By SAI ZOM HSENG The Burmese Army is launching a major offensive against the Shan State Army (SSA), in a conflict that has already affected about 30 villages...

New York: Arakanese living in the USA will celebrate the 17th annual Arakanese Thingyan or New Year water festival in New York, according to the Thingyan Association, the...

An official newspaper of the Burmese regime ran an article that blamed the rising poverty rate in the country on the "unqualified" rulers from former regimes in the...

By Maung Rammar ------------------------- Kyauk Taw: Farmers in western Burma's Arakan State have become tenants on their own farmland as the army has been renting the land for...

Dhaka: The Bangladesh Coast Guard and Navy have launched an operation to drive out Burmese poachers after the high authority reported that many fishing boats from Burma have...

Dhaka: Bangladesh and Burma will resume direct air links soon, after flights have been stopped for more than four years, according to an official from Bangladesh's commerce ministry....

Dhaka: Arakan ranks second after Chin State for poverty among the fourteen states and divisions in poverty-stricken Burma, according to a report of results from a survey on...

Minbya: People in Min Bya Township in Arakan have raised their voice regarding their daily hardships in the township at a public meeting that was held on Wednesday...

Pauktaw: The special tribunal of Burma's election commission in Naypyidaw has ruled against three elected MPs from the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party on charges of election fraud filed...

Arakan (Rakhine) State was an independent sovereign state for over 5,000 years (from BC 3325 to AD 1784) with four dynastic eras: Dhanyawaddy, Vesali, Laymro and Mrauk-U. Throughout...

Jeremy Adam Smith is the author of "The Daddy Shift," co-editor of the forthcoming anthology "Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood" and a founder of the...

Sandrine Devillard is a Paris-based director at McKinsey and Company. She co-wrote "Women Matter," which assessed women’s role in the economic performance of corporations. Numerous studies have demonstrated...

Ute Frevert is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and a professor of history at the Free University of Berlin. The current...

Neil Gilbert is the Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Capitalism and the Welfare State" and, most recently,...