Muslim refugees typically cross the border en route to foreign countries despite various difficulties, and are arrested if caught and sentenced to prison terms by the respective township courts.

Myanmar Navy vessels are checking the number of passengers, ID cards and lists of commodities from cargo boats and ferryboats operating in Arakan State.

Myanmar’s military regime has so far brought prosecutions against five journalists from media agencies based in Arakan State since the coup.

Arakan Army (AA) personnel arrested junta police on patrol and seized their car at around 3 p.m. on Tuesday in Mrauk-U town, Arakan State, sources told DMG.

“They explained their plans for repatriation. However, they didn’t listen to the voices of refugees,” said Ko Aung Myaing from the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh.

Members of some local civil society organisations (CSOs) based in Arakan State have gone into hiding following recent junta raids on CSOs and international aid agencies operating in the state.

A local woman from Barwa Village, part of Chin State’s Paletwa Township, who was severely injured in an artillery shelling last week, is currently receiving medical treatment at Sittwe General Hospital.

Junta police arrested a woman selling firecrackers in the Arakan State capital Sittwe’s central market on Saturday.
 

The state-level version of Myanmar’s military regime is touting a plan to spend K3.5 billion (US$1.67 million) on beautifying Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State.
 

Myanmar’s military regime has banned fireworks and firecrackers during the Thadingyut festival in all 17 of Arakan State’s townships, according to ward and village administrators.
 

Twenty-one people were killed or injured by lightning strikes during the current rainy season, from May through this week, in Arakan State.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) launched attacks on junta bases at strategic locations in Chin Shwe Haw town, northern Shan State, on Friday morning.

The Three Brotherhood Alliance issued a statement on October 27 saying its members — the Arakan Army (AA), Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) — would join forces with other anti-junta groups to defeat Myanmar’s military regime, which it described as “a shared aspiration of the Myanmar populace.” 

Those who rely on bamboo for agriculture in western Bago Region’s Thayawady District are facing difficulties due to ongoing fighting there.
 

The Myanmar military will carry out live-fire drills in Ponnagyun Township, the latest in a series of live-fire exercises in Arakan State since early this month.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Health Ministry said that since January, it has detected 318 brands of food unsuitable for human consumption in both Myanmar’s traditional markets and being sold online.

Nearly 7,000 students failed the matriculation exam under the old curriculum in the previous academic year in Arakan State, and only 576 of them have registered to sit the matriculation exam or Grade 12 exam under the new curriculum to be held next year, according to the state education office.
 

Myanmar’s military regime is working to turn national identity cards into “smart cards”, and data collection and education is being carried out in Arakan State.
 

Among Chinese wind turbine projects to be implemented in Arakan State, the evaluation stage is reportedly nearing completion for a project in Gwa Township.