Junta-appointed Arakan State Chief Minister U Htein Lin urged local farmers in Arakan State to expand summer paddy cultivation, saying the state government would provide irrigation water by pumping from rivers.

The military regime sentenced about 30 members of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) to significant prison time, including at least one life sentence, during the two-year period since the coup in Myanmar, according to the student activist group.

The Thandwe Township Court has deferred ruling in a case against 12 detained residents until next week despite the fact that the court has heard both sides to completion, according to family members of the defendants.

Bangladeshi authorities are sending Muslim refugees displaced by fighting last month around Taungpyo Letyar, in Bangladesh’s Bandarban District, to the Kutupalong refugee camp.

A local man from Lanmadaw Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, was severely injured in a landmine explosion on Wednesday morning, according to family members.

Myanmar’s military regime earned about K 700 million from issuing licences to 5,746 motorbikes in Arakan State from September 28, 2022, to January 30, 2023, according to the Arakan State military council.

Sein Lan Si, a Mrauk-U-based environmental conservation group that is mainly engaged in environmental protection activities, aims to distribute and grow trees for free throughout Arakan State, and has been nurturing more than 20,000 saplings since January of this year.

A charitable foundation providing free vocational training for women as part of a women’s empowerment program in Arakan State is running into financial troubles.

The Chin State General Administration Department is registering internally displaced people (IDPs) at displacement camps in Paletwa Township who are wishing to return to their homes.

The residents of more than 30 villages in Manaung Township, Arakan State, are growing impatient more than six months after they paid to have solar power-based systems supply electricity to their homes.

Cattle are dying of an unknown ailment across some 10 villages in Arakan State’s Myebon Township, according to local residents, who say the deaths began last week.

The Arakan Army (AA) has imposed a ban on zat pwe performances, from February 14 until March 18, for the upcoming matriculation examination.

The mothers of Win Zaw Tun and Zaw Lin, two Arakan State natives convicted of murdering a pair of British backpackers in Thailand in 2014, are reportedly in need of medical treatment.

The Peace Process Steering Committee (PPST) said on February 12 that since the military coup in Myanmar on February 1, 2021, the peace process and political talks have ground to a halt.

Junta-appointed ministers recently visited displacement camps in the Arakan State townships of Sittwe, Minbya, Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U, during which they urged internally displaced people (IDPs) to return to their homes.

The junta-controlled Union Election Commission (UEC) has announced that four political parties officially registered their organisations from February 1 to 10.

Members of the Kaman and Maramargyi ethnic groups are demanding that their tribes’ statues be showcased at the cultural museum in the Arakan State capital Sittwe.

The Mon State Salt Farmers Association says it will support salt farmers in Arakan State with a salt water system, soil levelling system, salt purification system and other technical assistance to increase salt yields.

A memorial service marking the 25^th anniversary of the death of the commander-in-chief of the National Unity Party Arakan/Arakan Army (NUPA/AA), Major-General Khaing Razar, was held in his native Chaw Chaung village, Minbya Township, on Saturday morning.