Two of six prisoners who were being transferred from Taungup Township to Thandwe Prison in Arakan State have tested positive for COVID-19, Thandwe Hospital Superintendent Dr. Ye Win Tun told DMG. 

Donors are still needed for more than 1,300 students studying at the Palay (Pearl) Yadana monastic education school in Thandwe Township, Arakan State. 

A 49-year-old woman from Nga Pyaw Chaung village in Kyauktaw Township was injured when she stepped on a landmine while heading to the jungle to harvest bamboo shoots.

Officials from the Arakan State military council say there is a plan to ensure that there is no shortage of food in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State. 

The township electrical engineer’s office in Chin State’s Paletwa Township said it had initially announced that electricity, which is currently being distributed to households in downtown Paletwa from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily, would be temporarily cut off due to a shortage of fuel. However, under changed circumstances there will be no power outage as diesel was expected to arrive on Monday, he added.  

Kone Bwe village in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township has been experiencing riverbank erosion for decades, according to locals.

Some camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) are facing housing difficulties due to incessant rains in Arakan State, according to camp officials.

Basic education primary, middle and high schools in Paletwa Township, Chin State, have been closed since June 9 for an indefinite period of time as Covid-19 has spread in the area, according to the township education office.

A weekly mobile library campaign is being held in Arakan State’s Sittwe, Minbya, Rathedaung, Kanhtaukgyi and Ramree towns to foster greater interest in literature among young people.

Two staff from the Maungdaw District General Administration Department in Arakan State tested positive for COVID-19 on June 20.

Dr. Soe Win Paing, assistant director of the Arakan State Health Department, has warned the public to be mindful of the continuing threat posed by the coronavirus. 

Four embassies in Yangon and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) used International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict on June 19 “to unequivocally condemn acts of sexual violence by all armed actors, and those associated with them, in Myanmar.” 

Some 20 people were injured in a three-vehicle crash near Kin Taung and Pauk Pyin villages in Taungup Township, Arakan State, on June 18.

Four Arakanese students behind bars for months while on trial for their anti-war activism are struggling to eat what they say are substandard meals being provided to them at Sittwe Prison. 

Seven people including the chairman of a philanthropic organisation in Taungup, Arakan State, are currently being questioned following their arrest earlier this month, according to the Arakan State Administration Council. 

A resident of Lamu village-tract in Arakan State’s Taungup Township was abducted by two uniformed military personnel and two plainclothes policemen on June 18, according to family members of the detainee. 

The United Nations in Myanmar on Thursday expressed alarm at recent acts of violence that it says illustrate “a sharp deterioration of the human rights environment” across the country. 

Twenty-one cases brought under Myanmar’s Counter-Terrorism Law and involving allegedly illegal ties to the formerly terrorist-designated Arakan Army have been dropped since the ethnic armed group was de-listed, according to the Arakan State military council.  

The United League of Arakan (ULA) has sent a message of condolence to the late Venerable Tikkhindiya, who passed away at the Yadana Bodhi Monastery in Yangon’s Insein Township on June 14.