The head of Burma’s notorious censorship board, the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), summoned the editors of a number of Rangoon-based journals to his office on Wednesday to remind them that they still have to follow the board’s rules until a new media law is enacted. (more…)

Director Jeanne Hallacy said former political prisoner and activist Ko Bo Kyi inspired her to make “Into the Current.” (more…)

Bangkok — Myanmar has loosened restrictions on dozens of business and crime publications, local media reported, but kept news titles in the grip of strict censorship rules. (more…)

Magazines covering business and crime will hit the newsstands on Friday untouched by the redactors in Burma’s notorious censor board, after amendments to media laws that allow certain publications to bypass official scrutiny. (more…)

After revelations that it supplied Syria with Internet spy tools, a U.S. company faces similar allegations about Myanmar. (more…)

Rangoon Region Chief Minister Myint Swe has warned journalists who cover Rangoon Region assembly news to be careful in reporting on events. (more…)

Hanging photographs is a normal action for most human beings, but displaying pictures in Burma can have important connotations regarding who is in charge of the country or respected by its people. (more…)

Burma’s independence day in January next year will be marked with the launch of a film festival organised by two of the country’s leading pro-democracy luminaries, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and comedian Zarganar. (more…)

Yangon — Three China Central Television ( CCTV) channels — CCTV-4 (Chinese), CCTV-News (English) and CCTV-9 (Documentary) started launching in Myanmar Thursday in cooperation with Myanmar’s semi-government MRTV-4 and Sky Net. (more…)

Licences for satellite television receivers are likely to be issued again in Burma following a six-year ban claimed at the time by observers to be an attempt to control the flow of information into the country. (more…)

Sein Kyaw Hlaing, a veteran Burmese journalist who previously worked in exile for the BBC Burmese Service and is currently a contributor to Radio Free Asia, issued a statement over the Internet on Sunday denying that he had taken any airplane flight to Rangoon or been detained at the airport and then interrogated by Burmese authorities at the Aung Tha Pyay interrogation center. (more…)

Reporters Without Borders hails today’s release of the blogger and comedian Zarganar from Myitkyina prison, in the northern state of Kachin, under a “general amnesty” affecting dozens of political prisoners, but urges the government to pursue this conciliatory policy by freeing all detained bloggers and journalists including 17 Democratic Voice of Burma video journalists. (more…)

Bangkok — The director of Myanmar’s state censorship board has said his own department should be abolished to allow greater press freedom in the Southeast Asian nation. (more…)

A new report says press censorship in Burma remains “arbitrary, intensive, and highly restrictive,” despite the new government’s promise of reform. (more…)

Reporters Without Borders has confirmed that access to a number of previously banned foreign news websites including Youtube, BBC, Reuters, The Bangkok Post, Straits Times, Radio Free Asia, Irrawaddy, Democratic Voice of Burma, and the Burmese version of Voice of America has been unblocked. Internet connections nonetheless continue to be very slow. (more…)

Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivering a speech on 15 September Aung San Suu Kyi had been keen to use social networking to connect with younger people. (more…)

TATMADAW representatives in the Amyotha Hluttaw have weighed into the political debate on an unlikely topic: spelling. Major/Captain (officiating) Soe Hein Naung – who has a masters degree in Myanmarsar – submitted a proposal on September 8 urging the government to “supervise” spelling of the Myanmar language, particularly in the media. It was the first proposal submitted by any of the 178 appointed military personnel in the Pyithu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw. (more…)

Yangon – Myanmar lifted bans on prominent news websites on Thursday, including some run by critics of the army-dominated government, and unblocked online video portal YouTube, the latest signs of possible reforms in one of Asia’s most reclusive states. (more…)

The free-to-air television market is set for a shakeup, with Shwe Than Lwin Media planning to launch Myanmar National TV, or mn tv, before the end of the year. (more…)

Chiang Mai – A leaked US diplomatic cable sent from the US embassy in Rangoon to the US State Department released on the Wikileaks website disclosed how some senior Burmese generals took bribes in the period of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). (more…)