The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) are increasing day by day in Loikaw and Dimawso townships of Kayah State due to fighting between military council forces and a People’s Defense Force...

The Arakan State High Court on Thursday reduced by six months the prison terms of four students who were sentenced to a total of 2.5 years behind bars over an unlawful protest in October 2020,...

  Thirty-three of 76 Muslims who were arrested last week in Taungup Township, Arakan State, were charged under the Immigration Act and sentenced to one year in prison by the Taungup Township Court on...

  Some nurses who have joined the anti-regime Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and were working at private hospitals in Myanmar say they have gone into hiding as security personnel are targeting...

  Seventy-seven Muslims, including children, from Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township who were reportedly heading to Yangon were arrested in Taungup Township on December 22. 

Clashes between the Myanmar military and the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) have forced residents of Kayah State’s Loikaw,  Demoso and Hpruso townships to seek refuge in nearby displace...

  The chairman of the Taungup Township Youth Network, who was arrested this week and accused of having ties to the anti-regime People’s Defence Force (PDF), will appear in court for the first time on...

A Myanmar military officer has filed a lawsuit against Ko Wunna Khwar Nyo, editor-in-chief of Western News, and a reporter from the Arakan State-based news outlet, at the Sittwe District Court.

Myanmar’s military regime has cut off mobile data, the main source of internet access for millions of people in Arakan State, in some of the state’s townships since February 12, according to local...

  Villagers in Pauktaw Township, Arakan State, are reportedly worried as Myanmar military troops have moved from one village to another in recent days. 

  A charity doctor at a private hospital in Mawlamyine, Mon State, who was arrested by junta forces earlier this month, has been charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code, according to local...

The Myanmar military reportedly carried out live-fire drills using artillery weapons at two locations in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township on February 19, with another two locations in Manaung...

Internally displaced people (IDPs) from Mobye town and surrounding villages in Pekon Township, southern Shan State, are in need of food and accommodation after artillery shells hit their homes during...

  Ko Min Ko Oo, chairman of the Youth Network in Taungup Township, Arakan State, was taken away in a car by seven men in civilian clothes at about 9 a.m. on December 14, according to family members. 

The young author Ko Min Di Par from Pan Maw village in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, who was arrested on suspicion of financing the anti-regime forces (PDFs) and charged under Myanmar’s Counter-T...

  The Bago Township Development Affairs Committee was reportedly behind the demolition of several houses near the Suite Star garment factory in Bago town, Bago Region, on December 20. 

Many Muslims in Arakan State have faced movement restrictions since the state’s 2012 communal conflict. Moreover, if they are found trying to travel outside the state, authorities frequently arrest...

  Truck drivers and merchants are facing difficulties due to stricter inspections at a security checkpoint on the Yangon-Sittwe highway in Ann Township, Arakan State. 

Charged under Myanmar’s Anti-Corruption Law, five former Arakan State ministers including ousted Chief Minister U Nyi Pu were sentenced to several years in prison by an Arakan State court on Wednes...

The plaintiff and prosecution witnesses in the case of Ko Aung Win Naing, chair of the Moe Pyinnyar Dana Philanthropic Association in Arakan State’s Taungup town, who was charged under Section 17(1)...

  The young author Min Di Par from Pan Maw village in Mrauk-U Township, Arakan State, who has been charged under Myanmar’s Counter-Terrorism Law, appeared again in court on December 16. 

Locals that remain in the Kayah (Karenni) State capital Loikaw are concerned about a possible clash in the town as military tensions have grown between the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF)...

Forty-six people charged with having illegal ties to the Arakan Army, including several Lekka villagers long detained and on trial for alleged AA affiliations, had their cases withdrawn and were...

Two buildings used as a school inside a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township collapsed due to strong winds on February 12.

  Ko Sein Chit, a social acitivist from Arakan State’s Thandwe Township who is facing charges under the Counter-Terrorism Law, is being provided medical treatment in Thandwe Prison as he is suffering...

Fighting broke out between a coalition of armed groups led by the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and junta forces on Tuesday in Kyaikto Township, Mon State.

More than 600 internally displaced people (IDPs) at a camp in a Ponnagyun Township industrial zone have reportedly been facing food shortages for some two months.

Nearly 50 Muslims, most of them women believed to be from Arakan State, were arrested on February 8 by police in Yangon Region’s Kyauktan Township, witnesses said.

As many as 30 youths were arrested at the Kyein Chaung security checkpoint in Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, on Thursday, according to locals and other eyewitnesses.

Explosions were reported at a local high school, injuring a female student and security at the entrance of the school, as well as a member of junta forces.

  The long-running trial of five men from Ponnagyun Township, Arakan State, who have been accused of having illegal ties to the Arakan Army (AA), continued at the Sittwe District Court on February...

Homes for internally displaced people (IDPs) at Wah Taung camp, in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, are in a state of disrepair and urgently need to be repaired, according to a camp official.

Fifteen Muslims and three Chin people were arrested in a forest near Ahtet Ma Htein village in Ann Township, Arakan State, and have been accused of involvement in human trafficking, according to the...

At least 75 civilians were killed and some 180 houses were destroyed by Myanmar junta air and artillery strikes during the first two months of this year in Kayah (Karenni) State, according to the...

Two Thandwe men facing charges under Section 52(a) of the Counter-Terrorism Law told a court on Wednesday that they had nothing to do with anti-regime fighters arrested last year in Ayeyawady Region,...

  The prosecution witnesses and five former Arakan State ministers including ousted Chief Minister U Nyi Pu, who have been charged under Myanmar’s Anti-Corruption Law, have already been questioned,...

The plaintiff in the case of former Arakan State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu and his subordinate municipal minister, U Min Aung, who were charged under the Penal Code for alleged violations of election...

There is an urgent need for shelter due to strong winds and heavy rains near the Thaung Yin River on the Thai-Myanmar border, where internally displaced people (IDPs) are taking refuge, according to...

Myanmar’s military regime has detained two Muslim 100-household heads from Nga Pun village in Aung Dine village-tract, part of Arakan State’s Sittwe Township, on suspicion of having ties to the...

Myanmar’s military regime has raised the official retirement age to 62, a move that many believe is an attempt to retain its dwindling workforce in the post-coup era.

More than 100 local people displaced by fighting near the Mayan Chaung military checkpoint in Mon State’s Kyaikto Township earlier this week are in need of relief aid.

More than 200 locals have been displaced by a Myanmar military incursion into Ashae Taw and Wakone villages in Dawei Township, Tanintharyi Region, according to aid workers. 

More than 200 homes across three villages were destroyed in fighting between junta forces and Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) troops last month in Kadai Kadut village, Kyaikto Township, Mon...

  The National Alliance for Human Rights and Social Justice (HRSJA) has called on domestic and international rights groups, as well as the international community, to act to address human rights...

More than 5,000 residents of Tanintharyi Region have fled their homes in recent days due to clashes between the Myanmar military and joint opposition forces including local People Defence Forces...

U Hla Thein, a spokesperson for the Arakan State regime council, told journalists on January 3 that the military government plans to remove tricycles and other three-wheelers from the streets of the...

Telenor Group’s sale of its 51% share in Wave Money to a subsidiary of Singapore-based Yoma Strategic Holdings sees the Norwegian telecommunications operator one step closer to exiting junta-ruled...

More than 30 homes and at least one school were damaged by Myanmar military airstrikes in Lay Kay Kaw new town, Myawaddy Township, early on Monday morning, according to local sources. 

The Myanmar military has restricted the transportation of four kinds of goods, including rice, on a state-owned vessel plying a water route between Kyauktaw in Arakan State and Chin State’s Paletwa,...

Some residents of Wabo village in Arakan State’s Sittwe Township, have fled after about 50 junta soldiers were deployed to the village monastery and school. 

Winter crop growers in Arakan State say their ranks have dwindled this year due to higher agricultural costs. 

Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State townships such as Kyauktaw, Ponnagyun, Mrauk-U, and Rathedaung face difficulties with accommodation due to unseasonal rain because their houses’...

A young man from Arakan State’s Thandwe town was sentenced to more than a year in prison for participating in a protest against the military dictatorship, according to family members.

Myanmar’s military regime on Thursday charged detained former Arakan State Chief Minister U Nyi Pu and his subordinate municipal minister, U Min Aung, under the Penal Code for alleged violations of...

A former chairman of the Letpadan Township Students’ Union in Thayawady Township, Bago Region, and an ex-reporter have reportedly been sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Thayawady Court on two...

With the price of fuel skyrocketing globally and domestically, Myanmar’s tourism, travel and logistics industries are contending with related difficulties at a time of already existing, enduring...

Ko Sein Chit and Ko Ye Naing Oo from Arakan State’s Thandwe Township, who have been accused of ties to the anti-regime People’s Defence Force (PDF), will be examined at a court hearing next week as...

Residents in six townships along the Arakan State coast were being evacuated Tuesday ahead of the arrival of a storm system bringing strong winds and heavy rain, according to the Arakan State...

Ten Muslims were detained at a military checkpoint on Thursday evening in Arakan State’s Ann Township.

A letter was sent to junta chief Senior-General Min Aung Hlaing on March 3 seeking approval for the return of internally displaced people (IDPs) to Tinma village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State.

  A healthcare worker and an internally displaced person (IDP) in Paletwa Township, Chin State, were taken by police on December 28, according to family members of the detainees. 

Residents of three territories of the Karen National Union (KNU) have had to flee their homes again due to new clashes between the Myanmar military and joint forces of the Karen National Liberation...

Fighting broke out between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army on Thursday near the village of Abaung Thar in the west of Paletwa Township, Chin State, with locals concerned for their safety. 

Concerns have been raised by locals in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township following reports of gunfire in the vicinity of Ngakyidaunt village on Saturday morning.

There have been almost no clashes between the Myanmar military and Arakan Army (AA) in Arakan State for more than a year, so the continuing military presence at historical pagodas in the state has...

Junta forces used an attack helicopter in clashes with a coalition of Karenni armed groups in Kayah State’s Demoso Township on Monday, forcing hundreds of locals to flee their homes.

Arrests of political activists in Tanintharyi Region increased this month, according to sources in the region.

Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force (KNDF) has been intermittent and ongoing in Kayah (Karenni) State since the putsch on February 1, 2021.

The Arakan Army (AA) has no plan to hold political talks with the Myanmar junta because the military regime is not an elected government, said the ethnic armed group’s spokesman U Khaing Thukha.

Many of the affected houses were built about three years ago with bamboo and thatch, and thus could not withstand the strong winds, said IDPs.

A motorbike dealer from the Arakan State town of Thandwe has been arrested on suspicion of financing the anti-regime People’s Defence Forces (PDFs).