More than 1,700 people taking refuge at displacement camps in Palaw Township, Tanintharyi Region, are facing shelter and food shortages, according to local aid workers.

The Arakan Army captured 14 junta soldiers and police personnel after the ethnic armed group clashed with the Myanmar military in northern Maungdaw Township on July 18, AA spokesman U Khaing Thukha told DMG. 

Cases of dengue fever have nearly tripled this year compared with approximately the same period in 2021, according to statistics from the Arakan State Department of Public Health (DPH).

Kanbawza Bank has opened a case against two senior clerks of the Manaung bank branch for alleged misappropriation of deposits.

Nine Sittwe residents detained by Myanmar’s military regime and facing criminal prosecution were brought to trial in the Arakan State capital on Monday.

Many vehicles were stranded on the Moebye-Pekon-Loikaw road after fierce fighting broke out on Monday between regime troops and anti-junta resistance forces in Moebye Township, Shan State, near the border with Kayah (Karenni) State, according to residents.

The Myanmar regime has imposed travel restrictions on international and local nongovernmental organisations working in Maungdaw Township and other parts of northern Arakan State, according to a spokesman for the state’s military government.

Residents of four settlements in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township have fled in fear after scores of Myanmar military soldiers and police officers entered their communities on July 18.

A clash broke out between the Myanmar military and an armed group on the Taungpyo road between Tarein and Myawady villages in the northern part of Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, at around 10 a.m. on July 18.

Women’s rights activists say violence against women in Myanmar is increasing year after year, but that women who are victims of such violence are demanding justice less and less.

Fuel prices have decreased slightly across much of Myanmar, but they remain high in Chin State’s Paletwa Township, according to local residents.

A local administrative in-charge of the United League of Arakan (ULA), the political wing of the Arakan Army (AA), in Kyaukphyu Township’s Zin Chaung village is wanted by the Myanmar military, which undertook a search for him on Friday.

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease has been reported among cattle across several villages in Arakan State’s Manaung Township, according to local residents. 

The World Bank has warned that due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the military takeover in Myanmar, financial sector reforms of the past decade are “at severe risk of stagnation or reversal.” 

Two villagers from Kyaukphyu Township detained and charged with incitement under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code were brought to trial on Friday. 

The Myanmar military has reportedly restricted the travel rights of residents in eastern Bago Region’s Shwegyin Township, where strict inspections have been imposed on the locals.

The Arakan Front Party (AFP) released a statement urging the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army to take problem-solving approaches to deescalate ongoing tensions between the two sides.

Fuel prices remain high in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw and Mrauk-U townships, despite gas stations having been ordered to bring down their selling prices, according to local residents. 

A large proportion of illegal timber seized in Arakan State this year is from other parts of Myanmar, according to the Arakan State Forest Department.