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The not so sweet smell of success
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 01/10/2017
» A new machine stands quietly in a corner of a small rice mill north of Amnat Charoen town. Its operation will commence at the end of this year, marking an important step for local farmers to boost their rice production.
Mekong clearance will destroy 'a few islets'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/09/2017
» A Chinese firm commissioned to conduct a survey of the Mekong River has insisted only a few islets and reefs in international waters will be blasted so large cargo ships can navigate their way through in the dry season.
UN: Global community must step up Rohingya aid
Associated Press, Published on 24/09/2017
» COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said Sunday that the exodus of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar to Bangladesh is “the most urgent refugee emergency in the world” right now.
Suu Kyi: Myanmar ready to welcome back refugees
Published on 19/09/2017
» YANGON: Myanmar leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi said her government was ready to welcome back Rohingya refugees who fled a crackdown by security forces over the past month.
Myanmar security forces 'setting northern Rakhine ablaze'
Reuters, Published on 15/09/2017
» YANGON: The rights group Amnesty International said evidence pointing to a "mass-scale scorched-earth campaign" across the north of Rakhine state was unmistakably ethnic cleansing, while Myanmar insisted on Friday it was not barring aid workers from Rakhine State, where a counter-insurgency campaign has sparked an exodus of Muslim Rohingya refugees -- although authorities on the ground might restrict access 'for security reasons'.
Rakhine crisis poses greater threat
News, Nehginpao Kipgen, Published on 31/08/2017
» In the latest vicious cycle of violence in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, Muslim militants orchestrated a coordinated attack on 30 police posts and an army base on Friday, resulting in more than 100 fatalities and the evacuation of at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers.
Military targets alleged Muslim 'terrorists'
News, Published on 19/08/2017
» Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state in the west of the country has been gripped by violence since last October, after militants attacked police posts, killing nine guards. The military launched a bloody crackdown in a response that the UN believes may have amounted to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority Rohingya who live in the area. That campaign was suddenly stopped earlier this year. But reports of sporadic violence have persisted.
Myanmar 'sends hundreds of troops' to Rakhine
Reuters, Published on 11/08/2017
» YANGON: Myanmar has sent hundreds of soldiers to beef up security in northwestern Rakhine state after a recent spate of killings, military sources said on Friday, fuelling fears of yet more violence and instability in the troubled region.
Myanmar: No crimes against humanity in Rakhine violence
Associated Press, Published on 06/08/2017
» YANGON -- The Myanmar government's inquiry into violence in northern Rakhine state last year that forced tens of thousands of Muslim Rohingya to flee to Bangladesh and led to UN accusations of crimes against humanity by the army has concluded that no such crimes happened.
At least six Buddhists killed in rising Rakhine violence
Reuters, Published on 04/08/2017
» YANGON -- Suspected insurgents killed at least six members of a Buddhist ethnic minority in western Myanmar on Thursday, the government and regional sources said, amid spiralling violence in troubled Rakhine state.