By ZAW ZAW HTWE: YANGON—Three more local COVID-19 transmissions were detected in Rakhine State on Wednesday, three days after Myanmar reported its first locally transmitted case in a month,... Read more

By LEI LEI: YANGON—Rakhine ethnic armed group Arakan Army (AA) has released two senior members of a group Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) and three civilian medics it abducted in Rakhine State... Read more

By HTUN HTUN: Yangon—Five Muslim candidates, including four Rohingyas, in Rakhine State have been rejected by the state election sub-commission to run in the November general election due to... Read more

The director of a Myanmar-based NGO promoting tolerance, social harmony and peaceful coexistence has been granted this year’s MC Bassiouni Justice Award for his efforts towards domestic fact... Read more

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), has opened a 120-bed Severe Acute Respiratory Infection Isolation and Treatment Center (SARI ITC) to treat those infected with COVID-19 –... Read more

By LEI LEI: YANGON—Ethnic armed group the Arakan Army (AA) abducted five members of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) in Rakhine State’s Ponnagyun Township earlier this week, according to th... Read more

By MIN AUNG KHINE:- SITTWE, Rakhine State—The head of Rakhine State’s Kyauktaw Township Police Station, Police Captain Tun Naing Oo, was shot and killed in front of his police station on Wed... Read more

A Rohingya Muslim has been barred from standing in Myanmar’s upcoming election, in a decision decried by rights groups as discriminatory and a symptom of the “ongoing genocide... Read more

The head of a UN investigative body on Myanmar said Facebook has not released evidence of “serious international crimes”, despite vowing to work with investigators looking into abuses in the... Read more

NYEIN NYEIN:- The ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) that are not signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have yet to decide whether they will attend the NLD government’s fina... Read more

MIN AUNG KHINE:- SITTWE, Rakhine—Preliminary voter lists still cannot be posted publicly in 15 village-tracts in northern Rakhine State due to armed conflict between the Myanmar military and... Read more

HTET NAING ZAW: NAYPYITAW—The Myanmar government will not invite the Arakan Army (AA), which it has designated as a terrorist organization, to the Union Peace Conference-21st-Century Panglon... Read more

HTET NAING ZAW:- NAYPYITAW—Myanmar military officials, soldiers and other personnel were killed in clashes with the Arakan Army (AA) in norther Rakhine State’s Rathedaung and Buthidaung town... Read more

Three suspected drug traders including two Rohinya youths were killed in separate gunfights in Cox’s Bazar and Kushtia on Friday night and early Saturday. In Cox’s Bazar, two suspected Yaba... Read more

The virtual Rohingya camp tour will be one of the segments of “Dhaka OIC Youth Capital 2020” to introduce the displaced persecuted Rohingya community from Myanmar to global parti... Read more

Md. Kamruzzaman:Experts at the first Rohingya-Rakhine online seminar Thursday urged reconciliation of minority Rohingya Muslims and Rakhine Buddhists to restore sustainable peace in Rakhine... Read more

UNB: The UK has said Bangladesh continued to play a vital role in hosting a significant number of Rohingya people noting that there was “no improvement” in the overall human righ... Read more

The UN’s new Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar on Wednesday urged the government to cooperate with existing international justice mechanisms to ensure accountability for alleged... Read more

Thousands of villagers have reportedly fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after a local administrator warned the village leaders that the army planned “clearance operations” against... Read more