Two suspects held for attacking Navy boat
20 Jul 2019
Two suspects are on trial for attacking the Myanmar Navy’s anchored tugboat on 22 June in the capital Sittwe.
20 Jul 2019
Two suspects are on trial for attacking the Myanmar Navy’s anchored tugboat on 22 June in the capital Sittwe.
20 Jul 2019
Author Thaung Wai Oo, who penned the book titled “Battles the AA Fought in Arakan State and History of the AA”, officially apologized to Amyotha Hluttaw MP Daw Htoo May through state-owned media on 20 July for including erroneous information about her in the book.
20 Jul 2019
An activists’ group has been interrogated by police yesterday for collecting funds in Sittwe to provide for IDPs in Arakan State.
20 Jul 2019
The Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army locked horns times in three townships in Arakan State and one township in Chin State on 19 July, Martyr’s Day, according to the AA’s spokesperson Khaing Thukha.
20 Jul 2019
A legislator urges the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) to conduct field inspections regarding Arakanese villagers that were killed in custody during detention under suspicion of involvement with the Arakan Army.
20 Jul 2019
Local residents from Pauk Tu Taung village in Myebon Township, Arakan State, have been concerned about their safety when pieces of shrapnel landed in their village yesterday morning at about 9 a.m.
19 Jul 2019
The Arakan State Students’ Union demanded to stop wrongfully arrests and torture of students and civilians in their eleven-point statement released after their annual conference held in Thandwe in Arakan State for two days on 13 and 14 July.
19 Jul 2019
The Sittwe district court cannot begin a legal trial against twelve villagers and five top leaders from the Arakan Army under the Counter-Terrorism law because the arrest warrant isn’t approved, Daw Aye Nu Sein, lawyer for the case, told the DMG.
19 Jul 2019
The Mrauk-U Princess Hotel has been closed due to the decline of visitors to the ancient city of Mrauk-U because of the ongoing clashes between the Tatmadaw and the AA in Mrauk-U Township and other townships in northern Arakan State.
19 Jul 2019
About 100 people from conflicted affected villages such as Nwa Yone Daung, Oo Yin Tha and San Go Daung villages have been stranded since new clashes between the Tatmadaw and the AA erupted a couple days ago.
18 Jul 2019
The Arakan National Party (ANP) released a statement yesterday requesting the government to issue factual information in a timely fashion regarding the case of leaders of the Arakan Association (Singapore) who were deported from Singapore.
18 Jul 2019
A landmine was found on the second floor in the south-east section of Nanyargone (old palace site) located in the ancient city Mrauk-U, Arakan State, according to local residents.
18 Jul 2019
A woman from Nga Pyaw Chaung village in Kyauktaw Township was accidentally stepped a landmine yesterday afternoon and was sent to Kyauktaw hospital, according to administrator of the village.
18 Jul 2019
Since floods hit some townships in Arakan State recently, nearly 70,000 acres of farmland in Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Ponnagyun and Minbya townships were destroyed, according to figures of the Arakan State Farmers’ Union.
18 Jul 2019
Flooding has occurred in Mrauk-U, Minbya and Kyauktaw townships in Arakan State for six days as of 10 July, there are about 100,000 people affected by the flooding due to insufficient preparedness of the government.
18 Jul 2019
The urgent proposal to immediately restore Internet access to nine townships in Arakan and Chin States was rejected in the NLD-dominated Pyithu Hluttaw yesterday.
18 Jul 2019
The Pagoda is located in Kyet Zay ward in Mrauk-U town, the small stupa was hit by an artillery shell during a previous attack in Mrauk-U. The stupa developed a crack and after rainwater had seeped into it the stupa collapsed.
17 Jul 2019
Five people from Ponnagyun Township have been arrested on 15 July for suspicion of having ties with the Arakan Army (AA).
17 Jul 2019
The Arakan Army released a statement yesterday denouncing the statement of the Tatmadaw alleging the AA of running away after starting fires in Nwa Yon Taung village in Buthidaung Township.
17 Jul 2019
About 150 people held a protest in front of the Singapore and Myanmar Embassies in Washington DC in the U.S.A on 15 July as a move to object the actions of the Singaporean government.