The image of little Aylan Kurdi is hammering home the Syrian migrant crisis to the world, largely through social media.

The UK is to provide resettlement to "thousands" more Syrian refugees in response to the worsening humanitarian crisis, David Cameron has announced.

American actor Matt Dillon put a rare star-powered spotlight on Myanmar's long-persecuted Rohingya Muslims, visiting a camp for tens of thousands displaced by violence.

Myanmar refuses to be singled out for blames for the migrant crisis amid an unprecedented irregular migration in the Indian ocean and discovery of mass graves of migrants in Thailand's bordering jungles.

A regional conference, with the member states of Asean and representatives from the US and the UN, is under way in the Thai capital Bangkok to discuss possible solutions to the South East Asia migrant crisis.

Bangladesh plans to relocate thousands of Rohingya who have spent years in refugee camps near the Myanmar border to a southern island, an official says.

Thirty-two more Bangladeshi migrants have been found on Khao Kaew mountain in adjacent areas of Hat Yai and Rattaphum districts of Songkhla in Thailand.

The UN Security Council has demanded humanitarian access to the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus.