Electricity supply to storm-hit townships will continue to improve next month, according to the junta’s Arakan State Administration Council (ASAC).

“Innocent people dare not sleep well at night as the regime keeps an eye on those who criticise [it] and makes arrests,”

Many Arakan State residents who face political charges continue to suffer as courts repeatedly postpone verdicts, according to family members of the defendants and their lawyers.

A basic education high school in Htolwiwa Village in Bago Region’s Taungoo was forced to close after three female students were wounded by an artillery shell that landed near the school.

As of June 12, a total of 21,164 households received food supplies and 51,942 households were provided with shelters, while 199,609 households needed food items and 169,206 households were in need of shelter assistance.

About 60 Muslim children under the age of 5 living in Hnget Chaung internally displaced person (IDP) camp in Pauktaw Township, Arakan State, are reportedly suffering from skin disease.

More than 800 of some 900 communications base stations damaged by Cyclone Mocha in Arakan State have been repaired so far, according to Myanmar’s military regime.

Myanmar’s military regime has increased the price of corn export licences, and businessmen engaged in the corn industry say the move will negatively affect corn growers.

According to data compiled by the NLD Human Rights Documentation Team (NLD-HRDT), 93 members of the NLD, including two MPs, have been killed since the coup, Tuesday’s statement said.

Businesses in the Arakan State capital Sittwe that need ice are facing difficulties as ice plants there were damaged by Cyclone Mocha, which hit the state with destructive force on May 14.

The Arakan State Agricultural Development Bank will help storm-hit farmers upon request, according to manager U Ba Kyaw Sein.

A resident of Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township jailed on suspicion of having ties to the Arakan Army (AA) was released from Sittwe Prison on Tuesday after completing his sentence.

The fishing village along the coast of the Bay of Bengal is home to around 2,000 people. Nearly 420 houses out of about 450 in the village were destroyed by Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall over Arakan State on May 14.

With the rainy season setting in, people affected by Cyclone Mocha in Arakan State are having difficulties rebuilding their damaged homes due to a scarcity of bamboo.

A fire at a local bazaar in Dar Paing Muslim Village, part of Arakan State’s Sittwe Township, on Monday engulfed 12 stalls, according to stall owners.

One bag of djenkol beans produced in Arakan State was K50,000 in the past, but one bag of djenkol beans from Yangon is selling for K120,000, said Daw Aye Kyawt, a fruit vendor in Sittwe’s Myoma Market.

“We sell rice for Arakan people who are having a hard time due to the storm. We are selling without taking any profit. We only sell to consumers and not to retailers,”

Cases of diarrhoea are on the rise in Arakan State townships such as Pauktaw, Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw, Rathedaung and Maungdaw.

The shutdown of oil wells in Mandalay, Magway and Sagaing regions has left more than 300,000 people jobless, according to local businessmen involved in the industry.