MYANMAR BLOGGERS REPORT THAT GOOGLE’S BLOG-CREATING SITE IS BANNED
January 18th 2008 21:03
Myanmar bloggers report that one of the most popular blog sites in the the country, www.blogger.com has been banned by the Myanmar Post and Telecomm Ministry as of Thursday morning.
The www.blogger site, owned by Google enables users to creat their own blogs.
Another Internet Service Provider in Myanmar, 'Bagan Teleport' has also blocked this blog website. Both the ISPs are under the control of the military regime but under two different administrations.
But an official from the Myanmar Post and Telecomm office told Mizzima news that there was no official instruction given to them to block these blogs sites, but he declined to give further details.
The fourth in a series of Sylvester Stallone’s Rambo films, and this time the Hollywood action hero heads into the Myanmar jungle to rescue Western missionaries abducted by the Myanmar military.
As reported earlier in MediaBlab, Italian film director Giuseppe Tornatore is also due to make a movie about Myanmar’s pro-democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi. It is to be an English-language film with an estimated budget of US$30 million.
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