Narinjara News

2009-12-10
Major General Thaung Aye, Commander of the Burmese Army in Arakan State, has directed local officers at the district and township level...
2009-12-10
The Burmese Army has recently announced it will purchase paddy from 10 out of 17 townships in Arakan State for army rations beginning January 2010...
2009-12-09
About 600 Burmese soldiers from the Military Operation Planning Bureau, or Sakhaka, 15 based in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Arakan's capital Sittwe...
2009-12-08
China believes any disagreement between Bangladesh and Burma over demarcation of sea boundaries "will be resolved", Bangladesh ruling-party Awami...
2009-12-03
The prices of Burmese timber in Bangladesh are falling with increasing exports from Burma, said a Burmese timber trader, currently in Teknaf, a...
2009-11-25
Arakanese peasants living in the remote hilly regions of western Burma's Arakan State are facing food shortages as their crops are being destroyed by...
2009-11-24
Burmese military authorities are preparing to issue green citizen cards to local Muslims living in the urban areas of Maungdaw District in western...
2009-11-19
Burmese military authorities have recently seized publicly-owned oil wells that were dug by hand and a refinery on oil-rich Rambree Island in western...
2009-11-19
The UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf have deferred further action on Burma's claim on the outer continental shelf in the Bay of...
2009-11-12
Mounting economic crisis is driving out people in Chin state, western Burma by the day, but refugees abroad continue to be windows of survival for...
2009-11-10
Nasaka, Burma's border security forces, has been collecting 2,000 kyat from each household in some villages in Maungdaw Township in order to fund...
2009-11-05
U Oo Bo Thein, Chairman of the Rakhine State Chamber of Commerce and Industry, or CCI, will run in the forthcoming 2010 election in Rathidaung...
2009-11-05
The UNHCR in Bangladesh held a two-day meeting with urban Burmese refugees in the border town of Cox's Bazar with the aim of improving conditions for...
2009-10-29
A local Arakanese mob attacked an office of the Aide Medicine International (AMI) in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Arakan state’s capital Sittwe, on...
2009-10-21
The border guard forces of Bangladesh and Burma will hold a flag meeting on Wednesday in the Burmese border town of Maungdaw with the aim of easing...

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