Rathedaung local taken as guide
23 Aug 2019
A local resident from Rathedaung Township was taken by a military troop as a guide on 21 August, and he has not returned home yet, villagers said.
23 Aug 2019
A local resident from Rathedaung Township was taken by a military troop as a guide on 21 August, and he has not returned home yet, villagers said.
22 Aug 2019
The directorate is going to construct an office building on the plot in Sittwe city’s Set Yone Zu Ward and released notification on 7 August to remove 18 houses from the plot.
22 Aug 2019
Internally displaced persons in Tin Nyo IDP camp, Mrauk U, are facing food shortages because the government has stopped rice deliveries from the International Committee of the Red Cross, camp official U Soe Naing said.
22 Aug 2019
Although the government has set up the repatriation camp at Taung Pyo Let Wae town in Maungdaw Township, no people returned to Myanmar from Bangladesh on August 22.
22 Aug 2019
Over 500 vendors from Sittwe’s Myoma market are going to be relocated to the New Town project, according to the office of the City Development Committee in Sittwe Township.
21 Aug 2019
At the moment, the government has not started to provide help to more than 3,000 people stuck in Phon Thar Chaung area, and social organizations also aren’t allowed to go there and help.
21 Aug 2019
As many as 10,000 units of the vaccine against the H1N1 has been allocated for Arakan State and it is insufficient for the region, said Dr Soe Win Paing, assistant director of the Department of Public Health in Arakan State.
21 Aug 2019
Journalists are not restricted to access information in Arakan State’s conflicted areas but journalists are limited when attempting to travel to “hotspots” because of safety risks, said Major General Aung Thu, deputy minister for Home Affairs.
21 Aug 2019
Muslims who fled from Myanmar and are living in the IDP camps in Bangladesh are going to wage a demonstration on 25 August for the two year anniversary of being displaced from their homes.
21 Aug 2019
Displaced people from Myanmar who fled to Bangladesh are going to be accepted at the reception center in Taung Pyo Let Wae town in Maungdaw Township on 22 August, said U Soe Aung, administrator of Maungdaw district.
21 Aug 2019
Author Maung Maung Soe, an observer of ethnic affairs, told media that military columns entered and checked villages with the suspicion that members of the AA are pretending to be villagers, and these checks prompted an increase in the number of IDPs in Arakan State.
21 Aug 2019
Myanmar traders have been given lower prices when they cannot go to Bangladesh to seek new markets due to the entry ban while traders from Bangladesh cannot come and see goods in Myanmar, said Ko To Phate, a trader from Maungdaw town.
20 Aug 2019
The incident occurred at about 10 p.m. Sergeant Hla Tun from No. 537 Regiment in Rathedaung Township was killed and his wife was hit by a piece of shrapnel and sent to hospital.
20 Aug 2019
The head of Kyauktaw Township police was stabbed on the evening of 19 August, he received severe injuries and was treated at Sittwe General Hospital.
20 Aug 2019
A police convoy struck explosive devices on the morning of 20 August in Ponnagyun Township, killing a police captain and injuring others, according to local sources.
19 Aug 2019
“It was said that the IDP camps will be built before rainy season. The rainy season will end soon. So, their reply to the proposal was an empty one. We must say the project cannot be carried out in the allotted time,” the regional lawmaker said.
19 Aug 2019
Arakanese people were required to apply for a permit from authorities to celebrate the event, so their enthusiasm for the occasion waned.
19 Aug 2019
“IDP students cannot study regularly like other students. They have shorter class time so they cannot complete the curriculum on time. This could cause them trouble in the future”
18 Aug 2019
The recent attack by the three members of the Northern Alliance on police stations and the Defence Services Technological Academy in Pyin Oo Lwin is considered a terrorist act and has much affected peace process, said U Zaw Htay, spokesperson of the President Office.
18 Aug 2019
Local militia units have recently been found at the front lines of conflict areas between the Myanmar Army and the three ethnic armed groups, the three members of Northern Alliance said in its warning letter released.