MYANMAR TIMES CONFIRMS DETAILS ABOUT GOVERNMENT ORDERS FOR FLOUTING CENSORSHIP
January 21st 2008 02:09
Myanmar Times editor in chief Ross Dunkley, also ceo of Myanmar Consolidated Media Ltd, has confirmed that the company would not publish a Myanmar-language edition of the paper this week on government orders after flouting censorship rules.
Dunkley confirmed that the government's Press Scrutiny Board ordered the Myanmar-language edition of the Myanmar Times not to publish this week for having run a story earlier that was not approved.
The story, from the news agency Agence France-Presse, was about a huge increase in Myanmar's annual license fee for using satellite TV dishes.
He did not specify what kind of changes, but said they were being implemented.
Meanwhile, the Irrawaddy Journal, not always correct in its coverage of Myanmar events, reported “the resignation under pressure of one of (Myanmar Times reporters, Win Kyaw Oo, in a newsroom reorganisation” is one of the “latest examples of how Minister of Information Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan is clumsily harassing the country’s media.”
Win Kyaw Oo is in fact the Myanmar Times’ chief of staff (news).
The Myanmar Times’ Ross Dunkley is part of a consortium of western businessman who this month bought a controlling interest in Cambodia’s leading English-language newspaper, The Phnom Penh Post.
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