Three blasts took place in the normally quiet town of Manaung on an island off Myanmar's western coast where Suu Kyi was due to arrive to attend the opening of a solar power plant.

Small blasts hit Rakhine town as Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits

Myanmar's military is guilty of committing new "war crimes", extrajudicial killings and torture in its fight against ethnic Rakhine rebels, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

Amnesty accuses Myanmar military of fresh 'war crimes' in Rakhine

Myanmar security forces shot dead at least six people in the perturbed western state of Rakhine for their alleged links with rebel Arakan Army. The army also detained nearly 275 people during a search operation to nab the members of the Rebel Army, reported Al Jazeera.

Myanmar forces kill six suspecting rebel-links

A woman widowed in the latest deadly attack by ethnic Rakhine rebels called on the army and insurgents to lay down arms and talk, as violence rips through the troubled western Myanmar state.

Myanmar woman widowed in Rakhine attack pleads for peace

The violence erupted in Rakhine, an impoverished state in Myanmar simmering in sectarian tension between Buddhists and Muslim Rohingyas

At least two policemen killed in attack along Myanmar-Bangladesh border

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Small blasts hit Rakhine town as Myanmar's Suu Kyi visits

Amnesty accuses Myanmar military of fresh 'war crimes' in Rakhine

Myanmar forces kill six suspecting rebel-links

Myanmar woman widowed in Rakhine attack pleads for peace

At least two policemen killed in attack along Myanmar-Bangladesh border