Myanmar’s military regime reportedly banned Christmas celebrations in the Arakan State capital Sittwe due to regional instability and security concerns.

The military chief urged that warships, weapons, and naval personnel be prepared and constantly trained to be ready for battle.

Nearly four years after the military coup in Myanmar, people are suffering in various aspects of their social and economic lives, including health and education, and security.

Myanmar’s military junta announced on Monday that conscripts who have undergone military training are serving in respective battalions and units.

About 180 households from Kuntaung and Hsininngyi villages, Padetha old village and Padetha new village in Ponnagyun Township were displaced by the junta shellings and aerial attacks.

One civilian was killed and six others were reportedly injured in a junta aerial assault on Thandwe, which is held by the Arakkha Army (AA) in Arakan State, on Monday evening.

The military regime has been reinforcing its positions in Gwa Town amid intense fighting with the Arakkha Army (AA), with three tanks and more than 20 military trucks heading to Gwa from Ayeyarwady Region on Monday night.

Sixteen people displaced by fighting in Gwa Township, Arakan State, who were taking shelter in Yekyi Township, Ayeyarwady Region, have reportedly been arrested by Myanmar’s military regime.

Locals often suffer injuries and deaths from landmines planted by the military regime in the forests and fields of Gwa Township.

Cannabis is mostly grown in Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw and Buthidaung townships, and its use is reported to be higher among young people in Kyauktaw and Ponnagyun townships.

The military regime is forcing internally displaced people (IDPs) from Arakan State taking refuge in Yekyi and Kyonepyaw townships in Ayeyarwady Region to relocate.

The Chin Brotherhood reported on Sunday that the Arakkha Army (AA) provided military weapons, ammunition, reinforcements, military advice, and other support in its offensive against the regime for control of Mindat and Kanpetlet towns in Chin State.

The regime regularly uses those types of aircraft in its airstrikes on the civilian population.

The Myanmar military and Arakkha Army (AA) exchanged heavy weapons fire near villages on the border of Arakan State's Sittwe and Ponnagyun townships on December 21 and 22.

Locally grown flowers are in high demand in Arakan State as the junta’s blockades have effectively barred the supply of flowers from Yangon and other parts of the country, according to flower growers and sellers.

The Arakkha Army (AA) has vowed to liberate all of western Myanmar’s Arakan State. It has captured 14 townships including 13 townships in Arakan State and Paletwa Township in neighbouring Chin State.

The whereabouts of four ethnic Thet people from Magyigone Village in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township are still unknown since they disappeared around six months ago.

Due to the difficulty of traveling to Nar Daung Kya Village and the lack of job opportunities in the area, IDPs are finding it difficult to make a living.

Junta attacks killed 633 civilians — 243 female and 390 male — from July 1 to December 19. Sagaing Region had the highest number of casualties, with 140. Of the total, 90 were children under the age of 18 and 79 were over the age of 60.