Nearly 100 displaced persons at the Kanhtaunggyi displacement camp in Myebon Township, Arakan State, are facing severe livelihood hardships due to a lack of humanitarian aid and support, according to local sources.

Cholera and diarrhoea cases continue to surge across Yangon Region, resulting in at least one death and more than 260 infections, according to statements released by the military junta's Yangon Region government.

Captain Zin Yaw, a military defector, assessed that the military junta might grant concessions to the demands of the ethnic armed organizations it meets with, subsequently leveraging those agreements to exert pressure on other ethnic armed forces and revolutionary groups.

Heavy clashes have broken out between the military junta and the Arakan Army near the Taung Maw Oo naval station in Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State, with both sides exchanging heavy artillery fire, according to military sources.

At least 65 civilians, including women and children, were killed or injured in military junta airstrikes across Arakan State and Paletwa Township in Chin State over the past two weeks, according to data compiled by DMG.

The military junta is launching heavy offensives using various tactics and methods in an attempt to penetrate Arakan State, which is controlled by the Arakan Army, according to a statement released by the ethnic Arakanese armed group on August 14.

Digital repression persisted from May to July across areas controlled by the military junta, revolutionary forces and ethnic armed organizations throughout Myanmar, according to a report by the Myanmar Internet Project (MIP).

Thefts have increased in recent days across several townships controlled by the Arakan Army in Arakan State, according to local residents and victims.

Military junta airstrikes have caused 11 mass-casualty incidents, each resulting in at least 10 civilian casualties, in Arakan State and Paletwa Township in Chin State so far this year, according to data compiled by DMG.

The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it is investigating war crimes allegedly committed by the military junta in Arakan State.

Residents of Thandwe Township, Arakan State, are facing severe livelihood and food security challenges as relentless airstrikes by the military junta disrupt daily earnings.

Damage along the Myebon-Ann Road is severely disrupting travel between southern and northern Arakan State and causing major delays to the movement of goods.

The group included 13 students under the age of 20. They were released on bail into the custody of their guardians during a ceremony held in Kyauktaw Township.

Farmland in Arakan State left uncultivated for three consecutive years may be subject to fines or confiscation, according to the Central Land Management Committee under the United League of Arakan (ULA).

Arakan National University, operating under the Arakan National Education Department, has opened applications for third-year and first-year honours programmes for the 2026–2027 academic year.

The Arakan Army released a detailed list of victims on Tuesday confirming that 25 civilians, including children, were killed or injured in a junta airstrike on Kyaukkyi Village in Thandwe Township.

The military junta, suffering heavy casualties in clashes near the Nat Yay Kan tactical hilltop base, the last remaining junta stronghold on the Arakan mountain range, has resorted to airstrikes on civilian-populated areas in an attempt to ease pressure from an Arakan Army counteroffensive.

While border trade continues between Arakan State and Bangladesh, high tax rates are posing significant challenges for ordinary merchants seeking to participate in cross-border trade.

Facing heavy casualties on the intense battlefields of Kyaukphyu Township, Arakan State, the military regime has deployed hundreds of reinforcements in an effort to strengthen its positions, according to local sources.