A prominent international human rights watchdog called on Myanmar's authorities to provide conditions for an impartial UN investigation into the killing of a staffer for the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Asian country

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi began a working trip to Myanmar on Monday, during which he will visit the Rakhine State, home to the persecuted Rohingya minority

A fire in a camp for internally displaced persons has claimed the lives of six representatives of the Rohingya ethnic minority in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine, U Thaw Dar, the head of the state's Fire Services Department, said on Friday.