Residents from about 50 villages in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu and Ann townships who earn their living by fishing are experiencing difficulties due to pollution in the Thanzit and Laungchaung rivers.

A Manaung Township resident is facing a lawsuit under Section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law for a Facebook post criticising Amyotha Hluttaw lawmaker U Kyaw Than over a question that the MP posed to parliament last month.

With the government no longer providing any food to people under facility quarantine in Ann Township, Arakan State, medical staff are having to collect donations from philanthropic groups and among the general public, residents said. 

A driver and his coworker were injured when their passenger car was fired upon in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, on August 6, according to the victims.

To date only two basic education high schools have been able to reopen in Paletwa Township, Chin State, though there are plans to reopen 15 schools for the 2020-2021 academic year, according to the office of the township education officer. 

Total acreage of unploughed fields in Arakan State this year is expected to exceed the 2019 figure due to ongoing fighting in the state’s north, according to U Kyaw Zan, chair of the Arakan State Farmers’ Union.

With the consequential exception of the Arakan Army, non-signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement will be invited to the next iteration of the 21^st Century Panglong Conference, presidential spokesman U Zaw Htay has said. 

The in-charges of some camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in the town of Rathedaung, Arakan State, are concerned about the potential for diarrhea and influenza outbreaks due to inadequate toilet facilities.

Family members are worried about two brothers from Yaw Chaung (Ywathayar) village in Arakan State’s Myebon Township who went missing 10 months ago.

Two Muslim men were shot, with one dying, near Atwin Myaung village in Sittwe Township on August 3, according to family members.

The government said it would disburse K100 billion (US$73 million) loans to entrepreneurs across Myanmar to help them resume their coronavirus-hit businesses amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will be the second of its kind.

The Ministry of Education has announced that it will release 2020 matriculation exam results via its website on August 9. 

The Arakan Army detained six security personnel and confiscated weapons after the ethnic armed group clashed with their units near Kyaukpandu village in Maungdaw Township on August 3, the AA said in a statement on August 4.

At least 20 civilians have gone missing in Paletwa Township, Chin State, amid armed conflict in the region, said Salai Kyaw Aung, secretary of the Chin IDP Support Committee.

Security and police personnel, as well as an immigration officer, were killed as fighting flared in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township this week.

A teenage girl was killed in a landmine explosion near a military checkpoint in Ann Township’s Kazu Kaing village on August 3, according to a local administrator and residents.

Six women from the Arakan National Party are scheduled to contest the upcoming 2020 general election, according to the candidate lineup unveiled by the ANP on August 2.

Mobile internet connectivity that had been cut off for more than a year in seven Arakan State townships and Paletwa Township, Chin State, was restored on August 1, according to residents of the affected townships.

At least seven civilians were killed and 17 were wounded in western Myanmar last month due to clashes between the military and the Arakan Army, according to reporting compiled by DMG.