The Myanmar military has barred residents from organising a major pagoda festival in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun during the evening hours, according to locals.

Training schools will be opened for students in Arakan State who have completed secondary education, allowing them to pick a subject of their choice from among industrial technology, agriculture and livestock skills.

An average of three seniors die every month at displacement camps in Hpruso Township, Kayah (Karenni) State, due to shortages of medicines, according to volunteers assisting internally displaced people (IDPs).

The junta-controlled Union Election Commission’s new Political Parties Registration Law has left small ethnic parties in Arakan State uncertain about their continued existence.

Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township was among the top five townships in terms of suffering junta airstrikes since the military takeover on February 1, 2021, according to a research report by Myanmar Peace Monitor, a project of Burma News International (BNI).

An expo and market fair, the first of its kind in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, kicked off at Yammarwadi Hall on Tuesday morning.

In the two years since the military coup in Myanmar, 1,232 members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), including 80 members of parliament, have been arrested. Of them, five NLD members were from Arakan State, according to the NLD Central Working Committee.

Free homes will be built in some Sittwe Township villages for poor people affected by natural disasters, according to the Department of Rural Development (DRD).

Nearly six months after the regime’s Arakan State Administration Council (ASAC) promised 10 billion kyats in loans to micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Arakan State, qualifying business owners say they have yet to receive any loans.

An internally displaced person (IDP) from Kunohnsu Village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, who had his leg amputated after stepping on a landmine, is in need of financial assistance to treat his injuries.

Intended to link the ancient Arakanese capital to other Myanmar cities by air, an airport construction project on the outskirts of Mrauk-U has been stalled since 2017, even as government departments and local organisations are working to designate Mrauk-U as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

More than 66 percent of students at basic education schools in Arakan State have received booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccination, according to data from the Arakan State education office.

Author Aung Lin Hein (SKY) says proceeds from the sale of an essay book entitled “Panthaku” will be used to support the education of children displaced by fighting.

A bridge over the Darli Creek in Kyainnseikgyi Township, Kayin State, was targeted by an explosive device on Saturday, and the entire approach road to the bridge was damaged, causing difficulties for local residents.

Local people on Moese Island in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township are struggling to access public healthcare services as the island’s hospitals are devoid of doctors.

Maung Myo Chit Soe, who was arrested and charged with the murder of a young Sittwe woman, was released on Friday, according to family members and a lawyer involved.

The case against a distance university student and a motorbike taxi driver from Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, charged under Section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act was heard on Thursday, the first court hearing in relation to the matter in nearly three months since the duo were detained.

A local man was reportedly killed in a landmine blast near Pharpyo Village, part of Arakan State’s Minbya Township, on Friday afternoon, according to family members.

The festival is traditionally believed to bring about bumper harvest, peace and prosperity in Arakan State, and is generally held before Tabodwe Full Moon Day.