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Burma cut off again as junta raises TV fees
From Aung Hla Tun in Rangoon January 02, 2008
From Aung Hla Tun in Rangoon January 02, 2008
WITHOUT warning, Burma's military junta has ordered a massive 166-fold rise in the annual satellite television levy in an apparent attempt to stop people watching dissident and international news broadcasts.
With no word in state media of any licence fee increases, the first satellite dish owners knew of the hike was when they went to pay the 6,000 kyat levy, only to be told it was now one million kyat ($A892), three times the average citizen's yearly income. (Full Report at this Link)