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Rohingya Migrants Found Adrift in Thai Waters

The Rohingya Muslims were fleeing Myanmar, where they often face persecution.

A military official says the Yala bombings were in retaliation for the killing of an insurgent.

Activists, religious leaders outraged as migrants from Bangladesh and Burma are turned away.

Meanwhile, a boat carrying 500 migrants has been spotted off Malaysia.

Six insurgent factions form united front in upcoming talks with government.

The NGO may have to leave India after the government freezes its bank accounts.

Meanwhile, thousands of boat people may be languishing at sea and Bangkok says it has discovered 73 human-smuggling camps in the south.

At least 66 people are reported killed in Nepal, India and China as a result of Tuesday’s 7.3-magnitude earthquake.

The killing of Ananta Bijoy Das, who was on an Islamist hit-list, follows this year's murders of Avijit Roy and Washiqur Rahman.

Thailand’s southern neighbors are facing an influx of boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

The citizens of Bangladesh have had few chances to vote in fairly contested elections.

The growing problem connects Thailand with Myanmar, Bangladesh and Malaysia.

Thai officials, meanwhile, widen their crackdown on human trafficking.

Non-Muslims should also be more respectful of the beliefs of others, Indonesia’s religious affairs minister says.

A horde of Indian journalists has invaded Nepal, portraying the disaster from a distinctly Indian point of view.

Human trafficking is big business in southern Thailand, and Malaysians, Burmese, Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis are also complicit in it, says the group.

As many as 76 rescue teams and 70 medical teams from 34 countries responded.

The dissemination of such photos online is a tool for recruiting youths to the Islamic State (IS), experts in Indonesia say.

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) claims responsibility for hacking to death Avijit Roy and other secular bloggers.

Move comes after eight paramilitary troops die in ambush in northeastern Indian state.

The U.S. has placed a $1-million bounty on the head of Abdul Basit Usman.

Four others are wanted in connection with the deaths of 26 illegal immigrants at a makeshift camp in the south.

Bureaucratic indifference to people’s suffering and dysfunctional politics run deep.

Nepalese are facing food and water shortages, and their country will need at least U.S. $2 billion for post-quake reconstruction.

Lone survivor says traffickers whisked away as many as 100 Rohingya detained at the camp before police arrived.

Malaysian authorities nabbed 30 suspected IS members in April.

China, United States are among other countries also sending aid.

The fate of hundreds of Uyghur refugees remains uncertain.

A newspaper reports that Hamas trains Palestinians in Malaysia for military operations back home.

Homosexuality and adultery, among other things, can result in public canings for Muslims and non-Muslims in the Indonesian province.