Development Media Group

December 18, 2025
19-group coalition SRA emerges, accelerating Myanmar revolution
December 17, 2025
Mrauk-U Hospital bombing deepens healthcare crisis for Arakan people
December 12, 2025
Junta bombs Kyaukphyu a day after Mrauk-U hospital airstrike, killing eight
IDPs sheltering at a monastery in Rathedaung Township’s Thanchaung village. (Photo: Wai Hun Aung)
August 16, 2022
Relief supplies needed for hundreds of locals displaced by fighting in...
Hundreds of residents who fled their homes for safer locations after the Myanmar military clashed with the Arakan Army in Rathedaung Township over...
August 16, 2022
Activists spotlight women’s increased vulnerability in post-coup Myanmar
As a result of Myanmar’s political and economic crises, women are more vulnerable to violence and predation than they were pre-coup, according to...
Ma Khin Myo Than was beaten to death earlier this month.
August 16, 2022
Myebon Twsp woman dies of injuries after being beaten by shaman: family
Family members said that a woman from Yishin village in Arakan State’s Myebon Township died of her injuries last week after being beaten by a shaman...
August 16, 2022
Vox Pop: Remembering ‘rice crisis day’ in Arakan State
August 13 marked the 55th anniversary of “rice crisis day” in Arakan State, a date of tragic brutality in 1967, under the rule of dictator General Ne...
August 16, 2022
Six residents go missing in Maungdaw Twsp
Six men from Khamaung Seik village in northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, have been missing since Friday, according to relatives. Three of them...
August 16, 2022
Military closes Angumaw-Maungdaw road following Rathedaung Twsp fighting
The Myanmar military has blockaded the Angumaw-Maungdaw road since the evening of August 13, said locals and drivers. The road section between...
August 16, 2022
Myanmar’s electricity woes fueling mangrove deforestation in Arakan State
Deforestation of mangroves has increased in Arakan State as a result of power cuts, according to local mangrove conservationists. Since late last...
A landmine victim in Minbya Township, Arakan State, was taken to a public hospital on August 5.
August 16, 2022
Landmine risk education is part of its governance initiatives, AA says
The Arakan Army (AA) is carrying out landmine risk education among locals in parts of Arakan State, which is plagued by landmines after some two...
August 11, 2022
Regime troop deployments, security checks imperilling livelihoods in...
Junta troop deployments in villages and tightened security checks are severely affecting the livelihoods of local residents in Arakan State. Many...
August 11, 2022
Ward and village administrators prepared to resign amid military tensions...
Junta-appointed ward and village administrators in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township, where junta troops and the Arakan Army (AA) have exchanged fire...
Caption: The mangrove forest near Kyaytaw village, Sittwe Township, has protected the village in the years since it was planted. (Photo: Ko Hla Tun)
August 11, 2022
Poultry farmer riles Sittwe Twsp villagers after taking axe to protective...
Residents of Kyaytaw village, Sittwe Township, are seething after a poultry farmer cut down dozens of acres of mature mangroves that were planted to...
The Maungdaw border trade centre. (Photo: Arakan State Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
August 11, 2022
Myanmar, Bangladesh eyeing enhanced trade relations with coastal shipping...
Myanmar and Bangladesh authorities are taking steps to run a coastal shipping line to promote direct trade between the two countries, according to...