Oysters farmed in Arakan State are fetching good prices due to increased demand from Yangon and other parts of Myanmar, according to local oyster breeders.

Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has invited ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) in the country to peace talks for the third time since April.

The dead body of a teenage girl and a severely injured young woman were reportedly found along a road near Sharphyukwin village in Arakan State’s Gwa Township on Monday evening.

Family members have not been allowed to see four men from northern Maungdaw Township, including a village administrator and another local official, who were arrested by the Myanmar military some two weeks ago. 

The Myanmar military and Arakan Army (AA) clashed in Chin State’s Paletwa Township and Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township on Tuesday, according to local residents, with two students reportedly killed by artillery fire in the Chin State hostilities. 

Amid outbreaks of diarrhoea and malaria at a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Taungpyauk area, part of Tanintharyi Region’s Thayetchaung Township, there is almost no medicine to treat them, according to healthcare workers who are treating the IDPs.

More internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State are leaving displacement camps to seek jobs abroad as conditions at the camps have deteriorated and inhabitants view their futures in increasingly grim terms if they remain. 

Local residents and civil society organisations (CSOs) in Arakan State have reported a rise in crimes, saying the worrying trend is the result of weak rule of law.

Junta soldiers and police who have been stationed in the vicinity of the Mahamuni Buddha image in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw arrested a resident of Thayettapin village and two others at around noon on Monday, according to family members.

The Myanmar military has warned local residents in Arakan State’s Manaung Township to steer clear of the Arakan Army (AA), and not to support the ethnic armed group.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has acknowledged that ASEAN’s Five-Point Consensus on Myanmar could not be implemented last year, with the coup leader citing the Covid-19 pandemic and political instability in the war-torn Southeast Asian nation.

The Interim Khumi Affairs Coordination Council (IKACC) issued an appeal to local residents living in Paletwa Township, Chin State, urging them not to cooperate with the military regime and its subordinate organisations.

Family members have not been allowed to see two youths from Pauktawpyin village in Ponnagyun Township who were arrested by the Myanmar military more than a month ago.

Rice prices have shot up in the Arakan State capital Sittwe recently, according to local rice sellers.

The Myanmar military has filed an incitement lawsuit against eight residents in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code at the Mrauk-U District Court, according to family members of the accused.

A police lieutenant was shot dead by a police constable on Friday night, according to local residents close to the police station.

The Sittwe District Court sentenced two men from Sittwe and Rathedaung townships, who were charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law on suspicion of having ties to the Arakan Army, to three years in prison on July 29, according to the defendants’ lawyer.

The BXT Jetty, a popular recreation area in the Arakan State capital Sittwe, has been marred by rampant littering, residents and visitors have complained.

Many workers have been laid off at rice mills in Ayeyarwady Region, the heartland of the rice milling industry in Myanmar, and are struggling to make ends meet.