WEB DESK
The BBC’s Burmese language service today said it is pulling a broadcasting deal with a popular Myanmar television channel citing censorship as the two partners clashed over coverage of the Muslim Rohingya minority.
The announcement is the latest blow to struggling press freedoms in the country and a remarkable turnaround for a news organisation that famously kept Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi up to date during her long years of house arrest under junta rule. Since April 2014, BBC Burmese broadcast a daily news programme on MNTV with 3.7 million daily viewers