Malaysia will continue to take ethnic Rohingya issue to international forum.

Bernama.com
12/04/2019

Marzuki Yahya

PADANG BESAR, April 12 (Bernama) -- Malaysia will continue to take the issue of the ethnic Rohingyas to international forums so that they will regain their rights, said Deputy Foreign Minister Datuk Marzuki Yahya.

He said the government wants the international community to give serious attention to the problems faced by the Rohingya people who are being suppressed by the Myanmar regime.

Gas explosion kills 16 in Myanmar's remote Wa state: Wa army.

mailOnline

By AFP
24 March 2019

The self-proclaimed Wa State enjoys an unusual degree of autonomy within Myanmar and boasts the country's largest non-state army of around 30,000 soldiers

A gas explosion in a secretive enclave run by the ethnic Wa in Myanmar's eastern borderlands has killed 16 people and injured dozens, the United Wa State Army (UWSA) said Sunday.

Emergency workers could be seen trawling through debris at the explosion site in Mongmaw town in a video posted on Facebook by UWSA spokesman Nyi Rang.