AHRDO coordinates four English and two Computer training workshops in 2012
12 March 2013 - 121 ViewsFour English and two Computer training workshops were coordinated at Arakan Human Rights and Development Organisation (AHRDO) in 2012, in…
73rd Anniversary of Martyr Ven. U Ottama day
09 September 2012 - 148 ViewsOn 9th September 2012, the 73rd Anniversary of Martyr Ven. U Ottama day was held…
Worker Affairs Workshop held
14 March 2013 - 115 ViewsAHRDO conducted a worker affairs workshop over two days from 16th-17th October 2012 in their Mae…
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Authorities permit demonstration against Chinese company in Arakan: says activist
10-04-2013 Hits:193 Latest News Source: Narinjara
Arakan state government authority has allowed the local people to hold a demonstration against the Chinese Company CNPC which is a major company working at the Shwe Gas project in Arakan, said an activist who is leading the campaign. The activist U Tun Kyi, who is a resident of Madae Island where the Chinese National Petroleum Cooperation (CNPC) has been carrying out many...
Read moreMissing student leader produced in Court
10-04-2013 Hits:56 Latest News Source: Narinjara
The missing student leader Ko Ray Min Oo who has been missing in Yangon since 25 March 2013 was produced by authorities at a court in Yangon division on Thursday, said relatives and a colleagues. He was produced at western district court of Yangon division last Thursday where he has been charged by authorities with defaming the state under section No 505...
Read moreFire break out on Sittwe University compound is carelessness
07-04-2013 Hits:94 Latest News Source: Narinjara
A fire that broke out on the Sittwe University Compound on the 30 March is not arson, it took place due to negligence, said a report of state run newspaper, Kyaymon published on 2 April 2013. There was a rumor spreading among the people in Sittwe soon after the fire took place that the fire was arson by some Muslim miscreants near the University. In the...
Read moreAuthorities meet public to clarify its plan of selling Rock Mountain to foreign company
03-04-2013 Hits:266 Latest News Source: Narinjara
Two ministers in Arakan state government met the public in Taungup, a town located in the southern part of Arakan state, on Wednesday to explain its plan to sell a valuable rock mountain, Naypu Taung, to a Vietnamese company. Ko Min Aung from the NLD who attended the public meeting said that mining minister U Aung Than Tin and Social affairs...
Read moreRakhine residents plan signature campaign for share of gas to be exported to China
31-03-2013 Hits:112 Latest News Source: Eleven
Residents of Rakhine State will launch a signature campaign calling for gas from the northern state that will be exported through a controversial pipeline to China to be used to supply the entire state with electricity, a leader of a group that opposes the Shwe Gas pipeline said. Tin Win, of the Shwe Gas Movement, said Parliament had ignored demands for...
Read moreEmpowering training for Arakanese women held in Yangon
31-03-2013 Hits:95 Latest News Source: Narinjara
An empowering training of Arakanese women is being held in Yangon, the former capital of Burma, to promote women’s skills in all sectors in Burma like politics, business and social affairs. The training, sponsored by the Arraka Foundation, based in the USA, begun on 12 March 2013 under the title of women leadership program. 20 Arakanese young women – 17 from Arakan state, one each...
Read moreFour ‘robbers’ arrested in troubled Rakhine State
25-03-2013 Hits:119 Latest News Source: Eleven
One Bangladeshi national and three Bengalis were arrested last week on charges of suspected robbery in Maungdaw, a township in Rakhine State along the border with Bangladesh, officials said. The men were arrested in different villages scattered across the township, an officer from Mingalanyunt Sannpya Village Police Station said. A home-made gun, six bullets and a Bangladeshi mobile phone were seized during...
Read moreArakanese farmers want to retieve confiscated lands from former goverment officials
25-03-2013 Hits:101 Latest News Source: Narinjara
Pauk Taw: Arakanese farmers from Pauk Taw in Arakan have sent an appeal letter to township authority as they want to retrieve their land confiscated by state level officials in the Arakan state government for their own interests during the military government, said U Mrat Tun, a board member of Human Right Defenders and Promoters (HRDP). Around 200 farmers led by U...
Read moreCriticism emerges over Rakhine National Day
21-03-2013 Hits:99 Latest News Source: Mizzima
A Rakhine National Day will be set within six months, said officials from the committee for organizing the day; however, some in Rakhine State have criticized it on the grounds that the committee was formed by the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) office and most of committee members are from Sittwe, the state's capital. “Our committee has announced that we will...
Read moreNearly third of rakhine people have left the state for jobs
19-03-2013 Hits:110 Latest News Source: Eleven
About a third of the local ethnic population in Rakhine state have left their homes to seek jobs in other regions and states in the country and abroad due to shortage of job opportunities after the Rakhine-Bengali communal clashes, said Wai Thar Tun from Rakhine League for Democracy (RLD) at a public event held in Yangon on Friday. The meeting, entitled...
Read moreNo Rohingya in Myanmar; say international experts
11-03-2013 Hits:159 Latest News
There is no Rohingya ethnic in Myanmar and the term Rohingya exactly means Bengali as Myanmar named it, international experts on Rakhine history said in a seminar held in Thailand’s Mahidol University on March 9.The seminar was held with three objective to introduction of Rakhine history to the international community; to dismiss the name Rohingya used by international media and...
Read moreClass 9 student forcibly recruited as a child soldier
04-03-2013 Hits:150 Latest News AHRDO
A 17 year old class 9 student in Arakan state, western Burma, was forcibly recruited by the Burmese army to serve as a soldier, said a member of HRDP ( Rakhine) quoted his parents. The student was identified as Maung Kyaw Win Hlaig, alias, Ko Ko Naing, son of U Maung Maung Than and Daw Thet Yin, from Myo Thit ward in...
Read more14 Rakhine Detainees in China in Need of Help
27-02-2013 Hits:174 Latest News AHRDO
The 14 Rakhine nationals arrested in China are now in need of help, according to Kachin State Border Affairs Minister. Those trafficked persons composed of 10 males and 4 females were taken to China by a Chinese female broker in Kanpaiti town saying they would earn K 250,000 per month. It is learnt that Chinese police detained those trafficked persons that Chinese...
Read moreVocabulary competition for International Mother Language Day held in Sittwe
26-02-2013 Hits:139 Latest News AHRDO
Arakanese vocabulary contest for students were held in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan, to mark the International Mother Language Day which is decided by the UN on 21 February. The contest was organized by a local Arakanese NGO, Wanlat, in its office located at Min Ba Gyi road in Sittwe on 16 February 2013. In the contest over 60 high school, university...
Read moreOld Arakan city to reopen for tour destination
26-02-2013 Hits:139 Latest News AHRDO
Myauk U, also known as Mrauk U, the old city of Rakhine State is supposed to reopen its doors to visitors soon, the Deputy Minister of Hotels and Tourism Tin Shwe said at the Lower House on February 21. Myauk U is expressed as the Ancient Arakan King's Capital and the cultural heritage zone in Myanmar, comprising thousands of Buddha stupas,...
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