Lying along the Kaladar River in Chin State, Paletwa is a strategically important city on a major trade route. The Arakan Army, an armed ethnic group fighting as part of an alliance against the Myanmar military, has claimed control of a key western town near the border with India and Bangladesh. “There is not a single military council camp left …
The storm is one of the most powerful to ever hit the region with winds as strong as 250km/h. With winds of up to 250 kilometres per hour, Mocha struck between Myanmar’s Sittwe and Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh, the home to nearly one million mostly Muslim Rohingya refugees who were forced out of Myanmar in a 2017 military crackdown that …
Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Myanmar's Deputy Prime Minister Admiral Tin Aung San on Tuesday jointly inaugurated the Sittwe Port in Myanmar and received the first Indian cargo ship, according to an official statement. "The seaport with maximum capacity of 20,000 deadweight tonnage will make Sittwe the maritime hub of Myanmar, drastically reduce transportation cost of cargo from other parts …
A long list of foreign investors and businesses set up their bases in Myanmar as soon as the nation began its democratic transition 10 years ago, but this week’s military coup is likely to decelerate all the good work done thus far. Even while international pressure mounts against Myanmar’s military leaders following the coup, India will continue to provide humanitarian …
