Arakan News Desk: Myanmar’s ruling military leader has announced that the country will hold parliamentary elections by January next year. However, no specific date was set for the vote... Read more
Arakan News Desk: Clashes between Myanmar’s military regime and the Arakan Army (AA) have intensified in Rakhine State’s Sittwe Township since Friday, with both sides exchanging artillery fi... Read more
GBT/BSS: United Nation Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has iterated the UN’s continued commitment to a durable solution to the Rohingya crisis and assured Bangladesh of ensuring fun... Read more
– Latest reports reveal that the junta now controls only 32% of Myanmar’s townships, with 24% falling into full conflict zones and 44% under the control of revolutionary forces GBT New... Read more
Arakan Desk: Myanmar’s ruling military has extended a state of emergency for another six months, state media reported on Friday, a day ahead of the four-year anniversary of a coup that... Read more
Arakan News Desk: The World Bank has confirmed Myanmar’s deepening economic crisis, sharply cutting its GDP forecast for the military-ruled country to a 1 percent contraction for this fiscal... Read more
Arakan News Desk: Arakan Army troops pose along with weapons and ammunition seized from the junta’s Border Guard Police Battalion 5 in Maungdaw Township, Rakhine State on Sunday. / AA Info D... Read more
Arakan News Desk: The Arakan Army (AA) says Myanmar’s regime only controls the Western Command headquarters in its Rakhine State power hub after several other camps have fallen. It added tha... Read more
Arakan News Desk: As a part of continuing efforts under ‘Operation Sadbhav’, the Navy and Air Force have dispatched a second tranche of aid to Myanmar. The spokesperson for the M... Read more
Arakan News Desk: The death toll from massive flooding in Myanmar in the wake of Typhoon Yagi has doubled to 226, as the UN warned as many as 630,000 people could be in need of help. Yagi sw... Read more
Arakan News Desk: The Myanmar military has designated three major ethnic armed groups that have advanced across swaths of northern and western Myanmar over the past year as “terrorist” group... Read more
Arakan News Desk: Aasia (pseudonym), 16 and her eight family members moved to Bangladesh in 2017 following persecution by the Myanmar military in Rakhine state. She moved into Muchuni Camp i... Read more
Arakan News Desk: Recent fundamental changes in the Rakhine state of Myanmar have tremendous geopolitical and geostrategic significance for Bangladesh. The Arakan Army controls 80 per cent o... Read more
Yangon Office: An alliance of Myanmar ethnic minority armed groups said Sunday it had agreed a four-day ceasefire with the junta in northern Shan state following clashes in which its fighter... Read more
Arakan News Desk: The Government Railway Police (GRP) at Agartala in Tripura apprehended five Rohingya immigrants for illegally crossing the India-Bangladesh international border. The detain... Read more
Arakan News Desk: A high-level Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) led by its Chairman Wang Hunning meets with Bangladesh Prime Minister in Beij... Read more
AFP/GBT: Residents of Kyaukme in northern Myanmar are counting their dead and picking through rubble following fresh fighting that shredded a Beijing-brokered ceasefire between the junta and... Read more
Arakan News Desk: Escalating violence in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state in recent months may have spurred some Rohingya Muslims to cross into Bangladesh, a key refugee official said,... Read more
Arakan News Desk: With the rising conflict in Myanmar, at least 5,400 people from Myanmar have reportedly sought refuge in Manipur’s Kamjong district. According to a report by The Hindu, the... Read more
– They say the Rohingya repatriation problem is unlikely to meet an end shortly Arakan News Desk: Donors from the international community, including the United States, European Union,... Read more
