A bit of the Greek islands in the heart of historic Athens

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Sun Online Desk     18th July, 2018 10:28:57

"The Acropolis? It's that way." Residents of historic Anafiotika are used to giving directions to tourists, lost in the narrow, winding alleyways of this unique but little-known hillside neighbourhood in the heart of Athens.

Looking as if it's lifted straight out of the Greek islands, Anafiotika's tiny white-washed houses with brightly-painted shutters and doors were designed to resemble their builders' own Aegean Sea homes.

Myanmar intends to apprehend Arakanese farmers soon

State - own Myanmar Agriculture Development Bank(MADB) will sue Arakanese farmers soon. The reason why farmers will be sued by MAD is that 1433 Arakanese farmers had gained loan once from the MADB since 2013. But,farmers were unable to amortize their loans because a series of natural disaster ,floods and droughts ,occurred in Arakan which is being ruled by Myanmar and there are further bankruptcies among small farmers.

Poor farmers will be arrested in this monsoon or raining season by Myanmar Police. There

is no good condition that Arakanese farmers can unlikely avoid malicious arrest of ruling Myanmar.

If they are thrown into prison, there will be nobody to feed their families.

Under the ruling of Myanmar, agriculture sector in Arakan is gradually fading away and farmers become paupers.

UN opens its first office in Myanmar

To gain close relationship with Myanmar Government, the United Nations opened its first

office in Nay Pyi Taw - new capital of Myanmar - on wednesday.

“This UN office symbolises the UN's effort to coordinate and do its utmost to support the government and people of Myanmar and live up to the values enshrined in the UN charter", said Haoliang Xu, UN assistant secretary general. 
The MoU signed on June 6 by Myanmar with the UN Development Program and UN High Commissioner for Refugees regarding voluntary repatriation of Bengalis who fled from Arakan to Bangladesh last year. 

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali to visit Myanmar soon: Official

https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018/07/10/bangladesh-foreign-minister-mahmood-ali-to-visit-myanmar-soon-official

 Senior Correspondent  bdnews24.com

Published: 2018-07-10 14:42:10.0 BdST Updated: 2018-07-10 14:42:10.0 BdST

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Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali will visit Myanmar to see the situation in the Rakhine State before the beginning of the repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh.

From time to time,Myanmar wears very much sober smiles and sympathetic attitudes but in reality

In the lost Arakan to Myanmar, a giant whale was found dead on a beach near Kanpauk

village on 8 july.The whale measures around 34 feet in length and 10 feet in circumference. Myanmar Fishery Officials are attempting to extract all the bones from whale to keep in their own ocean museum. After extracting all the bones,Myanmar Fishery Officials will take away them from Arakan to Capital of so-called Myanmar.

Last year, the similar three whales were also found dead on the similar beach. All the bones were taken by Myanmar to their Capital.

Local Arakanese protest against the colonial- style of Myanmar but in vain. Even if Arakan coast is over 400 miles in length, there is no museum about ocean in Arakan that ruling Myanmar intentionally ignores to build so that all natural resources from sea can be exploited. From time to time,Myanmar wears very much sober smiles and sympathetic attitudes while dealing Arakanese but in reality they are bent upon making their own axe to grind and neglects Arakanese people desires.   

Myanmar strives to enlist ancient city as world heritage

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Published: 2018-07-06 21:38:58.0 BdST Updated: 2018-07-06 21:38:58.0 BdST

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Myanmar has been striving to put the well-known ancient city of Bagan into the World Heritage list by launching public awareness forums in the region.

Poor Local Arakanese Farmers Still Have Not Received Compensation

When Gas pipeline and Oil pipeline - from Arakan to China through the middle region of
so-called Myanmar - were constructed by China National Petroleum Corporation and Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise, Arakanese Farmers' farmlands were badly damaged.
Therefore,around 1,000 farmers protested against China National Petroleum Corporation
and notorious Myanmar's (MOGE) in  Ann Township,the lost Arakan to Myanmar last month
to give compensation for damaged farmlands and plantations.
Even if Some farmers lost three acres and some others lost four acres, They did not receive any compensation therefore they started to protest against the China National Petroleum Corporation and Myanmar Enterprise.
Police charged with lathi to farmers to disperse that Arakanese Farmers only received. The farmers submitted complaints to Arakan State government to get compensation for their damaged farmlands,plantations, pastureland before holding the protest. The Government
conducted field surveys on the damaged lands and agreed to pay the compensation. However, the Chinese and Myanmar's company still have not given any compensation to poor local Arakanese Farmers.

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Crimea's Status Is Not Up For Discussion,Kremlin Avows

The kremlin stressed that the issue of Crimea's recognition as Russian Land cannot be
on the agenda for international negotiation,Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry
Pespov  said on Monday.
The Kremlin Spokesman thus commented on US President Donald Trump's statement
that at the upcoming summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Helsinki
on 16 july he intended to raise the issue of crimea.
US leader did not rule out that washington might recognize the peninsular as Russian
soil . -Tass

May the boys and their football coach come out from cave

Last weekend,the boys,aged 11 to 16,and their football coach went into the cave
in Northern Thailand.
Unfortunately,heavy rain occured that rain water had caused flood and the entire
cave was waterlogged.
To evacuate the boys and their coach, Thai rescue teams were searching for.
On saturday, search went into seven days.No contact is getting therefore worries
loomed over the boys and their coach.
I pray to Lord Buddha for an end to their sufferings and they can come out safely.

UN Secretary-General Guterres arrives in Bangladesh to meet Rohingyas

Senior Correspondent  bdnews24.com

Published: 2018-07-01 02:21:35.0 BdST Updated: 2018-07-01 02:31:02.0 BdST

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  António Guterres. Reuters

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has arrived in Dhaka to visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar jointly with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali received Guterres when the Qatar Airways plane landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport after 2am on Sunday, one of Ali’s aides told bdnews24.com.

From the airport, Guterres travelled to Radisson Blu Water Garden hotel where he is staying along with Kim during the two-day visit.

The World Bank president arrived on Saturday evening.

 

Jim Yong Kim. File Photo: Mostafigur Rahman

Both the UN and the World Bank chiefs will meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday morning. They will also visit the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi. The prime minister will host a dinner in their honour.

The visit would highlight the “generosity” of Bangladesh in hosting the largest refugee influx of 2017 and the need for the international community to do more, the UN said.

The visit also aims to lay the ground for further dialogue with the government of Bangladesh on medium-term planning for the refugee situation and to reiterate the UN and World Bank’s support for finding “comprehensive solutions” to the situation of the Rohingya people.