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Visitors climb Bay Ngar Rar Mountain in 2021.
October 31, 2022
An annual pagoda festival at Bay Ngar Rar Mountain near Yoke Tayoke Village in Arakan State’s Ponnagyun Township will not be held this year due to...
October 31, 2022
A Grade 10 student was injured when an artillery shell landed and exploded in Hsinmakyaw Village, part of Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township, on...
A market in Maungdaw town is pictured in 2019.
October 31, 2022
Myanmar’s military regime has blockaded roads in northern Maungdaw Township since August following escalating military tensions with the Arakan Army...
October 31, 2022
Burma’s armed forces arrested 54 ethnic Rohingya, including a pregnant woman and four children, who were travelling in a motorboat on the Toe River...
October 31, 2022
The five soldiers from the Military Council came from a combined force of KNLA Brigade 6 and joined CDM in Kyarinnseikgyi Township, Karen State,...
October 31, 2022
The Peace Process Steering Team (PPST) told Than Lwin Times that they are trying to hold a political dialogue involving all ethnic armed...
October 31, 2022
Some schools in Mon State’s Ye Township are temporarily closed, and there are few students attending classes as a result of the instability in the...
October 30, 2022
Written by Gaung Daw San Aye Than and her family fled their home after her husband was detained by the Myanmar military more than two years ago. They...
October 30, 2022
Family members say they have not been in contact with 13 Arakanese from Haigyi Island in Ayeyarwady Region for more than a month, after they were...
Internally displaced people (IDPs). Photo: EPA
October 30, 2022
The junta authorities have ordered that all northern Shan State internally displaced people (IDPs) will have to close by the end of the year. The...
October 30, 2022
The UN Security Council should stop evading its responsibility to act to stop the Myanmar military’s war of terror by continuing to defer to ASEAN’s...
October 30, 2022
The Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) has reached a deal to send 200,000 tonnes of rice to Bangladesh, of which Arakan State will supply 2,500 tonnes,...