Narinjara News

2009-07-01
Arakanese traveling in boats between Taungup Township and Kyauk Pru in western Burma's Arakan State now have to pay tolls for their consumer goods as...
2009-06-24
A day-long sector-commander level flag meeting between the border security forces of Burma and Bangladesh was held yesterday where Nasaka, Burma’s...
2009-06-24
Despite the Burmese military junta allocating Kyat 600 lakh as agricultural loans for farmers in Maungdaw District, local district authorities are...
2009-06-23
Bangladeshi police released 21 Arakanese protesters from custody yesterday after they spent 10 hours in the police lockup, said Ko Aung Naing, one of...
2009-06-23
The fencing of the western Burma border with Bangladesh has been postponed by the Burmese military junta with the withdrawal of troops and riot...
2009-06-22
Cox’s Bazaar: Arakanese urban refugees sheltered in Bangladesh, staged a protest on Sunday, outside the UNHCR office in southern Bangladesh's Cox's...
2009-06-19
Four pro-democracy activists were released from Buthidaung Prison recently, after completing their prison terms, their colleague said. "They were...
2009-06-19
Farmers in Arakan State are facing severe drought conditions in the area and have been unable to start cultivation in their fields, even a month...
2009-06-19
Security in Taungup, a town located in southern Arakan State, was strengthened today with the deployment of additional police personnel in key...
2009-06-18
The Htoo Company, owned by Burmese tycoon U Te Za, has been illegally exporting teak from western Burma to Bangladesh, since the company got...
2009-06-18
Three Arakanese youth, who were travelling to Thailand in search of employment, were arrested by Burmese troops in the border town of Myawaddy in...
2009-06-17
Burmese Army soldiers have abandoned over 210 women from eight villages near Rathidaung town, 20 miles north of Sittwe, after marrying them, said a...
2009-06-16
The Dhaka office of the UNHCR cancelled its World Refugee Day programme for urban refugees, mostly Burmese. The reason for the cancellation was that...
2009-06-15
Four officials of the Buthidaung prison, including a prison warden and the jailer were relieved of their responsibilities after leakage of...
2009-06-12
The first railway track in Arakan State, which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Lt. General Thein Sein on May 19, 2009, collapsed in heavy rains on...

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