“We were all together but suddenly they started firing. I could not look back, because I thought I would die,” 12-year-old Jamal Hussein recounted to an AFP reporter at a refugee camp in Bahukhali, Bangladesh. He has not seen his parents since his five brothers were gunned down by Myanmar’s army (also known as the Tatmadaw) in a massacre at Aung Sit Pyin located in the northern Rakhine state on the August 25, 2017.

The number of Rohingya who have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August 25 has reached 313,000, a UN spokesman said Monday.The estimate came from Joseph Tripura, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency.The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have said the number arriving has slowed down in recent days although the situation is still volatile.On Sunday the UN said some 294,000 Rohingya had arrived, a jump of only 4,000 from the previous day."Many ne

The MACC (Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission) is still investigating the three individuals nabbed over suspected graft involving millions of dollars of an oil and gas exploration and production services firm, Petronas Carigali.

North Korea warned of retaliation if the United Nations Security Council approves a US proposal for harsher sanctions after Pyongyang conducted is sixth and most powerful nuclear test.Kim Jong Un’s regime “is closely following the moves of the US with vigilance,” its state-run Korean Central News Agency said Monday, citing a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“I've seen video content of a child that's the same age as mine being raped by an American man that was a sex tourist in Cambodia”, remarked former model and American actor, Ashton Kutcher, before the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ending modern slavery and human trafficking in February this year. He paused.

North Korea said the US will “pay dearly” after its UN (United Nations) Ambassador Nikki Haley said the isolated nation was “begging for war,” again ratcheting up tensions as world leaders consider a fresh round of sanctions.Describing Haley’s comments to the UN this week as a “hysteric fit,” a commentary by the state-run KCNA (Korean Central News Agency) on Friday warned the US of unspecified retribution.

At a studio near Bangkok, a pair of immaculate metre-high statues of the dogs of Thailand's late King Bhumibol Adulyadej are getting a last lick of paint before adorning his funeral pyre.Bhumibol, a monarch whose reign spanned 70 years, died last October, plunging the country into mourning.

A newly released survey conducted by Singaporean based ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), found that ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) is considered to be most important to Indonesians.Respondents were given a choice of countries to rank in terms of admiration and topping the list was the regional association as well as countries like Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

More than 1,000 people may already have been killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state, mostly members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, a senior UN (United Nations) representative told AFP (Agence France-Presse) on Friday – around twice the government's figure."Perhaps about a thousand or more are already dead," said Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar.