Development Media Group

November 20, 2024
Medicine prices skyrocket in Rathedaung Twsp
November 19, 2024
Thousands of IDPs face food shortages in Thandwe
A child labourer in Arakan State is pictured in November 2024.
November 18, 2024
Child labour on the rise in Arakan State
February 20, 2023
Consent still a major question hanging over return of Muslim refugees in...
Following a visit to so-called reception centres by junta officials presumably aimed at showing that Myanmar’s military regime plans to move forward...
February 2, 2023
Small ethnic political parties in Arakan State say new registration law...
The junta-controlled Union Election Commission’s new Political Parties Registration Law has left small ethnic parties in Arakan State uncertain about...
February 2, 2023
Among more than 1,200 NLD members detained since coup, just five from...
In the two years since the military coup in Myanmar, 1,232 members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), including 80 members of parliament,...
February 2, 2023
First-of-its-kind expo kicks off in Kyaukphyu
An expo and market fair, the first of its kind in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, kicked off at Yammarwadi Hall on Tuesday morning. Marine products such as...
February 2, 2023
Maungdaw Twsp among top targets of junta air raids, report finds
Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township was among the top five townships in terms of suffering junta airstrikes since the military takeover on February 1,...
February 1, 2023
Arakan small businesses yet to receive loans promised by regime
Nearly six months after the regime’s Arakan State Administration Council (ASAC) promised 10 billion kyats in loans to micro, small and medium...
February 1, 2023
Rural Development Department to build free homes for disaster victims,...
Free homes will be built in some Sittwe Township villages for poor people affected by natural disasters, according to the Department of Rural...
January 31, 2023
Hundreds of IDP returnees from Arakan State and Chin State’s Paletwa Twsp...
More than 600 internally displaced people (IDPs) who returned home at the arrangement of the Arakan State military council after the military and...
January 31, 2023
Case against university student, taxi driver heard for first time three...
The case against a distance university student and a motorbike taxi driver from Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, charged under Section 17(1) of the...
Opinion
January 26, 2023
Resource-Cursed Arakan State
Maung Khaing Tun (Pyi Thit) — Wedged between the Bay of Bengal and the Arakan Yoma mountain range, Arakan State is rich in forest and marine...
January 26, 2023
43 complaints on labour rights abuses filed in Arakan State last year
The labour affairs support centre in Arakan State says it only received 43 complaints last year about violations of labour rights in the state. The...
January 26, 2023
Muslim IDPs in Sittwe Twsp face increasingly cramped quarters
Muslims who have been living in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sittwe Township, Arakan State, for a decade are reportedly facing...