Daw Nyo Aye was remanded by the township court for two weeks at the hearing, and the next court date has been scheduled for September 12, according to family members.

The price of a land plot measuring 30x40 ft in Sittwe’s Mingan ward has doubled from 35 million kyats to 70 million kyats in recent years.

Rice will be sold to the public for 250 kyats per pyi, and 200,000 sacks of rice have been sent to Arakan State, according to Myanmar Rice Federation chairman U Ye Min Aung.

As construction of a rural healthcare centre that broke ground in 2017 in Kansauk Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, is not yet finished, locals are asking that the project managers hasten its completion.

Farmers are reportedly having difficulties affording and even just finding seeds and seedlings to replant their paddy fields.

Junta boss General Min Aung Hlaing said during a visit to Arakan State on July 11 that the necessary health workers would be appointed for the hospitals in Arakan State, but that pledge has not yet been implemented.

The Myanmar regime is pushing ahead with construction of a China-backed railroad linking Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu with Mandalay.

According to international organisations, travel restrictions are the most difficult to deal with when it comes to humanitarian issues in Arakan State.

Most of the poems are written in both Burmese and Arakanese, and every poem is translated into English. Some poems are also translated into Chinese.

Muslims from Arakan State and human rights campaigners have called for justice and accountability for family members and friends who were killed in 2017 Myanmar military “area clearance operations” in Arakan State.

Myanmar’s military regime has been silent on the provision of loans to fisheries and livestock businesses in Arakan State affected by Cyclone Mocha, according to business owners.

Outgoing Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has said that Thailand will support the Myanmar junta’s purported pursuit of a peaceful and prosperous democratic federal union.

During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, Myanmar Agricultural Development Bank lent 50,000 kyats per acre for farmers in an attempt to mitigate the economic impacts of the pandemic on farmers.

Around 100 junta soldiers, who have been stationed near the village since 2022, were deployed at the school and some homes in the village on August 21.

An AAPP official said the regime is still trying to govern the people with fear, arresting and killing those opposing the junta as enemies and, as its territorial control shrinks, committing terrorist acts to regain those areas.

Many women dare not answer on the record when interviewed about Myanmr’s political and military situation, and it is therefore difficult to add more women’s voices in stories, according to journalists.

Vaginal itching, burning and abnormal discharge are common in adult women at the Thetkelpyin Muslim IDP camp in Sittwe Township.

The primary reasons why IDPs are still unable to return to their homes are the presence of junta troops in and around their villages, and fears of renewed fighting and landmines, as well as the lack of security guarantees.

More than 30 villages such as Thaluchaung, Tewa, Likway, Ngasinyainekaing and Chinmawuntaung are located along the upper reaches of the Yoe Creek. Ethnic Arakanese, Mro and Khami people live in the area, and mainly engage in farming.