The BBC’s Burmese-language news service has severed ties with Burma’s MNTV, with the former citing “interference” from the state broadcaster, saying it had constituted “a serious breach of trust with our audiences.”
A British journalist with the BBC faces up to five years in a Thai jail after a lawyer brought a criminal defamation case against him over an investigation into fraud on a popular tourist island.
Lead Story Mandalay Division Media News
Reporter walks free from a court in Mandalay on Thursday, when he won an appeal against a conviction for punching a policeman.
Nay Myo Lin, a reporter for the BBC Burmese-language service, denounced his three-month prison sentence as unfair after he was found guilty of assaulting a police officer during protests last year.
2015 Elections Lead Story Military News
Burma’s Ministry of Defence announces that several senior ranking military officials, including the naval chief-of-staff, have been “allowed to retire”.
Andy Wilman, executive producer of BBC’s Top Gear programme, has expressed regret for a remark on the show’s Burma special when host Jeremy Clarkson used the word “slope” as an[…]
Somi Guha, a British actress of Indian descent, has instructed lawyers to sue the BBC over an allegedly racist remark made by TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson who shot a series[…]
Map last year that depicted Rohingya as ethnic group from Arakan state still stirring animosity despite clarification from BBC
Britain’s foreign office announces that a major 25 percent budget cut to the BBC World Service may force it to cancel Burma broadcasts
Southeast Asians have united to defend hugely popular “chicken rendang” that was knocked out of a British cooking competition television show for not being crispy enough, but the longstanding debate on the origins of the dish rages on.
Lead Story News Parliament Politics
The speaker of Parliament’s Lower House, Win Myint, has resigned his post, with word of his stepping down coming shortly after the President’s Office announced that President Htin Kyaw would be resigning effective immediately.
International Relations Lead Story Media News
A Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya Muslims in Burma prompted demands from the US State Department for a credible investigation into the bloodshed there and calls for the release of two journalists who were arrested while working on the report.
International Relations Lead Story News Rohingya
The UN refugee agency and other groups have urged a rethink of the plan to send Rohingya refugees back to Burma amid fears of forced repatriations and the inability of aid agencies to ensure the safety of hundreds of thousands who fled bloodshed at home.
Arakan Conflict Lead Story News
One civilian was shot dead and three injured when AA troops mistook boat passengers on the Kaladan River for Burmese soldiers.
Arakan Lead Story News Politics Rohingya
If there’s one thing that unites Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the army that once tried to crush her, and the majority of people in mostly Buddhist Burma, it is their vehement dislike of Rohingya Muslims, seen as a threat to national security.
At least two nationalists have been arrested in connection with a mob search in Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township for alleged undocumented Rohingya’s.
The Burmese government seeks to shore up support for its handling of the ongoing crisis in Arakan State at a press conference delivered by one of the country’s top security officials.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
The UN children’s agency UNICEF has called on Burma’s government to release Rohingya children detained as part of a sweeping military campaign in Arakan State.
Arakan Lead Story News Rohingya
Aung San Suu Kyi denies security forces have carried out ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, speaking to the BBC after the UN rights council agreed to investigate allegations of rape, murder and torture against the army.
Features Foreign Affairs History Lead Story News
The story of Burma’s destroyed embassy in Tel Aviv, a casualty of the Gulf War, has not made its way into the mainstream narratives of either that conflict or of Burmese history.
Analysis Arakan Conflict Human Rights Lead Story Opinion Rohingya
Experts have warned that decades of treating the Rohingya as a thorn in the nation’s side is tantamount to doing the legwork for forces that would seek to radicalise the next generation of Rohingya.
Arakan Lead Story Media News Rohingya
The State Counsellor’s Office has said the government is considering taking action against the Daily Mail for accusing the Burma Army of torturing a toddler with a stun gun in an online post that was later removed from the British tabloid’s website.
Lee reportedly questioned whether female inmates are being subjected to pregnancy tests, suggesting that this is a violation of human rights.
A journalist reflects on what Burma’s historic handover of power means for her as a citizen, and as a member of her profession.
Analysis Lead Story News Opinion
The controversy over a remark allegedly made by Aung San Suu Kyi says more about its source than it does about her.
2015 Elections Chin Lead Story News Opinion Politics
As journalists descended on Naypyidaw to discover who will be the next president, a little-known Chin nominee’s name was butchered in the Western media.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
Burma’s incumbent government has acknowledged that the opposition National League for Democracy [NLD] party is cruising to a majority in the country’s next parliament.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
In her first media interview since the general election, NLD leader Suu Kyi tells BBC her party will win a convincing majority in parliament.
2015 Elections Lead Story News Politics
While an NLD victory looks likely in Sunday’s elections, we explore several possible outcomes.
2015 Elections Lead Story Media News Politics
The Union Election Commission has issued another warning to media outlets covering the election campaign, this time singling out the BBC in their criticism.
