ICJသို႔သြားေရာက္ေျဖရွင္းမည့္ကိစၥ ေထာက္ခံရာ၌ ဘာသာ ေရး၊ လူမ်ိဳးေရး အဓိက႐ုဏ္းသတိထားရန္ ေဒါက္တာမ်ိဳး ညြန္႔ ေျပာ

ၿမန္မာတိုင္းမ္ေန႔စဥ္
စြမ္းရဲထြဋ္
24 NOV 2019

NLD ပါတီ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ ေဒါက္တာမ်ိဳးညြန္႔။

နိုင္ငံေတာ္၏အတိုင္ပင္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္  ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ICJ သို႔ သြားေရာက္ေျဖရွင္းသည့္လုပ္ရပ္ကို ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရာတြင္ ဘာသာေရးႏွင့္လူမ်ိဳးေရး အဓိက႐ုဏ္း မ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚနိုင္၍ သတိထား ေရွာင္ရွား ရန္လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း  NLD ပါတီ ေျပာ ေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ ေဒါက္တာမ်ိဳးညြန္႔က ေျပာသည္။

နိုဝင္ဘာ ၂၃ ရက္က ေနျပည္ေတာ္ စည္ပင္သာယာေရးေကာ္မတီ ဧည့္ရိပ္ သာတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ NLD ပါတီ၏ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အစည္းအေဝး အၿပီး ယင္းသို႔ ေျပာျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္အေနျဖင့္ ေကာ့ခ္ဘဇားရွိစခန္းမ်ားတြင္ အာ ဆာအၾကမ္းဖက္အုပ္စုမ်ား တည္ရွိေနျခင္းအေပၚ မ်က္ကြယ္ မျပဳသင့္ဟု ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီးဦးေက်ာ္တင္ တုံ႔ျပန္

ၿမန္မာတိုင္းမ္ေန႔စဥ္
မင္း၀ႆန္
26 Oct 2019

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံအေနျဖင့္ ေကာ့ခ္ဘဇား ရွိ စခန္းမ်ားတြင္ အာဆာအၾကမ္းဖက္အုပ္စု မ်ားတည္ရွိေနျခင္း ကို မ်က္ကြယ္မျပဳသင့္ ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာအစိုးရက ေျပာၾကားသည္။

ျပန္လည္တုံ႔ျပန္ေျပာၾကား

အဇာဘိုင္ဂ်န္နိုင္ငံ ဘာကူးၿမိဳ႕၌ က်င္းပ လ်က္ရွိသည့္ ဘက္မလိုက္လႈပ္ရွားမႈအဖြဲ႕၏ (၁၈) ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ထိပ္သီးအစည္းအေဝး အႀကိဳ ဝန္ႀကီးအဆင့္ႀကိဳတင္ျပင္ဆင္ေရး အစည္းအေဝးတြင္ ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၂၃ ရက္၌ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္အေရးကိစၥႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး၏ ေျပာဆို ခ်က္အေပၚ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေက်ာ္တင္က ျပန္လည္ တုံ႔ျပန္ေျပာ ၾကားရာတြင္ ထိုသို႔ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

Kaladan project’s port and river terminal completed

MYANMAR TIMES

Chan Mya Htwe  

12 Jul 2019

Rakhine ethnic people sit in their moored boats on the Kalander River near Sittwe Market in Sittwe, Rakhine State. Photo - EPA

The construction of Sittwe’s sea-port and the inland water terminal in Paletwa has been completed, the Indian embassy said in a July 9 statement in Yangon.
The sea-port and water terminal forms part of the US$484 million Kaladan multi-modal transit transport project that would link Kolkata in India to Sittwe in Rakhine State and then link Sittwe via a river route to Paletwa in Chin State and from Paletwa by road to Zorinpui in India’s northeastern state of Mizoram.

Rights group urges Arakan Army to release 54 civilians

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung  

01 May 2019

A human rights group in Chin State has called on the Arakan Army (AA) to release 54 ethnic Khumi people it seized more than three months ago.

The Khumi Affairs Coordination Council said the civilians were arrested by AA fighters at Kangtlang village in Paletwa township in Chin on February 2 and taken to the armed ethnic group’s base in Bangladesh in February.

It said the captives were forced to work at the camp and were not properly fed. It added that the families of the civilians were afraid for their health.

Arakan Army’s allies threaten to join fight against Tatmadaw

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung  

29 Apr 2019

Some of the villagers displaced by the fighting. Nyan Lynn Aung/The Myanmar Times

Two armed ethnic groups allied to the Arakan Army (AA) have threatened to join the fight against the Tatmadaw (military) if the fighting escalates, according to a statement by the groups.

Northern Rakhine refugees resist relocation to Bangladesh island.

MYANMAR TIMES
KYODO | 24 APR 2019

Bangladesh is facing a dilemma over the planned transfer of thousands of Muslims from northern Rakhine State crowded into makeshift camps along the country’s border with Myanmar to an uninhabited island in the Bay of Bengal.

To ease social, economic, environmental and internal security hazards, the government plans to relocate nearly 100,000 refugees from the camps in Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, which is about an hour by motor boat from the nearest shore.

Autonomy must come before peace, Arakan Army leader says

MYANMAR TIMES  

Chan Thar  

Monday, April 22, 2019

The Arakan Army is giving more weight to its struggle for self-determination rather than achieving peace in strife-torn Rakhine State, a senior leader of the group said.

Major General Tun Myat Naing, chief of staff of the Arakan Army (AA), told reporters on the sidelines of the 30th anniversary of peace in Wa State in Panghsang city that peace will not come by only praying.

“It is true we want peace. However, for Rakhine people, the right to self-determination is more important. If we get it, peace will automatically follow,” he said.

Authorities quell unrest at Sittwe prison in Rakhine

MYANMAR TIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung  

22 Apr 2019

Prison authorities and police have quelled unrest at Sittwe prison in Rakhine State, apparently caused by some inmates upset that they had been left out of the president’s annual amnesty, a police official said on Sunday.

Local residents rushed to the prison late Saturday after hearing gunfire inside its compound.

Civilians hit by Rakhine fighting

MYANMAR TIMES
  Chan Thar 29 Mar 2019

More than 50 civilians have been killed or are missing due to fighting between the Tatmadaw (military) and Arakan Army (AA) in Rakhine State, according to an investigation by the Arakan National Party (ANP).
Led by ANP Vice Chair Daw Aye Nu Sein, a nine-member commission set up on March 20 investigated the fighting in Buthidaung, Rathedaung, Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U and Minbya townships.

ASEAN humanitarian officials set to visit Maungdaw

MYANMARTIMES

Nyan Lynn Aung 08 Feb 2019

Refugees from fighting in Rakine State wait for food rations. Nyan Lynn Aung/The Myanmar Times

 

Officials from the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre) will visit northern Rakhine State, a local government official said on Thursday.

Yanghee Lee welcomes move to amend charter.

The Myanmar Times.
JOHN GRAFILO | 08 FEB 2019

                                                                   Yanghee Lee speaks at a press conference in Dhaka last month. Photo - EPA

Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, on Thursday welcomed the establishment of a parliamentary committee to amend the country’s controversial 2008 Constitution.

Policy reforms depend on good implementation, UMFCCI says.

The Myanmar Times.

JOHN LIU | 30 JAN 2019

Delegates attend the opening ceremony of Invest Myanmar Summit 2019 at the Myanmar International Convention Centre (MICC) in Nay Pyi Taw. Photo - EPA

Myanmar’s largest business lobby group suggested that the government should focus on improving policy implementation and that further liberalisation is necessary for attracting investments.

Development to continue in Rakhine economic zones

                          Rakhine ethnic people in Kyauk Taw Township, northern Rakhine State. Photo - EPA

The Rakhine State government is moving ahead with economic development plans for the northern part of the state.

State official say the plans will involve the Kanyin Chaung Economic Zone, Pone Nar Kyun Industrial Zone and livestock and agriculture zones in northern Rakhine.

Govt orders crackdown on Arakan Army.

The Myanmar Times.
HTOO THANT, NYAN LYNN AUNG 

21st JAN 2019

State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has ordered a crackdown on the Arakan Army (AA), said U Zaw Htay, director general and spokesperson of the President’s Office.

“Acts that affect peace and public security go against the rule of law. The government will take counter-insurgency actions in such incidents,” U Zaw Htay told the media at the Presidential Palace on Saturday.

Court indicts four Arakan youths in slaying of Tatmadaw corporal

NAW BETTY HAN 16 JAN 2019

 

The Sittwe Court has charged four youths with the murder of a soldier in Rakhine State, a lawyer for the accused said.

The court indicted the suspects on Monday in the killing of Corporal Phoe Lone, lawyer U Tun Aung Kyaw said.

Villagers escape armed group

MYAT MOE THU 16 JAN 2019

Three men who had been forcibly recruited by the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) escaped on January 9, according to the head of Kyan Kyar Kyaing village in Kunlone township, northern Shan State.

The village head was among those who escaped.

Foreign Ministry continues ban on UN Special Rapporteur Lee.

NYAN LYNN AUNG 15 JAN 2019,

THE government said it would not rescind its ban on UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee from entering Myanmar, despite her recent request, a Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

KNU, RCSS must make clear timeframe for suspension of talks

AUNG NAING OO | 11 JAN 2019

A friend who follows the peace process from afar wrote to me recently and asked, “Is Myanmar trying to keep a ceasefire that may no longer exist soon?”

His comment came following the suspension of cooperation in November by the two biggest ethnic armed organisations – the Karen National Union (KNU) and Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) – that signed the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in October 2015.

Made in Myanmar

PHOE WA | 11 JAN 2019

There are great new business opportunities for vendors who partook in the Made in 

Myanmar industry event which aimed to strengthen the bonds between consumers and producers. Made in Myanmar, the brainchild of three businesswomen, invited Myanmar producers to come together and celebrate their cultural bonds and for the public to celebrate, and purchase, Myanmar cultural arts.

State Counsellor calls for support for federal union.

MARAN | 11 JAN 2019

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday called on all people in Myanmar to strive for developing a true democratic federal union, urging them not to rely on the government alone.