The slain ALP officials have been identified as the group’s vice chairman, Khaing Ni Aung; battalion commander Khaing Kyaw Min; and Private Kyaw Kyaw Naing.

The company has sent a notice, asking farmers to pay 27,149,500 South Korean won (43.6 million kyats) in legal costs.

“The price of fishing gear is on the rise and it is not easy for storm-hit fishermen to buy new fishing equipment.

U Nyi Pu was transferred from Sittwe Prison to Insein Prison in Yangon, and underwent surgeries at an eye specialist hospital in Tamwe Township 

Three people were killed and three others were wounded in a shooting at the railroad tracks near Sittwe University in Mingan Ward on Saturday afternoon.

The nunneries face financial constraints to undergo repairs, and have been forced to make do with tarpaulin sheets.

Last year, shrimp fries were bought from shrimp hatcheries, but because the hatcheries were damaged by the storm, shrimp farm operators are having trouble raising shrimp this year.

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.