Chinese special envoy to Myanmar Deng Xijun met junta foreign minister Than Swe on Tuesday in Naypyidaw, junta media reported.

Myanmar’s border trade with China has been practically halted for nearly eight months, since the anti-regime Operation 1027 in northern Shan State was launched, the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP-Myanmar) said in a report 

The regime reportedly shot two men dead and arrested two women from Amyintkyun Village in Sittwe Township who attempted to flee the Arakan State capital on June 11.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested the day of the military coup on February 1, 2021. She spent her fourth consecutive birthday behind bars on Wednesday.

One TNLA member was killed and four others were injured after the military attacked a camp in Nawnghkio Township, northern Shan State, with two drones, the statement added.

There have been no clashes between the military and AA in Gwa and Manaung townships to date. Gwa is home to the military’s Light Infantry Battalion Nos. 562 and 563 under the military’s No. 5 Military Operations Command.

Six ethnic Thet internally displaced people (IDPs) were injured in a junta air attack on Aungzeya Village, part of Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, at around 2 a.m. on June 18, locals said.

Thousands of local people are reportedly trapped by fierce fighting between the military and Arakkha Army (AA) as the ethnic armed group has launched a battle for control of Maungdaw Township in Arakan State over recent days.

Kyun Nanthar, an island 24 nautical miles west of Kyeintali Town in Arakan State’s Gwa Township, has been designated as a marine national park, becoming the third island to be designated as such in Myanmar,

A man from Alel Ywar Village in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township died on Monday after stepping on a landmine while going to croplands near the village.

An offensive launched by the Arakkha Army (AA) in Thandwe Township, Arakan State, is moving closer to junta battalions stationed in the town, according to local people.

Five people were reportedly killed in a junta airstrike on Kanseik Village on Pantin Island in the west of Taungup Township, Arakan State, on Tuesday morning.

The IDPs are trapped by fighting as the Arakkha Army (AA) is currently attacking the junta’s Border Guard Force Battalion No. 5 in Maungdaw’s Myothugyi Ward and Border Guard Force Battalion No. 2 in 4th-Mile Village.

Myanmar’s military regime has stepped up its air raids in Arakan State’s Pauktaw Township, which is controlled by the Arakkha Army (AA), inflicting additional civilian casualties.

Cash is running low in Arakan State’s Thandwe Township as local bank branches have closed since earlier this month amid escalating hostilities between Myanmar’s military regime and the Arakkha Army (AA).

The military regime abducted about 200 residents from Mingan Ward in Arakan State’s Sittwe Town on Sunday. They have been held incommunicado since, according to residents.

Fighting between the Myanmar military and Arakkha Army (AA) has reportedly been ongoing near Zaingchaung Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township, since 7 a.m. on Monday.

Hundreds of local people from at least 10 villages in Taungup Township, Arakan State, have been displaced by recent fighting in the area.

The AA has captured almost all the junta camps in Maungdaw Township and has surrounded and cut off the remaining camps in and around the town of Maungdaw.