The coral reefs attract hundreds of visitors on weekends, many of whom step on them or chip off pieces of coral to take home with them, according to locals.

The camp manager is accused of raping up to 45 women between 2021 and August 2, 2022. Among the victims at the Phwe Yar Gone camp were housewives, widows, mentally ill women and girls.

Five men from Kyaukseik village, part of Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, and its vicinity, who were sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour under Section 52(a) of the Counter-Terrorism Law, were released on February 21.

The Arakan National Party (ANP) has sought input from executive committee members of its township branches on whether the party should register with the junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC).

Some of the loans date back to 2016, and the amount accounts for 30 percent of the total loans disbursed to farmers, according to a bank official.

The headmaster and local villagers submitted a request to the township education officer in 2018 seeking to have the school repaired, but nothing has been done to date, according to the villagers.

Traffic across the bridge resumed after several rounds of discussions between officials from the two countries that began in January 2022.

The civilian death toll attributed to Myanmar’s military coup on February 1, 2021, surpassed a grim milestone in recent days, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP), with more than 3,000 people killed by the regime and its affiliates.

Another nursing and midwifery training school will be established in Kyaukphyu Township to fill vacancies at clinics and hospitals in Arakan State, according to the state health department.

Ko Karmal, who is sheltering at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, said Muslim refugees like himself cannot return to Myanmar without security assurances.

The junta-appointed Minister of Electricity and Energy U Thaung Han has told some local media that the required electricity for EV charging stations will be sourced primarily from solar power. 

The country’s Prison Manual guarantees appropriate healthcare services for inmates during imprisonment, but in Myanmar, both criminal and political prisoners rarely enjoy that right.

The displacement camp is located near the Sittwe-Yangon road in Ponnagyun Township’s Ganantaung Village. Camp officials said that there are few donors since the displacement camp is relatively new.

Among those detained were 75 males and 28 females, including some children under the age of 16. The detainees are from Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Sittwe townships.

One-hundred cameras and 100 underwater sensors will be set up along the shore of the Naf River this year, according to the Defence Research Forum-DefRes of Bangladesh.

A private firm, Tet Lan Co., has reportedly started a private garbage collection system to help clean up the Arakan State capital Sittwe.

Residents are worried that the fighting will intensify as the military continues to send reinforcements to the area.

A gender gap persists among Myanmar media, with fewer women being employed in ethnic media and fewer women’s voices being represented in media reports, according to journalists and women’s rights activists.

The Arakan State Health Department has urged locals to take freely available vaccines against elephantiasis as the disease is still found in the state.