Fertiliser prices have tripled in Arakan State since last year, making it difficult for local farmers to grow paddy. 

Forty percent of property on sale at Shwe Yai new city project between Shwe Ya Kyaing, Ma Kyay Ngu and Chan Thar villages near Gwa Township, Arakan State, has been sold, according to Property Link Co, the organiser of the property expo for the project. 

At least 209 people have been given life imprisonment or death sentences for their anti-regime activities since the coup last year, according to Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar), a Myanmar-based political research institute. 

The Arakan State Education Office under Myanmar’s military regime said it would take action against teachers who failed to show up at schools on June 2 under the Civil Service Personnel Law.

Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State are acutely short of food supplies as the military regime is only providing a small amount and donations from individual and organisational actors have dwindled. 

The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) will conduct a field survey of Mrauk-U in September, following Myanmar’s December 2021 submission of a final proposal seeking to designate the ancient Arakanese city as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

The families of a man and a woman in Kyaukphyu who are being investigated by the Myanmar military on suspicion of raising funds for the Arakan Army (AA) have not been allowed to meet with the detained duo since their arrest last month, according to family members. 

More than one-third of permitted offshore fishing trawlers based out of Kyaukphyu have been forced to suspend their operations due to soaring fuel prices, according to the Kyaukphyu District Fisheries Department and local commercial fishermen. 

Filling stations are running out of stocks in Sittwe and other Arakan State townships, and fuel prices continue to rise, according to residents. 

The bodies of two brothers who drowned on Saturday in Kyaukphyu’s Thampan Chaung ward were recovered on Sunday morning, according to the township Red Cross Society. 

A man from Chin State’s Paletwa Township was reportedly detained by the Myanmar military on Saturday night, according to locals. 

More than 19,000 people have been displaced by clashes in Tanintharyi Region, according to humanitarian groups helping the internally displaced people (IDPs). 

Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Chin State’s Paletwa town are struggling with soaring food prices due to rising tensions between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA), according to displacement camp managers. 

Kinship gatherings are being celebrated on a grand scale in Konbaung village, part of Arakan State’s Ramree Township, from June 4-5, a second consecutive year for the long-running tradition, which was forgone in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Memorial services to commemorate the 1977 death of former Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) Chairman Khaing Moe Lun were held in the Arakan State’s capital Sittwe, on the Myanmar-India border and the Arakan State-Bangladesh border on Saturday morning. 

U Thar Tun Aung, the administrator of Abaung Thar village, Chin State, who was taken by the Myanmar military after regime forces clashed with the Arakan Army (AA) last month, has not been released since his arrest more than a week ago, according to locals. 

The road linking Angumaw from Rathedaung with Buthidaung has been recently damaged by continuous rain, creating inconveniences for travellers and other drivers. 

A local was killed and two others were wounded on Thursday when the Myanmar military fired artillery shells into villages near Loilemlay, a town on the Shan-Kayah states border, according to a local source. 

A court postponed the latest hearing in the case of six Taungup residents who were arrested and charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law in connection with the Arakan Army (AA) due to the absence of prosecution witnesses, according to a lawyer involved.