Four people were injured in a landmine blast on Saturday in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township, with one of the victims said to be in critical condition. 

A member of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) and a civilian were reportedly shot dead in Gyinchaung (Muslim) village, part of Hkwaynyaung village-tract in Maungdaw Township, at around 1:00 a.m. on Saturday. 

Thousands of people have been affected by flooding caused by heavy rains in Mon State’s Ye and Zin Kyaik townships, reported locals. 

Some charities in Dawei, Tanintharyi Region, have suspended operations after fuel prices soared to more than K2,000 per litre. 

The Arakan Army (AA) is carrying out landmine risk education among locals in parts of Arakan State, which is plagued by landmines after some two years of fighting between the military and AA from 2018-2020, according to U Khaing Thukha, spokesman for the ethnic armed group. 

The justice department of the United League of Arakan (ULA), the political wing of the Arakan Army (AA), has received approximately 800 complaints regarding land disputes, according to ULA/AA spokesperson U Khaing Thukha. 

The Arakan Army (AA) arrested Lieutenant Colonel Khaing Paw Lin, an executive committee member of the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP), not because he was a member of the ALP but because of crimes committed against the Arakanese people, according to AA spokesman U Khaing Thukha. 

Residents of Phayapaung, Taung Pauk and Ponnar villages in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township fled their homes after junta troops entered the villages on Tuesday morning, and though the soldiers have since left, more than 100 villagers remain unwilling to return to their homes, according to locals. 

The Arakan Army spokesman has warned of the potential for escalating hostilities with the Myanmar military if the junta continues to arrest civilians in Arakan State, saying dozens of civilians detained over recent weeks remain behind bars. 

Myanmar’s military has withdrawn from seven outposts in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township amid heightened military tensions with the Arakan Army (AA), the ethnic armed group’s spokesman U Khaing Thukha said at a press conference on Thursday. 

There has been greater trust and unity of late among the diverse ethnic groups and races in Arakan State, Arakan Army (AA) spokesman U Khaing Thukha said during the Arakanese ethnic armed group’s monthly press conference on Thursday. 

Myanmar and Bangladesh authorities are taking steps to run a coastal shipping line to promote direct trade between the two countries, according to the Arakan State Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 

The prices of consumer goods including rice and fuel have soared in Chin State’s Paletwa, where tensions are escalating between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army, causing hardship for residents. 

Residents of Kyaytaw village, Sittwe Township, are seething after a poultry farmer cut down dozens of acres of mature mangroves that were planted to protect the coastal area against natural disasters. 

Junta-appointed ward and village administrators in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, where junta troops and the Arakan Army (AA) have exchanged fire in recent weeks, say they are prepared to resign amid rising military-AA tensions. 

Junta troop deployments in villages and tightened security checks are severely affecting the livelihoods of local residents in Arakan State. 

A local was killed and two others were injured on Tuesday in junta airstrikes on Dawparpah village near Loilemlay, a town on the border of Shan and Kayah states, according to ground sources. 

Scattered rain is expected in Arakan State due to a low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal, with a chance of occasional squalls accompanied by high tide along the Arakan coast, the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology said at 4 p.m. on Tuesday. 

The residents of Taung Pauk village in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township have fled their homes after junta troops entered the village on Tuesday morning.