Pakistan’s Ambassador Kamruddin Ahmad meets Buthidaung and Maungdaw’s Muslims during the border crisis of April 1959 (Source: The Pakistan Observer, 11 August 1968, p. XIII)

 The Pakistan Observer၊ သြဂုတ် ၁၁ ၁၉၆၈ ခုနှစ်၊ စာမျက်နှာ ၁၃

၁၉၅၉ ခုနှစ် ဧပြီလ ရခိုင်နယ်စပ် အကျပ်အတည်းအတွင်း ပါကစ္စတန် သံအမတ်ကြီး Kamruddin Ahmad သည် ဘူးသီးတောင်နှင့် မောင်တောရှိ မွတ်ဆလင်များနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့ပါတယ်။

Illegal entrant tests positive for COVID-19 in Maungdaw Twsp

DMG
DMG Newsroom

11 June 2021, Maungdaw

One of 19 Muslims in Maungdaw Township who entered Arakan State illegally from Bangladesh was found to have been infected with coronavirus, according to a source from the Maungdaw District People’s Hospital.

The person has been identified as 36-year-old Mamat Taw Yup from the Balukhali refugee camp in Bangladesh. He tested positive for the virus on June 10, according to the medical superintendent of the Maungdaw District People’s Hospital, Dr. Nu Kay Thi San.

Twenty-seven returnees from Bangladesh arrive back at Reception Centre in Maungtaw

THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR
Myanmar News Agency

Date: September 30, 2019

 The returnees are seen at Nga Khu Ya Reception Centre in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State, of their own volition on 25 September. Photo: MNA

A total of 27 returnees from Bangladesh arrived back at Nga Khu Ya Reception Centre in Maungtaw Township, Rakhine State, of their own volition at 9 am on 25 September.

24-hour Electricity provides in Buthidaung of Maungdaw District, Rakhine State

Narinjara
11 Jun, 2019
Web Master

Thursday, November 01, 2018 | By Marn Yu Kyaw (Shwe Wa Myay)

Buthidaung, the town in the westernmost part of the country, has been provided electricity through national power grid for twenty-four hours starting on 30 October, according to the inhabitants. The 24-hour electric power-supplies start delivering to wards in the Buthidaung township since in the evening of 30 October, as said by U Moe Thyra who is the township electrical engineer.

Bomb blast in Maungdaw kills police and leaves three injured

Bni
Thursday, June 06, 2019
Development Media Group

                              

The accidental explosion of a bomb that occurred near the Taung Pyo (Right) bridge, killed police and left three others injured, an official from No. (1) Border Guard Force said.

Police Officer Injured in ARSA Ambush in N. Rakhine

The Irrawaddy
By The Irrawaddy
23 April 2019

A police vehicle damaged in an ARSA attack in Maungdaw, northern Rakhine State on Monday / Supplied

YANGON—In the latest in a string of attacks this year, a Myanmar police officer was injured when the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) attacked a police van transporting officers at the junction of Zeepin Chaung and Leikra villages in Maungdaw Township, northern Rakhine State, on Monday morning.

Increased number of Migrant workers in Maungdaw

BNI Multimdia Group

Monday, April 01, 2019
Development Media Group

The number of migrant workers in Maungdaw Township’s resettlement areas has been increasing, and most of them are from Ayeyarwady, Bago and Yangon Regions as well as Myanmar’s administrative city Nay Pyi Taw.

Myanmar police seize massive haul of meth pills

Mail Online

  By Afp

Published: 06:25, 4 March 2019

Myanmar is believed to be the world's biggest producer of crystal meth, as evidenced by this $45 million haul seized in Bangkok in 2018

Myanmar authorities seized more than 10 million meth pills worth $13.3 million over the weekend, police said Monday, another massive haul in a country widely believed to be the world's largest methamphetamine producer.

High-grade crystal meth -- or 'ice' -- is smuggled out of Myanmar via sophisticated networks to lucrative developed markets as far away as Japan, South Korea and Australia.

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.

Freedom of movement key for refugees: envoy

Nyan Lynn Aung | 31 JAN 2019

Freedom of movement is important to rebuild trust in Rakhine State, Christine Schraner Burgener, the United Nations’ special envoy on human rights in Myanmar, said in a statement at the end of her 12-day visit to Myanmar yesterday.

“Freedom of movement is crucial for all people and their access to livelihoods. Without freedom of movement, children cannot go to local schools, and people still cannot access hospitals. It is important to rebuild trust,” Burgener said.

Bangladesh summons Myanmar ambassador again, protests baseless comments.

bdnews24.com

Published: 29 Jan 2019 08:47 PM BdST

Myanmar Ambassador Lwin Oo. File Photo

The foreign ministry has summoned the Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka to protest “fabricated and baseless” statement that Bangladeshis were involved in a terrorist attack on a police post at Maungdaw Township near the border.

 

Lwin Oo met Md Delwar Hossain, director general of the foreign ministry’s Southeast Asia wing, on Tuesday afternoon. The envoy was asked to explain “irresponsible and false” allegations by the officials of the General Administration Department of Myanmar implicating Bangladesh in the attack.

Govt Reports 2nd ARSA Attack in Northern Rakhine State This Month

A border police officer stands guard near Myanmar's border fence with Bangladesh near Taungpyo Letwea Town, Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State, in March. / Moe Myint / The Irrawaddy

By Moe Myint 24 January 2019

YANGON — Three officers were wounded by artillery shells in a two-hour assault on a police post in northern Rakhine State’s Maungdaw Township Thursday morning by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), according to the General Administration Department (GAD).

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.

UN Special Rapporteur expresses alarm at escalating conflict in Myanmar.

By agency reporter

JANUARY 22, 2019

The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar has expressed alarm at the escalating violence in northern and central Rakhine State and Chin State, and called on all sides to exercise restraints in use of force and to ensure the protection of civilians.

Since November 2018 the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, and Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic armed organisation, have been engaged in heavy fighting, resulting in deaths and injuries to civilians. At least 5,000 people have been displaced from their homes.

ARSA terrorists ambush police vehicle

 

 

 

 

 

By Mizzima,21 January 2019

 Map: MOI

 A vehicle carrying border guard police was ambushed by ARSA terrorists in Maungtaw, Rakhine State, on 16 January, and six police were injured in the attack, State media reported.

( 11.05.2018 ) ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံ နယ္နိမိတ္ စာခ်ဳပ္ပါ သတ္မွတ္ ခ်က္မ်ား ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ ရာေရာက္၍ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္သို့ တရား ၀င္ကန္႔ကြက္ ( အဂၤလိပ္ - ၿမန္မာ )

ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံ နယ္နိမိတ္စာခ်ဳပ္ပါ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မ်ား ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ရာေရာက္သည့္ သဲအိတ္ အုိဗာဟက္ပစ္က်င္းႏွင့္ ဘန္ကာမ်ား ဘဂၤလားေဒ့႐ွ္ ဘက္ျခမ္း၌ ျပဳလုပ္ထား၍ တရား၀င္ကန္႔ကြက္

ေမ ၁၁ ၊၂၀၁၈

ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံ နယ္နိမိတ္စာခ်ဳပ္ပါ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မ်ား ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ရာေရာက္သည့္ သဲအိတ္ အုိဗာဟက္ပစ္က်င္းႏွင့္ ဘန္ကာမ်ား ဘဂၤလားေဒ့႐ွ္ဘက္ျခမ္း၌ ျပဳလုပ္ထား၍ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့႐ွ္ႏုိင္ငံ သံအမတ္ႀကီး အား ေခၚယူေတြ႔ဆုံၿပီး တရား၀င္ ကန္႔ကြက္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။

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( 25.08.2018 ) Rohingya crisis, one year on: An awful past, a present in despair, and an uncertain future ( dhakatribune.com )

Aerial view of a burned Rohingya village near Maungdaw, north of Rakhine State, Myanmar on September 27, 2017 Reuters file photo

UN bodies, international rights organizations, NGOs, and Rohingya diasporas, talk to the Dhaka Tribune regarding the ongoing crisis and possible solution

One year has passed but still no headway has been made in solving the ongoing Rohingya crisis.

( 14.08.2018 ) Tallying the dead ( Dhaka Tribune )

Published at 02:58 am August 14th, 2018

The surveyors say they have not even reached 100,000 of the over one million refugees who live in the camps Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka Tribune

Armed with nothing but pen and paper, a group of Rohingya youth have set out to record the persecution of their people

( 17.07.2018 ) ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္၌ နယ္စပ္ျခံစည္းရိုး ေက်ာ္တက္ဝင္ေရာက္လာသူ ၂ ဦး ဖမ္းဆီးရမိ

ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္၌ နယ္စပ္ျခံစည္းရိုး ေက်ာ္တက္ဝင္ေရာက္လာသူ ၂ ဦး ဖမ္းဆီးရမိ

ဇူလိုင္ ၁၇၊ ၂၀၁၈

ေမာင္ေတာၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ေပါင္းဇားေခ်ာင္းဝကင္းစခန္းအနီးရွိ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္-ျမန္မာႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံ နယ္စပ္ျခံစည္းရိုး တိုင္အမွတ္ ၅၂၀ ၌ ဇူလုိင္လ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႕၊ ညေန ၄ နာရီခ်ိန္ ခန္႔တြင္ ေပါင္းဇားေက်းရြာေနထိုင္ သူမ်ား ျဖစ္ သည့္ ဒီလူး(ခ) ဒိလ္မာမတ္ (၅၅) ႏွစ္ ႏွင့္ မာမြတ္ဖာဒူ(ခ) မာမတ္ဖာရုလ္(၃၅) ႏွစ္တုိ႔ ႏွစ္ဦးသည္ နတ္ျမစ္ အား ျဖတ္ကူးၿပီး နယ္စပ္ျခံစည္းရိုးအား ေက်ာ္တက္ဝင္ေရာက္လာခဲ႔ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။