Residents of the northern Rakhine border township of Maungdaw say they are concerned that full-scale clashes may break out between the military and the...

More than 300 displaced persons returned from Sittwe yesterday to their homes in Maungdaw, with another 100 en route today.

More than 500,000 methamphetamine tablets were seized between Zula and Makyee Kone villages in Rakhine State on Wednesday morning, according to the Maungdaw district police force.

Acting on a tip-off from residents in Letphwekya Village, security forces uncovered the cache of weapons beside a riverbank.

The firebrand nationalist monk U Wirathu headlined a rally on Wednesday at which he spoke in dire terms of the “marauding” threat posed by Muslims in western Burma, labelled international aid groups operating there “terrorists,” and thwarted Buddhist authorities’ attempts to rein in his public profile.

“We will take responsibility for security, as well as social and economic issues,” he told ethnic Mro villagers in Kaing Gyi.