A resident of Palin Pyin, a village about 15 kilometers (9 miles) northwest of Sittwe, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that soldiers and civil authorities on Sunday forced the village elders ...

Residents of 15 villages around Sittwe were given five days to leave their homes and move to the state capital, a resident of one of the villages told AFP. "The army threatened to shoot and kill if ...

A spokesperson for Myanmar's military government has denied accusations that army troops and their local allies killed 76 people when they entered a village last week in the western state of Rakhine.

MAUNGDAW, Myanmar, December 3 (UNHCR) - For generations, they lived side by side as friends and neighbours despite ethnic and religious differences. "We ate from the same plate, drank from the same ...

The capture of Sittwe and Kyaukpyu are the mostly likely next objectives in its military campaign. Without more troops and weaponry, the SAC forces are unlikely to be able to stop the AA from ...

In Sittwe's harbor, India is funding a $214 million port, river and road network that will carve a trade route into India's landlocked northeast. From Kyaukphyu, a city 65 miles southeast of ...

India, Jan. 19 -- Indian envoy to Myanmar Abhay Thakur recently reviewed the progress of the Kaladan Project at the Sittwe Port in Myanmar's Rakhine province, officials said.

SITTWE, MYANMAR - NOVEMBER 25: A Rohingya man looks out from a barbed wire fence used as a barrier to restrict travel November 25, 2012 on the outskirts of Sittwe, Myanmar. An estimated 111,000 ...

Indian conglomerate Essar Group is building the port on 70,000 square metres (753,000 sq ft) of landfill in Sittwe's centre. It should be ready in two years, says Myanmar's Commerce Ministry ...