"My brother and his friend were on a motorcycle when they were hit by a vehicle from the  Engineering Company. The driver of the vehicle was trying to overtake another car on the road," said U Aung Than Win, elder brother of Maung Win Htay.

“We can be called the Arakan Army in English, but it can be called Arakan Tat Taw, omitting the Myanmar phrase “ma” from the previous name,” the AA’s chief said.

A soldier who was charged with attempted rape of a village woman in Buthidaung Township on Sunday afternoon has been put on trial, the Office of the Commander-in-Chief announced.

The ongoing conflict in Rakhine State is an important issue for both Rakhine State and the Union, said Amyotha Hluttaw deputy speaker U Aye Tha Aung, chairperson of the Supporting Committee...

“We cannot perform plays in the northern part of Rakhine State because of battles and the curfew order. We have to avoid volatile locations. So, performing our vocation has become problematic. Furthermore, no one is willing to encourage us to entertain,”

A soldier from the Tatmadaw tried to rape a mother of a 5 year-old-son while she was in a vegetable plantation near her village in Buthidaung Township on April 7.

A man’s body tied to a rock was discovered at a river bank in Minbya Township on Sunday morning, according to local residents.

A villager from Si Taung said that they want go home because of insufficient accommodations, food, water, education, health and safety in the area they are taking shelter at.

On April 6, one charity group was stopped by local police in Sittwe because they collected funds without permission.

A youth charity group that is collecting funds and donations for war refugees in a market in Sittwe was stopped by local police this morning.

“First they dropped three bombs and three other bombs were dropped at another target. Then they came back and dropped three bombs again. There was a total of three bombing raids. Everybody ran down into the creek ......

The State education office has circulated the instructions to district and township education offices to convey the state cabinet’s directives to all basic education schools.

According to the orders of the Rakhine State government, local residents are told not to go outside between 9 p.m and 5 a.m as of April 2 in the five townships.

Unfortunately, the commission’s investigation process has been impeded by the ongoing battles so the commission cannot make a complete appraisal of damages resulting from attacks, U Tun Aung Kyaw told the DMG.

he Tatmadaw’s bombardment on Wednesday near the Sai Din mountain range in Buthidaung Township claimed 11 Bengali Muslim workers and 13 others were injured, Abu Phway Yaw, an official from the Sai Din

The Tatmadaw detained two monks from Ponnagyun and Mrauk-U townships and three people from Ponnagyun Township on April 1 for questioning regarding associations with the AA,

While they were settling on a big slab of rock near Sai Din creek, they were hit by bombs at about 2 p.m on Wednesday.

The Development Media Group has received a threatening letter sent from the email address “myochit.tatmadaw@gmail.com” very early this morning.

The Rakhine State Disaster Relief Committee (in Yangon) on Monday donated K24 million to IDPs in Minbya, Mrauk-U, Kyauktaw, Ponnagyun, Buthidaung and Rathedaung Townships.