Front for terrorist group solicits money for Rohingya refugees: source
MizzimaCategory: NewsDomesticRegionalRohingya Muslim refugees walk through the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar on November 27, 2017. Photo: Ed Jones/AFPAn organisation linked to Maulana Masood...
View Article1300 forced to flee to India after clashes
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegional(File) An extended family of ethnic Chin refugees from Myanmar gather in the living quarters of a relative at a suburb of New Delhi. Photo: AFPThe Mizoram government has...
View ArticleIndia-Myanmar journalists to support India’s Act East Policy
Sobhapati SamomCategory: NewsRegionalMyanmar Press Council Member Dr Zaw Than (extreme left) sharing his view on the concluding day of two day India-Myanmar media interaction programme in the state...
View ArticleChina’s NORINCO to expand defence collaboration with Myanmar Armed Forces
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalMyanmar army chief senior general Min Aung Hlaing. Photo: EPA-EFEThe China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) and the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) have pledged to expand...
View ArticlePope lands in Bangladesh after contentious Myanmar visit
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalPope Francis arrives at the airport in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on November 30, 2017. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFPPope Francis on Thursday arrived in Bangladesh, where...
View ArticleState Counsellor arrives in China
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalMyanmar's State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrives at a airport in China on 30 November 2017. Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor OfficeAt the invitation of the Government...
View ArticlePope urges world to act on Rakhine refugee crisis
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalPope Francis lays a floral wreath at the National Martyrs' memorial of Bangladesh in Savar, some 30 km from Dhaka, Bangladesh, 30 November 2017. Photo: EPA-EFEPope Francis...
View ArticlePope Francis praises Bangladesh for helping Rohingya
Shuvo Chakrabarty/ MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalPope Francis (L) arrives in a rickshaw at an Interreligious and Ecumenical meeting for peace at the garden of the Archbishop in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 01...
View ArticleChina, Myanmar hail close ties as Suu Kyi visits Beijing
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalMyanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, left, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, right. Photo: State Counsellor OfficeChinese President Xi Jinping and Aung San Suu Kyi touted...
View ArticleOver 155,000 undocumented Myanmar migrant workers return from Thailand in 5...
Global Times/XinhuaCategory: NewsRegionalMyanmar migrant fishermen unload fish from a Thai fishing boat at a jetty in Samut Sakhon province, Thailand, 24 July 2017. Photo: Rungroj Yongrit/EPAA total of...
View ArticleSecurity measures taken up on India-Myanmar border
Subhaschandra MCategory: NewsRegionalIndian security personnel keep watch along the Indo-Myanmar border fencing in Moreh in the Tengnoupal district of Manipur state, India, 10 March 2017. Photo:...
View Article‘Burma, Bangladesh Need to Redraft Agreement, Involve UN’ - HRW
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalRohingya women line up to receive aid at the Balukhali food distribution centre near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, 11 December 2017. Photo: EPA-EFEAn agreement by Bangladesh...
View ArticleDiphtheria kills nine in Bangladesh Rohingya camps
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalRohngya refugees including children and women wait outside a fence of a health clinic at the Kutupalong, Coxabazar in Bangladesh 19 November 2017. Photo: Abir...
View ArticleThai court jails veteran Golden Triangle drug runner
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalAlleged drug trafficking suspect Laota Sanli (L) arrives for a hearing at the Criminal Court in Bangkok, Thailand, 13 December 2017. Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPA-EFEA Thai court...
View ArticleRefugees would ‘rather die’ than return to oppression in Myanmar
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalA Rohingya refugee crosses a makeshift bridge over stagnant water at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, 12 December 201. Photo: EPADisease, hunger and...
View ArticleRefugees to start returning from January: officials
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalRohingya children wait for their parents to receive aid at the Balukhali food distribution centre near Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, 19 December 2017. Photo: EPA-EFEBangladesh and...
View ArticleMyanmar observers invited to US-Thailand Cobra Gold exercise
MizzimaCategory: NewsRegionalUS Marines in action during the amphibious assault joint military exercise component of Cobra Gold 2017 at a military base in Chonburi province, Thailand, 17 February 2017....
View Article‘I feel less scared’: Safety alarms help empower refugee women
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalThe Jamtoli refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 12 December 2017. Photo: EPA-EFEA piercing wail emanates from the small device in the palm of a young Rohingya woman,...
View ArticleBangladesh targets 100,000 for first Rohingya repatriation
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalThe Jamtoli refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 12 December 2017. Photo: EPA-EFEBangladesh wants to send up to 100,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar in the first batch of...
View ArticleBangladesh arrests suspected Islamist militant near Rohingya camps
AFPCategory: NewsRegionalBangladesh police on December 31 arrested a suspected Islamist extremist from southeastern border town of Ukhia, where thousands of Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar violence...
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