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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 narinjara@yahoo.com Websites/Multiple Documents Title:   Narinjara website Description/subject:   "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: narinjara@yahoo.com " Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Individual Documents Title:   "Primary schools for foreign tourists" at the expense of villagers Date of publication:   08 October 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 8th October 02: "In a bid to spruce up the villages along the Sittwe Rangoon motor road, in the western part of Burma, the Burmese junta SPDC have forced the villagers along the road to collect at least 55% of the fund required to construct hundreds of new primary schools, reports our correspondent from Sittwe..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   "Smuggled" minority Muslims detained in Burma Date of publication:   02 August 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 2 August 02: "On July 20th , two minority Muslims from Arakan State, in the western part of Burma, with an Arakanese national were arrested at the Nasaka checkpoint # 25 at Ann Township..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   (1) Forced labour in road repair and famine in the Western part of Burma; (2) A Rakhine musician suffers from the physical fortures in a Myanmar prison Date of publication:   11 December 2001 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, Sittwe. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   1) ARAKAN STATE AFTER RECENT POWER STRUGGLE IN RANGOON;2) BANGLADESH TO WORK ON TRANS-ASIAN HIGHWAY TO CONNECT BURMA Date of publication:   12 March 2002 Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   1) NASAKA ARREST A LOCAL EMPLOYEE OF UNHCR. 2) UNOFFICIAL CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATE AT MAUNGDAW as on JAN 29 Date of publication:   30 January 2002 Description/subject:   NASAKA ARREST A LOCAL EMPLOYEE OF UNHCR Maungdaw 30th January 02: A local employee of UNHCR at Maungdaw in Rakhine State of Myanmar was arrested by the Nasaka border immigration and security force, our correspondent quoted an unnamed UNHCR official from Maungdaw. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   1) Trans-Myanmar-Bangladesh Gas Pipeline Plan; 2) Bangladesh Festival in Myanmar soon Date of publication:   01 March 2002 Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   100,000 metric tons of fertilizer smuggled into Burma from Bangladesh this year Date of publication:   23 March 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 23: "100,000 metric tons of Bangladeshi made fertilizers were smuggled to Burma from Bangladesh by local smuggling syndicates within last two and half months, said a report of the Bangali newspaper, The Jugantor on 16 March. Bangladeshi farmers are now suffering from shortages of fertilizers because of the mass amounts smuggled from their country this last year..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   125 HIV infections this year: the highest record in Arakan 125 HIV infections this year: the highest record in Arakan Sittwe, October 21: A record number of a 125 HIV infections were recorded in Arakan, in the year 2003-4, according to a health r Date of publication:   21 October 2004 Description/subject:   Sittwe, October 21: "A record number of a 125 HIV infections were recorded in Arakan, in the year 2003-4, according to a health report. However, the number is expected to be much higher, as the recorded infections only come from people who attend the Akyab hospital for a blood test or blood donation. In Arakan state, the number of HIV infections has been rising every year. However, the Health Ministry of Burma has not been able to provide any measures of prevention or any materials, claiming they do not have any funding in the state coffer..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   04 November 2004 Title:   13 Bangladeshi hospitalized due to the torture of the Burmese Nasaka Date of publication:   24 April 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   13 wardens convicted for 20 years deported from Sittwe Jail Date of publication:   04 February 2004 Description/subject:   Sittwe, February 4: "13 jail wardens, sentenced to 20 years imprisonments for alleged conspiratorial activities against the state have been transferred to different jails in different parts of Burma from Sittwe jail. One of these jails includes Inn Sein Central jail in Rangoon. These events have unfolded during the end of December 2003..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   06 February 2004 Title:   140 FOREIGNERS MOVED FROM BANDARBAN JAIL Date of publication:   09 April 2002 Description/subject:   "A total of 140 Myanmar and Thai nationals were shifted to Comilla and Noakhali jail from Bandarban jail yesterday on charge of agitating in custody..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   BSS, Bandaban, "The Daily Star" via ,Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   154 Foreigners including Burmese nationals in Bangladeshi jail Date of publication:   19 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 19th July 03: "There are 154 foreign prisoners lingering in a Bangladeshi jail about one hundred kilometres southeast to the capital Dhaka. Due to legal complexities arising from disinclination of the relevant governments their prison terms have been protracted though their prison terms expired a number of years ago, reported BSS. Of the total prisoners 76 persons are from Burma, 75 from Thailand, and the rest three from India. A recently released Burmese prisoner said to Narinjara that the said Thai prisoners are in fact illegal Burmese workers who were on board illegal Thai fishing boats when they were arrested on several occasions..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   19 July 2003 Title:   17 Burmese Prisoners Handed Over to Burmese Authorities Date of publication:   07 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8.6K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   17 Muslim Burmese Refugees Arrested in Bangladesh Date of publication:   16 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6.7K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   18 Burmese citizens rescued from traffickers Date of publication:   09 July 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, July 9: "Bangladesh police yesterday rescued 18 Burmese citizens including nine children from human traffickers in a residential hotel of Dhaka, according to a local news agency. Police also arrested three alleged human traffickers who brought the Burmese citizens to Dhaka for trafficking them out to Saudi Arabia with Bangladeshi passport..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   183 sophisticated weapons confiscated near the Burma-Bangladeshi border during 2004 Date of publication:   12 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   2 articles Date of publication:   26 June 2002 Description/subject:   14 Burmese nationals held from Dhaka airport. Bangladeshi Foreign Minister invited to Burma Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   2 Burmese Muslims arrested for arms smuggling Date of publication:   10 November 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar, Nov 10: "Two Burmese Muslim hailed from northern Arakan, Burma and 2 women were arrested by Bangladesh police on November 7 when they were trading ammunitions of sophisticated AK 47 rifles at a hotel of Cox’sbazar, said a local official in a statement. Acting on a tip-off, the Bangladesh police raid the hotel and arrested Burmese nationals Siddique Ahmed, his son Yunus and two women..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   17 November 2004 Title:   2 constables critically wounded after clash with army Date of publication:   06 February 2005 Description/subject:   Gwa, February 6: "Two private police were critically wounded after a clash with army personnel, in Gwa Township, in southern Arakan State, said a police source. The victims were identified as Constable San Aye and Ko Ko Aung, both of which are now in a local hospital. A group of army personnel attacked a police compound with sticks and stones in Gwa on the night of January 30th..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   20,000 People face new threat Due to Naff River Overflow Date of publication:   01 July 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   2000 bags of urea seized by Bangladeshi navy Date of publication:   27 January 2005 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, January 27: "On January 20, the Bangladeshi navy ship, SR Amin, seized 2000 bags of urea fertilizer worth about 3 million Taka (45 million Burmese Kyat) from a smuggling boat near Burma’s water, said an official report..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   23 Bangladeshi Prisoners Returned by Burma Date of publication:   27 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7.3K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   24 Bangladeshis arrive at Dhaka airport after 1-year jail term in Burma Date of publication:   16 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   27 Muslims arrested with human trafficking gang in Akyab Date of publication:   28 February 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, Feb 28: "27 Muslims were arrested by Akyab police, along with a trafficking gang, while they were preparing to depart to Malaysia by motor boat, said a police report. The incident took place in the middle of the night, on 24 February, when police arrested them in the Than Ban Chaung Creek, near the Akyab main post office..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   04 March 2005 Title:   27-man Burmese hockey team arrives in Dhaka for joint training Date of publication:   12 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   3 mango traders hospitalized in Bangladesh after gun shot by Nasaka Date of publication:   17 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   30 Bangladeshi released from Burmese Jails Date of publication:   22 December 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 22 December 02: "Some 30 Bangladeshi fishermen who were released from various jails in Burma returned home through Teknaf frontier on December 18, according to today's local presses of Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   30 Political Prisoners Released in Independence Day Amnesty Date of publication:   04 January 2007 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   300 prisoners dispatched to Mawlamyine Date of publication:   15 February 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, February 15: "200 prisoners from the Akyab prison were sent to Mawlamyine, a capital of Mon State, by Burma’s authority on 30 January, according to a relative of a prisoner..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   15 February 2005 Title:   3000 Bags of Smuggled Fertilizer Seized Near Burma Waters Date of publication:   10 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8.1K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   329 Muslim families flee to Bangladesh in 2006 Date of publication:   19 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   36 Burmese insurgents detained at Port Blair face the danger of being deported to Burma Date of publication:   15 December 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Dec 15: "36 Burmese nationals who have been under detention for more than six years without any sentences face the grim danger of being deported to Burma. A detainee says, “The police has taken our names and address in Burma. We had given these details before, and it is a bit strange collecting such information again. Usually, such information is collected before deportation to Burma, we are very concerned about this.”..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   36 people dead in Burma by tidal waves: Military Junta Date of publication:   29 December 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, Dec 29: "The Burmese military junta confessed in a government newspaper report that there were 36 people dead in Burma after massive tidal waves, caused by a severe intensity earthquake in the Andaman Sea, hit the coast..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   10 January 2005 Title:   4 army personnel arrested for a gang rape of teenage girl in Arakan Date of publication:   06 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   4 Bangladeshi woodcutters have been abducted by the Burmese Army Date of publication:   08 April 2005 Description/subject:   Cox'sbazar, April 8: "4 Bangladeshi woodcutters were abducted by the Burmese Army from deep forest on the Burma-Bangladesh border on April 4th, said a local headman from the area..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   4 Burmese Refugees Arrested for Spying Date of publication:   23 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Danik" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   4 ferrymen arrested in Maungdaw Date of publication:   11 January 2005 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, January 11: "Four ferrymen were arrested by town authorities when it was discovered that 7 Arakanese people were sent back to Bangladesh on their boats. The arrestees are identified as Than Maung Chay, Nyi Pu, U Sein Mg and Bo Thein Tan, all are from the Aung Bala quarter of Maungdaw..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   4000 Evicted Rohingyas camp near Teknaf border Date of publication:   20 November 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 20th November 02: "Evicted by a combined police and army drive, at least 4,000 Muslim Rohingyas have taken shelter at a makeshift camp nears Teknaf border, according to the daily star..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   49 Rakhaing Nationals captured from Thai water - Malaysia is their destination Date of publication:   23 December 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Dec 23: "Thailand authority captured 49 Rakhaing nationals from its territorial water from a motorboat found floating on the way to Malaysia from Arakan of Burma, airs RFA this morning session..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   RFA via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   23 December 2003 Title:   5 businessmen released on bail following joint arrest with Nasaka official Date of publication:   16 February 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, February 16: "5 businessmen were released on bail after they had been arrested with a Nasaka commander last month. "Yes, they are now free, but they are on bail," said a relative of one of the men. He didn't, however, divulge the amount of the bail. The businessmen were released from the Akyab Jail on 12 February..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   26 February 2005 Title:   54 Burmese Muslims arrested while illegally entering Bangladesh Date of publication:   01 February 2005 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazar, January 1: "54 Burmese Muslims were arrested by the Bangladesh Rifle (BDR) in a border town of Bangladesh on Tuesday, said a report in Cox's Bazaar Base’s Bangle newspaper, The Daily Ajker Desh Bidesh, on 28 January. According to local sources, BDR arrested the 54 while they were trying to cross a border pass near the Marit Tha BDR outpost, under the Okia Township of the Cox's Bazaar District, to enter Bangladesh. The group came from Arakan State, Burma but their names and addresses were not disclosed in the paper..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   56 Burmese Muslims Arrested on Boat Date of publication:   21 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   6 Burmese Muslims arrested for illegal entry into Bangladesh Date of publication:   25 March 2005 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazar, March 25: "6 Burmese Muslims, known as Rohingya, were arrested by Bangladeshi police while attempting to enter Bangladesh through a border pass, said a recent police report..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   6 people, including 5 Italians, died when their boat sank in Arakan State Date of publication:   30 November 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, November 30: "6 people, including 5 Italians,died when their boat sank in Arakan State in western Burma, on Sunday, according to an Akyab resident..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2004 Title:   68 Days Abducted Burmese Citizens Rescued By Bangladesh Police Date of publication:   25 November 2003 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, November 25: "Cox’s Bazar police rescued a Burmese citizen abducted by Bangladesh miscreants after 68 days of abduction..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   16 December 2003 Title:   7 Burma delegation arrives at Dhaka for border talks Date of publication:   19 May 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 19 May 03: "A seven-member Burma delegation led by Director General of Immigration U Maung Thay arrived at Dhaka yesterday to attend the meeting, according to today the ..." The team also brings together officials from immigration, migration, social welfare and relief ministries. Language:   English Source/publisher:   �Daily Star� via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (4K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   7 Rohingya robbers held in Bangladesh Date of publication:   29 August 2003 Description/subject:   Chittagong, 29th August 03: "Police arrested seven Rohingya robbers from remote Saypara village under Alikadam Township of Bandarban district on Wednesday night, according to today the daily star..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   70 people gunned down by Burmese Navy Date of publication:   04 February 2005 Description/subject:   Taknef, February 4: "At least 70 people were reportedly gunned down in Burmas waters by the Burmese Navy on January 22nd, while they were attempting to enter into Bangladesh, from Burma, across the Naff River, by boats containing smuggled rice. The incident took place near the village of Kyauk Pandu, which is located on the eastern bank of the Naff River, in Maung Daw Township, opposite Taknef, Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   70 Rakhine Buddha Statues stolen in two years Date of publication:   12 May 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 12 May 03: "Theft of Buddha statues from the temples of the Rakhine Community in Bangladesh is unabated in the Rakhine dominated areas like Amtali, Galachipa in Barguna district, Kalapara and Kuakata people feeling insecured in the performance of their religious rites, according to the independent on 10th May 03..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   76 BURMESE NATIONALS TO RETURN HOME THIS MONTH Date of publication:   21 June 2002 Description/subject:   SYLHET, June 21: "The Myanmar government has agreed to bring back its 76 national from Selhet jail whose terms of imprisonment ended in 1998..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   76 Burmese Prisoners to go back home from Bangladesh Date of publication:   12 June 2002 Description/subject:   Narinjara news Dhaka, June 12: "Seventy-six Burmese prisoners detained in the prison in the north-eastern district of Sylhet in Bangladesh will go back home after five years' imprisonment, sources said..." Language:   English Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   8 Burmese cheated by a local then arrested Date of publication:   06 October 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar October 6, 2004: "8 Burmese Muslims working illegally in a southern district of Bangladesh were caught and handed over to the police on September 27 when they were falsely identified as robbers by the local villagers, according to regional sources. The Burmese detainees, which were illegal immigrants to Bangladesh, were working together with a local man named Habibullah in Khutakhali Village in the Cox’s Bazar District where they earned 4000/-Taka altogether from their hard job. The local cheated them out of their earnings and ran away to his village Gazaria, which is in the same district..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   04 November 2004 Title:   9 Arakanese arrested by MI for complaining to Prime Minister Khin Nyunt Date of publication:   09 August 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, August 9: "9 Arakanese people were arrested by Burma Military Intelligence in Pauk Taw Township for sending a letter to PM Khin Nyunt expressing their dissatisfaction over the delivery of storm aid to victims. According to our correspondent, some of those arrested were U Aung Thaung, former chairman of Sai Tauk village under the Pauk Taw Township, U Mae Aung, retired primary headmaster from Pauk Taw town, and U Maung Tun Tha, a trader from Pauk Taw. The remaining arrestees are from Sai Tauk and Kyuat Suu village of Pauk Taw Township..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   12 August 2004 Title:   9 COMPANY CHIEFS ARRESTED IN BURMA Date of publication:   24 September 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, September 24: "The heads of nine private import and export companies have been arrested and had their assets seized in the latest crackdown on trading irregularities, according to yesterday's "The Daily Star" quoted from AFP. Language:   English Source/publisher:   AFP via "Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   A Bangladeshi newspaper blames the Burmese Junta for construction delays Date of publication:   22 September 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, September 22: "There is still no sign of a transnational highway between Burma and Bangladesh, despite the fact that construction should have started over a year ago. A Cox’s Bazar, Bengali newspaper, the Daily Saikat recently blamed the Burmese junta for the delay. Burma and Bangladesh agreed to start building the 133 kilometre-long highway between Ramu in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh to Bolly Zee in Burma. The construction period was supposed to start in 2003 and finish by 2008-9. However, there has not been any preparation form the Burmese government authority and hence the construction has not started..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   23 September 2004 Title:   A Battalion Commander Forced To Resign Date of publication:   08 January 2004 Description/subject:   Buthe Daung, January 8: "Lieutenant Colonel Win Myint of Buthe Daung Military region of Arakan State resigned from his military service, as he was unable to carry out duties assigned to him, in the last week of December 2003, reports our correspondent. The reason behind his resignation was that he could not fulfil his quota in recruiting at least two new soldiers a month..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   08 January 2004 Title:   A Burmese guerrilla group is suspected in the kidnapping of 5 Bangladeshis Date of publication:   04 April 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, April 4: A guerrilla group from Burma is suspected in the kidnapping of 5 Bangladeshis from a work site in the Bandaban district town of Bangladesh during the early hours of April 2, reported local sources. "According to an official source, up to eight criminals abducted the five at gunpoint from a labour shed in Bangchhari, 15 km from the Roangchhari Township's headquarters in Bandaban Hill district..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   A Burmese minor girl student in Bangladesh jail without trial Date of publication:   14 June 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar, June 14: "A minor Arakanese girl student continues to be held in a Bangladeshi jail without being produced before the court. The girl, about 12 years old, was arrested along with three other Burmese citizens, according to our reporter. The girl, known as Loon Thon Ma (12), was arrested along with three other relatives while coming from Burma to Bangladesh. According to a relative, the four were visiting their relatives at Cox’sbazar during school holidays during the Sangran water festival..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   A Burmese Muslim refugee girl committed suicide in Bangladesh Date of publication:   26 April 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   A forced-laboured woman narrowly escaped the rape from a soldier, the brother hacked the soldier Date of publication:   24 November 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Nov 24: "A woman who is working at the forced labour camp in Kyauk Phyu Township narrowly escaped rape from a SPDC soldier. The brother of the woman attacked the soldier with a machete and the soldier badly wounded in both arms according to a statement of Arakan League for Democracy (Bangladesh Branch) dated November 16..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2004 Title:   A huge arms and ammunition seized from Burma-Bangladesh border Date of publication:   24 February 2004 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazar, Feb 24: "After two men from Arakan Army were arrested by Bangladesh Army last week, the Bangladesh security forces recovered a huge arms and ammunitions from Burma- Bangladesh border..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (2K) Date of entry/update:   24 February 2004 Title:   A millionaire Nasaka officer arrested in Arakan State Date of publication:   12 November 2004 Description/subject:   Maung Daw, Nov 12: "A millionaire Nasaka officer on November 6 was arrested in Maung Daw, a northern Burma-Bangledeshi border town. Aung Zaya, a sergeant, was arrested by military personnel in the (3) Mile gate Nasaka check-point of Maung Daw, where he worked as a monitor and was in-charge. According to a police officer, the authorities seized 30 million Kyat and 47 gold bars from him and his interrogation continues..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   17 November 2004 Title:   A New Decree From the Chief of Arakan Date of publication:   10 September 2003 Description/subject:   Akyab, 10th September 03: "A new decree has been issued by the Chief of Arakan, the chairman of the Arakan State Peace and Development Council, and this decree is creating hardship for the town people in Akyab ( Sittwe), the capital of Arakan state, according to our correspondent from Akyab..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   11 September 2003 Title:   A robber killed by army in northern Arakan Date of publication:   17 May 2005 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, May 17: "One man was killed and three were arrested by the Burmese army during a robbery in northern Arakan state on 7 May, said an official source. The man was killed when a 12 member robbery gang, holding some sophisticated arms, robbed a house in Thik Tonar- Kwasoom village under Maung Daw Township. The deceased was identified as Ei Nurl, 35, from the nearby village of Owe Thain..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   A taskforce to stop smuggling in the unguarded seas Date of publication:   15 September 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 15th September 03: "The smuggling in of fish, spices, textile goods and drugs worth millions of taka from Burma has raised high concern in Bangladesh. The rampant smuggling prevalent in the open unguarded waters of the Bay of Bengal has challenged the border trade between the two neighbours. The realization of revenue has also come down in the last year. In these circumstances the concerned officials have appealed to the Ministry of Home Affairs for the formation of a high-powered taskforce comprised of police, customs and coastguard..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   28 September 2003 Title:   A TWO DAY LONG YOUTH AND STUDENTS' DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP CONCLUDED IN MYANMAR BANGLADESH BORDER Date of publication:   08 February 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 8th February 02: "A two day long Youth and Students' Development workshop was successfully completed in a place on the Myanmar Bangladesh border, a spokesman from the National United Party of Arakan told our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   A woman may get a 3 years imprisonment for the construction of a house on her own land Date of publication:   22 July 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, July 22: "A woman, Ma Tha Nu from Akyab city, has been facing a lawsuit in district court, for constructing a house on her own land, said a lawyer from Akyab. Ma the Nu was detained by police in February of this year, on Lieutenant Cornel Maung Oo’s order, as she was building a one story building on her land. Lieutenant Cornel Maung Oo is a chairman of Arakan State who has not allowed the construction of any building on the said plot..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   A young Rakhaing woman was caught red-handed with about 5 grams of heroin Date of publication:   30 May 2005 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazaar, May 30, 2005: "A young Rakhaing woman aged 22 was arrested holding 5 grams of heroin by the Narcotics Department in Cox's Bazaar, the southernmost district town of Bangladesh near the Burmese border, on 28 May, according to a local townsperson. She was caught red-handed when narcotics officers raided the woman's house during the day..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   A young teacher died at Nasaka interrogation camp. Security on high alert Date of publication:   02 May 2004 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, May 2: "A young religious Muslim teacher was died in interrogation camp after he was arrested by Nasaka, Burma Border Security Force at Maung Daw in Arakan state. Now security is put to high alert in the area as a precaution measure against unsatisfied sentiment in Muslim community therein, as observed by the authority, reports our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   06 May 2004 Title:   AASYC joins hands with Bangladeshi activists against the tri-nation Gas Pipeline Project Date of publication:   11 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Advance Money for Rice oh yes, for Exploitation too Date of publication:   04 September 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 4 September 02: "The Burmese junta has started to distribute advance money for future 'rice purchase' from rice farmers beginning the first week of last month, according to sources in the administration who declined to identify..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Akyab police without salary for one year Date of publication:   24 June 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, June 24: "For more than one year, Akyab police have not been receiving their salary, according to a policeman of the Mro-Ma police station. One policeman said the authorities are unable to pay police salaries because the money was already spent on entertainment for high-ranking central officials on their visit to Arakan state..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Akyab seaport jetty still damaged after last year’s cyclone Date of publication:   03 March 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, March 3: "An Akyab seaport jetty, a main port jetty of Arakan State, is still in need of repair since it was damaged by last year's May 19 cyclone as the government has neglected to repair it, said a businessmen from Akyab. U Kyaw, a prominent businessman, said yesterday that there has been enough time to rebuild the jetty, since the incident took place 10 months ago, but so far the government does not have any plan to rebuild it..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   04 March 2005 Title:   Akyab- Myuk Oo steamer's passengers in trouble Date of publication:   29 March 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab(Sittwe), March 29: "One of the line steamers operating between Akyab and Mrauk Oo's passengers have to pay extra money because the steamer gives preference to police, which leaves little space for an everyday citizen..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   29 March 2004 Title:   Akyab’s troubled jetty giving trouble to the public Date of publication:   21 September 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, September 21: "The Arakan State’s capital, Akyab, saw its principal jetty destroyed by a storm four months ago. So far the Burmese authority has done nothing to rebuild it. Consequently the Arakanese public is now facing severe inflation on imported goods due to a lack of docking facilities, which are costing importers both time and money..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   23 September 2004 Title:   ALD (Exile) General Secretary Passed away Date of publication:   18 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 18th July 2003: "A prominent leader of the Arakan League for Democracy (ALD) (exile), Khaing Myo Khaing, passed away at a hospital in Chiang Mai, a northern city of Thailand, at 4:10am on 18 July 2003. He was 55 years old..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   19 July 2003 Title:   ALD demands a genuine statehood for Arakan State Date of publication:   15 December 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka: December 15: "The Arakan League for Democracy (in Exile) today issued a statement for Arakan State Day..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   ALD protests Burma’s Foreign Minister visit to Dhaka Date of publication:   26 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, February 26: "At least 5 people from the Arakan League for Democracy-Exile (ALD) held a demonstration against Burma’s Foreign Minister Nyan Win’s visit to Bangladesh in front of the Bangladesh high court, close to Bangladesh foreign ministry office, on 24 Feb. The demonstrators held signboards and banners denouncing Nyan Win’s trip to Bangladesh and their displeasure in Burma’s upcoming national convention..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   26 February 2005 Title:   ALD-exile holds a press conference in Dhaka Date of publication:   13 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, February 13: "In a press conference at the Dhaka press club yesterday, the Vice president of the Arakan League for Democracy-Exile (ALD) urged the people of Burma to join together in the opposition of the SPDC sponsored National Convention (NC), which will resume on 17 February. U San Hla Pru, Vice president of the ALD, said a new constitution drawn by the military government would not develop any political affairs of Burma’s future. He said that people need to understand why the SPDC is holding the National Convention without any political parties and leaders, and that people should together react against such a sham of a convention..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   15 February 2005 Title:   Amnesty for a Burmese Journalist requested Date of publication:   25 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 25th March 03: "A number of Burmese Opposition support groups including Burma Support Group, Norway, have appealed to the Prime Minister of India for the amnesty of a reputed Burmese journalist in exile, Mr Soe Myint, whose Mizzima News Group is based in New Delhi, according to an open letter to Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, the PM of India, dated 20th March 2003..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Amy collects toll for bank savings Date of publication:   17 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (14K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   An Arakanese Youth Political Activist Arrives in Bangladesh Date of publication:   03 July 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, July 3: "Last week an Arakanese youth pro-democracy political activists of Burma fled Bangladesh to avoid persecution by the Burmese military government. He had been under close watch by military intelligence since his assignment to work on Aung San Suu Kyi’s security team during her last year visit to Arakan State. Besides, he participated in a reception program leading his party members from Akyab with the people of Ponna Kyuan, a township 20 miles away from Akyab, our source said..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   ANC strongly protests against National Convention Date of publication:   17 May 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, May 17: "Arakan National Council (ANC) in a statement expressed their opinion about the SPDC National Convention that is going to be held today (May 17) as will not bring any benefit to the people of Burma. In the statement issued by ANC on 15th May said, by this convention the military junta is only trying to stay longer in power and lengthen its rule..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   21 May 2004 Title:   Ancient Artefacts of Arakan Handover Date of publication:   25 March 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, March 25: "An Arakanese monk donated invaluable 5 ancient coins of Pyu age to National museum of Burma through the SPDC’s minister. This donation ceremony was held at Padawmoh monastery of Pridawtha quarter in Akyab (Sittwe), provincial city of Arakan state, on 19th March..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   ANCIENT RAKHINE CITY : NEGLECTED BY JUNTA HEAD AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION Date of publication:   08 January 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 8th January 02: "Though Mrauk-u in Rakhine State is one of the ancient cities of Myanmar, the ancient city lacks all the repair and regular maintenance of the other Burmese cities like Pagan, Nyaung-oo, and Mandalay..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9k) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Another Burmese refugee woman arrested for spying Date of publication:   29 May 2005 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, May 29: "A Burmese Muslim refugee woman was arrested by Bangladesh police, suspected of having a connection with Burmese military intelligence.." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Another Huge cache of arms recovered from Burma-Bangladesh border Date of publication:   10 January 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, January 10: "Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) recovered a number of sophisticated arms and ammunitions from the Burma-Bangladesh border on January 6, according to a local news agency. Among the confiscated weapons were 11 AK-47 rifles, 53 magazines, and 1506 bullets, all of which were discovered in an old insurgent camp..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   10 January 2005 Title:   Another Rohingya youth gun down by Nasaka at Maungdaw Date of publication:   03 October 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, Oct 3: "A Rohingya youth was gun down into the Naaf River by Burmese Nasaka forces at Maungdaw Township, western part of Burma, according to our correspondent. .." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Anti-repatriation Leaflets in the Burmese Refugee Camps Date of publication:   10 May 2003 Description/subject:   Cox�s Bazaar, 10th May 03: "Members of the anti-repatriation group of Burmese refugees in one of the refugee camps in Cox�s Bazaar in the southern part of Bangladesh have taken a tough stand face to face with the administration, according to a source in the camp at Kutupalong in the district..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Arakan Becomes the Land of Crime Due to Economic Hardship Date of publication:   10 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Arakan gas campaigners hold press conference in Dhaka Date of publication:   14 January 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, January 14: "A group of Arakanese gas campaigners held a joint press conference, titled “To Resist Plundering of Oil-Gas,” with Bangladeshi student’s leaders of the Student-Youth Movement to Resist Plundering of Oil-Gas and local social activists in Dhaka on January 13th. The conference began around 3 PM yesterday in a press club of Dhaka with 50 participants including journalist, reporters, and radio producers in attendance..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   Arakan group's posters speak out against the SPDC Date of publication:   01 March 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, March 1: "A group of Arakanese patriots spoke out against the Burmese military junta by posting anti-government posters on a street wall, the night of 17 Feb, said one shop owner from the Akyab central market. The posters demanded that the invading Burmese forces leave Arakan State, that they stop the National Convention, and that they cease the foreign sales of Arakan gas..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   04 March 2005 Title:   Arakan League for Democracy, Bangladesh Branch reorganised Date of publication:   07 November 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, November 7: "The Bangladesh branch of Arakan League for Democracy (In Exile) is being re-organised according to the ALD’s statement issued on the November 6. This reorganisation of the Bangladesh Branch occurred on November third and fourth, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The statement said this reorganisation is to make the Bangladesh Branch to be a more solid and united party unit and to be able to implement the party policies more effectively..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   17 November 2004 Title:   Arakan National Council holds ceremony commemorating the fall of Arakan Date of publication:   02 January 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka: January 2: "The 220th Anniversary of the fall of Arakan was commemorated by the Arakan National Council (ANC) in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the 31st of December. Eighty, exiled Arakanese from Bangladesh attended the ceremony. Theses attendees included monks, students and youths, representatives of women and labour organisations..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   10 January 2005 Title:   Arakan Prawn Industry Suffering Date of publication:   18 November 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, November 18: "Due to the decline of export demand, the prawn industry in the Arakan state has suffered this year, according to our correspondent inside Arakan. The demand has dropped since America imposed trade sanctions on Burma. Malaysia and Singapore used to import a large proportion of the prawns from Burma, but there is no demand from them this year..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   29 November 2003 Title:   Arakan rice trade restricted by the military junta Date of publication:   12 November 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, November 12: "The local authority of the Arakan state asked the rice traders to make a contribution to the Arakan State Peace and Development Council and for the Border Security Forces Nasaka. A rice trader from Sittwe said a rice bag (50 kg) incurs 200 kyats for the fund of Arakan SPDC and 300 kyats at the Nasaka checkpoint No 25 on the Rangoon- Sittwe ( Akyab) highway..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   17 November 2003 Title:   Arakan State NLD general secretary passes away Date of publication:   29 July 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, July 29: "Arakan State NLD general secretary, U Tha Kyaw, died in a clinic in Rangoon on 25 July. He had previously been moved, for better treatment, from his residence of Akyab to the Shwe Gondin specialist clinic in Rangoon, however his health quickly deteriorated there..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Arakan State Peace and Development Council Chairman in deep trouble after demolition of a mosque in Arakan Date of publication:   09 September 2003 Description/subject:   Akyab, 9th September 03: "Arakan State Peace and Development Council Chairman, Major General Maung Oo is in deep trouble right now, after ordering the demolition of a mosque in Akyab (Sittwe), the capital of Arakan state, according to a reliable source..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   Arakan’s Border Security Chief accused of being involved in heroin traffic Date of publication:   25 November 2004 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, Nov 25: "The Acting Chief of the Burmese Border Security forces, or Nasaka, from Maung Daw has been charged with involvement in heroin traffic on November 13, said a police officer but he denied to disclose his name. Lieutenant Colonel Myint Oo was detained at the base of the Light Infantry Division (233) at Buthi Daung Township, and the Chief of Arakan Police Nyo Win is heading the investigation on the Lt. Col’s involvement..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2004 Title:   Arakanese community sends appeal for detainees' release Date of publication:   19 January 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, January 19: "Appeals written by the Diasporas Arakanese Community for the detainees held by India’s government, on India’s Andaman Island, has been sent to several government heads as well as the international community in hopes of helping to avoid a handover of the Arakanese detainees to Burma’s military government. The detainees in question are likely to be freed from jail this month but India’s government may hand them over to the SPDC, Burma’s ruling military junta..." For this reason the Diasporas Arakanese Community is anxious for their fate, as they predict that they may face the death sentence in Burma. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   Arakanese Democracy Activist Dies After Release From Jail Date of publication:   09 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Arakanese dies while fleeing from Malaysian Police Date of publication:   21 December 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Dec 21: "An Arakanese working in Malaysia without a valid working permit had a fatal car accident while fleeing from the Malaysian police last week..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   Arakanese exiles hold demonstration in Dhaka Date of publication:   09 August 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, August 9: "At least 80 exiles from Arakan State held a demonstration in front of the Bangladesh high court premise, in Dhaka, yesterday in honor of the 16th anniversary day of 8-8-88. The 3 Arakanese organizations that participated in the demonstration included the Working Committee for Demonstration Restoration in Burma (WCDRB), Arakan League for Democracy (Exile) and the All Arakan Students and Youth Congress (AASYC)..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   12 August 2004 Title:   Arakanese farmers face troubles as paddy prices fall Date of publication:   17 September 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, Sep 17: "Arakanese farmers have been struggling for survival as paddy prices have recently fallen in Arakan State. The price of 100 tinn, (250 baskets), of high quality paddy has fallen to 45,000 kyat from a recent price of 80,000 kyat and another lower quality paddy has fallen from 50,000 to 20,000 kyat. It is first time the paddy price has fallen in Arakan State since the Burmese military seized control in 1988, said a trader from Maung daw..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 September 2004 Title:   Arakanese Farmers Forced to Sell Rice to the Burmese Army Date of publication:   23 March 2004 Description/subject:   Sittwe, March 23: "The troops under the Western Command of the Burmese Army have been buying rice from the Arakanese local farmers since February the 16th. Though some farmers received money in return, in some areas there have been cases of farmers being robbed of rice by the army..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   Arakanese for Democracy in Exile: STATEMENT ON THE 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 8-8-88 DEMOCRATIC UPRISING IN BURMA Date of publication:   08 August 2002 Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Arakanese Migrant Workers are facing an uncertain future after being sacked from their jobs in Thailand Date of publication:   06 April 2005 Description/subject:   BKK, April 6: "Many Arakanese Migrant workers employed by Thai fishing companies are now finding their survival under threat as they have been sacked from their jobs following the petrol crisis in Thailand. An Arakanese fisherman, employed at a company in Chumphon, said “Yes, it is true that the fishery workers are being dismissed from their jobs because many Thai fishing trawlers have been forced to stop their work at present. This is due to the increase in petrol prices which mean that they can’t afford the fuel.” The fishery companies have therefore sacked a number of fishery workers, especially those who were working on fishing trawlers as they have been hit particularly hard by the crisis in the fishery sector..." Author/creator:   Aung Kyaw Tun Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   Arakanese new year festival is knocking at the door Date of publication:   11 April 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, April 11: "The Arakanese new year festival, Thun Gram, will be held on April 17th, and the entire Arakanese population of the Arakan state and Burma proper, as well as Bangladesh, are preparing to celebrate..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   Arakanese Opposition: on Friday Massacre Date of publication:   10 June 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 10 June 2003: "The Arakan Independence Alliance, an umbrella organization of the National United Party of Arakan and Arakan Rohingya National Organization, welcomed the strong stand taken by the US in consideration of imposing further sanctions against the ruling Burmese military clique due to the crisis arising from the recent De-Pe-Yin massacre on 30th May in a statement released on 8th June 03..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   13 June 2003 Title:   Arakanese Orchids on the verge of extinction Date of publication:   26 April 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, April 26: "Orchids in the wilderness of Arakan, a western state in Burma are threatened with extinction due to their high demand from exporters to China. One viz of orchid costs 8,000 kyats in Akyab, and a ton would attract US $ 4000 dollar in China-Burma border..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   05 May 2004 Title:   ARAKANESE ORGANIZATION JOINTLY HELD 57TH ANNIVERSARY OF ANTI JAPANESE FASCIST REVOLUTION DAY Date of publication:   28 March 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 28 March 2002: "It is reported that 57 Anniversary of Anti Japanese fascist revolutionary day was held in Dhaka at the National Health and Education Council office on 11 AM, 27th March..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Arakanese people from border area desert their homes after prohibition of hill-side cultivation Date of publication:   24 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Arakanese Political parties welcome US sanctions on Burma Date of publication:   18 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 18th July 03: "Following US House of Representative’s overwhelming vote in favour of sanctioning Burma, the Arakanese political parties in exile in a statement dated today welcomed the move. Seven Arakanese political parties representing the Arakanese people welcomed the 418 -2 House vote on 15th July 03 that occurred a month after the 97 -1 Senate vote. They hoped the move would give a strong support to the cause of restoration of democracy..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   19 July 2003 Title:   Arakanese Political Prisoners Released Date of publication:   07 July 2005 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Arakanese worker killed by snooker owner in Malaysia Date of publication:   07 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   ARGUMENT OVER THE ARREST OF A UNHCR EMPLOYEE IN SOUTH WESTERN MYANMAR Date of publication:   06 February 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 6th February 02: "There has been an argument between a UNHCR officer and a Nasaka immigration and security forces major on the arrest of a local Muslim UNHCR employee without any information either to the UNHCR office or to the arrested person's family in the border town at the south-western state of Myanmar, creating a lot of speculations among the local residents as well as the international NGOs working in the area..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Army collects tax from slash-and-burn cultivators Date of publication:   08 April 2005 Description/subject:   Platwa, April 8: "Local Burmese army personnel have ordered cultivators of slash and burn practices to pay tax at the Platwa army battalion headquarters if they want to cultivate in the surrounding hill areas, said a local tribal leader. Platwa Township lies in the southern part of Chin State, close to Arakan. It is an area of Burma containing diverse ethnic groups, including Arakanese, Chin, Khami, Mro, Mru and Lingray. Slash and burn is a traditional practice of these ethnic groups..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   Army Commander Detained and 20 Soldiers Dispelled After Inner Clash Date of publication:   22 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Army demolishes village for making recreation park Date of publication:   16 December 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, December 16: "Army has demolished 100 houses from Kya Mothouk village nearby the headquarter of the Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 20, Sittwe Township, on 29 November to construct Nadarwan Garden Park for the recreation of the soldiers, said a headman from the village..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   16 December 2003 Title:   Army officer arrested for the killing of 3 deserters Date of publication:   25 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Army sergeant arrested for attempted rape Date of publication:   25 January 2005 Description/subject:   Buthidaung, January 25: "A new arrival army sergeant from Burma proper was arrested for attempting a rape a captain's wife in Buthidaung, 80 miles north of the Arakan capital of Akyab, according to army sources. The sergeant was identified as Aung Myo Oo from the newly formed organization of Burma's Military Government Army Security..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   Arrested Burmese refugee released Date of publication:   15 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   ASIAN MINISTER MEET IN RANGOON NEXT WEEK Date of publication:   31 March 2002 Description/subject:   RANGOON, March 30: "Finance minister and senior central bank officials from 13 Asia countries including Japan and China will meet in the Burma capital of Rangoon next week to discuss regional economic integration..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Auctioning means more pain for the Arakanese People Date of publication:   14 April 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, April 14: "The military junta in Arakan is auctioning permits to operate markets, ports, bus stations and even to sell alcohol. The price of all the permits has been rising and the public is facing economic hardship. These permits do not have any guidelines in acquiring fees from the ventures, the permit winners are charging as much as they like..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   05 May 2004 Title:   August 13 the Rice Killing Day: Painted in "Patches of Blood" on Streets and Important Buildings Date of publication:   20 August 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 20 August 02: "In the night of August 12th, unidentified persons painted blood-coloured patches on the main streets and many important buildings of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, according to our special correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   August Rice Killing Day observed Date of publication:   13 August 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 13th August 03: "Reports have been received about the observation of the 13th August Rice Killing Day across Rakhine State, in the western part of Burma. Rakhine people from all walks of life commemorated the day with heavy hearts in remembrance of hundreds of people killed this day in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, 36 years ago..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   22 August 2003 Title:   Authorities census on immigration Burmese national in Bangladesh Date of publication:   11 March 2005 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazar, March 11: "The Bangladeshi authority is now looking closely at the number of Burmese immigrants living in the southern districts that border Burma, said a local source. "The authorities ask us to collect the numbers of Burmese nationals who are living in our village, the list of the persons who have matrimonial ties with the locals and the period of their settlements here," said a member of the village governing body of Bwaidaw Para Village in Ramu Township, Cox’sbazar District, Bangladesh. Similarly, the local armies have already called on the head or chairman of the villages in the townships of Lama and Alae khongdong, asking for the immediate reports on any foreigners staying in the area and the lists of Burmese immigrants, detailing their matrimonial relations with the locals..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   Authority Loots Local Farms for Modern Villages Date of publication:   05 July 2005 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Authority occupies local oil fields for Chinese company Date of publication:   08 March 2005 Description/subject:   Rambree, March 8: "In Arakan State's Rambree Island, a number of families who traditionally make a living by drilling oil by hand, find there livelihood threatened as the authorities have occupied their oil fields for use by a Chinese company, said a businessman from Akyab. They face big trouble because the Burmese authorities have prohibited the local oil drillers from drilling oil from their own fields since the Chinese oil company has been allowed to explore oil in the area, said one local oil driller. Now the Chinese company is preparing to drill oil in the fields but they are not offering any compensation for the landowners, said several people from Rambree Town, situated in middle of the island..." Language:   English Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   ‘100 killed in attack on Aung San Suu Kyi convey’ Date of publication:   07 September 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 7th September 03: "Up to 100 people were killed and an unknown number of women raped in the area of northern Burma where pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s convey was attacked on May 30, Radio Free Asia said Friday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   RFA via AFP via "The Independent" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6k) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   “SPDC government provides assistance for development of Arakan state” says Prime Minister Khin Nyunt Date of publication:   23 April 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, April 23: "Prime Minister of SPDC Government in his organizing tour to Arakan state on 10th April said that his government had been providing huge assistance for the development of Arakan state. Prime Minister Khin Nyunt was making this comment all through his tour to Maung Daw, Kyauk Taw and Paletwa Township. This Arakan State tour was arranged soon after returning from visiting to Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   05 May 2004 Title:   Ban On Private Timber Mills By MI At Sandoway Date of publication:   10 February 2004 Description/subject:   Sandoway, February 10: "Recently, military intelligence (MI) personnel cancelled the permits of 20 timber mills at Sandoway, in Arakan province. The mills were under private ownership and their operations were ceased, reports our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   10 February 2004 Title:   Ban on swidden agriculture threatening Arakanese livelihoods Date of publication:   20 December 2004 Description/subject:   Lamar, Dec 20: "The Burmese military junta has placed a ban on swidden agricultural practices in the northern districts of Arakan state, Maung Daw and Buthedaung, according to a tribal leader. Most Arakanese people in northern Arakan traditionally rely on swidden or slash-and-burn cultivation for their livelihoods, and they are worried about food and product shortages resulting from the ban. Before the ban, the junta tried to “educate” the people about mountain terrain cultivation..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   Bangladesh and Burma agree to step up patrol Date of publication:   03 August 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar, August 3: "Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Burma border security force (Nasaka) have reached a consensus on strengthening patrol and checking cross-border criminal activities including thefts and robberies. The agreement was reached at a sector commander-level flag meeting of the two border security forces in the Maung Daw, Burma, on 29 July, reports BSS..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   12 August 2004 Title:   Bangladesh approves a proposal to form an inter-ministerial committee for tri-nation gas pipe line Date of publication:   10 March 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 10: "Bangladesh recently formed an inter-ministerial committee to finalize conditions for India on the proposed tri-nation gas pipeline, which will run from Burma to India through Bangladesh. Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has approved the committee will be comprised of three departmental officials from the committee from Energy Division, the Power Division, as well as the Ministry of Commerce, a repot of Energy ministry. The committee was approved by the Bangladesh PM after sending the proposal on to PM Khaleda Zia last week..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   Bangladesh army begins operation on Bangladesh-Burma border Date of publication:   27 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Bangladesh Army seize arms at Burmese Border Date of publication:   08 December 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, December 8: "The Bangladesh Army and local security forces last week seized another several hauls of illegal arms in the regions bordering Burma during a joint operation, said an official report. Another stash of arms consisting of 8 AK-47s, 8 SMGs, and 4000 rounds of bullets were discovered from two camps, which were about seven kilometres away from the border..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   Bangladesh Army seized deadly Weapons Near Bangladesh-Burma border Date of publication:   02 January 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, January 2: "Bangladesh Rifle (BDR) in an operation seized a haul of deadly weapons from Bangladesh- Burma border, according to today’s The Daily Star..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   02 January 2004 Title:   Bangladesh backs out of �Counter Trade� with Southeast Asian countries including Burma Date of publication:   28 February 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 28 February: "Bangladesh had to cancel the import of Malaysian palm oil worth 20 million US dollars through a �counter trade� plan, reports the Janakantha, a Bengali language daily in Dhaka yesterday. The intervention by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has finally compelled the government of Bangladesh to back away from a �Counter Trade� plan with Malaysia, Thailand, Russia and Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Janakantha via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Bagged 540 Million Taka from Border Tariff Last Year Date of publication:   04 July 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Bangladesh Burma border trade on strike Date of publication:   01 September 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 1st September 03: "The importers, Clearing and Forwarding agents, and the Transport Owners and Workers Federation involved in the border trade with Burma have jointly gone into strike..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Cabinet approves MOU on agricultural with Burma Date of publication:   24 December 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, December 24: "Bangladesh cabinet in its regular weekly meeting chaired by Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia approved a proposal to sign a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on agriculture between Bangladesh and Burma, reports a national daily of Bangladesh on 23rd December..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Does Not Join Tri-National Gas Pipeline Talk in New Delhi Date of publication:   06 July 2005 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (13K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Bangladesh eager to extend the MoU with Burma Date of publication:   19 May 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, May 19: "Since the Memorandum of Understanding between Burma and Bangladesh has expired on March 18th, Account Trade and Joint Commission between the two countries have not been able to form, business sources said. According to the MoU, the Account Trade consists of 24 commodities from Burma and 44 from Bangladesh. The financial transactions are to be carried out by the Burmese Investment and Commercial Bank and Sonali Bank from Bangladesh. Despite the expiry of the four-year period, the provisions of the MoU have not been implemented yet. Hence, Bangladeshi business has urged their government to reassess the Account Trade between the two countries.,," Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   21 May 2004 Title:   Bangladesh Fair in Rangoon Date of publication:   18 February 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 18 Feb. 03: "A five-day long Bangladesh Fair is scheduled to open on 20 March in Rangoon, according to a Dhaka news agency..." The fair, second from Bangladesh, is expected to project the export potentials of Bangladesh. The first trade fair held last March helped participant companies from Bangladesh receive export orders to the tune of 7 million US dollars. Language:   English Source/publisher:   An un-named Dhaka news agency via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (18K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BANGLADESH FESTIVAL IN MYANMAR FROM TOMORROW (BID TO BOOST BILATERAL TRADE) Date of publication:   25 March 2002 Description/subject:   "Against the backdrop of worst ever crisis facing the country's export sector a weeklong Bangladesh festival kicks off in Yangon tomorrow aiming to boost trade ties with Myanmar..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Festival in Myanmar to foster geometrical trade growth Date of publication:   21 March 2002 Description/subject:   March 21, 2000, Dhaka "Commerce Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury said the weeklong Bangladesh Festival in Myanmar beginning on March 26 will help foster "geometrical " trade growth between the two neighbouring countries. Addressing a briefing session with journalists on the eve of the festival, the minister said the trade growth between the two countries remains stagnant due to some avoidable circumstances but this time Myanmar government is willing to open its markets to the world especially to neighbours..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BANGLADESH FESTIVAL IN RANGOON Date of publication:   09 March 2002 Description/subject:   Cox'sbazaar, 9th March 02: "With a border trade agreement between Burma and Bangladesh already in effect, Bangladesh will launch a weeklong marketing festival in the Burmese capital of Rangoon on March 26th..." Author/creator:   hwe Lin Yun Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh finalizes revised proposal for gas pipeline Date of publication:   02 August 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, August 2: "Bangladesh has finalised a revised proposal on the Trans-Burma -Tripura-Bangladesh gas pipeline for approval by it's Prime Minister, official sources said. According to a report of yesterday’s financial Express, the Ministry of Power Energy and Mineral Resources of Bangladesh revised proposal was prepared following fresh offer by the Mohana Holdings Ltd. to install the pipeline under an international consortium after an earlier offer forwarded to the Prime Minister Khaleda Zia failed to get approval. The summary of the new offer prepared by the ministry will be submitted to its Prime Minister shortly..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Bangladesh Foreign Minister visit to Burma tomorrow Date of publication:   19 November 2002 Description/subject:   Narinjara News Dhaka, 19th November 02: "Bangladesh Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan will visit Burma November 20-22 to discuss with his counterpart U Win Aung, Foreign Minister of Burma..." Language:   English Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BANGLADESH FOREIGN SECRETARY WILL DISCUSS BORDER TRADE WITH BURMA Date of publication:   29 May 2002 Description/subject:   "Bangladesh foreign Secretary Shamser Mobin Chowdhury is due to hold official talks with Deputy Minister for foreign Affairs of Burma Khin Maung Win in Rangoon in third week of June to bolster Dhaka-Rangoon ties..." Author/creator:   Sheikh Rakib Uddin Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Independent" (Bangladesh) via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh funds Arakanese monument renovations Date of publication:   07 December 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, December 7: "The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khalida Zia visited the Arakanese villages (known as Awakyan region) under the Kawakatta Township of Pauktawa Khali district, on the 2nd of December. During her visit she promised 10 million Taka to renovate the Buddhist temples and monasteries in the region..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2004 Title:   Bangladesh government awards stipends to 153 Arakanese students from Cox’s Bazaar Date of publication:   13 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Bangladesh Govt hopes completion of repatriation of Burma refugees soon Date of publication:   03 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 4th July 03: "The Bangladesh government is hopeful that the process of repatriation of the Burmese refugees will complete in a foreseeable future, Foreign Secretary Shamsher M Chowdhury told a regular weekly briefing at his office yesterday, According to today’s the independent quoted to BSS report..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   BSS via "The Independent" (Dhaka) - or vive-versa - via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   04 July 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Keen to Establish Seaport at Teknaf for Trade with Burma Date of publication:   07 September 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 7 September 02: "Bangladesh government plans to establish a seaport at Teknaf, opposite Maungdaw, in Cox's Bazaar district mainly for export-import business with Burma, according to yesterday's "Daily Star"..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Ministers visited Burmese ships Date of publication:   12 November 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, November 12: "Two ministers of the Bangladesh government, accompanied by local officials, visited the Burmese cargo ships, docked at the Teknaf Port, which were unloading fish exported from Burma to Bangladesh, according to local reporter from border area..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   17 November 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Mulls Over Backup Telecom Cable Line Via Burma Date of publication:   11 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Bangladesh Myanmar Friendship Society: just get-together and dinner? Date of publication:   05 October 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 5th October 02: "The Bangladesh Myanmar Friendship Society held an inaugural get-together and dinner on 1st October 02 in a hotel in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, according to the local press. .." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh PM greets Burma counterpart Date of publication:   28 August 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 28th August 03: "Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has felicitated her Burma counterpart on his assumption to the office of the prime minister of the Union of Myanmar, report UNB..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   UNB via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (2K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Police arrest seven Burmese Businessmen on charges of involvement in terrorism Date of publication:   05 October 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 5 October: "Many traders in Bangladesh expressed their concern that the arrest of seven businessmen by Bangladesh police on charges of 'suspicious involvement in terrorism' on Friday may bring negative impact on the Burma - Bangladesh border trade..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   18 October 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Police seize contraceptive pills and injections worth TK half million while smuggling out to Burma. Date of publication:   20 March 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar, March 20: "Bangladesh police has seized birth control pills and injections of value more than taka 6 lacks. The contraceptive materials were carried by a bus bound to Burma border from Cox’sbazar for smuggled out , it was learned..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   Bangladesh Premier to visit Rangoon Date of publication:   22 February 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 22 February 2003: "The Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Begum Khaleda Zia is scheduled to visit Rangoon on a two day tour on the 19th March. She is expected to open a four-day long trade fair of goods from Bangladesh, reports a Bengali daily in Dhaka today..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "a Bengalli Daily" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh returns a Burmese Military Intelligence-owned smuggling vessel at a Flag Meeting Date of publication:   26 February 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 26 February: "On February 15th, after a flag meeting held between the officials of the Nasaka (Burmese Border Security Forces) and BDR (Bangladesh Rifles border security forces) at a hotel in Teknaf, the border town opposite Maungdaw Town on the Naaf River, the BDR handed over a smuggling vessel owned by the Burmese Military Intelligence ..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh Security Force seizes fertilizer being smuggled to Burma Date of publication:   15 March 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, March 15: "Bangladesh Bangladesh Defense Rifle( BDR) intercepted a boat carrying 5,000 bags of fertilizer that were being smuggling into Burma on the 21st of February..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   Bangladesh Security Forces Raid a Burmese Muslim Rebel Camp Date of publication:   08 July 2005 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Bangladesh to Set Up Petrochemical Zone near Burmese Border Date of publication:   04 January 2007 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7.4K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Bangladesh vows to crack down on drug smuggling Date of publication:   03 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2005 Title:   Bangladesh's government decides on gas pipeline Date of publication:   07 January 2005 Description/subject:   January 7, 2005: "Bangladesh's Minister for Energy and Minerals, AKM Mosharrof Hossain, will attend an international gas pipeline conference in Rangoon, Burma. Mr Hossain's duty will be to decide on whether a gas pipeline will be built through Bangladesh. The conference will run from the 12th to the 13th of January 2005. According to a report, the meeting will be attended by the Indian Petroleum Minister, Burmese officials and Mr Hossain after Bangladesh accepted a formal invitation from Burma's military government..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   10 January 2005 Title:   Bangladesh, Burma Exchanged 192 Prisoners Date of publication:   29 April 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Bangladesh, Myanmar feeder shipping service in the offing Date of publication:   07 January 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 7th January 02: "A feeder shipping service between Bangladesh and neighbouring Burma is in the offing to boost bilateral trade, official sources said Monday, according to today�s the independent quoted AFP, Chittagong..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh- Myanmar friendship road project Joint survey soon Date of publication:   16 February 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 16 Feb: "An 18-member expert team will visit Myanmar soon to join the Myanmars team to conduct a joint survey on implementation of Bangladesh Myanmar friendship road construction project, according to BSS, the local news agency of Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   BSS via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   19 February 2004 Title:   Bangladesh-Burma border trade resumes today Date of publication:   07 September 2003 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar, 7th September 03: "Bangladesh-Burma border trade through Teknaf, southern part of Bangladesh, resumes today after six days as the deadlock ended yesterday following a fruitful negotiation between the parties concerned at a joint meeting at Cox’s bazaar, according to our correspondent quoted a local prominent businessman..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   Bangladesh-Burma Highway Joint Construction Date of publication:   30 March 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 30: "The cost to construct the highway between Ukhia in Bangladesh and Moungdaw in Burma is valued at4000 million Taka is only being started now. According to the Bangle newspaper Prothom Alo on 4 March, When the highway construction is completed, it will not only connect the highway that is linking Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh and Maungdaw in Burma but also become one of the most important infrastructural links between the two countries. This road will also help improve international tourism..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   30 March 2004 Title:   Bangladesh-Burma Joint Commission meets tomorrow Date of publication:   25 July 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, July 25: "Bangladesh Commerce minister Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury leaves here for Rangoon today to attend a meeting of the Bangladesh -Burma Joint Commission there on July26, according to today The Independent. A six-member delegation will accompany the Minister. The delegation includes Bangladesh ambassador to Burma ABM Rahim, president of Bangladesh-Burma Joint Business Council Rashed Maksud Khan and its Vice President Syed Mahmudul Haq. The one-day meeting will review Dhaka-Rangoon trade relations and seek to find ways and means to further enhance bilateral trade..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Bangladesh: the new passage to Drugs from Golden Triangle Date of publication:   12 May 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 12 May 03: "The porous border of Bangladesh is a challenge for the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) since there is a marked increase in drug users and peddlers all over the country in recent years. In Cox�s Bazaar, a border town in the southeastern part, close to the border with Burma, a large number of youths could be found who deal and use narcotics including heroin..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladesh’s Finance Minister's tour in India finished with a signal of gas pipeline Date of publication:   16 December 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Dec 16: "Even though Bangladesh’s Finance Minister, M Saifur Rahman, did not discuss the issue of the transnational gas pipeline connecting Burma, India, and Bangladesh during his meeting with the premier of India, he discussed the issue with some ministers of India, according to local sources. But he did not say whether the discussion of gas pipeline issue is progressive or not. He returned to Dhaka last week after completing his five-day visit to India. During his trip, he met a number of Indian ministers..." Author/creator:   Nyo Tun Kyaw Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   Bangladeshi Authorities Seized Fertilizers Worth Taka 40 Million Date of publication:   24 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Bangladeshi Border Guards send back Burmese castaways Date of publication:   06 June 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 6th June 03: "Twenty-one Burmese castaways who drifted to the Bangladesh side of the bay in April were sent back home in the third week of May, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladeshi Company Begins International Consortium Negotiations for a Tri-nation Gas Pipeline Date of publication:   26 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Bangladeshi deep seaport will increase trade with Asian neighbours Date of publication:   10 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, February 10: "Bangladesh is currently preparing to build a new deep seaport very close to Burma, on an island in Cox's Bazar District. The aim of the project is to create a link between Bangladesh and landlocked areas of China, India and Burma, said a report of the Shipping Ministry of Bangladesh on 9 Feb..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   Bangladeshi fertilizer for Burma Date of publication:   12 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 12th March: "Burma will import one hundred thousand tons of urea fertilizer from Bangladesh while it will export rice of corresponding value to Bangladesh, it was learnt from a number of newspapers and agencies of news in Dhaka..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bangladeshi man arrested with two empty boats in Burmese water Date of publication:   06 February 2005 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, February 6: "A Bangladeshi man was arrested in Burmese waters, along with two empty boats, by Burmese authorities, near the village of Kyauk Pandu, in Maungdaw Township, on 26 January, said a local police report. The man was arrested with boats named Hangsa, while a group of Nasaka force, led by Myint Thein, the head of the Indam Outpost, was patrolling the area’s Burmese waters..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   Bangladeshi salt production deprived by black market Date of publication:   27 May 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, May 27: "Bangladeshi salt production has declined because of the importation of cheaper salt from Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Bangladeshi security Forces seize another weapons cache Date of publication:   25 November 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Nov 25: "Bangladesh Rifle (BDR) yesterday seized another huge arms cache from a bordering hill district of Bandaban , a day after the seizure of a huge cache of arms and ammunition from the same district, said an official report..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2004 Title:   Bangladeshi vessel sinks at Burma Coast Date of publication:   24 May 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, May 24: "A Bangladeshi vessel capsized at Burma costal near the Andaman Island hit by cyclonic storm at Friday night. According to the financial express, the vessel was carrying more than 8 thousands tons of sugar worth $ 4.5 million (Taka 260 million) from Thailand..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Bangladeshis Among Boatmen Arrested by Nasaka Date of publication:   02 January 2007 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8.3K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Bangladeshis Given Five Year Sentence in Burma Date of publication:   07 July 2005 Description/subject:   "24 Bangladeshi woodcutters were sentenced to five years each by a Burmese court for violation of immigration and forestry laws..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Banks in distress Date of publication:   31 July 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 31st July 03: "A number of private commercial banks in western Burma have been facing closure due to drastic reduction in transactions since the bank crisis began in mid-February this year. Sources in a private bank in Maungdaw, a township on the Naaf River across the Bangladeshi town of Teknaf said that their bank is facing closure and inability to pay the employees as people have lost faith in bank transactions. “The private banks are now sitting idle, sometimes even without one transaction in an entire day,” an official in a private bank said..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   06 August 2003 Title:   BDR arrests two Burmese nationals with arms Date of publication:   22 May 2004 Description/subject:   Bandarban, May 22: "Bangladesh Defense Rifles (BDR) arrested two Burmese nationals with arms on 17th May from the Bangladeshi border area reports “The Daily Ittefaq” yesterday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   “The Daily Ittefaq” via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   22 May 2004 Title:   BEHIND THE PRISON REBELLION IN BANDARBAN Date of publication:   02 April 2002 Description/subject:   Staff Reporter, Chittagong, 2nd April 02: "The prison rebellion inside the Bandarban jail was caused by years of imprisonment after expiry of the prison term and the hellish situation in the jails of Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Belgian Ambassador pays a visit to Rakhine State in Burma Date of publication:   27 February 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 27 February: "The Belgian Ambassador to Thailand led a team of 25 high-level diplomats to Rakhine State in Burma, according to our correspondent in Maungdaw Town, close to Bangladesh. H.E. Pierre Vasseur accompanied by invited diplomats visited various ongoing projects in and around Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships, inquiring about the success and likelihood of future funding made to UNHCR..." Language:   Engl;ish Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BEXIMCO PHARMA HOLDS " PEEDIATRIC SEMINAR " IN MYANMAR Date of publication:   15 March 2002 Description/subject:   "Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd, the leading pharmaceutical manufacturer of Bangladesh has been continuing its efforts to extend the business activities in the international arena, says a press release..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Bikkhu U Uttama Memorial Park in Danger of Destruction Date of publication:   26 July 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, July 26: "Although Biukkhu U Uttama was the first person who torched the light of Burma freedom, his statue in Akyab now lives in dark because no light is allowed at his statue at night, a teacher from Akyab (Sittwe) said. The authorities have not only banned the lights at the U Uttama statue, but are also constructing number of buildings in U Uttama Memorial Park, endangering the existence of the park..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   BIMAN TO FLY TO MYANMAR FROM FEB 15 Date of publication:   04 February 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 4 February 02: "Myanmar Ambassador to Bangladesh U Ohn Thwin made a courtesy call on state Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin at the latter's office here yesterday, report UNB..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Independent" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (4K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BIMSTEC FOR ENHANCED COOPERATION Date of publication:   25 December 2001 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 25 December 2001. ":Five countries of South and Southeast Asia grouped in BIMSTEC stressed the need for redoubling efforts to enhance economic, commercial and technical cooperation to offset the impact of global recession..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Bss, Dhaka, via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Black pepper cultivation Date of publication:   04 August 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 4st August 03: "The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) junta of Burma has taken up a long-term extensive black pepper cultivation plan in the western Burmese state of Rakhine. Under the plan the junta has confiscated villagers’ land near the more than sixty battalion headquarters stationed across the state. Sources in the administration said that at Buthidaung Township, close to the Bangladesh-Burma border in the northern part of Rakhine State, the junta has confiscated hundreds of acres of villagers’ land for the cultivation of black pepper..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   06 August 2003 Title:   BLOODY 13 AUGUST Date of publication:   12 August 2002 Description/subject:   "It was Sunday on 13 August 1967. The day was cloudy unlike other wet August days in Sitetway (Sittwe), the capital of Rakhine State in Western Burma. General Ne Win was at the helm of the Burmese junta ruling the country...The Rakhine people each year remember with heavy hearts the mass killings on that day, remembering the atrocities and the ethnic cleansing of the Burmese junta perpetrated ever since upon their own people. The women hope that if their missing husbands and sons were alive today they would have taken up guns against the repressive, inhuman and racist Burmese military junta to clinch freedom." Author/creator:   Khine Mongan Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Border landmines have far reaching effects Date of publication:   14 December 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Dec 14: "The demarcation of border areas, under the joint-border forces of Burma and Bangladesh, have been suspended since 1998, due to the presence of landmines in those areas. The absence of joint-border forces of the two countries has increased the occurrences of cross border arms smuggling, drug and human trafficking, and cross border robberies, said a report in a weekend journal of Bangladesh. The demarcation of the border area under the joint forces of the two countries began in 1984, but ended after only 14 years..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   BORDER SECURITY FORCES LOOT BUFFALOES FROM FARMERS Date of publication:   21 June 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 21st June 02: "The Area # 7 Nasaka Border Security Forces Headquarters at north of Arakan State in Burma seized six buffaloes from five farmers on 9th June, as told by a Village councillor of the area..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Border talks between Burma and Bangladesh begins today Date of publication:   29 March 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, March 29: "A four-day deputy-director general level border conference between Burma and Bangladesh begins today in Cox’s Bazar, the bordering town of Bangladesh with Burma, according to official sources..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   29 March 2004 Title:   Border trade revenue more than expectation Date of publication:   18 December 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, December 18: "In border trade between Burma and Bangladesh, Banglageshi custom earns Taka (TK) 45 million equivalent to US $ 777470 within 5 months from July to November, this year, which crossed the expected revenue-earning target, a Bangladesh popular daily “ The Ittefaq” reports on 15th December..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   18 December 2003 Title:   Buddhist rites to prevent foreign invasion! Date of publication:   02 September 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 2nd September 03: "Burma’s ruling junta, State Peace and Development Council, began to conduct a Buddhist religious ceremony at the border town of Maungdaw on the Naaf River in the western part of the country on 27th August 03..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   Burma and Bangladesh held Flag Meeting Date of publication:   16 July 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 16th July 03: "On 6th and 7th July the border police forces of Burma and Bangladesh met at Aung-yeik-tha Hall, three miles east of the Burmese border town of Maungdaw, on the Naaf River that serves as the common border of the two countries, sources in the Nasaka Border Security Police said... In the flag meeting the Burmese side asked for a solution and end to the anti-Burmese junta rebel groups operating from inside Bangladesh. On the other hand the Bangladeshi side demanded a solution to the large scale smuggling from Burma and prevention of continual infiltration of the “Bengali-speaking” Burmese nationals into Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6k) Date of entry/update:   19 July 2003 Title:   Burma and India Sign for Offshore Gas Exploration Date of publication:   10 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8.3K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Burma Arrests People Who Enter Illegally From Bangladesh Date of publication:   06 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Burma authorities propose meeting on tri-nation gas pipeline Date of publication:   03 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, February 3: "The Burmese authorities sent a proposal to both India and Bangladesh, to hold the first meeting of the working committee of the proposed tri-nation gas pipeline, in Rangoon on Feb 14, said an official report of the Bangladeshi Energy Ministry. If Bangladesh and India agree to Burma's proposal, the meeting will be held in Rangoon..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   Burma Bangladesh Border Trade resumes Date of publication:   25 February 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 25th February: "After a break of one year the border trade between Burma and Bangladesh has resumed at full force, reports the Inquilab, a Bengali daily from Dhaka on 22nd February..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Inquilab via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burma Bangladesh Friendship Bridge in the offing Date of publication:   24 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 24th March: "Following his return to Dhaka from Rangoon Communications Minister Barrister Nazmul Huda in a press conference said that a bridge connecting with Burma is the highest priority, according to the Bengali language daily Janakantha, 23rd March..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Janakantha via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burma Bangladesh on a new course: Improved relations and road link Date of publication:   18 December 2002 Description/subject:   (Burmese junta happy on the measures taken by Bangladesh on separatists) Dhaka, 18th December: "Burma and Bangladesh have agreed to establish road links at a prime ministerial level talk held yesterday. The two countries would sponsor two technical and financial taskforces to conduct feasibility studies on the Dhaka to Rangoon road link shortly, reported the local press. The Burmese leader said that Burma is ready for the establishment of road links..." Prime minister of Burma and chairman of State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) junta senior general Than Shwe arrived at Dhaka Tuesday morning on a two-day state visit as the head of a 55 member delegation. He was given a warm reception by Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia at the Zia International airport. Burmese junta leader was given a red carpet welcome and a 21-gun salute on his arrival. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (34K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burma becomes a source of raw materials for Bangladesh Date of publication:   28 April 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Burma bordering Indian states face drug abuse and HIV Date of publication:   05 January 2007 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Burma close watch on alleged American naval base in Bangladesh Date of publication:   27 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (13K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Burma envoy calls on Bangladesh president Date of publication:   04 January 2007 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Burma FM arrives in Dhaka on Saturday Date of publication:   03 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 3 July 2003: "Burma Foreign Minister Win Aung arrives in Dhaka on Saturday as a special envoy of his country’s Prime Minister Senior General Than Shwe, according to today’s the independent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   04 July 2003 Title:   Burma FM arrives today Date of publication:   05 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 5th July 2003: "Burma Foreign minister Win Aung come to Dhaka today carrying a letter from Senior General Than Shwe for Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, reports local press..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   07 July 2003 Title:   Burma FM to visit Bangladesh on 24 February Date of publication:   17 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Feb 17: "Burma Military Government Foreign Minister (FM) Nyan Win will come to Dhaka on 24 February, said a report. During his days in Bangladesh he is giving final endorsement to the project of the proposed road line between Rangoon and Dhaka..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   26 February 2005 Title:   Burma Force Kills Bangladeshi Fisherman Date of publication:   23 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Burma forms paramilitary People’s Army Date of publication:   15 July 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 15th July 03: "The ruling SPDC junta of Burma has begun formation of a civil defence force named as Pyithu-seik (People’s Army) as a preparatory measure for a ‘possible war’, as feared by the junta, from last month. From a number of townships in the western Burmese state of Rakhine reports have confirmed the formation of paramilitary force named as Pyithu-seik or People’s Army in recent weeks. Alerting the people of an ‘imminent war’, without any clear definition made to what war it is, the junta officials have already conscripted two hundred and twenty full-time members of the People’s Army and four hundred and forty part-time members from 22 village tracts in Kyaukpru Township alone. Kyaukpru is situated about 100 miles south of Sittwe (Akyab), the capital of Rakhine state..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6k) Date of entry/update:   15 July 2003 Title:   Burma Hands Over Corpse of BDR to Bangladesh Date of publication:   07 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9.2K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Burma keen to set up language school in Bangladesh Date of publication:   10 March 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 10: "The ambassador of Burma to Bangladesh U Thane Myint called on Bangladesh Home Minister Altaf Hossian Chowdhury at his office of Dhaka yesterday. Strengthening of existing ties between the two countries through further development of the trade and commerce and exchange of political, cultural, economic and educational delegation was emphasized during the meeting held in a very friendly and cordial atmosphere, a Home Ministry press release said..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   13 March 2004 Title:   Burma PM due on 4th April in Dhaka Date of publication:   25 March 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 25: "Burma Prime Minister Khin Nyunt arrives in Dhaka on April 4 on a three-days official visit to Bangladesh aimed at improving ties with the two countries, foreign office sources said yesterday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   Burma secure fourth and go back home Date of publication:   08 October 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, October 8: "Burma lost their last match to Oman by 3-1 competing yesterday at the Bangladesh Krira Shikha Protishthan (BKSP) ground at 9am and secured fourth position in 5 nations U-21 Challenge Cup invitational hockey tournament..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   04 November 2004 Title:   Burma Stops the Export of Basic Commodities Date of publication:   10 January 2004 Description/subject:   Sittwe, January 10: "The Burmese military authority of Arakan state has banned the export of basic commodities to its neighbour, Bangladesh, as of January the 5th. The banned commodities are rice, cooking oil, salt, chilli, onion, garlic, and items that are used to produce cooking oil such as peanut and sesame seed..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   10 January 2004 Title:   Burma to hold the Fourth World Buddhist Summit Date of publication:   30 July 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 30th July 03: "The fourth World Buddhist Summit will be held in Burma in December 2004, said a prominent Buddhist monk close with one of the abbots attending the eighth Sangha Mahanayaka Council held in Kaba-aye in Rangoon on 5th July 03..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   06 August 2003 Title:   Burma to lease out Land to Bangladesh! Date of publication:   17 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 17th March 03: "The leader of a 16 member business delegation, which will leave Dhaka on March 18, Rashed Maksud Khan, said to business sources that, Burma is even ready to lease land for rice cultivation by Bangladeshi entrepreneurs, quoted BSS..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   BSS via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burma to take back 3,814 �listed� Rohingya refugees Date of publication:   06 June 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 6th June 03: "According to Refugee Commission sources 124 Rohingya refugees of 20 families have been repatriated to their homes in Burma this week. The refugees were sheltered in camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf refugee camps in the southern part of Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burma Urged to Expedite Return of Muslim Refugees Date of publication:   24 November 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 24th November 02: "Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan has called upon the Burma authorities to expedite the process of repatriation of remaining Muslim Rohingya refugees languishing in Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   UNB via "The Independent" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burma will Accept its Citizens Jailed in Bangladesh Date of publication:   11 March 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 11: "The Burmese Ambassador to Bangladesh promised that Burma will accept those Burmese citizens from Bangladesh’s jails. He made that promise to the local Buddhist people and the regional authority as part of a speech at a Buddhist celebration in the tribal town Bandarban of Chittagong Hill Tracks of Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   13 March 2004 Title:   Burma's trade in a week at Maungdaw point tells a story of its own Date of publication:   24 June 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, June 24: "The volume of export from Burma to Bangladesh at Kyigan-braung in Arakan State between June 14th and 20th was recorded at US $ 45,353.085 more than the volume of import from Bangladesh to Burma. An official of the Nasaka border security forces Headquarters at Kyigan-brang, Maungdaw Township of Arakan State, close to the Bangladesh border from where a considerable volume of 'legal' border trade is carried out everyday told to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burma's Western Command under high alert Date of publication:   26 January 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, January 26: "All army battalions under Western Command, including border outposts, are now in ready position after the army authority ordered them under high alert, said a report from Akyab. "Yes, the Burmese army is in a high alert position and I didn't see any army personnel yesterday visiting outside with any civilians", said a local resident who is lives near Light Infantry Battalion 233, in Buthidaung. The reason for the Burmese army's high alert status is currently unknown..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   Burma-Bangladesh agreements on business sectors are still far from being realized Date of publication:   26 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Feb 26: "Burma’s Foreign Minister Nyan Win is the first diplomat to visit Bangladesh since the ousting of former Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt, who is now under house arrest. Nyan Win began a three day official visit to Bangladesh yesterday, accompanied by a number of Burma’s military officials, including the Political Department and Assistant Director of the Southwest Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Burma, said a Bangladesh official report..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   26 February 2005 Title:   Burma-Bangladesh Director-General level meeting start today in Rangoon Date of publication:   21 December 2003 Description/subject:   Rangoon, Dec 21: "The Director-General of Immigration Department of Burma and the chief of Bangladesh Border Rifle (BDR) meet today in Rangoon to settle problems of arms and drug smuggling and frequent insecure incident faced by Bangladesh fishermen, reports our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   21 December 2003 Title:   Burma-Bangladesh prisoner exchange postponed Date of publication:   31 March 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 31: "The upcoming exchange of prisoners between the two neighboring countries of Burma and Bangladesh was postponed from 12 March to an unknown date, said a local official in Cox's Bazaar. He did not, however, want to reveal the reason behind the postponement after the two neighboring countries agreed on the 12 March exchange. According to a press release of the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry before 12 March, the Burmese authority is to soon release 75 Bangladeshi prisoners from several jails in Burma..." Language:   Engllish Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   Burma’s military government preparing to drill in Arakan’s offshore Block-A Date of publication:   16 February 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, February 16: "The drilling of gas is expected to begin in the very near future, said a hotel owner. Two choppers and one small aircraft from a drilling company have recently been seen flying in the area of Akyab, the capital of Arakan State. According to sources, one driller ship is now anchored in the sea near Farongar Island, 30 miles southwest of Akyab, where there is a Block-A gas field..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   26 February 2005 Title:   Burma’s new envoy presents credentials to President Date of publication:   29 December 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Dec 29: "U Thane Myint newly appointed envoy of Burma to Bangladesh presented his credentials to Bangladesh president Iajuddin Ahmad in a befitting manner, yesterday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   02 January 2004 Title:   BURMAN SETTLERS ENJOY VIP TREATMENT IN SPDC JUNTA'S MODEL VILLAGES IN THE NORTHERN ARAKAN Date of publication:   17 April 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 17 April 02: "The number of Burmans who have been moved from Burma proper into the newly set up model villages and have not fled in Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung townships of Arakan (Rakhine) State stand at 1353 as on 12 April, according to our correspondent. The State Peace and Development Council junta of Burma have till now established more than thirty model villages in the northern part of Arakan (Rakhine) State for rehabilitation of Burmans comprised of released hardcore criminals, drug addicts, HIV patients, homeless and people of doubtful calling including retired armed forces personnel..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Agricultural Fertilizer needs met with smuggling from Bangladesh Date of publication:   07 March 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 7: "Since the Burmese governments production of agricultural fertilizers has not been able to cover the domestic demand, the sea-smuggling trade of fertilizer from Bangladesh is thriving. Fertilizer is reported to be the most profitable item, fetching about two hundred percent profit..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   13 March 2004 Title:   Burmese Army force villagers to construct their quarters Date of publication:   25 January 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 25 January 03: "Burmese Army Light Infantry Division 344 have been reported to have been using villagers as forced labourers in construction of quarters for the soldiers in the western part of Burma, claimed the Chin Human Rights Group based in Mizoram State in the north-eastern region of India in a report on 15th January..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BURMESE ARMY FORCEFULLY ENGAGE CARPENTERS TO BUILD HOUSES FOR RELOCATING BURMESE FAMILIES IN ARAKAN Date of publication:   07 March 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 7th March 02: "A large number of carpenters of the Maungdaw and Buthidaung areas, close to the south-eastern border of Bangladesh have been engaged by the Burmese Army to construct houses in the border areas of Maungdaw, in the south-western state of Burma (Myanmar)..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Army ransack Nasaka Security and Toll Gate Date of publication:   28 March 2003 Description/subject:   Ann, 28th March 03: "On March 19th about thirty members of the Burmese Army ransacked the security and toll gate of the Nasaka Security forces at Ann Town, our correspondent reported quoting an eyewitness..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Army Robs House in Arakan Date of publication:   30 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6.5K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Burmese Army Turns to Rice Growing on Land Confiscated from the People Date of publication:   09 July 2005 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   hrml (9K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Burmese Authorities Collect Paddy from Mills Date of publication:   30 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6.4K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Burmese Authority refuses to accept another 151 Burmese prisoners from Bangladesh Jail Date of publication:   02 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Burmese authority surveys the Hindu population in Arakan state Date of publication:   14 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   BURMESE BORDER SECURITY FORCES SHOOT A BANGLADESHI CITIZEN Date of publication:   19 March 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 19th March 02: "The Nasaka Burmese Security Forces shot a Bangladeshi and arrested another from the no-man's land along the border between Bangladesh and Maungdaw township in the western part of Arakan (Rakhine State) in Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese currency Exchange Value Drastically Falling (Prices of Commodities in Border Area Sky-Rocketing) Date of publication:   31 August 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, August 31: "It is known that in bilateral Burma-Bangladesh border trade Burma kyats exchange is drastically falling and on Burma side prices of food-staff are sky-rocketing. At the present in Burma Bangladesh border trade US 1 dollar is 1025 Burmese kyats and Bangladesh 1 Taka is equivalent to 17.50 kyats. In the very recent days, 1 Taka was valued 15.50 kyats. This situation clearly pointed out that kyat is drastically falling compare to Taka..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese exiles rally for Daw Suu in Bangladesh Date of publication:   05 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka. 5 July 03: "About 60 Arakanese protesters rallied in front of Bangladesh High court today afternoon calling for the immediate release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the Burma ruling military junta..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   07 July 2003 Title:   Burmese fish: concern for Bangladesh! Date of publication:   23 July 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 23rd July 03: "The markets of Bangladesh for some time have been flooded with the fish either imported or smuggled from Burma. In recent weeks high concern has been raised about the quality and nature of preserving the Burmese freshwater and sea fish..." Author/creator:   Sein Mra Aung Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   28 July 2003 Title:   Burmese Foreign Minister due in Dhaka tomorrow Date of publication:   01 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 1st March 03: "The Burmese Foreign Minister, Win Aung, is due to arrive in Dhaka tomorrow, reports the Independent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Foreign Minister meets his counterpart from Bangladesh Date of publication:   03 October 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 3 October: "The Burmese foreign minister met his counterpart from Bangladesh Tuesday at the United Nations. The UNB reported that the two discussed matters of bilateral relations including cooperation in the communications infrastructure..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   19 October 2003 Title:   Burmese Foreign Minister meets his counterpart in Dhaka Date of publication:   03 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 3rd March 03: "Bangladesh and Burma yesterday agreed to work out details on the proposed road link and a coastal shipping arrangement, according to the local press and news agencies in Dhaka..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese gas through Bangladesh Date of publication:   15 January 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 15 January 03: "Addressing a weekly meeting of Rotary Club of Metropolitan Dhaka at a city hotel on 12 January the State Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources, A K M Mosharraf Hossain said that a proposal for the cross-border Tripura � Bangladesh gas pipeline for Burmese gas was sent to the Prime Minister on 11th January, according to news agencies here..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (16K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Gems in Dhaka, Bangladesh Date of publication:   03 February 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 3 February: "The Burmese stall at the ongoing Dhaka International Trade Fair has become well-known for selling �the most costly items�, according to a stall-owner in the fair. The items to be found in the Burmese gems stall include gold jewellery with precious Burmese stones like emerald, ruby, jade, sapphire and diamonds as well as cultured pearls..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BURMESE JUNTA EXTORT TOLLS FOR CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR Date of publication:   11 April 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 11 April 02: "With the traditional Arakanese New Year's Eve knocking at the door, the SPDC military regime have started collecting illegal tolls from all the business farms in Arakan (Rakhine) State in the western part of Burma, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese junta issues orders to stop forced conscription Date of publication:   05 November 2002 Description/subject:   "Sittwe, 5th November: The Western Command in Rakhine State in the western part of Burma has issued directives to stop forceful conscription for the Burmese Army..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta leader to visit Bangladesh Date of publication:   27 November 2002 Description/subject:   "The Burmese Junta leader Senior General Than Shwe will pay an official visit to Bangladesh on December 17 - 18 at the invitation of the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta leaders come visiting western Burma Date of publication:   04 February 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 4 February: "Since the organizational tour by the Burmese Opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in December, top-level junta leaders have visited townships across Rakhine State in western Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (16K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta Move Prisoners from East to West Date of publication:   27 July 2003 Description/subject:   Buthidaung, 27th July 03: "Eight prisoners allegedly from Mungywa, under Sagaing Division, northern part of Burma Proper were moved to Buthidaung prison, in the western Burma bordering with Bangladesh. According to an eyewitness the eight Burmese prisoners were taken to Buthidaung aboard the Dahanyawaddy 3, a passenger vessel owned by the Inland Water Transport Corporation on 21st July. The prisoners were escorted by twelve police forces led by Win Maung, the Township Police officer of Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese Rakhine State..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   28 July 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta officials operate smuggling gangs Date of publication:   16 August 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 16th August 03: "Officials of the ruling Burmese SPDC junta have been involved in active operation of gangs of smugglers along the Naaf River that serves as the common border between Burma and Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   22 August 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta shelters North East Indian rebels Date of publication:   20 August 2004 Description/subject:   Maung Daw, August 20: "Rebels of North East India are allowed free access within the region of Maung-daw Township, in western Burma, despite the Burmese Military Junta's repeated assurance to the New Delhi government, of the non-existence of these Indian insurgents within the Burma territory, according to local sources..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   20 August 2004 Title:   Burmese Junta uses Forced Labour Freshly in Rakhine State in Western Burma Date of publication:   23 August 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 23 Aug. 02: "... There are reports of new incidents of extensive use of forced labour in and around Maungdaw in Rakhaing (Arakan) state, Western Burma, which has caused to raise tough arguments between the UNHCR and the Burmese law enforcement agencies including the officials of the military junta..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta’s attempt to divert people’s attention from the Depeyin Massacre Date of publication:   23 July 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 23rd July 03: "Burma’s ruling State Peace and Development Council junta has ordered formation of paramilitary Pyithu Seik to divert people’s attention from the Depeyin Massacre on 30th May, said a political analyst. Sending messages of high alert of an ‘impending war’ among the defence forces and the general people, the Burmese junta has issued orders to give compulsory military training to the family members of all the defence personnel aged between eighteen and forty, irrespective of sexes, according to sources in the administration. All the non-Rakhine members of the defence forces have also been directed to learn the local Rakhine language so that in case of war breaking out they can get mixed with the local population. The existing forces in the army and navy have been brought under intensive and specialized training courses for facing a possible war..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   28 July 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta’s development: sans electricity! Date of publication:   24 July 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 24th July 03: "The Burmese State Peace and Development Council junta has recently formed an Electricity Committee in Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese Rakhine State. Headed by General Maung Oo, the western commander, and consisting of the Sittwe District Peace and Development Council chairman and other township officials, the committee has been entrusted with the responsibility of what it said as ‘lightening up the township.’..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   28 July 2003 Title:   Burmese junta�s attempts to raise organized campaign of lies Date of publication:   13 June 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 13th June 03: "Seventeen members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) including the bodyguard of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Tun Zaw Zaw, the popular leader of Burmese Opposition have been reportedly tortured and interrogated at Khanti Prison, in Sagaing Division in northern part of Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   13 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Junta�s Elephant capture Endangers the species to extinction Date of publication:   21 February 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 21 February: "A wild elephant capture drive has been conducted for some time along the Burma Bangladesh common border... The �Wild Elephant Capturing through Anaesthesia� Team from Sandoway under the Burmese State Forest Department has sponsored the wild elephant catching drive beginning January 21... The anaesthesia team have been hunting elephants with tusks, according to another eyewitness. People in the area demand that, the elephant captors are accompanied by ivory traders from the frontier areas bordering with China..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (21K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese junta�s false promises and �black magic� land Rakhine families from Bangladesh into big trouble Date of publication:   05 February 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 5 February: "At least three Rakhine families from Bangladesh who were lured into traps by the Burmese junta have returned to their home country on 20th December 2002, according to our correspondent from the border areas..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (16K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese junta�s gangs of rice robbers Date of publication:   03 February 2003 Description/subject:   Kyauk-pru, 3 February: "The Rice Procurement Team in Kyaukpru District in the western part of Burma have started to rob the villagers of whatever rice is available in the face of failure to realize even half of the targeted amount of rice collection in the present harvest season..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese lingering in the prison of Bangladesh Date of publication:   21 June 2003 Description/subject:   Chittagong, 21st June 03: "A total of forty four Burmese prisoners have already spent eight years after the expiry of their prison terms in a prison in the southeastern hilly district town of Rangamati, the daily Janakantha said today..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Janakantha via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   21 June 2003 Title:   Burmese military delegation visit a hilly town in Bangladesh Date of publication:   24 September 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 24th September 03: "The visiting Burmese military delegation on Sunday visited a hilly district town in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. The twelve-member high-level military team led by Lieutenant General Aung Htwe, commander of the Burmese defence ministry, called at a Buddhist monastery in Rangamati Town in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, about three hundred kilometres southeast of Dhaka. The team met the abbot of the monastery, popularly known as Bana Bhante (the forest monk) who is well known for his rigorous meditation and respected by a huge number of followers. Later they had a boat ride in the Kaptai Lake built by erecting a hydro-electrical power station by damming the River Karnafuli..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   28 September 2003 Title:   Burmese Military Intelligence agents extort tolls from Fishermen Date of publication:   19 February 2003 Description/subject:   Ponnagyun, 19 Feb. 03: "Having leased out all the rivers and creeks of Rakhine State in the western part of Burma in December last, the Military Intelligence forces in and around Ponnagyun Town have been reported to order the fishermen in the area to pay up tolls according to their demands, reports our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Muslims flee starvation and forced labour in western Burma Date of publication:   07 October 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 7 October 02: "Fresh reports of Muslims in the western part of Burma fleeing starvation and forced labour to Bangladesh have begun to flood in. Our correspondent from Maungdaw in Rakhine (Arakan) State in Burma has said that while repatriation of 22,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh has been moving at snail's pace due to reluctance shown by the Burmese authority, there are new instances of Rohingyas leaving Burma in large numbers..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Muslims flee western Burma to escape food scarcity caused by forced collection of rice and travel restrictions Date of publication:   29 June 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 29 June 02: "At least thirty Burmese Muslims including women and children from Arakan State in the western part of Burma have so far left their ancestral settlement for want of food in the area caused by the oppressive measures of the ruling State Peace and Development Council junta, according to a councillor in the area..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Nasaka Forces Create Border Tension for Unknown Reasons Date of publication:   06 July 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar, July 6: "The Nasaka (Burma border security force) created border tension recently, but the reason is unknown, said our reporter from the border area. Nasaka forced entered Bangladeshi water on 4 July and abducted three Bangladeshi nationals. Nasaka also seized their boat from the Naaf River in Teknaf Township, in the Cox’s Bazaar district..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Burmese nationals in Bangladesh launch procession on 59th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi Date of publication:   20 June 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, June 20: "Over 60 exiled Arakanese Refugees from Burma in Bangladesh lunched a procession In Dhaka and held rally in front of Dhaka Press Club yesterday demanding immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi on her 59th birthday, reported our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Burmese Navy loot fishing boat and throw the crew into the sea Date of publication:   20 May 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, May 20: "On 21st April members of the Burmese Navy with seven Muslim villagers attacked a fishing boat off Maungdaw coast in the western part of Burma, throwing the crew members into the sea, according to one of the two surviving crew members of the boat..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BURMESE NAVY NABS A SMUGGLER'S BOAT WITH A HUGE CARGO Date of publication:   06 March 2002 Description/subject:   Kyaukpru, 6th March 02: A smuggler's boat from Mon State, in the southern part of Burma was nabbed by the Burmese Navy in the Arakan (Rakhine) waters...The confiscated cargo in the boat included 4,500 bags of rice, 6,000 kg of jujube pickles (jee-yo-thoke), and kyat 415,000 cash..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (4K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Opposition denounce junta’s proposed roadmap Date of publication:   31 August 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 31st Aug 03: "Burma’s opposition political groups including the National Council of the Union of Burma have condemned the recently proposed seven-step roadmap by the ruling junta prime minister General Khin Nyunt by bypassing the results of the 1990 general elections..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   Burmese opposition leader's first step in Rakhine State Date of publication:   17 December 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 17th December: "The charismatic opposition leader of Burma, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi arrived at Ann Town, at the threshold of Rakhine (Arakan) State in the western part of Burma, reports our correspondent by phone..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   BURMESE PILGRIMS' WOE DUE TO BURMESE JUNTA RELATIVES' PILGRIMAGE TO POSH CITIES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA Date of publication:   15 March 2002 Description/subject:   Buddhagaya, 15thMarch 02: "This year the number of Burmese pilgrims to the holy sites of Buddhism in India have dwindled to a handfuls due to the cancellation of the permits of privately run guided tours to places of Buddhist pilgrimage in India, according to a Buddhist monk from Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese prawn may harm Bangladesh’s prawn export Date of publication:   05 January 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, January 5: "Burmese prawn importing into Bangladesh may harm the Bangladesh’s prawn export industry, according to the Bangladesh’s largest Bengali newspaper, Daily Jugantor..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   " Daily Jugantor" via .Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   05 January 2004 Title:   Burmese prisoners completing jail term in Bangladesh to be deported Date of publication:   26 February 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Feb 26: "289 releases prisoner (RPs) of Burma origin have been languishing in Cox’sBazar district jail for a long time though their conviction periods have been over six to seven years ago, according to local sources. In Bangladesh, there are 730 foreign prisoners, some of whom have already completed their conviction period about 10 years ago..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   26 February 2004 Title:   Burmese Prisoners in a Bangladeshi jail � on another Hunger strike Date of publication:   04 November 2002 Description/subject:   "Chittagong, 4th November: Two hundred and thirty seven Burmese prisoners in the Bandarban prison, in the southeastern hilly district of Bangladesh bordering with Burma, some of whom have overstayed their prison terms by as much as nine years threatened to resort to another �fast unto death� hunger strike unless they are repatriated, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese prisoners in Bangladesh refuse repatriation Date of publication:   12 September 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Sep 12: "About 70 Burmese prisoners in the Bandaban District jail, a border town near Kyauk Taw Township in Western Burma, have been on a hunger strike since September 4, as they do not want to return to Burma under a Bangladeshi repatriation program. The hunger strike broke out when the Bangladesh authority collected a list of prisoners who will be sent back to Burma under a repatriation agreement between Burma and Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   20 September 2004 Title:   Burmese prisoners in Bangladesh soon to be sent back to Burma Date of publication:   05 March 2005 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazar, March 5: "According to Cox's Bazar jail authorities, 115 Burmese prisoners in a Bangladeshi jail will be sent back to Burma on 12 March, after negotiation between two the neighboring countries. The Burmese prisoners have been gathered in the Cox's Bazar jail, a border town on the Bangladeshi side, for the last couple of months in preparation for returning them back to their homeland. There are currently about 172 Burmese prisoners in the Cox's Bazar jail, sent from several jails by the Bangladesh authority, waiting to be repatriated to Burma, however the Burmese government has agreed to accept only 115 Burmese prisoners in the first batch..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   Burmese refugees in Bangladesh anxious after inquiries by Bangladeshi intelligence Date of publication:   17 March 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 17: "Burmese refugees in Bangladesh who are recognized by the UNHCR as urban refugees are left feeling anxious after inquiries by Bangladeshi intelligence, said a Burmese refugee who is staying at Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh. “In the last two days, two intelligent (sic) officers came to my house and asked us several questions but the officers did not reveal why they came to my house”, said the refugee..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   Burmese Refugees in Bangladesh go back home Date of publication:   22 February 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 22 February: "A total of twenty five Burmese refugees from Bangladesh made their way back home on 5th February, according to our correspondent from Maungdaw. The returnees are some of the last 20,000 Burmese Muslim refugees stranded in the squalid UNHCR camps in the south-eastern part of Bangladesh. The group was led by ABM Amir Ullah from the UNHCR Bangaldesh Chapter. On arrival at Kanyein-chaung refugees� repatriation camp under Maungdaw Township on the Burmese side of the Naaf River, the refugees were received by the Burmese officials waiting there..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Refugees observe World Refugee Day Date of publication:   21 June 2003 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazaar, 21st June 03: "Burmese Rohingya refugee children at Nayapara Refugee Camp in the southeastern part of Bangladesh brought out a colourful rally in observance of the World Refugee Day yesterday. Forgetting the squalid environment of the camp where the barest minimum necessity to keep body and soul together the children beaming with smile came out in a procession inside the camp premises and a discussion was also held on the significance of the day, said our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5k) Date of entry/update:   21 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Refugees� Hunger Strike in Dhaka follow-up Date of publication:   11 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 11th March 03: "The hunger strike by two Burmese refugees, protesting the cancellation of monthly subsistence allowance, has reached its third day today. The two, Hlaing Htway and Khaing Win, have been joined by another youth, Thein Soe, beginning today..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese refugees� hunger strike intensifies Date of publication:   18 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 18th March 03: "The hunger strike staged by Burmese refugees at the Refugees� Counselling Services Unit (RCSU) of Ahsania Mission, which facilitates refugee services for the local UNHCR in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, has reached its 11th day today. Three of the one hundred non-Muslim Burmese refugees who demanded the monthly subsistence allowance instead of the recent distribution of small lump sum grants as seed money to start self-employment initiated the strike. On 13th two more Burmese refugees joined the three hunger strikers..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese SPDC junta award religious title to a Buddhist monk in Bangladesh Date of publication:   11 March 2003 Description/subject:   Cox�s bazaar, 11th March 03: "The Burmese Ministry of Religious Affairs has declared an award of a Buddhist religious title to a monk at Ramu, under Cox�s Bazaar district in the south-eastern part of Bangladesh, our correspondent quoted a monk in the Buddhist monastery..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Burmese Team hand over land acquisition report to Bangladesh Date of publication:   29 March 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 29, 2005: "Burmese task forced team handed over the report of land acquisition and final alignment design of Burma-Bangladesh Friendship Road Link to Communication Minister of Bangladesh in the Communication Ministry office of Dhaka yesterday, according to a report of BD news service..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (14K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   Burmese Timber and Bangladeshi Fertilizer Date of publication:   13 August 2003 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, 13th August 03: "On Saturday last a cargo boat carrying smuggled Burmese timber capsized off the coastal town of Cox’s Bazar in the southeastern part of Bangladesh. About ten crewmembers of the boat have been missing since then..." Author/creator:   Staff Reporter Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   13 August 2003 Title:   Burmese troops' order leaves A French Photographer Stranded Date of publication:   03 April 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 3 April 02: "A French photographer who wanted to visit an ancient Arakanese city in the western part of Burma was denied entry by Burmese security troops, according to our correspondent in Sittwe who quoted a man accompanying the photographer..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Business premises built for the workers’ welfare demolished in Akyab Date of publication:   30 November 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, Nov 30: "Business premises that were built for the welfares of the employees of the government are now being demolished by the local authority who claims that these premises are violating government policy guidelines. These premises were already rented out to private businesses at a high price..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2004 Title:   CALL TO INTRODUCE DIRECT AIR LINK WITH MYANMAR Date of publication:   24 January 2002 Description/subject:   DHAKA, 24TH Jan 02: "Bangladesh business leaders said direct air line between Dhaka and Yangon and improving shipping facility would reduce trade gap between the two countries, which is favour of Myanmar, reports BSS..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Independent " viaNarinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Cash confiscated from the father-in-law of purged Nasaka official Date of publication:   10 December 2004 Description/subject:   Maung Daw, December 10: "The local military authority confiscated money and gold from the father-in-law of Sargent Aung Zaya, who was in charge of the Nasaka, or the Burmese Border Security, check-point 3 at Maung Daw township, Arakan state..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   Cattle Traders Arrested at Border Date of publication:   27 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9.6K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Census for Bengalis in Sittwe Date of publication:   16 June 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe. 16th June 03: "A census of what the ruling Burmese junta call as the Bengali population in Sittwe Township, the capital of the western Rakhine State in Burma, has been undertaken. Beginning 12th June, the census has been conducted by a powerful body composed of members of the Military Intelligence, the State Police Department, the Immigration, Township Peace and Development Council (the administrative arm of the ruling State Peace and Development Council junta). .." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   hml (7K) Date of entry/update:   16 June 2003 Title:   Ceremonies Marking Fall of Arakanese Sovereignty Held in Thailand and Bangladesh Date of publication:   01 January 2007 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Chin Refugees in Bangladesh Date of publication:   14 March 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 14: "Over 160 Chin refugees from Western Burma currently taking shelter in Bangladesh, find many difficulties there as there are no humanitarian organizations or NGOs to protect their rights and assist in their welfare, said one refugee. “According to our current record we have collected from the villages in Bandarban District in Southern Bangladesh, there are 160 Chin people who have fled from Burma to avoid persecution and human rights violations by the military junta and there may be more Chin people in other places in Bangladesh,” said Ko Pa Khin..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   Chinese Dry cell Batteries held in Arakan raise a few more questions Date of publication:   11 June 2002 Description/subject:   Msungdaw, June 11: "The area commander of Nasaka border security forces Area 5 in northern Arakan State seized Chinese dry cell batteries worth over kyat one million from a large barge allegedly meant for smuggling into Bangladesh, a source in the Nasaka told..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Chittagong arms cache shipped from Hong Kong via Singapore Date of publication:   03 March 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, March 3: According to a recent report of Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR), a leading world magazine, an arms cache seized last year in Chittagong seaport was shipped from Hong Kong, where more weapons were added to the collection , then shipped on to Singapore before being brought to Bangladesh. The JIR report said the shipment involved two key insurgent groups from northeast India; the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), the Isak Muivah Faction..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (12K) Date of entry/update:   04 March 2005 Title:   Clash with police leave several Burmese Muslim refugees hurt Date of publication:   23 September 2003 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazaar, 23 Sep. 03: "At least fifty Burmese Muslim refugees were injured in a clash with police on Sunday in a refugee camp in southeastern part of Bangladesh. According to UNHCR-run Burmese refugee camp officials at Kutupalong under Cox’s Bazaar district, close to the western Burmese border, the clash followed the arrest of two Rohingya camp-dwellers Azim Ullah and Jasim Uddin. The police arrested the two on allegations of being involved in criminal activities.The refugees tried to snatch away the arrested when they got locked into an hour-long clash with the police and paramilitary troops..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   28 September 2003 Title:   Committees are formed to investigate the Military Intelligence Date of publication:   15 November 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, Nov 15: "Officials from the Western Command of the Burmese military Junta are organising themselves into ad hoc committees to detain the Military Intelligence and to confiscate the MI’s business interests and economic ventures. These committees were formed in Pon Nar Gyaun and its surrounding townships.The Western Command covers the Arakan State..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   17 November 2004 Title:   Communal violence stopped by community Date of publication:   14 November 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe , November 14: "A brawl between an Arakanese student and a Muslim student was about to erupt into communal violence, but the community leaders managed to resolve the situation, according to our correspondent from Sittwe..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   17 November 2003 Title:   Communist Ceasefire Group faces bankruptcy in Burma Date of publication:   17 July 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 17th July 03: "The Burmese Communist Party (Arakan) that signed ceasefire agreement with the ruling Burmese junta, SLORC (State Law and Order Restoration Council), in May 1997 faces bankruptcy in a number of financial ventures..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   19 July 2003 Title:   Confiscated island leased for shrimp farm by the junta Date of publication:   12 December 2001 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 12th December 01. "An island which had been used by the nearby villagers for growing firewood and raising fish for community needs at the mouth of the Mayu river in Rakhine State has been leased to a Muslim businessman by the State Peace and Development Council junta of Myanmar, according to our correspondent from Sittwe..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Confiscation of farms by army continues Date of publication:   21 July 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, July 21: "People’s land beside the Akyab- Rangoon motor road continues to be confiscated by the Burmese army for army-owned teak plantations, reports our correspondent. A villager from Yota yoke village said, “ About 50 yards of land were confiscated on the Kyuk Taw- Ponna Guan roadside which is located on the Akyab-Rangoon road, but people could not get any compensation from the army.” Most confiscated lands are paddy farms but there are also many fruit gardens belonging to Arakanese people who earn their living from the gardens. At present the army is demolishing all trees and houses by bulldozer on the confiscated lands. The plantation of teak will start within this rainy season, said a farmer..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   CONFISCATION OF LAND FOR BURMESE JUNTA�S MODEL VILLAGES Date of publication:   16 April 2002 Description/subject:   Mungdaw, 16 Apr. 02: "The Burmese State Peace and Development Council junta have been confiscating privately owned land in the border townships of Maungdaw, Rathedaung and Buthidaung of Arakan (Rakhine) State, in the western part of Burma, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Consultants of Foreign NGOs come calling at western Burma Date of publication:   17 June 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 17th June 03: "Two country directors from Aide Medical International (international medical aid), came calling at Maungdaw, the western Burmese town in Rakhine State, according to our correspondent. The two NGO officials came to the town on the Bangladesh Burma border to check the feasibility of opening up a new branch of the NGO in the border township where recently the repatriation of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has been stepped up. AMI is a French NGO working in Rangoon and the Thai-Burma border, giving medical assistance to the returning refugees..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   17 June 2003 Title:   Contraband goods from Burma seized in Bangladesh Date of publication:   04 March 2003 Description/subject:   Chittagong, 4th March 03: "During the last fifteen days the Bangladesh Coast Guard seized contraband goods from the coastal areas, according to UNB, a news agency. The seized items included timber, nylon hosepipes, ropes and various brands of alcoholic drinks from Burma. The estimated worth of the seized items is about US dollar 14,000..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   UNB via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Counterfeit Banknotes flood Burma Bangladesh Border Date of publication:   05 September 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 5 September 02: The activities of the illegal syndicates dealing in counterfeit banknotes and illegal money transfer operations along the Bangladesh Burma border have increased in recent months, according to sources among the local businessmen. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   CREW OF THAI TRAWLERS SEIZED BY BURMESE NAVY DISAPPEAR Date of publication:   18 December 2001 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 18th December 01: Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   CRPP General Secretary threatened by SPDC authorities Date of publication:   11 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, February 11: "U Aye Tha Aung, General Secretary of Committee for Representatives of People Parliament, or CRPP, was recently threatened by members of Burma’s military government, said a leader of ALD, who lives in Rangoon..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   Curfew in Sittwe, west Burma Date of publication:   02 December 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 2 December: "Curfew has been imposed in the western Burmese town of Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine (Arakan) State since last week, after a tense situation arising from the rape of a Rakhine girl and killing of two persons by a group of Muslim fishermen..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Curfew placed on Akyab after family murder Date of publication:   05 May 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   Englsh Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Daewoo begins gas exploitation from Arakan in July Date of publication:   09 April 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, April 25: "Daewoo International Trading Company will drill Arakan gas field A-1 block in July, announced the company on April 20..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   05 May 2004 Title:   Daily necessities from Burma: not for Rakhine State Date of publication:   21 December 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 21st December 02: "The Burmese SPDC junta's ban on transportation of goods to Rakhine State since September 25th in the western part of Burma has caused skyrocketing prices f essential commodities, reports our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   DAKHA, YANGON TO FORM JOINT BODY TO REMOVE TRADE BARRIERS Date of publication:   28 March 2002 Description/subject:   "Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to form a joint economic council to remove barriers that stand in the way of trade between the two neighbouring countries..." Author/creator:   M. Shamsur Rahman from Rangoon Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Danyawady Calender been censored Date of publication:   29 December 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, December 29: "Danyawady Calender has been censored and hence it will not be able to use the same title that has been used for so many years..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   02 January 2004 Title:   Death rate in Akyab rising Date of publication:   04 August 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab. August 4: "The number of people dying in Akyab is increasing everyday, as many people cannot afford the expenses of treatment at the Akyab Central Government Hospital. Previously, the average rate of death, in Akyab, was only one a day, but it has recently increased to over 4 a day, said a local social worker. He added that many people are not willing to utilize the services of the local hospital because they are unable to afford the high prices of treatment there..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   12 August 2004 Title:   Death sentence for 14 alleged murderers of Burmese policemen Date of publication:   27 February 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 27 Feb. 03: "Fourteen alleged murderers of four policemen in the western Burmese township of Maungdaw have been awarded death sentence and ten years� rigorous imprisonment on two counts, according to our border correspondence..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Death toll rises to 78 in Arakan due to cyclone Date of publication:   28 May 2004 Description/subject:   Sittwe, May 28: "Death toll rose up to 78 due to cyclone of 19th May that hit Myebon Township of Arakan state, reports our correspondent. Yesterday dead bodies of two women were recovered from the sea. The local people are still searching for other dead bodies, says the source..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Delay of newspapers in Sittwe Date of publication:   19 December 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, December 19: "The government controlled presses in Sittwe are unable to publish the Burmese newspapers on time. Hence, the city newspaper readers have to get the papers from Rangoon. “The local press offices in Sittwe cannot publish the papers on time. Local prints come out later than those come from Rangoon. Sittwe residents can read the local print two days late, and the readers are getting very impatient. Now, we are reading the papers send from Rangoon” said a newspaper distributor from Maw Lake Quarter..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   19 December 2003 Title:   Delhi Studying gas import from Burma and Thailand Date of publication:   09 February 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, Feb 9: "India is exploring the possibility of importing natural gas from Burma and Thailand either through an overland or undersea pipeline. According to The Daily Star on 7th Feb, India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Exploration Corporation has been asked to conduct a feasibility study of importing the gas it has struck in an offshore block in Burma in collaboration with a consortium, which includes South Koreas Daeoo firm..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   10 February 2004 Title:   Demonstration on the anniversary of the 8th August in Dhaka Date of publication:   08 August 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 8th August 03: "A group of Rakhine students and youths from Burma has staged demonstrations in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, this morning on the 15th anniversary of the 8th August Democracy Uprising of Burma..." Author/creator:   Aung Than Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   13 August 2003 Title:   Deserter Killed in Battle Date of publication:   07 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7.8K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   DEVELOPMENTS ALONG MYANMAR BORDER BEING MONITORED Date of publication:   25 March 2002 Description/subject:   "Bangladesh is monitoring the developments following the setting up of landmines by the Nasaka along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border and has also keep all concerned alert in this regards, official sources said yesterday. ..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Independent" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Dhaka -Chittagong -Cox's Bazaar to be the Asian Highway Date of publication:   08 July 2002 Description/subject:   "The highway stretching from Dhaka to Cox's Bazaar extending to Teknaf close to the Burmese border will be constructed as an international route under the Asian Highway project. Directives in this regard have been issued to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Communications to hold talks with the Burmese counterparts for the development of the road beyond Teknaf to Maungdaw on the Burmese side and through Arakan State to Rangoon. At present this part of the Burmese side of the road is inaccessible, mountainous and abounding in rivers..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Bhorer Alo" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Dhaka committed to return of Burmese refugees Date of publication:   01 October 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 1 October: "Minister for Disaster Management and Relief of Bangladesh, Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf, on Monday reiterated his country’s commitment to repatriate the Burmese refugees. The minister urged the international community for a final settlement of the refugee crisis. He stressed that the repatriated refugees needed “putting into place effective sustainable programme,” for reintegration once they are in Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   19 October 2003 Title:   Dhaka Rangoon Talks conclude: meeting to solve border problems Date of publication:   23 May 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 23rd May: "During the three-day long high-level border conference between Dhaka and Rangoon that concluded yesterday in Dhaka, a Joint Record of Discussion (JRD) was signed between the officials of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Immigration Headquarters of Burma, according to UNB..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   UNB via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Dhaka refutes India reports on transit for Burma gas Date of publication:   03 June 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 3 June 03: "Bangladesh has refuted an Indian press report that it agreed to allow transit facility for the supply of natural gas from Burma and Tripura to West Bengal through pipeline, according to today�s independent quoted from UNB. � It is not correct. No decision has so far been taken in this regards,� state minister for Energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain told UNB when asked about the report published in the Time of India yesterday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   UNB via "The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Dhaka sends 44-product list to Rangoon Date of publication:   01 August 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 1st August 03: "Dhaka has sent a list of 44 products to Rangoon to start account trade and is awaiting a response, according to today the daily star..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   06 August 2003 Title:   Dhaka sets terms for Myanmar-Bangladesh-India gas pipeline project Date of publication:   06 June 2004 Description/subject:   “The Independent”, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday 06 June 2004 / Issue: 2053 - "The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources proposes to revive the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India gas pipeline project. Sources said the proposed pipeline will enter the Bangladesh border through Brahmanbaria from the Indian territory of Tripura and will cross into West Bengal through Rajshahi border..." Author/creator:   Shahnaj Begum & UNB Language:   English Source/publisher:   UNB via “The Independent”, Dhaka via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (13K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Dhaka stays cool to India's new idea about gas pipeline Date of publication:   03 July 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Xinhuanet via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (15K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Dhaka won’t allow territory for anti-Burma military regime acts Date of publication:   07 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 7 July 03: "Bilateral relation between Bangladesh and Burma received a positive spurt with Dhaka’s assurance to the visiting Burma FM, Win Aung, that Dhaka will not allow its territory for use by any power to harm Burma, According to the daily star. “ Non-interference in the internal affairs of another country is our principled stand,” said Foreign Secretary Shaansher Mobin Chowdhury while briefing journalists on the talks held yesterday between the two foreign ministers in Dhaka. The visit follows relentless pressures from US and many Western nations on Burma to set free the captive pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and to improve human rights condition..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   07 July 2003 Title:   Dhaka, Beijing agree on road link via Burma Date of publication:   01 August 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, August 1: "Bangladesh and China have agreed to open a road link between the two countries through Burma to ease transportation of goods for further expanding bilateral trade, according to a local news agency’s UNB. The road link will connect Bangladesh with China’s southwestern Yunnan province which is closest in proximity between the two countries. The decisions were made at meetings between a visiting high-powered delegation from China and Bangladeshi officials here yesterday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Dhaka, Rangoon open border talks after 10 years Date of publication:   21 May 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 21 May 03: "Bangladesh and Burma on Tuesday opened their first border talks in 10 years and agreed to take steps against weapons smuggling, according to today the Independent quote from Bangladesh officials. The tree-day meeting in Bangladesh�s capital Dhaka was also focussing on problems faced by Bangladeshi fishermen in the Bay of Bengal, the officials said here..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   DHAKA, YANGON TO OPEN COASTAL SHIPPING LINE Date of publication:   24 December 2001 Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Today" (Bangladesh) via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   DHAKA-CTG-YANGON-BANGKOK FLIGHT BEGINS Date of publication:   04 March 2002 Description/subject:   "The Biman Bangladesh Airline started operating its Dhaka-Chittagong-Yangon-Bangkok flight from Yesterday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   DHAKA-YANGON TRADE DEAL PROVES UNSUCCESSFUL AS SMUGGLING RISING Date of publication:   26 January 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 26 January 02: The border trade agreement signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar in 1994 has not far been unsuccessful and the blame partly goes to rising smuggling. The business community in Bangladesh feels that a better approach is needed to overcome the problem as trade gap between the neighbouring countries rose to Taka 167 crore in last four years because import from Bangladesh continues to decline. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Diplomatic Envoy Visits Northern Arakan Date of publication:   23 December 2004 Description/subject:   Maung daw 23: "A diplomatic envoy led by the Indonesian Ambassador to Burma visited the Northern Arakan town of Maungdaw on December 10, said an NGO report. The envoy team, also comprised of 11 other delegates from various embassies in Rangoon, went to repatriation camps and rehabilitation centers for refugees under the Maungdaw Township..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   Director general level conference Between Burma and Date of publication:   20 May 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 20 May 03: "A three-day Director General Level Conference between the members of Burma immigration department and the members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) begins here today. According to local news agency sources, the conference will discuss cross-border smuggling, problems created to Bangladeshi fishermen while catching fish in the Bay of Bengal, holding of regular flag meetings at all commander levels and other issues of mutual interest..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   DISSATISFACTION WITHIN THE NASAKA BORDER SECURITY FORCES: A NA-SA-KA MAJOR'S CONFISCATION OF PRIVATE SHRIMP FARMS FOR OWN BENEFIT REPORTED TO WESTERN COMMAND Date of publication:   22 December 2001 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 22th December 01: Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Donations arriving for cyclone victims in Arakan Date of publication:   12 June 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, June 12: "The Chinese Red Cross Society (CRCS) donated US dollar 20,000 in cash for the victims of the cyclone in Arakan state two weeks ago, reported The New Light of Myanmar on 9 June. The cash donation was delivered to Dr Tun Sein, Acting President of the Myanmar Red Cross Society (MRCS) by Mr Yu Boren, Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China to Burma. The cyclone hit the Arakan coast on 19 May and left over 300 people dead and more than 20,000 people homeless, as the government disclosed ten days after the incident..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   DPA abducts two Bangladeshi men Date of publication:   19 September 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, September 19: "Cadres of Democratic Party of Arakan (DPA) allegedly abducted two Bangladeshi people in a village of Chittagong hill tract in Bangladesh on September 18, according to the Daily Star's report yesterday..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   23 September 2004 Title:   Drug Resistant strain of Malaria breaks out in western Burma Date of publication:   12 December 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 12 December: "The age-old disease of malaria has broken out in a new malignant form in the western part of Burma, reports our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Drug stores increased in Bangladesh border area Date of publication:   15 June 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar, June 15: "The number of drug stores with links to illegal border trade is increasing day by day in the Bangladesh border area, reports our correspondent. Local business people are opening more and more drug store because they earn huge amount of profit by smuggling out medicines to Burma, it says..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Educational Certificates for Buddhist Monks are for Sale in Arakan Date of publication:   16 May 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, May 16: "Educational certificates on Buddhist literature classes for monks can be bought with a substantial amount of money in Arakan State, a western province of Burma. Certificates are issued to monks who passed the exams set up by the Government Religious Affairs Department. However, these certificates can be purchased by paying money to the head of the State branch of the Department..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Eight alleged murderers of constables on the run Date of publication:   14 December 2001 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 14th December 2001 Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Eight Officials fired by military junta without a solid ground Date of publication:   10 June 2004 Description/subject:   Maung-daw, June 10: "Recently officials of Ton-pro-way, a newly established township of Arakan state, were sacked by the SPDC military government, reports our correspondent from the Bangladesh-Burma border area. The newly built Ton-pro-way Township is 50 kilometers to the north of Maung-daw, where the Bangladesh-Burma Friendship Bridge is currently under construction..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   End of military rule in Burma? Date of publication:   10 September 2003 Description/subject:   "It is good news indeed that Burma is marching towards democracy, a long demand of its people of that country. We were surprised to read the news that the new Burma Prime Minister General Khin Nyunt has offered a roadmap to democracy and we hope that it finally works to end 40 years of military rule..." Author/creator:   Sajiad Ahmed Rumy Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   11 September 2003 Title:   EPB to hold three single country fairs in Rangoon, Sydney, Toronto Date of publication:   04 January 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, January 04: "Encouraged by last year’s single country fairs organised in two countries, the government is going to hold three similar fairs in three continents in the next four months, according to today’s The Daily Star. The fairs aimed at expending markets for Bangladeshi products will be arranged in Rangoon, Sydney and Toronto, sources in the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) said..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   04 January 2004 Title:   Eve Teasing leaves Burmese refugee girl and brother out of Date of publication:   22 July 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 22nd July 03: "A Burmese refugee teenage girl, in a Dhaka English Medium School named Darland International School has stopped going to school since 13th of this month to escape some eve teasers in Mirpur area where she lives with her family. Thunn Mra Khaing, aged 16, is an eighth grader, intelligent and with good grades in the exams having good sense of humour. She comes of a Burmese Rakhine Buddhist background..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   28 July 2003 Title:   Exiled Democratic Forces of Burma in Bangladesh Meet to Enhance Democracy Movement Date of publication:   07 June 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, June 7: "Arakanese democracy activists exiled in Bangladesh held a meeting to enhance their movement. The meeting was held at Lama Township of the Chittagong Hill Tracts from 2nd-3rd June. At least 40 Arakanese democracy activists attended the meeting. The exiles formed a group called the “Working Committee for Democracy Restoration in Burma” (WCDRB), which aims at working with other activists now exiled in many other foreign countries..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Extension of account trade deal with Burma sought Date of publication:   15 March 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka March 15: "An inter-ministerial meeting of Bangladesh here on March 13 decided to seek cabinet approval to extend Bangladesh-Burma agreement on account trade by one year, according to yesterday’s The Daily Star..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   Extortion for Myanmar Veteran Organization Date of publication:   14 September 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 14th Sep 03: "Members of the Township Veteran Organization have forcefully been collecting money from local villagers of Maungdaw Township for the Central Veteran organization fund, a headman from Maungdaw Township said. The money collection drive began Saturday last and each of the family has been forced to pay kyat 700 to the combined collection team led by U Soe Lwin and U Than Myint from Township Veterans’ Organization..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   28 September 2003 Title:   Extortion from car owners as Burmese junta fail to repair roads Date of publication:   14 August 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 14th August 03: "The roads in Sittwe, the capital of the western Burmese state of Rakhine, have become unfit for use by motor vehicles as the heavy monsoons have washed them away, damaging very badly. The Sittwe Municipality finding no source of revenue from which to maintain the roads in the town appealed to the Western Commander. The western commander finding no other way issued an order to conduct the maintenance of the roads through a self-help basis, said an owner of the Sittwe Rangoon bus service..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   22 August 2003 Title:   Fake and Expired pharmaceuticals being imported from Bangladesh Date of publication:   01 December 2004 Description/subject:   Taknef, December 1: "Bangladesh is exporting fake and expired pharmaceuticals into Burma at a reduced price, according to border sources. Through the long border between Burma and Bangladesh and via the seas, the local drug industry is cashing in on the drug shortages in Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   25 December 2004 Title:   Fake Beverage Products From Army Compound in Akyab Date of publication:   27 July 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, July 27: "Imitation alcohol and fruit juice products are being produced on the Light Infantry Battalion No 20 Headquarters Compound, which is based in Akyab. In the past, the fake alcohol and fruit juice were made in Sanpra Wra Quarter’s factory in Akyab, but the operation was moved to the army compound last year after it was raided by the Akyab police. Akyab police had arrested U Win Nyunt, a local businessman, at that time, but he was later released after the payment of a small bribe. It is thought that the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA) Arakan State General Secretary is directly involved in the production..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Famine forces Model Village residents to flee in Burma Date of publication:   25 September 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 25 September: "A seven-member family of a Burmese junta constructed Model Village fled in the night of September 10 due to famine, according to our correspondent...The village has badly been hit by famine as the price of rice has sharply gone up in recent days. Starvation coupled with lack of job has created a lot of difficulties for the villagers..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Famine in Pockets Of Northern Arakan In Burma Date of publication:   10 June 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, June 10th: "The price of rice has marked an unusual rise in the markets of Northern Arakan State in recent weeks, causing a famine-like situation. The rice is now selling at kyat 340 a kilo at Maungdaw, the border town in northern Arakan, while the government wages for a labourer is fixed at kyat 100 a day..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Fast-unto-death: Burmese citizens on hunger strike In a Bangladeshi Jail Date of publication:   02 April 2002 Description/subject:   Bandarban, 1st April 02: "A total of 552 Thai and Burmese nationals detained in the south-eastern hill district jail in Bangladesh even after expiry of their prison terms went on hunger strike demanding repatriation, according to a police officer in the jail..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Fate of Arakanese political prisoners uncertain in Burma Date of publication:   10 March 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, March 10: "There were not any Arakanese politicians among the recently released prisoners by the Burma military authority, according to a politician From Akyab. There are at lease 25 Arakanese political prisoners in several jails in Burma and among them, some have been held for more than 20 years..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   23 March 2005 Title:   Firearms Possibly Smuggled through Akyab, Arakan State Date of publication:   11 April 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, April 11: "A haul amount of firearms that were seized in Chittagong, Bangladesh on April 2nd could have come via Akyab, Arakan State in Burma, through the sea smuggling route. This is how the Bangladesh intelligence organization believes how the latest haul of a large quantity of arms came into Bangladesh, according to The Daily Star (08-04-04)..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   05 May 2004 Title:   Fish Trade Fishy Deals Date of publication:   13 June 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 13th June 03: "The Burma Bangladesh trade may have at last seen the daylight with the import of fish from Burma. Everyday two or three hundred tonnes of Burmese freshwater fish is unloaded at the Teknaf jetty on the Bangladesh side, our correspondent writes from the border town. All the fish is directly shipped from Rangoon, while most of the shipment include freshwater fish. The price of the fish at local import market stands at taka 60,000 for a tonne, while in Rangoon the price of the same is kyat 750,000 or approximately taka 44,120, calculated at the present rate of 17 kyat to the taka. In the absence of LC opening, one Bangladeshi bank, Arab Bangladesh Bank that has branches in Rangoon and Rakhine State, handles the money received by the Burmese traders. Bangladeshi traders pay the price in US dollars to the bank, which issues the same at their Rangoon branch to the Burmese exporters, who then takes all the necessary steps to ship the fish..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   13 June 2003 Title:   Fishery industry being harassed Date of publication:   07 August 2003 Description/subject:   Akyab, 7 August 2003: "The Riparian fishery industry of Kaladan River, Arakan - a western state of Burma - has to pay ransom to a collaborator of the Burmese military intelligence. High Gar Ree Kyaw Win attained a monopoly over the Jelly-Fish industry for the 2002-2003 season, by bribing fishermen with forty million Kyats ($ 40,000). However, after a poor fishing season the industry made a loss..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   13 August 2003 Title:   Five Arakanese monks arrested with illegal stimulants in southern Burma Date of publication:   16 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Five held with Burma made Yaba tablets in Bangladesh Date of publication:   08 July 2005 Description/subject:   "Bangladesh Police arrested five persons in a hotel with 800 pieces Yaba , stimulate tablets, from Burma on July 5, said a Bangladesh Newspaper..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   ?? ? via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Flag meeting held at Cox’s Bazar: Infiltration is main issue Date of publication:   18 December 2003 Description/subject:   Cox’sbazar, December 18: "A flag meeting at regional commander level between Burma and Bangladesh was held at BDR guesthouse, at Cox’s Bazar, most southeast district of Bangladesh, nearest to Burma border, on 8th December, our correspondent reports..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   18 December 2003 Title:   Floating Rohingyas of Teknaf Date of publication:   16 September 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 16th September 03: "Seven hundred and fifty families of floating Rohingyas from Burma have been living in abject poverty and deplorable conditions in the neighbourhood of Teknaf Kindergarten School, causing deterioration of the law and order situation of this small border town in the southeastern tip of Bangladesh, situated just across the river Naaf from Maungdaw in western Burma. The rise in prostitution in the town has increasingly been blamed upon the Rohingyas who have been living in the area for some time. The local people have raised high concern about the spread of the deadly AIDS through unchecked prostitution among some of the Rohingyas who live unaccounted and uncared for. The situation was created when the Thana Nirbahi Officer (township administrative official) ordered all of the floating Rohingya population in the vicinity out of the rented houses in Teknaf Municipality. Since then about 750 Rohingya families have been living in temporary shacks constructed in front of the Teknaf Upazila administration office building..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   28 September 2003 Title:   Food Scarcity in Burma: oh yes, Rice from Bangladesh! Date of publication:   15 September 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 15 September: "After chemical fertilizers, rice is the new hot item added to the list of commodities smuggled into Burma, reported the vernacular daily Prothom Alo in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The rice from Bangladesh is being smuggled through 18 points of the porous Bangla Burma border, it said. The recent price hike of rice in Rakhine (Arakan) State in the western part of Burma has spurred the smuggling of Bangladeshi rice. .." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Food Shortage in Sittwe State Prison Date of publication:   29 May 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 29 May 03: "The food shortage in the State Prison in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in the western Burma has reached a critical point, according to a prison official who declined to be identified. In the face of the critical situation the prison officials have allowed the relatives of the inmates to supply food from outside by taking monthly bribes of between kyat 10,000 and 30,000 depending upon the nature of the sentence, he said. For the prisoners of conscience the bribe is always bigger in amount..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   For Laying Memorial wreath for 19 July without independent monument Date of publication:   19 July 2004 Description/subject:   Pauk Taw, July 19: "Today is the 57th anniversary of a martyr’s day to commemorate General Aung san and other national leaders who fell on 19th of July 1947. However, there is not an independent monument for laying a memorial wreath by town people of Pauk Taw Township. The Burma Intelligence Unite, under the MI-10, confiscated the ground of the Independence Monument and sold it to local businessmen for construction of stores and shops..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   For reason unknown 30 Arakanese detained in Kawthaung Date of publication:   25 May 2004 Description/subject:   Kawthaung, May 25: "The reason of arrest of about 30 Arakanese in Kawthaung, most southern Burmese town bordering Thailand, is still unknown, an Arakanese from Ranoung said over the phone yesterday. The arrest has been started in the town since last week and the town authorities are still searching for Arakanese living there in order to arrest. Most arrested are ordinary fishermen and they have been working there for several years..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Force labour for construction Ngapali Sea beach tourism complex Date of publication:   16 December 2003 Description/subject:   Sandoway, Dec 16: "Large number of valuable timber trees were being felled for the construction of tourism complex, in Ngapali sea beach of Sandoway in Arakan state, by the military headquarters of western command of Burma and locals were being used as unpaid forced labour, a report said..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   16 December 2003 Title:   Forced Closure of Shrimp Farms lands people into Trouble Date of publication:   19 September 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 19th September 02: "Shrimp farms in a number of townships in Western Burma have been destroyed by digging their raised banks, according to a shrimp farm owner who escaped to Teknaf in the south-eastern part of Bangladesh..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Forced collection of money for conducting civil defence training in Chin State Date of publication:   03 September 2003 Description/subject:   Kyauktaw, 3rd September 03: "The ruling State Peace and Development Council junta officials have been engaged in forcefully collecting money and rice for conducting civil defence training from across Paletwa Township in Chin State the western part of Burma, sources in the town said..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   10 September 2003 Title:   Forced Collection of Money for the Members of the faction of AA that surrendered to the Burmese junta Date of publication:   23 May 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, May 23: "On May 5th this year a sum of money, part of which was collected through the use of force, was handed over in a formal function to the surrendered outfit of the Arakan Army guerrilla faction at Kyauktaw State High School in the northern part of Arakan State in Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   FORCED COLLECTION OF RICE IN MYANMAR Date of publication:   21 February 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 21st February 02: "The total 'forced purchase' of rice from the rice growers of the south-western state of Myanmar till the first week of February 02 is about 156,500 tonnes, according to an official from the State Agricultural Department..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Forced Conscription in Western Burma Date of publication:   17 July 2003 Description/subject:   Teknaf, 17 Jul. 03: "Fresh forced conscription into the Burmese Army has been reported from various townships of Rakhine State in the western part of Burma. Maung Tun Yein (17) who fled and crossed the border to Bangladesh said that Light Infantry Battalion 538, at Rathedaung Town, about thirty miles north of Sittwe the state capital, has been conducting fresh conscription in and near his township..." Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   19 July 2003 Title:   Forced Eviction from private property Date of publication:   19 December 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 19th December: "Eighteen families who have been forcefully evicted from their own homes since October 25th in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, have been spending under temporary sheds in the nearby open field, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Forced Labor for Army Brick Kiln Date of publication:   23 June 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   Forced labor in the last ancient city of Arakan Date of publication:   14 April 2005 Description/subject:   Mrauk Oo, April 14: "Forced labor in Arakan state is now again increasing, having taken place in several areas of Arakan state, including Mrauk Oo, an ancient Arakanese city, said a well-know local person. “A few months ago there was no forced labor here, and the problem had almost disappeared in Mrauk Oo. But now the authorities are again perpetrating forced labor around the Maruk Oo town", he said. The authorities have summoned town people, through the local Rayaka village administration, to work in the hills surrounding Mrauk Oo, forcing them to clear thick clumps of bushes and cut down trees..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   Forced Labour Continues in Arakan Date of publication:   28 December 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, December 28: "Despite the junta claims that there is no forced labour in Burma, there have been incidents of forced labour continue to happened in Ann Township, Arakan state..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   28 December 2003 Title:   Forced Labour in Arakan Capital Increases Agony Date of publication:   06 July 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, July 6: "The existence of forced labour in Akyab, the capital city of Arakan, has been reported by city residents over the telephone. According to our informants, every Saturday, the people of Akyab have to work to clean the streets and drainage from every house. In default, people are fined kyat 500 per house. Most of the city’s dwellers have to work unwillingly for fear of the fine..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Forced labour in construction of gas pipeline(?) in Burma Date of publication:   14 June 2003 Description/subject:   Kyauktaw, 14 June 03: "Fresh reports of forced labour in northern part of Rakhine State in western part of Burma have been reported by our correspondent. In a bid to construct road and possibly, gas pipeline to the north-eastern part of India large-scale use of forced labour has been made in the townships of Kyauktaw Township in Rakhine State and Paletwa Township in Chin State in the western part of Burma since the end of last year. Soon after the joint Indo-Burma survey of existing jungle paths in the beginning of this year forced labour in construction of the road to the Indian border has taken up momentum. Hundreds of people, men, women and children could be seen streaming to the worksites everyday at the village tracts upriver the Kaladan including Tarwaing-oing, Mreik-wa, Chin Lat Wa, Nwge Let Wa, Kung Chaung, Miza , Milet wa and Tinnma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   16 June 2003 Title:   Forced Labour in Road Construction Date of publication:   10 December 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 10 December: "The dilapidated Sittwe-Rangoon Road connecting the western state of Rakhine with the Burmese capital has been under repair since the 17th November...In the Mrebon section about 1,700 people has been used as forced labour to do the repair work till 1 December, in Ann about one hundred people have been used everyday as forced labour, while the number in the Kyauktaw-Mrauk-u section could not be established..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   FORCED LABOUR IN RUBBER PLANTATIONS IN ARAKAN STATE Date of publication:   02 March 2002 Description/subject:   Ponnagyun, 2 March 02: "In the military rubber plantations in the south western state of Burma villagers have been used as forced labourers..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Forced Labour in the Road through the Mayu Ranges Date of publication:   25 June 2003 Description/subject:   Rathedaung, 25rd June 03: "The construction of a motorable road connecting Rathedaung and Maungdaw townships in Rakhine State, in the western part of Burma, has been underway since January this year, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   26 June 2003 Title:   Forced labour on the Sittwe-Rangoon Road Date of publication:   30 December 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 30th December 02: "The repair of the weather-worn Sittwe � Rangoon Road has been conducted by the use of extensive forced labour in Ann, the southern town of Rakhine State in the western part of Burma, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (14K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   FORCED PURCHASE OF FIREWOOD FOR MILITARY BRICKFIELD IN THE TOWNSHIPS OF RAKHINE STATE Date of publication:   09 February 2002 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 9 February 02 : "The Burmese Military troops have again been reported to have started collecting firewood for the military owned brickfields across Rakhine State including that in Maungdaw township, a town close to Bangladesh border on the Naf river, our correspondent quoted a villager of the area..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   FORCED PURCHASE OF RICE FROM FARMERS IN RAKHINE STATE Date of publication:   14 January 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 14th January 02: "The State Peace and Development Council junta of Myanmar have declared open market economy in the country since it seized state power in 1988 after a bloody crackdown on democracy movement killing thousands of peaceful demonstrators and imprisoning and torturing many thousands more. But as for the farmers in the country, they have never been able to fetch right price for their produce because of the forced purchase of rice by the government at prices arbitrarily kept low by the government..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Forgotten Burmese Refugees in Dhaka Date of publication:   20 June 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, June 20: "Even though Burmese Refugees in Thailand are mow resettling in other countries such as the United States of America, 100 Arakanese refugees from Buma living in Dhaka are faced with a grim future since the UNHCR cut their monthly financial assistance. “Monthly assistances for my wife and daughter are cut from this month on. How can we survive? But I can understand why the UNHCR cut the monthly grant,” said a Burmese refugee. Burmese refugees would no longer get the monthly assistance, but they will be able to get a financial grant for project to make a livelihood. The amount of the grant depends upon the proposed project, but the largest has been 35,000 taka (US$ 600). However, normally a grant is around 15,000 taka..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   FORMAL COLLEGE EDUCATION FACES SETBACKS IN BURMA Date of publication:   18 April 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 18 April 02: "The State Peace and Development Council junta of Burma have lately changed the policy of entrance to universities and colleges so that the newly matriculated students with higher marks will be permitted to pursue their higher education through the correspondence course, according to our correspondent quoting an unnamed university teacher in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan (Rakhine) State in the western part of Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Former Arakan Nasaka officers receive 60 to 150 year sentences Date of publication:   13 April 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, April 13" "An Arakan State court in Akyab convicted and sentenced Bri-Gan Aung Ngwe, former a commander in charge of Arakan state Nasaka, to imprisonment for 67 years, on April 7, said a lawyer from a state court of Akyab..." The court also sentenced the Deputy Commander of Nasaka, Colonel Myint Oo, to 135 years imprisonment and another 3 Burmese Muslim businessmen to 49 years imprisonment. Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   23 April 2005 Title:   Four bodies of Rohingyas recovered from Kutupalong camp Date of publication:   20 November 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar 20: "A day after Thursday’s violent clash, a joint force of BDR (Bangladesh Riffle), police and ansars recovered four bodies of Rohingyas and arrested 12 more people from Kutupalong camp in Ukhiya Thana on Friday, according to the several local news papers..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   21 November 2004 Title:   Four crew members of a Bangladeshi boat under Nasaka custody Date of publication:   18 June 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 18th June 03: "Four Bangladesh nationals of a fertilizer carrying boat have been under the custody of the Nasaka security forces Area No. 7 at Maungdaw since 5th June 03, sources said..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   21 June 2003 Title:   Four Myanmar prisoners released from Dhaka Central Jail while eight hundred more linger in prisons of Bangladesh Date of publication:   20 February 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 20th February 02: "Five foreign nationals including four from Myanmar were released Tuesday yesterday from the Dhaka Central Jail..." Author/creator:   Shwe Lin Yun Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Four Refugee Women Raped Date of publication:   13 March 2004 Description/subject:   Cox’s Bazar March 14: "Four refugee women from the temporary Teknaf Rohingya Muslim Refugee Camp were raped on the 24th of February according to the Cox’s Bazar daily The Daily Bakhail..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Bakhail" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   FOUR ROHINGYAS ARRESTED WITH ELEVEN CATTLE Date of publication:   10 April 2002 Description/subject:   MAUNGDAW, 10 April 02: "The Nasaka security forces arrested four Rohingyas with eleven cattle on charges of illegal traffic in cattle, according to our correspondent in Maungdaw the western border town of Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Fresh Land Confiscation in Arakan Date of publication:   16 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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."..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Friendship Road construction starts in March Date of publication:   09 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, February 9: "The construction of a ‘Friendship Road’ between Burma and Bangladesh will start next month, said a report of the Communication Ministry of Bangladesh. The road will directly connect Rangoon and Dhaka, and will be built through Arakan State. According to the report, the road will be 130 kilometers and be built from Ramu, in the Cox'sbazar district of Bangladesh, to Kyauk Taw in Burma’s Arakan State..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   Future of Biman flights on the Dhaka - Chittagong - Rangoon -Bangkok Route Uncertain Date of publication:   02 April 2002 Description/subject:   "The national airlines of Bangladesh, Biman, faces the threat of a loss of Taka 50 million on its three-month long trial flight on the Dhaka - Chittagong - Rangoon - Bangkok route..." Author/creator:   Shwe Lin Yun Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Future of the construction of bridges uncertain in western Burma Date of publication:   15 July 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 15th July 03: "The future of the construction of bridges in western Burma has become uncertain due to the stoppage of Japanese aid to Burma, sources in the local administration said. In Maungdaw Township, bordering with the southeastern part of Bangladesh, a number of bridges have been under construction utilizing Japanese aid offered by the BAJ (Bridge Asia Japan), a Japanese NGO. The bridges would link the detached sections of the proposed Sittwe Maungdaw road, which may later be used as link between Bangladesh and Rangoon..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   15 July 2003 Title:   Gamblers Bet Kyat 20 Million a Day on Euro Soccer Date of publication:   25 June 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, June 25: "People have been staking about kyat 20 million per day on Euro Championship Football 2004 in Akyab, the state capital of Arakan, said a master on Euro Football 2004. An eyewitness said that, in Akyab, there are two main gambling houses on Euro Football 2004, where people can bet from kyat 5,000 to as much as they like..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Gambling Schoolteachers of Burma Date of publication:   11 November 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 11th November: "...[S]tate employees, mostly schoolteachers in western Burma, have for some time been occupied with gambling in the form of what is popularly known as "Shay Htee" - an illegal lottery operation..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Going to be constructed: Dhaka-Rangoon Highway Sections on Check and Survey Date of publication:   16 November 2002 Description/subject:   "Maungdaw, Nov 16: Burma Highway Department engineers started to check and survey motor-road sections passing through Maung Daw, Buthidaung and Rathidaung Township, Northern Arakan State, Burma, since September..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Government Buildings Likely to Move from Downtown Akyab for New Port Date of publication:   20 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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.”..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7.8K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Government’s Tax on Motorbikes in Arakan Skyrocketing This Year Date of publication:   23 July 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, July 23: "Taxes on motorbikes, imposed by The Burma Military authority, are skyrocketing this year. “The tax on motorbikes is so high this year that people can not afford to pay the government” said a motorbike owner. He added that the new tax has frightened many motorbike owners in Arakan since the tax is equivalent to 10 per cent of the purchasing price..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   Grewal made a million kyats through "great betrayal" Date of publication:   10 March 2004 Description/subject:   "Colonel Biswajit Singh Grewal of Indian military intelligence has received one million kyats from the Burmese military junta for pulling off "Operation Leech", during which six NUPA leaders were shot dead in cold blood by Indian troops after they were invited to come to the Andamans..." Author/creator:   "Arakan Friend" Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   13 March 2004 Title:   Had a man buried alive come back to life Date of publication:   29 May 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 29 May 03: "Two men believed to be killed by the Burmese Army in 1997 are now rumoured to be alive as a good number of Arakanese prisoners have recently been released from various prisons, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Harassment at Nasaka Tollgate at Ann Pass: Deliberate attempt by the Burmese junta to wipe out minority business community? Date of publication:   27 August 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 27 August 02: "On August 2 the Nasaka security forces deployed at #25 toll post at Ann, where the Western Command is headquartered, confiscated ten motorbikes legally imported from China through Lashio, in the Northern Shan State, according to our correspondent quoting a top businessman who declined to identify..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Head of Nasaka department indicted by local authority Date of publication:   13 January 2005 Description/subject:   Maung Daw, January 13: "The head of the Nasaka force in Arakan state, Let -Col Aung Nwge, is currently facing a lawsuit prosecuted by the local SPDC authorities for his involvement in a murder case. “The police department of Maungdaw received an order from high ranking officials of Western Command to collect evidence to prosecute him” said a teacher close to a Maungdaw police officer..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   High Birth Rate among Burmese Muslim Refugees Worries Bangladeshis Date of publication:   02 July 2005 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   09 July 2005 Title:   High Security Alert in towns of Northern Arakan Date of publication:   15 December 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe Dec 15: "In the northern towns of the Arakan State, namely Sittwe (Akyab), Buthe Daung, Rathe Daung, Maung Daw, the local authority has increased the security arrangements due to the fear of communal violence between Arakanese Buddhists and Muslim communities..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   16 December 2003 Title:   High Timber Tax Deters Home Construction Date of publication:   14 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8.6K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Highway from Dhaka to Bangkok and beyond Date of publication:   01 June 2002 Description/subject:   "The new Dhaka-Yangon-Bangkok road connection will shorten the distance between Thailand and Bangladesh by at least 500 kilometres. While this road could open up a shorter and speedier linkage with two of our eastern neighbours, the original scheme of the Asian Highway passing through Sylhet can still go ahead which will link India and provide another connection for Bangladesh to China... Bangladesh must proceed with a strong political will to convince Myanmar about the new opportunities that both countries could take advantage of and immediately start working for opening the road to Bangkok..." Author/creator:   M Anwarul Haq Language:   English Source/publisher:   "The Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (31K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Houses built for 130 newly arriving settler families Date of publication:   15 June 2004 Description/subject:   Maung-daw, June 15: "The Na-Sa-Ka border security force of Burma has since May 29th taken initiatives to build houses for 130 new settler families who are arriving soon from central Burma to the Maung-daw Township area, reports our correspondent. The houses are being built near Aung Mingla village under the stern directives of the Na-Sa-Ka acting commander, Lieutenant Colonel Myint Oo. Around 250 villagers living near the construction site have been used as forced labourers. Most of them are farmers. Nearby villagers said that the labourers are told they must postpone their own agricultural business to work without any payment in house construction for the settlers. Under the construction scheme, these labourers will be building houses, a monastery, a school, a dispensary, and a meditation centre, along with digging several ponds and wells..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   01 August 2004 Title:   How are the Burmese refugees in Bangladesh? Date of publication:   08 December 2002 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 8 December 02: "The Burmese refugees who have been recognized by the UNHCR in Bangladesh are facing difficulty living in the country for lack of job and livelihood, said Khaing Paw Lunn, the President of the Executive Committee for Burmese Refugees (Bangladesh), recently set up with an aim to work for the rights of the refugees..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (9K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Huge Myanmar Offshore Gas Field near Bangladesh Date of publication:   02 September 2002 Description/subject:   "An offshore gas field near Myanmar's border with Bangladesh could be significantly larger than Myanmar's other two operating field and eventually be piped to India, a report here said. The reserves could be more than double those found at either the Yadana or Yetagun gas fields, a report in the Myanmar times cited South Korea's Daewoo International as saying..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Hunger Strike at Bandarban Jail ends Date of publication:   31 March 2002 Description/subject:   "Some 522 nationals of Myanmar and Thailand at Bandarban prison have ended their hunger strike on condition that they will be sent home within 15 days and given adequate food..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   UNB, Bandarban via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Hunger strike demanding subsistence allowance from UNHCR Date of publication:   10 March 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 10th March 03: "Beginning 11 am yesterday, two Burmese refugees, one Karen and another Rakhine nationals, have been on hunger strike at the Refugee Counselling Services Unit (RCSU) operating under the UNHCR, Bangladesh Chapter in Dhaka..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Illegal money deposited by SPDC’s military personnel in Arakan with U-Pai Bank Limited Date of publication:   24 March 2004 Description/subject:   Sittwe, March 24: "Military personnel which were posted in Arakan State of Burma have made lots of money from Arakanese people in various illegal ways, such as bribes, tolls and subscriptions. This money have been deposited in U-Pai Bank Limited. U-Pai Bank Ltd has been established by the SPDC military government specifically to run the banking affairs of the military people..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (11K) Date of entry/update:   25 March 2004 Title:   ILLEGAL SEIZURE OF VIDEO EQUIPMENTS LEGALLY BROUGHT FROM RANGOON Date of publication:   05 April 2002 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 5 April 02: "A consignment of home electronics appliances to Sittwe, the capital of Arakan (Rakhine State) in the western part of Burma, was illegally confiscated at the Nasaka security checkpoint No. 25 at Ann, in the western foothills of the Arakan Romas, according to our correspondent from Sittwe..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   ILO Team visit western Burma Date of publication:   01 March 2003 Description/subject:   Maungdaw, 1st March: "On 26th January two officials from the International Labour Organization visited the northern part of Rakhine State in western Burma, according to our border correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   In Combined Operation Burmese Muslims arrested Date of publication:   19 February 2004 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazar, 19 Feb: "In a Police and BDR combined operation two Burmese Muslims were held from who are illegally staying in a local hotel at Cox's Bazar, Southeast bordering district of Bangladesh with Burma, reports a local newspaper on 9th February..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (5K) Date of entry/update:   19 February 2004 Title:   In search of two "exceptionally coloured" elephants Date of publication:   10 July 2002 Description/subject:   Buthidaung, 10 Jul. 02: "On July 7th two 'exceptionally coloured' elephants were spotted on the Buthidaung Maungdaw motor road near the Mayu Ranges in Arakan State by members of the Burmese Army, according to a captain in the area..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Inadequate Medical Supplies in Arakan Spell Looming Health Crisis for Children Date of publication:   11 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (9.1K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   Inaugural of Trade Corridor between Burma and Bangladesh Date of publication:   21 August 2002 Description/subject:   Cox's Bazaar, 21 August 02: "Since 18th August 02 the first corridor along the Bangladesh Burma international border has begun to operate, according to our correspondent..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   Increased Conscripts in the Burmese Army Date of publication:   18 June 2003 Description/subject:   Sittwe, 18th June 03: "In the face of large numbers of deserters, the Burmese Army is confronting an acute manpower shortage. Quoting sources in the army our correspondent said that to keep the entire military machinery running conscription has been stepped up across Rakhine State in the western part of Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   21 June 2003 Title:   Increased Security Measures in Arakan After Rangoon’s Bomb Blast Date of publication:   08 May 2005 Description/subject:   Akyab, May 8: "The military junta in Arakan, the western state of Burma, has increased security measures after a deadly bomb blast in Rangoon, the Capital of Burma. There have been three bomb blasts in the capital of Rangoon resulting in several deaths and injuries. This new situation has resulted in the increase of military presence in Akyab and major towns in Arakan..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   02 June 2005 Title:   Increasing exhortation by the authority in Arakan State Date of publication:   13 December 2004 Description/subject:   Akyab, Dec 13: "After the purge of General Khin Nyunt, the SPDC Prime Minister Soe Win, SPDC Secretary (1) Thein Sein, and Lieutenant General Shwe Mann promised that the junta’s first priority is to get rid of corruption and abusive use of power by military personnel. Contrary to the promise, there have been an increase in incidents of exhortation by the local authority and military personnel of the public through out Arakan State. Checkpoints formerly controlled by the Military Intelligence are now guarded by military personnel and police, and they are not just asking for money from the smugglers, but also from the ordinary people..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   27 December 2004 Title:   INDIA MINISTER TO VISIT MYANMAR FOR THREE NATION HIGHWAY PROJECT Date of publication:   28 March 2002 Description/subject:   "Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh will visit Myanmar April 5-7 to discuss plans to construct a three nation Highway connecting India, Myanmar and Thailand..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   "Daily Star" via Narinjara news Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   03 June 2003 Title:   India names pipeline meeting representatives Date of publication:   10 February 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, February 10: "India has nominated four officials to represent the country in the upcoming 'Technical Committee' meeting of the proposed tri-nation gas pipeline project, to be held in Burma's capital city of Rangoon. The meeting is to be attended by representatives of India, Bangladesh and Burma..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8K) Date of entry/update:   14 February 2005 Title:   India North eastern state plans to deport Burmese settlers Date of publication:   06 August 2003 Description/subject:   Dhaka, 6th August 2003: "India’s northeastern state of Mizoram said it was launching a drive to detect and deport thousands of illegal refugees from Burma in response to pressure from local residents, according to today the daily star quoting to AFP..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   AFP via "The Daily Star" via Narinjara News Format/size:   html (6K) Date of entry/update:   06 August 2003 Title:   India Supreme Court notice to CBI on Burmese detainees of Operation Leech Date of publication:   17 November 2004 Description/subject:   Dhaka, November 17: "The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday issued notices to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and authorities in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on a petition seeking release of 36 Burmese "freedom fighters" arrested six years ago by the Indian Army during "Operation Leech" according to an India local news agency, Press Trust of India, on 16 November..." Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (7K) Date of entry/update:   21 November 2004 Title:   India to Build at an Abandoned Port in Burma Date of publication:   18 December 2006 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (8.8K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   India-Bangladesh talks on gas pipeline unlikely during SAARC Summit Date of publication:   26 January 2005 Description/subject:   Dhaka, January 26: "The issue surrounding the tri-partisan gas pipeline project is not on the agenda of a talk involving Indian and Bangladeshi Prime Ministers during the upcoming SAARC summit. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or SAARC, a summit including the region's leaders, will be held in Dhaka on February 6-7..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara news Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   30 January 2005 Title:   India-Burma army car rally concludes Date of publication:   02 January 2007 Description/subject:   "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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (15K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title:   India-Myanmar car rally to enter Burma on Tuesday Date of publication:   10 December 2006 Description/subject:   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..." Language:   English Source/publisher:   Narinjara News Format/size:   html (10K) Date of entry/update:   06 January 2007 Title: