Fighting between the Myanmar military and a coalition force led by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in the jade mining hub of Hpakant Township, Kachin State, is intensifying, with the number of local civilians killed and captured on the rise.

A regime airstrike on Mrauk-U, Arakan State, destroyed 42 houses last week, leaving dozens of families and more than 200 people currently struggling to find a place to live.

Myanmar's military regime has arrested 11 local residents after a bomb dropped by a drone landed and exploded near a school last week in Yinsae Village, part of Ayeyarwady's Region Laymyethna Township.

Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing has told the Chinese government that a railway and deep-sea port project connecting Kunming, China, to Kyaukpyu, Arakan State, are being implemented.

The Arakan Army (AA) coast guard continues to detain Bangladeshi fishermen who encroach by the hundreds into Arakan waters in the Bay of Bengal and Naf River estuary.

Nineteen civilians were killed and 34 injured in Myanmar military artillery shellings and aerial bombardments in Arakan State's Kyaukphyu and Mrauk-U townships during the two weeks from August 14 to 27.

The Rakhine Nationalities Party (RNP) headquarters was opened on August 28 in Kyaukphyu, one of three townships in Arakan State still controlled by Myanmar's military regime.

Some residents of Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U townships in Arakan State are fleeing their homes and migrating to India due to the threat of airstrikes by Myanmar's military regime.

Arakan Army (AA) coast guard forces recently apprehended five fishing boats and more than 30 Bangladeshi nationals for illegally entering Arakan waters, according to local residents.

The BNI-Myanmar Peace Monitor reports that of the 102 townships where Myanmar's military regime has announced that it will hold "phase 1" of the elections, more than 70 percent are experiencing military conflict.

The Lin Yaung Chi Foundation's free schools, which educate more than 2,000 displaced children across three townships in Arakan State, are facing a funding crisis.

The Thai government has reportedly decided to allow Myanmar refugees living long term in refugee camps in Thailand to work legally.

Another child and woman have succumbed to injuries they sustained in a junta airstrike on Daing Kyi Ward in Mrauk-U, bringing the death toll from the August 25 attack to 14.

The BNI-Myanmar Peace Monitor reports that Arakan State has had the highest number of civilian fatalities from military conflict across the country, making it one of the most dangerous regions for civilians.

A mourning ceremony was held on Monday to mark the eighth anniversary of the killing of Hindus from Khamaungseik and Yebawkya villages in northern Maungdaw Township by the Muslim armed group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA).

At least 12 people including children were killed and 20 others were injured in a late night junta airstrike on Arakan State's Mrauk-U, which is held by the Arakan Army (AA), on Monday.

Tens of thousands of Muslim refugees from Myanmar living in dozens of camps in Bangladesh are marking the eighth anniversary of their mass exodus with a three-day international conference titled "Stakeholders' Dialogue: Takeaways to the High-Level Conference on Rohingya Situation" in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.

More than 100 military-trained Muslim recruits and junta soldiers were killed during a clash between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army (AA) near Htan Shauk Khan Village in Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, according to the former deputy commander of the junta's Military Operations Command No. 15 in Buthidaung, who was captured by the AA as a prisoner of war.

Muslim elders in Maungdaw District issued a statement on August 23 saying the skeletons found in Htan Shauk Khan Village were the remains of junta soldiers killed in the fighting, and that junta accusations that the AA killed more than 600 Muslims are a fabrication and a lie.