The situation was exacerbated in April when the World Food Program was forced to cut aid to 1 million people nationwide.

As the military fights an ethnic armed group, it has blockaded Rakhine State — throttling supplies to its estimated ...

Caught between abuses by the Arakan Army and the junta, residents are starving and cut off from international aid in a region ...

Even those who manage to hold on to one of the few remaining jobs in the locked-down Rakhine State capital don’t make enough ...

Junta blockades, soaring prices and US aid cuts are driving a sharp rise in hunger and malnutrition across conflict-hit ...

In a quiet Wangara industrial strip, this lunch bar looks like any other. But behind the pie warmer and fridges of choccy milk is one of Perth’s most exciting kitchens – where mohinga, Rakhine noodle ...

Rakhine has become a focal point for Myanmar’s nationwide civil war, in which pro-democracy guerrillas and ethnic minority armed forces seeking autonomy battle the country’s military rulers ...

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, right, shakes hands with her appointed chairman of the Advisory Board on Rakhine State, Thai former foreign minister Surakiart Sathirathai at a meeting in Nay Pyi ...

Successive governments remained deaf to long-standing grievances about land issues and lack of revenue-sharing from major investments; Rakhine is now Myanmar's poorest state.

Myanmar's government says it has ordered the military to "crush" rebels in the western state of Rakhine, following raids by insurgents that killed 13 police officers earlier this month.