Sittwe, 14th March 02: "The private monastic education has once again become popular in Arakan State, in the western part of Burma... All over Arakan State the primary level students are more and more interested to join the monasteries for their education as a result of most of the government-appointed and non-government teachers' inability to conduct regular classes in the face of the skyrocketing prices of daily necessities and meagre wages given by the military regime..."