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FM places Rohingya issues before OIC

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni Saturday placed the Rohingya refugee problem in Bangladesh before the OIC conference with a view to resolving the issue. The minister placed the issue while addressing the international ministerial conference on ‘Refugees in the Muslim World’ at Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan.

Aung San Museum—Discover Burma’s Hero

   The entrance to Rangoon’s Bogyoke Aung San Museum.     (Photo: Irrawaddy) RANGOON—After parking his car outside the hill-top villa in a leafy neighborhood just a few hundred meters from the Shwedagon Pagoda, Zaw Htet Aung tells his son, “this is where General Aung San used to live.” His wife nods in agreement.

ROHINGYA RESETTLEMENT PROJECT

COUNTY CARLOW was asked to take into their community, 16 Rohingya families (78 persons) from Burma/Myanmar who have been living in camps in Bangladesh under the protection of the UNHCR, as part of the UNHCR Resettlement Programme. Nationally the process is being managed by the Office of the Minister for Integration of the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform. An Interagency Committee, through Carlow County Development Board structures, was brought together to support the process locally in County Carlow.            Bicycle Safety Training         Rohingya Women's Group The programme is going into its final year (with the aid of European Refugee funding and match funding by the local agencies) The Families are now in Carlow for nearly 3 years and have settled in well. Programmes ranged from language supports, youth groups, men and women groups, art classes, cycle lessons, setting up a cricket club etc all with the aim of helping the families to settle in

Union Minister for Information and for Culture receives Managing Director of NTEGRATOR Co of Singapore

NAY PYI TAW , 10 May- Union Minister for Information and for Culture U Kyaw Hsan received a delegation led by Managing Director Mr Jimmy Chang of NTEGRATOR Co of Singapore at the Ministry of Information, here, at 11 am today.