U Win Kyaw Oo, the former chief of staff in the Myanmar Times newsroom, has told the BBC Burmese that he had to resign as his boss, Mr Ross Dunkley, asked him to leave the office.The Burmese-language edition of the weekly newspaper was suspended last week by the Press Scrutiny Board (PSB) under the Ministry of Information for flouting censorship rules.

U Win Kyaw Oo said one of the reasons his boss asked him to resign was that most of his news stories in the last two months were rejected by the PSB.

Mr Ross Dunkley, editor in chief and CEO of Myanmar Consolidated Media, told BBC last Thursday that the government did not force but just prod him to make changes in the newsroom.

Mr Dunkley denied reports that the other three members of his newsroom had also been sacked.