“Now people don’t take baskets even when they go to the market. They carry [their purchases] from the market in plastic bags and throw it away,”

Storm victims in several villages on Ale Phayonekar Island have received little in the way of relief supplies, locals said.

“No relief supplies have reached Muslim IDP camps, but the World Food Programme (WFP) provides us with rice. We are facing livelihood hardships and accommodation difficulties,”

The business had been slow before the storm, but demand has surged lately as the prices of building materials have jumped following the cyclone and many people are opting for nipa palm leaves for roofing.

The Institute for Strategy and Policy – Myanmar (ISP – Myanmar) says Myanmar has attracted more than US$5.4 billion in foreign investment in the two-plus years since the coup.

"We would like to urge the government [Myanmar’s military regime] to repair the damaged roof as quickly as possible,” said middle school teacher U Hsan Win from Tuumyaung Village.

“We are going hungry, and we need food. We have no money to rebuild our houses,”

The advocacy group Justice For Myanmar (JFM) has called for suspension of the Japanese government’s railway projects in Myanmar, saying that such support of the junta is incompatible with a pro-human rights stance.

because they did not provide their household registration cards to the respective ward administrators as part of preparations for the junta’s planned election.

Some of the corrugated roofing sheets supplied by the regime for Panphechaung village-tract in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township are used and with holes, said village officials.

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.