A rickety wooden boat carrying more than 100 Rohingya Muslims landed Wednesday in Indonesia as the northernmost province of Aceh continued to receive the refugees fleeing persecution and political unr

More than 70 Rohingya refugees fleeing persecution in Myanmar have arrived at a tourist beach in Indonesia’s Aceh province. Local police chief Nova Suryandaru said a wooden boat carrying 40 men, 32 women and four children ran aground in Pereulak region in East Aceh on Wednesday after its engine broke down.

The Myanmar government has suspended cargo transportation and trade between Yangon and Teknaf in Cox's Bazar. This decision follows the interference of the Arakan Army, a rebel group, which has been preventing cargo ships from traveling from Yangon to Teknaf's land port.

Pakistan's influence in Bangladesh has significantly increased after the fall of the Shiekh Hasina government in August.

Renewed violence in Myanmar has forced around 80,000 more Rohingyas to take shelter in Bangladesh since August last year, worsening the already precarious situation in Cox’s Bazar camps, shows a recent study.

The Rohingya crisis has become an enduring humanitarian disaster, with renewed violence in Myanmar forcing nearly 80,000 more refugees to seek shelter in Bangladesh since August last year

Four cargo ships that left Yangon, Myanmar, bound for the Teknaf land port in Cox’s Bazar have been stuck for three days due to detention by Myanmar’s separatist armed group, the Arakan Army. The ships are carrying goods worth an estimated Tk 40 crore.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has conducted a raid in the deep sea near Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar, recovering 2kg of crystal meth (Ice), 10,000 yaba pills and cannabis. A boat was seized and six traffickers were arrested in connection with the incident.

The Arakan Army has released two cargo ships that they seized on the Naf River en route to Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf, carrying imported goods from Myanmar. However, the armed rebel group has yet to release a third vessel.

As per sources, Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence was engaged in the spadework to convince the Rohingya armed groups in Bangladesh to collaborate for ‘effective coordination’ in their