Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued a new call for Myanmar to take back the some 420,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in the Buddhist-dominated country.Hasina, speaking to Bangladeshi activists in New York where she is attending the UN General Assembly, also called for greater international pressure on Myanmar over the new crisis which has unfolded in the past three weeks, media reports said."We have told Myanmar, they are your citizens, you must take the

UN human rights investigators on Tuesday said they needed "full and unfettered" access to Myanmar to investigate a grave and ongoing crisis, but the government renewed its rejection of the probe."It is important for us to see with our own eyes the sites of these alleged violations", the head of UN-backed fact-finding mission, Marzuki Darusman, told the Human Rights Council, asking for "full and unfettered access to the country.""There is a grave humanitarian

Beleaguered Myanmar State Counsellor, Aung San Suu Kyi expressed that her government does not fear international scrutiny for the ongoing refugee crisis developing in the Rakhine State, in northern Myanmar.“We too are concerned. We want to find out what the real problems are. There have been allegations and counter-allegations. We have to listen to all of them.

Japan will Tuesday deploy an additional missile defence system on its northern island of Hokkaido, a defence ministry spokesman told AFP, days after North Korea launched a missile over the island."We are deploying a PAC-3 system at about noon" to a base of the nation's Ground Self-Defence Force in the southern tip of Hokkaido, said Kensaku Mizuseki.According to local officials, Japan has already deployed the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile defence system to another part o

The highest quality of citizenship in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is enjoyed by the citizenry of Singapore, according to the Quality of Nationality Index released by Henley & Partners.The index provides a holistic ranking of the quality of nationalities worldwide, measuring both the internal and external value of a nationality.

Malaysia's former leader Mahathir Mohamad said Monday an inquiry into losses by the central bank in the 1990s was a "vindictive" attempt to target him and deflect attention from a scandal embroiling the current government.Mahathir, who is seeking to oust scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak, was giving evidence at the inquiry into alleged multi-billion-dollar losses incurred by Bank Negara Malaysia through foreign exchange trading during his time in power.The government-a

Donald Trump's administration ramped up the pressure on North Korea on Sunday ahead of a week of high-stakes diplomacy at the United Nations, warning Pyongyang will be "destroyed" if it refuses to end its "reckless" nuclear and ballistic missile drive.With US officials and their allies scrambling to find ways to contain an increasingly belligerent Pyongyang, the US president will address the UN General Assembly on Tuesday and then confer Thursday with his Japanese and

Officially sworn in as Singapore’s eighth president, Halimah Yacob, 63 has become the first female president in the history of Singapore after successfully filling her nomination papers while obtaining the support of the Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.In a speech, Lee described Halimah as a respected unionist who championed the employment and well being of union members and workers and also their family members, especially for women who are returning to work.

The problem with using historical narratives to justify actions is that it is often difficult to establish an agreed upon timeframe and narrative from which one’s arguments can be advanced. Such is the case with the “Rohingya” or “Bengali” migrants – depending on who one talks to – whom according to the UN (United Nations), are the most prosecuted minority group in the world with the ongoing crisis in the Rakhine State of Myanmar.

North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan and into the Pacific Friday, responding to new UN sanctions with what appeared to be its furthest-ever missile flight amid high tensions over its weapons programmes.The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth set of measures on the isolated country over its ballistic missile and atomic weapons programmes.That followed its sixth nuclear test – by far its largest yet – earlier this month, whic