Dhaka agrees to combat drugs, terrorism at border.

MYANMAR TIMES
HTOO THANT | 10 APR 2019

Major General Shafeenul Islam, director general of the Border Guard Bangladesh, second from left, and Brigadier General Myo Than, chief of the Police General Staff, left, shake hands during a briefing in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. Photo - EPA

Myanmar and Bangladesh will cooperate to combat narcotics and terrorists along their border, according to a joint statement issued after the sixth Myanmar-Bangladesh border guard forces meeting in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday.

“Matters of mutual benefit were discussed at the meeting, and both sides agreed to cooperate in those sectors,” said police Brigadier General Myo Than, who led the Myanmar delegation at the meeting a day earlier. 

HRW to Bangladesh: Give Rohingya Children Formal Schooling.

RADIO FREE ASIA
2019-04-02

yasmin, a Rohingya who was expelled from Leda High School for being a child of a refugee, helps her younger sister to study in Leda camp in Teknaf, Bangladesh, March 5, 2019.

Reuters

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Bangladesh to offer Rohingya refugees formal secondary education, saying school officials in the southeast had expelled scores of Rohingya children because they lacked citizenship papers although they were born inside the country.

Myanmar -- investors should be cautious but take the risk.

         NIKKEI

ASIAN REVIEW

MARCH 27, 2019

If government pursues humanitarian agenda, foreign partners can back projects, even in Rakhine State.

Simon Tay

Aung San Suu Kyi told investors that "much of Rakhine's economic potential still remains untapped." © Reuters

A humanitarian crisis that has been brewing at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh since 2016 is reaching a critical point. At Cox's Bazar, just inside Bangladesh, an estimated 740,000 displaced Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine State are encamped in temporary shelters, hoping that the international community will take them in as refugees or facilitate their safe return to the homes they claim in Myanmar.

Eight Buddhist families return to Myanmar from Bangladesh border.

bdnews24.com
Bandarban Correspondent
Published: 11 Feb 2019

          Eight of the 38 Buddhist families from Myanmar, who took refuge at the border with Bangladesh a week ago, have returned home

The 28 people returned on Sunday and the others also said they would return gradually, Colonel Zahirul Haque, commander of Border Guard Bangladesh or BGB in Bandarban, told bdnews24.com.