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26. Source: “Lack of Press Freedom Prevent People from Knowing Bird Flu Outbreak - Burmese Journalists,” DVB, 15 March 2006.
27. Source: “Media Training Workshop Held in Myanmar to Raise Public Awareness on Bird Flu,” Xinhua, 8 December 2006.
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34. Source: “Travel Costs Deter Media from Press Conferences,” DVB, 22 December 2006.
35. Source: “Two Journalists Jailed For Photos of Pyinmana,” Irrawaddy, 31 March 2006.
36. Source: “Two journalists arrested and summarily tried for filming,” CPJ, 4 April, 2006.
38. Source: “Burmese Authorities Arrest People Secretly Photographing New Capital,” DVB, 16 January 2006.
39. Source: “Military Member Fired For Writing Political Satires,” Mizzima, 3 January 2006.
40. Source: “Ko Ko Gyi Saya: Burma Junta’s Media Reports Harmful For Reconciliation,” DVB, 26 August 2006.
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44. Source: “The New Lies Of Myanmar: Murdered Victim Portrayed as Drunken Lout,” DVB, 23 March 2006.
45. Source: “Junta Labels BBC and VOA - Evil and Wicked,” Irrawaddy, 21 April 2006.
46. Source: “Burma Association Opens Journalism Course to Counter Attacks on Foreign Media,” New Light of Myanmar, 24 October 2006.
47. Source: “Myanmar Stresses Importance of Mass Media in National Construction,” Xinhua, 15 September 2005
48. Source: “Little Big Brothers: Burma's Officials to Take ‘News Reporter’ Course,” DVB, 18 September 2006.
49. Source: “USDA Counters Foreign Media in Exile in Arakan,” Mizzima, 4 August 2006.
50. Source: “Junta Cracking Down On Media Informers,” Irrawaddy, 10 February 2006.
51. Source: “Keeping Burma’s Majority Silent: ‘We Have Lost Our Future,’” The Age (Australia), 19 May 2006.
52. Source: “Military junta launches manhunt for informants of international news media,” RSF, 9 February 2006.
53. Source: “Ponna Gyunt Authorities Order Crack Down On Media Informers,” Narinjara News, 20 February 2006.
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55. Source: “Myanmar Terminates Some Publications,” Xinhua, 10 July 2006.
56. Source: “More Private Publications Granted in Myanmar,” Xinhua, 1 December 2006.
57. Source: “Magazine Delays Release After Censor Strips Top Stories,” Mizzima, 12 July 2006.
58. Source: “Burma’s Media Silent on Controversial Cartoons,” Irrawaddy, 15 February 2006.
59. Source: “Yangon Times Publish Messages from 88 Student Leaders,” DVB, 6 January 2006.
60. Source: "Ko Ko Gyi Says Burma Junta's Media Reports Harmful for Reconciliation," DVB, 26 August 2006.
61. Source: “Rights Experts Call for Release of Win Tin,” Mizzima, 13 March 2006.
62. Source: “UNESCO Calls for Burmese Journalist Win Tin’s Release,” DVB, 22 March 2006.
63. Source: Journalists in Prison: CPJ’s 2006 Census, CPJ, 7 December 2006.
64. Source: “Burmese Journalist is 76 But No Freedom Yet,” DVB, 11 March 2006.
65. Source: “RSF and BMA Demands the Release of Burma’s Win Tin,” DVB, 4 July 2006.
66. Source: “UNESCO Calls for Burmese Journalist Win Tin’s Release,” DVB, 22 March 2006.
67. Source: Journalists in Prison: CPJ’s 2006 Census, CPJ, 7 December 2006.
68. Source: “The 15th Reporters Without Borders - Fondation de France prize was presented in Paris on Tuesday, 12 December 2006,” RSF, 12 December, 2006.
69. Source: Journalists in Prison: CPJ’s 2006 Census, CPJ, 7 December 2006.
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76. Source: “Burmese Political Prisoner Than Win Hlaing Seriously Ill,” DVB, 25 January 2006.
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82. Source: “Ex-teacher Jailed for Reporting Bad water Supply System in Central Burma,” DVB,3 January 2006.
83. Source: “Another Detained for Criticising Castor Oil Project in Burma,” DVB, 11 March 2006.
84. Source: “Detained Farmer Who Reported Corruption to SPDC Chairman Released,” DVB, 21 August 2006.
85. Source: “Irrawaddy Residents Jailed after Corruption Complaints,” DVB, 21 November 2006.
86. Source: “’Constructive Compromise’ Petition Launched in Burma,” Irrawaddy, 2 October 2006.
87. Source: “Campaign Nets More Than Half a Million Signatures,” Irrawaddy, 24 October 2006.
88. Source: “Junta Claims Petition Signers Were Tricked,” Irrawaddy, 26 October 2006.
89. Source: “Campaign Nets More Than Half a Million Signatures,” Irrawaddy, 24 October 2006.
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91. Source: “Labour Activist Detained in Myanmar,” AFP, 2 November 2006.
92. Source: “Surprise Response to ‘White Campaign,’” Mizzima, 11 October 2006.
93. Source: “White Expression Campaign in Arakan for Detained Student Leaders,” Narinjara News, 13 October 2006.
94. Source: “Activists Organize Prayer Campaign,” Irrawaddy, 25 October 2006.
95. Source: “Activists Start Prayer Campaign,” Irrawaddy, 30 October 2006.
96. Source: “Over 2,000 Attend Prayer Ceremony for Release of Political Prisoners,” Mizzima, 31 October 2006.
97. Source: “Prayer Campaign Participants Harassed By Junta Agents,” DVB, 1 November 2006.
98. Source: “Myanmar Generals Threaten Action against Political Activists,” Japan Economic Newswire, 3 November 2006.
99. Source: “Christian Arrested and Detained for Writing to Burma Junta Chief,” DVB, 13 March 2006.
100. Sources: “Chin Protester Barred from Traveling to Rangoon,” Irrawaddy, 19 June 2006; “Solo Protestor Salai Tun Than Unable to Return to Burma,” DVB, 19 June 2006; “Thai Airways Refuse Access to Salai Tun Than,” Mizzima, 19 June 2006.
101. Source: “Solo Protestor Tun Tun Rearrested in Burma,” DVB, 10 July 2006.
102. Source: “Defiant: Solo Protester Tun Tun Released from Mental Asylum,” DVB, 10 August 2006.
103. Source: “Ex- Burmese Army Sergeant Stages Solo Protest in Rangoon,” DVB, 16 July 2006.
104. Source: “A Tarnished Red Ribbon,” Irrawaddy, 17 August 2006.
105. Source: “Three students from Burma’s Monywa Released,” DVB, 20 July 2006.
106. Source: “13 Burmese Pupils Arrested for Laying Wreath for Democracy Heroes,” DVB, 7 August 2006.
107. Source: “Movie Industry Struggling,” DVB, 1 December 2006
110. Source: “Video Filming on Mon Culture Stopped Despite Permission,” IMNA, 24 November 2006.
111. Source: “Junta Bans Comedy VCD,” Irrawaddy, 29 November 2006.
113. Source: “With Foreign Films Banned, Myanmar Moviemakers Bring Back Ghost Stories,” AFP, 19 July 2005
114. Source: “A Tiny Window on the U.S., Prized By Those Peering In,” The New York Times, 27 November 2006.
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116. Source: “Myanmar to Add More TV Relay Stations,” Xinhua, 20 September 2005.
117. Source: “Overcoming a TV Channel's Teething Problems,” Irrawaddy, 3 June 2005.
118. Source: “TV Channel in Norway Defies the Bad Generals,” AFP, 16 December 2005.
119. Source: “Paid TV Channel to Air on ‘Pilot Basis’ in Burma,” Xinhua, 27 November 2006.
120. Source: “Mon Singer Forced to Sing Burmese Song at Gunpoint,” IMNA, 17 May 2006.
121. Source: “In Myanmar, laughter is the only medicine, but a dose can be dangerous,” AP, 6 September 2006.
122. Source: “A Funny Thing is Happening on a Road in Mandalay-Brothers Get Last Joke,” The Courier Mail, 21 March 2006.
123. Source: “Burmese Comedian Zargana Gagged,” Irrawaddy, 16 May 2006; “Comedian banned from profession activities,” BMA, 17 May 2006.
124. Source: “Visiting UN official asked to intercede on behalf of newly banned filmmaker and detained journalists,” BMA, 18 May 2006.
126. Source: “Media Group Slams Burmese Military Over Student Arrests,” Mizzima, 5 April 2006.
127. Sources: “Burmese students detained for writing and distributing poems,” DVB, 1 April 2006; “Burmese students from Pegu College detained for writing poem released,” DVB,13 April 2006; “Three Burmese youths on trial for writing a poem,” DVB,24 April 2006; “Three Burmese youths on trial for writing a poem,” DVB, 16 May 2006; “Another trial in connection with the ‘poem’ case in Lower Burma’s Pegu,” DVB, 25 May 2006; “Appeals for ‘poem’ youths from Pegu rejected by Burmese court,” DVB, 4 August 2006; “Lawyer still unable to appeal for youths imprisoned for writing poem,” DVB, 27 July 2006; “Rangoon Court Dismisses Poets’ Appeals,” DVB, 27 November 2006.
128. Source: “Performance Artists Arrested in Rangoon," Irrawaddy, 12 May 2005.
129. Source: “Burma Army Mobilizes Arakanese through Mobile Army Troupe,” Narinjara News, 5 November 2006.
130. Source: “Number of Registered Telephones in Myanmar Passes 500,000,” World Markets Analysis, 4 April 2006.
131. Source: “Crackdown on Illegal Use of Chinese Mobile Phones,” Irrawaddy, 10 August 2006.
133. Source: “Junta Goes after Illegal Thai Telephones in Mon State,” IMNA, 26 October, 2006.
134. Sources: “Phone Owners Go into Hiding for Fear of Being Jailed,” IMNA, 2 November 2006; “Junta Goes after Illegal Thai Telephones in Mon State,” IMNA, 26 October 2006.
135. Source: “Use of Bangladeshi Mobile in Arakan Invites Fine,” Kaladan News, 6 December 2006.
136. Source: “Man in Possession of Mobile Phone Arrested in Maungdaw,” Narinjara News, 12 May 2006.
137. Source: “Man Arrested in Arakan for Holding Bangladesh Mobile,” Narinjara News, 27 July 2006.
138. Source: “10,000 Mobile Phones to be Sold in Rangoon,” DVB, 22 September 2006.
139. Source: “Dissatisfaction over Allocation of GSM Phones in Burma,” DVB, 25 September 2006.
140. Source: “13 Nations Denounced For Web Censorship,” AP, 8 November 2006.
141. Source: “Burma Number One Internet Enemy,” Mizzima, 7 November 2006.
142. Source: “Internet Users In Myanmar Number Nearly 300,000,” Xinhua, 8 November 2006.
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145. Source: “Internet increasingly resembles an Intranet as foreign services blocked,” RSF, 4 July 2006.
146. Source: “Myanmar Strives to Improve Public Internet Services to Push ICT Development,” Xinhua, 4 October 2006.
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