Last week, the Arakan Army – an ethnic armed organisation based in western Myanmar – captured a police station just outside Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine state, as part of its ongoing war against the ruling military regime. Both the Sittwe seaport and Paletwa river terminal are part of a single mega-project financed by New Delhi, known as the Kaladan …
There is no impact of the coup in Myanmar on the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Transit Project linking the northeast to Myanmar and there is also no threat from the Myanmar-based insurgent group Arakan Army, officials on the ground said. So this road will certainly bring a lot of prosperity and business opportunities for those people.” In early 2019, in a …
