DMG Newsroom
14 August 2023, Rathedaung

Some road sections in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township were badly damaged by heavy rain, according to locals and drivers who have called on authorities to repair the affected roads as soon as possible.

The road through the Mayu mountains linking Zedi Pyin and Inn Din villages in the west of the township, the Agnumaw-Zedi Pyin-Buthidaung road east of the Mayu mountains, and the Ponnagyun-Rathedaung road section in the east of Rathedaung were damaged...

Hundreds of cartons of illegal, Chinese-made ORIS cigarettes worth K65 million were seized from a six-wheeled vehicle driving toward Maungdaw along the Maungdaw-Angumaw road on August 13,

According to the AA, a total of 18,072 houses were flooded in Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Minbya, Myebon, Buthidaung, Maungdaw, Taungup and Thandwe townships due to persistent rains since July 31. Six people were killed in the floods, it said.

The notice warns that the shops will be bulldozed if their owners fail to remove them by the deadline, and that legal action will be taken against noncompliant shop owners.

The Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) has reportedly donated K69.3 million to storm victims in Arakan State through the Arakan State Rice Millers Association.

Members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) burned a vehicle on the road section between Laungdon and Kyeinchaung villages in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, and abducted two Muslim men,

The Arakan Army provided 70 bags of rice and the military council supplied nine sacks of rice to flood-hit Myatanzaung IDP camp in Mrauk-U on August 10.

The cost of direct damages to buildings, infrastructure and agriculture from Cyclone Mocha in Myanmar’s Arakan and Chin states and Sagaing, Magwe and Mandalay regions is estimated at US$2.24 billion, the World Bank said in a report.

The Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar) said on August 11 that the military junta’s election process is being supported by China.

According to the Arakan Farmers Union, floods destroyed some 15,000 acres of paddy fields in Kyauktaw, some 10,000 acres in Mrauk-U and some 25,000 acres in Minbya.

Locals want two collapsed bridges on the Maungdaw-Kyeinchaung-Bandoola road in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, to be repaired as soon as possible.

Heavy rains have caused damage along the Maungdaw-Angumaw road, and a road section between Kainggyi Village and Udaung Village is particularly badly damaged, residents said.

The junta-controlled Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation Ministry’s fertiliser committee has deregistered 71 fertiliser brands imported into Myanmar.

The policy of the Arakan Students Union is to protect the interests of Arakanese people, ensure genuine justice and peace, introduce federal democratic education, protect the rights of students, ....

The graduated ethnic language teachers said that they have attended a 25-day primary teacher training course at Kyaukphyu Education College, but they have not yet been appointed as permanent staff.

Two China-Myanmar joint ventures have been granted permission to invest in three agricultural projects in Kachin State, northern Myanmar, according to the state investment committee.

“We don’t need to follow the NCA now, because [the regime] has trampled over the basic principles, which is the heart of the NCA,” KNU general secretary Padoh Saw Tar Doh Mu told

At least 370 shelters in some camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U townships were destroyed by flooding triggered by continuous rains, 

Demand for seawater shrimp from Kyaukphyu, Thandwe, Taungup, Gwa and Sittwe that is shipped to Yangon has been falling since last month, shrimp traders said.