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By  KPN News January 06, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State: Over two thousand Buddhist people including monks, government officers and staff, local people led by U Kyi San, Maungdaw Township Administration officer (TAO) went to “Kasim Mountain Tip”, under Phar Wut Chaung village tract of Maungdaw north yesterday, according to  a local elder named Mamun Ali ( not real name).   “On that day, Buddhist People were starting to go there from 4:00 am to 2:00 pm by cars, motor bikes and even on foot. All the people were wearing same dresses – T shirts and marked on their shits ---climbers of hill top ‘Aung Mingala’.” The TAO officer needs to hold a meeting on the hill top and wants to announce with loudspeaker to rename the ‘Kasim Mountain’ into “Aung Mingala Mountain.” As a result, they held a meeting on the mountain tip yesterday in the aiming of to change topographical change, said another local trader who denied to be named. For the meeting, the local village administrat

By Zin Lin  Asia Tribune   January 06, 2014 The year 2013 has departed, but it leaves ongoing war upon ethnic population launched by government army produces more and more internal displaced people plus refugees from various Shan villages. Additionally, this war forces ethnic people to flee from the country. These war-victims escaped into neighboring countries as political exiles, illegal migrants and refugees. So, people have to make questions that why government’s armed forces do not stop fighting along ethnic border areas. Without stopping war in ethnic areas, how can the President convince the people from the border areas of his government's goodwill efforts for peace and stability and growth? While number of hostilities considerably decreased in many ceasefire regions, armed clashes in war-torn Kachin and Shan state are still unstoppable. Those hostilities in Kachin and Shan states have increased IDPs numbers along Sino-Myanmar border. As a result of more a

By KPN News January 05, 2014   Maungdaw, Arakan State: The concerned authority is harassing a census educator in Maungdaw since January 2, 2014, according to Halim, a Human Rights Watchdog from Maungdaw.   Nur Alam - school teacher teaching Burmese and English in a religion school – in Done Pite (Aung Seik Pyin) village, Maungdaw north, explaining about forthcoming census to rural areas Rohingya villagers, Halim said. But, the concerned authority – U Aung Myint Soe, the District Administration officer and U Kyi San, the Township administration officers – are giving trouble and issuing order to arrest Nur Alam for giving education to the people who didn’t know about census and how to answer the questions in the census forms, Halim more added. The Aung Seik Pyin village admin officer U Maung Mya and his collaborators –Abdullah, son of Nazir Ahmed; Nazir Ahmed, son of Sultan Ahmed; Dil Mohamed ,son of Eman Hussin and Sabir, son of Iddries – informed to the concerned aut