Cox's bazar: Burma has returned 15 acres of land on the western Burmese border to Bangladesh after a four-month long land survey for demarcations between the two countries.

Local Bengali newspapers in Cox's Bazar District on the Burmese border reported on 3 March that 88 kilometers of border between the two countries was closely surveyed from 26 October, 2010, to 28 February, 2011, and 15 acres of land that was found by Burma to overlap the two sides was officially returned to Bangladesh.

The transferred lands are situated on the land border of Burma's Taungbro and Bangladesh's Limonchari areas between border pillars No. 51/53 and No. 34/35. It was also reported that Burma had to withdraw one of its Nasaka bases stationed nearby pillar No. 14.

According to an official from Battalion 15 of the Border Guards Bangladesh, the borderline surveys will continue up to pillar No. 50/55.