As a purely volunteer  media campaign BURMA DIGEST has to rely, to a very large extent, on the generous and kind contributions of articles, news-photos, etc. by the volunteer writers and reporters. BURMA DIGEST simply cannot have got this far without kind and generous help of all our friends around the world.

                   Here are some guidelines for all our authors _

1. Please send your articles by email to burmadigest@tayzathuria.org.uk .

2. As BURMA DIGEST is a volunteer media campaign for democracy, human rights and federalism in Burma, we cannot give "remuneration" for articles.

3. If you are sending your article for publication in BURMA DIGEST, please do not send it to any other media, journal, website, blog, forum, mailing groups, etc. before it has been first published in BURMA DIGEST. But once it has been published in BURMA DIGEST, you can republish it in any other journal/media.

4. Authors own the copy right of their articles. They can re-publish their articles in any other journals at any time.

5. As all article contributions are voluntary-donations in nature, articles already published in BURMA DIGEST will remain in BURMA DIGEST archives and in any circumstances BURMA DIGEST do not accept any obligation to remove old articles from archives.

6. Once articles have been published in BURMA DIGEST, authors cannot change their mind and cannot request BURMA DIGEST to remove their already published articles from BURMA DIGEST archives. [Deleting articles(webpages) and re-modifying interconnected links inside the website frequently can lead to disruption in website structure and can disturb overall function of the website.]

7.  Articles must not contain personal attacks by name. Only one exception_ criticism by name on military regime leaders.

8. Articles for BURMA DIGEST EXTRA must be in support of human rights around the world.

9. Articles can be written in any style_ essay, commentary, opinion piece, analysis, review, critique, satire, humour, poem, play, true story, etc.

10.  Articles can contain or consist of photos/pictures.

11. Articles can either be in English or Burmese language; but not both, i.e., some paragraphs in English and some paragraphs in Burmese.

12.  Articles must not contain any insult to any race or religion.

13. Articles must not contain gender discrimination.

14. Articles must not contain any glorification of any form of terrorism

15. Articles must not contain obscenities.

16. Articles published in BURMA DIGEST may be republished in BURMA DIGEST at an appropriate time in the future, unless the author notify not to do so. And English articles may be translated into Burmese, or Burmese articles into English, unless the author notify not to do so.

17.  Articles for BURMA DIGEST must be written in support of “democracy, human rights and federalism in Burma” and other related subjects such as labour rights, environmental conservation, peace & prosperity in Burma, etc. For a summary of BURMA DIGEST standpoint, please see "To Make it Break".

18. Any opinion expressed in the articles are the views of the authors only; they do not necessarily reflect BURMA DIGEST's official standpoint. And BURMA DIGEST cannot take responsibility for the opinions expressed by individual authors. Authors have to take responsibility of their own opinions.

19. Articles should not be shorter than one A4 page or longer than five pages. Should be sent as Microsoft word documents. Should be in commonly used fonts and reasonable font size.

20. Please kindly check for errors in spelling, grammar and usages before sending your article.

21. Photos for photo-essays should be in moderate size, less than 50 KB size. Should be in JPG or GIF formats.

22. As Burma Digest is published on every Saturday evening GMT, deadline for sending articles every week is Friday midnight GMT.

23. A clear indication about authors' requirement to read these guidelines is described on BURMA DIGEST main page. So when an author contacts BURMA DIGEST and contributes an article, it is to be understood on both sides (author & BURMA DIGEST) that these guidelines are to be respected on both side.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH INDEED FOR YOUR KIND CONTRIBUTION OF ARTICLES TO BURMA DIGEST.