Development Media Group

May 20, 2021
A 20-year-old returning from Bangladesh tested positive for COVID-19 in the Arakan State capital Sittwe on May 18, according to the state’s Public...
Photo: Teachers assigned at polling booths in the 2020 general election.
May 19, 2021
A total of 421 teachers at basic education schools will take promotion exams in Arakan State, according to U Tin Thein, head of the Arakan State...
May 17, 2021
Residents of Tinma village in Kyauktaw Township, Arakan State, were displaced by fighting between the Tatmadaw and Arakan Army in March of last year...
May 14, 2021
With the junta-reconstituted Union Election Commission (UEC) offering to meet with political parties for a second time, the Arakan Front Party (AFP...
May 13, 2021
Yay Kauk and Payit villages in Thandwe Township are facing drinking water scarcity, according to local villagers. “Although we have been provided...
May 13, 2021
Two journalists from Development Media Group (DMG) charged under Section 505(a) of the Penal Code have been summoned by the Sittwe Township Court to...
May 12, 2021
The Chin University Students in Rakhine State (CUSR) released a statement on May 9 urging ethnic Chin university students in Arakan State to boycott...
May 11, 2021
Three people who were severely injured on May 7 when a piece of unexploded ordnance blew up in Sabahta village, in Arakan State’s Minbya Township,...
May 10, 2021
With COVID-19 infection rates and related fatalities on the rise in neighbouring India and Bangladesh, DMG interviewed Sittwe-based civil society...
May 10, 2021
Thirty-five instructors from Sittwe University in the Arakan State capital have been dismissed for joining the civil disobedience movement, according...
May 7, 2021
A displacement camp opened at a Buddhist monastery in Sittwe’s Setyonesu ward is facing a severe water shortage and in urgent need of water supplies...
May 6, 2021
The Arakan Students Union (Universities – Yangon) released a statement on Tuesday urging university students in Yangon Region to boycott the...