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Kaladan News Maungdaw, Arakan state:  The Military Intelligent Service officer from Burma border security force (Nasaka) area number 5 and the village administration officer of Launddon had seized 5 million Burmese fake notes from a Rohingya on October 9, said an elder from launddon village.

 By KYLIE STEVENSON  Abdul Mutalib loves fishing for barramundi in the Top End. Picture:  KATRINA BRIDGEFORD HE spends his working hours packing iced coffee at the local Parmalat factory, and in his spare time he enjoys fishing. He's strong, determined and a hard worker.

By The Daily Star The newly formed government of Myanmar has agreed to take back registered Rohingya refugees currently staying at two refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar but made no decision on the large number of unregistered Rohingyas living in Bangladesh. The number of refugees in Nayapara and Kutupalong camps is now 28,000 and the Myanmar government agreed that a large number of the refugees are Myanmar nationals, said Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes on Saturday at a press briefing at the foreign ministry.

News By Kaladan Press Ukhiya, Bangladesh:  The UNHCR unrecognized refugees from Kutupalong makeshift camp have been suffering with several difficulties in the field of health cares since one year, an elder from the refugee camp. “Refugees have been facing with several topical diseases as malaria, fever, diarrhea, Tuberculosis (TB), jaundice and etc in the camp.”

Chiang Mai ( Mizzima ) – Forty-six Burmese political prisoners were included in a batch of more than 400 prisoners released from Obo Prison in Mandalay on Wednesday. The comedian Zarganar arrives in Rangoon airport after being freed from prison under a presidential amnesty. Photo: AFP Myo Naing, a National League for Democracy division-level organizer, said nine Buddhist monks, one former military intelligence officer, one former captain, two prisoners convicted of bombings, 13 prisoners convicted of religious riots in Kyaukse and five NLD members are among the freed political prisoners. The imprisoned Burmese comedian Zarganar was released from Myitkyina Prison on Wednesday morning and was in route to Rangoon by air, according to Zarganar’s sister-in-law Ma Nyein. Zarganar (aka) Thura was serving 35 years in prison.  “He is in good health,” Ma Nyein told  Mizzima .  “He said he could not say anything, and told me to greet everyone [on his behalf].” Zargana...

By James, Free Rohingya Campaign (FRC) had an opportunity to brief at U.S Senator Kirsten Gillibrand office in New York. Julina Guo (Constituent liaison, Senate Office)‐ Michael Eatroff (C.L & Foreign Affairs , State Dept),Nay San Oo , Su Su Lwin City, USA on October 6, 2011 to bring attention to the U.S Government, where Rohingyas have been brutally discrimination by Burmese Regime and current situation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. Mr. Nay San Oo, Co‐founder of FRC and Mrs. Su Su Lwin, a member of FRC are brief about the Rohingya have been invariably subjected to criminal atrocities, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment, relentless taxation, humiliating restriction on their freedom of movement and residence within the state, prohibition of their right to marry and to found a family, restriction of their right to education, right to work and to get access to food and other essentials including medical care Inside Arakan , Burma. Due to above reasons towa...

A Rohingya boy writes down his name after arriving on Phuket Photo by phuketwan.com/file By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian Saturday, October 8, 2011 News Analysis PHUKET: Phuket can expect more surprise visitors anytime now. The ''sailing season'' for would-be refugee boatpeople from northern Burma and Bangladesh has begun with the arrival off the Malaysian island of Penang of the first vessel. Between October and April, more vessels are expected to land along the Thai and Malaysian coasts, and the likelihood is that some will come ashore, more by chance than design, on Phuket. More boats are expected to put to sea this sailing season than in the past couple of years, with people smugglers already reported to be selling berths in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, sources say. The first arrivals this week landed on Penang after 10 days at sea, according to one newspaper report, with the desperate passengers spending the previous three to five days without fo...