Rakhine State
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday September Four, 2017
Kyrgyzstan on Monday cancelled an international football match with Myanmar over “a potential terror act”, as fears grow for the Southeast Asian country’s Rohingya Muslims.
World News | Reuters | Friday August 25, 2017
Muslim militants in Myanmar staged a coordinated attack on thirty police posts and an army base in Rakhine state on Friday, and at least fifty nine of the insurgents and twelve members of the security compels were killed, the army and government said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday August 25, 2017
At least thirty two people including eleven security coerces were killed as Rohingya militants besieged border posts in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar’s army chief said Friday, in the worst violence in months in the febrile zone.
World News | Reuters | Thursday June 22, 2017
Myanmar security coerces killed three people while clearing a suspected Rohingya insurgent training camp in the mountains in the troubled northwestern state of Rakhine, the state run Global Fresh Light of Myanmar daily said on Thursday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday May Two, 2017
Two military officers and two other studs have been arrested in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State with hundreds of thousands of meth tablets in their car, police sources said Tuesday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday October 12, 2016
Twelve people have died in the north of Myanmar’s Rakhine state in clashes inbetween armed studs and troops, state media reported Wednesday, in a acute escalation of violence in the restive region.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday September Five, 2016
Buddhist hardliners threatened today to stage protests against a visit by former UN chief Kofi Annan to Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine state, where ems of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims languish in displacement camps.
World News | Associated Press | Tuesday August 30, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Myanmar today that the world is very worried about the ems of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have been living for more than four years in camps in northern Rakhine state after fleeing violence from the Buddhist majority.
India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday December Four, 2015
Myanmar has demarcated an area in Rakhine state to establish a special economic zone which aims to attract investors from ASEAN countries and export their goods to China and India, an official report said on Friday.
World News | Reuters | Thursday November Five, 2015
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said today she would be “above the president” if her party wins a historic election on November 8, defying a constitutional ban on becoming head of state herself.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday October 17, 2015
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi called for unity in volatile Rakhine state today in an impassioned election rally, tackling head-on bitter religious divisions inbetween Buddhists and Muslims that have shaken the former junta-run nation.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday October 16, 2015
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi will campaign with a hundreds-strong security force in Rakhine state today, her opposition said, as she risks a uncommon brush with hostility by taking her election bid to the volatile region.
World News | Reuters | Friday October Two, 2015
Myanmar’s historic elections next month are likely to worsen the plight of the country’s oppressed Rohingya Muslim community, with a fresh, hardline Buddhist party on the brink of becoming a formidable force.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday June 8, 2015
Myanmar police have arrested more than ninety people for human trafficking offences this year, media reported today, but no cases have been uncovered in Rakhine state where persecuted Rohingya have fled in droves.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday June 7, 2015
Buddhist hardliners in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state are planning a day of protest against local authorities helping desperate boat migrants found adrift in the Bay of Bengal, organisers said today.
‘Rakhine State’ – twenty eight News Result(s)
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday September Four, 2017
Kyrgyzstan on Monday cancelled an international football match with Myanmar over “a potential terror act”, as fears grow for the Southeast Asian country’s Rohingya Muslims.
World News | Reuters | Friday August 25, 2017
Muslim militants in Myanmar staged a coordinated attack on thirty police posts and an army base in Rakhine state on Friday, and at least fifty nine of the insurgents and twelve members of the security compels were killed, the army and government said.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday August 25, 2017
At least thirty two people including eleven security compels were killed as Rohingya militants besieged border posts in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar’s army chief said Friday, in the worst violence in months in the febrile zone.
World News | Reuters | Thursday June 22, 2017
Myanmar security compels killed three people while clearing a suspected Rohingya insurgent training camp in the mountains in the troubled northwestern state of Rakhine, the state run Global Fresh Light of Myanmar daily said on Thursday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Tuesday May Two, 2017
Two military officers and two other dudes have been arrested in Myanmar’s restive Rakhine State with hundreds of thousands of meth tablets in their car, police sources said Tuesday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday October 12, 2016
Twelve people have died in the north of Myanmar’s Rakhine state in clashes inbetween armed boys and troops, state media reported Wednesday, in a acute escalation of violence in the restive region.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday September Five, 2016
Buddhist hardliners threatened today to stage protests against a visit by former UN chief Kofi Annan to Myanmar’s strife-torn Rakhine state, where ems of thousands of stateless Rohingya Muslims languish in displacement camps.
World News | Associated Press | Tuesday August 30, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told Myanmar today that the world is very worried about the ems of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees who have been living for more than four years in camps in northern Rakhine state after fleeing violence from the Buddhist majority.
India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday December Four, 2015
Myanmar has demarcated an area in Rakhine state to establish a special economic zone which aims to attract investors from ASEAN countries and export their goods to China and India, an official report said on Friday.
World News | Reuters | Thursday November Five, 2015
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said today she would be “above the president” if her party wins a historic election on November 8, defying a constitutional ban on becoming head of state herself.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Saturday October 17, 2015
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi called for unity in volatile Rakhine state today in an impassioned election rally, tackling head-on bitter religious divisions inbetween Buddhists and Muslims that have shaken the former junta-run nation.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday October 16, 2015
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi will campaign with a hundreds-strong security force in Rakhine state today, her opposition said, as she risks a infrequent brush with hostility by taking her election bid to the volatile region.
World News | Reuters | Friday October Two, 2015
Myanmar’s historic elections next month are likely to worsen the plight of the country’s oppressed Rohingya Muslim community, with a fresh, hardline Buddhist party on the brink of becoming a formidable force.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday June 8, 2015
Myanmar police have arrested more than ninety people for human trafficking offences this year, media reported today, but no cases have been uncovered in Rakhine state where persecuted Rohingya have fled in droves.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday June 7, 2015
Buddhist hardliners in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state are planning a day of protest against local authorities helping desperate boat migrants found adrift in the Bay of Bengal, organisers said today.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday March Eighteen, 2015
Myanmar will inspect all state-owned vessels after a ferry accident off the country’s western Rakhine state that left at least sixty one people dead, state media said today.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday March 15, 2015
Strong currents today hampered efforts to retrieve the bods of victims of a ferry accident which killed at least thirty four people off western Myanmar, as hopes dimmed for the missing.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Thursday March 12, 2015
Myanmar President Thein Sein arrived in Kuala Lumpur today for a two-day stay, his very first state visit to Malaysia.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday January 16, 2015
A top American diplomat today decried growing religious intolerance in Myanmar and warned the use of faith for political completes was “playing with fire” in a crunch election year for the former junta-run country.
World News | Associated Press | Saturday May 25, 2013
Authorities in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists in the area and comes amid accusations of ethnic cleansing in the aftermath of sectarian violence.
World News | Associated Press | Saturday May 25, 2013
Authorities in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state have introduced a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families in an effort to ease tensions with the Rohingya’s Buddhist neighbors after a spate of deadly sectarian violence, an official said on Saturday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday January Four, 2013
About 13,000 boat people, including many stateless Rohingya Muslims, fled Myanmar and neighbouring Bangladesh in two thousand twelve with hundreds dying during the perilous sea voyage, the UN said on Friday.
India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Friday December 14, 2012
India on Friday announced assistance of $1 million towards ease in Myanmar’s Rakhine state which was rocked by widespread ethnic clashes leaving thousands displaced.
World News | Associated Press | Friday November 30, 2012
Guarded by rifle-toting police, immigration authorities in western Myanmar have launched a major operation aimed at lodging an explosive question at the heart of the thickest crisis the government has faced since beginning its nascent transition to democracy last year.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Sunday November Four, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi has declined to speak out on behalf of Rohingya Muslims and insisted she will not use “moral leadership” to back either side in deadly communal unrest in west Myanmar, reports said.
World News | Associated Press | Friday October 26, 2012
The death toll from latest ethnic violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine has surpassed 100, an official said Friday, as the government warned that the strife risks harming the country’s reputation as it seeks to install democratic rule.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Friday October 26, 2012
At least fifty six people have been killed and thousands of homes torched in a wave of communal violence convulsing western Myanmar, a Rakhine state spokesman told AFP on Friday.
World News | Agence France-Presse | Monday June 11, 2012
The United Nations on Monday said it had begun evacuating staff from its base in western Myanmar where fierce sectarian unrest has seen deadly clashes inbetween Muslims and Buddhists.