Tag: Rakhine
Nine police killed in attack in Myanmar’s Rakhine: police
RAKHINE: Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in...
Rakhine Buddhist army kills seven in Independence Day attack on police...
YANGON: Buddhist Rakhine fighters killed seven Myanmar security forces in attacks on four police posts in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state on Friday as the...
Three bombs hit capital of Myanmar’s Rakhine state
Three bombs exploded in different locations around Rakhine's state capital Sittwe early Saturday morning, including at the home of a high ranking official, Myanmar...
Myanmar official denies report of five mass graves in Rakhine
RAKHINE: Myanmar officials have denied a report of five mass graves of Rohingya in a village in crisis-hit Rakhine, a border region gutted by...
Myanmar: Police shot dead seven protesters in Rakhine
YANGON: Myanmar police shot dead seven demonstrators and 12 were injured in troubled Rakhine State, after a local gathering celebrating an ancient Buddhist Arakan...
Myanmar army replaces general in charge of Rakhine operation
YANGON: Myanmar’s army has replaced the general in charge of Rakhine state, an army media officer said on Monday, where an army operation drove...
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi arrives on first visit to crisis-battered northern Rakhine
YANGON: Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi arrived on her first visit to conflict-battered northern Rakhine State on Thursday, an official said, an unannounced...
Tillerson urges Myanmar army chief to end violence in Rakhine state
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Myanmar's army chief on Thursday to help end the violence in Rakhine state that has forced hundreds...
Myanmar must take back Rohingya Muslims, says India
India's foreign minister told Bangladesh's government that Myanmar must take back Rohingya Muslims to resolve one of Asia's largest refugee crises in decades, the government...
Ten drown as Rohingya boat sinks off Bangladesh
At least 10 people drowned and dozens more are missing after a boat packed with Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh sank on Monday, the latest...
Pope Francis to visit Myanmar as anti-Rohingya hatred seethes
Pope Francis will talk peace on his to visit Myanmar, a Catholic church representative said Thursday, a potentially highly charged trip during a refugee...
Rohingya Muslims not native, refugee numbers exaggerated: Myanmar army chief
YANGON: Rohingya Muslims are not native to Myanmar, the army chief told the U.S. ambassador in a meeting in which he apparently did not...
Rohingya refugee boat capsizes on way to Bangladesh, 12 dead: police
COX‘S BAZAR, Bangladesh: A boat carrying Rohingya Muslim refugees to Bangladesh capsized and at least 12 people, most of them children, drowned, police said...
Lack of access to Myanmar’s Rakhine state ‘unacceptable’: UN
The lack of humanitarian access granted by Myanmar's government to Rakhine state, where more than half a million Rohingya Muslims have fled violence, is...
Myanmar cancels UN visit to Rakhine
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations (UN) on Thursday said that a planned visit to Myanmar's Rakhine state to investigate the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims...
Fresh fires, bomb blast in Myanmar’s Rakhine
Twenty homes caught fire and a bomb was detonated near a mosque in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the government said on Friday, the latest unrest...
Sartaj to represent Pakistan in CFM
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz will lead Pakistan delegation to the extraordinary session of the Council of Foreign Ministers...
