University hails Japan for helping empower Asian women

The Japan News
March 16, 2019

By Ikuko Higuchi / Japan News Staff Writer Japan was hailed by the Asian University for Women’s vice chancellor, Prof. Nirmala Rao, for helping make such a success of the university at an AUW fundraising event at the Tokyo American Club in the capital’s Minato Ward on Thursday.

“The first support group (for the university) was Japan’s, and it makes the largest contribution,” said Prof. Rao in her speech at the event. “Today, 38 percent of AUW’s entire budget comes from Japan.”

According to Prof. Rao, more than 800 students of 17 countries and 35 ethnicities, including Rohingya refugees who fled from violence in Myanmar, are currently enrolled at AUW. The majority of the students, 72 percent, are on full scholarship from the university, funded by foundations and businesses in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Biotech firm, WFP team up for Rohingya

The Japan News

8:17 pm, February 26, 2019

                                                            Courtesy of Euglena Co.
                    Workers harvest mung beans in Bangladesh, cultivating the vegetable with the help of Euglena GG.

The Yomiuri Shimbun

A Tokyo-based biotechnology venture, Euglena Co., has formed a business tie-up with the World Food Program to introduce a cultivation technique for mung beans to Bangladesh and deliver the beans to Rohingya Muslims who have fled to the country.

Japan to give $32.5m for Rohingyas

The Daily Star

February 26, 2019

In this AFP file photo taken on November 26, 2017, Rohingya refugees walk down a hillside in the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

 

Japan has decided to give US $32.5 million for the Rohingya refugees sheltered in Bangladesh due to persecution in Myanmar.

Japanese government took the decision for additional support to the refugees on February 7, said a press release of Japan embassy in Dhaka.

Japan to continue to support Bangladesh on Rohingya issue.

bdnews24.com
20 Feb 2019 02:00 AM BdST

Japan will continue its support to Bangladesh in its bilateral efforts to repatriate Rohingyas to Myanmar.

Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshiko Abe said this during official talks with his Bangladesh counterpart Md Shahriar Alam in Dhaka on Tuesday.

He is paying a two-day visit to reiterate Japan’s efforts in resolving Rohingya crisis, the foreign ministry said.

Issues of bilateral relations were also discussed.

Japan aid for Bangladeshi farmers, Rohingyas

Japan today contributed US $5 million to support Bangladeshi smallholder farmers and Rohingya community sheltered in the country.

The country has signed an agreement with United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), said a press release issued from WFP in Dhaka.

( 25.08.2018 ) Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on 25 August 2018, in Tatebayashi Japan

Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day on 25 August 2018, in Tatebayashi Japan.We ,BRAJ thanks a lot to all participants for your solidarity with us.specially thanks to Mr.Zaw Min Htut & his children.
Thank you very much.