Muslim man shot near clashes in Buthidaung Township
05 Feb 2020
A 30-year-old Muslim man from Sin Thay Pyin village in Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, was shot at about 8 a.m. on February 5, according to the victim’s family.
05 Feb 2020
A 30-year-old Muslim man from Sin Thay Pyin village in Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, was shot at about 8 a.m. on February 5, according to the victim’s family.
04 Feb 2020
An Ann Township resident charged under Myanmar’s counter-terrorism law was acquitted by the Kyaukphyu District Court and released on February 4.
04 Feb 2020
Nearly 60 people from Kalachaung and Manyin Taung villages in Rathedaung Township have been pinned down by fighting while other residents have fled the clashes, which broke out in an area between the two villages on the evening of February 2.
04 Feb 2020
Internet access has again been blocked in five townships of western Myanmar, just over a month after parliamentarians and activists demonstrated against the government and called on it to restore online connectivity in four Arakan State townships where a shutdown has been in place since June last year.
03 Feb 2020
An explosive remnant of war killed a teenage boy and seriously injured a woman when the ordnance blew up at a village in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, on February 2.
03 Feb 2020
Artillery and small arms fire killed a mother and injured three men on the morning of February 3 in Kyauktaw town. Daw Hla Hla Yi, the wife of U Kyaw Thein Tun, said her husband was shot by Tatmadaw soldiers who had set up a temporary camp near the town’s Mahar Kankyishin Pagoda.
03 Feb 2020
Three young men were attacked with knives and sticks by a group of intoxicated individuals at around 2 p.m. on February 1 near Latma, a Muslim village in Arakan State’s Minbya Township, village administrator U Maung Thein Hlaing told DMG.
03 Feb 2020
A 28-year-old primary school teacher who works at Panetaw Kontan village in Rathedaung Township was injured when she was struck by a stray bullet at 3:30 p.m. on February 3, U Tun Hla Maung, the injured woman’s father, told DMG.
02 Feb 2020
An artillery shell landed in Pyane Daw village of Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township at about 2 p.m. on February 1, injuring three members of a family there, the abbot of the village monastery told DMG.
02 Feb 2020
A resident of Ngasan Baw village in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township was killed on the spot when he stepped on a landmine at around 2:30 p.m. on February 2 while searching for his cattle, according to Yaybote village administrator U Maung Wai Thein.
01 Feb 2020
The sound of gunfire, a frequent occurrence in Mrauk-U Township for nearly a year, has not been heard there since a final proposal to designate the former Arakan’s capital, Mrauk-U a UNESCO World Heritage Site was submitted on January 27, residents said.
01 Feb 2020
A 20-year-old resident of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township who recently returned from China and was hospitalized with illness less than a week later is not being treated as a coronavirus case, Sittwe General Hospital’s Medical Superintendent Dr. Tun Tun Win told DMG.
01 Feb 2020
Ma Nilarpala, one of its female Hindu residents, told DMG the village is home to more than 1,000 people across 148 households. A single well in the village is insufficient to meet the residents’ needs, she said.
01 Feb 2020
After a Tatmadaw column of more than 100 soldiers left the village, a clash broke out at about 10 a.m. among the hills and fields of an area about a half mile from the village, said a villager who asked not to be named for security reasons.
31 Jan 2020
Citing the poor condition of the Kamar Chaung Bridge along Kyunpat Road in Manaung Township, Arakan State, residents there are requesting that a new bridge be built. They say the existing bridge, used by some 30 villages on the island, has fallen into disrepair beyond salvaging.
31 Jan 2020
Displaced civilians have continued to arrive at the Sa Nyin IDP camp outside the Myebon Township village of the same name, despite a military directive ordering that the camp be dismantled and its inhabitants moved elsewhere.
31 Jan 2020
Some IDP camps in remote parts of northern Arakan State are reporting food shortages due to lack of aid deliveries, according to officials at the camps.
31 Jan 2020
Amid concerns of a measles outbreak at a village in Arakan State’s Ann Township, a local administrator told DMG on January 31 that more than 30 children out of over 70 showing signs of illness have recovered after receiving medical treatment.
30 Jan 2020
The Arakan State government has said that one-way traffic flow will be introduced on some roads in Sittwe to reduce congestion and improve road safety.
30 Jan 2020
Sittwe’s Traffic Police Force has confirmed that it is offering leniency to motorcycles with unregistered passenger carriages, which have been allowed to ply certain roads with authorities’ understanding in parts of the Arakan State capital.