Media Alert

July 25, 2008
Chiang Mai — Despite of the absence of a key prosecutor's witness, a township court in Burma's former capital on Thursday conducted the hearing of...
July 24, 2008
Government officials removed four cartoons from a fund-raising exhibit earlier this week for allegedly violating government policies. The exhibit,...
July 20, 2008
Several Malaysian non-government organizations (NGOs) are up in arms over what they claim as the government's continuous invoking of laws to...
July 14, 2008
The Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) strongly condemns the fatal shooting of a Cambodian journalist and his son on 11 July 2008. Reporter Khim...
July 2, 2008
An editor of a monthly magazine in Burma has been forced to resign for publishing a poem about the historic Depayin town in its June issue, Mizzima...
June 30, 2008
Philippine press advocates - and the country's media itself - are up in arms over a lower court's dismissal of a class suit brought by journalists...
June 24, 2008
New Delhi - A woman journalist covering Cyclone Nargis victims asking for aid from international NGOs in Rangoon has been detained by for over two...
June 24, 2008
A South Korean journalist was deported from Burma by the ruling military junta on 22 June 2008 for visiting the office of the opposition National...
June 20, 2008
The Thai Journalists Association (TJA) and Thai Broadcast Journalists Association (TBJA) on 17 June 2008 condemned a small bomb attack on The Manager...
June 16, 2008
Shops selling satellite dish antennas in Rangoon are being raided and searched by local authorities in Burma. SEAPA Alerts partner Mizzima.com...
June 6, 2008
May 6, 2008. - The Indian police today briefly detained a TV reporter of Mizzima News, a Burmese media in exile based in India during the protest by...
May 30, 2008
New Delhi - Burma's censorship board, infamous for its stranglehold on the media, has denied permission to Rangoon based weekly journals from...
May 13, 2008
Burmese authorities have placed restrictions on journalists covering the deadly cyclone, but Burmese reporters have more freedom to move inside the...
May 7, 2008
Chiang Mai - The Burmese military junta deported a BBC reporter from the Rangoon airport yesterday. The British national Mr. Andrew William Fardae...
April 18, 2008
Mr. Myo Myint Aung, Editor of Khonumthung News Group was arrested by the Delhi police along with three Burmese journalists in exile yesterday.

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