Some police have previously been positioned in the compound of the pagoda for security, the Tatmadaw troop has been there about a month, said Sayardaw Bhaddanta Thaw Pa Na, chair of Kyauktaw Township Sangha Nayaka Committee.

The continuing hostilities between the Tatmadaw and the AA have been intensified in Minbya Township, the number of refugees has reached 5000 at eight IDP camps.

Tatmadaw troops reportedly forced villagers who have been displaced by the fighting at a mountain range in Minbya Township to return home and obstructed their journey before they reached their respective homes.

A primary school teacher working in Pyin Chaung village, Buthidaung Township, has been detained by the Tatmadaw yesterday morning.

“We have to stop collecting funds at the moment because we have not been granted a permit to collect donations for IDP, said Daw Phyu Phyu Than, secretary of the Arakan Alin Daga Activists’ Group.

The Arakan Army denies the Tatmadaw’s claim that it seized a training camp of the AA located 2000 meters west of Chay Yar Daw village during regional clearance operations in Sittwe Township.

Fighting between the Tatmadaw and the AA in Arakan State recently broke out near Yangon-Sittwe road, which decreased the number of travelers, and this makes passenger buses and venders near bus stations face troubles to run their business.

Pyithu Hluttaw representative U Oo Tun Win asked in the Pyithu Hluttaw parliament session on 2 August if the Tatamadaw has a plan to return farmland to farmers in Kyauktaw Township.

The Ministry of Information should help to build a cinema in Arakan State’s capital Sittwe, Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Mruak-U constituency U Oo Hla Saw said in a parliament session.

It is a very worrying time for local residents because the Tatmadaw and the AA have currently fought fiercely on a daily basis in northern Arakan State.

Since the Tatmadaw began shooting heavy weapon from Mt. Kyein Taung in Minbya Township, local residents have been concerned artillery shells landing into their village.

The number of children with dengue fever admitted to the Maungdaw hospital has reached 60 in July and two of them died, according to the Maungdaw Township hospital.

Khaing Thukha said that the clashes on 1 and 2 August claimed 59 soldiers from the Tatmadaw and injured many soldiers while only three AA members received wounds and trivial injuries.

Boatmen in Sittwe who depend on the capital’s market for transporting goods for vendors and buyers now lack sufficient space on loading dock after the regional government had developed land plots for projects in cooperation with the BXT company along the river bank.

The High Court of Arakan State agreed to change the venue of Lekka villagers’ case from Mrauk-U district court to Sittwe district court, according to the Thazin Legal Aid Group.

Ma Oo Than Nwe received a bullet wound in her thigh while she was hiding in her house with her family when they heard the sound of gunfire near the village this afternoon at about 1p.m,

The shooting took place on a bridge connecting Ponnagyun and Sittwe Townships at Min Chaung creek. A 26-year-old man identified as Ko Chit Thu Aung was shot on 1 August, at about 11 p.m. and died at the spot.

Women from Arakan State lack job opportunities in the region, and there’s an increase in the the number of Arakanese women working abroad which has left them vulnerable to potential risks and dangers.

The Arakan State government hopes to open the Kanyin Chaung economic zone, developed in Maungdaw Township, by the end of 2019, Arakan State Municipal Affairs minister said.