[ad_1] Thailand’s foreign minister is visiting a border town near Myanmar, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, after days of clashes in which the military government’s troops were expelled by ethnic minority armed groups that displaced hundreds of residents. On Friday, Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara will also visit two “friendship bridges” that link the Thai…
[ad_1] At least two people were killed in Bangladesh on Monday after mortar shells fired from Myanmar during clashes there landed in a village across the border, police said. Parts of Myanmar near the 270-kilometre border with Bangladesh have seen frequent clashes since November when rebel Arakan Army fighters ended a ceasefire that had largely…
[ad_1] At least 68 members of Myanmar’s border police have taken refuge in Bangladesh amid intensifying clashes between the junta’s armed forces and a rebel group inside the Southeast Asian nation, the Bangladesh border force said Sunday. Of the members of Myanmar’s paramilitary Border Guard Police (BGP) who have crossed into Bangladesh, 15 were being…
[ad_1] Twelve people were injured on Tuesday when a Myanmar military plane overshot a runway while landing in India to collect soldiers who had fled armed insurgents fighting their country’s junta. The Chinese-made Shaanxi Y-8 turboprop skidded off the tarmac shortly before midday at Lengpui, the main airport of India’s Mizoram state. An Airport Authority…
[ad_1] An ethnic minority armed group that is battling Myanmar’s military government has said they shot down a helicopter believed to be on a resupply mission in a combat zone in the northern state of Kachin. The helicopter was shot down soon after taking off from an army outpost to return to its base in…
[ad_1] China’s embassy in Myanmar asked its citizens to leave a northern district along the countries’ shared border, citing heightened security risks as ethnic minority armed groups battle the junta. “The conflicts in Laukkai district of Kokang, northern Myanmar continue, and safety risks have escalated for people stranded there,” the embassy said Thursday on its…
[ad_1] Dilapidated boats carrying an estimated 400 ethnic Rohingya arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh province, chief of a provincial fishing community has confirmed, adding to a recent surge of Myanmar’s Muslim minority arriving in the country. Prior to Sunday’s arrivals, the United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said that 1,200 Rohingya people, a persecuted minority from Myanmar,…
[ad_1] Some 170 ethnic Rohingya people arrived in Indonesia, the head of a provincial fishing community said, in the latest boat arrivals in recent weeks that have brought more than 1,000 from Myanmar’s Muslim minority to the country. According to intrnational media reports, Miftah Cut Ade, chief of the fishing community in Aceh on Indonesia’s…
[ad_1] An ethnic minority armed group in Myanmar has seized control from the country’s ruling junta of a lucrative border crossing to China, local media said. According to international media reports, clashes have raged across Myanmar’s northern Shan state, close to the Chinese border, after an armed alliance of three ethnic minority groups launched an…
[ad_1] Ethnic armed groups fighting to restore civilian rule in Myanmar have claimed new territory in the country’s northwest near the border with India, amid an escalating offensive against the military regime. According to international media reports, fighters in Chin state reportedly took control of two military outposts on the border of India’s Mizoram state…
