Development Media Group

December 12, 2025
Junta bombs Kyaukphyu a day after Mrauk-U hospital airstrike, killing eight
Arakan IDPs outside camps struggle as aid fails to reach them
December 12, 2025
Arakan IDPs outside camps struggle as aid fails to reach them
Mrauk-U hospital bombing death toll surpasses 30, injuries exceed 70
December 11, 2025
Mrauk-U hospital bombing death toll surpasses 30, injuries exceed 70
January 7, 2021
NLD spokesman urges Tatmadaw to share details of talks with Arakan Army
Min Tun — The Tatmadaw must present the results of its talks with the Arakan Army (AA) to the government in order for the ethnic armed group to have...
Photo- State Counsellor Office
January 5, 2021
New year will bring ‘new approaches’ to peace process: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung Htein — In her New Year’s speech to the nation, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said she is prepared to take “new approaches” to the...
January 2, 2021
Group aims to supply sanitary pads to Arakan IDP women
Khin Tharaphy Oo — Pad Donation Myanmar, a charity group formed by students, will provide sanitary pads for women who are sheltering at camps for...
January 2, 2021
IDPs appeal to Arakan govt to arrange for retrieving belongings left in...
Khin Tharaphy Oo — Now sheltering in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs), residents of Marlar village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State,...
January 2, 2021
Health workers slated to get first doses of COVID-19 vaccine starting in...
Kyaw Thu Htay — Healthcare workers will be the first in Myanmar to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and should expect to receive the shots starting in...
January 1, 2021
Three Brotherhood Alliance announces unilateral ceasefire through February
Aung Htein — The Three Brotherhood Alliance on January 1 announced the extension of a unilateral ceasefire through February to facilitate practical...
December 24, 2020
Female MPs-elect to focus on IDP, women’s issues in upcoming legislative...
Min Tun — Most internally displaced people in Arakan State’s IDP (internally displaced person) camps are women, and Arakanese female parliamentarians...
December 24, 2020
Metta Yeik orphanage in need of bed-related supplies for children
Hnin Nwe and Myo Thiri Kyaw — The recently opened Metta Yeik orphanage in Myebon Township’s Kanhtaunggyi town, Arakan State, for orphans who have...
December 24, 2020
Generation Wave says number killed lawlessly in Arakan exceeds 20 in three...
Min Tun — Twenty-one people were killed lawlessly in the three months from June 16 to September 15 in Arakan State, the civil society youth...
December 22, 2020
Defamation suit against DMG reporter is latest prosecution of Arakan...
Questions are being raised over a recent case opened against a DMG reporter in Arakan State who is being charged with defamation under the...
December 22, 2020
Three youths charged under Peaceful Assembly Law for Human Rights Day event
Aung Htein — Three youths who participated in a campaign in the Arakan State capital Sittwe marking International Human Rights Day were charged under...
Photo - Maungdaw-based journalist Kyaw Myo Aung aka Aung Kyaw Min of Development Media Group is currently being prosecuted under Section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law.
December 21, 2020
Next administration urged to scrap repressive laws restricting press...
Hnin Nwe — Media organisations and civil society groups that support freedom of expression have called on the incoming government to amend laws that...