Arakan State IDPs still awaiting aid promised by Japanese envoy
19 Mar 2022
Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State have yet to receive cash assistance pledged last year by the Tokyo-based Nippon Foundation.
19 Mar 2022
Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State have yet to receive cash assistance pledged last year by the Tokyo-based Nippon Foundation.
19 Mar 2022
Local salt farmers in Arakan State say they need government-subsidised loans and other assistance to continue their business and improve salt quality.
19 Mar 2022
Rice prices, along with other basic commodity prices, have continued to rise in Arakan State since the military coup in February 2021, leaving many people struggling to make ends meet as the staple grain becomes increasingly unaffordable.
18 Mar 2022
Myanmar’s military regime has recently sent its troops to some parts of southern Arakan State, in what observers say appears to be an attempt to contain the growing influence of the Arakan Army (AA).
18 Mar 2022
The Arakan State military council has made it mandatory for shopkeepers at markets across Arakan State to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to continue their businesses.
18 Mar 2022
The Myanmar Rice Federation has said it will provide technical assistance and loans to rice millers and rice companies in Arakan State to generate electricity from their rice husks and to produce edible oil from its by-product, bran.
18 Mar 2022
Legal Clinic Myanmar (LCM), an organisation working to promote and strengthen the rule of law, democracy and human rights in the country, opened a labour support centre in Sittwe’s Kyaung Tet Lan ward on March 18 to address labour issues in Arakan State.
18 Mar 2022
The Sittwe Technological University Students’ Union issued a statement on March 17 officially declaring Arakanese as its official language.
17 Mar 2022
Many people in Arakan State’s Manaung Township are reverting to nipa palm leaves to roof their houses, according to local nipa leaf sellers.
17 Mar 2022
The eighth Tankhoe Saya Tun Literary Awards presentation will be held in the village of Tankhoe, the hometown of Saya Tun in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, on April 9.
17 Mar 2022
More than 100 local people displaced by fighting near the Mayan Chaung military checkpoint in Mon State’s Kyaikto Township earlier this week are in need of relief aid.
17 Mar 2022
More than 600 internally displaced people (IDPs) at a camp in a Ponnagyun Township industrial zone have reportedly been facing food shortages for some two months.
17 Mar 2022
The fate of eighteen villagers from Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township who were abducted by Myanmar military personnel two years ago is still unknown, according to family members.
17 Mar 2022
Ko Sein Chit and Ko Ye Naing Oo from Arakan State’s Thandwe Township, who have been accused of ties to the anti-regime People’s Defence Force (PDF), will be examined at a court hearing next week as the plaintiff and prosecution witnesses in the case have already been questioned, according to the defendants’ lawyer.
17 Mar 2022
The case against Ko Tin Tun Aung from Paletwa Township, Chin State, who was detained by the Myanmar military and is facing incitement charges, was examined for basis at a court hearing on March 17, according to family members.
12 Mar 2022
More than 300 people who were forcibly removed from squatter homes in the Arakan State capital Sittwe earlier this week are struggling to adjust to their new realities, with many homeless, hungry and lacking legitimate prospects for a roof over their heads.
12 Mar 2022
Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), has been ongoing along the Myawaddy-Kawkareik Asia Highway in Kayin State since Saturday morning.
12 Mar 2022
Charities are among the latest to suffer from rising fuel prices in Myanmar, with many free funeral service and ambulance providers having to spend more on funerals from their funds, according to charities based in Arakan State.
12 Mar 2022
Police have opened a case under immigration law against four Muslims detained at a checkpoint in Arakan State’s Ann Township on Friday.
12 Mar 2022
Locals in Paletwa Township, Chin State, are facing difficulties as the prices of basic commodities such as fuel, cooking oil and rice are soaring due to restrictions on the transportation of goods.