Residents and people close to the ULA report that, in addition to cleaning pagodas and temples, the moats and ditches around Mrauk-U are being systematically dammed, and ancient sites are being restored to their original states.

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Rakhine Nationalities Party (RNP) Chairman U Ba Shein has pledged to expand and renovate the defunct airport in Manaung Township, Arakan State, and to provide electricity through a solar plant.

India has reopened the Paletwa-Mizoram trade route after more than two weeks of closure aimed at containing a diarrhea outbreak, according to local traders.

Monasteries and homes were reduced to ashes in Myanmar's military regime's artillery and drone attacks in conflict-hit Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State.

Consumption of Mitragyna speciosa leaves - widely used by both adults and children in Arakan State - is reportedly on the rise again, according to local residents.

Four civilians, including a child, were killed and eight others injured as the Myanmar military regime carried out airstrikes on Arakan Army-controlled areas in Ponnagyun, Kyaukphyu, Gwa and Mrauk-U townships from November 16-22, according to a DMG tally.

Data For Myanmar has reported that more than 110,000 homes have been burned down during fighting and military conflict across the country in the nearly four years since Myanmar's coup.

Ethnic Mro people in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, who have fled their homes due to threats posed by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), are currently facing food and shelter shortages and are in urgent need of assistance.

The Department of Law Enforcement and Public Security (DLEPS) of the Arakan Army (AA) has arrested a man suspected of raping a 16-year-old minor in AA-controlled Paletwa Township, Chin State. The suspect is being investigated under Section 376 of the Penal Code.

Farmers in Arakan State say they are facing heavy losses during the paddy harvest season as buyers have disappeared from the market and prices have slumped.

Myanmar's military regime has claimed that resistance fighters have defected to its side, saying they were given financial support, weapons rewards, and featured in ceremonies and photo opportunities.

Myanmar is grappling with multiple crises caused by military conflict, floods, and earthquakes, leaving the humanitarian situation alarmingly dire.

Social workers say children in Arakan State face ongoing threats from airstrikes, food and nutrition shortages, and a loss of access to education, healthcare and basic rights to life. Many are also denied essential health protections such as full vaccination.

Locals in Rathedaung Township, Arakan State, are reportedly moving to temporary shelters to avoid airstrikes by Myanmar's military regime.

Escalating clashes between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) in Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State, have forced 2,084 residents from 17 villages to flee their homes, according to Triple-T, an organization assisting internally displaced people (IDPs).

The India-Paletwa trade route has been closed to all cross-border travel from the Indian side until November 24 due to an ongoing diarrhea outbreak along the border.

The number of civilian casualties is escalating in Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State, as the military regime intensifies its reliance on airstrikes and heavy weaponry in the conflict-torn region.

Nine Arakan Army (AA) members and six People's Defence Force (PDF) fighters entered the legal fold with weapons and ammunition, according to junta-controlled dailies on November 17.