Today's News (Quick Search ) January 2025

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NEWS TODAY

16.01.2025

• Address Rohingya crisis through intensified diplomatic effortsobserverbd.com
• Airstrikes Increasingly Targeting Healthcare Facilities in Arakan StateBurma News International
• Al-Ansar Super Market always has something new, something for everyoneWisconsin Muslim Journal
• Arakan crab industry eyes new markets -Narinjara News
• ASIA TODAY Gaza: Israel and Hamas within hours of ceasefire – AsiaNews
• BD to seek easier loan terms, trade support - Finance News:
• Beautician grooming for Myanmar fraud workers case adjourned to March Hong Kong Standard
• Christians' execution demanded in Bangladesh Rohingya camps Union of Catholic Asian News
• Fleeing Burma: The Human Cost of War - Asia Pacific Security Magazine
• KAZAKHSTAN Kazakh Islam and the return of Jinn superstitions – AsiaNews
• Mizoram police foil arms smuggling from Myanmar to Bangladesh, 5 arrested Hindustan Times
• Myanmar four years after the coup – Analysis Eurasia Review
• Myanmar insurgents say they launched rocket attack on junta deputy -Radio Free Asia
• Myanmar junta airstrikes in Hpakant Township claim civilian lives, injure manyBurma News International
• Myanmar Junta Conducts Airstrikes in Two Areas of Karenni StateBurma News International
• Myanmar Junta Frantically Bolsters Defenses Near Ayeyarwady Beach TownThe Irrawaddy
• Myanmar Junta Pushes Key Chinese Projects in Rakhine Despite Looming AA Threat The Irrawaddy
• Myanmar's Escalating Crisis: A Year in Review and the Road Ahead |United States Institute of Peace
• Pope appeals for aid to Myanmar's Kachin State after landslide - Vatican News
• Protest against Rohingya human trafficking Sri Lanka Daily Mirror
• 'Repeating Lies Exposes Dishonesty': Hardeep Puri Hits Back at Kejriwal Over Rohingya ...MSN
• Rohingya refugees face deadly gang violence in Bangladesh camps - Focus -France 24
• Russia sold six Su-30s for ‘six live elephants’, a source said Bulgarian Military News
• Thai National Security Council Secretary-General reaffirms commitment to rescuing victims in Myanmar Lanka Business Online
• Three cargo vessels destroyed by fire at Kyauktaw jetty -Narinjara
• Villagers protest urban development project near Mandalay Myanmar Now
• What Trump 2 means for the Rohingya crisis? - Pakistan Today

New Light of Myanmar ( English Newspaper ) January 2025

Global New Light of Myanmar

January '2025

16.01.2025 

Joint Press Statement on the Human Rights and Humanitarian Situation in Myanmar

U.S Department of State

Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
January 6, 2025

The text of the following joint statement was released by the High Representative on behalf of the European Union and the Governments of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, Timor-Leste, and the United Kingdom to address the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Myanmar.

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Two boats with more than 260 Rohingya refugees arrives in Indonesia’s coast

AP
By RAHMAT MIRZA and EDNA TARIGAN
January 6, 2025

LHOKSEUMAWE, Indonesia (AP) — More than 260 weak and hungry Rohingya refugees, mostly women and children, have landed in Indonesia in two boats, officials said Monday.

Over 200 Rohingya arrive in Indonesia over weekend, official says | REUTERS Reuters

REUTERS
Monday, 06 January 2025

More than 200 Rohingya people arrived by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh province. The mainly Muslim Rohingya have fled violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and constitute the world’s largest stateless population. 

 

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Over 200 Rohingya refugees arrive in Indonesia by boat, officials say

Amu TV
Siyar Sirat
January 6, 2025 

More than 200 Rohingya refugees arrived by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh Province over the weekend, local officials said on Monday, amid a growing number of maritime arrivals by the stateless population in Southeast Asia.

Rohingyas’ return to Myanmar uncertain, despite rebel control of Bangladesh border

mizzima
January 6, 2025 

RFA

The dream of returning home to Myanmar remains uncertain for hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh despite rebel control of the border, members of the ethnic group said Friday.

Malaysia ramps up patrols after Myanmar migrant boat landings on Langkawi

malay mail 

Friday, 03 Jan 2025 8:00 PM MYT

Rohingya refugees waiting to be rescued as their vessel approaches Aceh last year. — AFP pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 — Malaysia’s coastguard said on Friday it was doubling patrols in its waters to locate boats carrying undocumented Myanmar migrants, after almost 200 were detained on an island in the northwestern Malaysian state of Kedah.

MMEA Intensifies Patrols To Intercept Myanmar Immigrant Boats Heading Towards Langkawi

BERNAMA
03/01/2025 

ALOR SETAR, Jan 3 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) is intensifying patrols to intercept two boats carrying Myanmar illegal immigrants reported to be heading towards Langkawi.

Cops arrest 196 Rohingya at Langkawi beach

Bernama
Published: Jan 3, 2025

Credit: PDRM

ALOR SETAR, Jan 3 (Bernama) -- Police have confirmed having arrested 196 ethnic Rohingya who landed at Teluk Yu Beach in Langkawi early today.

Langkawi police chief ACP Shariman Ashari said the authorities received information from a member of the public at around 3.25 am, saying that a group of foreigners had landed at the beach.

Threadbare facilities, high mortality, cats in the corridors: the realities of life for new Rohingya mothers in Cox’s Bazar

The Guardian
Rebecca Root in Cox's Bazar
Thu 2 Jan 2025

Midwife Sumana Akter checks on a newborn baby inside the Friendship hospital in a Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar. In some areas of the camp, maternal mortality is 44% higher than the Bangladesh average Photographs by Thomas Cristofoletti/Ruom for the Guardian

In the world’s largest refugee site, a lack of healthcare coupled with rising gang violence makes the journey to motherhood a perilous one

It is mid-afternoon on a Wednesday and Toyoba Begum, 37, is sitting upright at the end of her hospital bed, the second in a row of eight. Dressed in a beige tunic and canary yellow trousers, a belly recovery belt clasped around her stomach, she watches her two-day-old daughter sleeping under a fleece blanket.

Today's News (Quick Search ) December, 2024

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NEWS TODAY

31.12.2024. 

• After 2024 setbacks, junta forces now control less than half of Myanmar Radio Free Asia
• Arrest Hardeep Puri for having Rohingya infiltrators settled in Delhi: Kejriwal Deccan
• AA fighters arrest 7 more junta soldiers from Ah Lel Than Kyaw after fleeing from NaKhaKha-5Narinjara News
• Addressing the Arakan Army: Bangladesh Should Focus On Myanmar's New Reality – OpEdEurasia Review
• Analysis: Myanmar Conflict - Rise Of Arakan Army And Implications for India – NDTV
• Arakan Army signals openness to dialogue as it takes 14th Rakhine State town- Myanmar Now
• Arrest Hardeep Singh Puri': Arvind Kejriwal's big charge over Rohingyas against the Union MinisterThe Economic Times
• Bangladesh in touch with both Myanmar govt and Arakan Army: Bangladesh Home Adviser DD News
• Bangladesh, the Rohingya and the new reality in Rakhine |Frontier Myanmar
• China charges Burmese syndicate suspects with murder, fraud -Anadolu Ajansı
• Dhaka discusses upcoming Rohingya conference with UNGA President Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
• Drugs, scams and sin: Myanmar’s war has made it the global crime capital Herald
• Delhi election campaign heats up issue of 'illegal migrants', worrying Rohingya refugeesAsia News Network
• Fleeing Myanmar, Rohingya refugees recall horror of war –Mizzima
• Greenhills Mall implements 'precautionary measures' vs coronavirus |ABS-CBN
• Hardeep Singh Puri hits back at Arvind Kejriwal over Rohingya settlements row | Times of India
• Implications of the Fall of Myanmar's Western Command - Geopolitical Monitor
• Look after those refugees - The Island
• Myanmar's Arkan Army takes a major town, says ready for talks - Radio Free Asia
• Myanmar's War Has Made It the Global Crime Capital - The New York Times
• Mount Popa closed to public following resistance raid on junta base Myanmar Now
• Myanmar announces provisional population figures for 2024 census People's Daily
• Myanmar: The fall of Rakhine; imperatives for IndiaVivekananda International Foundation
• Myanmar's shadow government loses clout as China deepens involvement Nikkei Asian Review
• Police rescue 66 Rohingyas, arrest 5 human traffickers from Teknaf Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha
• Puri, Kejriwal trade barbs over Rohingya settlement in Delhi -The Hindu
• Rojava and the Rohingya: fearful symmetry - CounterVortexCounterVortex
• U.S. Embassy Yangon American Center Yangon (ACY) Small Grants CompetitionU.S. Embassy in Burma
• Union Minister Hardeep Puri Accuses AAP of Aiding Rohingya Immigrants – YouTube
• The Czech Republic’s shifting support for Myanmar’s democracy East Asia Forum
• Than Kyaw after fleeing from NaKhaKha-5Narinjara News

• "They need to tell if these are refugees or infiltrators": Congress' Pawan Khera slams BJP over 'Rohingya' settlement issue AniNews.in

New Light of Myanmar ( English Newspaper ) December 2024

Global New Light of Myanmar

December '2024

31.12.2024  

Tormentors Change, but Not the Torment

The NewYork Times
By Hannah Beech
Photographs by Adam Ferguson
Reporting from Teknaf, Bangladesh
Dec. 28, 2024 

 Rohingya refugees Shamshida, 25, left, and Manwara, 19, in their tent in Teknaf, Bangladesh. 

Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of the junta’s most formidable rivals in the country’s civil war.

Act now to secure a future for Rohingyas

The Daily Star
Hasina Rahman, Adnan Junaid
Thu Dec 26, 2024

More than 30 percent of Rohingya refugees are young people, packed with untapped energy and potential. FILE PHOTO: REUTER

Recently, we travelled to Cox's Bazar, where around one million Rohingya refugees live in 33 congested camps. Among them are hundreds of thousands of children—more than 50 percent of the population—whose lives have been confined to these camps. These children have no memory of their homeland and are growing up without the basic rights every child deserves: education, safety, freedom, and opportunities for a brighter future.

Genocide Emergency: Rohingya in Maungdaw, Myanmar

Genocide Watch
26 December 2024  

Imagery verified by CNN shows the aftermath of an attack on the western edge of Maungdaw township’s Myo Ma ward.

GENOCIDE EMERGENCY:
MAUNGDAW, RAKHINE STATE, MYANMAR
DECEMBER 2024

Rohingya’s call for justice, equality, peaceful coexistence and inclusive governance in Arakan

J O I N T   S T A T E M E N T

December 23, 2024

 

Rohingya’s call for justice, equality, peaceful coexistence and inclusive governance in Arakan

 

The Arakan Army (AA) has taken control of Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships in Northern Arakan/Rakhine State. The majority of the remaining 500,000 Rohingya are still living in the territory controlled by the AA. The AA controls the entire border with Bangladesh.

 

During decades of military rule, the people of Arakan State, including the Rohingya, have yearned for freedom. With the Arakan Army now in control of the territory, it bears the responsibility to fulfill that aspiration. We urge the Arakan Army and its political wing, the United League of Arakan, to uphold and respect the rights of the Rohingya and all ethnic and religious minorities in Arakan State.

 

Rohingya camp fire in Bangladesh kills 2, destroys shelters

MIDDLE EAST MONITOR
December 24, 2024

 

A massive fire in the Rohingya Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. [twitter/x@UNICEFBD] 

A massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, killing at least two people and destroying over 1,000 shelters and other structures, rights activists and the UN refugee agency said today.

The fire, which lasted two hours, broke out at the Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Ukhiya in the southeastern Cox’s Bazar district.

Rohingya rights activist Ro Nay San Lwin said: “At least two refugees, including a child, tragically lost their lives.”

Rohingya camp fire in Bangladesh kills 2, destroys shelters

AA
Anadolu staff
24.12.2024

Fire breaks out at Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Ukhiya area of southeastern Cox’s Bazar district

FILE PHOTO

A massive fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, killing at least two people and destroying over 1,000 shelters and other structures, rights activists and the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

Arakan Army is also killing and torturing Rohingya, says leaders at rally

bdnew24.com
Cox's Bazar Correspondent
Published : 26 Dec 2024,

Rohingya leaders call for international intervention to ensure safe return, as over 60,000 flee to Bangladesh camps

Rohingya refugees, who fled Myanmar to escape persecution and genocide, have called for their return to their homeland, describing their life in Bangladesh as that of "birds in a cage”.