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Myanmar envoy summoned over fencing |
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Monday, 30 March 2009 |
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Kamran Reza Chowdhury
bdnews24.com senior correspondent
Dhaka, March 30 (bdnews24.com)—The foreign ministry has summoned Myanmar's ambassador for an "explanation" on Yangon's move to fence along the no-man's land along the border with Bangladesh.
The ambassador, Phae Thann Oo, will meet the state minister for foreign affairs, Hasan Mahmud, Tuesday, officials said.
The state minister will seek clarification from the Myanmar envoy as foreign minister Dipu Moni and foreign secretary are outside the country, they said.
"I have called the ambassador for a meeting tomorrow," Hasan Mahmud told bdnews24.com on Monday.
The minister said Myanmar had informed Dhaka about its fencing move, but it gave different figures on the distance of the fencing from the zero line.
"They have informed us that the fencing will be 100 metres from the demarcation line. But earlier they gave us another figure," said Mahmud. |
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Bangladesh to talk ways with neighbours to stop terror financing |
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Saturday, 28 March 2009 |
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NEW AGE,The Daily Newspaper,Bangladesh
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka Bangladesh will discuss with its neighbours in South Asia to explore means to stop terrorist financing and fight militancy, the state minister for home affairs, Tanjim Ahmed Sohel Taj, said in Dhaka on Friday.
‘We will discuss with the neighbouring and friendly countries to find ways to strengthen efforts in tackling financial supports for extremists and in combating terrorism,’ he told newsmen before his departure for the United States to join the 15th annual Command Council for Asia Pacific region on March 29 in Hawaii. He added Dhaka would also raise its earlier proposal of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, for constituting a regional task force to fight terrorism in South Asia under an intensified regional cooperation. |
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Futiya, "Hope keeps me here” |
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Friday, 27 March 2009 |
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IRIN ASIA NEWS
humanitarian news and analysis
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  MAUNGDAW, Like other Rohingyas, Futiya, 26, has many questions over the plight of his people and their future. The Muslim residents from the northern Rakhine state are an ethnic, linguistic and religious minority and de jure stateless, according to the laws of Myanmar.
"I can’t help but ask myself: Why are we stateless and considered less than human by the authorities? How is it that we could live on this land for so long alongside the ethnic Rakhine people and still not be included? How many years must we wait to be citizens of this country?
"Like other Rohingya, I often feel like escaping to another country for a better life; a life without discrimination and without restrictions on movement.
"Life is difficult for us and there have been many occasions when I and others like me have been mistreated by the authorities.
"Even as children at school we were discriminated against and made to sit separately from the Rakhinese students who often bullied us.
"But we never reacted. We never dared. Even the teachers would sometimes discriminate against us.
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One dead in Myanmar blast |
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Friday, 27 March 2009 |
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THE STRAITS TIMES
BREAKING NEWS YANGON - ONE person was killed and two others injured in a suspected bomb blast in Myanmar's commercial hub Yangon on Thursday, on the eve of the country's annual military parade, official sources said. The explosion happened at a guest house in the city's North Okkalapa township, killing a man and wounding two women, the sources said on condition of anonymity. Military-ruled Myanmar has been rocked by a series of small bomb blasts in recent months, with two small bombs exploding in Yangon in early March, causing minor damage but no injuries. In a string of explosions late last year, one man was killed in Yangon in October and two people died in a township outside the city in a video cafe bombing. |
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US official in rare Burma talks |
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Thursday, 26 March 2009 |
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BBC NEWS A senior US official has held talks with Burma's junta on a visit to the military-ruled nation. State department official Stephen Blake met the Burmese foreign minister, Nyan Win, in the capital Naypyidaw, as part of a four-day visit.  Burmese media has played up ties between the junta and the US The US described Mr Blake's visit as routine, but Burma's generals said it was notable given his seniority. The US has recently said it is seeking new ways to encourage democratic progress in Burma. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last month that Washington was looking at how to influence the government and "more effectively help the Burmese people". |
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