Bangladesh

Malaysia's prime minister said May 21 he has ordered the navy and the coast guard to comb the sea to look for stranded migrants, the first country to announce it will search for the refugees in desperate need of help instead of waiting for them to wash up on Southeast Asia's shores.

Indonesia said on May 19 that the migrant boat crisis was a problem for all of Southeast Asia ahead of key regional talks, as Jakarta and other countries came under more pressure to let the boatpeople land.  

Malaysia said on May 17 that its foreign minister would meet his Indonesian and Thai counterparts to discuss the surge in stricken boatpeople from Bangladesh and Myanmar flooding to Southeast Asia.
 
Foreign Minister Anifah Aman was to meet Indonesia's Retno Marsudi in the Malaysian city of Kota Kinabalu on May 18, a government official said.
 

Nepalese rescuers on May 15 found three bodies near the wreckage of a US Marine helicopter that disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, officials said.

Nepal's Defense Secretary Iswori Poudyal gave no details about the nationalities of the victims. The helicopter was carrying six Marines and two Nepalese army soldiers.

Tuesday's new earthquake in Nepal measuring 7.4 has left at least 29 people dead and 1006 injured, officials say.

The tremors were felt strongly in Kathmandu, the capital, but also throughout Nepal and as far as India, Bangladesh and China (the epicenter was located near the Chinese border).

Another major earthquake has rocked Nepal just two weeks after over 8000 people died in a tremor.

At least 4 people have been left dead by the incident, but there are no reports of numerous casulaties.

A masked gang wielding machetes hacked a secular blogger to death May 12 in northeastern Bangladesh in the third such deadly attack by suspected Islamists since February.

As the death toll reached 6621 people, the authorities in Nepal ruled out the possibility of finding any more survivors from the disastrous earthquake, which hit the country on April 25.

According to the latest official information, the number of people, who were injured in the earthquake, stood at 14 021.

The death toll from weeks of political violence in Bangladesh passed 100 on Monday, when police found four bullet-riddled bodies in the capital Dhaka.
      
Police said the four men were lynched after they were found carrying petrol bombs, frequently used in opposition protests.
      

Sixteen people including a baby are confirmed dead and rescuers are still searching for missing passengers after a ferry collided with a cargo ship and sank Feb. 22 in a Bangladesh river, officials said.
     
It was the second deadly boat accident in less than a fortnight in the country, which has a history of ferry tragedies.