With swine breeding in decline in Arakan State, the price of young pigs has increased nearly fivefold compared with two years ago, swine breeders said. 

A total of 573 members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), including several senior party figures, were arrested and 13 were killed in the 10 months between when Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1 and November 30, the NLD Central Working Committee said in a statement on December 1. 

Five former Arakan State ministers, including former Chief Minister U Nyi Pu, were formally charged under Section 55 of the Anti-Corruption Law on December 1. 

The number of visitors to Point Beach in Sittwe is reportedly increasing on weekends, with the Arakan State regime council reminding beachgoers that they are expected to adhere to Covid-19 preventive regulations. 

Out of 100 hotels, motels and guesthouses in Arakan State that closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 66 have been allowed to resume operations, the state’s Directorate of Hotels and Tourism (DoHT) said.

Electric fencing is being erected in Kanbyin village, part of Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township, to support livestock farmers there. 

A court in Naypyidaw has postponed a verdict in two cases filed against former State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint. 

Victims of landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERWs) during some two years of fighting between the military and Arakan Army (AA) are facing food, shelter and livelihood insecurities more than a year after the guns fell silent in Arakan State.  

Schools in Gwa Township, Arakan State, that were closed due to the country’s third wave of Covid-19 were reopened on November 30, according to the Gwa Township Education Department. 

Arakan State’s two border trader centres reported trade volume with Bangladesh totalling more than US$5.2 million over the 45 days from October 16 to November 29, according to the Arakan State Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ASCCI). 

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund, Future Fund, is significantly invested in companies that do business with Myanmar’s military regime, the advocacy group Justice For Myanmar announced on November 29. 

Illicit drug use in the vicinity of the ancient pagodas, walls and temples of the Mrauk-U cultural zone and its Let Sel Kan ward is on the rise significantly, according to some locals in the Arakan State township.

Junta forces in helicopters reportedly bombarded Nyaung Hla village in Sagaing Region’s Tabayin (Depayin) Township on Saturday afternoon. 

The price of gold in Myanmar has stabilised after it surged in the wake of the February 1 coup, gold shop owners said. 

The widely cherished Arakan Thazin flower will face extinction within the next decade if it is not better protected, according to the Rakhine Coastal Region Conservation Association (RCA). 

Fierce fighting broke out between junta forces and the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF) near Ho Phate village in Kayah State’s Demoso Township on November 25, killing four KNDF members. 

An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale struck about 9 miles northwest of Hakha, the capital of Chin State, on November 23, according to an official from the Earthquake Observatory.

Universities and colleges in Sittwe are expected to reopen in early December, according to education circles in the Arakan State capital, with a plan to provide Covid-19 vaccines for higher education students reportedly arranged. 

Four coronavirus patients have died in Arakan State during November as the month draws to a close, according to the state’s Covid-19 control committee, with the pandemic’s third wave in Myanmar receding even as global concerns grow about the new omicron variant.