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As a former member of Burma’s Press Council, Information Minister Pe Myint is expected to push for further reforms of the media sector.
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The issue of disarmament was high on the agenda, both with Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyidaw and at an ethnic summit in northern Thailand.
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In election news: The NLD launches an awareness campaign; the USDP plans a strategy for victory; a code of conduct for the press.
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A sense of cautious optimism is emerging with respect to the upcoming “sexpartite” talks on constitutional reform, which will be held on Friday in Naypyidaw.
MOI has served a judicial summons to the Myanmar Herald Journal notifying the weekly that it has been charged with defamation under the Media Law.
MOI said it plans to sue the Herald for defamation after it quoted an NLD leader making a statement which the MOI claims “hurt the dignity and rights of [President Thein Sein].”
A final appeal against the verdict for five Unity Weekly journal employees — who were sentenced to ten years in prison with hard labour in July — was submitted to Magwe regional court on Thursday.
A case filed against more than 50 journalists in mid-July for a demonstration demanding greater media freedoms has been dropped, according to Rangoon’s Kamayut Township police.
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DVB interviewed Interim Press Council member Chit Win Maung to learn what transpired at the Council’s meeting with new information minister, Ye Htut.
Burma’s Interim Press Council has advised journalists and media workers to follow a code of ethics that will safeguard them from government prosecution.
Charges against five employees of the Bi Mon Te Nay news journal and one activist were reduced on Monday.
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The recent jailing of Unity Weekly journalists and the threats of legal action against reporters is hindering the free press, the Interim Press Council said.
Burma’s first private journalism school in more than half a century opened its doors in Rangoon on Monday morning, poised to prepare aspiring reporters for the country’s turbulent media environment.
Over 50 journalists and their supporters have been charged for protesting illegally after calling for media freedom.
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Zaw Pe was freed from Thayat prison, Magwe on Friday after a court reduced his sentence from one year to three months.
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Information Minister Aung Kyi conceded on Saturday that Burma’s media landscape is “not a good situation” because of legal shortcomings that he termed “loopholes”.
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Burma’s ‘democratic spring’ may be cooling down as progress towards media freedom stagnates, according to the 2014 World Press Freedom Index.
The ninth session of Parliament commenced in Burma’s capital city Naypyidaw on Monday, with a total of thirty bills up for review by both the upper and lower houses.
Burma’s interim press council met with the representatives from the NLD on Tuesday as the group attempts to shore up support for a new media bill drafted by the group that stirred up controversy
Free speech advocates have slammed Burma’s controversial publishing bill, which was passed by the lower house of parliament last week, amid concerns that it will reintroduce censorship
Burma’s lower house of parliament approved a controversial publishing law to the dismay of members of the interim press council who claim the bill contains measures that will hinder the fourth estate
