Scores dead in Southeast Asia as monsoon rains batter the region
Arakan News Agency At least 20 people have died in a landslide in India as monsoon rains continue...
Myanmar Political Party Calls For Emergency Fund For Flood Victims in Rakhine State
Arakan News Agency Severe floods caused by torrential monsoon rains in western Myanmar have killed 10 people, prompting...
UN voices concerns over deadly Myanmar floods
Arakan News Agency More than 150 tents swept away in storm at Rohingya camp in Rakhine State. A...
Amnesty International says more Myanmar prisoners of conscience remain behind bars
Arakan News Agency The release of at least 11 prisoners of conscience in a mass prisoner amnesty in...
Warning of a conspiracy to deprive Rohingya of citizenship
Arakan News Agency Congress chairman of the Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU) Dr. Taher Mohammad Siraj, which described the...
The Dangerous Rise of Buddhist Chauvinism
Arakan News Agency The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, composed no sutta to religious hatred or racial animus. And yet...
Burma’s Moment of Truth
Arakan News Agency Burma’s halting progress toward democracy has stalled. It’s time for the United States to get...
Racism: Focus on Myanmar’s Islamophobia
Arakan News Agency Racism sponsored or promoted by a state, like terrorism of all sorts, remains an ugly...
Myanmar law restricting marriage of Buddhist women blasted by EU, rights groups
Arakan News Agency Lawmakers in Myanmar have passed legislation that imposes restrictions on interfaith marriages in the predominantly...
Few Rohingya Want New Myanmar ID Cards
Arakan News Agency A plan by officials in Myanmar, also known as Burma, to issue new identity...
EU slams Myanmar inter-marriage bill
Arakan News Agency YANGON: A controversial Myanmar marriage bill is discriminatory and risks undermining democratic progress, the EU...
Election seen as crucial step for Myanmar set for Nov. 8
Arakan News Agency Burma’s general election will be held on Sunday, 8 November, the Union Election Commission (UEC)...
Myanmar Sets a Date for Its Historic, if Flawed, Election
Arakan News Agency It won’t be the truly open democratic process some had hoped for, but the election...
