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	AKYAB - LoveToKnow Article on AKYAB
		It forms the northernmost district of Lower Burma, and consists of the level tract lying between the sea and the Arakan Yoma mountains, and of the broken country formed by a portion of their western spurs and valleys.
		The four chief towns are Khumgchu in the extreme north-east of the district; Koladaing in the centre; Arakan, farther down the rivers; and Akyab on the coast, where their mouths converge.
		Akyab was the metropolitan province of the native kingdom of Arakan, and the history of that country centres in it.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AK/AKYAB.htm (406 words)

	Curfew placed on Akyab after family murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to a source from Akyab, at least 50 people were arrested by the authority after they imposed the curfew.
		The murder happened while three families from the Burmese Army were going to a jetty of Akyab on their return trip to their native town, Taung Guok, a southern town of Arakan.
		One army official and his father were stabbed to death on the spot and the army officer's ten-year-old son escaped unharmed.
	www.rakhapura.com /news/read.asp?NewsID=28 (243 words)

	Rakhine State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its area is 36,762 km² and its capital is Sittwe, formerly known as Akyab.
		The British made Akyab capital of new province, and retained the traditional divisions of the country into the districts of Akyab, Kyaukpyu and Sandoway (Ramree) with a district officer in charge of each.
		Akyab district originally included the Arakan Hill Tracts, which were detached 1865 and made into a separate district (and which is now [[Chin State]]).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rakhine_State (1328 words)

	NARINJARA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Residents of Akyab have to pay 500 kyats a house per month for street lights in the capital of Arakan State.
		The Lighting Committee consists of the junta Charge-d’Affairs of the Akyab region, Brigadier General Than Tun Aung and business men who are close to the military authorities.
		It is learnt that Akyab had twenty-four hour electricity under the democracy period led by Prime Minister U Nu, but since the Ne Win regime began, electricity has been a rare event of the day.
	narinjara.com /details.asp?id=206 (405 words)

	Narinjara News
		Akyab, July 22: A woman, Ma Tha Nu from Akyab city, has been facing a lawsuit in district court, for constructing a house on her own land, said a lawyer from Akyab.
		The plot is located at the Kondam quarter of Akyab, and had been confiscated by government authority from Ma Tha Nu’s family, for the Burma Oil Company, in General Ne Win’s era.
		During the construction of the house, the Akyab Municipal erected a signboard, stating the official permission, in front of the Ma Tha Nu house compound.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/NN2004-07-22.htm (358 words)

	Personal Recollections of British Burma and Its Church Mission Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was Akyab in Arakan, between which and Rangoon the communication is regular and easy.
		Akyab is a charming place, situated at the mouth of the river Koladyne, which, rising in the far north, flows through 200 miles of British territory.
		Such were my final recollections of Akyab, on the morning of the 26th, when I left my friends behind me, and steamed away once more to Rangoon.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/asia/burma/titcomb1880/14.html (2026 words)

	10 prisoners are missing from Akyab jail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The prisoners were arrested by Akyab police at the Ra Chan Byin jetty, situated at the bank of the Mayu River, in 2003 while they were preparing to leave for Bangladesh on a machine boat along with a large amount of smuggled rice.
		Their relatives went to the prisoner’s labor camp of Laynyin daung under the Mrauk U Township to inquire about the missing prisoners, but there are not any bodies in the labor camp, another female relative from Rathidaung said.
		In a report published on 30 January 2005, it is stated that at least 300 prisoners from Akay and Kyauk Pru jail have been dispatched by military authority to the Eastern Karan state (near Thai-Burma border) to be used as military porters.
	www.rakhapura.com /news/read.asp?NewsID=158 (287 words)

	NARINJARA NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Akyab authority has issued a prohibition for towns people against going outside after 10 pm, while the electric is out in the town, said a town person from Akyab.
		Akyab, the capital of Arakan state located on the western coast of Burma, gets only 3 hours of electricity per day.
		It is learnt that In Akyab, there are over 3000 rickshaw pullers and most are from rural areas of Arakan, having fled to Akyab to avoid starvation.
	www.narinjara.com /details.asp?id=188 (376 words)

	AKYAB - Encyclopedia Britannica - AKYAB - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		of Myohaung was abandoned as the seat of government, and Akyab on the sea-coast selected instead.
		of the district; Koladaing in the centre; Arakan, farther down the rivers; and Akyab on the coast, where their mouths converge.
		This district passed into the hands of the British, together with the rest of Arakan division, at _ the close of the first Burmese war of 1825-1826.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/AJA_ALL/AKYAB.html (520 words)

	Last days in Burma: Kato meets Sgt McLuckie (part 17)
		The 64th Sentai therefore moved cross-country from Toungoo to defend Akyab, arriving just in time to encounter an attack by a British Lockheed Hudson, for all practical purposes the same plane as the "Type LO" Electra that the group was using to transport its ground crews and equipment.
		At Akyab, the 64th Sentai was almost out of ammunition and food, with their meals now down to eggplant eaten raw or boiled in salt water for breakfast and again for dinner.
		At this moment, the main RAF base at Akyab, which the 64th Sentai had recently abandoned in favor of the dispersal field, was bombed by Blenheims.
	www.warbirdforum.com /may1942.htm (1239 words)

	Online Burma Library > Main Library > States and Divisions of Burma > Arakan (Rakhine) State > Narinjara ...
		Akyab, August 9: "9 Arakanese people were arrested by Burma Military Intelligence in Pauk Taw Township for sending a letter to PM Khin Nyunt expressing their dissatisfaction over the delivery of storm aid to victims.
		Akyab, March 3: "An Akyab seaport jetty, a main port jetty of Arakan State, is still in need of repair since it was damaged by last year's May 19 cyclone as the government has neglected to repair it, said a businessmen from Akyab.
		Akyab, April 26: "Orchids in the wilderness of Arakan, a western state in Burma are threatened with extinction due to their high demand from exporters to China.
	www.burmalibrary.org /show.php?cat=1250&lo=t&sl=0 (7496 words)

	Sunrise and Sunset Times for Akyab, Myanmar in Asia
		Sunrise and Sunset Times for Akyab, Myanmar in Asia
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		Moon Rise Times and Lunar data for Akyab, Myanmar
	www.thesunrisetimes.com /Asia/Akyab,_Myanmar_.aspx (63 words)

	Enclave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Akyab District Magistrate reported in 1913 that in Buthidaung Subdivision, the Chittagonian immigrants stand to native Arakanese in the proportion of two to one, but six sevenths of the litigation for land in the court was initiated by the Chittagonians [Smart 1957: 163].
		There was an increase of 206.67 percent in Mahomedan population in the Akyab District and it was clear that only a few numbers of the transient agricultural laborers went home after the plowing and harvesting seasons and most of them remained in Arakan, making their homes　[Smart 1957:83].
		After the Japanese occupation of Akyab (Sittwe), Bo Yan Aung, the member of the Thirty Comrades and commander of a BIA column, set up the administrative body in Akyab District and attempted to cease the violence in the frontier area.
	www.rakharoma.org /enclave.html (6196 words)

	B N I Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After Burma Army family murder A curfew has been imposed for the last two weeks in Akyab, the capital of Arakan State in western Burma, in reaction to the murder of a Burma Army officer and his father.
		The murder happened on April 17 while three Burmese Army families were going to a jetty in Akyab on their return trip to Taung Guok, their native town in southern Arakan, Just after the water festival.
		The 108-foot-high Locananda Pagoda in Akyab, the Arakan state capital, was built with forced labor under the supervision of Khin Nyunt, then prime minister of the junta.
	www.bnionline.net /narinjaraprevious_detail.php?ID=62 (528 words)

	Narinjara News
		Akyab, November 30: 6 people, including 5 Italians,died when their boat sank in
		The Akyab resident said that five boats were bound to Mrauk Oo,an ancient Arakan city, from Akyab, or Sittwe.
		Other Akyab residents informed Narinjara that local people and fishing boats rescued a number of travelers in the water, but six people disappeared in the heavy waves.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/NN2004-11-30c.htm (275 words)

	burma.indymedia.org \| [newswirearchive.title]
		An Akyab seaport jetty, a main port jetty of Arakan State, is still in need of repair since it was damaged by last year's May 19 cyclone as the government has neglected to repair it, said a businessmen from Akyab.
		An Army official was arrested with another local accused human trafficker in Akyab for their involvement in a trafficking case to Malaysia, according to an official report.
		200 prisoners from the Akyab prison were sent to Mawlamyine, a capital of Mon State, by Burma’s authority on 30 January, according to a relative of a prisoner.
	burmaimc.infotage.net /ar/newswire/archive2.shtml (821 words)

	ARAKAN - LoveToKnow Article on ARAKAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The division has its head- a1 arters at Akyab and consists of four districtsnamely, Akyab, In ~rthern Arakan Hill Tracts, Sandoway and Kyaukpyu, N ~merly called Ramree.
		The popu- th :ion at the time of the British occupation in 1826 did not exceed of 0,000.
		Its noteness from the ports and harbours of the country, comied with the extreme unhealthiness of its situation, have led its gradual decay subsequently to the formation of the comratively recent settlement of Akyab, which place is now the ef town of the province.
	76.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARAKAN.htm (1101 words)

	Forty Years in Burma, by John Ebenezer Marks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At Akyab I was warmly received by the Commissioner, General Ardagh, and during the fortnight that I spent there as his guest I held daily services.
		Some of the principal native officials and merchants begged me to take their sons with me to Rangoon, and I took eight or nine lads, who proved the most troublesome that I have ever had.
		Several of them bolted back to Akyab, as they could not endure the separation from their parents and native country and the discipline of a boarding school.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/pc/asia/burma/forty/06.html (1332 words)

	Experimental Airmail to UK, April 1931 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		At Akyab, the mail was transferred to the Imperial Airways DH 66 City of Karachi on 3 May and flown to Delhi, arriving on 5 May. From Delhi it joined the regular Imperial Airways flight to London where it eventually arrived on 14 May, 27 days after leaving New Zealand.
		Later on 3 May, it was flown from Akyab to Calcutta by Imperial Airways in the DH 66 City of Karachi.
		From Darwin it was flown to Brisbane on 12 -13 May in a DH 50 by Qantas and then by ANA to Sydney on 14 May in the Southern Moon with P G Taylor as pilot.
	www.nzstamps.fsnet.co.uk /air/external/experi.html (1875 words)

	akyab email (spam-free!) and website community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It can be used for anything: the akyab surname, the akyab family, the akyab fan club, the akyab alumni group, akyab genealogy, or any other community or group about akyab.
		This your chance to get a matching akyab email address, matching akyab website and matching akyab single sign-on "passport" (once these are commonly accepted).
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	www.akyab.pw (359 words)

	Burma Issues - BI Weekly (Current Edition) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Twenty-seven Muslims were arrested by Akyab police, along with a trafficking gang, while they were preparing to depart for Malaysia by motor boat, a police report said.
		All arrestees were from the Unbala and Nazi Wra Quarters of Akyab, the capital of Arakan State.
		The authorities also arrested Army Sergeant Thein Theik, from Nazi Para, a Muslim village outpost in the Akyab Township, on 2 Feb for his involvement in a human trafficking case, along with his colleague, Mr Bodu Shouku, a known human trafficker.
	www.burmaissues.org /En/BIWeekly/BIWeekly2005-03-02-218.html (1862 words)

	Narinjara News
		Akyab, September 21: The Arakan State’s capital, Akyab, saw its principal jetty destroyed by a storm four months ago.
		The cargo from the sea faring trading vessels are to be off-loaded to smaller boats offshore, since the trading vessels are unable to dock at the broken jetty, a trader from Akyab says.
		The British, who needed it for Akyab’s rice exports, built the jetty in 1876.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/NN2004-09-21.htm (375 words)

	JAAF v AVG: Last battles in Burma (part 13)
		Despite the AVG raid--the worst pummeling the 64th Sentai had received during the war--"the whole troop reorganized and joined the combat again." Indeed, it was back in action the same afternoon.
		Eleven Hayabusas were still in service after the AVG strike, and these finally managed to get off for Akyab, escorting 26 Sally heavy bombers of the 98th Sentai.
		Afterward, the historian relates how "the Kato troop was happily talking and remembering" the battle The "2nd Chutai tried to make themselves look like the enemy troop and shot down heavily-gunned fighter planes." I assume this mock combat was just talk, on the ground, but it's not clear.
	www.warbirdforum.com /fallbak2.htm (1176 words)

	CRL - SAMP - Guides to Collections - Indian Land Settlement Reports - Burma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Report on the settlement operations in the Akyab District, season 1886-87 [microform].
		Report on the settlement operations in the Akyab District, season 1887-88 [microform].
		Report on the summary settlement of three cadastrally surveyed circles in the Akyab District, season 1903-04 [microform] : accompanied by map and four appendices.
	wwwcrl.uchicago.edu /areastudies/SAMP/collections/landsettbur.htm (3979 words)

	AKYAB - Online Information article about AKYAB
		capital of Myohaung was abandoned as the seat of government, and Akyab on the See also:
		form a most important feature of Akyab district and contain a valuable See also:
		east of the district; Koladaing in the centre; Arakan, farther down the rivers; and Akyab on the coast, where their mouths converge.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /AJA_ALL/AKYAB.html (499 words)

	Narinjara News
		A curfew has been imposed in Akyab, the capital of
		have been arrested by the army and the police are patrolling the streets in Akyab with armoured vehicles", the trader said.
		The murder happened while three families from the Burmese Army were going to a jetty of Akyab on their return trip to their native town, Taung Guok, a southern town of
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs3/NN2005-05-05.htm (213 words)

	Special Flight RCM Report No. 2
		Flying conditions were most unfavourable, but the operation of 70 megacycle radar from Akyab and Rangoon was indicated during this period.
		In addition, a signal on 127 megacycles, originating in the Moulmein area, was also logged.
		PW.20 (4 entries.) First detected at position 20º 07'N. No. D/F obtained and although signal was received in AKYAB area, signal strength indicates that the transmitter was some distance away.
	www.rquirk.com /splflt/report2.html (2891 words)

	Letter from Maungdaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Voices of Burma This letter was received from Burma, translated and edited for Burma Debate (Nov/Dec 1997) December 8, 1997 Travel restrictions on Muslims of Arakan, which were imposed long ago, have been further tightened recently.
		The latest method of harassment and brutal dealings are applied against the Muslims at the notorious "ASEAN gate" in Akyab.
		All the Muslim passengers are herded to the "ASEAN gate" after arrival at the jetty in Akyab, which was erected recently for the Rohingya passengers, while non-Muslims are allowed to go through the usual gate.
	www.ibiblio.net /obl/reg.burma/archives/199802/msg00198.html (327 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dacca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In each centre there is a school, and in many of the dependent stations there is catechumenate under the immediate supervision of local catechists and the elders of the respective communities.
		In Dacca, Chittagong, and the Akyab the mission conducts schools in which students, irrespective of religious profession, are prepared for "entrance" or collegiate work.
		The academy for girls in each of these cities is directed by a staff of 35 nuns, Daughters of Our Lady of the Missions (23), and the Sisters Catechists (12).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04601b.htm (764 words)

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