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Caption: An old school building in Nyaung Chaung Thit village, Ann Township, and a new school building locked by the construction company. (Photo: DMG)
June 9, 2022
A new school building in Nyaung Chaung Thit village in Arakan State’s Ann Township has been closed and children are studying at an old school...
This photo taken on Sept 22, 2017 in Sittwe, in Myanmar's Rakhine state, shows boys waiting for food near a makeshift kitchen outside a disused football stadium in an IDP camp sheltering hundreds of Hindu villagers displaced by communal violence. Photo: AIDAN JONES / AFP
June 9, 2022
According to campaign group Progressive Voice the international community risks allowing the junta to weaponise aid by putting all aid through the...
June 9, 2022
Following a meeting for so-called peace talks with regime leaders in Naypyidaw, the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) is reportedly mobilising...
June 9, 2022
Burmese-Thai authorities have reopened the border between Kawt Thaung and Ranong after it was closed for over two years during the pandemic. On 1...
June 9, 2022
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) will conduct a field survey of Mrauk-U in September, following Myanmar’s December 2021...
June 9, 2022
Rainy days often contribute to sadness. For veteran Arakanese revolutionaries, they can’t help but remember one person in particular each year on...
Wah Taung IDP camp is pictured in the last week of April. (Photo: Ma Hla Win)
June 9, 2022
Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State are acutely short of food supplies as the military regime is only providing a small amount and...
June 8, 2022
The families of a man and a woman in Kyaukphyu who are being investigated by the Myanmar military on suspicion of raising funds for the Arakan Army (...
June 8, 2022
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Thai government to provide recently rescued Rohingya asylum seekers with assistance and immediate access...
June 8, 2022
It is reported that at least ten civilians, including one civil disobedience movement (CDM) participant teacher in Pindaya township, Southern Shan...
PNO holds a meeting
June 8, 2022
It is reported that civilians in Hsi Hseng township, Southern Shan State, are having a hard time living in the areas where military-backed Pa-O...
June 8, 2022
The Non-CDM teachers from No. 1, High School, Hopong township, Southern Shan State, are forcing the new enrolled students to attend the paid private...