Bangladesh has accused the Burmese navy of opening fire on a civilian fishing boat in the Bay of Bengal, amid bilateral tension over the Rohingya,
Tag: Burmese navy
Chinese navy ships in Rangoon for five-day visit
The two warships, the Xiangtan and the Zhoushan, were greeted by senior Burmese military officers, China’s ambassador to Burma, and Chinese students.
20 sentenced in Arakan for trafficking boatpeople
The 20 were each sentenced to five years in connection with a ship carrying 208 migrants that was intercepted by the Burmese navy last month.
Burmese navy detains 727 boat people in Irrawaddy
A naval patrol boat came across a “suspicious looking” shipping trawler in the Gulf of Martaban at 6.30am.
Burmese navy intercepts Bangladeshi migrant boat
A boat carrying more than 200 Bangladeshi migrants was intercepted by the Burmese navy off the Arakanese coast.
Business weekly 2 May 2015
Price of gold increases in Rangoon; ASEAN, EU aim for free trade pact; Fruit growers encouraged to think globally; Thein Sein addresses minimum wage issues.