Asia
Speaking at Interfaith Meet in Jakarta, Saudi King Seeks Dialogue and Tolerance to Fight Extremism
Addressing an interfaith meet in Jakarta, the Saudi King lauded the unique diversity in Indonesia that enabled followers of different religions to have peaceful coexistence and...
Thousands of Children’s Lives at Stake as ‘Indirect Victims’ of Burmese Crackdown On Rohingya Muslims, UN Warns
Sara Perria
Fears are growing for the lives of several thousand children in northwest Burma suffering from severe malnutrition and lack of medical care but...
Activists Push Global Corporates to Help Myanmar’s Rohingyas
Activists this week have sent an open letter asking the major corporate investor conglomerate Unilever, which owns two factories near the capital Yangon, to...
Sold Into Marriage – How Rohingya Girls End Up As Child Brides in Malaysia
The teenager, who is not being named by Reuters because she is still only 13, is like hundreds of Rohingya girls escaping persecution, violence...
Why Is It Proving So Difficult to Supply Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims with Aid?
ELEANOR ROSS
When a ship crammed with 2,200 tons of rice, emergency supplies and aid-workers tried to dock at Yangon port on 10 February, it arrived...