A campaign to isolate Muslims living under apartheid-like conditions is gathering steam in western Myanmar, driven by Buddhist activists emboldened by the country’s transition from military rule.

MYEBON, Myanmar (Reuters) - Buddhist villagers in relatively peaceful parts of Myanmar's Rakhine state are enforcing a system of local apartheid that punishes people trading with minority Muslims, ...

Rakhine State, where violence has been escalating for two months after Rohingya militants allegedly attacked a border guard post on October 9, is spiraling into chaos. As I noted in a recent post, the ...

Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday, as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict. The northern ...

Thirteen-year-old Zomir Hussein lives with his family in a simple wooden home in a village outside the city of Sittwe, the capital of western Myanmar's Rakhine state. Not long ago, he accidentally ...

News this past weekend that the Myanmar government appears to have kicked Doctors without Borders/Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) out of Arakan/Rakhine State is just another disturbing piece of news ...

Representatives of UN agencies will be permitted to visit Rakhine state in Myanmar on Thursday for the first time since the start of a massive exodus of minority Rohingya Muslims. The United Nations ...

The visit by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Rakhine State on Nov. 2 has failed to stem anger and frustration felt in the strife-torn state or in neighboring Bangladesh where more than ...

The policeman manning the barbed-wire roadblock at the entrance to Bhumi quarter in Sittwe spells out the rules: if the Rohingya try to leave without a permit, they are apprehended and taken back to ...

The northern Rakhine state has been plagued by violence, and armed forces are now waging a war against a militant group claiming to represent the state’s ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. [AFP] Nine policemen ...