The traffic road on western Burma’s border connecting Buthidaung and Maungdaw has been blocked since yesterday by landslides after non stop heavy rain in the area, said residents from Maungdaw.
Schools in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, were reopened Monday after they were closed for nearly a month due to the violent unrest in the city, but they remain quiet without the sound of reading and ringing bells as no student has come to attend class.
The US NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Tuesday criticizing China for forcibly sending hundreds of Kachin refugees back to Kachin and northern Shan state where fighting is taking place.
The Burma government’s peace-talk delegation led by Railway Minister U Aung Min, today made an early morning visit to Dr Cynthia Maung’s Mae Tao Clinic in the border town of Mae Sot, Thailand.
Lt-Gen Yawdserk, interviewed on the eve of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Trafficking, 26 June, said as long as Naypyitaw is handle, the drug problem as a political game, the problem will not be resolved.
The Karen National Union met with the Burmese government in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Tuesday to keep the peacemaking talks on track, officials said. KNU General-Secretary Zipporah Sein said that she believed such meetings are important, in that they increase understanding between the two sides and serve to increase confidence regarding each sides’ intentions.
French President Francois Hollande told Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi upon here arrival on Tuesday that France supported “all actors” in Burma’s rapid democratic reforms, and Suu Kyi repeated her European tour themes that development cannot be substituted for democracy.
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