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Rohingya crisis: Repatriation process to start on Jan 22
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Naypyidaw [Myanmar], Dec 29 (ANI): Myanmar Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Dr. Win Myat Aye on Thursday announced that the repatriation process will begin on January 22.
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Rohingya crisis: Myanmar Court extends detention of two journalists
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Hong Kong [Hong Kong], Dec 28 (ANI): A Myanmar Court extended the detention of two journalists for another 14 days, who are accused of breaching the country's Official Secrets Act, despite being condemned by the international community as an attack on press freedom.
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Rohingya repatriation: First list will contain 1 lakh names
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec 27 (ANI): The first list for repatriation of Rohingya refugees, who entered into Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State, will contain 1,00,000 names.
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UNGA urges Myanmar to end military action against Rohingyas
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec 26 (ANI): The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has urged Myanmar to end the military campaign against Muslim Rohingyas.
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Rohingyas to return to Myanmar soon: Bangladesh Minister
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], December 25 (ANI): Bangladesh Health Minister Mohammed Nasim has said that Rohingya refugees will return to their homeland as soon as the international community and the UN pressurise Myanmar into repatriating them.
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Bangladesh, Myanmar form joint panel for Rohingya repatriation
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], December 19 (ANI): Myanmar and Bangladesh on Tuesday formed Joint Working Group (JWG) to handle the repatriation of Rohingya refugees.
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Myanmar team to visit Bangladesh to discuss Rohingya issue
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec.18 (ANI): A six-member Myanmar delegation is arriving here on Monday for a meeting to set up the joint working group (JWG) to facilitate the repatriation of Rohingyas who fled violence in northern Rakhine State between August 25 and now.
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40 Rohingya villages burnt in October and November, says HRW
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
New York [United States], Dec.18 (ANI): Satellite imagery over Myanmar has revealed that at least 40 new Rohingya villages were burnt down in the months of October and November in the country's northern Rakhine State.
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Bangladesh completes registration of 8,44,227 Rohingya refugees
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], Dec 15 (ANI): Bangladesh has completed biometric registration of 8,44,227 Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border to escape persecution in neighbouring Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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UN Chief calls on Myanmar to free arrested journalists
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec 15 (ANI): Condemning the arrest of two journalists in Myanmar, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated that their arrest indicated that press freedom is shrinking in Southeast Asian country and the international community must do all it can to get th
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6700 Rohingya killed in Myanmar: MSF
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States], Dec 14 (ANI): At least 6,700 Rohingya were killed between August and September after violence broke out in Myanmar's northern restive Rakhine state, according to the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
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B’desh provides free diptheria vaccines to Rohingya children
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Cox's Bazar [Bangladesh], December 12 (ANI): The Government of Bangladesh, in support of United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) launched a vaccination campaign against diphtheria and other preve
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