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Kyaw Min Swe, chief editor of The Voice newspaper. Pic: AP.

Privately owned daily newspapers return to Burma

By AP News Mon, Apr 01, 2013 10:55AM UTC 0 Comment

YANGON, Burma (AP) — For most people in Burma, it will be a novelty when privately run daily newspapers hit the streets on Monday. Many weren’t even born when the late dictator Ne Win imposed a state monopoly on the daily press in the 1960s. But for 81-year-old Khin Maung Lay, the rebirth of daily...

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AP opens full news bureau in Burma

By AP News Sun, Mar 31, 2013 1:23PM UTC 0 Comment

YANGON, Burma (AP) — The Associated Press on Saturday became the first international news agency to open a bureau in Burma since a reformist government took power two years ago and began relaxing restrictions on the media for the first time in decades. The opening paves the way for AP to expand its coverage of...

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Burma’s state-run English daily seeks partner

By AP News Tue, Mar 26, 2013 11:10AM UTC 0 Comment

YANGON, Burma (AP) — The New Light of Myanmar newspaper is seeking joint venture partners as it gears up for competition. The newspaper for decades has held a monopoly on Burma’s English-language daily press. A notice from the Information Ministry published Monday in state newspapers solicited expressions of interest from foreign and local partners for...

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Burma denies hacking journalist email accounts

By AP News Tue, Feb 12, 2013 1:00PM UTC 0 Comment

YANGON, Burma (AP) — Burma’s government denied on Monday that it was behind a possible attempt to hack into the email accounts of journalists working for foreign and local media who Google warned might have been the targets of “state-sponsored attackers.” At least 12 reporters, including a Yangon-based correspondent for The Associated Press, received messages...

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Burma dissolves censorship office, but needs to do more for press freedom

By Zin Linn Sat, Jan 26, 2013 5:20PM UTC 0 Comment

Journalists protest demanding 'Stop Killing Press' on 5 August 2012, in Rangoon, Burma. (Pic: AP)

Burma (Myanmar) announced that it has dissolved the press censorship board which was officially known as Press Scrutiny and Registration Division (PSRD), the state-run New Light of Myanmar said Friday. The termination of PSRD has been approved during Thursday’s cabinet meeting, the newspaper said. “The division under the Printing and Publishing Enterprise has stopped functioning...

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