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A rescue team searches for survivors after a boat carrying Rohingya refugees sank in November 2025 near the Thailand-Malaysia border. Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 16, 2026
Over 500 feared dead in two suspected shipwrecks off Myanmar, U.N. says
Myanmar¡¯s Rohingya undertake perilous sea journeys every year in search of better living conditions, traveling aboard rickety boats often operated by trafficking networks.
Myanmar Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs U Hau Khan Sum (left) poses for a photo with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his wife Liza Araneta Marcos at a welcome ceremony during the 48th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Cebu, Philippines on May 8.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 11, 2026
Myanmar complains over pariah treatment in ASEAN bloc
The 11-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations has shunned Myanmar from summits since its military launched a coup in 2021.
Akio Fujimoto¡¯s film follows two siblings (Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin, left, and Shomira Rias Uddin) who maintain a sense of play through a perilous journey.
CULTURE / Film
Apr 27, 2026
¡®Lost Land¡¯: A Rohingya odyssey viewed with startling immediacy
Shot with nonprofessional Rohingya actors, Akio Fujimoto¡¯s film follows two siblings through a perilous journey, where survival depends as much on strangers as on luck.
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees are stranded on a boat after the nearby community decided not to allow them to land after giving them water and food in Pineung, Aceh province, Indonesia, on Nov. 16, 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 21, 2026
Scarce food, bleak futures spur Rohingya refugees to gamble with death at sea
Hundreds die en route, but the numbers keep growing as dwindling international aid pushes yet more to make the treacherous journey to countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia.
Akio Fujimoto¡¯s ¡°Lost Land¡± centers on two displaced Rohingya siblings (Muhammad Shofik Rias Uddin, left, and Shomira Rias Uddin) who undergo a harrowing journey from Bangladesh to Malaysia.
CULTURE / Film
Apr 19, 2026
¡®Lost Land¡¯ director captures play and peril on a migrant¡¯s journey
Director Akio Fujimoto avoids exposition and lets moments of childhood wonder deepen the emotional weight of the dangers surrounding his young Rohingya protagonists.
Mohammed Rofique, a survivor from the boat that capsized in the Andaman Sea, speaks on the phone with relatives at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 16, 2026
Rohingya survivor recounts ordeal as 250 missing in Andaman Sea tragedy
Before the boat capsized, one ?of the survivors said passengers on the boat endured four days and nights at sea as conditions rapidly deteriorated.
Rohingya refugees study in a makeshift learning center at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia, Bangladesh, on Dec. 17.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jan 15, 2026
Dreams on hold for Rohingya children in Bangladesh camps
The education system at the camps has become severely overstretched ¡ª a situation worsened by cuts to U.S. aid that slashed funding and forced sweeping closures or scale-backs.
General view taken at the start of the first hearing at the International Court of Justice in which Myanmar is accused of committing genocide against the country¡¯s Muslim minority, the Rohingya, in The Hague on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 14, 2026
ICJ hears gruesome violence against Rohingya in Myanmar genocide case
The accusations say that Myanmar soldiers rampaged door-to-door, systematically killing, raping and burning Rohingya men, women and children.
Rohingya refugees cross the border into Bangladesh in 2017. The charge that Myanmar committed genocide against the Rohingya Muslims went before the World Court on Monday, for three weeks of argument and testimony, in the first case of its kind, with implications for other genocide cases like the one pending against Israel.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 13, 2026
Myanmar made Rohingya lives a nightmare, Gambia?says in genocide case
Gambia, a predominantly Muslim West African country, filed the case at the International Court of Justice?in ?2019, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the Rohingya.
Rohingya refugees wait outside a distribution center after collecting relief materials at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangledesh, on Dec. 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
In grim camps, Rohingya hope U.N. genocide hearing can bring justice
Hope is a fragile but persistent force in Bangladesh¡¯s Rohingya camps of Cox¡¯s Bazar, where more than a million refugees forced to flee Myanmar live in squalid conditions.
Rohingya refugees attend a rally organized by the United Council of Rohang at the Balukhali refugee camp in Cox¡¯s Bazar, Bangladesh, on Dec. 20.
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
Dec 29, 2025
Rohingya refugees hope new leaders can pave a path home
The refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh have elected a council, hoping it can improve conditions and revive efforts to secure their return to Myanmar.
Iman Sharif, 18, a survivor from a boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya community, which sank in waters near the Thailand-Malaysia border, is brought to a rescue operations center six days after the incident, at Langkawi, Malaysia, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 12, 2025
Rohingya survivor recalls deadly boat sinking; more bodies found? ?
For years, many Rohingya have embarked on rickety wooden boats to try to reach neighboring countries to flee persecution in Myanmar or overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh.
A member of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) searches for survivors after a boat carrying migrants from Myanmar capsized near the Malaysia-Thailand border on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 10, 2025
Eleven found dead in Thai-Malaysia search after Rohingya migrant boat sinks
About 70 people are believed to have been on board the capsized vessel, and the status of another boat carrying 230 passengers remained unclear.
"My children cried all night from hunger. I boiled grass and gave it to them just to keep them quiet," said Ajib Bahar, 38, from a refugee camp in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 2, 2025
Myanmar¡¯s war-torn Rakhine state grappling with hunger crisis, aid groups say
More than 100,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition, with less than 2% able to access treatment, according to data provided by aid workers.
Begum, a 35-year-old mother of seven children, in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 18. Begum will marry off one of her daughters after a funding shortage shuttered thousands of schools in the refugee camps.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 25, 2025
School closures push Rohingya refugee children into marriage and work
A funding crisis has led to the suspension of many Rohingya learning centers, leaving children to play in the mud or rain.
Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar into Palang Khali, near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, in November 2017
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 22, 2025
U.N. investigation seeking justice for Rohingya hit by cost-cutting
A million Rohingya, a Muslim minority group, fled a Myanmar military offensive in August 2017 ¡ª a campaign seen by prosecutors as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.
Rohingya refugees hold up signs at a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on March 14.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 28, 2025
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh fear U.S. aid cuts will deepen crisis
The U.S. had been the largest provider of aid to the Rohingya refugees, contributing nearly $2.4 billion since 2017, according to a State Department website.
Rohingya refugees use a makeshift raft to cross the Naf River from Myanmar into Bangladesh in 2017.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Mar 6, 2025
Rohingya refugee food aid to be halved from next month: U.N.
The U.N. World Food Program says that ¡°severe funding shortfalls¡± has forced it to cut monthly food vouchers for around 1 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Rohingya refugees Shamshida (left), who had to flee one of the last refuges in Myanmar for the Rohingya Muslim minority, and her sister Manwara in their tent in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Nov. 5
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 29, 2024
For the Rohingya, tormentors change but not the torment
This violence was not at the hands of the military, though. Instead, it was from a pro-democracy rebel group that was raised to fight the army.
Myanmar's junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing presides over an army parade in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, in March 2021.
WORLD
Nov 27, 2024
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military leader
Soldiers, police and Buddhist villagers are alleged by U.N. investigators to have razed hundreds of villages in the remote western Rakhine state.
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