a massive haul of heroin in Ho Chi Minh City, the second such bust in a week as the...

At least 15 killed in Myanmar bus crash

At least 15 people were killed in Myanmar after the bus they were travelling in plunged into a gorge, police and state media said Monday.

Rohingya refugees at the Unchiprang refugee camp near Teknaf, Bangladesh, 15 November 2018. Photo: M Asad/EPA

More than 113 million people suffer ‘acute hunger’: UN

More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced "acute hunger" last year because of wars and climate disasters, with Africa the worst-...

First refugee woman shot dead in Bangladesh drugs clampdown

Bangladesh security forces have shot dead a Rohingya woman in a border town known as a gateway for smuggling meth pills from neighbouring Myanmar,...

Bags of methamphetamine pills. Photo: AFP

Myanmar seizes largest crystal meth haul this year

Myanmar authorities seized more than 1,700 kilogrammes (3,750 pounds) of crystal meth worth nearly $29 million in a multi-state operation this week,...