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The Democratic Voice of Burma (Burmese: ဒီမိုကရေတစ်မြန်မာ့အသံ, abbreviated DVB) is one of Myanmar's largest independent media organisations. DVB was founded as a non-profit media organization based in Oslo, Norway and Chiang Mai, Thailand.
A number of previously censored independent Myanmar-focused news sites which had been highly critical of Myanmar's ruling regime, such as the Democratic Voice of Burma and Irrawaddy, were suddenly accessible. Following the reduction in online censorship, the head of Myanmar's press censorship department described such censorship as "not in ...
Aye Chan Naing is co-founder, chief editor, and executive director of the Democratic Voice of Burma, an independent broadcaster in Myanmar. He was awarded the CPJ International Press Freedom Award in 2021.
Mr Lammy told The Independent: "Four years ago, Myanmar's military overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi's democratically elected government, stripping the Myanmar people of their right to a democratic voice.
In September 2011, several banned websites including YouTube, Democratic Voice of Burma and Voice of America have been unblocked. [25] Foreign journalists, including those from the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Voice of America, were issued visas to the country the following month. [26]
It was established in August 1998 by a group of Burmese journalists in exile in New Delhi, India. [2]After the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, military junta revoked the operating licenses of Mizzima, and four other media outlets, namely Myanmar Now, Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), Khit Thit Media, and 7Day News, amidst the ongoing protests.
Having worked as a video journalist with the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) between 2005 and 2010, Shin Daewe was present during the 2007 Saffron Revolution and had been inspired by Anders Østergaard's Danish documentary Burma VJ, which received unprecedented exposure among the Burmese public for a documentary film.
The Democratic Voice of Burma and The Irrawaddy were made inaccessible through a DDoS attack, and the website for Mizzima News was defaced. Through 2009 and 2010, attacks on Burmese opposition media sites continued periodically. [ 8 ]