Woman hit by shrapnel in Kyauktaw, hospitalized in Sittwe due to injuries’ severity
03 Mar 2020
An artillery shell blast in Kyauktaw Township’s Shwe Pyi village on March 2 seriously wounded a woman there, according to the victim’s family.
03 Mar 2020
An artillery shell blast in Kyauktaw Township’s Shwe Pyi village on March 2 seriously wounded a woman there, according to the victim’s family.
03 Mar 2020
The Kaman National Progressive Party plans to speak with Union Minister for Ethnic Affairs Nai Thet Lwin in Nay Pyi Taw on March 5, seeking to get his backing for the designation of a “Kaman National Day,” the KNPP secretary told DMG.
03 Mar 2020
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) released a statement on March 2 urging the Myanmar government to allow anyone injured by conflict in Arakan State to travel freely in order to receive medical treatment, as conflict continues to plague the region.
03 Mar 2020
Three people, including an 80-year-old woman and a 10-year-old boy, were injured on March 3 in Arakan State when an artillery shell exploded in Pyaing Taing village, Kyauktaw Township, according to local villagers.
02 Mar 2020
The Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) has opened a branch office in the Arakan State capital Sittwe to facilitate reporting for anyone who has suffered human rights violations in the region.
02 Mar 2020
The Arakan National Party (ANP), Arakan State’s dominant ethnic political party, aims to stand for elections in other regions and states if the 2020 poll cannot be held in war-torn parts of Myanmar’s westernmost state, ANP Secretary U Khaing Pyi Soe told DMG.
02 Mar 2020
The Rakhine Ethnics Congress (REC) has released updated figures for the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State, with the new data showing the IDP tally to have surpassed 128,000.
02 Mar 2020
The bodies of three men out of 13 people who went missing after fighting took place near Myaung Bway village in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, were found on March 2, locals said.
29 Feb 2020
Regional election commission members last week held a two-day workshop on potential security challenges if the 2020 election is held in conflict-affected areas of Arakan State.
29 Feb 2020
Three civilians were killed and eight others were injured by artillery and small arms fire as two villages in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, were the latest to suffer from spillover of the ongoing conflict between the Tatmadaw and Arakan Army on February 29.
29 Feb 2020
A former village administrator was killed last week in Pan Zi Muslim village, Buthidaung Township, according to a member of the victim’s family.
28 Feb 2020
The event, jointly organized by BNI Multimedia Group and Development Media Group (DMG), was aimed at conveying the role of the media, helping media professionals review and assess the state of their industry, and identifying so-called “fake news” circulating in the social media sphere.
28 Feb 2020
Three people died after drinking a concoction of alcohol and coconut sap at Kapaingchaung village in Pauktaw Township, Arakan State, on February 27, said U Chan Tha, the village administrator.
28 Feb 2020
A woman was found dead in her home with her neck slashed in the Arakan State capital Sittwe’s Ohe Tan Ward, at about 11:30 a.m. on February 28.
28 Feb 2020
The closure of 21 examination centres amid conflict in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, has caused 489 students to miss the Grade 5 and Grade 9 testing periods, according to the Mrauk-U District education office.
28 Feb 2020
A Tatmadaw regiment intercepted a ferryboat commuting between Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township and Paletwa Township in Chin State and arrested six men on February 26, according to family members of the detainees.
28 Feb 2020
One woman was killed and four people were injured in a shooting-shelling incident in Minbya town, Arakan State, after the Tatmadaw clashed with Arakan Army (AA) troops nearby, according to family members of the victims.
27 Feb 2020
Two men were arrested for allegedly burning to death a man from Khone Baung village in Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township, deputy police officer Kyaw Zaw from the Kyaukphyu Myoma police station said.
27 Feb 2020
A passenger boat travelling to Kyauktaw from Paletwa in Chin State was fired upon at around 12:30 p.m. on February 27 and four people aboard the vessel were injured, according to passengers on the boat.
27 Feb 2020
A Muslim man was killed when he stepped on a landmine on the afternoon of February 26 as he was taking his cattle to graze near the Nyaung Chaung border police checkpoint in Buthidaung Township, northern Arakan State.