The Stateless Rohingya Blog

  A portion of the Namtu River that locals claim has been destroyed by the pipeline project. (Photo provided by Kawli Media) The construction of a gas pipeline connecting western Burma’s Arakan state and southern China’s Yunnan province has disrupted a local river and destroyed farmland.

Burma (MNN) ― At a meeting this coming Monday, the European Union is expected to suspend sanctions on Burma for one year. Burma has made several steps toward democracy in recent months, including allowing opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi a seat in parliament. (Photo courtesy of The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

By  Zin Linn Several ethnic politicians feel uneasy as they have to accept news on sanction lifting even though they did not have the same opinion. In fact, sanction is a sign of force that give confidence to the powerless, especially ethnic minorities who have been fighting for equal opportunity since 1948.

Rangoon ( Mizzima ) – Leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) submitted a letter of appeal to Burmese President Thein Sein on Friday to try to resolve the dispute over a parliamentary oath, which the NLD opposes.

ရန္ကုန္၊ ခ်င္းမိုင္ (မဇၥ်ိမ) ။ ။ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား က်မ္းသစၥာ က်ိန္ဆိုရမည့္စာသား ျပင္ဆင္ရန္ ညွိႏိႈင္း မရေသးပါက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအဝင္ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ NLD မွ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားသည္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အစည္းအေဝးမ်ားကို တက္ေရာက္ဦးမည္ မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း NLD က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။

ဂျပန်စီး​ပွား​ေရး​ လုပ်ငန်း​ရှင်​ေတွကို ြမန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ လာ​ေရာက် ရင်း​နှီး​ြမှုပ်နှံြကဖို့​ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ ​ေရာက်​ေနတဲ့​ သမ္မတ ဦး​သိန်း​စိန်က ဖိတ်​ေခါ်လိုက်ပါတယ်။ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံ တိုကျိုြမို့​မှာ ဒီ​ေန့​ စတင်ကျင်း​ပတဲ့​ ဂျပန်နဲ့​ မဲ​ေခါင်​ေဒသတွင်း​ နိုင်ငံ​ေတွရဲ့​ စီး​ပွား​ေရး​ ရင်း​နှီး​ြမှုပ်နှံမှုဆိုင်ရာ ၄ ြကိမ်​ေြမာက် ထိပ်သီး​ အစည်း​အ​ေဝး​မှာ သမ္မတဦး​ သိန်း​စိန်က ​ေြပာလိုက်တာပါ။

( Mizzima ) – Hundreds Rohingya men, women and children from Burma are living virtually on the doorstep of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at Vasant Vihar, India, seeking refugee status.  A Rohingya child lives in harsh conditions at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp, Teknaf, Cox’s bazar. Photo: Mizzima Residents in the area complain that the U.N. should provide some sort of temporary solution to alleviate the congestion in the area, according to an article in  The Times of India  on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Hundreds of men, women and children from  Myanmar  have spent the past one week camping on the pavements and by-lanes around the  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees  (UNHCR) at  Vasant Vihar  seeking refugee status. Meanwhile, residents in the area complain that ever since the UNHCR office was established in the area, they have had little peace.