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A boat carrying members of the Rohingya community from Myanmar has sunk near the Thailand-Malaysia border, with hundreds still missing. Seven bodies were recovered and 13 were rescued, the Malaysian maritime agency said on Sunday. Rescuers were combing an area of 170 square nautical miles near Langkawi island, Malaysia, on Saturday after a boat with 300 people on board left Myanmar’s Rakhine State three days earlier, according to the maritime agency head for the area Romli Mu

KUALA LUMPUR/BANGKOK (Reuters): Hundreds were missing on Sunday after a boat sank near the Thailand-Malaysia border, as 10 survivors and one body were recovered, the Malaysian maritime authority said. More victims might still be found at sea some three days after the sinking of the vessel, which left Buthidaung, Myanmar, with about 300 people on board, said First Admiral Romli Mustafa, the maritime authority director of the northern Malaysian states of Kedah and Perlis. Among

The National Unity Government (NUG) Magway Federal Unit Hluttaw conducted their nineth meeting and adopted the interim management law for Magway Federal Unit. Bago Regional People’s Defence Force conducted surprise checks on freight boats, passenger motorboats, fishing boats, boats carrying sand and bamboo rafts along Sittaung River Basin due to a report of a junta operation. Committee Representing Pyitaungsu Hluttaw called on neighbouring countries, the ASEAN, the United Nat

Mizzima Five civilians were killed and nine others injured when the Myanmar junta carried out two airstrikes and artillery attacks on villages in Ponnagyun Township, Rakhine State, on the morning of 7 November, according to local residents. At around 11:30 am, a jet fighter from the Military Commission dropped two consecutive bombs on Yoe Tayoke village, killing four women and one man, local sources said. Three women and four men from the same village were also injured in the

Narinjara News, November 9, 2025 The number of civilian fatalities is rising as the Myanmar junta's air force conducts daily bombings of towns and villages in Rakhine State under the control of the Arakan Army. On the afternoon of November 8, the Myanmar Air Force conducted yet another airstrike in the townships of Pauktaw and Ponnagyun in Rakhine State, resulting in the deaths of six civilians, including women, and causing injuries to others. A 500-pound bomb released by a m