Local people in northern Arakan townships continue to lack access to information as communications remain down for many in the aftermath of Cyclone Mocha.

Some 4,000 acres of crops in Arakan State were destroyed by Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall with destructive force on May 14, the junta-controlled Myanmar Alinn daily reported last month.

In March, the United Nations agency reduced the monthly allowance from US$12 to US$10 per refugee. The agency has further reduced the allowance to US$8 per refugee as of June.

“It is not convenient for us to live at the new location. It’s difficult for us to even ride a motorcycle. When it rains, it gets muddy, so there are things that are not convenient for us,”

Myanmar’s military regime and the Arakan Army (AA) have discussed free delivery of relief supplies to storm victims in Arakan State.

Military personnel questioned some villagers and forced them to leave the villages temporarily on April 30, after four junta soldiers from No. 22 Light Infantry Division went missing.

“Companies would not follow EIA [Environmental Impact Assessment] and SIA [Social Impact Assessment] because the rule of law is weak. It would be best not to permit any [mining] business now,”

Southwest monsoon winds will enter the Delta Region from southern Myanmar after June 10, and will be more than a week later than usual, said U Hla Tun, deputy director of the DMH.

Electricity supply to Sittwe and Ponnagyun townships will resume beginning June 7, according to the Arakan State electricity supply office.

“According to our updated [data], 146 people were killed by the cyclone. Ten people were injured, and three are missing,” AA spokesman U Khaing Thukha told DMG.

The Kachin State Investment Committee of the junta’s Kachin State government has approved a US$1 million investment proposed by a joint venture between Myanmar and Chinese companies in the state’s agricultural sector.

Market prices as of 3 p.m. on Thursday saw 24K gold reach 3,051,000 kyats per tical, and 22K gold reached 2,870,000 kyats.

To date, shelter and other relief items have been distributed to more than 63,000 people but there is an urgent need for wider access and assistance in distributing materials to people in need, UNOCHA Myanmar said.

The Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) has been given weapons and military assistance by the Three Brotherhood Alliance,

However, schools in most of the storm-hit rural parts of Arakan State are yet to be repaired, said residents.

Education staff only received their base salaries in April and May, and they were told that it was because of financial constraints, said an education staff member from Maungdaw.

After the very severe cyclone, the weather is hot and raining, lightning and thunder are occurring in some states and regions, including Arakan State.

Leaders of the AA, TNLA and MNDAA arrived in Mongla which is controlled by the National Democratic Alliance Army on Tuesday.

“We only got two sacks of rice from the government [regime].  It is not enough for the entire village, we gave around eight cans of rice per household for poor families,