Leeds United players ordered to shave off beards
Burma Tha Din has learned that Leeds United players have
been told to shave off their beards before heading to Myanmar for two matches. “None of our team is Rohingya so we are more worried about food poisoning than ethnic cleansing. We told our team to shave off their beards as we don't want them being forced
to eat pork curry every time we check into a hotel just to prove they are not
Muslims. We don’t know how long that curry has been sitting around.”
Australian
journalist numbers hits all time low
New figures revealing the number of journalists from
Australia working for local media has continued to fall in the past year is
being seen as another sign of declining media freedom in the country. Concerns
about the falling number of Australian journalists first emerged when beer
stations in Yangon reported declining profits. One local journalist who asked
not to be named told Burma Tha Din there had been a change in the culture of Australian
journalists. “They used to be happy to work under censorship and put out any
old propaganda as long as they had access to local ladies and plenty of alcohol,
but the new generation seems more fussy when owners and editors censor their
work and promote racist or government agendas.”
