Many of us working in HIV remember Nwe Nwe Aye's articles on HIV a few years back. She was always writing articles to challenge the censors ...

HIV Information for Myanmar wishes her the best.

[him] moderator

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Source: Ko Htike Blog
http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/
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
http://baydah.blogspot.com/2008/01/3-journalist-fired-from-job-by-order-of.html