The Arakan State Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has instructed local manufacturers of foods flagged by the FDA head office as unsuitable for consumption to stop production and recall their products from markets, according to an official of the state FDA.

Almost all residents of Taungkyarinn village in Kayin State’s Kyonedoe Township fled to safer locations after artillery shells landed and exploded in the village on September 6.

Several teachers have reportedly been stranded in Paletwa for about a week due to the military closure of roads in the remote Chin State township.

The Myanmar military reportedly blockaded the Myebon-Minbya road after a roadside bomb or landmine blew up in front of the office for Border Areas and National Races and Development Affairs (NATALA) in Myebon, Arakan State, on Wednesday evening.

The Myanmar military detained a doctor from Chaungkauk ward in Arakan State’s Taungup Township on Tuesday. 

Myanmar’s military regime has recently installed two checkpoints in low-income neighbourhoods of the Arakan State capital Sittwe, according to residents.

Family members of a Muslim man who was shot dead by a police officer at a security checkpoint near Bumay village in Arakan State’s Sittwe Township on September 4 have reportedly been compensated with K500,000. 

Ko Kyaw Zan Wai aka Ko Yin Hsot, a local man from Mrauk-U, Arakan State, was arrested on suspicion of having ties to the Committee Representing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (CRPH) and National Unity Government (NUG), Myanma Alinn, the junta-controlled state-owned newspaper, reported on September 6. 

There has been growing concern among residents after an explosion occurred near an old hospital east of Nandawyargon Field in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U at about 10 a.m. on Tuesday.

Arakanese activists have lashed out at their ethnic Arakanese brethren serving in the regime’s administrative bodies, accusing them of failing to speak up for ordinary Arakanese people amid the renewed fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA).

The market exchange rate of Thai baht to Myanmar kyat in Kawthaung, Tanintharyi Region, on Monday nearly doubled the official rate set by the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM), as the kyat continues to perform poorly against other regional currencies and the US dollar.

It is becoming increasingly difficult for charity clinics that provide free medical treatment to sustain themselves over the long term due to the seemingly inexorable rise in drug prices in Myanmar.

Seventeen Muslims attempting to leave Arakan State for work opportunities in Malaysia were arrested by junta authorities in Gwa Township on Sunday. 

Food and shelter are urgently needed for more than 22,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Mon State’s Kyaikto Township, according to aid workers.

More than 6,600 people have been newly displaced by renewed fighting and rising military tensions over recent weeks in three Arakan State townships and Chin State’s Paletwa Township, according to volunteers helping those displaced. 

Shop owners at Mrauk-U’s central market have packed up their merchandise and moved to their homes after the township General Administration Department ordered them to close their shops, saying there are mines to be cleared at the market. 

A police officer shot dead a Muslim man in front of Police Battalion No. 36 near Bumay village in Arakan State’s Sittwe Township on Sunday morning.

The Myanmar military reportedly arrested a local man in Mrauk-U, Arakan State, on Sunday morning, hours after entering the town and indiscriminately opening fire.

The Arakan Army (AA) chief lashed out at Myanmar’s military regime via Twitter on Sunday, accusing the junta of “unleashing their dastardly playbook” on civilians in Mrauk-U, which has hosted some of the latest fighting between the military and Arakan Army.