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The President of Burma U Thein Sein will visit Bangladesh in June, said the Burmese envoy to Bangladesh U Mai Lwin yesterday.

Maungdaw, Arakan State:  The regional in-charge of Arakan state and two members of Parliament from Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) are going to organize the people of Maungdaw to support their party in coming next election at 2015 today, according to a politician from Maungdaw.

Chittagong, Bangladesh :  Outgoing Burma ’s Ambassador U Min Lwin yesterday said the solution to maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and Burma is a win-win situation for both the countries.

A Rohingya child from Burma carries water from a pond  at a refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar on 17 August 2009. (Reuters) Burma has never been an easy place to conduct a head count. Dogged by protracted conflicts and populated by communities wary of outsiders, census-takers have had their work cut out in building an accurate dataset of a country rich in demographic diversity, but which for decades has largely been invisible to the world.

By HANNA HINDSTROM Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude and further isolate its Rohingya minority group, which has been denied citizenship by the government since 1982. Although the government has agreed to include all “national races” in the census, the 1.5 million Muslim minority group does not fall under this category and campaigners worry they will be left out.

The Rohingya community, originally from Burma, were resettled in Carlow in June 2009 as part of the UNHCR (United Nations high commissioner for refugees) resettlement programme. The community lived in refugee camps in Bangladesh from the early 1991’s.  The Rohingyas number approximately 1.5 million and have endured continued persecution and ethnic cleansing in Burma. About 1.5 million Rohingyas have been living in exile in many countries all over the world. The Rohingyas in Burma continue to suffer from several forms of persecution and human rights violations. 25 Rohingya men and women, over a period of 6 weeks, took part in an art project focusing primarily on their culture and their journey to Ireland. The mean’s group, supported by St. Catherine’s community services Center and the woman’s group supported by Carlow County development partnership Ltd. Were offered an outlet through art to explore their previous life with a positive focus on their future life in Ir

Chiang Mai ( Mizzima ) – President Thein Sein and Vice President Sai Mauk Kham will take charge of the Burmese government’s efforts to achieve peace with ethnic armed forces. Thein Sein will serve as chairman of a union peace committee and Sai Mauk Kham will serve as chairman of the working committee.

Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters after a party meeting in front of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party's head office in Rangoon on 20 April 2012. (Reuters)

ြပည်သူ့​လွှတ်​ေတာ်ကိုယ်စား​လှယ်​ေတွြဖစ်ြကတဲ့​ ဦး​ခိုင်​ေမာင်ရည်၊​ ဦး​ေစာသိန်း​ေအာင်၊​ ဦး​ငွန်း​ေမာင်၊​ ဦး​ဉာဏ်​ေဆွဝင်း​၊​ ​ေဒါ်ခင်​ေစာ​ေဝနဲ့​ ဦး​ြမင့်​သန်း​တို့​ အပါအဝင် ၆ ဦး​ဟာ ​ေနာ်​ေဝနိုင်ငံကို ဒီသီတင်း​ပတ်အကုန် သွား​ေရာက်မှာ ြဖစ်ပါတယ်။