Rohingya Vision TV is an online media outlet that covers the latest news from Rakhine State in the Rohingya and Burmese languages, as well as English and Arabic. 21-year-old Tahmina Sharmin is a news anchor in charge of Rohingya- and Burmese-language programs. She reports on the Rohingya’s treatment by the Myanmar government. “They are doing […]
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KUALA LUMPUR – “We are the voice of the voiceless. This is our slogan,” said Ajmeer Omar, a reporter and anchor for Rohingya Vision TV. It is a well-worn maxim among journalists the world over, but for Ajmeer and his colleagues, it may be especially true. In 2012, Rohingya Vision TV, R-Vision for short, became
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A team of Rohingya Muslims is using blockchain technology to forge digital identities for the persecuted minority’s diasporar. On the first floor of an unassuming building on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, three wall clocks are set to the times of Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Arakan, the former name for Rakhine state in west Myanmar.
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Meet the team of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia “Small club, big dream” might be one of the most commonly used football expressions, but for a team of Rohingya refugees in Malaysia, it certainly is the case. For ninety minutes every week, players from the Rohingya Football club get to escape their daily struggles and the
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A NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION is using blockchain technology to provide stateless Rohingya refugees who fled Burma (Myanmar) with digital identity cards in a pilot project aimed at giving access to services like banking and education. The first 1,000 people to benefit from the project in 2018 will be members of the diaspora in Malaysia, Bangladesh and
Blockchain, the technology behind the bitcoin currency, will be used to issue individual digital IDs to people once they have taken a test to verify that they are genuine Rohingya. It aims to improve the stateless Rohinygas’ access to public services, such as hospitals, which is often difficult, as well as restoring their dignity, the
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The aim of RVision is to educate and train the Rohingya youth and intellectuals on various Rohingya issues related to history, geopolitics, Burmese policies, international affairs and political analysis. Within the last two years we can proudly say that Rvision has become the most successful and largest Rohingya media in the Rohingya community. The group
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The Project takes a multi-pronged approach to tackling financial exclusion. The first approach, in cooperation with our FinTech partner Ata Plus Sdn Bhd, is through the creation of a secure and international Waqf-based ecosystem, to offer those Rohingya who for years have been sidelined, a range of financial applications and other services to encourage collaboration,
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Rohingya are the indigenous ethnic minority of Burma (Myanmar) mainly residing in Arakan (Rakhine) state. The descendants of the ancient inhabitants of Arakan, genealogically linked up with people of Dannavati, Vesali and Chandra to Indo-Arian. Four million Rohingya population are estimated around the world from which more than 2.5 million are forced to flee and
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A New Year has just dawned. Many will look at this coming annum with a sense of expectation and optimism. Each year is seen as an advance towards goals yet to be fulfilled. A measure of how far we have progressed and what new horizons are left to conquer. Yet, as one of the Rohingya,
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