A special court inside Mon State’s Kyaikmaraw Prison has sentenced the ousted Mon State chief minister, Dr. Aye Zan, to two years in prison for abuse of power and embezzlement during Myanmar’s 2020 general election.

Japan’s Nippon Foundation has suspended supplying rice to internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township after it was found that IDP figures reported by the township General Administration Department did not match the numbers on the ground.

A university student and a motorcycle taxi driver who were detained on November 1 at the Kyeinchaung security checkpoint in Maungdaw, Arakan State, have been charged under Sections (1) and (2) of the Unlawful Associations Act, according to family members of the accused. 

Arakan State has reported zero new Covid-19 cases since late September, according to the state’s health department.

Fruit trees are being planted to prevent food shortages for more than 1,000 monkeys living on Thaylar Giri Mawra Patta Mountain, a well-known pilgrimage site in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, according to residents. 

Dozens of undocumented Muslims from Arakan State were reportedly arrested by authorities in Mudon Township, Mon State, on December 5. 

Some schools remain closed in parts of Arakan State despite an informal ceasefire recently reached between Myanmar’s military regime and the Arakan Army (AA), according to teachers and local residents.

As ethnic Kaman people gathered Monday to celebrate Kaman National Day, some took the opportunity to warn against political exploitation of the predominantly Muslim group that resides primarily in Arakan State.

Myanmar will resume domestic flights from the Mon State capital Mawlamyine to the country’s commercial hub Yangon, nearly three years after the route was suspended due to the Covid-19 pandemic and post-coup political turmoil.

Local people in parts of Myebon Township, Arakan State, are experiencing hassles gaining access to public healthcare services as doctors have not yet come to serve at the Kyarinntaung cottage hospital some two years after it was opened.

Thousands of internally displaced people (IDPs) from 10 displacement camps were temporarily relocated after fierce clashes erupted between the military and Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) near Thaybot Sulae and Kontha villages in Demoso Township, Kayah (Karenni) State, on December 3 and 4, according to aid workers.

U Kyaw Hein, a 40-year-old IDP who has reportedly been charged under Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act, is in poor health and needs medical treatment, family members said. 

Police have detained a civil servant from the township General Administration Department (GAD) in Maungdaw, Arakan State, according to reliable sources. 

Thirteen Muslim corpses were found dumped by a roadside in Yangon’s Hlegu Township on Monday morning, according to local residents. 

With Arakan State residents suffering through increasingly frequent and lengthy power outages in recent months, individual households and businesses are reportedly looking more and more to solar panels as an alternative, more reliable means of electricity supply. 

A ceremony to share merit for nine residents killed by the Myanmar military last month was held in Sin Inn Gyi Village, part of Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, on Sunday. 

Myanmar’s military regime reopened the waterway linking Arakan State’s Kyauktaw and Chin State’s Paletwa on Saturday, with some restrictions still in place, after a months-long blockade that raised prices and caused various other hardships for local residents. 

People with disabilities called for greater legal protections and economic opportunity on International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which falls annually on December 3. 

Myanmar’s military regime reopened the Sittwe-Ponnagyun road at around 4 p.m. on Saturday, according to local residents, a week after the junta and Arakan Army (AA) reached an informal ceasefire bringing an end, for now, to months of renewed hostilities in the region.