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A quantum leap in censorship
The future of Internet freedom is being decided in Asian cyberspace, and judging by recent trends and developments, that future looks increasingly dim.
Myanmar introduces e-payment system for export-import formalities
Myanmar has introduced an e- payment system to manage export-import formalities to facilitate traders in the country engaged in international trade, authorizing a special private bank in Yangon to handle the e-transaction, a local weekly reported in its latest issue.
Myanmar introduces e-departure form for leaving travellers
Myanmar has introduced e(electronic)- departure form system for all travellers leaving the country to facilitate people across the nation in their process for exit after a passport is ready at hand, the local weekly Voice reported in its latest issue.
Canadian software touted as answer to Internet censorship abroad
"(Psiphon) is a welcome addition to allow people freely to get information where their governments are trying to prevent them from getting it," Amnesty International spokesman John Tackaberry said from Ottawa.
Internet policing in Burma stepped up
Since last Monday, the junta (SPDC) banned proxy sites such as www.polysolve.com, www.glite.sayni.net, www.3proxy.com, www.unipeak.com among others, which used to help surf banned sites including email service providers, political opposition sites, human rights pages and pornography for almost a year.
Myanmar introduces e-govt system in new capital
Myanmar has started to introduce a computer-based e(electronic)-government system in the new administrative capital of Nay Pyi Taw to replace paper filing government work system, local Voice journal reported in this week's issue.
Myanmar to grant foreign, local engagement in emerging cyber city
Myanmar will grant both foreign and local entrepreneurs to be engaged in ICT business in a cyber city project being implemented in the country's northern part, the Voice weekly reported in this week's issue.
Internet censorship growing globally
WASHINGTON - Internet censorship around the world is becoming more pervasive and sophisticated, with government-directed content filtering documented in at least 25 countries, according to a comprehensive report to be released today.
BSNL, TCIL to lay optic cable across MyanmarAdd to Clippings
NEW DELHI: State-owned BSNL in collaboration with Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL) will lay fibre optic cable across Myanmar (Burma). This will be the first step towards setting up a land link between India and South Asia, which will ultimately pass through Kuala Lampur and terminate in Singapore.
Amnesty International Warns Censorship Will Damage Internet
Amnesty International warns that the Internet could change dramatically, unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms. From London, Tendai Maphosa has more in this report for VOA.
Irrawaddy: Burma plans a cyber-city near Maymyo - Yeni
A cyber-city is being built close to Maymyo, also know as Pyin U Lwin, where Burma’s ruling generals have built a luxurious residential area for themselves.
Amnesty campaigns against Internet repression
Amnesty International-U.K. launched yesterday a new campaign to combat the repression of Internet sites around the world. This campaign was announced at a recent conference entitled, “Some People Think the Internet is a Bad Thing: The Struggle for Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace.” AI called Internet censorship a virus that could “change the Internet beyond recognition,” if no action is taken to fight it.
Myanmar Yadanabon cyber city project in progress
A cyber city project called Yadanabon in northern part of Myanmar, one of the country's infrastructures for ambitious development of information and communications technology (ICT), is in progress with its early phase under rapid implementation, local reports reaching here said.
Myanmar internet use soars to 300,000
THE number of internet users in Myanmar has reached nearly 300,000, up from merely 12 four years ago, according to figures from the telecommunications authorities, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.
The Science and Technology Development Law
This is The Science and Technology Development Law published by SLORC on 7th June, 1994.
The Electronic Transactions Law
This is The Electronic Transactions Law ordered by SPDC on 30th April, 2004.
The Computer Science Development Law
This is The Computer Science Development Law ordered by SLORC on 20th September, 1996.
Burma bans popular internet telephony, Mediaring Talk
July 27, 2007 - The Burmese military junta has banned the use of the popular internet telephony, Mediaring Talk, an online telephone enabled overseas telecommunication system, which was available at cheap rates, sources in Rangoon said.
Myanmar has 1 million digital phones, half of them mobiles
Yangon - Myanmar currently has about 1 million digital phones, half of them mobiles, for its 47 million population, the telecommunications minister disclosed on Monday.
Myanmar to implement cyber village project
Myanmar will implement a cyber village project aiming to enable every village in the country to have access to internet link like urban cities, according to computer entrepreneur circle Thursday.
Xinhua General News Service: Myanmar striving to offer internet services at high speed rate (2)
Being a signatory to the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement initiated at 2000 Singapore summit, Myanmar has formed the e-National Task Force to support the IT development.
Myanmar's largest ICT park to open by year-end
Myanmar's largest information and communication technology (ICT) park, the Yadanabon Cyber City, will open by the end of the year, local Voice journal reported Sunday.
More GSM phones disconnected in Lashio
August 13, 2007 - Over 400 mobile telephone services used in public telephone booths have been disconnected by the authorities in Lashio town, Shan State , northern Burma.
Roundup: Myanmar's largest ICT park to go into service soon
August 15, 2007: Myanmar's largest information and communication technology (ICT) park, the Yadanabon Cyber City, is nearing completion and two phases have been set for the opening of the cyber city, local media reported Wednesday.
BSNL, MTNL plan submarine link to Southeast, West Asia
August 14, 2007: (The Economic Times) New Delhi, State-run telecom firms BSNL and MTNL plan to lay submarine cable links from India to Southeast Asia as well as West Asia at an estimated cost of 400 million dollars (Rs 1,600 crore), the Lok Sabha was informed on Monday.
Internet users in Chin state warned not to send anti-government mail
August 15, 2007 - Internet users in Matupi town, Chin state, Burma have been warned not to send anti-government e mails by Burma's ruling military junta. A new cyber café has been set up in Matupi.
BURMA: Junta Exposed by Information Technology
BANGKOK, Aug 30 (IPS) - As public protests in Burma enter a second week, Burmese journalists living in exile and other expatriates are finding new appreciation for the marvels of modern communication and information technology.
MYANMAR: News coverage of fuel price demonstrations curbed
Journalists face intimidation and self-censor as coverage of Yangon protests are blacked out by junta
Myanmar commits to combat cyber crime
YANGON, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar Police Force has formed an information technology (IT) unit to combat probable cyber crime in the future along with the development of IT in the country and increased use of internet, the local Flower News quoted an anti-transnational crime official as reporting Monday.
Technology puts Myanmar protests in international eye
BANGKOK (AFP) — Myanmar's swelling protests are in the global spotlight with the help of hi-tech gadgets in the era of YouTube -- a stark contrast to the 1988 uprising in the pre-Internet age.
Burma cyber-dissidents crack censorship
Burma's bloggers are using the internet to beat censorship, and tell the world what is happening under the military junta's veil of secrecy.
Junta tries to shut down internet and phone links
The Burmese junta was last night desperately trying to shut down internet and telephone links to the outside world after a stream of blogs and mobile phone videos began capturing the dramatic events on the streets.
Myanmar's main Internet link not working: official
YANGON (AFP) — After two days of unrest in Yangon's streets, Myanmar's main link to the Internet has stopped working, according to a telecom official who blamed the problem on a damaged cable.
Internet access restored in Myanmar
YANGON (Reuters) - Internet access was restored in military-ruled Myanmar on Saturday a day after a Web blackout believed to have been imposed to stop reports and pictures of a major crackdown reaching the outside world.
Myanmar comes face to face with a technology revolution
BANGKOK: It used to be easier: Close the borders, set up roadblocks, stop the trains, cut telephone lines, and then crack down on your people with impunity. This is what the military in the former Burma did when it crushed a pro-democracy uprising in 1988.
Recipe for killing Internet in India
NEW DELHI: There is a clear and present danger to internet in India. If the recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee were to go through, you might as well pull the shutters down on the net in the country, because the committee seeks to raise the liability of internet service providers for any third party content in a manner that it will become difficult to run the service and stay away from jail.
Pulling the Plug: A Technical Review of the Internet Shutdown in Burma
The OpenNet Initiative has compiled a bulletin on the recent demonstrations in Burma and the Burmese government's shutdown of the Internet there. ONI conducted a technical analysis of the Internet's uptime, documenting a complete shutdown in Burma, followed by intermittent periods of up-time throughout early October, with an apparent return to full connection on October 13 for one of the two ISPs and on October 16 for the other. This bulletin presents these results and investigates the impact that the use of communication technologies had on shaping these key events. (size 623.3 kB - file/type application/pdf)
Building the Burmese Junta’s Telecom Infrastructure
There is no better example of the deep complicity of other nations in support of Burma (identified below by the ruling junta’s name for the country) and the corruption of the government than the country’s primitive telecommunications industry. In this excerpt from a chapter on Burma taken from Southeast Asia’s telecoms industry, titled “Telecommunications Development in Asia," edited by John Ure, to be published by Hong Kong University Press, Asia Sentinel is privileged to take a look at just how the junta’s telecoms industry is being built.
Mizzima News: Internet once again out in Burma
After about two weeks of slow speed Internet line recovery, users in Rangoon today said access to the World Wide Web has been once again cut-off.
Burmese web surfers escape Internet censorship
The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIF)- an organisation created to help people in China bypass Government censorship of the Internet, says that Burmese web surfers have discovered its facilities and are using them to circumvent Internet censorship amid the recent crackdown by the Myanmar military junta.
India and Myanmar sign IT agreement
New Delhi, Dec 12 (ANI): India and Myanmar today signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of the India-Myanmar Centre for Enhancement of Information Technology Skills (IMCEITS).
Black marks appearing for commercial internet filters?
Commercial filtering of Internet content is a specialized fielded dominated by a few vendors that have the expertise to develop databases of Web sites that are deemed inappropriate by a customer. But some commercially available filters purchased to control employee access to inappropriate Web sites containing items like pornography, gambling or shopping are allegedly also being sold to repressive regimes to censor political content.
Myanmar telecom blocks bloggers
January 17, 2008 - Rangoon – In a bid to stop the flow of information outside Burma one of the most popular blog sites www.blogger.com has been banned by the Myanmar Post and Telecomm Ministry as of Thursday morning, according to bloggers in the former capital.
Junta increases communication fees
Since the September crackdown on peaceful protesters, Burma’s military regime has increased the communication fees.
Telekom Malaysia Eyes Investments in Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam
Telekom Malaysia International - the mobile division of the dominant telco is looking to expand its operations into Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, and will invest US$100 million in Cambodia over the next two years, the company CEO, Yusof Annuar Yaacob said on Saturday.
Myanmar Arrests Blogger, Watchdog Says
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Myanmar's junta has stepped up surveillance of the Internet, arresting one blogger who wrote about the stifling of free expression in the military-ruled nation, a media advocacy group said.
Fighting Internet censorship worldwide: Citizen Lab offers pathway to information
Free speech is a misnomer in many countries, and in many of those places Internet censorship is on the rise. By last count, said Professor Ron Deibert, director of U of T’s Citizen Lab, 26 countries worldwide engaged in Internet censorship, blocking sites created by political opponents, human rights groups, and international news. China, Iran, Syria, Uzbekistan, and Burma are among the countries practising the most pervasive forms of Internet censorship. Citizens found accessing banned sites can be subject to fines, imprisonment and even death.
Blog culture spreads in Myanmar (Archive News, August 27 - September 2, 2007)
A GROUP of bloggers from Yangon have formed an online community called the Myanmar Bloggers Society with the aim of organising blogging enthusiasts both within the country and abroad.
Burma's censors monitor Internet, newspapers - and poets
The regime has watched the media more closely since last September's uprising by monks.
Burmese Censorship board warns print media not to post additional material online
[ed.-IS this Where we (Manila) wants to go? (because at the rate we are headed, we are going there)-gerry] News Censorship board warns print media ....
Time to get down with your wild cyber-self
These days we can live at the end of the road and still sit smack in the middle of the dialogue heard ‘round the world. Just rev up the Internet and find a blog. You can view and contribute to blogs of your personal persuasion whether you’re politically left, right, or independent, or Texan, Japanese, a vampire, a Britney Spears groupie, a German nudist, a cat lover or born in the Year of the Pig.
Canadian software tool blows away Net censorship, wins global award
Psiphon – designed by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab –is the first recipient of a new award for digital pioneers chosen by an international group of specialists and awarded in Paris this month.
Burma Internet Users Said to Get Poor Connections
Owners of Internet cafes and their customers are complaining that servers in Rangoon have become increasingly unreliable in recent weeks. The reason for the frequent disruption of service is not known, but users in the former Burmese capital say that the problem has become more noticeable since the beginning of this month.
Happy Birthday Virus Hits Burma
A computer virus, appearing as “Happy Birthday” on screens, has infected computer networks from government offices in Naypyidaw to internet cafés in Rangoon, according to IT technicians from a computer school in Burma.
Blogger begins second month of detention, Internet still closely monitored
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association today condemned increased government monitoring of the Internet and a deterioration in online connections, as well as the continuing detention of Nay Phone Latt, a blogger and owner of two Rangoon Internet cafés who was arrested on 29 January.
The Cyber Dissident
Burma’s generals may have underestimated the power of the Internet during the 2007 uprising, but they are now playing catch-up
Burma: The Censored Land
Burma’s scribes use old ruses and new technology to stay true to their word and dodge the junta’s efforts to censor freedom of expression
Wednesday 12 March : launch of Online Free Expression Day plus repeat of last year’s
Reporters Without Borders will launch the first International Online Free Expression Day under UNESCO’s patronage on 12 March, when it will also organise its second “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship,” urging Internet users to come and demonstrate on its website, ww.rsf.org.