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Description: "BurmaNet News" closed down in October 2016, though the archive still exists
Source/publisher: Various sources via
Date of entry/update: 2012-04-18
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: About 88,800 results (August 2017)
Source/publisher: Various sources via Youtube
Date of entry/update: 2017-08-21
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: See the various news services listed in the Online Burma/Myanmar Library?s Reading Room
Source/publisher: Online Burma/Myanmar Library
Date of entry/update: 2014-07-22
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Description: "Phandeeyar [based in Yangon] is an ICT hub that is designed to support social innovation, civictech and ICT4D/M4D in Myanmar. Phandeeyar brings the tech community together with others who are moving Myanmar forward ? such as civil society organizations, social enterprises and independent media ? to build the digital tools, platforms and content to accelerate change and development. Phandeeyar, which means ?creation place”, was born out of Code for Change Myanmar. Code for Change Myanmar organized a series of hackathons in 2014 that focussed on building tech solutions to social problems and solutions for small and medium businesses. We wanted to carry forward the enthusiasm from the budding tech community that came to participate in the hackathons and create a permanent space for innovation that has a wider social impact."
Source/publisher: Phandeeyar
Date of entry/update: 2016-09-19
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: "The Ministry of Transport and Communications in Myanmar has come up with a strategy to create a national database of private citizen information by making biometric data collection mandatory when purchasing mobile phone services, The Myanmar Times reports. Residents already have to show and register an identity document when purchasing SIM cards. According to a tender document the publication claims to have reviewed last month, the government is accepting proposal submissions for a “national database to store and manage biometric mobile subscriber registration information from all mobile network operators in Myanmar.” It further “intends to build a national database capturing biometric subscriber registration information of every mobile network user” to “ensure proper and secure registration of mobile network users and to prevent any malicious use of mobile networks.”..."
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Source/publisher: "Biometric Update"
2019-12-06
Date of entry/update: 2019-12-07
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Description: "Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that Myanmar’s high court today upheld the seven-year jail sentences of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo on appeal. RSF now urges the country’s highest authorities to end their nightmare. In a shocking decision handed down this morning in Yangon, the high court also upheld their convictions on charges of violating the Official Secrets Act. It concluded the utterly iniquitous judicial process to which these two journalists have been subjected ever since their arrest in a trap set by the police in December 2017. “Everything about this case, both the substance and its conduct, called for their convictions to be overturned, but Myanmar’s justice system has shown its determination until the very end to punish Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo although they just did their job as reporters,” said Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk. “This decision constitutes yet further evidence, if any were needed, of the judicial system’s unacceptable manipulation by the executive and dramatically signifies the end of Myanmar’s democratic transition. We now call on its highest political officials to pardon these journalists as quickly as possible so that they can be reunited with their families.” Punished President Win Myint, who is an ally of government leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has the power to issue pardons, which are traditionally given at the time of the Burmese New Year in April. Regardless of the final outcome, the authorities have already sent a chilling message to Myanmar’s journalists: that this is the price you will pay if you dare to investigate subjects that are off limits. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo did some remarkable investigative reporting on a massacre of Rohingya civilians by soldiers in Inn Din, a village in the north of Rakhine state, that that was widely seen as an act of genocide or ethnic cleansing. Their arrest was regarded as a punishment orchestrated by the security forces. The region where the massacre took place, the traditional home of Myanmar’s Rohingya community, continues to be completely inaccessible to journalists aside from those who have been taken there on pathetic propaganda visits that are tightly controlled by the authorities. RSF issued an “incident report” in October about the threat to Myanmar’s position in the World Press Freedom Index resulting from the deterioration in “environment and self-censorship,” “transparency” and “media independence” – three of the seven indicators used to determine a country’s ranking. Myanmar is currently ranked 137th out of 180 countries..."
Source/publisher: Reporters Without Borders
2019-01-10
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Myanmar authorities should immediately cease harassing and threatening to arrest Aung Marm Oo, editor-in-chief of the privately owned Rakhine state-based news agency Development Media Group, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Aung Marm Oo went into hiding after authorities filed a complaint on May 1 seeking his arrest for unspecified violations of the colonial-era Unlawful Association Act, which can result in up to five years' imprisonment and fines, according to independent news outlet The Irrawaddy and the journalist, who corresponded with CPJ. The Unlawful Associations Act is often used by Myanmar authorities to stifle news coverage of armed conflicts, CPJ reporting shows. Development Media Group, based in Rakhine state's capital of Sittwe, reports regularly on politics, society, and security in western Rakhine state, where government forces are locked in conflict with insurgents. "Myanmar's press freedom situation has deteriorated to such an extent that a journalist is now in hiding to avoid arrest on undisclosed accusations," said Shawn Crispin, CPJ's senior Southeast Asia representative. "Myanmar authorities should stop harassing Aung Marm Oo and allow his independent media group to continue reporting without fear of reprisal." Special Branch police under the military-controlled Home Ministry have questioned Aung Marm Oo's colleagues and family members about his whereabouts, including his wife, mother, and brother, the journalist told CPJ by email. He said police searched his home earlier this month and he only narrowly escaped arrest at the time. Development Media Group reporters Nay Win San and Thet Naing were interrogated about the case at the No. 1 Sittwe police station in Rakhine on May 5 and 6, respectively, Aung Marm Oo said. During those interrogations, police did not indicate what news stories or reporting prompted the accusation, Aung Marm Oo said. CPJ called the military's public relations arm, the True News Information Team, for comment but did not receive a response. On May 8, Aung Marm Oo sent a letter to the Myanmar Press Council, an independent body tasked with resolving media disputes, requesting mediation on the case, as permitted under the country's Media Act to prevent frivolous lawsuits against journalists, he said; as of today, the council had not replied. Aung Marm Oo's harassment comes amid rising pressure on the nation's press by the military; on April 1, Myanmar's military filed an online criminal defamation complaint against The Irrawaddy's Burmese-language editor Ye Ni under the Telecommunications Law's Section 66(d), which carries a possible two-year prison sentence, over the news publication's reports on armed clashes in Rakhine state that allegedly caused civilian casualties, CPJ reported at the time..."
Source/publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
2019-05-13
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Myanmar's military should drop its criminal defamation case against independent news outlet The Irrawaddy over its coverage of the conflict in the country's Rakhine state, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On April 12, the military's Yangon Region Command filed the criminal complaint against the news outlet's Burmese-language editor Ye Ni at the Kyauktada Police Station in Yangon, The Irrawaddy reported. The criminal complaint was filed under the Telecommunications Law's Section 66(d), a provision that permits two-year prison sentences for guilty convictions, the report said. The complaint was prompted by an April 1 report in The Irrawaddy concerning assaults by the military on March 18 and 19 that allegedly resulted in civilian casualties in Rakhine state's Maruk-U town, which was published in both English and Burmese, Ye Ni told CPJ via email. Ye Ni was allowed to post bail on the same day the complaint was filed, The Irrawaddy reported. "This spurious criminal accusation against The Irrawaddy editor Ye Ni should be dropped immediately and unconditionally," said Shawn Crispin, CPJ's senior Southeast Asia representative. "Myanmar's military should stop using legal threats to stifle news coverage of ongoing armed conflict and allow journalists to do their jobs without fear of reprisal." Brigadier General Zaw Min Tun, an official at the military's True News Information Team, a communications department, told The Irrawaddy on April 21 that its recent news coverage on clashes between government forces and the insurgent Arakan Army had been "unfair" and prompted the legal action, the outlet reported. CPJ's calls to the True News Information Team requesting comment on the complaint did not receive a response. Ye Ni told CPJ that The Irrawaddy has appealed to the Myanmar Press Council, an independent body tasked with resolving media disputes, to mediate the case, as permitted under the country's Media Act to prevent frivolous lawsuits against journalists. In an email to CPJ, The Irrawaddy editor-in-chief Aung Zaw called the complaint part of a military "intimidation campaign" aimed at silencing prominent media. Aung Zaw was a CPJ 2014 International Press Freedom Award honoree. The criminal complaint against The Irrawaddy comes against the backdrop of the continued incarceration of Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, whose final appeal of their seven-year prison sentences under the Official Secrets Act for reporting on the conflict in Rakhine state was rejected on April 23, as CPJ reported at the time. Myanmar's government and military have used Section 66(d) charges to stifle media criticism and intimidate and harass journalists, and CPJ has met with representatives of Myanmar's Ministry of Information to advocate for the repeal of 66(d) and other laws and provisions authorities use to restrict press freedom and harass journalists..."
Source/publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
2019-04-25
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Myanmar authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Nanda, a broadcast reporter with the local privately owned Channel Mandalay TV news station, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. In the morning of May 15, police arrested Nanda, who uses only one name, in Mandalay's Aung Tha Pyay village while the journalist was covering a land-rights protest against a coal-fired cement factory, according to the privately owned Myanmar Times. Police accused him of being involved in the protest and have detained him without charge at Mandalay's Oboe prison, Min Din, a Channel Mandalay executive, told CPJ by email. "We call on Myanmar authorities to release Nanda, who was merely doing his job as a journalist by covering a protest," said Shawn Crispin, CPJ's senior Southeast Asia representative. "If Myanmar ever wants to be taken seriously as a democracy, this type of chronic harassment of the press must cease and desist." The reporter was among four people arrested during a police crackdown on the protest that saw security forces fire rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators, according to the Myanmar Times report, which also noted that a building in the factory's compound was set on fire during the melee. Min Din told CPJ that Nanda was broadcasting live from the protest over the station's Facebook page at the time of his arrest. He said Nanda was positioned between the protestors and police for filming purposes, and that he did not partake in the protest as authorities have alleged. CPJ's calls to the Mandalay police for comment were not immediately returned. Nanda faces potential charges under Articles 114, 333, and 435 of Myanmar's penal code, which deal respectively with abetting a criminal offense, assaulting military officials, and mischief caused by fire or an explosive substance, Min Din told CPJ..."
Source/publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
2019-05-22
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is dismayed to learn that Myanmar’s supreme court in Naypyidaw today rejected an appeal by Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, confirming their conviction and seven-year jail sentences. RSF now calls on Myanmar’s president to pardon and free them. Held ever since their arrest in a trap set by the police in December 2017, the two journalists were convicted of violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act, which dates back to the colonial era. They could file two other appeals before the supreme court, but their lawyer said they now preferred to pin their hopes on a presidential pardon. “Myanmar’s president can restore a semblance of dignity to his country’s legal institutions by pardoning these two journalists,” said RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk. “They have already been held for 497 days on trumped-up charges. How can we still believe in a democratic transition in Myanmar when the justice system flouts press freedom in this way?” Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo did some remarkable investigative reporting on a massacre of Rohingya civilians by soldiers in September 2017 in Inn Din, a village in the north of Rakhine state, which was widely seen as an act of genocide. Their arrest was regarded as a punishment orchestrated by the security forces. They were awarded the UNESCO Press Freedom Prize in recognition of their work. The region where this act of ethnic cleansing took place, the traditional home of Myanmar’s Rohingya community, continues to be completely inaccessible to journalists aside from those who have been taken there on pathetic propaganda visits that are tightly controlled by the authorities..."
Source/publisher: Reporters Without Borders
2019-04-23
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Reuters' journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were released today from a Yangon prison in Myanmar as part of a presidential pardon, after spending more than 500 days behind bars, Reuters reported. The journalists were released in a mass amnesty of prisoners granted today by President Win Myint, according to reports. "CPJ is deeply relieved that Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have finally been freed, and reiterates that Myanmar should never have charged and jailed them in the first place," said CPJ Senior Southeast Asia Representative Shawn Crispin. "May their release herald a new era of press freedom in Myanmar, where reporters no longer fear reprisal merely for doing their jobs." The journalists were arrested in December 2017 and sentenced to seven years in prison in September 2018 under Myanmar's colonial-era Official Secrets Act, according to CPJ research. In April, Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected a final appeal of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's convictions, CPJ documented. The reporters insisted throughout legal proceedings that they had not committed any crime. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were investigating a massacre of Rohingya men and boys by Myanmar security forces in Rakhine state; their reporting was subsequently published by Reuters in February 2018 and led to seven soldiers being sentenced to prison for their involvement in the killings, according to reports. They were awarded a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting this year..."
Source/publisher: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
2019-05-07
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Reporters Without Borders (RSF) congratulates Burmese journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone on today’s announcement that they are to be awarded UNESCO’s Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize and reiterates its call for their immediate release. Imprisoned in Myanmar for the past 15 months, these two Reuters reporters were sentenced to seven years in prison for investigating a massacre of civilians during ethnic cleansing operations by Myanmar’s security forces against the country’s Rohingya minority. RSF proposed Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone as candidates for this prestigious prize and hails the jury’s decision to award it to them. This recognition comes as the two journalists await a decision by Myanmar’s supreme court in Naypyidaw, which registered their appeal on 26 March. “This prize is a reminder that Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are symbols of courage and resistance in a country where it is still very difficult for journalists to work freely,” said Daniel Bastard, the head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk. “They should not be behind bars. We issue a solemn appeal to Myanmar’s highest judicial authorities to respect the rule of law and to end the travesty of justice to which these two reporters are being subjected.” Myanmar is ranked 137th out of 180 countries in RSF's 2018 World Press Freedom Index..."
Source/publisher: Reporters Without Borders
2019-04-10
Date of entry/update: 2019-06-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Yan Naung Oak explains the current and future uses of open data in Myanmar...Things move very quickly in today?s Myanmar. Out of the many changes that are shifting the country?s political, economic and social fabric, two particular transformations are important to highlight: First, the unprecedented pace of mobile phone and smartphone adoption that followed the liberalisation of the telecoms market, and second, the reforms in the media sector that have significantly reduced the draconian limitations on press freedoms. In 2010, we were a country that read newspapers only for the obituaries because everything else in them was propaganda. Two years later, in 2012, truthful and honest journalism was suddenly no longer followed by a prison sentence (most of the time), and dozens of new, independent media outlets were established. Three years after that, in 2015, everyone was getting their news (both real and fake) on their smartphones from whatever was trending on Facebook. A public sphere, one that had not existed since our grandparents? time, seemed to have appeared overnight ? and just as suddenly, it had leapfrogged into the internet era. What will it take to build resilient democratic institutions in this rapidly changing space? I believe that a citizenry equipped with technology and data is a crucial part of that answer..."
Creator/author: Yan Naung Oak
Source/publisher: teacircleoxford
2017-05-17
Date of entry/update: 2017-09-04
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: New satellite internet providers could soon bring high-speed connectivity to consumers frustrated by time-wasting download speeds.
Creator/author: Thomas Kean
Source/publisher: "Frontier Myanmar"
2016-07-04
Date of entry/update: 2016-08-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "A new initiative from Google helps make online materials available offline through physical kits, allowing developing-country developers to work even when the internet doesn?t. Google announced at the beginning of December it would enable developers to access about 30 GB of certain materials ? videos, software development kits (SDKs), documents and more ? offline through DVDs and thumb drives. Targeted at ?software developers or students of software development in regions of the world where steady access to the internet is expensive, unreliable or non-existent”, Google has already spread upward of 2000 kits across India, Bangladesh and Sub-Saharan Africa, the company said..."
Creator/author: Catherine Trautwien
Source/publisher: "Myanmat Times"
2015-03-09
Date of entry/update: 2015-03-10
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "The Myanmar Library Survey is the first in- depth nationwide study of the country?s public libraries. Commissioned by The Asia Foundation in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF), the survey aimed to establish a comprehensive, current picture of the Myanmar public library system to help inform the development of Myanmar?s information architecture and community initiatives. While much can be done to improve infrastructure and better support their role as information hubs, the survey reveals that citizens perceive libraries as having a significant and positive impact on community life. The survey findings will be circulated amongst key stakeholders, including governmental officials, policy makers, local and international non-governmental organizations, civil society, and local communities. A country coming out of decades of isolation, Myanmar is now rapidly building the information infrastructure needed for its citizens to participate in the reform process and compete in the global marketplace. Myanmar?s reverence toward libraries and its vast library network has the potential to aid this process. This study focuses on public libraries ? defined in Myanmar as libraries registered with the government ? because of their accessibility to a wider number of people and potential for scalability. In addition to public libraries, Myanmar has university, monastic, private, and specialized libraries, few of which register as public libraries. There are 55,755 registered public libr aries in the country, but only 4,868 are considered active. Prior to this study, very little was known about them. The objectives of the project were to sample active public libraries in order to: ..."
Source/publisher: Asia Foundation, Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation
2014-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-07-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: Burmese/ မြန်မာဘာသာ
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Description: "The Myanmar Library Survey is the first in- depth nationwide study of the country?s public libraries. Commissioned by The Asia Foundation in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF), the survey aimed to establish a comprehensive, current picture of the Myanmar public library system to help inform the development of Myanmar?s information architecture and community initiatives. While much can be done to improve infrastructure and better support their role as information hubs, the survey reveals that citizens perceive libraries as having a significant and positive impact on community life. The survey findings will be circulated amongst key stakeholders, including governmental officials, policy makers, local and international non-governmental organizations, civil society, and local communities. A country coming out of decades of isolation, Myanmar is now rapidly building the information infrastructure needed for its citizens to participate in the reform process and compete in the global marketplace. Myanmar?s reverence toward libraries and its vast library network has the potential to aid this process. This study focuses on public libraries – defined in Myanmar as libraries registered with the government – because of their accessibility to a wider number of people and potential for scalability. In addition to public libraries, Myanmar has university, monastic, private, and specialized libraries, few of which register as public libraries. There are 55,755 registered public libr aries in the country, but only 4,868 are considered active. Prior to this study, very little was known about them. The objectives of the project were to sample active public libraries in order to: ..."
Source/publisher: Asia Foundation, Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation
2014-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-07-22
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: Executive Summary: The Myanmar Library Survey is the first in- depth nationwide study of the country?s public libraries. Commissioned by The Asia Foundation in partnership with the Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation (MBAPF), the survey aimed to establish a comprehensive, current picture of the Myanmar public library system to help inform the development of Myanmar?s information architecture and community initiatives. While much can be done to improve infrastructure and better support their role as information hubs, the survey reveals that citizens perceive libraries as having a significant and positive impact on community life. The survey findings will be circulated amongst key stakeholders, including governmental officials, policy makers, local and international non-governmental organizations, civil society, and local communities. A country coming out of decades of isolation, Myanmar is now rapidly building the information infrastructure needed for its citizens to participate in the reform process and compete in the global marketplace. Myanmar?s reverence toward libraries and its vast library network has the potential to aid this process. This study focuses on public libraries ? defined in Myanmar as libraries registered with the government ? because of their accessibility to a wider number of people and potential for scalability. In addition to public libraries, Myanmar has university, monastic, private, and specialized libraries, few of which register as public libraries. There are 55,755 registered public libr aries in the country, but only 4,868 are considered active. Prior to this study, very little was known about them. The objectives of the project were to sample active public libraries in order to: ..."
Source/publisher: Asia Foundation, Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation
2014-01-00
Date of entry/update: 2014-07-21
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "Bangladeshi mobile phones flood into Burma?s Arakan State... Burmese junta-backed businessmen strike cross-border deals, and human rights workers can speak directly to witnesses at the scene—Bangladeshi mobile phones are slowly opening up northern Arakan State. Even the much-abused Burmese Muslims of Maungdaw Township are said to be developing a taste for mobile technology. The slow trickle of handsets that first began traveling east over the Bangladesh-Burma border at Teknaf and other crossings 18 months ago has now reportedly turned into a flood. Just don?t tell the local authorities you?ve got one..."
Creator/author: Clive Parker
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No. 5
2006-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2006-12-28
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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