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  1. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Anders Ostergaard's award-winning documentary assembles footage smuggled out of Burma/Myanmar by an underground journalist group known as Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). The film explores how DVB members regularly put their lives at risk to reveal the realities of living under a brutal military occupation despite the government crackdown on free media and internet.
  2. Burmese authorities detain freelance journalist
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns and calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist and blogger Pai Soe Oo, who was detained by government authorities on Wednesday for questioning.
  3. Decline of the English Murder
    And Other Essays

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    A collection of essays by George Orwell.
  4. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
  5. Encyclopeida of Asian History
    Resource Type: Book
  6. George Orwell: A Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A biography of George Orwell.
  7. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
  8. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
  9. Petition launched for release of two Burmese bloggers serving sentences of 20 and 59 years in prison
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders urges the international community not to forget Nay Phone Latt or or Zarganar, one of Burmaâ##s best known comedians.
  10. Reporters Without Borders publishes a first Guide for exiled journalists
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders marked World Refugee Day by publishing a guide for journalists driven into exile, to provide them with information about the procedures and potential obstacles in seeking asylum.

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