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By KPN News July 12, 2014 Maungdaw, Arakan State :  Burma border guard police –BGP- hurled insult holy Qurans on a bus that plied Ngakura-Maungdaw road on July 7, according to Rakib Ullah from Ngakura village who is going to Maungdaw. The bus plied  Ngakura –Maungdaw-Ngakura everyday with passengers, foods stuff – potato chips, dates, vermicelli and vegetables- and there was no restriction on carrying  goods before even it is from Bangladesh, Thailand or Rangoon, said  Rakib Ullah. There were some Holy Qurans on the bus which were being carried from Ngakura village to Maungdaw Town, but the BGP personnel from main check-post of headquarters kicked, threw, tore and other kinds of insult the Qurans, said an elder from Maungdaw who was on the bus. “In the check-post, there are some new recruits of BGP personnel who are from Maungdaw town, had made all kinds of insult the Quran.” The bus is owned by a Rohingya from Ngakura and it number plate is 4A/4402. The BGP seized t

By Zin Linn Asian Tribune July 13, 2014 Burma’s media realm has been shocked as Pakokku district court in Magwe Division on Thursday (July 10) sentenced the chief executive officer of a weekly news journal and four of its reporters to 10 years in prison with hard labor for publishing a report that covered a huge mysterious government complex – established in Pauk Township, Magwe Division in Burma - was designed to produce chemical weapons. The five journalists - Yazar Soe, Sithu Soe, Lu Maw Naing, and Paing Thet Kyaw, and chief executive officer Tint San – working at the Unity weekly news journal were sentenced ten-year jail term by Judge U Maung Maung Htay of Pakokku District Court, according to the domestic media reports. They were arrested in February and put on trial under Burma's 1923 State Secrets Act, which forbids anyone from entering a prohibited place for any reason “prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state,” reports said. Such an unbeli

Rohingya Muslims are shown inside an immigration detention centre in Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province. (File photo) By PressTV July 12, 2014 Thailand and Myanmar have agreed to ''facilitate the safe return'' of 130,000 displaced Rohingya Muslims to their homeland, said a top Thai military official. General Prayuth Chan-ocha further said on Friday that the issue of the Rohingya Muslims had been discussed with Myanmar's Commander-in-chief of Defense Forces, General Min Aung Hlaing, in Bangkok this week.'' These people have been staying in temporary shelters with certain restrictions for a long time,'' the general said, adding, "This has been a protracted problem. There are up to 130,000 displaced persons in nine temporary shelters in our country.” The anti-Muslim violence by extremist Buddhists in Myanmar, widely referred to as ethnic cleansing, has driven an estimated 80,000 Rohingya Muslims to put out to sea since