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Rakhine National Conference to be held in Kyaukphyu

Rakhine National Conference to be held in Kyaukphyu Published on Saturday, 22 March 2014 22:37 Rakhine National Conference will be held in Kyaukphyu Town, Rakhine State for five days from April 27 to May 1, for the sake of Rakhine national unity, according to official sources. "At the conference, we will read research papers and discuss about the issues such as setting a national day," said Zaw Aye Maung, an organizing committee member for the conference, also Rakhine affairs minister for Yangon Region. Representatives from blacklisted organizations and individuals in exile will also join the conference, according to the organizing committee members. They also added that they have reached an agreement with the Union Peace Making Committee for the representatives to be able to take part in it. It will be mainly spon

Is there an orchestrated campaign to grant citizenship to Bengalis?

Is there an orchestrated campaign to grant citizenship to Bengalis? Published on Wednesday, 12 March 2014 13:03 Written by Zayar Nanda/Eleven Media The cover of Santa Barbara Independent newspaper titled “Burma’s Brutal Buddhists” and the article seen on the website It has been two years since the riots in Rakhine State left more than 200 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, but the tension still burns between ethnic Rakhines and Bengalis. Both the Rakhine and Bengali communities have suffered from the violence since a tide of migrants rushed in through the western border of Myanmar. However, international media organizations and various associations continue to portray the Bengalis as the population most antagonized by the violence in Rakhine State, and the Rakhine ethnics—and the country as a whole—as discriminating

MH370: Focus On Southern Indian Ocean Intensifies

KUALA LUMPUR: The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is increasingly focused on icy seas in a remote southern part of the Indian Ocean about 2500 km away from land. While the hunt for the airliner carrying 239 people continues in the two diverging paths the plane may have taken, separate satellite sightings of what could be debris from the jet point to the southern part of the Indian Ocean, boosting hopes as the search entered its third week. Yesterday, China said that its satellite had spotted an object about 22 metres long and 13 metres wide that could debris from the plane. The sighting was roughly 125 miles from where Australia reported spotting a similar object on Thursday. The area of the search is some 2500 km southwest of Perth in Western Australia. Nothing has been found yet and sea conditions in the area make the hunt difficult. “Generally, conditions in the southern corridor are very challenging,” Malaysia’s Acting Transport mi

Australia PM Sees ‘Increasing Hope’ Of Finding Out MH370 Fate

SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott voiced increasing hope today of discovering the fate of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and the 239 people on board after unidentified debris was sighted in the search zone. “It’s still too early to be definite, but obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads and there is increasing hope — no more than hope, no more than hope — that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to this ill-fated aircraft,” Abbott said. The prime minister spoke after several unidentified objects were seen in the search zone for the Boeing 777, about 2,500 kilometres off Perth. Asked for details, Abbott referred to “a number of small objects fairly close together within the Australian search zone, including, as I understand it, a wooden pallet.” The comments came hours after the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) announced that “further attempts will be made to establish whether the objects sighted

Ethnic groups hold press conference to oppose “Rohingya” in census

Ethnic groups hold press conference to oppose “Rohingya” in census Published on Friday, 21 March 2014 22:29 Representatives from Rakhine State ethnic groups—including the Rakhine, Kaman, Myo, Kamee, Maramagyi, Dainat and Thet—have released a statement opposing the recognition of “Rohingya” as a legitimate ethnic category to be registered in the 2014 national census. The statement, released at a press conference held on Thursday (March 20) at the “M3” restaurant in Yangon, said the ethnic groups strongly oppose official registration of “Rohingya” in the census. The statement was signed by Rakhine representative Kyaw Sein; Zani Phyu from the Myo Literature and Culture Association; secretary Lay Thar Kyaw from the Kamee National Association; Aye Maung from the Dainat National Association; Yin Maung from the Thet National Society; Tin N

Search resumes for possible debris from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

By Chelsea J. Carter, Kyung Lah and Mike Pearson, CNN   Perth, Australia (CNN) -- The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 resumed Friday in the southern Indian Ocean with long-range reconnaissance aircraft looking for possible debris from the jetliner in one of the most remote locations on Earth. Aircraft from Australia, New Zealand and the United States have staggered departures to an area roughly 1,500 miles southwest of Perth, where two objects were captured on satellite and described as possible pieces of the commercial jetliner, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Given the distance from Australia to where the objects were spotted by a commercial satellite, the aircraft will only have between two and three hours to traverse the search area before having to start the return journey, the maritime authority said. Along with the aircraft, a motley collection of merchant ships are heading to the search area, where they w

After plane search finds nothing, Hoegh St. Petersburg sent to search for 2 objects seen in ocean

By   SCOTT MCDONALD and KRISTEN GELINEAU KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A freighter used searchlights early Friday to scan rough seas in one of the remotest places on Earth after satellite images detected possible pieces from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane in the southern Indian Ocean. In what officials called the "best lead" of the nearly two-week-old aviation mystery, a satellite detected two objects floating about 1,000 miles off the coast of Australia and halfway to the desolate islands of the Antarctic. The development raised new hope of finding the vanished jet and sent another emotional jolt to the families of the 239 people aboard. But Australian authorities said in a statement early Friday that the search had turned up nothing so far. One of the objects on the satellite image was 24 meters (almost 80 feet) long and the other was 5 meters (15 feet). There could be other objects in the area, a four-hour flight from southwestern Australia, said John Young,