More than 600,000 members of the Muslim minority have fled to Bangladesh since August, and Myanmar's silence has been criticised.
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A small fishing boat carrying up to 45 Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar to Bangladesh capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday (31 October), leaving at least four dead.
Lau Hon Meng from Singapore and Mok Choy Lin from Malaysia were detained for importing drone and flying above government buildings without necessary permission.
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Ethnic tensions between Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims have existed in Myanmar for decades. Almost one million Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh as violence erupted.
Protesters urge government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingya Muslims.
Meth tablets recovered as army continues crackdown against militants in an operaiton that the UN said may amount to ethnic cleaning against Rohingya Muslims.
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One in five Rohingya children in Bangladesh's refugee camps are "acutely malnourished" and require medical attention, says Unicef report, Outcast and Desperate.
One person died in the fire which ripped through the traditional Burmese-style teak Kandawgyi Palace Hotel in Yangon before dawn.
It was the third attack by wild elephants on the refugees in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar district, which borders Myanmar.
Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer spent two weeks in Bangladesh documenting the lives of some of the more than half a million Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar since late August.
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By day and by night they come, an endless tide of humanity streaming out of Myanmar into Bangladesh. Rohingya Muslim men, women and children hoping to find sanctuary in one of the poorest regions of a poor country.
More Rohingya refugees have chosen to trek for days in monsoon weather to find sanctuary in one of the poorest regions of a poor country. Yet the Myanmar government denies ethnic cleansing and says "clearance operations" have ended.
The Rohingya routinely flee to Bangladesh to escape alleged persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they live in segregated conditions and are regarded as stateless people.
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Myanmar's de facto leader criticised for her perceived lack of action to address alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims.
Shwe Eain Si had in her video accused Rohingya militants of causing the violence and "tricking" the world into believing that they were the oppressed.
Deaths come as UN calls for end to military operations in Myanmar.
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