Thursday, December 11, 2008

Four publications got licence to issue first daily private newspapers

Four publications got licence to issue first daily private newspapers under Myanmar military regime. Four media tycoons who got this chance are Dr Tin Tun OO from Myanmar Times, Ko KO from Yangon media group and Dr Than Tun Aung from Eleven Media groups and Daw Hay Mar, eldest daughter of old General Khin Mg Than.
All of those people are now working together with Yangon juntas. Yangon press society is wondering how sensitive press censor board checks the news of daily news paper before overnight printing.
According to unknown source from censor office they will send their staffs to respective
News papers office to check the draft before publish.
Censorship in Burma (or Myanmar) refers to government policies in controlling and regulating certain information, particularly on religious, ethnic, political, and moral grounds. Freedom of speech and the press are not guaranteed by law, and every publication (including newspaper articles, cartoons, advertisements, and illustrations) are censored by the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division of the Ministry of Information. In 2006, Burma ranked 164th of 168 nations in the 2006 Reporters Without Borders worldwide press freedom index.Many colonial-era laws regulating the press and information continue to be used.

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