Development Media Group

April 8, 2026
AA imposes 50% tax on imported liquor ahead of Thingyan
April 8, 2026
AA launches crackdown on fake doctors
April 1, 2026
Mizoram fuel export ban hits Arakan traders hard
August 19, 2022
Families denied access to four detained Maungdaw Twsp men including...
Family members have not been allowed to see four men from northern Maungdaw Township, Arakan State, including a village administrator and a village...
A ferryboat plying the water route between Myeik and Kyunsu is docked at a jetty in Myeik.
August 19, 2022
Skyrocketing fuel prices take toll on ferryboat owners in Myeik
Ferryboat services plying water routes between Kyunsu and Myeik townships in Tanintharyi Region will likely suspend operations due to increases in...
Homes damaged by strong winds in Ngapali’s Jeittaw ward. (Photo: Yebaw Thaung Tun)
August 19, 2022
Arakan State ferry services told to suspend operations ahead of...
The department of Inland Water Transport has instructed ferry services operating in Arakan State to suspend operations from August 18-20 due to...
August 18, 2022
ANC, ALP criticise Arakan Army’s assertion of exclusive right to Arakanese...
The Arakan National Council/Arakan Army (ANC/AA) and Arakan Liberation Party/Arakan Liberation Army (ALP/ALA) have rejected recent remarks from the...
Photo: KNU
August 18, 2022
Over 350,000 people displaced in KNU-controlled territories since coup,...
More than 350,000 people in Kayin (Karen) State have been displaced post-coup as a result of fighting between Myanmar’s military regime and...
August 17, 2022
Latest hurdle for Mrauk-U’s UNESCO World Heritage bid is Russia’s invasion...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year could have the unintended side effect of delaying a decision on the bid to have the ancient Arakanese...
August 17, 2022
Junta blockade of road linking Maungdaw and Sittwe causes local hardships...
Local people in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township are concerned about possible food shortages as the Myanmar military has blocked off the main road...
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...