Relatives are concerned about the fate of seven Maungdaw Township residents who were abducted by Myanmar’s military regime following clashes between its troops and the Arakan Army (AA) on Friday.

An elderly woman was killed when an artillery shell exploded in Mingyi village, part of Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, on August 27, according to the village administrator.

Farmers in Ayeyarwady, Bago and Tanintharyi regions, and Mon State, are unable to grow paddy due to the steep rise in prices of agricultural inputs such as fuel and fertiliser, and are increasingly abandoning their farms, according to farmers.

Traffic police in the Arakan State capital Sittwe have begun confiscating unlicensed vehicles since Thursday, according to a traffic police officer.

Hundreds of acres of paddy fields owned by residents of Arakan State’s Rathedaung and Maungdaw townships, who have fled their homes due to recent fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA), are reported to be damaged.

War-displaced civilians in Arakan State have called on Myanmar’s military regime not to impose restrictions on local and international organisations providing humanitarian assistance for them.

The Foreign Ministry of Myanmar’s military regime on Friday condemned statements issued by United Nations officials and other international stakeholders on the fifth anniversary of the 2017 Muslim exodus from Arakan State.

A mentally ill man arrested by the Myanmar military is in poor health and undergoing treatment in Sittwe Prison, according to family members.

The Myanmar military and Arakan Army (AA) clashed fiercely for hours on Friday near the village of Khamaung Seik in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, said local residents.

Palm oil prices have reached over K15,000 per viss in some parts of the country as soaring food prices overall continue to take a toll on the Myanmar people.

A poster campaign aimed at identifying the perpetrator or perpetrators in the case of a young woman who was stabbed to death was launched in the Arakan State capital Sittwe near the government offices on Thursday.

Around 1,000 villagers from over 200 households in Chin State’s Paletwa Township have fled to Paletwa town due to recent fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) near Abaungtha village and in the mountains outside of Kyetyetkaing village.

Some of the more than 50 locals arrested by the Myanmar military were released in July, but the rest were charged with incitement under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, and at least 10 people have not been in contact with their families for weeks.

A clash broke out between the Myanmar military’s Ngapali-based Light Infantry Battalion No. 55 and the Arakan Army at a location between Chaungthongkhwa and Kyeintaw villages in Arakan State’s Taungup Township at around 4 p.m. on Thursday.

A woman from Abaungtha Village in Chin State’s Paletwa Township, where fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army has flared in recent days, was killed in a landmine blast on Wednesday.

Shrimp indigenous to Arakan State will be sold in markets in other parts of Myanmar after the test breeding of a local species was successful.

The Myanmar military arrested an elderly man from Theintan village in Arakan State’s Sittwe Township on suspicion of having ties to the Arakan Army (AA) at a village checkpoint on Monday evening, according to family members.

Military tensions are escalating day by day and the theatre of war is expanding in Arakan State, the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) said in a statement on Tuesday.

The Arakan National Council/Arakan Army (ANC/AA) and Arakan Liberation Party/Arakan Liberation Army (ALP/ALA) rejected recent remarks from the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) spokesman, in which he asserted that there was no need for revolutionary armed forces in Arakan State other than the AA.