Narinjara News
This news service covers Bangladesh-Burma relations, the Bangladesh-Burma border, events in Arakan and occasional reports on other parts of Burma. Email delivery of the reports may be requested from [email protected]
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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..."
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2004-11-30
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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..."
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2004-11-25
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2004-12-25
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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..."
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2004-12-07
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2004-12-25
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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..."
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2004-11-25
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2004-12-25
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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..."
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2004-11-30
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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..."
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2004-12-01
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2004-12-25
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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..."
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2004-11-24
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2004-12-25
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Akyab, Dec 5: "Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council, Senior General Than Shwe, made a trip to Arakan state along with a large number of his cabinet members on November 29th after the sacking of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, said a report.
This time his trip was very different from previous visits to Arakan State because he was followed by a large entourage, including secretary Lt-Gen Thein Sein, SPDC members Lt-Gen Khin Maung Than, Lt-Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myin Oo, Lt-Gen Kyaw Win, over twenty Ministers, and two commanders-in-chief of the Navy and Air Force..."
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2004-12-05
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2004-12-25
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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..."
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2004-11-20
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2004-11-21
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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..."
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2004-11-17
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2004-11-21
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Cox?s Bazar 19: "Over a hundred of Rohingya refugees and law-enforcers were injured in a violent clash at Kutupalong Muslim Rohingya camp in Ukhiya Thana southern district of Cox?sbazar in yesterday, said local sources.
Sources said the trouble explode at about the 9.30am when police and ansars(village security) went to the camp to rescues a police officer, detained by some Muslim Rohingyas during his visit to the camp earlier in the morning..."
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2004-11-19
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2004-11-21
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Maungdaw, Nov 16: "According to official sources, on November 5, three police officers were substituted in the intelligence position near the border areas of Maungdaw township, a Burmese town on the western border with Bangladesh..."
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2004-11-16
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2004-11-21
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Dhaka 18 November: "The minister of Energy of Bangladesh, India, and Burma will meet in Yangoon, the capital of Burma, in January next year to finalise the three-nation gas pipeline project. According to The Independent News..."
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"The Independent News" via Narinjara News
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2004-11-18
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2004-11-21
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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..."
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2004-11-10
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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..."
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2004-11-07
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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..."
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2004-11-15
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2004-11-17
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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..."
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2004-11-12
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Akyab, November 10: "Nine Arakanese monks from Akyab, capital of the Arakan state have been detained by the local authority. They are in the danger being imprisoned for many years..."
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2004-11-10
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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..."
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2004-10-06
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2004-11-04
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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..."
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2004-10-21
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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..."
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2004-10-08
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2004-11-04
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Cox?s Bazar, October 9: "The pirates active on the Bay of Bengal threw 11 onboard Burmese into the sea of Bangladesh?s water territory, providing them with only big bamboo rods as lifesavers after taking away their boat loaded with ox and teak wood on October 4, said a victim of the incident...Fortunately, after spending the night clutching the bamboo rods, the men were saved when they were spotted by a local fishing boat from Cox?s Bazar Town, situated on the Bay of Bengal, that was on it?s way home..."
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2004-10-09
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Dhaka, 25 October: "At least two-and a half lakh Burmese Muslim refugees are now living in Bangladesh, namely in Cox?sbazar, Banderband and Chittagong. Among them, some 19,000 refugees have been waiting to return to their home in Burma for the last three months.
Sources said that the reasons for the suspension of the process for repatriation of the refugees for the last three months have thus far been unexplained..."
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2004-10-25
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October 5, 2004: "The trade gap between Bangladesh and Myanmar has widened drastically since the 1997-98 fiscal year.
Previously, the export volume of Bangladesh to Myanmar was higher than that of the import. However since the 1997-98 fiscal year, Bangladesh has imported more goods from Myanmar than it has sent exports to that country..."
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2004-10-05
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2004-11-04
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Dhaka, October 7: "Burma lost to Oman with one goal to nil in a hockey game at the under-twenty-one five nation hockey tournament. Burma will have to compete again with Oman for the third position..."
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2004-10-07
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2004-11-04
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Maung Daw, September 24: "Tensions between the locals and the authority are running high in the northern part of Maung Daw Township, in the northern part of Arakan, after the murder of a police officer, said a teacher from Maungdaw.
On the 2nd of September, a group of local Muslim villagers from the Thakan Nya village attacked a police office, Sub- inspector Ran Aung and Private Hla Myo. The two are from the Myawadee Post in the Region of Nasaka the border security of Maung Daw Township..."
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2004-09-24
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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..."
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2004-09-21
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2004-09-23
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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..."
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2004-09-17
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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..."
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2004-09-22
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2004-09-23
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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..."
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"Daily Star" via Narinjara News
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2004-09-19
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2004-09-23
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Cox?s Bazar, Sept 18: "A Rakhaing girl was killed by miscreants after raping her in a village of Bangladesh on September 14.
Her old mother was also killed by miscreants, said a report.
Police and local sources said the miscreants entered the house in the area near Nayapara Rohingya Refugee camp and started raping her, Pru Pru chay (23)..."
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2004-09-18
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2004-09-23
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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..."
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2004-09-12
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Narinjara, August 30, 2004: "Leader of the Democratic Party of Arakan, a rebel organization of Myanmar, Ba Ong Moung and his family surrendered on Saturday to the security forces in Tarachha in Roangchhari Upazila, Bandarban district..."
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2004-08-30
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2004-08-30
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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..."
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2004-08-20
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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..."
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2004-08-09
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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)..."
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2004-08-09
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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..."
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2004-08-03
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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..."
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2004-08-04
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Ponna Gyunt, August 6 : "Farms recently confiscated by the army, from local farmers in Ponna Gyunt Township, under the Akyab District, have been allocated to army member?s families, said an Arakanese monk, who wishes to remain anonymous.
The families of men serving in the Light Infantry Battalion 555 Base in Ponna Gyunt and the Light Infantry Battalion 374 Base in Pan Pe Chaung, of Kyauk Taw Township, were each given 3 acres of the stolen land by the local army officials..."
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2004-08-06
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Akyab, August 3: "The Burmese SPDC Military authority recently removed all portraits of prominent historic Arakanese leaders from The Arakanese Cultural Museum of Akyab.
According to our correspondent?s report, the 13 portraits removed were of the following Arakanese leaders; U Ottama, Dr Shwe Zan Aung, U Panya Thiha, U Sinda, Barrister-at-law U Tha Zan Hla, U San Shwe Bu, Bogri Kra Hla Aung, U U Tha Tun,Bon Pauk Tha Kyaw, ICS U Kyaw Min, U San Tha Aung, U Ban San and Sarama Daw Ma Mra Sein..."
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2004-08-03
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Akyab, August 6: "Military Western Command Authority has issued a directive to local administration, to increase security in their respective town areas with the anniversary of 8-8-88 approaching.
The directive was sent to the Burma Border Security Force (Nasaka), Military Operation Planning Unite (Sabaka), Regional Military Supervision Headquarters (Dhasaka) as well as local police forces, and state and township level administration.
The directive was issued by the Military Western Command at end of July..."
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2004-08-06
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[by the] Working Committee for Democracy Restoration In Burma
(WCDRB)...
"Today is the sacred and historic day of the 16th anniversary of 8-8-88, on which thousands of people, of many races, gave their blood and lives bravely fighting for the democracy of Burma.."
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2004-08-08
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Maungdaw, August 5:
"A UNHCR field officer has complained to the Nasaka Border Force Acting Commander, Myint Oo, for the wide use of child labor in Maungdaw Township, a town in Northern Arakan State.
The complaint reportedly came out in a meeting between Nasaka officials and a UNHCR field officer in the UNHCR field meeting room of Maungdaw, on 22 July..."
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Dhaka, July 20: "This is the 10th year the local New York City Rakhaing group has setup and operated the Thingyan in New York City, New York, USA..."
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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..."
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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..."
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2004-06-24
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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..."
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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..."
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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..."
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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..."
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"The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara News
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2004-07-25
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Dhaka, May 27: "Bangladeshi salt production has declined because of the importation of cheaper salt from Burma..."
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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..."
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2004-05-24
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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..."
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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..."
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2004-06-14
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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..."
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2004-07-06
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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..."
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2004-06-20
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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..."
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2004-07-21
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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..."
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?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..."
Shahnaj Begum & UNB
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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..."
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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..."
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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..."
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2004-06-15
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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..."
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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..."
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2004-06-07
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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..."
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2004-07-27
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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..."
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2004-07-19
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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..."
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2004-05-25
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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..."
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2004-07-06
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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..."
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2004-06-20
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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..."
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2004-06-25
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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..."
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2004-07-23
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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..."
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2004-06-15
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Maung Daw, July 31: "A Japanese envoy visited Northern Arakan from the 23rd to the 27th of July, according to our correspondent.
The envoy led by Masache O? Jawa, Business attachée of the Japanese Embassy in Rangoon, also included Taka Hiro Susu Ki, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)?s regional representative to Burma as well as Choche Yo Ho Rekie, a chief engineer of JICA office in Cambodia.
The purpose of the foreign envoy's visit to Maung Daw was to inspect a damaged road that was constructed by the British government during the Second World War. The Japanese government may assist in the rebuilding of the road in the near future..."
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Akyab, May 26: "Akyab residents have been ordered to build the drainage for the portion of street in front of their house. Those who are not able to build one has been threatened to move house.
The District authority told the residents that, ?If you can?t do it, you will have to leave your home for the rich Muslims who will build the drainage.” Such talk incites the communal feelings of the Buddhist Arakanese families, said a resident of the Shwe Bya Quarter..."
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2004-05-26
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Cox?s Bazar, July 20: "A Bangladesh local authority has been collecting the names of people killed by landmines that had been planted by the Burmese army, said a report of the daily Saiket, a Cox?sbazar district base newspaper, on July 17.
The number of deaths from landmines in the Bangladesh territory increases, day by day, which has necessitated the collecting of names for this list.
According to present record, 16 people have been killed by landmines on the Bangladesh side so far. The paper also mentioned those victims? names, ages and address..."
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2004-07-20
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Maung Daw, June 9: "Burmese authorities have announced that people returning to their native lands after working in foreign countries will receive at least 5 years in jail, reports our correspondent from the border area.
Though officially not available, the news of this announcement is common over the Bangladesh-Burma border area, it was learnt.
Due to this news, many Burmese Muslims of Bu-thee-daung and Maung-daw who returned from Middle Eastern Countries dare not enter Burma. They have become stranded in Bangladesh and are spending their days in great worry..."
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2004-06-09
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Akyab, July 8: "Although Burmese Military Junta claims to put a great endeavor to make Burma into a modern advance nation; many ordinary people do not have a proper Internet access. In Arakan State, there has been only one Internet Café, only in Akyab, the capital of the state.
This is the first and the only Internet Café, and it is called Informatics? Center. It is a subscriber of Pagan Cyber Café. Pagan-net controls the flow of emails and hence freedom of information and privacy are extremely limited.
Informatics? Center charges 1,500 kyats an hour, which is the equivalent of the half of the monthly minimum wage..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-07-08
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Akyab, July 7: "According to our correspondent, there is only one oxygen-giving device in Akyab general hospital in Arakan State.
The hospital is the biggest hospital in Arakan State with 300 beds, but it has only one oxygen-giving device until now.
According to relatives a female patient from Sabrain Village of Pauk Taw Township died in the hospital recently due to the disconnecting of the oxygen device which was attached to her breathing system, because doctors had taken away the device for another patient..."
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2004-07-07
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Ponna Kyun, June 11: "Privately owned orchards in Ponna Kyun, in the State of Arakan are being destroyed to make way for the state owned teak plantations, according to our correspondent.
These plantations are part of the junta?s drive to swell the military junta?s coffer.
The orchards covered more than (1000) acres; most of them were mango plantations..."
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2004-06-11
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Editorial,
?The Independent” from Bangladesh.
9 July 2004.
"The unexpected influx of about a quarter million Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar?s Arakan region in the early 1990s posed overwhelming problems for Bangladesh. The government had very little resources and expertise to play host to such a huge number of impoverished farm people terroristed by Myanmar?s dreaded security forces...Speaking at seminar in Dhaka on Tuesday, the law minister Barrister Moudus Ahmad said in handling the refugee issue Bangladesh had to abide by the internationals laws and conventions and all repatriation had to be voluntary. All but 20,000 refugees had already been repatriated under the supervision of the UNHCR..."
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"The Independent" (Dhaka) via Narinjara News
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2004-07-09
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Akyab, June 4: "Arakan is experiencing a boom in the numbers of illegal tollgates run by the local authorities.
These gates are run by police, armed forces, immigration officers, and Na Sa Kha (Border Security). However, all of these gates are under the management of Township Peace and Development Council, the local level junta..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-06-04
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Akyab, July 18: "It has been learnt that foreign aid donated to SPDC military government was unable to reach cyclone victims in many places of Arakan state.
According to a reporter who recently visited the cyclone-hit area, an SPDC government agency have granted 20 000 Kyat to 373 families for the people who were killed in cyclone in Chittra, Tharatony, Kyay-toh village under Kam-htouk-gri village tract of Maebon Township.
Same source said that a relief camp has been opened at Kathougri village and is being operated by infantry division 373 stationed at Ann Township.
The cyclone victims under Kyauk Pru and Man Aung Township received only about 6 kg of rice and one pack of iodized salt each.
But the people effected by other natural disasters like stroms of Krakrikuam, WagouKri, Pram tha shong, Kyokmoukri, Thushay, Paithee village did not receive any assistant, said the sources..."
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Akyab, June 30: "The Burmese military authority has changed the aim of their ?fighting and organising” military training courses from one of slandering Aung San Suu Kyi and other National League for Democracy leaders to one of attacking America and Western influence.
The purpose of the training is to defend Burma against an American invasion and to cultivate an anti-American spirit in its officials, according to a local who is linked to the military personnel in the Arakanese capital of Akyab..."
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2004-06-30
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Akyab, June 29: "Enrollment rates in different schools declined sharply in Arakan state this year due to increased educational expenses, reported our correspondent.
Under the present education system, admission fees for junior high school students are kyat 7000, primary school fees are kyat 4000, and transfer admission fees are kyat 10,000.
Still, these fees do not include the cost of books and other materials, said the source..."
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2004-06-29
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VOA News...
28 May 2004, 18:48 UTC
"United Nations relief agencies in Burma are providing aid to victims of a cyclone that killed at least 140 people last week.
The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, says the May 19 storm was the worst in more than 30 years. It devastated towns in the western state of Rakhine on the Bay of Bengal..."
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2004-05-28
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Akyab, July 1: "Local government authorities of Akyab have forbidden the showing of western films in video show houses in Akyab, said our reporter.
Arakan is the poorest state of Burma; as such, families of Arakan state cannot buy television sets for their own homes. Thus, they go to video show houses whenever they want to see new films..."
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2004-07-01
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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..."
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2004-07-22
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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..."
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2004-05-22
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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..."
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2004-05-17
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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.,,"
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Narinjara News
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2004-05-19
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Akyab, May 20: "A SPDC sponsored archeological dig unearthed both outer and
inner walls of the Dainya Waddy city in Arakan state, in west Burma.
The remains of Dainya Wadday lay 300 yards south of Mahamuni Buddhist Temple in
Kyawk Taw Township..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-05-20
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Akyab, May 17: "The people about 20,000 who were forcibly shifted in late1990 by SPDC Burma military government to new plots outside Akyab, the capital of Arkan, in the name of reconstruction and modernization of the city, now are undergoing untold inhumane suffering living without supply of electricity and water, learnt from a resident living there..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-05-17
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Akyab, May 17: "The people about 20,000 who were forcibly shifted in late1990 by SPDC Burma military government to new plots outside Akyab, the capital of Arkan, in the name of reconstruction and modernization of the city, now are undergoing untold inhumane suffering living without supply of electricity and water, learnt from a resident living there..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-05-17
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Maungdaw, May 21: "The Military Junta staged the second Arakanese Thygran Festival (New Year) in Maung Daw, from 13th to the 17th of May.
The New Year celebration was already finished on the 17th of April, it started from the 13th. Having a second celebration is against the Arakanese tradition. The locals of Maung Daw were surprised to see the water festival again, which is part of the New Year celebration, just a month after the real event..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-05-21
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Akyab, May 20: "The cyclone that hit Akyab yesterday damaged huge of the city, says our correspondent.
Contacted over telephone by Narinjara News Agency a local resident said, ?The cyclone sank ships, launches, many motor boats and sinking foreign-ships could not be ruled out.”..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-05-20
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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..."
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2004-05-02
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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..."
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2004-04-23
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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..."
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2004-04-26
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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..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-04-14
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Akyab, April 25: "Daewoo International Trading Company will drill Arakan gas field A-1 block in July, announced the company on April 20..."
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Narinjara News
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2004-04-09
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