Myanmar Times 3 Journalists were fired from the job by the order of Information Minister

Source: Ko Htike Blog

15 January 2008

The Three journalist from Myanmar Times were fired from their post by the order of Information Minister on Monday.

The three journalists were Burmese language editor Daw Nwe Nwe Aye and U Win Nyunt and News editor chief U Win Kyaw Nyunt.

The reason of fired from their job was these journalists tried to confirmed the news about the increase of Satellite Television Levy Fee. Myanmar Times was pressured by the Military Junta to fire this 3 journalists.

According to the one reporter, Myanmar Times was watched and monitored by the Junta since it published the news about Bird Flu and the news about the fall down of the bridge which was built by the Junta.

The Junta plan to take more action on Myanmar Times. In 2007, one of the advertisement mentioning "Killer Than Shwe" in the one of the Myanmar Times English edition. Since then Junta was closely monitored on Myanmar Times.

(Translated by Bay Dah)

Lanka-MSMA Blog was hacked

Source: Lanka-MSMA

On 11 January 2008 around 10:00 am Myanmar Student Monks' Blog http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/ was hacked by the Hacker(s).

The monks were informed about that news by the Myanmar Media Watch Group.

The night before the Lanka-MSMA blog was hacked, there was someone online and warned the monks that "You the monks, all of you have nothing to do with the politics and all of you better keep quiet." The person also accused the monks as "Fake Monks".

The Blog's url address was changed to "r-soldier.blogspot.com" and the Blog admin password was change to omega222.

The monks advised all the Burmese Bloggers to be especially vigilant and to take care of their Blogs.