An amateur video has emerged showing traffic police in Rangoon, flagging down buses on a busy street and pocketing bribe after bribe. While this is a common enough scene, what’s not common is to see it on video ! Many Burmese Facebook users
ARTISTS and Freedom of EXPRESSION
© Amnesty International France
No visa for some Journalists and academics
Thursday, September 20 2012
Despite a government announcement that more than 2,000 names were removed from the country’s blacklist, journalists and academics whose names were excised from the infamous directory are still unable to secure Burmese visas. Bertil Lintner, who has
Nargis—When Time Stopped Breathing
Friday, September 7 2012
“Nargis—When Time Stopped Breathing” is Burma’s first ever feature-length documentary made by native filmmakers who captured the aftermath of the 2008 Cyclone Nargis disaster in the Irrawaddy delta which killed nearly 140,000 people. Fearing that
Buddhism : de-facto state religion
Wednesday, September 5 2012
The report entitled “‘Threats to Our Existence’: Persecution of Ethnic Chin Christians in Burma” exposes a decades-long pattern of religious freedom violations and documents other serious human rights abuses such as forced labour, torture, and other
ITUC to establish an office in Burma
Wednesday, September 5 2012
The ITUC has welcomed the imminent return to Burma of the leader of the country’s trade union movement, Maung Maung, following a decision by the government to remove some 2,000 people from a black-list of over 6,000 banned from entering the country.
Ethnic clashes and freedom of information
Thursday, August 30 2012
The links between ethnic hatred and freedom of information is well established. The lack of journalistic ethics and publication of racist rhetoric about the Rohingyas by certain newspapers, which contributed to the escalation of violence, is also a
Street art in Yangoon
Tuesday, August 28 2012
While contention remains over whether the work is street art or vandalism, drawings and messages have been springing up on walls all over the country since the return to civilian rule in 2011. Two anonymous graffiti artists in the city of Yangon say
Media watchdogs monitoring the new press law
Tuesday, August 21 2012
IFEX published a guideline prepared by the Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA) and the Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD) to provide support for the media community in Burma in addressing the anticipated introduction of a press law and a press
1962, July 7 : commemorations are forbidden
Sunday, July 8 2012
Members of a student group that planned to mark the 50th anniversary of the destruction of the University of Rangoon Student Union building were summoned by police in Mandalay Division on Thursday and warned not to “dig up the past.”. “He warned us
Following crisis in Arakan, threats to freedom of news
Thursday, June 28 2012
Although there have been some reforms in the past year, Burma still has an authoritarian government led by members of the former military regime now recycled as civilian parliamentarians. Around 500 political prisoners are still held the country’s 42
Death of veteran journalist Ludu Sein Win
Monday, June 18 2012
Man of letters, committed intellectual and prolific journalist, Sein Win worked tirelessly for the betterment of his fellow citizens. Neither the 13 years he spent in prison nor the partial paralysis he suffered as a result of a heart attack
Media accused “enflaming the conflict” in Arakan.
Tuesday, June 12 2012
A threat by Rangoon chief minister Myint Swe to prosecute news media that cover the current sectarian violence in the western state of Arakan in an irresponsible manner has highlighted the fragility of recent improvements in media freedom. Myint Swe
ပါေဖာမန္႔ျပသူ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား တရားစြဲခံရ
Wednesday, May 30 2012
မႏၱေလးက်ဳံး ေျမာက္ဘက္ေထာင့္တြင္ ပါေဖာမန္႔စ္ (Performance) ျပခဲ့သည့္ အႏုပညာရွင္ ၇ ဦးအား ယေန႔ တရားစြဲကာ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ရုံးတင္ စစ္ေဆးမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ေမ ၂၄ ရက္ေန႔က ျမန္မာအႏုပညာရွင္ ၇ ဦးႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံျခား အႏုပညာရွင္ ၅ ဦးတို႔ ပူးေပါင္း၍ “ခံစားခ်က္
Printer and Publisher Registration Act
Saturday, May 19 2012
Journalists remain under threat of the Printer and Publisher Registration Act that was implemented after military takeover and that allows for imprisonment for "harming the ideology and views" of the government. The vague and arbitrary
why IFEX members are sceptical
Friday, April 13 2012
there are just as many signs that, in the words of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), "President Thein Sein's commitment to greater press freedom is still more rhetoric than reality." Here are five of them: i. The draft media law
Monks remain under surveillance / Les moines restent espionnés
Friday, April 13 2012
2012.04.10 Burma's dissident monks remain under surveillance 2012.04.10 Les moines restent constamment espionnés par les autorités
Links ON THE WEB
Monday, April 2 2012
in english Assistance Association for Political Prisoners Burma Campaign UK Burma Democratic Concern Burma Forum UK 'Burma Liberation Front Burmese Muslim Association Burmese Democracy Movement Association UK Democracy for Burma Democratic Voice of
အစည္းအ႐ံုးအသစ္ကေန ရလဒ္ေကာင္းေတြ ေပၚထြက္ဖို႔ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ေလာကသားေတြ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနၾက
Saturday, March 31 2012
႐ုပ္ရွင္နဲ႔ ဗီဒီယိုေလာကအတြက္ မွတ္ တမ္းတင္ထားရမယ့္ ေျခလွမ္းသစ္တစ္ခု ျဖစ္တဲ့ ႐ုပ္ရွင္အစည္းအ႐ံုးျပန္လည္ ဖြဲ႕စည္း ေရးအတြက္ ေလာကသားေတြ အားလံုး တက္ညီလက္ညီနဲ႔ မဲေပးေရြး ခ်ယ္ၾကရာမွာ ရလဒ္ေတြအသီးသီးနဲ႔ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ ၿပီးစီးခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႀကီးကို မတ္လ ၂၃
Free election... in the Film industry
Saturday, March 31 2012
A Planned restructure of the Myanmar Motion Picture Organisation took an important step forward last week, with the election through secret ballot of members to represent different segments of the industry. More than 1900 members voted in the
Burmese pop : between censorship and piracy
Saturday, March 31 2012
A Burmese pop singer, who grew up idolising far away megastars, describes decades of political isolation as like being “locked up in a cold, dark cave… some people around the world even didn’t notice we exist.” The country’s pop is dominated by
« previous entries - page 2 of 9 - next entries »