'Rohingyas living in KSA to get passports'

THE ASIAN AGE 

Salman Farshi, AA
13 January 2021 

55 thousand Rohingyas who have gone to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) will get Bangladeshi passports. Saudi Arabia has requested Bangladesh government to issue passports to these Rohingyas. Foreign Minister Dr. AK Abdul Momen conveyed this information on Tuesday. He further said that it is a wrong information that Saudi Arabia wants to send these Rohingyas back to Bangladesh.A great number of Rohingyas migrated to Saudi Arabia during the 70s and 80s. These Rohingyas will stay in Saudi Arabia, Dr. AK Abdul Momen stated. Saudi Arabia will only send back 452 Rohingyas who are inside prison in that country. 

Bangladesh hands Myanmar list of 230,000 more Rohingya refugees for repatriation

bdnews24.com 

Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com
Published: 12 Jan 2021

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The government has handed a list of 230,000 more Rohingya refugees to Myanmar for repatriation to their homeland in Rakhine State.


Delwar Hossain, the director general of the foreign ministry’s Myanmar wing, said on Tuesday that he gave the list to the Myanmar ambassador in Dhaka on Monday.

In six phases, including the latest one, Bangladesh has handed lists of 830,000 Rohingya to Myanmar, which has verified only 42,000 refugees, but the repatriation has not begun.

CORRECTED-Senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi visits Myanmar in SE Asia tour, promises vaccines

REUTERS

Healthcare

Sam Aung Moon
January 11, 2021

YANGON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed closer cooperation with Myanmar and promised vaccines against COVID-19, state-run television said on Monday, after he arrived on the first stop of a five-day tour of Southeast Asia.

Wang met President Win Myint and Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto head of the government whose National League for Democracy (NLD) was returned to power in November with a second successive landslide election victory.

King Salman centre distributes food baskets among Rohingyas

NEWAGE

Staff Correspondent
Published: Jan 12,2021

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre continues to distribute food baskets among Rohingya at Ukhia in Cox’s Bazar.

The centre is set to distribute 15,000 baskets among the refugees in support of the 2020 rapid response plan for the refugee crisis, said a press release.

The Muslim World League is distributing the food baskets, containing basic necessities.

The food baskets are being distributed as an extension of the previous projects that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been implementing through the King Salman Relief Centre.

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Myanmar’s lack of cordiality preventing Rohingya repatriation: FM

theindepedent 

UNB, Rangamati
12 January, 2021

Covid-19 vaccination in Bangladesh might start with India, he says 

Rohingya repatriation could not be started because of the lack of cordiality of the Myanmar government, Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen said Monday.

“Not a single Rohingya could be repatriated in the last three and a half years as Myanmar brought up one issue after the other,” he told reporters in Rangamati after inaugurating Bangabandhu Adventure Festival marking the birth centenary of Bangladesh’s founding father.

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya men, women and children fled to Bangladesh from their homeland in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after the military launched a brutal offensive targeting the mainly Muslim ethnic minority.

Probe into Japan beer firm's links to Myanmar rights abuses 'inconclusive'

 MYANMAR TIMES

AFP
11 JAN 2021

A customer picks up a can of Kirin beer at a liquor shop Tokyo, 19 January 19, 2009. Photo: EPA-EFE

 

Japanese beer giant Kirin said Thursday an investigation into whether money from its joint ventures with the Myanmar military had funded rights abuses was "inconclusive".

Myanmar stands accused of genocide at the UN's top court after a brutal 2017 crackdown by the military forced 750,000 northern Rakhine Muslims to flee to refugee camps in Bangladesh.

 

After mounting pressure from rights groups and UN investigators, Kirin Holdings last year asked consultancy group Deloitte to determine how the money from its business tie-ups with Myanmar military-owned breweries had been used.

"Unfortunately, the assessment was inconclusive as a result of Deloitte being unable to access sufficient information required to make a definitive determination," Kirin said.

It is "wholly unacceptable" for any proceeds from the joint ventures to be used for military purposes, its statement added.

Rape of 15-year-old – Rohingya men out on bail

FMT
January 12, 2021

Shah Alam High Court judge finds no grounds to deny the two men bail.

 

SHAH ALAM: The High Court here today allowed bail for two Rohingya men who are charged with raping a 15-year-old girl.

Judicial Commissioner Norsharidah Awang ordered Mohammad Hassan Mohammad Rafik and Mohd Ali Hossain Odi Rahman to post bail of RM15,000 each with two Malaysians to stand surety.

She also ordered the two to report to the nearest police station on the first week of the month.

Norsharidah, who heard the matter by way of a revision, said she did not find in the notes of evidence of the Sessions Court judge any grounds to deny them bail. 

 

Woman killed, eight others injured in Minbya artillery explosion

Narinjara News,
11 January 2021 

 A 40-year-old woman was killed and eight other persons were injured in an artillery explosion at Spar Htar village under Minbya township of Rakhine State.

The village administrator confirmed that the incident took place yesterday afternoon where Daw Hla Than Nwe lost her life.

“Hla Than Nwe died on the spot. Out of the eight injured individuals, five were taken to Mrauk-U hospital with serious wounds. Others were sent to Myaungbwe station hospital. Some children also sustained injuries in the explosion,” added the village administrator.

The artillery shell was picked up by a villager from inside the forest and it got exploded when he hammered on it. Many villagers were looking at him during the incident. The shell exploded at around 1:35 pm.

Fleeing Rohingya recaptured after mystery escape

Bangkok Post 

11 Jan 2021

Nujaree Raekrun

District officials and police check a room in Chien Yai district of Nakhon Si Thammarat where three Rohingya women were detained on Saturday and escaped from on Sunday. (Photo by Nujaree Raekrun) 

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Three Rohingya women were re-arrested on Monday after mysteriously escaping from a room where they had been detained.

Chien Yai district chief Kittipong Rongdet said on Monday the three women were apprehended by police in Cha-uat district on Sunday night, along with a Rohingya man he described as a "middle man". All were sent back to Chien Yai for interrogation, he added.

Momen: Myanmar’s lack of sincerity delaying Rohingya repatriation

Dhaka Tribune  

Anwar Hussain, Chittagong
January 10th, 2021

The only solution to the crisis is taking back the forcibly displaced people, says the foreign minister

Reiterating Myanmar was not sincere about taking back the Rohingyas, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says that talks over the matter have resumed after it was stalled due to the pandemic and national elections in the neighbouring country.

Speaking at an event in Chittagong on Sunday, Momen, however, said that he was optimistic about the repatriation initiative, but was not sure when it would start.

The foreign minister made the remarks while speaking at a book launching ceremony held at the Chittagong Press Club.

At the event, two books by former ambassador to Myanmar Maj (retd) Md Emdadul Islam published by Prothoma Prakashan and Kharimati were unveiled.

Gunfight kills one person, injures 10 in Bangladesh in Rohingya refugee

MENAFN 

Date 1/10/2021 

(MENAFN)According to an official and sources, on Sunday, at least one Rohingya refugee was killed and 10 others wounded in a gunfight amid two rival factions in Cox's Bazar, a sprawling refugee camp in Bangladesh.

According to Anadolu Agency, Mahbub Alam Talukder, Bangladesh’s refugee relief and repatriation commissioner stated that, "Some rival groups among Rohingya refugees are involved in a power struggle."

It further declared that dead has been identified as 30-year-old Nur Hakim, and his body has been sent for autopsy.

They also stated, the wounded have been shifted to a camp-based medical facility run by Save the Children. 

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19 Rohingya held in Bangkok for illegal entry

Bangkok Post 

9 Jan 2021 

Seven test positive for Covid after raid in Don Muang district raises new concerns about human trafficking

A picture taken by the Immigration Bureau on Jan 3 and released on Saturday shows immigration officers watching over a group of Rohingya migrants who were arrested in Don Muang district of Bangkok after being smuggled overland from Rakhine state in Myanmar. (Immigration Bureau handout via AFP)
 

Nineteen Rohingya migrants have been arrested in Bangkok for illegal entry to Thailand and a Thai woman accused of housing them has also been detained, police said on Saturday.

The arrests have raised concerns about trafficking routes for the Muslim minority fleeing Myanmar, at a time when illegal migrants from that country have been linked to a second wave of coronavirus infections accross Thailand.