Evacuation from cyclone Mahasen's path begins

YANGON, Myanmar - The boat hit trouble on Monday night after it left Pauktaw township in Rakhine state, said a spokeswoman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, adding there were an unknown number of missing as "they were ...

DVB's Aye Nai spoke to a Rohingya man from Natchaung Camp in Pauktaw who witnessed the sinking of several boats carrying over 100 Rohingya escaping the path of Cyclone Mahasen on Monday night. He says authorities were not doing enough to evacuate ...

Burma 's Rakhine state after fleeing sectarian violence last year. They crowded into as many as five boats that left Pauktaw township. Reports indicated that one of the boats was towing the others and hit a rock, causing all to capsize.The accident ...

Nawaz Sharief's election for an unprecedented third time as Pakistan's prime minister has been welcomed by the Afghan government. Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulating Sharief called upon the new Pakistani government to enhance cooperation in ...

Swift treatment might have saved Waadulae. But there are no doctors, painkillers or vaccines in this primitive hospital near Sittwe, capital of Rakhine State in western Myanmar. It is a lonely medical outpost that serves about 85,300 displaced ...

On Monday, Burmese President Thein Sein is due to visit the White House. The visit represents another milestone in recently burgeoning U.S.-Burma relations, and an opportunity to engage Thein Sein on the significance of respecting international ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh—The Cyclone Mahasen is expected to make landfall on Bangladesh's coast midday on Thursday as a slightly weaker tropical storm, meteorological department in Dhaka said in a revised forecast. The cyclonic storm was located about ...

Our Correspondent . Cox's Bazar Eight more bodies were recovered from the coastline of Bay of Bengal at Teknaf in Cox's Bazar on Friday morning. With these the number of recovered bodies from the bay in the wake of the cyclone Mahasen has reached ...

Saved under Bangladesh, World Tags: top Boat carrying more than 200 Rohingya Muslims capsized off in the western Myanmar; they were evacuating ahead of Cyclone Mahasen, expected to hit this region in this week. The boat struck on rocks in Pauktaw ...