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Woman dies during deliveryWritten by Webmaster MRSThursday, 20 August 2009 10:36Maungdaw, Arakan State: A woman died, while giving birth to triplets in Maungdaw Township on August 9, said a relative of the victim.The victim has been identified as Moni Begum (25), wife of Shamshul Alam, who hails from Shwe Zaar Village of Maungdaw Township.The husband of the victim is very poor, so he was not able to take his wife to the hospital in Maungdaw...

Ban gravely concerned about Daw Aung San Suu KyiMRS 14/05/2009Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed grave concern over the news that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved to the Insein Prison to face criminal charges.A statement from the UN press office says the Secretary-General believes that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is an essential partner for dialogue in Myanmar's national reconciliation and calls on the Government not to take any further...

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Written by Webmaster MRS Wednesday, 11 June 2009 05:28 (Circa 1st — 10th Centuries A.D)Pamela C. Gutman*Our sources for the early history of Arakan are remarkably similar to the sources for the same period of the history of Bangladesh. This, of course, is due to their geographical, proximity and the consequent cultural interchange between the two regions. In Arakan, the natural boundaries of mountains and sea protected a compact area suited to dry and wet rice cultivation, factors which led to urban settlement and centralized...

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MRS (Reuters) - A group of Australian Aborigines asked the United Nations Wednesday for refugee status, claiming special emergency laws to curb alcohol and sexual abuse in the remote outback have turned them into outcasts at home.Richard Downs, a spokesperson for the 4,000-strong Alyawarra people in central Australia, said the request was given to James Anaya, the United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous human rights, during a fact-finding tour to Australia."We've got no say at all. We feel like an outcast in our community,...

PRESS STATEMENTDate : 16th Jan 2009The recent news report stating that the US Senate is investigating allegations of Malaysian officials extorting money from foreign migrants are linked to human trafficking comes as no surprise.I had raised this issue in Parliament last year with regards to the Burmese refugees, together with human rights organisations like Tenaganita and the Migration Working Group. But the Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar...