The Myanmar military has made a series of arrests of locals in Paletwa Township, Chin State, where military tensions between junta troops and the Arakan Army (AA) have simmered in recent days, and another 100-household head was arrested on June 8. 

Students in Arakan State from 5 to 12 years old have been administered the Covid-19 vaccine since schools reopened on June 2, with 82,788 children having received their first dose as of June 8, according to the Arakan State Education Department. 

According to the Southern Monitor, which tracks conflict in Tanintharyi Region, fighting between junta troops and anti-regime forces in the region has left more than 50 homes damaged or destroyed by fire and 75 locals dead over the past nine and five months, respectively. 

A junta-appointed ward administrator was stabbed to death near an office of the township war veterans’ association in Ann, Arakan State, on Thursday morning, according to locals. 

There are more than 35,000 ethnic Mro people in Arakan State, and 75% of school-age children are not in school due to poverty and remote living circumstances, according to Mro youth organisations. 

Locals from Yaynan Dwein village in Kyaukphyu Township say the village faces annual flooding because a creek that flows through the village gets shallower year after year. 

Financial losses due to fires across Arakan State’s 17 townships totalled K93,234,700 in the five months from January to May of this year, according to the Arakan State Fire Services Department. 

Brigade 1 of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of Karen National Union (KNU), attacked a military convoy entering Kyaikto Township, Mon State, with landmines on June 7, according to a local source. 

Thai police have identified nine Arakanese people as suspects in the death of a Thai man in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, southern Thailand, near the Malaysian border, according to the Migrant Workers Rights Network (MWRN), a not-for-profit organisation working to promote the rights of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand. 

A new school building in Nyaung Chaung Thit village in Arakan State’s Ann Township has been closed and children are studying at an old school building under cover of umbrellas, according to the school building construction committee. 

A teacher was injured when the ceiling of the staffroom collapsed at a basic education high school in the village of Temauk, Taungup Township, on Tuesday. 

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.