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Suu Kyi makes first visit to Rakhine since breakout of violence
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Nov 02 (ANI): Myanmar's de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi made her first visit to the violence ridden northern Rakhine state on Thursday since violence broke out, as per media reports.
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Bangladesh seeks global support for UN Resolution on Rohingyas
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Oct.31 (ANI): Bangladesh has sought global support for the passing of a special United Nations resolution against what it calls ongoing "ethnic cleansing" of Rohingyas by Myanmar.
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Five injured in attack by 'Rohingya miscreants' in Bangladesh
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 28 (ANI): Five people were injured after they were allegedly attacked by Rohingya miscreants in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar last night, The Daily Star reports.
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Myanmar detains foreign journalists for flying drone over parliamentary bu
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], October 28 (ANI): Myanmar Police has detained a Singaporean and a Malaysian journalist for flying a drone over a parliamentary building in Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw.
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Little attention paid to Rohingyas ties with international terrorism: Expe
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
New York [USA], Oct 27 (ANI): Little attention has been paid to Rohingyas ties with international terrorism despite media covering the mass exodus of the minority community following violence in Myanmar's western Rakhine State, says an expert.
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Myanmar Consul General Pyi Soe dies in road accident
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Giridh (Jharkhand) [India], October 27 (ANI): Myanmar Consul General Pyi Soe died in a road accident in Jharkhand on Friday.
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UN official expresses 'deep disappointment' in Aung San Suu Kyi
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], October 27 (ANI): Given the state of affairs in Myanmar's restive Rakhine state, the United Nations investigator of human rights abuses in the country expressed deep disappointment in Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her 'indifferent' response to the violence agai
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Tillerson calls on Myanmar army chief over Rohingya crisis
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [U.S.A.], October 27 (ANI): United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday morning urged Myanmar's army chief General Min Aung Hlaing to end the violence in the Rakhine state and allow the safe return of the Rohingya Muslims displaced during the crisis.
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Myanmar to start new education department for Rohingya Muslims
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], October 26 (ANI): Myanmar will open a new education department for Rohingya Muslims attending Sittwe University at Takka Pyin village in Sittwe township.
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U.K., Canada, Switzerland pledge to donate $33.5m for Rohingya refugees
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], October 24 (ANI): The United Kingdom and Switzerland have pledged additional USD 24 million as assistance for the Rohingya refugees, who are fleeing to Bangladesh to escape the persecution of Myanmar's Rakhine State.
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Rohingya crisis: Myanmar, Bangladesh agree on border cooperation
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], October 24 (ANI): Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed two agreements on border cooperation to resolve the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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Khaleda to visit Rohingya refugee camps next week
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Oct 24 (ANI): Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Rohingyas' refugee camps in Cox Bazar next week.
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