Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Islam religious of Muslim is facing trouble in performs of religious duty within this month while non-Islam religious are enjoying their religious water festival (Thingyan) in Maungdaw, said an elder from Maungdaw.
SYDNEY: Australia said Monday it will lift sanctions against Myanmar's president and more than 200 others who are currently under travel and financial bans, after a series of reforms in the past year. However, some 130 names will remain on the restricted list, including senior members of the military and others suspected of human rights abuses, Foreign Minister Bob Carr told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Construction of a Muslim mosque in Kachin state's jade-rich Hpakant township in northern Burma ceased on April 12 when a group of monks and their supporters intervened and proceeded to dismantle the partially built structure. According to eyewitnesses a group of about 30 monks and dozens of their followers came to the construction site in the Shan Kone quarter of Seng Tawng at 4 pm demanding that building stop.