The displacement camp is located near the Sittwe-Yangon road in Ponnagyun Township’s Ganantaung Village. Camp officials said that there are few donors since the displacement camp is relatively new.

Among those detained were 75 males and 28 females, including some children under the age of 16. The detainees are from Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Buthidaung, Maungdaw and Sittwe townships.

One-hundred cameras and 100 underwater sensors will be set up along the shore of the Naf River this year, according to the Defence Research Forum-DefRes of Bangladesh.

A private firm, Tet Lan Co., has reportedly started a private garbage collection system to help clean up the Arakan State capital Sittwe.

Residents are worried that the fighting will intensify as the military continues to send reinforcements to the area.

A gender gap persists among Myanmar media, with fewer women being employed in ethnic media and fewer women’s voices being represented in media reports, according to journalists and women’s rights activists.

The Arakan State Health Department has urged locals to take freely available vaccines against elephantiasis as the disease is still found in the state.

Children and adults in Thae Khon Village, part of Arakan State’s Pauktaw Township, are suffering from diarrhoea and urinary tract infections that locals are blaming on the fact that the village has not had access to clean drinking water since a recent storm hit.

A Kyauktaw Township man who lost his right leg this week in a landmine blast is in need of financial assistance to treat his injuries.

University students say they are worried about a recent spate of robberies and looting targeting students near Sittwe University.

Junta-appointed Arakan State Chief Minister U Htein Lin urged local farmers in Arakan State to expand summer paddy cultivation, saying the state government would provide irrigation water by pumping from rivers.

The military regime sentenced about 30 members of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) to significant prison time, including at least one life sentence, during the two-year period since the coup in Myanmar, according to the student activist group.

The Thandwe Township Court has deferred ruling in a case against 12 detained residents until next week despite the fact that the court has heard both sides to completion, according to family members of the defendants.

Bangladeshi authorities are sending Muslim refugees displaced by fighting last month around Taungpyo Letyar, in Bangladesh’s Bandarban District, to the Kutupalong refugee camp.

A local man from Lanmadaw Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, was severely injured in a landmine explosion on Wednesday morning, according to family members.

Myanmar’s military regime earned about K 700 million from issuing licences to 5,746 motorbikes in Arakan State from September 28, 2022, to January 30, 2023, according to the Arakan State military council.

Sein Lan Si, a Mrauk-U-based environmental conservation group that is mainly engaged in environmental protection activities, aims to distribute and grow trees for free throughout Arakan State, and has been nurturing more than 20,000 saplings since January of this year.

A charitable foundation providing free vocational training for women as part of a women’s empowerment program in Arakan State is running into financial troubles.

The Chin State General Administration Department is registering internally displaced people (IDPs) at displacement camps in Paletwa Township who are wishing to return to their homes.