Arakan State residents have warned of an alarming rise in the availability of stimulants and other illicit narcotics despite the fact that, unlike other parts of the country, there are no poppy fields or large-scale drug production facilities to speak of.

Local people in Arakan State’s Myebon Township are experiencing inconveniences in money matters as the only private bank in the town has been closed since late last year.

The going rate to apply for passports through middlemen in Arakan State stands at around 500,000 Kyats, according to passport applicants.

Local people in Bawlakhe Township, Kayah (Karenni) State, are facing travel trouble after a suspension bridge on the Bawlakhe-Hpasawng road near Yay Ni Pauk Village was damaged by an explosion.

Dozens of homes in five camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw, Ponnagyun and Rathedaung townships were damaged by strong winds on the evening of March 20, according to displacement camp officials.

A fire outbreak at the Jay Yang camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kachin State’s Laiza, the capital of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIA), on Sunday resulted in losses of more than 30 shelters and left 177 IDPs homeless.

Three displaced people living in Kyauktaw, Arakan State, are receiving medical treatment after being electrocuted on Monday, according to a local social organisation.

Some pregnant women in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State are reportedly having difficulties giving birth due to malnutrition.

Two border guard troops from a border guard outpost deployed at the Ahtet Nan Yar Che Win Pagoda compound near Zedipyin Village in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township reportedly deserted on Sunday evening.

“In UNHCR’s assessment, conditions in Myanmar’s Rakhine [Arakan] State are currently not conducive to the sustainable return of refugees,” said the UNHCR statement.

The grassroots in Arakan State are reportedly facing livelihood hardships as rice prices have been on the rise since February.

About 2,000 people who were displaced by fighting between the military and Arakan Army (AA) and are currently sheltering in Samee town, part of Chin State’s Paletwa Township, were reportedly told by the regime to return to their homes by the end of this month.

The Arakan National Party (ANP) will register with the junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC) under the new Political Parties Registration Law, but ...

DMH forecast scattered rains in Sagaing, Mandalay and Magway regions, as well as Kachin, Shan, Chin and Arakan states, with an 80 percent chance of rain expected.

Currently, only the Shwe Pyi Tan express boat line is operating between Sittwe and Kyaukphyu, and only one boat runs on the route. The boat is always crowded, and travellers are concerned about their safety.

Agricultural land upgrading activities will be developed in the Arakan State townships of Sittwe, Kyauktaw, Buthidaung, Thandwe, Kyaukphyu, Ann and Taungup, according to the state’s Department of Agriculture.

A 12-year-old girl from the Arakan State capital Sittwe, who went missing on March 15 and was found the following day unconscious with serious head injuries, died on Friday at a local hospital.

Myanmar’s military regime has reportedly verified around 230 out of 1,000 Muslims it plans to take back from Bangladesh in a first phase of repatriation of the long-persecuted minority.

An elevator will be installed this year at Mt. Thaylar Giri Mawra Patta, a well-known pilgrimage site in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, so that the elderly and disabled can more easily access the site, according to the pagoda board of trustees.