A total of 817,000 Rohingya people are now living in Cox’s Bazar, the southernmost district of Bangladesh, an IOM release said, reports BSS from Cox’s Bazar. “Since 25 August, some 604,000 people have crossed the border, having fled violence in Myanmar. This is in addition to the over…

Bangladeshi cities need to be planned in a more sustainable manner so that the rapidly urbanizing parts of the country have the necessary infrastructure and services to make them good places to live in, said speakers at an international conference yesterday. “Cities are engines of growth. But,…

Two foreign journalists working for Turkish state media have been detained for more than 24 hours in Myanmar for flying a drone over a parliament building in the capital, the government said Saturday, reports AFP from Yangon. The incident comes during high tension between Myanmar and Turkey, which has…

The government and United Nations agencies are now focusing on ensuring accessible shelters for the Rohingyas, who took refuge in Cox’s Bazar to save themselves from the brutalities of the Myanmar security forces and local Buddhist vigilantes in the Rakhine State. Overcrowded camps are hampering…

The UN's conflict prevention processes are in need of radical reform to ensure they start earlier, don't merely react to existing crises, and take human rights fully into account, a UN human rights expert has said, reports UNB. Current efforts to prevent conflict were "reactive, ineffective,…