Ko Kyaw Zan Wai aka Ko Yin Hsot, a local man from Mrauk-U, Arakan State, was arrested on suspicion of having ties to the Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) and National Unity Government (NUG), Myanma Alinn, the junta-controlled state-owned newspaper, reported on September 6. 

There has been growing concern among residents after an explosion occurred near an old hospital east of Nandawyargon Field in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday.

Arakanese activists have lashed out at their ethnic Arakanese brethren serving in the regime’s administrative bodies, accusing them of failing to speak up for ordinary Arakanese people amid the renewed fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA).

The market exchange rate of Thai baht to Myanmar kyat in Kawthaung, Tanintharyi Region, on Monday nearly doubled the official rate set by the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM), as the kyat continues to perform poorly against other regional currencies and the US dollar.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for charity clinics that provide free medical treatment to sustain themselves over the long term due to the seemingly inexorable rise in drug prices in Myanmar.

Seventeen Muslims attempting to leave Arakan State for work opportunities in Malaysia were arrested by junta authorities in Gwa Township on Sunday. 

Food and shelter are urgently needed for more than 22,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Mon State’s Kyaikto Township, according to aid workers.

More than 6,600 people have been newly displaced by renewed fighting and rising military tensions over recent weeks in three Arakan State townships and Chin State’s Paletwa Township, according to volunteers helping those displaced. 

Shop owners at Mrauk-U’s central market have packed up their merchandise and moved to their homes after the township General Administration Department ordered them to close their shops, saying there are mines to be cleared at the market. 

A police officer shot dead a Muslim man in front of Police Battalion No. 36 near Bumay village in Arakan State’s Sittwe Township on Sunday morning.

The Myanmar military reportedly arrested a local man in Mrauk-U, Arakan State, on Sunday morning, hours after entering the town and indiscriminately opening fire.

The Arakan Army (AA) chief lashed out at Myanmar’s military regime via Twitter on Sunday, accusing the junta of “unleashing their dastardly playbook” on civilians in Mrauk-U, which has hosted some of the latest fighting between the military and Arakan Army. 

Nineteen Muslims were arrested near Dauntchaung village in Arakan State’s Gwa Township at around 11 p.m. on September 2, according to the township police station. 

Locals are criticising the recent extension of a long-running curfew order in Myebon Township, Arakan State. The ongoing curfew has been extended for another two months from September 2.

There were a total of 46 clashes between junta troops and an anti-regime coalition led by the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) in Kayah (Karenni) State in the second half of August, the Karenni resistance group reported on Thursday.

The Myanmar military carried out an air attack involving five helicopters in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, on Saturday as it attempted to retake control of an outpost near the Bangladeshi border that the Arakan Army (AA) seized earlier this week. 

Residents of Buywet Manhyo village in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township reportedly fled to nearby villages as junta troops entered their village on Friday morning. 

A junta court sentenced the country’s detained former State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to three more years in prison on Friday over alleged fraud in the 2020 general election, bringing her cumulative prison sentences since being arrested in February 2021 to 20 years so far, with more charges still pending.

Air attacks by Myanmar’s military regime have forced almost all 500 residents of Myeikwa village in Chin State’s Paletwa Township to flee to the Indian border.