Development Media Group

April 29, 2026
Criticism grows as AA detains traders and young people at Paletwa...
April 28, 2026
Junta airstrikes escalate across Arakan State
April 27, 2026
Uptick in junta naval movements off Arakan State
Visitors climb Bay Ngar Rar Mountain in 2021.
October 31, 2022
Ponnagyun Twsp pagoda festival cancelled due to military tensions
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
Junta shelling injures Grade 10 student in Kyauktaw Twsp
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
Residents required to seek approval from administrators, police to travel...
Myanmar’s military regime has blockaded roads in northern Maungdaw Township since August following escalating military tensions with the Arakan Army...
October 30, 2022
Missing Tinma Villagers’ Families Wait for Word With Growing Despair
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
Families unable to contact several Arakanese arrested for alleged AA links
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...
October 30, 2022
2,500 tonnes of Arakan State-grown rice to be exported to Bangladesh
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,...
Malaysia hosts a significant population of migrant workers from Arakan State. (Photo: Reuters)
October 30, 2022
Malaysian authorities release 18 including Arakanese migrant aid workers;...
Eighteen people who were detained by Malaysian authorities during a raid on the office of the Arakan Refugee Relief Committee (ARRC) in Kuala Lumpur...
October 28, 2022
Over 1.6m people in Myanmar displaced since coup: think tank
More than 1.6 million people in Myanmar have been displaced over the past 18 months, since last year’s military coup, according to the Institute for...
Interview
October 27, 2022
ANP leader: ‘If both sides work hard, if both parties meet to find a...
An informal ceasefire between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) circa November 2020, after two years of often-intense fighting between...
October 27, 2022
Caring Hands Weakened by Fuel and Political Crises
Written By Min Tun With its siren wailing, an ambulance speeds along a thoroughfare in the Arakan State capital Sittwe, pulling up in front of the...
October 27, 2022
At Seven Years Old, Myanmar’s Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement on Life...
The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA), which is considered by some to be the second-most significant milestone in Myanmar’s peace process after...
October 27, 2022
Cyclonic winds, storm surge damage over 1,600 acres of paddy farms in...
More than 1,600 acres of paddy fields were damaged by strong winds blamed on cyclonic storm Sitrang in Arakan State’s Pauktaw and Manaung townships...