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Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Instanbul

Journalists named as Time 'Person of the Year'

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October at his country's Istanbul consulate, has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" alongside several other journalists.

World • 11 Dec 18

Rohingya refugees protest against the disputed repatriation programme at a refugee camp in Bangladesh

Rohingya refugees reject Bangladesh repatriation bid

Frightened and angry Rohingya refugees have forced Bangladesh to call off efforts to start sending back some of the hundreds of thousands of the stateless Muslims to Myanmar.

World • 15 Nov 18

Aung San Suu Kyi has had other honours withdrawn, including the freedom of the city of Dublin

Amnesty strips highest award from Aung San Suu Kyi

Amnesty International has withdrawn its most prestigious human rights prize from Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing the Myanmar leader of perpetuating human rights abuses by not speaking out about violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

World • 12 Nov 18

Myanmar police patrol a Rohingya camp on the border with Bangladesh

UN: 'Ongoing genocide' against Myanmar's Rohingya

A genocide is still under way against Myanmar's Rohingya muslims, a UN team has said as it presented a report at the Security Council calling for the matter to be referred to the International Criminal Court.

World • 25 Oct 18

Aung San Suu Kyi's response to the Rohingya crisis has been widely criticised

Suu Kyi stripped of honourary Canadian citizenship

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has become the first person to be stripped of honourary Canadian citizenship over her refusal to call out atrocities by her nation's military against the Rohingya Muslim minority.

Asia • 03 Oct 18

700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into neighbouring Bangladesh

ICC opens probe into Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya

The International Criminal Court's prosecutor has opened a preliminary probe into Myanmar's crimes against Rohingya Muslims, including killings, sexual violence and forced deportations.

News • 19 Sep 18

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi also defended a court decision to jail two Reuters reporters

Rohingya crisis 'could have been handled better'

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended the crackdown against "terrorists" from the Muslim minority, and also addressed the army's handling of the crisis.

Myanmar • 13 Sep 18

Journalist Wa Lone is escorted by police after being sentenced by a court to jail in Myanmar

Myanmar judge jails Reuters journalists for 7 years

Two Reuters journalists have been jailed for seven years for breaching Myanmar's official secrets act during their reporting of the Rohingya crisis.

World • 03 Sep 18

Fishermen came across the empty vessel drifting in the Gulf of Martaban

Stranded ship earlier towed by Indonesian-manned vessel

A stranded vessel empty of crew and goods that was found in Myanmar's waters this week was being towed by a ship with 13 Indonesian nationals before it became unmoored, the Myanmar Navy said.

Myanmar • 01 Sep 18

Around 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled to Bangladesh after Myanmar launched a crackdown on insurgents last August

Myanmar rejects UN Rohingya genocide report

A Myanmar government spokesman has rejected the report by United Nations investigators calling for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making "false allegations".

Myanmar • 29 Aug 18

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the situation in Myanmar at UN Headquarters in New York

Guterres: Rohingya report needs serious consideration

A report by United Nations investigators saying Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent" deserves serious consideration, the UN secretary-general has said.

Myanmar • 28 Aug 18

In pictures: Myanmar's shame

A year on from shocking levels of ethnic violence against Rohingya by government forces and local militias in Myanmar's Rakhine state - 700,000 of them fled for their lives.

Myanmar • 28 Aug 18

Around 70,000 Rohingya Muslim have fled the northern Rakhine state to Bangladesh

Myanmar army chief must be prosecuted for 'genocide'

United Nations investigators have called for an international probe and prosecution of Myanmar's army chief and five other top military commanders for genocide against the country's Rohingya minority.

World • 27 Aug 18

More than 129,000 Rohingya Muslims remain in camps in Myanmar's Rakhine state

'Lost generation' looms for Rohingya refugee children

Rohingya refugee children who lack proper education in camps in Bangladesh could become a "lost generation", the United Nations has said.

Rohingya • 23 Aug 18

A child is seen behind a barbed wire fence in 'no man's land' at the border betweeen Myanmar and Bangladesh

Plight of Rohingya a 'human rights nightmare'

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said he heard "unimaginable" accounts of atrocities during a visit to vast camps in Bangladesh that are home to one million Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar.

Asia • 02 Jul 18

Some 600 firefighters and members of security forces have been fighting the blaze since 21 April

Dozens hospitalised as Myanmar battles landfill fire

Firefighters in Myanmar have scrambled to put out a fire in a massive garbage dump on the edge of its largest city, Yangon, as foul-smelling smoke from the burning trash that injured dozens extended into its second week.

World • 28 Apr 18

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said forced displacement across an international border could potentially be classed as a crime against humanity

ICC prosecutor seeks Rohingya deportation jurisdiction

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague has asked it to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the mass deportations of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh.

World • 10 Apr 18

700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled their homes since last August

Myanmar's 'ethnic cleansing' of Rohingya continuing: UN

Myanmar's "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims is continuing, a senior UN human rights official said, more than six months after insurgent attacks sparked a security response that has driven nearly 700,000 people into Bangladesh.

World • 06 Mar 18

The investigation has prompted a demand from the US for a credible probe into the bloodshed in Rakhine State

UN 'alarmed' by report into killing of Rohingya Muslims

The United Nations has described the details of an investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as "alarming" and said it showed the need for a thorough probe into the violence in the country's Rakhine state.

World • 09 Feb 18

Rohingya refugees trapped In limbo at Bangladesh's refugee camps

Eight countries push UN to take up Rohingya crisis

Britain, France, the United States and five other countries have asked the UN Security Council to discuss the fate of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees driven from Myanmar.

World • 08 Feb 18

Myanmar denies claims of five mass graves

Myanmar denies claims of mass graves in Rakhine

Authorities in Myanmar have denied that there were five mass graves of Rohingya Muslims in a village in crisis-hit Rakhine state, saying that 19 "terrorists" had been killed and buried in the area.

Myanmar • 03 Feb 18

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh and are living in refugee camps since August

US 'deeply troubled' by reports of Myanmar mass graves

The US State Department has said that it was "deeply, deeply troubled" by new reports of mass graves in Myanmar's Rakhine State, where the military has been accused of atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims.

World • 01 Feb 18

Some refugees are opposing their transfer back to Myanmar because of lack of security guarantees

Delay in return of Rohingya refugees to Myanmar

Bangladesh has delayed the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees to Myanmar because the process of compiling and verifying the list of people to be sent back is incomplete, a senior official has said.

World • 22 Jan 18

Children play at the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh

UNICEF warns of potential catastrophe in Bangladesh

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that the already dire humanitarian situation faced by Rohingya children in Bangladesh risks becoming catastrophe as the cyclone and monsoon seasons approach.

News Lens • 16 Jan 18

Kyaw Soe Oo (L) and Wa Lone face up to 14 years in prison if convicted

Reuters journalists charged under Myanmar secrets act

Myanmar police have formally filed charges against two Reuters reporters accused of breaching the Official Secrets Act, a judge said, an offence that carries up to 14 years in prison.

World • 10 Jan 18