Major Myanmar-Thai border trade route closed amid fighting
07 Apr 2023
In their joint statement, the resistance groups said that the regime has been reinforcing and resupplying its troops using private vehicles along Myawaddy-Kawkareik road.
07 Apr 2023
In their joint statement, the resistance groups said that the regime has been reinforcing and resupplying its troops using private vehicles along Myawaddy-Kawkareik road.
07 Apr 2023
Family members and human rights activists say the repeated postponements of hearings for those arrested on suspicion of being linked to the Arakan Army (AA) without any verdicts are causing distress to the accused.
07 Apr 2023
Myanmar’s military regime is taking steps to restart the Nayputaung marble stone production project in Taungup Township, Arakan State, according to local residents.
07 Apr 2023
A gold shop in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township was robbed on Friday morning, with around 20 ticals of gold stolen from the shop.
06 Apr 2023
Daingnet also known as Thakkama people will organise their traditional floating flower festival at Shindaw Village in Ponnagyun Township from April 12-13.
06 Apr 2023
Intra-Arakan State ferry boat lines and long-distance bus lines running between Arakan State and other parts of the country will suspend operations for a week during the Thingyan holidays, according to transportation service providers.
06 Apr 2023
The trial for a displaced man and a local resident in Kyauktaw, Arakan State, began on April 5, about five months after the duo were arrested by the military, according to a lawyer involved.
05 Apr 2023
The Mrauk-U Cultural Heritage Conservation Association is excavating the original drainage channels at the Nandawyargon (palace mound) in Mrauk-U, the last royal capital of Arakanese kings.
05 Apr 2023
The KNDF was formed in May 2021 following the military takeover in February of that year. Currently, KNDF and junta troops are engaged in heavy fighting on the border of Shan and Kayah (Karenni) states.
05 Apr 2023
Myanmar’s military regime has verified more than 700 Muslim refugees for repatriation so far as part of a pilot project agreed with the Bangladeshi government, according to the April 4 issue of the junta-controlled newspaper Myanma Alinn.
05 Apr 2023
During a meeting of the junta’s peace negotiating team and seven signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) over the past few days, the two sides “mutually understood trust steps for peace,” according to one delegate who attended the talks.
05 Apr 2023
Some 5,000 people displaced by junta airstrikes and shellings in Mae Ka Nae area, part of Kayin (Karen) State’s Myawaddy Township, are in need of relief items, according to local charities.
04 Apr 2023
An official from Arakan State’s Department of Agriculture says that the use of pesticides and herbicides has been increasing in order to sell vegetables in the market.
04 Apr 2023
Local residents in Mrauk-U, Arakan State, are facing water shortages as Latsay Lake, which is the main water supply to the urban areas of Mrauk-U, has already dried up, according to locals.
04 Apr 2023
Untimely rains damaged some salt farms in Kyaukphyu, Pauktaw, Sittwe and Thandwe townships on Sunday and Monday.
04 Apr 2023
The junta boss has made three trips to Arakan State so far this year, with local media outlets featuring news stories and analysis of those visits.
04 Apr 2023
The Arakan Army (AA) has been able to control many parts of Arakan State during the ethnic armed group’s 14-year revolution, but is expanding the scope of its “liberated” areas, said the AA deputy chief, Dr. Nyo Twan Awng.
04 Apr 2023
The Arakan State passport office on Monday resumed issuing “tokens” to new passport applicants, according to the branch.
03 Apr 2023
A large number of domestic visitors are booking rooms for holiday trips during the upcoming Thingyan New Year festivities at hotels and guesthouses near the well-known Ngapali Beach in Thandwe Township, Arakan State.
03 Apr 2023
Campaigns against the election proposed by Myanmar’s military regime have begun to unfold in Arakan State.