Bodies of three Rohingya found as Indonesia ends rescue for capsized boat | Rohingya News

Bodies of three Rohingya found as Indonesia ends rescue for capsized boat | Rohingya News

Local authorities in Aceh province have received several reports about dead bodies floating in nearby waters since Saturday. The bodies of three Rohingya refugees have been found in open waters off Indonesia’s Aceh province, says the provincial search-and-rescue agency as authorities end a search for survivors from a capsized boat….

How is renewed violence in Myanmar affecting the Rohingya? | Rohingya News

How is renewed violence in Myanmar affecting the Rohingya? | Rohingya News

The Rohingya are yet again bearing the brunt of renewed fighting and military air strikes in Myanmar, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned this week. The latest wave of fighting by rebel groups who want to overturn the country’s 2021 military coup flared up in October last year. The military…

Photos: Desperate, dehydrated Rohingyas picked up in dramatic sea rescue | Rohingya News

Photos: Desperate, dehydrated Rohingyas picked up in dramatic sea rescue | Rohingya News

As the skipper of an Indonesian search-and-rescue vessel scoured the sea early on Thursday, a dot appeared on the horizon – dozens of Rohingya refugees drifting on the rusty hull of their overturned ship poking out of the water. Against the ocean expanse were men, women and children trying to…

UN seeking more than 0m for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh | Rohingya News

UN seeking more than $850m for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh | Rohingya News

Bangladesh hosts more than a million Rohingya people, many of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar. The United Nations is calling for more donations for Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. In its annual response plan to the crisis, the UN appealed for $852.4m to provide food…

Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee Malaysian immigration detention centre | Rohingya News

Dozens of Rohingya refugees flee Malaysian immigration detention centre | Rohingya News

Police blame riot after 115 Rohingya and 16 other people from Myanmar escaped the facility on Thursday night. Malaysia is searching for dozens of Rohingya refugees and other people from Myanmar after they escaped from a temporary immigration detention centre in the country’s north. One man was killed after 131…

UNHCR: 569 Rohingya died at sea in 2023, highest in nine years | Rohingya News

UNHCR: 569 Rohingya died at sea in 2023, highest in nine years | Rohingya News

People from the mostly Muslim Myanmar minority continue to make perilous journeys across the sea in search of safety. Some 569 Rohingya people died or went missing at sea last year – the most since 2014 – as they embarked on dangerous boat journeys to Southeast Asia, according to the…

What’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok? | Social Media

What’s really at stake in the US moves to target TikTok? | Social Media

Who owns the narrative? If United States lawmakers are to be believed, it is currently at risk of being hijacked by China, disseminated on de-facto spyware by impressionable youth swiping short-form videos in their bedrooms. Official tutting at TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, is nothing new. The prospect of a…

Indonesian students demand deportation of Rohingya refugees | Rohingya News

Indonesian students demand deportation of Rohingya refugees | Rohingya News

NewsFeed Indonesian students are demanding Rohingya refugees from Myanmar be deported. A large crowd of students descended on a building being used as a refugee shelter. When police managed to restore order, the refugees, many in tears, were relocated by truck to an alternate location. A surge in arrivals of…

Indonesian students evict Rohingya from shelter demanding deportation | Rohingya News

Indonesian students evict Rohingya from shelter demanding deportation | Rohingya News

Large crowd storms into building housing the refugees in the city of Banda Aceh, saying they should be deported. Hundreds of university students in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh have stormed a temporary shelter for Rohingya refugees, demanding they be deported. Protesters on Wednesday forced more than 100 Rohingya out of…