The complete abolition of pre-publication censorship for newspapers was announced in Burma last week, but a host of other laws that have been used to jail journalists and suspend publications mean that the press will still have much to fear if their reporting on sensitive issues falls afoul of the authorities. “We welcome the abolition […]

Burma has experienced great political change over the past year, including a welcomed reform of the country’s media laws in June 2011 that allowed some publications to publish stories without previous approval by the government’s Press Scrutiny and Registration Department (PSRD). Yesterday Burma saw a historic by-election, which the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) […]

A two-day conference on “Media Development in Myanmar” started today in Rangoon, Burma. Organised by Burma’s Ministry of Information and Culture in cooperation with UNESCO and other international donors and media development organisations, the conference aims at sharing international best practices on media development, as Burma reforms its tightly controlled media system. “IPI warmly welcomes […]

At least 16 journalists were among the hundreds of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience released today by the government of Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), an exile newspaper based in Norway, confirmed on its website that five of its journalists had been released from various prisons around the […]