Tuesday, September 9, 2008

At least two people killed in Yangon bus explosion

At least two people were killed by Yangon city bus explosion at helden near 5 miles far from downtown. Eyewitness said two passengers on that bus injured and the bus burnt by fire. One of the local reporter said police have kept his memory stick from the camera while he was taking the pictuers.45 Bus heading Insein from downtown exploded around 11:00 am today .We haven't got any official confirmation for that explosion.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Yangon local reporter arrested

Saw Myint Than , a chief reporter from The Flower news journal was arrested by special police force at his home 11 pm, 1st September.

The police accused him for sending information ( the news about Thingyankyun crime )to Ayeyawaddy magazine. They also filed him not to mention his source name for this news. He got the information about the crime from his police source before police officially announced the name of murders. Police asked who is his soucre from police force. But he did not mentioned his source name.

Special police force and censor ship office also called KO KO , chief editor of Flower News because of the problem. Now KO KO fired Saw Myint Than from his job as a chief reporter.

Saw Myint Than is a 30 years old Yakhine journalist. He is working as a local journalist for 3 years. He never involved in any political movement.