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    Film ban a blow to 'dignity', says festival organiser
    June 15, 2016in Culture, Lead Story, News378by LIBBY HOGAN / DVB
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    Film ban a blow to 'dignity', says festival organiser

    “Our mission is a society of dignity, but I feel that our mission has failed,” said Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, who established the Human Rights Human Dignity International Film…

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    Amnesty report demands new laws for a new government
    March 24, 2016in Human Rights, Lead Story, News694by BILL O'TOOLE / DVB
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    Amnesty report demands new laws for a new government

    Amnesty International calls on the incoming NLD-led government to break the “vicious cycle of political arrests” with new laws.

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    Musicians no longer required to submit songs to censors
    October 17, 2012in News, Politics389by DVB
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    Musicians no longer required to submit songs to censors

    The Myanmar Music Association’s general secretary has said that artists are now allowed to publish their music without prior approval from the state censor board

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    DVB journalist questioned after being sued by civil servant
    August 27, 2012in News, Politics1by PETER AUNG
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    DVB journalist questioned after being sued by civil servant

    A Magway-based DVB reporter was interrogated by the police this weekend after he was reportedly sued by a divisional education officer for disturbing a civil servant and trespassing on government…

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    Burma abolishes pre-censorship, but forbids criticism of state
    August 20, 2012in Media, News3115by HANNA HINDSTROM
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    Burma abolishes pre-censorship, but forbids criticism of state

    The Burmese government announced on Monday that it has abolished pre-censorship of its media, but local papers say they have been issued a strict set of guidelines that forbid them…

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    October 18, 2007in Uncategorized60by Staff Reporter
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    Government bans writers for supporting protests

    Oct 18, 2007 (DVB), The information ministry’s censor board has issued a ban order on over 20 writers and cartoonists who supported last month’s protests. An editor of a weekly…

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