A surge in the all-in cost of college has posed a challenge to distance learners in Arakan State this year. Not only tuition fees but also off-campus living expenses have significantly increased, students say.

Myanmar’s military regime has taken in billions of kyats from donors in the aftermath of Cyclone Mocha, according to junta spokesman Major-General Zaw Min Tun.

Four Muslims from Arakan State’s Sittwe Township have been trafficked after they were lured by false promises of jobs, according to family members.

As the school cannot hire the teachers it needs, the students are struggling to pursue their education, said Venerable Vasudeva, presiding monk of the monastic school.

There are 128 people in Arakan State who were charged under Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act or Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, according to a DMG tally.

Ninety-five percent of basic education schools and higher education facilities, and 94 percent of healthcare facilities have been repaired, said the junta spokesman.

The export value of Myanmar teak and timber has declined due to sanctions from the United States and European nations in response to the February 2021 military coup.

According to the new order, anyone living in Myanmar can only legally possess a maximum US$10,000 in cash for a maximum period of six months.

The pigs died within three days after suffering from fever, lack of appetite, diarrhoea and coughing, and at least 20 pigs died in each affected village, according to local residents.

The woman has been identified as 25-year-old Ma Yu Yu Khaing, who went missing while returning home from farmlands at about 9 a.m. on August 18, family members said.

UNOCHA Myanmar released the statement after the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Martin Griffiths, met with junta boss Min Aung Hlaing on August 15.

No matter what, humanitarians stand strong to support people in times of crisis, UNOCHA Myanmar’s statement said.

The Arakan State military council has not yet responded to a petition from eateries along the main beach in the Arakan State capital Sittwe who were told by the township municipal committee to vacate by August 26.

Some in-person and online clinics are giving fake Covid-19 vaccines illegally imported via Facebook pages, said FDA, which is under the Health Ministry.

“We are working to resume power supply, and we give priority to villages not far from town. It will take time to supply power back to remote villages,”

More than 500,000 acres of paddy fields were flooded in Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Minbya, Ponnagyun Buthidaung and Maungdaw townships, and over 7,000 people needed to be evacuated.

In the past, only elderly and middle-aged people came to the eye clinic, but now 30 percent of eye patients are children, said an official at the Shwe Garuna charity clinic in Sittwe. 

“Some people drown because they have to go by boat from one place to another due to poor road transportation,”

His visit came one day after he met junta boss Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw to discuss the provision of humanitarian assistance in Myanmar.