Maungdaw, Arakan State: The high officials from Maungdaw are preparing to move to the safe place only Buddhist community from Maungdaw south starting at noon on May 14, according to an official from Maungdaw admin office.

Rangoon, Burma: Yesterday, State television broadcast cyclone warnings and President Thein Sein instructed regional authorities to be ready in case the storm hits the country, according to state television.

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Maungdaw, Arakan State: Rohingyas villagers in northern Arakan State are now passing days and nights in panic for giving pressure by the Burma border security force (Nasaka) to participate in computerized signatures and photographs after writing “Bengali” in place of “Rohingya” in the column of national race, said a politician from Maungdaw

Maungdaw, Arakan State: The Burma’s border security force (Nasaka) is conducting irregular surveys in Rohingya villages of Maungdaw and Buthidaung Townships coercing the Rohingya villagers to use ‘Bengali’ as their racial name in place of ‘Rohingya’ against their will, according to villagers of Maungdaw Township. 

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Police personnel from Maungdaw arrested a monk and two Rohingyas from Ahludawpay monastery for drug trafficking on May 5 and police kept more drug in their hand and show little to the court with case, according to an officer from Maungdaw.