The Arakan State High Court on November 9 accepted the appeal of four Arakanese students who were sentenced to two years and six months in prison for an anti-war protest in 2020, according to a lawyer representing the defendants. 

The Arakan Liberation Party has called on the Arakan Army to immediately release one of its leading members, Khaing Aung Thein Htay, who has been held in the ethnic armed group’s custody for more than seven months. 

To promote a local tourism industry that was hard-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic and political instability, the Saung Oo Festival will be held at Ngapali Beach on November 14. 

A temporary bus parking lot will be built at Nandawyargone field in Mrauk-U town, Arakan State, according to the Mrauk-U Township Development Affairs Committee.

Many internally displaced people (IDPs) at IDP camps in Arakan State are reportedly suffering from the seasonal flu. 

Basic education schools in Arakan State and across most of the country, which were closed for more than three months due to the third wave of Covid-19, reopened in accordance with virus-related regulations.

Six people in Arakan State who allegedly cast ballots more than once in Myanmar’s general election on November 8, 2020, have been prosecuted, according to the state’s election subcommission and sources close to the accused. 

More than 300 internally displaced people (IDPs) who had been taking refuge in the town of Ann, Arakan State, returned home on November 6, according to a camp official.   

The Peace Process Steering Team (PPST), representing the 10 ethnic armed group signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), issued a statement on November 5 condemning military conduct since the February coup d’état, which the team said has targeted public property and religious buildings.  

An anticipated verdict in the long-running trial of more than 20 Lekka villagers in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township, who were charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law in 2019, went undelivered on Friday.

Most students at Arakan State’s largest monastic school, Palay Yadanar in Thandwe, Arakan State, have not yet received the Covid-19 vaccine, according to school officials.

Arakan State’s Sittwe border trade centre has processed goods worth about US$1.36 million in the approximately two weeks since it reopened, according to the Arakan State Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ASCCI), following an extended closure due to Covid-19.

A truck overturned near Taung Sauk village in Ann Township, Arakan State, on Friday morning, killing two men on board.

The Shwe Min Thar Foundation will provide for people with disabilities in Arakan State’s Sittwe and Ponnagyun townships with food and medicines for four months.

Two women and a 17-year-old girl in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township were arrested on suspicion of ties to the anti-regime People’s Defence Force (PDF) and were charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law on November 3. 

To curb rising palm oil prices in Arakan State, a total of 40,491 visses of the edible oil were bought under a state regime council plan, according to U Tin Aung Oo, chair of the Arakan State Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 

A pregnant woman in Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, has died of Covid-19 and multiple members of her family were also found to be infected with the virus, according to Dr. Saw Min Thein, medical superintendent of the township hospital. 

Recent pro-military rallies in Arakan State are raising eyebrows as hundreds of participants have attended the demonstrations, seemingly in contravention of Covid-19 regulations that limit the size of public gatherings to no more than 100 people.  

A letter has been sent to junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing seeking approval for the return of internally displaced people (IDPs) to Tinma village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, according to the village abbott.