Google chairman Eric Schmidt will visit Myanmar next week, highlighting increasing Internet freedom in the former pariah state just weeks after a controversial trip to communist North Korea.
Schmidt will speak in Yangon on March 22 as part of an Asian tour, the Internet giant said, aiming to boost web access in the country, ruled for decades by a repressive military junta.
Under the military regime the Internet was strictly controlled, with access to anti-government sites and sites such as YouTube blocked.
As major economic and political reforms roll back decades of repressive rule, increasing numbers of people are going online to air their views. Full story...
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Schmidt will speak in Yangon on March 22 as part of an Asian tour, the Internet giant said, aiming to boost web access in the country, ruled for decades by a repressive military junta.
Under the military regime the Internet was strictly controlled, with access to anti-government sites and sites such as YouTube blocked.
As major economic and political reforms roll back decades of repressive rule, increasing numbers of people are going online to air their views. Full story...
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