Narinjara News

2008-10-20
With the elephant population on the decline in recent years, an environmental group focusing on Arakanese wildlife is gearing up to track wild...
2008-10-20
Burmese military junta authorities have confiscated many acres of land from local farmers in Taungbro Yar on the western border to build border trade...
2008-10-17
A 50-member delegation of senior officials, including ministers and Burmese Army officials, visited Maungdaw Township on the western Burma border on...
2008-10-16
Fishery products worth $ 6.84 million will be exported to Bangladesh through the Maungdaw trade zone on the western border in the 2008-2009 fiscal...
2008-10-16
Six people arrested during last year's Saffron Revolution demonstrations in Arakan State are currently being detained in Sittwe prison along with...
2008-10-15
U Khain Tun, a member of the former Arakan Communist Party (ACP), was released from Insein Prison on Monday after serving a 22-year sentence, said a...
2008-10-15
Farmland owners in Sittwe Township have been deprived of compensation for their lands confiscated by the Burmese military junta for an Indian oil...
2008-10-15
Many monks in Sittwe were banned by the Burmese military junta authorities from attending the full-moon religious festival held in the city yesterday...
2008-10-14
Six fishermen from Sittwe were hospitalized while another six are missing after pirates attacked their fishing boats in the Bay of Bengal near the...
2008-10-14
The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Arakan League for Democracy was commemorated by party members in Rangoon on Monday. Many prominent...
2008-10-10
A teenager missing from home for several days has been found in an army recruitment unit in Sittwe, said a family member. "We found him in the army...
2008-10-09
An Arakanese soldier was killed in an encounter with Burmese Army soldiers after he killed two army officers on Saturday at a base in Taikkyi...
2008-10-08
The National Unity Party has been allowed by the military junta to distribute several newsletters among the public, despite the regime's ban on...
2008-10-08
Over a dozen youths have gone missing in the last three months in Sittwe. It is believed they were conscripted by the Burmese Army, said an elder...
2008-10-06
A secretary of the Union Solidarity Development Association's organizing department in Sittwe misappropriated public funds contributed by local...

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