Envoy: Myanmar calls for talks over Rohingya issue


Yangon: Myanmar has called an emergency Asean meeting to discuss the Rohingya crisis, a diplomat said, as regional tensions deepen over a bloody military crackdown on the country’s Muslim minority.

More than 20,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh over the past two months, fleeing a military campaign in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state.

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