The Stateless Rohingya Blog

၁၉၉၂ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ ၁၃ ရက္ The Nation သတင္းစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည့္ ဓာတ္ပံု (ဝဲမွယာ - ကိုေက်ာ္ႏိုင္ဦး၊ မနန္းေအာင္ေထြးၾကည္၊ ကိုႏိုင္ဝင္းေအာင္၊ ကိုညီညီ၊ ကိုတိုးၾကည္) ABSDF ရဲ႕ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ျဖစ္ပြားခ့ဲတ့ဲ ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားအေၾကာင္းကုိ ေဒါက္တာႏိုင္ေအာင္က   ဒီကေန႔ ရက္စဲြနဲ႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ ေၾကညာလုိ္က္တာကုိ ကူးယူ ေဖာ္ျပပါတယ္။

Burmese President Thein Sein on Sunday called on all levels and branches of the government, political parties and voters to help make the April 1 by-election free and fair.

The National League for Democracy (NLD) opened its regional office of Arakan state in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan, on Sunday to carry out party affairs effectively, said party leaders from Arakan state. There isn’t any candidates in Arakan state for the NLD in the upcoming by election on the 1 st  of April but we opened the regional office for Arakan state in Sittwe on Sunday to carry out our activities effectively in future,” U Nyi Pu, chairman of NLD’s Arakan state. U Nyi Pu who was the elected representative of NLD from Gwa Township in the 1990 election as well as a former political prisoner inaugurated the office in Sittwe at 8 AM on the day. During the office opening ceremony, U Nyi Pu also delivered a speech to the attendees.

A boy wearing the colours of the National League for Democracy  waves at party chairwoman Aung San Suu Kyi. (Photo: Reuters) The National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate for Rangoon's Mayangone Township has complained that she has been prohibited from campaigning for the upcoming by-elections at her local military barracks.

Locations of Kaladan Project in Rakhine and Chin States (Photo: CHRO) 24 March 2012:  In response to concerns raised by civil society groups over possible environmental and social impacts of Kaladan project, a joint India-Burma development initiative, the Burmese government has given the green light for conducting the assessments.  Minister for Transport U Nyan Tun Aung said Burma's government would take steps in working together with India to carry out the impact assessments in an attempt to reduce negative outcomes from the project, according to the  Myanmar Times . 

Rohingya often destroy their boats to avoid being ‘pushed back’ out to sea. This boat, transporting 95 Rohingya, broke up before landing at Nai Harn Beach in February. Photo: Mark Dee

Agartala, March 24 (IANS) Two poverty-stricken Myanmar nationals were Saturday sentenced to two years in jail by a local court here for illegally entering India, a police official said.   A sub-divisional magistrate's court here sentenced the two Myanmarese to two years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs.10,000 for violation of the Passport Act and the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act 1973.