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    140 Search results for "helicopter"

    Arakan Lead Story News

    Military calls in helicopter gunships following clashes: Arakan Army

    The Arakan Army has alleged that Burma’s military used helicopter gunships over the weekend to launch offensives in Rakhine State’s Buthidaung Township, where some of the ethnic armed group’s troops are based.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Civil servants evacuated from Arakan town by helicopter

    Emergency measures in Taungpyo Township follow this week’s violence between armed mobs and security forces which has taken at least two dozen lives.

    Accidents Lead Story Military News

    Three dead in Pegu helicopter crash

    All three crew members aboard a Burmese Air Force helicopter were killed when it crashed in the Pegu Division town of Daik-U on Tuesday.

    Breaking Lead Story News

    Air Force helicopter crashes near Meikhtila

    Two pilots survived the crash, which involved a recommissioned Bell-206 helicopter used as a trainer aircraft.

    Aid Arakan Lead Story Natural Disasters News

    18 dead in Arakan floods, food aid shipped in by helicopter

    Most of the casualties in Arakan were the result of boats capsizing or sinking on rivers. Some 130 rescue camps have been set up across the state.

    Conflict Kokang Lead Story News

    Gunmen attempt to destroy helicopters, aircraft in Lashio

    “They fired what looked like RPGs into the hangar where helicopter gunships and other aircraft were stationed, but missed their targets.”

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Mountain rescue latest: Thai helicopter pilot safe

    Thai co-pilot of missing helicopter is now safe and receiving treatment, according to a spokesperson for the Htoo Foundation.

    Kachin Lead Story News Society

    Alive – helicopter crew survive crash on Hkakabo Razi

    All three crew members of a Thai helicopter that went missing while delivering supplies in the search for two missing Burmese mountaineers have been found alive.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    Mountaineers, helicopter still missing in northern Burma

    Thai army authorities have asked their Burmese counterparts for a progress report on the search for a Thai helicopter missing on Hkakabo Razi in Kachin State since 27 September.

    Thai helicopter reported to have crashed in Hkakabo Razi search

    A helicopter that went in search of two missing Burmese mountaineers on Hkakabo Razi has crashed, according to a report by Xinhua citing sources at the Htoo Foundation, sponsors of[…]

    News Politics

    China supplies Wa rebels with armed helicopters: report

    The Chinese military has sent armed helicopters equipped with air-to-air missiles to Burma’s largest ethnic rebel group the United Wa State Army

    News Politics

    Thai army helicopter crashes in Burma

    Helicopter carrying 9 people goes down inside Burmese border whilst on a mission to retrieve victims of similar helicopter crash

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    US offers helicopters to Burma as navy ships leave

    Jun 6, 2008 (AFP)‚ US helicopters and small boats are still ready to help deliver cyclone aid to Burma, a US official said Thursday, after the regime rejected US navy[…]

    International Relations Lead Story News

    UN could help Burma gather evidence of crimes against Rohingya: UK envoy

    Britain’s UN envoy suggests the UN Security Council could consider helping Burma collect evidence of crimes committed during a military crackdown of the Rohingya, denounced by the world body as ethnic cleansing after most recent bout of persecution of the Muslim minority last year.

    Kachin Lead Story News

    More Kachin villagers flee as clashes intensify

    “Local villagers are simply too afraid to stay in homes close to the fighting, because they can hear and feel the constant blasts of heavy artillery fire.”

    Lead Story News

    Mrauk U: tensions, protests and its bid for UNESCO protection

    Should tourists still visit Mrauk U? After the deadly protests last month, DVB takes a look at how the community is reacting and how tourism is being affected.

    Conflict Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Burmese army seizes KIA base near Tanai mines

    The capture comes after several days of armed clashes in a strategic area that is home to several gold and amber mines under KIA control.

    Arakan Lead Story News

    Suu Kyi visits troubled Rakhine border district as Rohingya exodus continues

    Burma’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi visited areas hit by conflict in the western state of Rakhine on Thursday for the first time since attacks by militants from the Rohingya Muslim minority two months ago sparked a refugee crisis.

    Human Interest Lead Story News

    Burmese climbers eye Hkakabo Razi

    Three Burmese men will set out to climb Hkakabo Razi in an attempt to not only reach the peak of the sub-Himalayan mountain but to accurately record its precise height.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Ministers deliver aid to trapped Rohingya village

    Two senior Burmese government officials have delivered aid to a remote Rohingya Muslim village, and guaranteed residents’ safety, after they were cut off and threatened by hostile Arakanese Buddhist neighbours, one of the officials said.

    Irrawaddy Division Lead Story Military News

    Search operations continue for missing military jet

    The G-4 fighter jet was 38 miles into a 100-mile flight from Pathein to Hinthada when it lost communication with ground staff.

    Arakan Lead Story News

    Nearly 27,000 ‘ethnic’ IDPs flee homes since militant attacks in Arakan: govt

    As attention increasingly focuses on the tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims amassing at already overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh, thousands have also been displaced within Arakan State and more than 300 teachers in the conflict zone are “stranded” and in need of air-lifted evacuation.

    Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya

    Rohingya flee for Bangladesh amid latest violence in Arakan

    About 1,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing escalating violence in Burma had been halted at the border with Bangladesh, Bangladeshi security officials said on Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted in Burma’s northwestern Arakan State.

    Kachin Lead Story Natural resources News

    Tanai’s mining evacuees need long-term solutions, say Kachin church leaders

    Church leaders in Tanai estimate that about a thousand people have sought sanctuary at churches in the town.

    Lead Story News

    Upheaval in Tanai as treasures below and message from above converge

    No one here thought that leaflets could destroy riches and their possessors’ future plans so quickly. But in Burma, leaflets are not only capable of doing that — they can lead to death.

    Accidents Lead Story News

    Black box from crashed army plane retrieved

    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.

    Accidents Lead Story News

    Section of tail from missing army plane found, Burma’s military says

    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.

    Accidents Lead Story News

    Body count rises to 90 in search for plane off southeastern Burma’s coast

    Search personnel had recovered 90 bodies as of Thursday afternoon as the hunt for a downed military transport plane and the 122 passengers and crew aboard entered its second week.

    Accidents Lead Story News

    10 of 31 bodies retrieved in missing plane disaster cremated

    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.

    Accidents Lead Story News

    Body count rises to 31 in search for downed plane amid deteriorating weather

    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.

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