Burma

Migrant Workers Television in Korea Has Covered Many Immigration Issues

May 18, 2011
Program subjects include human rights, health care, multicultural education, employment permits.

mwtv.jinbo.net/2009/bbs/board.php

Issues that have been covered by Migrant Workers Television (MWTV) are health care, employment permits, multi cultural education, ethnic cultural events,  human rights, crackdowns on refugees.  Immigrants in Korea come from Bangladesh, China, Philippines, Mongolia, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Nepal and Vietnam. Many of the programs are in these languages and cover specific issues of interest to migrants. http://www.mwtv.or.kr/

A list of their programs sorted by ethnic community and subjects is at:

http://mwtv.jinbo.net/2009/bbs/board.php?bo_table=B01

 

 

Deep Dish Television is working on a series about migration: deepdishtvuprooted.wordpress.com/

Google Banned in Myanmar

September 28, 2007
Burma bans Google and GMail.
Burma bans Google and gmail Friday, September 28, 2007 Mungpi-- Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com) June 26, 2006- Burmese authorities have blocked the well-known Google search engine and its mail service gmail, according to internet users in Rangoon. "It has been about a week that we cannot access our mails and use Google," a Rangoon resident said. Users attempting to view either of the sites are confronted with a message saying "Access Denied".