Development Media Group

Arakan State IDPs fret as unseasonal rains expected
April 9, 2020
Myat Swe — An unseasonal weather forecast is causing concern for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State, where more than 150,000 people...
April 9, 2020
Khin Tharaphy Oo — Nearly 2,300 people sheltering at the Nyaung Chaung IDP camp in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township are in need of water supplies and...
Photo ; Office of the Commander-in-Chief.
April 7, 2020
Aung Htein — A man and a woman from two villages in Paletwa Township, Chin State, have been detained by the Tatmadaw and stand accused of having ties...
April 7, 2020
Min Tun — It has been almost 10 months since the government cut off mobile internet access in eight townships of Arakan State and Paletwa Township in...
April 6, 2020
Khaing Roe La — A former Arakan State minister for security and border affairs, Colonel Htein Lin, has been appointed as a peace advisor for the...
Daw Phyu Thein Chay, wife of a Tatmadaw corporal, succumbed to gunshot wounds on April 3.( Photo: CJ)
April 6, 2020
Myo Thiri Kyaw — The wife of a corporal from a Tatmadaw battalion based in Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township was fatally shot on April 3, according...
The victim U Saw Naing Win was being taken to Sittwe Hospital on Friday morning.( Photo: Aung Htein / DMG)
April 6, 2020
Aung Htein and Zaung (Ponnagyun) — A local man was reportedly injured when an artillery shell landed near Letwei Sartaik village in Ponnagyun...
April 4, 2020
Hnin Nwe — Five civilians were killed and eight were injured on Wednesday evening when heavy weapons and small arms fire tore through the town of...
April 4, 2020
Hnin Nwe — More than 2,000 people have recently fled their homes in Ponnagyun Township due to fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army,...
April 2, 2020
Khaing Roe La — The editor-in-chief of the Sittwe-based Narinjara News agency has been charged under a terrorism law and three reporters from the...
Those returned from Thailand receive medical checkups at Aung Mingalar highway bus station in Yangon. (Photo: Minister U Zaw Aye Maung)
April 2, 2020
Myo Thiri Kyaw — Migrant workers returning from abroad to some villages in Mrauk-U Township are being forced to stay outside their villages for 14...
April 2, 2020
Police searched the Narinjara News Agency’s office in Sittwe on Tuesday evening and took three journalists in for questioning, according to the...