Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said on Monday it was concerned about the safety of 56 Rohingya refugees from Burma on a boat bound for Malaysia in stormy seas.
Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Military News
The G-4 fighter jet was 38 miles into a 100-mile flight from Pathein to Hinthada when it lost communication with ground staff.
Accidents Lead Story News Tenasserim
The ill-fated, Chinese-manufactured Y-8-200F aircraft was en route to Rangoon from Myeik when it went missing last week.
As search efforts entered their third day on Friday, Burma’s military said it had recovered the bodies of 31 men, women and children from the military aircraft that crashed into the Andaman Sea earlier this week, with hopes fading for the survival of any of the 122 passengers onboard.
Thai provinces on the Andaman coast are keen to expand maritime tourism to Burma as part of regional efforts to draw more tourists to the two countries.
Sabotage and hijacking have reportedly not been ruled out as radar-tracking evidence suggests a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was deliberately flown across the Malay peninsula towards the Andaman Islands.
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Investigators have concluded that a Burmese military plane that crashed last month with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board stalled and nose-dived into the Andaman Sea due to bad weather, state media said on Wednesday.
Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder from a Burmese Army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea in early June with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board, Burma’s military said on Sunday.
A civilian fishing boat found part of the tail section from a Burmese army plane that crashed into the Andaman Sea last week with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board, Burma’s military said on Thursday.
The bodies of over half the passengers aboard the ill-fated military plane that went down over the Andaman Sea last week have been recovered, with search and rescue efforts having brought ashore 76 corpses out of the 122 people on the flight.
Burma cremates 10 of the 31 bodies pulled from the waters off its southern coast as the hunt for a military transport plane that went missing over the Andaman Sea with 122 people aboard stretched into a third day.
Dawei Development Lead Story News
Located in southeastern Burma by the Andaman Sea, Dawei, or Tavoy, is set to be a strategic channel for connecting with trade partners around the South China Sea.
Two fishermen from Burma have been arrested on trawlers in the Andaman Sea for allegedly murdering a Thai woman a month ago.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
As the news coverage of the migrant crisis in the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea drops away, the UN has made a renewed call for funds and action.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News Rohingya
Foreign Ministry says Burma shares the concerns about the plight of boat people in the Andaman Sea, and “stands ready to provide humanitarian assistance”.
Thai marine police recover the bodies of 13 Burmese migrant boatpeople whose boat sunk in a storm in the Andaman Sea.
The Royal Thai Navy has protested an incident on Saturday near a disputed island in the Andaman Sea where Burmese naval forces allegedly opened fire on a Thai fishing boat.
Hat Yai under four feet of water as low pressure zone moves over the Andaman Sea, potentially making landfall in southern Burma in 48 hours
Malaysia intercepted a boat carrying 56 Rohingya refugees from Burma off its northern island of Langkawi on Tuesday and will allow them to enter on humanitarian grounds, with rights groups expecting further such perilous journeys by sea.
Accidents Lead Story Military News
A military fighter jet crashed on Tuesday morning near Kyun Kone village in Taungoo Township, Bago Region, killing the pilot, who was the downed aircraft’s sole occupant.
A boat with Rohingya refugees restocked with essential supplies at an island in southern Thailand on Sunday, authorities said, amid signs that overcrowding in Bangladeshi camps could prompt many others to make similarly perilous sea crossings.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Malaysia’s coast guard will not turn away Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Burma and is willing to provide temporary shelter for them, the maritime agency’s chief said on Friday.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Thailand is preparing to receive people fleeing fighting in Burma and send them back “when they are ready,” the Thai prime minister said on Tuesday, following a series of attacks by Muslim insurgents on Burmese security forces last week.
Lead Story Military News Tenasserim
“As of 3:30pm on 8 June, 29 bodies – one man, 20 women and eight children – have been recovered by the team,” says military statement.
Three bodies–two adults and a child–were found by a navy ship in the Andaman.
Arakan ASEAN International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
Thailand’s Foreign Minister, Don Pramudwinai, has spoken for the first time in defence of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is increasingly being accused worldwide of ignoring the plight of Burma’s Muslim minority in Arakan State.
Drugs Lead Story News Tenasserim
Kawthaung’s Anti-Narcotics Task Force say they found 299 bags of kratom leaves, with a street value placed at 4.119m kyat.
Accidents Health Lead Story News Tenasserim
A man and his daughter died from severe food poisoning after eating the puffer fish that his son had caught earlier in the day. Four others were hospitalised.
