The Covid-19 infection rate in Gwa Township, Arakan State, is decreasing following a strict local regulation that was imposed last month. 

The Sittwe Township Court on September 16 handed down sentences of two years and six months’ imprisonment to four students in Arakan State charged for an anti-military protest in October of last year, according to lawyers for the students. 

Former National League for Democracy (NLD) lawmaker U Min Aung and fellow party member Ko Thant Zin Phyo, who were arrested in connection with an anti-coup protest earlier this year, are due to be sentenced on September 17, according to their lawyers. 

Businesspeople say the recent rise in the value of the US dollar could push up the prices of imports and other commodities.

More than 10 highway bus lines in Arakan State have been suspended during the ongoing third wave of Covid-19, U Chan Aye, chairperson of the Motor Vehicles Supervisory Committee in Sittwe, told DMG. 

Rice is being transported from Arakan State to Samee town in Chin State’s Paletwa Township, which is facing food shortages due to roadblocks, according to locals. 

With oxygen plants being built with the assistance of donors in several Arakan State townships, two of the facilities will begin operating soon. 

The Covid-19 positivity rate in Arakan State has fallen to 12% but people must continue to adhere to virus preventive regulations as new infections remain a daily occurrence, according to Dr. Soe Win Paing, assistant director of the state’s Department of Public Health. 

Teachers of ethnic literature in Arakan State have not been paid their wages for July and August.

Isolated heavy rainfall is likely in Arakan State due to a deep depression that has developed in the Bay of Bengal, according to Myanmar’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH).  

If the Maungdaw border trade camp in Arakan State is not reopened, it will have a long-term impact on businesses, according to border trade stakeholders.

The prices of basic food items such as rice, cooking oil, iodised salt and dried chili, and other consumer goods continue to rise, according to shopkeepers in Arakan State. 

A species unique to the state it is named after, the Arakan mountain tortoise is facing extinction within the next five years due to illegal poaching, according to a turtle conservation group. 

A campaign to vaccinate internally displaced people (IDPs) against Covid-19 in Arakan State has concluded in Ann and Pauktaw townships, according to the Arakan State Department of Public Health. 

Thirty-eight people — 35 from Sittwe and three from Gwa Township in Arakan State — have been arrested for failing to comply with coronavirus-related regulations amid the pandemic’s ongoing third wave, according to data compiled by DMG.

Businesspeople say the recent rise in the value of the US dollar could push up the prices of imports and other commodities. 

Though property values in the Arakan State capital Sittwe have surged in recent years, few people are buying in a real estate market that has been described as pricing out would-be buyers. 

A 200-acre mangrove forest in Ann Township, Arakan State, has been named “Asia Nay Wun Sayadaw U Ottama Reserved Mangrove Forest” in honour of the 82nd anniversary of the death of U Ottama, which was observed on September 9.

Sixteen Arakanese residents arrested on suspicion of having links with the Arakan Army (AA) and facing long potential prison sentences under the Counter-Terrorism Law were released on September 9, according to family members.