The Arakan State Forest Department will grow 390,000 perennial trees in the current monsoon season across the state’s 17 townships.

Local people in Tawphyarchaung, a remote area in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, are reportedly facing difficulties as relief items supplied by the junta and local organisations are not reaching the area, locals said.

Five ethnic signatories to the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) have agreed to hold a peace conference after holding talks with the junta’s National Solidarity and Peace Negotiation Committee from June 26-28 in Naypyitaw.

The cash donations contributed by movie stars, musicians, comedians and former Myanmar national team players were made at an event in Sittwe on June 28, the junta-controlled Myanmar Alinn newspaper reported.

Basic education schools in storm-hit northern Arakan State are struggling to teach a new curriculum to students from Grade 9 to Grade 12 as they have not yet received the relevant training.

The tourism industry in Arakan State has failed to thrive because successive governments have barely supported the industry, according to local residents and business owners.

Rural children in Arakan State are suffering from emotional trauma following the devastation wrought by Cyclone Mocha, according to organisations working on children’s mental health.

Muslims in Arakan State’s Sittwe, Buthidaung, Maungdaw, Pauktaw and Kyaukphyu townships celebrated Eid al-Adha on Thursday.

Two people were killed and 20 others were injured after a bridge on the Yangon-Mawlamyine-Myawaddy road in Bilin Township, Mon State, was targeted by an explosive device early Thursday morning,

A project by a rice seed nursery association to test out new varieties of rice seeds in Arakan State has proved successful so far.

The Popa langur (Trachypithecus popa), a species of monkey unique to Myanmar, is facing extinction due to loss of habitat and poaching, according to conservationists.

Ko Aye Win, a local man from Sittwe who was sentenced to 30 years in prison in connection with a series of bomb blasts in the Arakan State capital in 2018, was released from Sittwe Prison on Wednesday morning.

Since early June, Bangladesh has suspended imports of all products from Myanmar except ginger and garlic.

“Farmers who have power tillers have started ploughing their farms. Those without power tillers still can’t start. We have to hire power tillers and it is costly.”

Local people along the upper reaches of the Laymyo River in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township and Chin State’s Paletwa Township are reportedly in need of assistance to repair their damaged homes.

More than 300 people from over 50 households in Jaithar Village were forced to relocate their homes by the military on September 28, as the houses were built on a plot of land that the Myanmar military claims ownership of.

Students in storm-hit townships are being taught in temporary classrooms, monasteries and homes, said U Ba Htwee Sein, the Arakan State education director.

Pact Myanmar Microfinance, which has provided loans to over 2.3 million Myanmar people, has announced its exit from the military-ruled country, saying new regulations adopted by the military regime have made it impossible to continue operations in the Southeast Asian nation.

Temporary shelters damaged by Cyclone Mocha have not been repaired yet, and pregnant women and lactating mothers in the IDP camps are facing accommodation difficulties.