Natural world heritage sites also play a crucial role supporting local economies and livelihoods, said Tim Badman, director of IUCN's World Heritage Programme... READ MORE›
For the Rohingya at Ah Lei Than Kyaw, some 5 km south of the mouth of the Naf River, the beach is a kind of purgatory... READ MORE›
AP Photo Across the churning black water, Alam Jafar could see his frantic seven-year-old son gasping for breath, his arms flailing just above the ocean's surface... READ MORE›
Bukhara, New Delhi This is a very posh Indian restaurant in the luxurious ITC Maurya hotel... READ MORE›
He said the Rohingya were travelling from Burma towards the Bangladesh coast by boat, but rough weather caused the sinking in the Bay of Bengal... READ MORE›
Bangladesh must not force Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar to move to camps on a desolate island, the UN refugee chief said Monday... READ MORE›
High tide or low, day or night, rough waters or calm, when they can find a boat, the Rohingya take their chance to flee to Bangladesh... READ MORE›
Human rights groups have accused Myanmar of laying anti-personnel mines along the border with Bangladesh to prevent Rohingya refugees from returning to Rakhine state... READ MORE›
ISLAMABAD -- Until recently, most Pakistanis knew little to nothing about the problems of Rohingya Muslims in Burma... READ MORE›
Exhausted Rohingya refugees rest on the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, September 10, 2017... READ MORE›
They speculated that one gunman, quite likely a private security guard, did all the shooting, using a semiautomatic weapon... READ MORE›
Approximately 200 million people live along the Bay of Bengal's coasts and of these a major proportion are partially or wholly dependent on its fisheries2... READ MORE›
Izhar was driven to Penang Island, where her husband was working on a building site... READ MORE›
Nor is it only the Middle East and North Africa that European leaders need to consider... READ MORE›
An organisation which says it has saved more than 40,000 people from the Mediterranean is to move its operations to Asia to help the Rohingya people... READ MORE›
In Shah Porir Dwip, the police were arriving in small boats nearly every day to take away townspeople identified as smuggling agents... READ MORE›
At least 46 people have been killed in landslides and flooding after heavy monsoon rains in southeast Bangladesh, police and medical officers said... READ MORE›
Eight years ago, India signed up for the quadrilateral security dialogue, an experiment that included Australia, Japan and the United States -- but not China... READ MORE›
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
Fresh rains in the southern Indian city of Chennai have caused serious flooding, with flights and trains suspended and hundreds of people without power... READ MORE›
This tiny orange dot tells you a lot about Australia's stance on refugees and asylum seekers... READ MORE›
A Rohingya refugee carries a child through a paddy field after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Wednesday... READ MORE›
Last month, India successfully put the Mangalyaan robotic probe into orbit around Mars... READ MORE›
The aircraft was in the Indonesian Flight Information Region FIR when contact was lost, more than 200 nm southeast of the Singapore-Jakarta FIR boundary... READ MORE›
Bangladesh says Myanmar is planting landmines to stop thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees returning... READ MORE›
With the influx pushing existing Rohingya refugee camps to the brink, Bangladesh pledged to build at least one more... READ MORE›
On the eastern coast of India, in the state of Orissa, lie three big nesting sites for one of the world's smallest sea turtles... READ MORE›
That amounts to 55 million people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency... READ MORE›
The Sri Lanka Red Cross was managing one of at least four camps near the Aranayake landslide to provide relief to survivors, Mr. Johnney said... READ MORE›
Starting late in the year, when monsoons recede and seas grow calmer, tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar make a grim decision... READ MORE›
Snow, clouds, and sea ice on and around South Georgia Island, a remote island east of the most southerly point in South America... READ MORE›
A Sherpa woman who works at a Connecticut 7-Eleven just climbed Everest for a record seventh time... READ MORE›
North Korean intelligence agencies have a history of carrying out at times violent overseas operations, usually against South Korean targets... READ MORE›
Boats carrying desperate Rohingya refugees have begun leaving the coast of Burma, sparking fears of a new Southeast Asian migrant crisis... READ MORE›
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- They have been called the least wanted and most persecuted people in the world... READ MORE›
DHAKA - Nearly half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in squalid Bangladeshi camps face staying for some more time, the U.N... READ MORE›
Amnesty International said Indonesia should be recognised for housing hundreds of vulnerable people in Aceh despite initially pushing back overcrowded vessels and preventing people from landing... READ MORE›
Myanmar missing plane crashed in Andaman Sea Everything we know so far... READ MORE›
If the Pacific Ocean is big enough to accommodate China and the US, so is the Indian Ocean to accommodate India and China... READ MORE›
Despite the inevitable flooding in places, the rain has been welcome across much of southern India... READ MORE›
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