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A disaster was narrowly averted on Wednesday when a MAl airliner strayed onto a runway at Gaya airport in India just minutes before an Air India flight was due to land.
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The six Burmese and three foreign commissioners, including Kofi Annan, toured the camps for displaced people and met members of both communities.
Thein Sein signs into law the last of four controversial bills decried by rights groups as aimed at discriminating against the country’s Muslim minority.
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Police officers are lining the streets of Mandalay after violence between Buddhists and Muslims broke out on Tuesday night.
Communal Violence Lead Story News
A personal feud has sparked another wave of communal tensions in Burma, this time in Hlegu Township, 40km northeast of Rangoon.
DVB Debate Lead Story Society Video
In the final episode of the season, DVB Debate discusses how to end religious violence.
Analysis Communal Violence Contributor Lead Story
It is not birth which causes a person to be worthy, it is actions of body, speech and mind, says Buddhist scholar Dr Paul Fuller.
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Buddhist monks led more than 5,000 residents on a demonstration through the streets of Arakan state capital Sittwe on Friday morning to protest the arrival of a delegation from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
At least five people have been killed and dozens of homes burned to the ground in Arakan state’s Sandoway township, although authorities on Wednesday claimed to have restored calm.
A village outside of Arakan’s capital Sittwe quickly became the latest focal point of sectarian violence over the weekend as armed police shot into a crowd of Rohingya protestors. Tensions[…]
Nearly 600 Burmese migrants, who recently returned home from Malaysia after a string of attacks against Burmese nationals, have applied for new jobs through the government
A growing number of monks and religious leaders have come out in support of Burma’s controversial proposal to ban interfaith marriages, despite accusations that it would violate basic human and women’s rights
As many as 1,500 Burmese migrants in Malaysia have signed up for repatriation, after a series of violent attacks against Burmese nationals in the country
Rohingya Muslims and Arakan Buddhists living in western Burma remain divided – and there is little hope the two groups will ever live peacefully together.
Influential Buddhist and Muslim leaders in Burma have called for an end to the on-going violence in the country as a UN envoy arrived in Arakan state
