Media Alert

October 12, 2007
The Burmese video censorship board is using dilatory tactics to permit release and screening of an HIV awareness video film, in which prominent...
October 5, 2007
October 4, 2007 - Guwahati - The Journalists' Forum, Assam on Thursday urged the Government of India to mount diplomatic pressure on the Burmese...
October 3, 2007
People in some parts of Mon state, Burma have been ordered not to listen to foreign radio stations offering Burmese service such as the BBC, VOA, and...
October 3, 2007
Siem Reap, Cambodia - ARTICLE 19, Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA), the Cambodian Centre for Human Rights, the Alliance of Independent...
October 2, 2007
28 September 2007 Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) The main link to the Internet in Burma -- the main medium that has allowed the world...
October 2, 2007
A foreign journalist was reportedly killed by military troops on 27 September 2007, the second day of the Burmese junta’s crackdown on protesters in...
September 28, 2007
The Burmese military junta is now desperate to stop information of the turmoil in the country filtering out to the rest of the world. It has blocked...
September 26, 2007
The Burmese military junta has issued a new order to Rangoon based journals and periodicals to publish a declaration denouncing the ongoing protests...
September 22, 2007
As hundreds of Buddhist monks in Burma take over from civilians to march across towns in defiance of the totalitarian military regime that has shown...
September 8, 2007
September 8, 2007 - In an ironical move, the Burmese military junta, infamous for its stranglehold on the media's jugular, plans to start a three-...
September 8, 2007
You Tube, the popular website which featured the ongoing protests in Burma on video, has been banned by the military junta. Access to the video-...
August 31, 2007
While the international media and newspapers have run front page stories of the unrest in Burma, local newspapers and journals have been severely...
August 31, 2007
BANGKOK - Journalists in Rangoon are reporting a rapidly deteriorating situation for covering the sporadic protests, and brewing crisis, in Burma.
August 29, 2007
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association firmly condemn the methods being used by the military government to prevent journalists,...
August 29, 2007
A Burmese investigative reporter, May Thingyan Hein, has won the 2007 Knight International Journalism Award along with an Egyptian blogger, Wael...

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