Naypyitaw: Myanmar’s army chief has appealed for aid after the worst floods in the wake of Cyclone Yagi. According to foreign media, the most powerful cyclone Yagi also caused destruction in Myanmar. More than 235,000 people were displaced due to landslides and floods due to rains. According to reports, the army chief made an extraordinary […]
Around 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh in recent months, escaping escalating violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, according to Bangladeshi officials. The violence has intensified as fighting between Myanmar’s ruling junta and the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic militia drawn from the Buddhist majority, continues to worsen. “We have information that around 8,000 […]
YANGON: Myanmar’s embattled junta chief has warned civilians in territory recently captured by ethnic minority armed groups to prepare for military counterattacks, state media reported on Wednesday. The military has lost swaths of territory near the border with China in northern Shan state to an alliance of armed ethnic minority groups and “People’s Defence Forces” […]
Around 8,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh in recent months, escaping escalating violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, according to Bangladeshi officials. The violence has intensified as fighting between Myanmar’s ruling junta and the Arakan Army, a powerful ethnic militia drawn from the Buddhist majority, continues to worsen. “We have information that around 8,000 […]
COX’S BAZAR: For the past three years, Mohammad Lalu had been diligently saving up, bit by bit, for one goal: to ensure that him and his family of eight had $2,000 to cross the Naf River and reach a Rohingya refugee camp in neighboring Bangladesh. Lalu was not among the approximately 750,000 Rohingya refugees who […]
The UN on Friday called for end to violence in Myanmar. In a statement, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said: “25 August marks seven years since the forced mass displacement of Rohingya people and other communities from Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Around 1 million Rohingya are presently sheltering in Bangladesh and over 130,000 more across the region without immediate […]
ISLAMABAD: Myanmar Ambassador Wunna Han has said that there is a vast potential of cooperation between Pakistan and Myanmar in the tourism sector, for which future paths can be determined. “There is a lot of potential for tourism in the northern regions of Pakistan, especially Gilgit-Baltistan, which needs to be highlighted at the global level,” […]
In an attempt to save their lives, 200 Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh were killed in a drone attack. According to the foreign news agency, eyewitnesses and people injured in the drone attack said that people going to Bangladesh were targeted in the drone attack. School building collapses in Nigeria, […]
BANGKOK: A drone attack on Rohingya fleeing Myanmar killed many dozens of people, including families with children, several witnesses said, describing survivors wandering between piles of bodies to identify dead and injured relatives. Four witnesses, activists and a diplomat described drone attacks on Monday that struck down families waiting to cross the border into neighbouring […]