Narinjara

April 5, 2016
Arakan State government cabinet ministers for Chin Affairs and Border Affairs took their oaths for the new government during yesterday’s (April 4)...
April 4, 2016
Although the outgoing government of President Thein Sein announced the lifting of the state of emergency in Arakan State on March 28th, a curfew...
April 1, 2016
The trial of 28 Arakanese men accused of having associations with the Arakan Army (AA) began at Kyauktaw Township Court on 25 March.
March 31, 2016
A crowd of what protest organizers claim was bigger than 1,000 people marched in Arakan State’s capital Sittwe last week to demand that a...
March 24, 2016
Though the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (Union Parliament) elected a president and two vice-presidents on 15 March the Arakan National Party (ANP) and the...
March 22, 2016
Two men were sentenced to three years in prison for being associated with the Arakan Army at Kyauktaw Township Court on 16 March.
People gather after Sittwe bomb blast
March 21, 2016
A bomb exploded loudly at midnight on Thurday 10 March in Sittwe, but no one was injured said Win Naung a police officer from Sittwe District.
March 21, 2016
Two Burma Army Deserters were found guilty of raping two girls aged eight and five and sentenced to prison in two separate cases at Sittwe District...
March 16, 2016
Farmers have not been paid over half a billion kyats of promised compensation for farmlands ruined by the Myanmar Oil and Gas (MOGE) Myanmar to China...
March 9, 2016
Arakanese organisations collected nearly 100,000 signatures for a petition calling on the Thai authorities to pardon and release two Burmese migrants...
March 8, 2016
Police arrested 28 people illegally removing earth from the Mrauk-U archaeological site in Arakan State on 5 March, according to U Nyein Lwin, the...
Seized Drugs
March 8, 2016
Drugs worth over 20 million kyats were seized from two men in Sittwe Township, Arakan State on Tuesday 1 March.