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Japan's Abe offers $1 billion in rural aid to Myanmar's Suu Kyi

Reuters
Posted at Nov 14 08:34 PM

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday pledged up to 117 billion yen ($1.03 billion) of development aid to Myanmar in a meeting in Manila with government leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Read more »

First hijab-wearing Barbie to honor US fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 14 07:14 AM

American group Mattel unveiled its first ever hijab-wearing Barbie doll Monday in honor of US Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, who in 2016 became the first American Olympian to wear a headscarf while competing.   Read more »

Myanmar army replaces general in charge of Rakhine operation

Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 10:08 PM

YANGON - Myanmar's army has replaced the general in charge of Rakhine state, an army media officer said on Monday, where an army operation drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. Read more »

Human rights skirted at Asia summit

Manuel Mogato and Steve Holland, Reuters
Posted at Nov 13 09:44 PM

MANILA - Leaders of Asian nations meeting in Manila on Monday skirted around the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims triggered by Myanmar's military crackdown, disappointing human rights groups who were hoping for a tough stand on the humanitarian crisis. Read more »

New colors for Marawi

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 28 06:32 PM

A week after Marawi was declared liberated from ISIS-inspired extremists, people in affected areas are eager to bring normality back to the war ravaged city. Read more »

Friday prayers in Marawi

Fernando G. Sepe Jr., ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 27 08:43 PM

Capt. Mujib Ladjabuan, division chaplain of the 1st Infantry Division Tabak, prays with fellow Muslims at the Masjid Abubakr Sidiq in Bgy. Basak Malutlut in Marawi City on Friday.  Read more »

Myanmar army opens probe amid reports of killings, abuse of Rohingya Muslims

Reuters
Posted at Oct 14 12:43 AM

YANGON - Myanmar's military has launched an internal probe into the conduct of soldiers during a counteroffensive that has sent more than half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, many saying they witnessed killings, rape and arson by troops. Read more »

Refugees cross the river

Fred Dufour, AFP
Posted at Oct 10 06:57 PM

Rohingya refugees walk after crossing the Naf river from Myanmar into Bangladesh in Whaikhyang on Monday. A top UN official said on October 7 Bangladesh's plan to build the world's biggest refugee camp for 800,000-plus Rohingya Muslims was dangerous because overcrowding could heighten the risks of deadly diseases spreading quickly. Read more »

Rohingya Muslims flee Myanmar in new surge

Reuters
Posted at Oct 09 11:08 PM

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled to Bangladesh on Monday in a new surge of refugees driven by fears of starvation and violence the United Nations has denounced as ethnic cleansing. Read more »

OPINION: Are the Rohingyas the Palestinians of Southeast Asia?

Karim Raslan — Ceritalah ASEAN
Updated as of Sep 25 05:29 PM

Sadek Ali Hassan is a forty-four-year-old teacher living in Malaysia. He is also a Rohingya. Sadek has spent over a quarter of a century living outside his homeland. When I meet him in the small, ramshackle madrassah he runs for the children from his community in the Selangor suburb of Ampang, he's at first reluctant to talk about his past.  Read more »

Suu Kyi urged to push for end to violence on Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at Sep 19 04:48 AM

NEW YORK - Britain, France and Australia urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to push for an end to military violence against Rohingya Muslims, while her national security adviser said those who had fled could return but the process had to be discussed. Read more »

Saviours or profiteers? Bangladesh fishermen rescue Rohingya, for a price

Simon Lewis, Reuters
Updated as of Sep 15 10:49 AM

For tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, an informal fleet of small wooden fishing boats has meant deliverance from what they say is an indiscriminate assault on their villages by the Myanmar army. Deliverance, however, comes at a price.  Read more »

U.N. seeks help for Rohingya fleeing Myanmar 'ethnic cleansing'

Reuters
Posted at Sep 15 02:31 AM

DHAKA/YANGON - The United Nations appealed on Thursday for massive help for nearly 400,000 Muslims from Myanmar who have fled to Bangladesh, with concern growing that the number could keep rising, unless Myanmar ends what critics denounce as "ethnic cleansing". Read more »

Myanmar army violence against Rohingya 'unacceptable': Tillerson

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 15 12:57 AM

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday condemned violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar as "unacceptable", as thousands of refugees continue to stream across the border into Bangladesh. Read more »

U.N. chief urges Myanmar to halt attacks on Rohingya

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 14 02:57 AM

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres acknowledged Wednesday that Rohingya Muslims were being ethnically cleansed in Myanmar as he called for a halt to a military campaign in Rakhine state. Read more »

Myanmar's Suu Kyi to skip U.N. assembly to deal with Rohingya crisis

Wa Lone. Reuters
Posted at Sep 13 04:02 PM

Myanmar's national leader Aung San Suu Kyi, facing outrage over ethnic violence that has forced about 370,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.  Read more »

Al Qaeda warns Myanmar of 'punishment' over Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at Sep 13 03:53 PM

Al Qaeda militants have called for support for Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims, who are facing a security crackdown that has sent about 400,000 of them fleeing to Bangladesh, warning that Myanmar would face "punishment" for its "crimes." Read more »

OPINION: As Rakhine burns, Muslim Burmese ponder fate

Karim Raslan - Ceritalah ASEAN
Posted at Sep 08 04:02 PM

In light of recent events concerning the Rohingya in Myanmar, I contacted Muslim Burmese friends to get a sense of how they viewed things.    Read more »

Mediterranean rescue ship sets sail to aid Rohingya

Reuters
Posted at Sep 07 04:01 AM

LONDON - A charity ship that rescued migrants in the Mediterranean is sailing to the Bay of Bengal to deliver food, clothing and medical assistance to Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar, the group's head said on Wednesday. Read more »

WATCH: Muslims in Marawi mark Eid al-Adha as fighting continues

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 03 02:27 PM

Muslims in Marawi celebrate Eid al-Adha on the grounds of a school, at an evacuation center and a mosque even as heavy fighting continues to rock their city.  Read more »