Rakhine IDP camps still lack basic supplies

Britain has pledged a £4.4 million (US$6.7 million) humanitarian aid package for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Rakhine State as the cyclone and rainy season approach. British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire is pictured during his trip to ...

YANGON, May 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 69,789 local people in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have been evacuated to safer places as of Wednesday to avoid possible danger of cyclone " Mahasen", official media reported Thursday. The local people are ...

Myanmar's authorities were on alert Saturday as a cyclone threatened to hit the west of the country where around 140,000 people displaced by communal violence languish in flood-prone camps.Local radio in Rakhine State, rocked last year by violence ...

Myanmars president today pledged to uphold the "fundamental rights" of Muslims in strife-torn Rakhine state, in the wake of deadly religious unrest that has spread across the country.

Human Rights Watch also described the bloody wave of violence and massacres in western Rakhine state last year as crimes against humanity, and slammed the government of President Thein Sein.

MYANMAR-UN-RIGHTS:Rakhine crisis risks spread, endangering Myanmar reforms - UN

Sectarian violence is nothing new in Rakhine, the northern province of Burma(Myanmar) where minority Muslim Rohingyas have been attacked by Buddhists for quite some time. It is alleged that this time it all started after some Muslim miscreants robbed, raped ...

Burmese authorities on Wednesday urged tens of thousands of Muslims living in flood-prone camps in Rakhine state to comply with evacuation instructions ahead of a looming cyclone, after some wary of their safety in the wake of ethnic violence ...

New York, May 2 : While welcoming the most recent efforts of Myanmar's Government to look into the sectarian violence that erupted last year in Rakhine state, a United Nations expert Wednesday stressed that much more needs to be done to end discrimination and ...