The Arakan Army (AA) has completed its first training course for officers inside Arakan State, the Information Department of the ethnic armed group said on Monday.

“Cases of dengue fever were mainly recorded in Taungup, Kyaukphyu and Sittwe townships,” said Dr. Zaw Zaw Aung, assistant director of the Arakan State DPH.

A restaurant owner and a local man were arrested for allegedly squatting on land that the junta-controlled Ministry of Construction claims ownership of in Ward 3 of Ramree Township, Arakan State.

The Three Brotherhood Alliance issued a statement on July 2 stating that they would work together in the fight against terrorism and criminal activities in their areas of control in order to protect regional stability and the lives of the local people.

The slain ALP officials have been identified as the group’s vice chairman, Khaing Ni Aung; battalion commander Khaing Kyaw Min; and Private Kyaw Kyaw Naing.

The company has sent a notice, asking farmers to pay 27,149,500 South Korean won (43.6 million kyats) in legal costs.

“The price of fishing gear is on the rise and it is not easy for storm-hit fishermen to buy new fishing equipment.

U Nyi Pu was transferred from Sittwe Prison to Insein Prison in Yangon, and underwent surgeries at an eye specialist hospital in Tamwe Township 

Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting at the railroad tracks near Sittwe University in Mingan Ward on Saturday afternoon.

The nunneries face financial constraints to undergo repairs, and have been forced to make do with tarpaulin sheets.

Last year, shrimp fries were bought from shrimp hatcheries, but because the hatcheries were damaged by the storm, shrimp farm operators are having trouble raising shrimp this year.

The Arakan State Forest Department will grow 390,000 perennial trees in the current monsoon season across the state’s 17 townships.

Local people in Tawphyarchaung, a remote area in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, are reportedly facing difficulties as relief items supplied by the junta and local organisations are not reaching the area, locals said.

Five ethnic signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have agreed to hold a peace conference after holding talks with the junta’s National Solidarity and Peace Negotiation Committee from June 26-28 in Naypyitaw.

The cash donations contributed by movie stars, musicians, comedians and former Myanmar national team players were made at an event in Sittwe on June 28, the junta-controlled Myanmar Alinn newspaper reported.

Basic education schools in storm-hit northern Arakan State are struggling to teach a new curriculum to students from Grade 9 to Grade 12 as they have not yet received the relevant training.

The tourism industry in Arakan State has failed to thrive because successive governments have barely supported the industry, according to local residents and business owners.

Rural children in Arakan State are suffering from emotional trauma following the devastation wrought by Cyclone Mocha, according to organisations working on children’s mental health.

Muslims in Arakan State’s Sittwe, Buthidaung, Maungdaw, Pauktaw and Kyaukphyu townships celebrated Eid al-Adha on Thursday.