A Khami New Year event was observed on Wednesday at the Town Hall in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U, where the number of people in attendance was reportedly low due to ongoing concerns about the regional security environment and travel barriers.

Junta troops carried out an air attack on Taung Kalay Village in Mon State’s Kyaikmaraw Township after the combined forces of the Kaw Thoo Lei Army (KTLA) and Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Battalion 16 seized a junta police outpost at the village early Monday morning.

Eight men from two villages in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, who had been detained by the military for more than a week, were reportedly released at about 4 p.m. on November 21. 

The Paletwa Township Court has sentenced a 100-household head and a 10-household head to three years in prison for incitement under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, according to legal sources close to the matter. 

Twelve residents were killed and at least 27 others were injured when three mortar shells landed and exploded in Jeitchaung Village, Maungdaw Township.

The military regime’s Arakan State Administration Council (ASAC) says every preparation has been made for implementation of the Ponnagyun industrial zone, which was first proposed some seven years ago.

A resurgence in fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army (AA) is bringing attendant rises in the numbers of civilian deaths and amputations due to heavy weapons fire and landmine encounters.

At least 70 civilians were killed or injured by artillery strikes, gunfire and a landmine encounter blamed on Myanmar’s military regime over a one-week period from November 10-16 in Arakan State and neighbouring Paletwa Township, Chin State.

Local farmers in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, who have fled their homes in fear of junta artillery strikes, are planning to ask the township General Administration Department (GAD) to allow them to harvest their paddy fields safely.

Internally displaced people (IDPs) at a camp in a Ponnagyun Township industrial zone have reportedly fled to safer locations, prompted to uproot their lives again by a recent shelling nearby. 

The Myanmar military regime’s recent release of dozens of political prisoners and members of ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) serving time in prisons across the country has been widely viewed as an effort to boost the junta’s badly damaged image as it looks to establish credibility ahead of planned elections next year. 

As thousands more people have fled their homes due to renewed fighting in Kayah (Karenni) State this month, there is a shortage of drinking water and food at displacement camps and an urgent need for aid, according to Karenni aid workers.

Myanmar’s military regime conferred honorary titles on eight Arakanese individuals last week, according to junta-controlled newspapers, amid months of renewed fighting in Arakan State.

The Saung Oo Festival was held for the second year in a row at Ngapali Beach in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township on Monday as part of a tourism promotion campaign.

As thousands more people have fled their homes due to renewed fighting in Kayah (Karenni) State this month, there is a shortage of drinking water and food at displacement camps and an urgent need for aid, according to Karenni aid workers.

Family members are worried about the fate of nine civilians who were detained by junta soldiers in Sittwe’s Danyawaddy Ward during nighttime raids on two Buddhist monasteries more than a week ago. 

Winter crop farmers in Arakan State are facing many difficulties due to months of increasing agricultural expenditures along with the ongoing fighting between the military and Arakan Army in various townships.

Family members say they have not been in contact with eight detained men from Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township for about a week, and they are worried about the safety of the detainees. 

Myanmar’s military said it released 18 members of the Arakan Army (AA) on Friday, and the Arakanese ethnic armed group said it is still verifying whether those freed are indeed its members, AA spokesman U Khaing Thukha told DMG.