Narinjara News

This news service covers Bangladesh-Burma relations, the Bangladesh-Burma border, events in Arakan and occasional reports on other parts of Burma. Email delivery of the reports may be requested from [email protected]
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Description: "Narinjara News is an e-mail news service based in Dhaka and set up by a number of Arakanese democratic activists in exile in September 2001...[It aims at] the objective projection of news from the western part of Burma, which has not been covered either by the mainstream Burmese press or the Burmese opposition media in exile..."... Place of correspondents: I. Sittwe Inside Burma; II. Maungdaw Inside Burma; III. Teknaf, Burma-Bangladesh Border; IV. Cox?s Bazaar, Border District Bangladesh... "The Narinjara News is an independent organization, not affiliated with any political party or organization. Any opinion or advice relating to our News Agency is warmly welcomed and please email to: [email protected] "
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Date of entry/update: 2005-04-23
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Description: "As part of a prisoner exchange, the Bangladesh authorities handed 17 Burmese prisoners over to Burmese border authorities on Monday in Teknaf Town, Bangladesh, said an official source..."
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2006-12-07
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Description: "17 Burmese Muslim refugees, who are sheltering in Refugee camps in Bangladesh, were arrested by the Bangladeshi authority on Thursday night, said a report from the Bangladesh police department..."
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2006-12-16
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Description: "Burmese authorities handed over 23 prisoners to Bangladesh authorities at yesterday's flag meeting that was held in the western Burmese border town of Maungdaw, reports a source quoting local officials..."
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2006-12-27
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Description: "About 3000 prisoners were released yesterday from several jails in Burma as part of the independence day amnesty, with 30 political prisoners among them. However, there were no prominent political leaders, such as detained democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi or well-known senior journalist U Win Tin, among those granted release..."
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2007-01-04
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Description: "The Burmese border security force, Nasaka, arrested 56 Burmese Muslims on a boat Wednesday evening as they were heading to Malaysia to look for work, a Nasaka source reported..." Among them, five are from Bangladesh and 51 are from Burma's Maungdaw, a western border town near Bangladesh.
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2006-12-21
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Description: "329 Muslim families from north Arakan state fled to neighboring Bangladesh in 2006, marking a greater exodus than 2005, said a report from the Maungdaw immigration department..."
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2006-12-19
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Description: "Despite Bangladesh authorities' crack down on fertilizer smuggling to Burma, the illegal trade of fertilizers to Burma from Bangladesh is still widespread. On Friday, Bangladesh police seized a large number of fertilizers bags from a smuggler's engine boat near Burmese waters. The boat was bound for the western Burma state capital Akyab..."
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2006-12-10
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Description: "The Bangladesh government is seriously considering the possibility of a fiber optic cable linking Cox's Bazar with Pyapon of Burma, in order to give Bangladesh access to the SEA-ME-WE-3 undersea cable as a backup to the recently commissioned SEA-ME-WE-4 cable link, reported the Bangladesh newspaper New Age..."
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2006-12-11
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Description: "Bangladesh has plans to establish a petrochemical zone near the Bangladesh-Burma border to ensure optimum use of natural gas, said a report from authorities. "It will be set up in the border town Teknaf, which is located on the banks of the Naff River, opposite Burma's western town of Maungdaw," the report stated..."
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2007-01-04
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Description: "Burma's border security force, Nasaka, transferred on Sunday to Bangladesh authorities the list of names of Bangladeshis who were recently arrested on a boat by Burmese authorities, reported a source close to Nasaka..."
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2007-01-02
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Description: "Burma bordering all Northeast Indian states are running under the menace of drug abuse consequential HIV infection and AIDS. Disclosed by the Indian Health Minister of India, Anbumani Ramadoss recently, the pathetic tale describes Manipur and Nagaland are among the 'high HIV/AIDS prevalence' states, where as Arunachal Pradesh and Mizroam are termed 'vulnerable' to the threat of HIV infection and AIDS..."
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2007-01-05
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Description: "Outgoing Ambassador of Burma to Bangladesh U Thand Myint Yesterday paid a farewell call on Bangladesh president Prof Dr Iajuddin Ahmed at presidential House in Dhaka, said an official report..."
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2007-01-04
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Description: "Burma's border security force Nasaka, shot and killed a Bangladeshi fisherman Wednesday on the Naff River, shortly after he was arrested from a fishing boat, according to a Bangladesh newspaper report. The report claimed that Nasaka troops suddenly intruded into the Bangladesh waters of the Naff River, firing several shots and arresting the victim on a fishing boat. Other fishermen who were fishing in the area managed to flee from the Nasaka force..."
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2006-12-23
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Description: "Burmese authorities handed over the dead body of a Bangladesh Rifles member who was killed by smugglers to Bangladesh authorities in the border town of Maungdaw on 5 December 2006, said an official from the Burmese border security force..."
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2006-12-07
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Description: "The Burmese junta's oil and gas agency and an Indian resource company signed an agreement for the exploration of natural gas in the offshore plot A-7 in the seas of Arakan State in western Burma on Thursday. According to a Burmese government media report, Burmese officials, including six ministers from the junta, attended the signing ceremony. R.D. Goral, the director of Gail of India, and Min Min Aung, the president of the Singapore based Silver Wave Energy, signed the agreement with the Burmese Oil and Gas Enterprise..."
Source/publisher: Narinjara News
2006-12-10
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Description: "Two soldiers from the Burmese army along with two local people robbed a house in Buthidaung Township on 22 December, taking a large amount of cash from the house, stated a police report. The incident took place in a village of Wet Makya under Thigan Guason Village Tract in Buthidaung Township, 80 miles north of the state capital Akyab..."
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2006-12-30
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Description: "Burmese authorities have been extorting paddy from rice mill owners in exchange for permission to mill rice in the region, reported one rice mill owner..."
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2006-12-30
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Description: "Eight Arakanese cattle traders were arrested on Saturday at the border, as they were attempting to smuggle cattle to Bangladesh via sea, report sources at the border. The Burmese border security force, Nasaka, arrested the eight traders as they were crossing the Naff River on a cattle machine boat from Burma to Bangladesh..."
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2006-12-27
Date of entry/update: 2007-01-06
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Description: "The 222nd anniversary of the fall of Arakan's sovereignty was marked with ceremonies yesterday in Thailand and Bangladesh, with many in the Arakanese diaspora participating. In Thailand, about 300 people, including Arakanese and Burmese ethnic nationalities attended the ceremony that was held in Mae Sod, a border town of Thailand opposite Burma's Myawaddy..."
Source/publisher: Narinjara News
2007-01-01
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Description: "An army deserter was killed by the Burmese army during an armed clash between a column of soldiers and the deserter deep in the forest of the western border near Bangladesh on 21 November, 2006, said a source close to the army..."
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2006-12-07
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Description: "The Burmese authority recently confiscated 5000 acres of land from several Arakanese farmers in Ponna Kyunt Township and will allocate the land to regional army battalions to implement government agricultural projects, said a farmer whose land was confiscated. He said, "It was fresh round of confiscations for our area and over 1000 acres of land were confiscated by the authority before."..."
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2006-12-16
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Description: "General Saw Bo Mya, who passed away on 24 December 2006, was buried yesterday at Battalion No. 202, on of the Karen Liberated Areas on the Thai-Burma border. Approximately 10,000 people, including SPDC representatives Myat Htun Oo and Min Chit Oo attended the funeral..."
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2006-12-27
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Description: "There has been a rumor in the Arakan state capital of Akyab that many of the government buildings located in downtown Akyab will have to move outside of Akyab to accommodate for a new port which will be built with the help of the Indian government next month, said a prominent Arakanese businessman. He said, "There was a rumor among people that the hospital, bank and central market in Akyab will be moved to Visali ground, out of downtown Akyab.”..."
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2006-12-20
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Description: "Illegal high taxes imposed by Burmese military personnel, police, and forestry officers in Arakan State on timber and bamboo, on both wholesale producers and private re-sale buyers is have left the latter facing difficulties in building or repairing their homes. According to a resident of Ponna Kyunt, troops from Light Infantry Battalion 539, stationed at the Yoe Khaung Bridge between the villages of War Taung and Pan Bae Khaung, take 10 kyats for bamboo, 700 kyats for small-sized timber, and 150 kyats for a bunch of thatch..."
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2006-12-14
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Description: "The number of children who have been suffering from tropical diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, and hepatitis has increased, and the limited medicinal supply has not been helping the problem, says one health worker from Akyab Hospital. Since 19 November, there have been about 300 children hospitalized in Akyab Hospital, in Arakan State, due to malaria and dengue fever, and jaundice caused by complications of malaria, reports a medical officer from the hospital..."
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2006-12-11
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Description: "Akyab port, which has been abandoned since Burma's independence, will be rebuilt by India in next month. India will spend $100 million to connect northeastern India with East Asia..."
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2006-12-18
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Description: "The India-Burma army car rally culminates its journey after completing the round from New Delhi to Rangoon and again backs to Indian capital city. Inaugurated on December 5 in New Delhi, the rally crossed through various Indian states including UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Asom, Nagaland,Manipur and Burmese towns like Tamu, Kalewa, Monywa, Mandalay, Taungoo to reach Rangoon and then it returned back in the last week of December..."
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2007-01-02
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Description: Narinjara Correspondent, Guwahati, Northeast India... "The India-Myanmar army car rally, which was flagged off by Indian Defence Minister A K Antony will enter Burma through Tamu on December 12. The joint car rally, participated by the Indian and Burmese soldiers was launched on December 5 at India Gate of New Delhi. Visiting Burmese Army general Thura Shwe Mann and Indian Army chief Gen JJ Singh with other senior officials were also present at the flag-off ceremony..."
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2006-12-10
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Description: "A group of army engineers from Light Infantry Battalion 540 based in Mrauk U recently surveyed lands near Nankya Village for a new airport to be built in the ancient city of Arakan, reported an engineer from the Mrauk U construction department. He said the military government was likely to build a new airport in Mrauk U in the near future, and for this reason recently had the lands surveyed in Mrauk U Township. The authorities have decided to build the new airport near Nankya Villave, located between Mrauk U and the Minby motor road six miles from downtown Mrauk U..."
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2006-12-31
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Description: "A Burmese army military exercise has been underway in Arakan State with large numbers of army personnel participating since November; there have been no such large army exercises held in Arakan State in the past, said a source close to the army. Over 1500 army soldiers from ten battalions under Sakhaka 5, Military Operation Command based in Taungup in the south of Arakan, are participating in the exercise..."
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Description: "As the distribution of government rations to model villagers has been stopped, many model villagers from Rathidaung Township, 20 miles north of the Arakan State capital Akyab, have been facing hunger, according to a report of the villagers. The report said 25 families, about 82 people, from Padauk Myaing model village, located at the foot of Mayu hill 30 miles northwest of Rathidaung Town are now facing starvation..."
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2006-12-14
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Description: "A Mro tribal village in Mrauk U Township, Arakan State, has been ordered by the army authority to relocate to a new location, as the current location is said to be within an army cantonment area, reported a villager. The village is known as Nadine, where there are over 60 households that are all Mro tribal families. The village has been at its current location since time immemorial..."
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2007-01-03
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Description: "Many Muslim families from northern Arakan State were unable to enjoy this year's Eid ul Azha festival due to the high price of sacrificial animals in Arakan, said a well-known townsperson from Maungdaw. As the animals, including bulls and cows, were priced high, many ordinary Muslim families could not celebrate the festival, having lost their opportunity to make the appropriate sacrifices..."
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2007-01-05
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Description: "Many government ships in several inland waterways in Arakan state have not been allowed to maintain their normal schedules due to a fuel crisis, said a well-known businessman from Akyab..."
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2006-12-22
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Description: "Burmese military authorities arrested and harshly sentenced several customs officials to long prison terms recently in Rangoon. Among the convicted men is one customs official from the western border security force, Nasaka - a combined force consisting of the army, immigration, police, and customs..."
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2006-12-15
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Description: "The paddy price in the western Burmese border area has jumped up to 280,000 kyat per 100 tinn, or 250 baskets, from a price of 200,000 kyat just one week ago, after the rice harvest season began in the area, reported a trader from Maungdaw..."
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2006-12-09
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Description: "Salt production in the coastal state of Arakan in western Burma is expected to be lower than last year due to the decline in demand for the salt in Burma's neighboring country, Bangladesh, says an Arakanese salt producer. Bangladesh domestic salt producers are using modern methods to get a greater yield, and this, combined with the Bangladesh government's ban on salt imports and higher transport costs since last year is pushing down the demand for Burmese salt in Bangladesh, reports a Bangladeshi salt trader..."
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2006-12-13
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Description: "Shwe Gas Movement activists stated in their press release on 7 December that the selling of arms and technology to Burma by South Korea's Daewoo Corporation poses a threat to regional security..."
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2006-12-09
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Description: "A small bomb exploded in a village of western Burma near the Bangladesh border but there were no injuries in the blast, according to an official report..."
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2007-01-04
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Description: "Burma's Special Investigations Bureau and police forces raided the customs office in the western border town of Maungdaw on Wednesday night and arrested several customs officials, reported a police official from Maungdaw who declined to disclose his name..."
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Description: "Three Bangladeshi prisoners recently died in a Burmese jail due to inadequate treatment for their illnesses, according to a report of Nasaka, the Burmese border security force..."
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2006-12-29
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Description: "Two Chin nationals were recently arrested by the Burmese army in Mrauk U Township, Arakan, as they were reportedly linked to Chin rebels, said a family member..."
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2006-12-22
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Description: "A group of unidentified gunmen shot and killed three Arakanese people and seriously injured another woman in an orchard located outside the Thai town of Mae Sot, opposite Burma's Myawaddy, on Friday, reported an Arakanese in Mae Sot..."
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2006-12-13
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Description: Taknef, 17 June 2005: "3 mango traders from Burma have been hospitalized in a town hospital in Bangladesh after Nasaka, Burma border security force, fired at them on the Naff River, said a businessman. The incident took place on 14 June while they were crossing Naff River by a small machine boat. The mango traders were bringing 1000 kg of mango to Bangladesh by the machine boat..."
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2005-06-17
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Description: Maungdaw, 6 June 2005: "4 army personnel were arrested yesterday after raping a Burmese Muslim girl in Taung Bro Left village under Maung Daw Township, near the border town of Okia in Bangladesh, said a police official from Maung Daw. A powerful army team led by Colonel Win Shwe, commander of the Military Planning Bureau (3) based in Buthi Daung, arrested the men from their camp station in the same village..."
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2005-06-06
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Description: Dhaka, 16 June 2005: "24 Bangladeshis arrived at Dhaka airport yesterday after their one-year jail term in Burma was concluded, said a report of a local TV channel. Burmese authorities arrested them last year while they were illegally entering the territory of Burma as a transit point on their way to Malaysia..."
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2005-06-16
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 12 June 2005: "A 27-man Burmese hockey team arrived at Dhaka, Bangladesh Friday for joint training with Bangladesh hockey federation (BKSP), said a report. The Burmese hockey team came to Bangladesh through the border at Arakan state. The team was received by high ranking officials of Bangladesh at Taknef town, opposite Maungdaw, a Burmese town, at 10:30 on 10 June..."
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2005-06-12
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 1 July 2005: "20,000 people living along the Bangladesh and Burma border have been facing a new threat following flooding along the upper reaches of the Naff River, a local newspaper has reported. Since the heavy monsoon rains started on 26 June, the river has overflowed its banks. Heavy rain has continued to fall in the border areas. Five bridges have been damaged by heavy rains in the border area of Bangladesh, and several roads and farms are now under floodwaters..."
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2005-07-01
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Description: Akyab, 17 June 2005: "The Burmese army stationed in Arakan state is collecting tolls from local business sectors for savings in a government bank army fund, said a brick kiln owner from Kyauk Taw, situated along the upper Kaladan River. The military headquarters in Rangoon ordered the army battalions in Arakan state to save at least 10 million Burmese kyat in the army bank, U Pai Ltd, within a year. Since then several army battalions have been collecting tolls from local businesses as well as traders and travelers, to add to the savings fund..."
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2005-06-17
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Description: "Yesterday, 240 political prisoners were released, including some prominent leaders. Many Arakanese political prisoners were among those released from prison. These political prisoners were part of the Junta's latest round of prisoner releases..."
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2005-07-07
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Description: Dhaka, 7 June 2005: "An Arankanese worker named Kyaw Kyaw Htun passed away in a Malaysian hospital after succumbing to injuries inflicted in a gang beating. The man was accosted by a gang of snooker casino owners on 28 May, who accused him along with 3 other Arakanese workers of stealing money from a video game casino owned by one of the gang members..."
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2005-06-07
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 15 June 2005: "Maung Kyaw Moe, a Burmese refugee who was arrested in Bangladesh, was released yesterday after authorities found he was not guilty..."
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2005-06-15
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Description: "The Burmese authority has confiscated several acres of farms from local farmers. The confiscated land will be used for new settlers in the government's 'modern villages' that are being set up in the northwestern area of Rathidaung Township, in Arakan state, reported a social worker..."
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2005-07-05
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 4 July 2005: "The Bangladesh customs office received 540 million Taka in tariffs from the border trade post at Teknaf, on the southern Burmese border, during the 2004-2005 financial year. Abdul Gufur, the officer in charge of Teknaf Customs said, "during the last 12 months, Taka 54 corers were collected from the Teknaf Office alone for the national treasury." Teknaf is located at the heart of the border trade. However, since illegal trading is now flourishing along the border, the Customs office has not been able to collect all the available revenue..."
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2005-07-04
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Description: "The tri-nations gas pipeline conference will be held today in New Delhi, but representatives for Bangladesh will not be attending, according to a report of a Bangladeshi news agency. Bangladesh cancelled plans to send its delegation as the invitation to attend came only one day prior to the meeting..."
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2005-07-06
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 13 June 2005: "The Bangladesh government awarded a yearly stipend to 153 Arakanese students in Cox?s Bazaar on 9 June, according to a report of Rakhine Buddhist Welfare Association in Bangladesh (RBWA). The stipend award is part of a program of the Bangladesh government, to provide direct support to minority students in Bangladesh..."
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2005-06-13
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Description: "Bangladesh security forces, army and Bangladesh Rifle, raided a Burmese Muslim rebel camp stationed in Bangladesh territory near the Burmese border on 5 July, stated a border report..."
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2005-07-08
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Description: "24 Bangladeshi woodcutters were sentenced to five years each by a Burmese court for violation of immigration and forestry laws..."
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2005-07-07
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 27 June 2005: "Burmese military personals in western Burma are keeping a close watch on Onn kyunt Island, Known as St. Martin?s Island, in southern Bangladesh bordering Burma. The watch resulted from a rumour spreading in the border area that an American naval base is being built at Onn Kyunt Island. The Nasaka Regional 8, the Burmese border security, based in Inn Dinn, has been gathering information on the local rumour as well as the ship movement around the Island. The Burmese authority believes that Onn Kyunt Island has been borrowed by the American and soon there will be American navy ships will be trafficking around the Island soon, said an Arakanese person closed to Nasaka..."
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2005-06-27
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Description: "Burmese troops are going to grow rice by themselves on land confiscated from the people in Kyauk Taw Township. Instead of leasing out to the local farmers to cultivate rice during the monsoon season as before, the military personnel have decided to farm the land themselves. Military sources said the higher authority ordered them not to lease out the land, but to work on it by themselves..."
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2005-07-09
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Description: Akyab, 14 June 2005: "Burmese authorities recently surveyed the population of Hindu people in Arakan state, but other communities were excluded from the survey, reported a Hindu community leader from Akyab. The district administrators from four districts of Arakan state conducted the survey during the past few weeks as per the Rangoon authority?s instructions..."
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2005-06-14
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Description: DHAKA, July 3 (Xinhuanet) -- "Dhaka will not mind if New Delhi decides to exclude Bangladesh from the proposed overland gas pipeline between India and Myanmar, said a senior Bangladeshi official. The Financial Express Sunday quoted Mahmudur Rahman, adviser tothe Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources as saying that Bangladesh will welcome new plan on the proposed tri-nation gas line project that might bypass Bangladesh to safeguard India's strategic interests. India, however, is yet to inform Bangladesh about its change ofmind, Rahman noted..."
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2005-07-03
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Description: Dhaka, 16 June 2005: "Five young Arakanese monks were arrested on 13 June by Burmese authorities in the border town of Kaw Thoung, opposite Ranoung of Thailand, under the Tanintheryi division. They were arrested after authorities found them in possession of a small number yama stimulant tablets, reported an Arakanese resident from Kaw Thoung..."
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2005-06-16
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Description: "Bangladesh Police arrested five persons in a hotel with 800 pieces Yaba , stimulate tablets, from Burma on July 5, said a Bangladesh Newspaper..."
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2005-07-08
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Description: Buthidaung, 23 June 2005: "Several villagers have been forced to work in an army brick kiln in Buthidaung Township, said a villager who fled to Bangladesh recently. Light Infantry Battalion 565, stationed at Kum Dai Village of Buthi Daung Township, 80 miles north of Arakan's state capital Akyab, has summoned the villagers from nearby villages to work at the army brick kiln. The villagers have been working since the kiln project began, which provides funding for the army..."
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2005-06-23
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 2 July 2005: "The local Bangladeshi people are worried about the high birth rate among Burmese Muslim refugees living in camps in Cox's Bazaar district of southern Bangladesh. The local Bengali language newspaper, The Daily Ajker Deshbidesh, reports on 26 June that there are about 20,000 Muslim refugees living in two camps, Nayapara and Kutupalong. Within the camps, there are about 50 children born every month, about 600 a year. If births continue at this rate, the refugee population in the camps will explode into an unmanageable proportion, said the newspaper..."
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2005-07-02
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Description: Dhaka, 8 June 2005: "The 28th anniversary of Khaing Moe Lun Day was observed by members of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) in a border area on 4 June 2005, said a statement released by the ALP. Several leaders and comrades from 4 Arakanese organizations participated in the ceremony. A number of delegates delivered speeches during the ceremony. Khaing Moe Lun was paid respects by attendees at the ceremony for his sacrificing throughout his life for the Arakanese people..."
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2005-06-08
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Description: Mrauk U, 25 June 2005: "Natural Gas came out instead of water from a tube well in Set Thar Village in Mrauk-U Township in northern part of Arakan state in western Burma. On the 17th of this month, the gas came out from the ground of the digging for water in the compound of U Aung Than Kyaw?s house, who is the president of Ya-Ra-Ka, the village level administration body of the junta, SPDC..."
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2005-06-25
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Description: Maungdaw, 12 June 2005: "Newly appointed Arakan Governor, or 'Chairman of Arakan state Peace and Development Council', Brig-Gen Khin Maung Myint, arrived at Toung Bro, a westernmost border town of Burma close to Bangladesh, to inspect many worksites there, on 10 June, said townspeople. The tour is a part of his first official journey after he was posted as the chief of Arakan state by Rangoon authorities..."
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2005-06-12
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 24 June 2005: "Bangladesh Rifle (BDR) battalion number 23, stationed at Taknef border town, seized over 40 million takas worth of smuggled goods from Taknef border town alone in the first five months of fiscal year 2005, said an official from Bangladesh. The smuggled goods seized were from both Burma and Bangladesh, and were mostly; clothes, textiles, beer, cheroots, medicine, fertilizers, alcohol, phensidyl and diesel, according to BDR senior officer Abutahail Mohmad Eibarhin..."
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2005-06-24
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Description: "The price of rice in western Burma has jumped phenomenally within the last two or three days, and community leaders worry that it could lead to social unrest in the region..."
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2005-07-05
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Description: Kyauk Pru, 10th June 2005: "About 300 prisoners have been forced to work by Burmese authorities on the construction of the Rangoon-Kyauk Pru road. They have been working on the road since the beginning of this summer, said a monk living in the area. The work site is located near Paday Kyung village in Kyauk Pru Township, a district of Rambree Island in Arakan state. One platoon of the Burmese army, Light Infantry Battalion 34, is strictly guarding the prisoners. The prisoners typically work at the road construction site at least 12 hours a day, in two shifts. The first work shift is from 6 am to 12 pm, the second shift is from 1 pm to 6 pm, the monk said..."
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2005-06-10
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Description: Maungdaw, 3 July 2005: "Two boatmen were killed in a small storm that had winds up to 45 miles per hour (60 kph) in the coastal area of Arakan on 29 June, said a report. The identities of the deceased were unknown but they were reportedly from Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon state..."
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2005-07-03
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Description: Dhaka, 20 June 2005: Two Arakanese organizations, Democratic Force of Arakan (DFA) and Rakhaing Women Union (RWU), both in exiles, held rallies to commemorate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday in Dhaka yesterday. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has turned 60 years old..."
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2005-06-20
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Description: Dhaka, 13 June 2005: "A UNHCR-recognized refugee from Burma was arrested yesterday morning by a group of Bangladesh Rifle (BDR) in Cox?s Bazaar, a district town of Bangladesh near Burma, reported the man's family. He is identified as Maung Kyaw Moe and his refugee ID card number is 01087. He has been recognized as a refugee by Dhaka UNHCR since 2001..."
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2005-06-13
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Description: Maungdaw, 23 June 2005: "Several villagers from the government's modern villages in Northern Arakan state are now suffering from famine due the sky-rocketing prices of rice recently, said a village chairman from the region. The villages facing famine are; Aung Thapray, Thupan Naga, Rankha Zadi, Mun Khamong, Nanra Gai, Bandu la, Tight Chaung and other Mro and Dainet tribal villages. All villages are located in the northern part of Maungdaw, close to Bangladesh. The village headmen from several villages complained about the problem to local army officials from LIB 538, asking them to take emergency supplies to the famine victims immediately, he said. A battalion commander and local departmental officers visited the areas to look over the crisis in the last two days after they received information of the famine. But there has been no official action to help the famine victims..."
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2005-06-23
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Description: Kyauk Pru, 9 June 2005: "Parents from Kyauk Pru Township have had to pay paddy rice as extra income to village teachers due to the insufficiency of their government salaries. If the parents do not pay any extra money, the teachers do not come to schools in time to teach the children, said a village chairman..."
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2005-06-09
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Description: Maungdaw, 7 May 2005: "A number of villages in the north of Maungdaw Township have been facing a water shortage since the beginning of May, reports a villager who has been transporting water from Bangladesh to Burma via a small boat on the Naf River. "The water is not for my family, it is for the Nasaka camp which is located at Ngakhura village," he said..."
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2005-06-07
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Description: Dhaka, June 5, 2005: "An Arakanese woman was forced to marry a rapist after she was violated by him, according to a press release of Rakhaing Women Union (RWU) on 3 June 2005. The incident took place in the village of Sarbyin under Toung Gok Township, in southern Arakan state on 19 May..."
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2005-06-05
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Description: Dhaka, 3rd June 2005: "The Bangladesh government ordered the department of Narcotics Control (DNC) to take drastic action against drug smuggling and drug trafficking within the country, said a newspaper report yesterday..."
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2005-06-03
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 3rd June 2005: "The National United Party of Arakan, NUPA, a large coalition party in Arakan state consisting of several Arakanese revolutionary parties, has now been split up into two groups. The party was split after the third congress of NUPA which was held in the border area between Burma and Bangladesh from 26 May to 30, said a local politician..."
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2005-06-03
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, May 23: "Four Muslim Burmese refugees were arrested by Bangladeshi police, suspected of having a connection with Burmese military intelligence, according to a local Bengali newspaper, The Danik Cox?sbazar..."
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2005-05-23
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, April 24: "13 Bangladeshi woodcutters have been hospitalized in Cox?s Bazar District in Bangladesh due to severe injuries inflicted by Nasaka, the Burmese border security forces. On April 21st, 150 Bangladeshi woodcutters traversed the forest of Waeladaung Hill near the Burma-Bangladesh border. At the hill, 32 of these woodcutters were seized by Nasaka troops who threatened them by firing guns into the air..."
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2005-04-24
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Description: Dhaka, May 12: "The Bangladesh military authority confiscated 183 sophisticated weapons and 24,144 rounds of ammunition from areas near the Burma border during last year. According to a local newspaper source on 10 May, 2005, seized weapons included automatic assault rifles such as AK-47 rifles and M-16 rifles as well as a large amount of ammunition and other explosive devices. The seizure also included some heavy weapons such as a six rocket launcher and two 60 mm mortar..."
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2005-05-12
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Description: Dhaka, May 11: "Members of an Arakanese student and youth organization, All Arakan Students and Youths Congress (AASYC), joined hands with Bangladeshi social activists against the tri-nation gas pipeline at a function held at Dhaka University, Bangladesh on 9 of May. The public meeting was held under the banner of ‘Preserving Natural Resources and Using them for the Native People? organized by Student and Youth Movement Against Plundering Oil and Gas (SYMAPOG) and the Workers Party of Bangladesh (WPB) at Dhaka University?s Teacher and Student Center..."
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2005-05-11
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, May 29: "A Burmese Muslim refugee woman was arrested by Bangladesh police, suspected of having a connection with Burmese military intelligence.."
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2005-05-29
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Description: Akyab, May 10" "In Arakan State in western Burma, crimes have become endemic due to the economic hardships experienced by its people, said a retired police officer from the state capital, Akyab..."
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2005-05-10
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Description: Mrauk U, May 9: "A member of Arakan League for Democracy (ALD) from Mrauk-U died of injuries sustained from torture inside the Akyab prison, according to a family member. U Khin Maung Gree was 52 at the time of death in early February this year. He was one of three members of ALD detained by the junta in 2001, charged with having communication and connection with the Arakanese armed insurgent groups. The other detainees are two lawyers from Mrauk-U: U Shwe Saw U and U Tha Tun Aye..."
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2005-05-09
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Description: Dhaka, May 24, 2005: "A number of Arakanese people have deserted their homes since Burmese authorities have banned hill-side cultivation in the northern border areas close to Bangladesh, said an Arakanese couple who have recently relocated to Bangladesh. They declined to estimate of the number of Arakanese people who have recently deserted their homes..."
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2005-05-24
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Description: Akyab, May 22: "An army commander has been detained and 20 soldiers have been dispelled in a northern town of Arakan since an inner clash on 14 April 2005, said a prominent person from the town of Kyauk Taw, 50 miles north of Arakan capital, Akyab. The detained commander is major Tun Aung Zan, a commander in charge of Light Infantry battalion, LIB, 375, based in Nung Pun Hla village of Kyauktaw. The other 20 soldiers were from the same battalion. All soldiers are Arakanese nationals, he said..."
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2005-05-22
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, May 25: "An army officer was arrested in the district town of Buthidaung, 80 miles north of Arakan state capital Akyab, on 7 May 2005, for the killing of 3 deserters in a front line of the western Burma border area. Captain That Oo, from Light Infantry Battalion, LIB, 535, is now being interrogated in a military tribunal under the Sakhaka 15, a military operation planning bureau based in Buthidaung, for his involvement in this killing..."
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2005-05-25
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Description: Dhaka, May 27: "The Bangladesh army has started a combing operation in the remote area of the hill district town of Bandaban, opposite townships in Burma?s western Arakan state since May 19, 2005, according to an official source. The operation is intended to rescue two road construction workers who have been abducted by a foreign terrorist group in Roangchchari township of Bandaban district on 1st April for ransom..."
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2005-05-27
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, April 29: "Bangladesh and Burma exchanged 192 prisoners on 27th April after a flag meeting between Nasaka, Burma border security forces and BDR, Bangladesh Rifle in Taknef (a border town of Bangladesh), according to a report issued by border officials. Bangladeshi authorities handed over 172 Burmese prisoners to Burma Nasaka Officials while Burma authority handed over 20 Bangladeshi prisoners to Bangladeshi BDR. Among the Burmese prisoners, one child and 3 women were included in the exchange, said a Nasaka official..."
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2005-04-29
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Description: Dhaka, May 24: "Bangladeshi authorities seized fertilizers worth Taka 40 million from four smuggling boats on 17 May 2005. According to official sources, the fertilizers that would have been smuggled to Burma were seized by the Bangladeshi coast guard in a raid of four boats in the river of Meghna..."
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2005-05-24
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Description: Dhaka, May 26: "A Bangladeshi private company held a press briefing in a hotel in Dhaka on 23 May regarding their negotiations with an international consortium about a tri-nation (Burma, Bangladesh, India) gas pipeline. The press briefing was held under the Mohona Holdings Ltd, a private company of Bangladesh. There were several leaders of the company, including Dr Mizanur Rahman Shelly, in attendance at the ceremony. The company is now negotiating with potential investors from private and public sectors and financial institutes to set up an international consortium for financing the tri-nation gas pipeline. The government of Bangladesh, however, has yet to give any signal to go ahead with the project, said a report..."
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2005-05-26
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, May 6: "The Burmese Border Security Forces (known as Nasaka) in Maung Daw Township, Burma?s western township, arrested 15 people who entered Burma illegally from neighbouring Bangladesh..."
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2005-05-06
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, April 28: "Burma has become a source of raw materials for Bangladesh through the exportation of several kinds of raw materials to Bangladesh via both legal and illegal methods. This trade trend is a result of failing Burmese businesses in the recent years, said a top businessman from the Taknef border town in Bangladesh. Burmese businessmen have been exporting several kinds of raw materials to Bangladesh, including rice, wood, fruit, husbandry animals and their skins, fish and raw iron materials, through the Teknaf border seaport..."
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2005-04-28
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, 2nd June 2005: "Burmese authorities recently refused to accept 151 Burmese prisoners from Bangladesh jails but the reason is unknown, said a report from a local Newspaper. The prisoners were gathered in Cox's Bazaar district jail by Bangladesh authorities from several jails in Bangladesh just soon after the first batch of 172 Burmese prisoners were handed over to Burma on 27 April..."
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2005-06-02
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Description: Cox?s Bazar, April 26: "A Burmese Muslim refugee girl died on her way to Cox?s Bazar hospital on April 23. The neighbors found her after she had swallowed some poison in attempt to take her own life..."
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2005-04-26
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Description: Akyab, May 5: "A curfew has been imposed in Akyab, the capital of Arakan State in western Burma for the last two weeks. This was done in reaction to the murder of an officer and his father. They were stabbed to death by a group of people, said an Arakanese trader in Cox's Bazaar. "Anybody found on the street after 8 pm have been arrested by the army and the police are patrolling the streets in Akyab with armoured vehicles", the trader said..."
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2005-05-05
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