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Scam compounds in Myanmar are thriving again, using Elon Musk's Starlink to power billion-pound fraud networks.

Andrea Trinidad Oct 14, 2025

The Met Police busted the Palestine Action Group's plan to disrupt the London Stock Exchange on Monday by arresting six pro-Palestine protesters across the UK.

Pratiti Nath Jan 15, 2024

The UN request urgent funding for their life-saving assistance to the victims of Cyclone Mocha, which killed over 450 people, in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The appeal will also help support thousands of Rohingya people, after the storm destroyed refugee camps.

Danielle Summer May 25, 2023

Bulldozers sent in to destroy homes of Muslims who were ethnically cleansed.

Isabelle Gerretsen Feb 23, 2018

UN special rapporteur for Myanmar says the country's de facto leader could be tried for crimes against humanity or genocide.

Vasudevan Sridharan Feb 20, 2018

A visiting Myanmar minister said his country is "ready" to accept the ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine state.

Vasudevan Sridharan Feb 16, 2018

Four tiny specimens of the new species have been found, measuring around 2.5 millimetres in body length.

Aristos Georgiou Feb 05, 2018

Soldiers systematically disfiguring murdered Rohingya villagers with acid to deny culpability in war crimes, says Human Rights Watch.

Isabelle Gerretsen Feb 01, 2018

Myanmar's state counsellor and the de facto leader was not present in the Yangon house when the attack took place.

Vasudevan Sridharan Feb 01, 2018

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte feels "pity" about the situation Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi finds herself in regarding the Rohingya criticism.

Vasudevan Sridharan Jan 28, 2018

Myanmar finally allowed the world's media in to Rakhine state to show they are ready to welcome back some of the Rohingya Muslims who fled the country.

David Sim Jan 24, 2018

The Myanmar military has admitted killing 10 Rohingya people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Inn Dinn village.

IBT UK Contributor Jan 10, 2018

Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.

David Sim Jan 02, 2018

A shocking video emerged online showing an endangered bear being killed inside a cage in Myanmar. The man said he shot the bear after gaining permission from the government.

William Watkinson Dec 29, 2017

The reporters had been working on stories about Mynamar's military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has caused almost 650,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.

David Sim Dec 14, 2017

Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories.

David Sim Dec 06, 2017

Elements of genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims seem to be present in crisis, human rights tsar tells UN council.

Jordan Bhatt Dec 06, 2017

Child marriage is common at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where marrying off a young daughter means one less mouth to feed.

David Sim Dec 04, 2017

Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.

David Sim Dec 01, 2017

Pope's comments mark his first public denunciation of the military's "persecution" of Rohingya Muslims.

Isabelle Gerretsen Nov 29, 2017

In his first public Mass in Myanmar, Pope Francis urged the country's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured.

David Sim Nov 29, 2017

UN Migration Agency IOM estimates nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have so far taken refuge in makeshift settlements in different parts of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar area.

Ananya Roy Nov 24, 2017

The 100 most powerful images of the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis

David Sim Nov 23, 2017

Rohingya live in segregated conditions in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they are regarded as stateless people and unwelcome migrants from Bangladesh.

Ludovica Iaccino Nov 23, 2017

Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer has returned to Bangladesh to document the hardships faced by the refugees, 60% of whom are children.

David Sim Nov 21, 2017

Rohingya Muslims who were injured while fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state showed their wounds to Reuters photographer Jorge Silva at refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

David Sim Nov 17, 2017

A report by the Myanmar army says it is not to blame for the Rohingya crisis as international pressure builds over what has been termed the genocide of the Muslim people.

Brendan Cole Nov 13, 2017

Rohingya Muslims are so desperate to leave Myanmar they are willing to risk their lives by crossing a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) stretch of water on flimsy makeshift rafts or even swimming to Bangladesh.

David Sim Nov 13, 2017

Irish singer and songwriter Bob Geldof protested after having to share the Freedom of the City of Dublin honour with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.

Ananya Roy Nov 13, 2017

Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been accused of "ethnic cleansing" by allowing the military to launch an offensive against the Rohingya Muslims.

Ananya Roy Nov 02, 2017