Ross Dunkley News Today

DANCING WITH DICTATORS is a film about Burma and the battle for control of a newspaper. Central to the story is Australian publisher Ross Dunkley who owns The Myanmar Times. Like all media in Myanmar the newspaper is heavily censored. The government has forced a 51% partner on Dunkley and after the first election in 20 years their enmity explodes. Dunkley is arrested and imprisoned as his Immigration charges turn into a sexual smear campaign. His partner takes control and the government moves to...

Independent outlets have been shut down or forced out, while the junta cultivates dozens of mouthpieces at home.   

A government-funded art gallery due to be constructed in Darwin’s CBD is the scene of debate, with two supreme court judges insisting that the development regulator turn down the proposal.

Here I was in beautiful, beguiling Myanmar, about to start a month-long trial at its best-known newspaper, but finding a friendly face wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped.

Here I was in beautiful, beguiling Myanmar, about to start a month-long trial at its best-known newspaper, but finding a friendly face wasn’t as easy as I’d hoped.

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age after being set free, the maverick former owner of major English language newspapers in Myanmar and Cambodia has spoken about life inside one of the region’s most notorious prisons, of sending messages and books to fellow Australian Sean Turnell inside the jail and of being set up. The drugs It was a Wednesday night in June 2018 when Dunkley’s life was turned upside down. He was at home with his girlfriend and friends in Yangon’s Bahan towns...

By: Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s junta on Saturday released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the traditional new year holiday, including at least three political detainees, and the military leader behind the February coup confirmed he would attend a regional summit later this month. It wasn’t immediately clear if those released included pro-democracy activists who were detained for protesting the coup. State broadcaster MRTV said that junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aun...

A man is embraced by two women outside Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 17. (AP Photo) YANGON, Myanmar--Myanmar’s junta on Saturday released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the traditional new year holiday, including at least three political detainees, and the military leader behind the February coup confirmed he would attend a regional summit later this month. It wasn’t immediately clear if those released included pro-democracy activists who were detained for protesting the co...

Myanmar junta pardons prisoners, to attend regional summit Poll Yes By The Associated Press on April 17, 2021. Police security forces stand by inside a police vehicle and on the sidewalk of Hledan Road in Kamayut township in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, April 16, 2021. Opponents of Myanmars ruling junta went on the political offensive Friday, declaring they have formed an interim National Unity Government comprising elements of the ousted government of Aung San Suu Kyi as well as prominent members o...

Myanmar junta pardons prisoners, to attend regional summit Zay Yar Lwin, center left in white, and Paing Pyo Min,center right in white, – both members of the Peacock Generation, a traditional theatrical troupe sentenced to prison in 2019 for their gibes about the military, walk through a crowd after their release from Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, April 17, 2021. Myanmars junta on Saturday announced it pardoned and released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark t...