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Mrauk-U One of the Most Endangered Heritage Sites in Asia: Global Heritage Fund Reports

Mrauk-U, the ancient capital city in northeastern Arakan State in Burma, is one of the most endangered cultural heritage sites in Asia, a...

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Bangladesh Celebrates Sea Victory Over Burma

Dhaka: Bangladesh celebrated its victory over Burma in a sea boundary dispute on 28 April in front of the parliament building in Dhaka an...

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Arakan News

Arakanese cultivator killed by miscreants

PaukTaw, 15 January 2013: One Arakanese cultivator was brutally killed by a group of miscreants on January 13, while he was patrolling a...

18 Jan 2014 / 0 comments / Read More

Sellers March to Prime Minister’s House for Reduced Market Taxes

Sittwe: Around 60 sellers from Nazi Market in Sittwe marched to Prime Minister U Hla Maung Tin’s house on Sunday morning and demanded he ...

14 May 2012 / 0 comments / Read More

Please Listen to Arakan Song

Articles

Rohingyas, Harn Yawnghwe, and Fraudulent Claims?

(Direct translation of Aung Than Oo’s article “Human Rights and Self Interest”.) EBO-OIC Signing in Saudi Arabia for Rohingya Claims? ...

16 Nov 2011 / 0 comments / Read More
Rohingya poses threat to the stateOPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF UNOTo BBC News Department
The Scholar Of Arakan

Arakanese Nationalism and the Struggle for National self- determination (An overview of Arakanese political history up to 1988

Introduction Arakan had been an independent kingdom before it was invaded by the Burmans in 1784. The invasion of the Burmans into Araka...

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Memos For Arakan Politics

Campaign for 24-Hour Electricity in Arakan State

Sittwe: A clandestine poster campaign demanding 24 hour electricity be supplied all over Arakan State in western Burma with power generate...

15 Nov 2011 / 0 comments / Read More
Bloody massacre of 300 innocent civilians in Arakan committed by Burmese military regimeMass Protest Around Misuse of the Term ‘Arakan’ Arises in Arakan StateSaffron Monk U Kawvida Closely Watched after Release from Prison
Interview

What is going on on Madae Island, a crucial location on the Shwe Gas pipeline project?

If you want to know, read the interview.) Madae Island located in Kyaukpru Township of Arakan State is a crucial location on the Shwe Gas ...

05 May 2012 / 0 comments / Read More

Colonial Era Exploitation Should Be Avoided: Dr. Aye Maung

Sittwe: Dr. Aye Maung, Chairman of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party, says the Burmese government should avoid colonial-style e...

05 May 2012 / 0 comments / Read More

Local Officer's Statements on Former Home Minister's Recent Visit

U Maung Oo, who was serving as the home minister and the commander of western command under the former SPDC regime, has recently v...

30 Oct 2011 / 0 comments / Read More

Responses of some Arakanese leaders upon the statement of Union Minister for Energy that there is no plan to use Arakan gas for Arakan

Maung Rammar reports. In Pyithu Hluttaw on September 27, U Ba Shin, a Pyithu Hluttaw Representative from Kyauk Pru asked if there is any p...

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Stop So-Called Rohingyas

Fire broke out at Muslim refugee camp in Arakan

(Pauk Taw, 15 January 2014): Once again the fire has broken out at a refugee camp in Pauktaw township of Arakan State on the wee hour ...

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Rohingyas, Harn Yawnghwe, and Fraudulent Claims?

(Direct translation of Aung Than Oo’s article “Human Rights and Self Interest”.) EBO-OIC Signing in Saudi Arabia for Rohingya Claims? ...

16 Nov 2011 / 0 comments / Read More

Rohingya poses threat to the state

Bdnl.net : Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are increasingly committing subversive and terrorist activities, putting the stability of the c...

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Stop Rohingya petition page disappeared

Stop Rohingya petition page (http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-rohingya-invasion-into-burma/) has gone now. When people tried to sign...

16 Nov 2011 / 0 comments / Read More
Arakan History

Mrauk-U, The Last City of Arakan Kingdom, and General Information

Mrauk-U, a fine last royal capital of Rakhine has scenic beauty and historical remains which are inextricable and remarkable. Innumerable ...

14 May 2012 / 0 comments / Read More

Mrauk-U One of the Most Endangered Heritage Sites in Asia: Global Heritage Fund Reports

Mrauk-U, the ancient capital city in northeastern Arakan State in Burma, is one of the most endangered cultural heritage sites in Asia, a...

14 May 2012 / 0 comments / Read More

Farmers Still Oppressed, Despite New Government

Rathidaung: A farmer from Nipukhan Vilage in Rathidaung Township, who is going to court for alleged trespassing, said that farmers are st...

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An Outline of the Arakanese Rule in Southeast Bengal During 16th and 17th Century AD

Arakan had been an independent kingdom for over four millennium and its relations with Bengal was very intimate, specially Chittagong, th...

16 Nov 2011 / 0 comments / Read More
Buddhism In Arakan

Buddhism in Arakan

Ancient Gates in Mrauk-U Andaw Pagoda Andawthein Pagoda Bawdishwegu Pagoda Buraoat Pagoda Burbutaung Pagoda Chitthaung Pagoda...

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Arakan’s Danyawady and Vesali recognized as official archaeological sites

Mrauk U: The Burmese ministry of culture has reportedly included the ancient cities of Danyawady and Vesali in Arakan State in its officia...

14 May 2012 / 0 comments / Read More

The Buddhist Art of Ancient Arakan ( III )

By U SAN THA AUNG The Cities of Dhanyawadi and Vesali Location The capital cities of the former kingdom of Arakan, may be devided into ...

03 Nov 2011 / 0 comments / Read More

The Buddhist Art of Ancient Arakan ( XXI )

By U SAN THA AUNG Buddhism In Arakan Two thousand five hundred years have passed since the time of parinirvana of Gautama Buddha. Throu...

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Pagoda In Arakan

Buddhism in Arakan

Ancient Gates in Mrauk-U Andaw Pagoda Andawthein Pagoda Bawdishwegu Pagoda Buraoat Pagoda Burbutaung Pagoda Chitthaung Pagoda...

18 Jan 2014 / 0 comments / Read More

Thingyishwegu Buddha Image

Thingyishwegu is one of the nine great caves in Mraukoo. Thingyishwegu stands on the hillock which is 30 feet high and one mile away fro...

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Buraoat Pagoda AD 1571

Buraoat pagoda is situated on the hill which is 50 feet high and half a mile away from the palace site. As the country was in chaos, afte...

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Shinmyawa Pagoda AD 1587

Shin Mya Wa was a courtier. His father was Maha Nan Da Thin Kyan, the governor of Sinetin. His mother was Zay Ya Khay Ma, the daughter of ...

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Culture In Arakan

Mahamuni tradition and its influence over Rakhaing people

Mahamuni Tradition is not an afterthought. It is genuinely old and implicitly believed in by successive generations that came after it. ...

04 Nov 2011 / 0 comments / Read More

Rediscovering Arakan: Studying cultural change on an Asian frontier

Covering the biggest part of Myanmar's northwestern sea coast, Arakan faces the Bay of Bengal and shares its northern border with Banglade...

29 Oct 2011 / 0 comments / Read More

Rakhine Traditional Culture and Sports Festival in Yangon

National races village in Thaketa Tawnship where the Rakhine Traditional Culture and Sports Festival held with a view to preserving the Ra...

29 Oct 2011 / 0 comments / Read More

A Collection of Rakhine Cultural Heritages

National races of Myanmar have their own cultures, literatures, music, customs, dialects, costumes and religions. Mrauk-U, which is situat...

29 Oct 2011 / 0 comments / Read More

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