Arakan State’s Sittwe border trade centre has processed goods worth about US$1.36 million in the approximately two weeks since it reopened, according to the Arakan State Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ASCCI), following an extended closure due to Covid-19.

A truck overturned near Taung Sauk village in Ann Township, Arakan State, on Friday morning, killing two men on board.

The Shwe Min Thar Foundation will provide for people with disabilities in Arakan State’s Sittwe and Ponnagyun townships with food and medicines for four months.

Two women and a 17-year-old girl in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township were arrested on suspicion of ties to the anti-regime People’s Defence Force (PDF) and were charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law on November 3. 

To curb rising palm oil prices in Arakan State, a total of 40,491 visses of the edible oil were bought under a state regime council plan, according to U Tin Aung Oo, chair of the Arakan State Chamber of Commerce and Industry. 

A pregnant woman in Buthidaung Township, Arakan State, has died of Covid-19 and multiple members of her family were also found to be infected with the virus, according to Dr. Saw Min Thein, medical superintendent of the township hospital. 

Recent pro-military rallies in Arakan State are raising eyebrows as hundreds of participants have attended the demonstrations, seemingly in contravention of Covid-19 regulations that limit the size of public gatherings to no more than 100 people.  

A letter has been sent to junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing seeking approval for the return of internally displaced people (IDPs) to Tinma village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, according to the village abbott. 

Youths in Arakan State have been collecting donations for the victims of a large fire in Thantlang town, Chin State, that was set by the Myanmar military late last month.

The Three Brotherhood Alliance ethnic armed group coalition, which includes the Arakan Army, released a statement on November 1 strongly condemning the actions of the Myanmar military against the Chin State town of Thantlang, where more than 100 homes and two churches burnt down in a Tatmadaw shelling. 

Arakan political parties, civil society organisations and residents have criticised the recent holding of pro-military rallies in Arakan State.

Basic education schools in Arakan State and across most of the country, which were closed for more than three months due to the third wave of Covid-19, reopened on November 1 in accordance with virus-related regulations. 

A clash broke out between the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) and Border Guard Police (BGP) near old Zee Bin Chaung village in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, on October 31, residents said. 

The All Burma Students’ Democratic Front (ABSDF) issued a statement on November 1 saying it would join anti-military forces to fight for an end to dictatorship in Myanmar, with the announcement made on the 33rd anniversary of the ABSDF’s founding. 

A young writer from Pan Maw village in Mrauk-U Township, who has been charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law, appeared before the Mrauk-U Township Court for a second time.

Arrangements are being made to drop the cases of 36 people charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law in Arakan State, according to U Hla Thein, information officer and attorney-general for the Arakan State Administration Council. 

Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Paletwa, Chin State, report that efforts are underway to get them to go back home, sometimes through subsidies in what they say amounts to return arrangements that are semi-voluntary at best.

The Arakan State-based Arakan Front Party (AFP) will attend a meeting being organised by the junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC) to discuss electoral system reform, including a potential switch to proportional representation (PR). 

A total of 98 major criminal cases were reported in Arakan State through the first nine months of 2021, figures from the state’s Myanmar Police Force (MPF) showed, on pace for a significant reduction compared with last year’s 180 cases.