Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has proposed the establishment of an independent Muslim state in the Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's Arakan state. The proposal was made during a meeting with a ...

National Security Advisor Khalilur Rahman has dismissed Myanmar’s objections to Bangladesh’s communication with the Arakan Army, saying the interim government will engage with any group it ...

Foreign Advisor Touhid Hossain has said that Bangladesh must maintain contact with the Arakan Army, a rebel group that has taken control of Myanmar’s western border regions, "out of necessity ...

The Arakan Army has already taken control of approximately 80 percent of the Rakhine state. At the same time, the Myanmar military, the Tatmadaw, continues bombing various parts of the region.

Founded in 2009, the Arakan Army (AA) initially fought alongside the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) before shifting focus to Rakhine. After Myanmar’s 2021 coup, the AA exploited the junta’s ...

A major turning point came on October 27, 2023, when the Three Brotherhood Alliance – comprising the Arakan Army (AA), the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), and the Ta’ang ...

A workers union says that more than 1,200 Starbucks employees have gone on strike to protest a new dress code policy that went into effect this week. Walk-outs have taken place at roughly 100 ...

EuroCham Myanmar points out that the current inadequate minimum wage is at the root of several issues, including low pay, workplace conflicts, high employee turnover, labour migration, and the loss of ...

BANGKOK -- Six weeks after Myanmar's military-built capital, Naypyitaw, was devastated by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake -- the largest of many in the past century -- a question mark hangs over the ...

Bangladesh maintains informal contact with the Arakan Army at the field level but ... before establishing any humanitarian corridor to Myanmar's Rakhine State, the Daily Star Dhaka reported.