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March 10, 2020
Wuntha (Maungdaw) — Food and non-food items donated by the Indian government for people internally displaced (IDPs) by conflict in Arakan State are...
March 10, 2020
Myo Thiri Kyaw — More than 10,000 people from 38 villages are facing food shortages due to a prohibition on carrying provisions into Dalet village-...
March 8, 2020
Soe Htike Aung — The State Hluttaw Representative U Teh Reh from Pruhso Township says the judiciary on child rapes should not be delayed as there are...
March 8, 2020
Khaing Roe La — The Arakan National Party (ANP) has accepted an offer from the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD) to discuss “the current Arakan...
March 8, 2020
Khaing Roe La — The Arakan (Rakhine) Cultural Preservation Committee this year will not be holding the traditional Thingyan festivities that it has...
Photo ; Arakan Students Union (Universities – Yangon),
March 8, 2020
Min Tun — Six out of nine students accused of leading a demonstration last month demanding the restoration of internet access in nine townships of...
Photo Credit to Sai San Main – IDPs in Ham Ngai
March 8, 2020
Tatmadaw soldiers have stopped internally displaced persons (IDPs) from returning to their homes in Mong Kung following a series of clashes between...
Photo by Tai Freedom
March 8, 2020
Some 18 clashes have broken out between the Burma Army and the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) in Mong Kung Township in southern Shan State...
A general view of the copper mine in Sarlingyi township in Monywa, Sagaing Division, Myanmar. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
March 8, 2020
Than Htike Aung — House of Nationalities (upper house) MP from Sagaing Region constituency (5) Ye Htut asked a question in parliament if there is any...
March 8, 2020
A Chin woman was serious injured by an exploding artillery shell in a village in Rakhine State, according to a press release of the Chin Human Rights...
Rakhine ethnic elderly women who fled from an area struck by conflict between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army, sort small mussels at the Yan Aung Myay temporary camps in Buthidaung township, Rakhine State, Myanmar. Photo: EPA
March 8, 2020
International rights group Human Rights Watch this week warned about a worsening humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State. A surge in fighting in Myanmar...
March 8, 2020
A child was reportedly killed and four others wounded in a landmine blast near Paung Toke Muslim village in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township,...